It's pigs, it's pigs!

I'm still not that happy with the overall video quality, but this is still pretty darn cute.

-Dave
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Pure Joy

This was our third trip to the Berry Farms Pumpkin patch. It really gets more fun every year. I have a lot more pictures to post, but the series of tubes that comes to my house (AKA the internets) broke last night. My computer is in such a state of disrepair - I feel like a plumber with a flooded basement.

-Dave
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Lost Thread

Andrea and I won't look at it till Friday, but post comments about tonight's Lost here - maybe we can have a fun, asynchronous conversation! You don't need a blogger account anymore to comment here, but if you don't have one, be sure to put your name on your comment post.

-Dave
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The Daily Grind

The other day, Ben and Andrew and I spent about an hour kicking around a soccer ball in the front yard. Later that night when Ben and I were watching Football Night in America, he said, "When I grow bigger, I'm going to be a soccer player. But probably most of the time I'll drive a garbage truck to take the stinky garbage to the drop-off place." (For those who don't know, Ben wants to drive a garbage truck when he grows up). Does he already know that he'll spend most of his time in life toiling at a job with little free time left over? Is he just so pragmatic that he knows being a soccer player won't pay the bills and will require a day job? Or is he just that excited about the prospect of driving around garbage?

-Dave
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Testing Vimeo

Seeing if the quality is better with Vimeo. . .



Drew Bowls on Vimeo



Good Fellow Ben on Vimeo

I'd say Vimeo looks a good bit better. . .

YouTube suggests that you upload an MPEG4 file for best quality, and I don't have software that does that at the moment (only MPEG1 and 2), so I guess the jury is still out until I can test that. I KNOW YouTube can look better than that - the files I export look crystal clear, having come from DV. I just need to figure out settings. I'm digging the Vimeo interface though.

-Dave
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Birthday Follies

When Andrew turned one, we sang him happy birthday.



Thanks to that great reaction, we modified things a bit for Ben's party.



I've got some other mini-videos online at YouTube. The quality is a bit on the crappy side - I'm still trying to figure out how to optimize things - but fun nonetheless.

-Dave
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Smile!

I've got some photos from Ben's Third Birthday online now. I think this was the biggest 'kid' party we've had yet, and everyone seemed to have a good time. Of course, the birthday arms race hasn't begun yet. By the time Ben's Eight, I'm sure we'll be expected to rent Spaceship II and take the party to orbit. . . ;)

-Dave
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Lost, Season 3

Just a note to our dear friends and family who watch Lost. I'm in class on Wednesday evenings, so Andrea and I will be watching new episodes on Thursday. So don't call us and say, "can you believe Charlie killed Locke," or "I never would have guessed JACK and SAWYER!" Give a day to catch up. . . .

-Dave
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