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  1. Pearl's. I miss that place. mostly because it was one of the few live music joints at that end of town (that I remember). video's from a Steamboat show, but the I think he last time I went to Pearl's was to see this guy. or Lou Ann.
  2. some 'featured' tamales at HEB, under some queso and Valentina black, just to be sure.
  3. high ground is dry-ish. rocks and roots were snotty, but no mud. I like days like this. the yoga pants were out in force. holy shmokes.
  4. plague. rain. this is what it's come to. maybe I'll make it back to CO, one of these days.
  5. very cool ride, K. you're gonna love it. although your stem no longer says "Welcome to the wonderful island of Thomson! Have a nice day", the ride will be so much better. pretty sure I met Wes many years ago. cool dude. he was a pretty competitive rider back then, but more-or-less had to shut it down due to some degenerative back issues, as I recall. counting my blessings. turns out the reason I couldn't get above 720p on my ipad was my iOS was about 4 versions old. I get 1080HD now. of course, I'm sure there's a dozen useless 'features' I don't need that I have to now navigate around, but whatever. one of the few iOS updates that did something meaningful. videos look good now. now all I have to do is make good videos. last one is lame, on repeat viewings. just doesn't convey how fun that trail is. lazy editing, tbh.
  6. ruh-roh. at least now we know where all this rain came from. on the video, I'm not seeing what Braf is seeing, and even if I was, I think it has more to do with youtube's general decline in performance video over the years (at least for freeloaders on ipads, like me). in particular, very leafy trail footage takes a long time for youtube to resolve to the listed resolution. so twisting through the cedars is just a big green blur. it certainly has nothing to do with editing technique. perhaps it has more to do with airplane glue. I will say that the Linear setting on the camera seems to undo some of the image distortion. your arms (as are mine in older videos) are freakishly long and curved. you might play with that. btw, stem length is inversely proportional.
  7. that looks like a fun place to get lost, KuRdt! good job! VP's pretty straight forward. you probably figured this out pretty quick, but it's a good idea to lock the music track so you don't accidentally chop it up if you reshuffle video segments. btw, looks like you went through a wet spot. wtf?!?!?1
  8. not real cat
  9. yeah. 'crotch' makes it sound....infected. -------- so my hearing sucks, ok. one of the ways I cope with it is to ask yes or no questions. easy to tell the audible difference, gets right to the point of what I need to know. in 15 years of marital bliss, I have yet to receive a 'yes' or 'no' as a first response. ex, just now. me: did you get the mail? her: [50-word inaudible reply from the other room] me: was that a yes or no? her: no rinse, repeat.
  10. yeah, but the Finch gag is a distant 3rd in the Hands Down classification.
  11. nice work, Evel!
  12. wait. NowThis was a Cheeseweasel sock?
  13. well, I'm definitely looking forward to some film of long, big sky, downhill cruises with all that rushing wind.
  14. you're a better man than I am if you clean that gap, Mom. did a fun 2hr rain ride, this afternoon. some slick roots, but kept the rubber side down, mostly. we skipped the big downhill line, mostly because we didn't want to climb all the way up there after all the other climbs we did, but did hit what I call STARFlight and some other fun drops. probly 20 years ago, I had my first real face plant on that section. loosened a couple teeth. but atleast no one had to call in the chopper. someone else earned it that nickname, years later.
  15. honestly, Braf, I dig both. they each make you appreciate the other. if there's a pref, it's whatever I'm in the mood for, that day. today's ride is one I've been wanting to do for a while, but with all the off-camber roots and rocks, it's just too much to try to ride in the wet. finally got a dry Sunday. KuRdt, the oak is the worst. cedar doesn't hit me hardly at all. up until this week, a dose of Flonase in the morning is all I've needed since the buds started up. I forgot even that on Wednesday, and did a quick lunch ride at St Eds. came home covered with little yellow oak pollen meteor traces. an hour after I got home, I felt like I had the flu. body aches, fatigue, etc. shit didn't respond to Flonase and Allegra for two days (Zyrtec makes me jumpy). ran out of Flonase, yesterday, so not quite armored up for today's onslaught. 2x, if you're seeing the saddle at all, I'm descending. on climbs and pedalling moves, the handlebar will disappear off the bottom of the screen, except when lunging it forward. I never drop the saddle on climbs. I find it a huge disadvantage in those instances where I fail to extend it back after a drop and I've got to do some technical ups. but it does bring up an interesting thing about these slower, techy videos. unless you've ridden them, you really can't tell what's going on. I suppose if there's an extra point in favor of the big flowy Enduro stuff is that the videos are easier to interpret for strangers.
  16. sweet! if you're gonna be a bear, be a fucking Grizzly. little lung lacquer ride today, mostly to test 2.7k resolution (spoiler: no better on my ipad, than 1080p), but also because this place is getting smaller, and I gotta ride it while I can. I never used to have allergies, but they've really started coming on in the last few years, or so. a wheezin geezer, right about now.
  17. it's just a hobby. I'm sure she does ok at The Ministry of Information
  18. that's a bold statement. I mean, it'll take a lot to tear me away from these Barney Miller episodes on youtube.
  19. oh hay, look at that. my gopro6 does betther than 1080p?
  20. fixed for Billy Gibbons and OB1's wife
  21. I guess anal's off the table at casa Hank, tonight.
  22. I do most of the grocery shopping. it's the only way we can have enough ingredients in the house to piece together any kind of meal. in this regard, there are modes of communication that are time-sensitive. the rules are: email: not urgent, maybe planning dinner for the weekend. she likes sending random recipes to my work email (knowing I will forward it home before I read it, but whatever). text: kinda urgent. I may be on the way to the store, or about to leave, and I'm not waiting around for her to intermittently search for the recipe between fb sessions and whatever else grabs her attention. voice: I'm at the fucking store. I am not browsing, I am buying. get in, get out is my MO. a single text buzz in my pocket may go unnoticed, so you better make the most noise possible if you need something before I leave. simple, right? apparently not.
  23. probably a ROFL post oh hai!
  24. 30fps (actually 29 and change) is the frame rate for US tv broadcast, so I use that. seems ok, to me. the only time I've ever had to go to the spare battery is when I was on a week-long raft trip in the Grand Canyon. but I sort of micro-manage my power. I have it set to auto-shutdown after a minute of nothing. I don't like having long clips because it's harder to find the good stuff, later. a 4-hour day would kill it, though. a sunday for me these days is 2, maybe 3 hours. as soon as I get home, I download then scan through the clips and update the file names with a meaningful 'suffix' (I keep the gopro numbered filename to help preserve the sequence, and tack a blurb onto that like "jump 30sec"). once that's done while fresh in my mind, I can come back to it later and it's not as time consuming. a lot of that probably has to do with how my editor (Video Pad) works. btw, I'm not gonna say VP is great, but I've been using it for years after a req on mtbr, so it's what I'm comfortable with. last couple three videos took me no more than a couple hours to piece together. VP was cheap, and it does what I want it to do. plus, they don't force-update it every five fucking minutes like seemingly every other piece of software I use, changing the interface and making me have to relearn it. all that being said, Mom and KuRdt seem to have managed just fine with what they're using. hell. some kid at work put together a video all on his phone. the music was awful, not much of a narrative, but it was very watchable. dude's an excellent rider. I think the chesty is the best pov. I tried a chinmount on my fullface, and it put the camera too far forward, taking the handlebars out of the frame which I think is important for understanding what's going on with the bike. bird flight videos are boring to me.
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