A friend asked me a question on Facebook. Are FLAC files better than high bit rate MP3’s? I instinctually said yes, but I didn’t know how much better they were. So, I set out to find an objective way to answer this question. I’ll start with my conclusion. MP3 files at very high bitrates add…
This is a short video I made of a $30 plasma lamp I purchased on eBay. I something similar growing up but it was spherical. This once is a cylinder that is compressed in the center. You can buy one here. However, after owning it for about two months, I can tell the tube is…
I realize that I write about obscure topics and this is probably on that end of the spectrum. I collect old Unix computers and a few years ago I was super excited when The Open Group released the source code for CDE. The reason for this post is that I found a great Slack Build…
Did you ever wonder what “o’clock” means, as in “it’s 3 o’clock”? It is a short form of the phrase “of the clock”. Before mechanical clocks dominated, the day was divided into 24 hours. There were 12 daylight hours and 12 night hours. Therefore, an “hour” in the summer was longer than an “hour” in…
Preface Google is implementing a system that effectively redefines how we measure a second. This is an effort by them to simplify some of their internal operations by allowing them to navigate around an obscure family of bugs in time calculation code. The cost is that they will be deliberately polluting global time reporting systems…
This is a quick time lapse I made. The full video represents just under an hour of capture time. 1 Frame / 3 Seconds or about 90x the speed of real life. There was no special hardware used, just my Fuji X-T10, Adobe Lightroom for color and cropping, and Adobe Media Encoder to assemble the…
Preface: This is a post that I wrote for for the globaledit blog. I’m a huge believe in quantifying process and learning from other industries. After re-reading The Goal and looking at the Creative industry, I composed this: One of the books that has really shaped my thinking about creative operations is Eliyahu Goldratt’s The…
Preface: This is a post that I wrote for for the globaledit blog. Talent Approval is an essential component of the media and entertainment industry. For those who aren’t familiar with the concept, let me give you some background. If you’re producing a TV show, movie, or even YouTube show, you probably want recognizable people…
Here is a little known fact that I find interesting. The MP3 Audio format was finalized in 1992. While it was being developed, Karlheinz Brandenburg used Suzanne Vega’s song Tom’s Diner as his reference sample. The song was chosen because it sounds flat, has a wide range of frequencies and a large variation in volume. Additionally, the almost-mono…
