We picked up a floating baby-walker-like toy for Alex this weekend and took him in the pool. He loves the water. He quickly figured out how to scoot around the hot tub in this water-walker. If was fun, he enjoyed playing in it for about an hour before we decided to get out and take him in the pool, which was about 15 degrees cooler. He wasn’t so sure about the temperature of the pool.
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Category: Personal
Alex wants to help with the yard sale.
We’re getting ready to have a yard sale this weekend and Alex wanted to pitch in. Isn’t he just so cute! It makes me feel all squishy just looking at this picture. 🙂
Alex having fun.
Now for a less lengthy post. Alex had a fun bath outside yesterday and we got a ton of funny pictures. Here’s a few.
iLife ’09
I upgraded to iLife ’09 today just to mess with the face detection in iPhoto and for some of the new editing features in iMovie. The face detection works OK, it definitely missed a lot of faces, but I don’t know how it works. It does one pass on all the photos in the library after install and then I don’t think it does any more on the existing photos. So maybe when I import some new images it will be better at classifying faces. I’m interested to see how well it learns, I’m trying to get it to recognize my bulldog Cookie. I really like the “places” feature, except the only GPS camera I have is my iPhone, booo! Come on Canon, Sony, Nikon, and Pentax, put a GPS receiver in your cameras!
The stabilization feature of iMovie is nice, I remember when I paid a few hundred bucks for a Premiere plugin to do that. It turns out the new AVCHD importer doesn’t read the files directly from a hard disk folder, but it reads “camera archives” which are disk images (but not standard .dmg files, wtf) that iMovie creates instead of transcoding. To edit the videos transcoding to Apple Intermediate still has to happen at some point, bummer. But still it should save a good deal of disk space on my NAS. Once I use it more, I’m sure I’ll have a few more things to say.
iPhone test
Just a test. Uploaded this from my iPhone. This is Jamie and Alex at the airport last night, we took him there to look at the air traffic.
First Post!
OK, I’ve finally decided to try setting up a WordPress site. I’m tired of having to get to my computer and fire up RapidWeaver, iWeb, or whatever and wait for it to do some processing on a tiny bit of data and take forever. So hopefully this works out better, I’ve heard good things…