Since the events in Ferguson, MO, I’ve been tuned into many occurrences where the police have threatened or shot innocent people in our country. In fact, you are six time more likely to be killed by a police officer than a terrorist in the US.

For some reason I was thinking back to the TV series “Lost”, and for some reason I thought of the character Rose. If you don’t remember, she was cured of cancer while she was on the island. Besides the candy and other supplies they found and a few fruits they found, they seemed to hunt for boar and fish for most of their food. I know it’s fiction, but maybe that diet was what caused that miracle. Was JJ Abrams promoting a ketogenic diet?

I heard the phrase “we made it to Pluto” in regards to the New Horizon mission reaching the faraway (dwarf) planet. The word “we” made me stop and think. It is not “we” = NASA, it’s not “we” = Americans, it is “we” = humanity. That’s pretty awesome, this goes up there with other accomplishments that are too big for someone, some group, some nation to claim. There aren’t too many things like that (good or bad – “we” did WWII too), events that define history, that get to use that word to mean everyone, all humans. The “we” that represents the pinnacle of our accomplishment as a species or as a planet (considering “we” are the product of a lot of events on this planet before humanity existed). Mr. Tombaugh was there (his ashes were aboard the mission to Pluto), but unfortunately no longer living to witness our arrival at this other world as we are lucky enough to do.

I recently got a drive enclosure that allows it to be connected via eSATA or USB2. I got a nifty ExpressCard eSATA adapter for my MacBook Pro since eSATA is theoretically faster. Guess what? It is a lot faster!

DVD Import 5.0 is much improved as far as keeping the audio in sync with the video on imported media. However, there are some cases that still cause DVD Import to get the audio out of sync. Never fear, there is a new Audio Processing option that lets you override the Sync.

With the price of oil spiraling out of control, people are getting upset at the cost of gas which got me thinking, “why is this a big deal?”

I’ve been working a little more on my little utility for fixing files to play on the SX servers from Tightrope Media Systems. I’ve added the ability to process files other than MPEG files (such as WMV or most AVI files). It will convert audio in these files as well as fix problems with the video by scaling to 720x480 and converting frame rate to 29.97. When fixing the video, it will transcode the files to the ubiquitous MPEG2 format to play on the server (so don’t process files you don’t want to have re-encoded).

The worst innovation with automobiles in the past few years is the automatic sliding side door on mini-vans.

In response to my co-worker Brandon’s recent post about his computer upgrades… and possibly a little follow-up to my previous post about the MacBook Air…

One of the things I’ve been hearing from our support guys at Tightrope Media Systems is a lot of people have legacy content that is 44.1kHz audio that they would like to play back on their SX Server. The server, however, requires the standard DVD sample rate of 48kHz. This leaves everyone sad.