Freaking heat just goes on and on with no break or rain. Indices in the 110-115 range the past few days and that's expected to continue through the weekend. Possibility of a cool down next week, but nothing drastic, just back to the lower 90s. Screw summer, I'm ready for fall. Haven't been fishing one time this summer simply because it's way too hot.
Got the camera but haven't been able to really give it a workout. Seems to take decent pictures, judging by the few I've taken here in the house. Has lots of modes, from fully automatic to manual settings, so I'll have to play around with it some when I'm able to get outside and find something to photograph.
I wish it shot video in AVI instead of that MOV shit, but then I think I can convert it in Sony Vegas--a power-robbing, clunky ass POS if ever there was one. I might install it on the new laptop, which has enough power to deal with its demands, although I'm not sure it will work properly with Windows 7. Find 0ut, I guess.
For that matter, Windows 7 has no native mode to transfer video to the computer. There is no Movie Maker as comes with XP and ME (though the ME version is real shitty). I've checked around and some folks have apparently taken the old Movie Maker and converted it to where it's supposed to work on 7, so maybe I'll download one of those and give it a try. But hell, I've got several video editing programs on disc and surely some of them will install and work, at least enough to siphon content into the computer. (I just recalled that the laptop has a card reader, so I can probably get it in that way, though that wouldn't allow for editing options. Editing is available in the camera, but that would be very limited.)
Well along with the project to publish a collection of short stories -- my thanks to Carter Monroe for his close reading and spot-on editorial suggestions. Christ, I've got tons of stories bound up in rough copy that I've never transcribed to the computer. Others piled and stacked in old footlockers, suitcases and boxes. Probably never will transcribe most of them, and many are likely not good enough to bother with anyway. And that doesn't count three huge garbage bags of manuscripts I tossed when I left St. Louis in 1985. I've regretted that a time or two, but it's a done deal.
So is this batch of BS.
Got the camera but haven't been able to really give it a workout. Seems to take decent pictures, judging by the few I've taken here in the house. Has lots of modes, from fully automatic to manual settings, so I'll have to play around with it some when I'm able to get outside and find something to photograph.
I wish it shot video in AVI instead of that MOV shit, but then I think I can convert it in Sony Vegas--a power-robbing, clunky ass POS if ever there was one. I might install it on the new laptop, which has enough power to deal with its demands, although I'm not sure it will work properly with Windows 7. Find 0ut, I guess.
For that matter, Windows 7 has no native mode to transfer video to the computer. There is no Movie Maker as comes with XP and ME (though the ME version is real shitty). I've checked around and some folks have apparently taken the old Movie Maker and converted it to where it's supposed to work on 7, so maybe I'll download one of those and give it a try. But hell, I've got several video editing programs on disc and surely some of them will install and work, at least enough to siphon content into the computer. (I just recalled that the laptop has a card reader, so I can probably get it in that way, though that wouldn't allow for editing options. Editing is available in the camera, but that would be very limited.)
Well along with the project to publish a collection of short stories -- my thanks to Carter Monroe for his close reading and spot-on editorial suggestions. Christ, I've got tons of stories bound up in rough copy that I've never transcribed to the computer. Others piled and stacked in old footlockers, suitcases and boxes. Probably never will transcribe most of them, and many are likely not good enough to bother with anyway. And that doesn't count three huge garbage bags of manuscripts I tossed when I left St. Louis in 1985. I've regretted that a time or two, but it's a done deal.
So is this batch of BS.
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