Videos

  • The Strangest Things Make Toddlers Laugh

    (if you’re on Facebook you may need to visit the post to see the video)

  • The Kids Murder some Flowers

    (If you’re seeing this on Facebook you may need to follow the link to see the video)

  • Stella dances while drinking milk

  • Pushing the Car

    Pushing the Car

    I can’t believe how much they’ve grown. Summer 2016 we were pushing them around in this car, now they’re pushing it around. (Youtube vids which may not carry over to FB – you may need to click through to the blog)  

  • Stella messes with Sam

    (if you usually see my blog posts on FB, I am pretty sure they don’t carry over Youtube embeds, so come to the blog to see the videos) If you’re an only child, you don’t know what it’s like to have to live with your kiddie tormentor. Growing up, the three of us each alternated…

  • Setting up Multiple Monitors in a KVM QEMU VM

    I created this video to help people learn how easy it is with Libvirt, KVM, and QEMU to have multiple monitors in your virtual machines.

  • Creating VSCO-Like Photos with RawTherapee

    Creating VSCO-Like Photos with RawTherapee

    Lots and lots of people ask on Reddit every single day how to get photos that look like they were created with VSCO. Basically – crushed blacks and split-toned. Everyone always gives instructions on how to do it in Lightroom. But no one ever talks about how to do it in RawTherapee, so I decided…

  • Stella is the first to walk assisted

    (And I think she beat Scarlett by a few months) If you’re reading this on Facebook and it doesn’t attach a video – go to the link for the blog to see her take her first [assisted] steps.

  • Black and White Conversion Challenge Round 1

    Now that Google has released the Nik Collection for free, I wondered which is the best way to convert a color image into a B&W image. So I wanted to compare the results from RawTherapee, GIMP G’MIC Plugin, and Nik Collection in Photoshop. What follows are four videos as go through the processes. Here are…

  • Older Siblings vs Parents

    (I don’t know why uploading this to WordPress has ended up with the video upside down) There’s a story about my childhood my mom is fond of telling. My dad asks Daniel (the brother born after me) to do something. To my father’s consternation, he refuses because it would make me mad. It’s funny to…

  • Exploring Photography with Eric: Ep 01- Gels on Speedlights

    Exploring Photography with Eric: Ep 01- Gels on Speedlights

    I’ve been watching Gavin Hoey’s GREAT series on studio lighting. While he has a better studio than I do, he still has a small home studio so I find his advice and tutorials match what I’m able to accomplish. When I saw this video (https://youtu.be/PIoWwx-elCE) I really wanted to try it out. So join me…

  • Removing an Object from a Photo in GIMP

    Removing an Object from a Photo in GIMP

    You might remember the photos from Scarlett’s birthday party. For some reason Dina wanted to hide when holding Sam. Her shoulder and back ended up being incredibly distracting in the photo. It would have been better if she would have just stood up and held him normally rather than pretend he was sitting on his…

  • Two-for-One Racism

    Two-for-One Racism

    I was watching Gold Diggers of ’49 the other day with my daughter as we made our way through old cartoon shorts. That’s how I grew up – on Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and the other WB shorts along with the Disney shorts. Sometimes, late at night, they’d show the black and white cartoons like…

  • Scarlett rides her trike on her own for the first time

    Scarlett rides her trike on her own for the first time

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  • Scarlett and the Maps

    Scarlett and the Maps

    A fun little video of Scarlett going from QUITE far away to pretty local in demonstrating where we live.