I'll beat this sickness even if it kills me....
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youtube. Show all posts
Friday, March 4, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Droppin' The Ball On Blog Posts
Here's an attempt a redemption in video form:
It looks like I'm still breathing over here in the ol' HK. "I've been more active on Twitter lately," he says to himself.
It looks like I'm still breathing over here in the ol' HK. "I've been more active on Twitter lately," he says to himself.
Monday, February 14, 2011
Gettin' Things DONE...
Alternate titles:
What I've Been Doin' When I'm Not Gettin' PAID or
How Do You Hang A Shelf Straight and Level When Nothing Around it is Straight or Level? or
I Wonder If I Will Drill Through A Weight Bearing Piece of Cement and Crumble This Flat or
How Many Drill Bits Does it Take To Get To the Center of a Cement Wall? or
Is The Core of This Flat Really Chinese Newspaper? or
Close Enough For State Work (as my Papa used to say)
What I've Been Doin' When I'm Not Gettin' PAID or
How Do You Hang A Shelf Straight and Level When Nothing Around it is Straight or Level? or
I Wonder If I Will Drill Through A Weight Bearing Piece of Cement and Crumble This Flat or
How Many Drill Bits Does it Take To Get To the Center of a Cement Wall? or
Is The Core of This Flat Really Chinese Newspaper? or
Close Enough For State Work (as my Papa used to say)
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Friday, February 4, 2011
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Chinese New Year 2011 Video 4 of 4 (The Best and Longest One)
My memory Card ran out of room about 15 seconds before the end of this performance :(
Monday, January 31, 2011
Chinese New Year Video Clips part 1 of 2
My computer went on standby while uploading to YouTube so I was only able to get a couple up last night.
Here are the first few:
Two more longer clips are coming soon!
Here are the first few:
Two more longer clips are coming soon!
Thursday, January 27, 2011
What I've been up to lately
Hello my family!
This may turn out to be a bunch of randomness, let's see......
Went to swing dancing last night with Katy, Jonathan, and Sarah, we went over a year ago and decided to go again, i think it will be a weekly thing which would be fun.
I had duck sausage and goat's cheese on my pizza last night
In the last 3 months these are the tracks that have been most popular for me according to Last.fm: (from most plays to least)
The Grascals – Sail Away Ladies
Alan Munde – Sail Away Ladies
John Hartford – Sail Away Ladies
Roger Whittaker – Christmas is Here Again
Doc Watson/Norman Blake/Tony Rice – Salt Creek
Carroll Best – Whiskey Before Breakfast
Phoenix – Armistice
Alison Krauss – Cluck Old Hen
Tony Trischka – Fisher's Hornpipe
Tony Trischka – Red Haired Boy
John Hartford – Fiddle Tune?
Jay Buckey – Sweet Georgia Brown
John Prine – Christmas In Prison
Tony Rice – Temperance Reel
Norman Blake – Texas Gales
Bill Keith – Cherokee Shuffle
Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Man
Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
Alan Munde – Billy In The Lowground
Mumford & Sons – The Cave
Phoenix – Lisztomania
Phoenix – Lasso
Since December 1 these are the songs I've learned on banjo:
Whiskey Before Breakfast
This may turn out to be a bunch of randomness, let's see......
Went to swing dancing last night with Katy, Jonathan, and Sarah, we went over a year ago and decided to go again, i think it will be a weekly thing which would be fun.
I had duck sausage and goat's cheese on my pizza last night
In the last 3 months these are the tracks that have been most popular for me according to Last.fm: (from most plays to least)
The Grascals – Sail Away Ladies
Alan Munde – Sail Away Ladies
John Hartford – Sail Away Ladies
Roger Whittaker – Christmas is Here Again
Doc Watson/Norman Blake/Tony Rice – Salt Creek
Carroll Best – Whiskey Before Breakfast
Phoenix – Armistice
Alison Krauss – Cluck Old Hen
Tony Trischka – Fisher's Hornpipe
Tony Trischka – Red Haired Boy
John Hartford – Fiddle Tune?
Jay Buckey – Sweet Georgia Brown
John Prine – Christmas In Prison
Tony Rice – Temperance Reel
Norman Blake – Texas Gales
Bill Keith – Cherokee Shuffle
Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Man
Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks
Alan Munde – Billy In The Lowground
Mumford & Sons – The Cave
Phoenix – Lisztomania
Phoenix – Lasso
Since December 1 these are the songs I've learned on banjo:
Whiskey Before Breakfast
I've been more involved with banjo hangout lately I've created two tabs and submitted them, I've been playing banjo since 2003, I think I can change my profile from "novice" to "purty good"
Today I went to countrytabs.com to look at a John Hartford song, spent 5 minutes looking for my password to login, then found out that the tab was incorrect. Then I found out that I could NOT right click or copy and paste the tab so I could make it better. I disabled javascript on the page, turns out the tab is a .jpg image, which I saved to my computer. I didn't feel like typing in the words so I uploaded it to a free online OCR service. I copied the resulting text into LibreOffice and switched it to Courier New to so that letter spacing will remain equal. Then I sat down and tabbed out the chords myself, when I was done I went to Ultimate-Guitar.com and submitted the tab so that many other people can benefit from it. They will also be able to right click and copy it how ever they want to and even change keys. They also won't need to log in to see it. All this made me realize I have a wealth of John Hartford songs with chords that I should put on there.
I've rediscovered Bob Black as a banjo player
The Session is pretty great for fiddle tunes that I can then turn into banjo tunes
That's about all I have in my brain right now
Actually, one more thing, a year after building my desktop I think I've finally figured out why it would sometimes crash when I plugged in a USB drive, I removed the stupid thin metal cutout in the back that i think was shorting out on the computer case and then re-shorting (or something) when the usb touched the case and the motherboard at the same time
I've rediscovered Bob Black as a banjo player
The Session is pretty great for fiddle tunes that I can then turn into banjo tunes
That's about all I have in my brain right now
Actually, one more thing, a year after building my desktop I think I've finally figured out why it would sometimes crash when I plugged in a USB drive, I removed the stupid thin metal cutout in the back that i think was shorting out on the computer case and then re-shorting (or something) when the usb touched the case and the motherboard at the same time
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Christmas Time in Hong Kong
I picked up the box of gifts sent from New York today. We opened them as soon as Katy and Jonathan got home. We want to thank everyone for their awesome gifts!
The quote of the night; as the poopin' penguin was all wound up and released on the table,
Jonathan, "Its head fell off!!"
He ducks down to grab it off the floor
Katy, "It's pooping everywhere!!"
Here is a semi-reenactment of what transpired....
And here are some other assorted pictures of our night......
Monday, January 10, 2011
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Monday, August 30, 2010
Crazy Haze Today...
The weather has been hot and clear for quite a while now, which is different than usual. Well, the clear part at least. I've been up to quite a few things lately and haven't done much updating, but here's an overview.
Last Friday I went to Macau to activate my dependent visa and to acquire some Portuguese egg tarts (probably the most important part of the trip)
I left Hong Kong around 1:30 I think on the Turbo Jet Ferry and arrived in Macau an hour later, I wandered around following a Lonely Planet guide to try to do a walk they recommended. I took a bus to try to get to some place on the map, after a while I didn't really know where I was going, which was fine. Then we turned a corner and I recognized a place that Katy and I had been to last year to activate my visa. I hopped off the bus and saw the area where we had Lapsap Live In Macau on the one night long ago...
part 2 and part 3
I wandered around this place for a while searching for the place that I bought some amazing egg tarts last time i was there. I walked and walked and never found the back alley place with the mouth burning tarts, but I did find some alternates that we ok. I also found a Dairy Queen! In South East Asia! I thought I'd stepped through a portal back to the US for a second. I bought a large chocolate chocolate chocolate blizzard and they served it upside down to demonstrate how thick it was. It was so think it took me two hours to eat it in the 90 degree heat.
After DQ i walked more and then caught a massively packed bus back to the pier, it was a busy time so the sailing I wanted was booked and so was the next one after that. So I looked around and bought a ticket from a different company, one that dropped me off in Kowloon rather than Hong Kong Island.
It was a comfortable ride and there wasn't many people on the boat. The immigration lines were slow, but they activated my visa. Actually, I opened up to the page and showed the lady specifically that I had it, she grabbed the passport and scanned it in her machine then asked "Do you want to activate this now??"
Me: "......"
Her: "....."
Me: "No, it's cool, I just spent $50 to go to Macau today so I could extend my tourist visa and work a job tomorrow....no need to use it really, I'll just see you in 90 days for another re-up on thee ol' tourist days stamp....It's not like I just showed it to you when I walked up to the counter and all..."
Actually that was pretty harsh, it was fine except that it was slowness I haven't encountered since being in the U.S.A.
After getting everything taken care of I caught the MTR up to a stop near Katy's parent's house in Ma On Shan and took a death bus...er mini-bus the rest of the way. Katy, Jonathan, and I stay over Friday night and I caught a bus to Sai Kung Saturday morning with 3 egg tarts in hand.
I met the people I needed to meet on the pier and we headed out on a junk with 60 people looking for a good time kayaking (which I was leading), stand up paddle boarding, and banana boating.
It was a great day for weather and the clients were fine, quite a bit different dealing with adults and having an objective to see the coral. I got to do some paddle boarding as well. Overall great day, I hope I can get to do more stuff like this again.
After work I met Katy in Tsim Sha Tsui for our Date Night and we walk for a while :) actually a long while :)
Then had one of the best meals I've ever had here in Hong Kong, an 11 course Indian food "journey of flavor"
Sunday was the usual, except we were in Ma On Shan and didn't have to leave as early to catch the ferry, went to the service and then Simply Life for lunch. Then came home and I relaxed as Katy and Jonathan went to scope out some additions to Jonathan's room here in Pui O.
Yesterday (Monday), I had a busy day of cooking, Katy and I bought tons of vegetables at the public market last thursday and a bunch of it need to be used up. So i set off making bread, finished to half opened bags and busting open a third, then while that was rising I started in on some Guacamole, I only had one avocado, but it had enough green mush in it that it was OK. Then I started baking the bread and got everything else ready in the frypan for when Katy and Jonathan walked in the door with Olive Oil and my latest addition to my curry arsenal Tumeric. Then I cooked up some chicken marinated in curry spices, garlic, and lemon juice and we ate until we exploded and our mouths burned off.
**As I was writing this I might have booked three days of work here in Pui O next week** Yay for freelancing!
Last Friday I went to Macau to activate my dependent visa and to acquire some Portuguese egg tarts (probably the most important part of the trip)
I left Hong Kong around 1:30 I think on the Turbo Jet Ferry and arrived in Macau an hour later, I wandered around following a Lonely Planet guide to try to do a walk they recommended. I took a bus to try to get to some place on the map, after a while I didn't really know where I was going, which was fine. Then we turned a corner and I recognized a place that Katy and I had been to last year to activate my visa. I hopped off the bus and saw the area where we had Lapsap Live In Macau on the one night long ago...part 2 and part 3
I wandered around this place for a while searching for the place that I bought some amazing egg tarts last time i was there. I walked and walked and never found the back alley place with the mouth burning tarts, but I did find some alternates that we ok. I also found a Dairy Queen! In South East Asia! I thought I'd stepped through a portal back to the US for a second. I bought a large chocolate chocolate chocolate blizzard and they served it upside down to demonstrate how thick it was. It was so think it took me two hours to eat it in the 90 degree heat.
After DQ i walked more and then caught a massively packed bus back to the pier, it was a busy time so the sailing I wanted was booked and so was the next one after that. So I looked around and bought a ticket from a different company, one that dropped me off in Kowloon rather than Hong Kong Island.
It was a comfortable ride and there wasn't many people on the boat. The immigration lines were slow, but they activated my visa. Actually, I opened up to the page and showed the lady specifically that I had it, she grabbed the passport and scanned it in her machine then asked "Do you want to activate this now??"
Me: "......"
Her: "....."
Me: "No, it's cool, I just spent $50 to go to Macau today so I could extend my tourist visa and work a job tomorrow....no need to use it really, I'll just see you in 90 days for another re-up on thee ol' tourist days stamp....It's not like I just showed it to you when I walked up to the counter and all..."
Actually that was pretty harsh, it was fine except that it was slowness I haven't encountered since being in the U.S.A.
After getting everything taken care of I caught the MTR up to a stop near Katy's parent's house in Ma On Shan and took a death bus...er mini-bus the rest of the way. Katy, Jonathan, and I stay over Friday night and I caught a bus to Sai Kung Saturday morning with 3 egg tarts in hand.
I met the people I needed to meet on the pier and we headed out on a junk with 60 people looking for a good time kayaking (which I was leading), stand up paddle boarding, and banana boating.
It was a great day for weather and the clients were fine, quite a bit different dealing with adults and having an objective to see the coral. I got to do some paddle boarding as well. Overall great day, I hope I can get to do more stuff like this again.
After work I met Katy in Tsim Sha Tsui for our Date Night and we walk for a while :) actually a long while :)
Then had one of the best meals I've ever had here in Hong Kong, an 11 course Indian food "journey of flavor"
Sunday was the usual, except we were in Ma On Shan and didn't have to leave as early to catch the ferry, went to the service and then Simply Life for lunch. Then came home and I relaxed as Katy and Jonathan went to scope out some additions to Jonathan's room here in Pui O.
Yesterday (Monday), I had a busy day of cooking, Katy and I bought tons of vegetables at the public market last thursday and a bunch of it need to be used up. So i set off making bread, finished to half opened bags and busting open a third, then while that was rising I started in on some Guacamole, I only had one avocado, but it had enough green mush in it that it was OK. Then I started baking the bread and got everything else ready in the frypan for when Katy and Jonathan walked in the door with Olive Oil and my latest addition to my curry arsenal Tumeric. Then I cooked up some chicken marinated in curry spices, garlic, and lemon juice and we ate until we exploded and our mouths burned off.
**As I was writing this I might have booked three days of work here in Pui O next week** Yay for freelancing!
Sunday, November 8, 2009
New addition to the family....
Yesterday, I met Katy in the city with plans of going to get my haircut, look at acoustic guitars, and maybe go Christmas shopping.
Ended up we (I) spent a lot of time looking at and playing guitars, before finally deciding on one. It ended up being about $170 US for a solid top guitar and soft case. They don't bargain or give discounts at the place I bought from, I couldn't even get picks or cheap strings or a discount on the gig bag from them... Anyway I think it's an excellent guitar for the price I paid, nice wood, and fretboard, deep bass sound with decent mid and high range. This is all coming from a guy who hasn't really played a decent instrument for more than 5 minutes in about 8 months, so who knows anymore.
Before purchasing the guitar Katy and I went to Pizza Express and had some really good food, yes Good good, (not Hong Kong good, for those of you keeping track) I had a pizza and Katy had marinated portabello mushroom with greens and almonds on it.
We also decided to go see "This is it" Michael Jackson's movie and it actually wasn't bad, it definately changed my view of him.
A 5 day 3 night camp starts tomorrow at 7:15, I'm still recovering from last week, vocally, mentally, and physically, but I should be ready to go tomorrow. I'm staying over Tuesday and Wednesday this week with the kids.
I'm doing the gauntlet of activities again this week with kayaking, gorging, adventure race, Cheung Chau expedition, raft building, among many others in our action packed days.
Dinner in Mui Wo with a bunch of the gang in about an hour.
I just recorded 3 videos for people to see my new acquisition, "Understand Your Man" is a new one that I learned from Johnny Cash and then the ol' standby "Wreck of Old 97" and then finally a record of the "Redwing" tribute piece I arranged after Millard passed away.
Ended up we (I) spent a lot of time looking at and playing guitars, before finally deciding on one. It ended up being about $170 US for a solid top guitar and soft case. They don't bargain or give discounts at the place I bought from, I couldn't even get picks or cheap strings or a discount on the gig bag from them... Anyway I think it's an excellent guitar for the price I paid, nice wood, and fretboard, deep bass sound with decent mid and high range. This is all coming from a guy who hasn't really played a decent instrument for more than 5 minutes in about 8 months, so who knows anymore.
Before purchasing the guitar Katy and I went to Pizza Express and had some really good food, yes Good good, (not Hong Kong good, for those of you keeping track) I had a pizza and Katy had marinated portabello mushroom with greens and almonds on it.
We also decided to go see "This is it" Michael Jackson's movie and it actually wasn't bad, it definately changed my view of him.
A 5 day 3 night camp starts tomorrow at 7:15, I'm still recovering from last week, vocally, mentally, and physically, but I should be ready to go tomorrow. I'm staying over Tuesday and Wednesday this week with the kids.
I'm doing the gauntlet of activities again this week with kayaking, gorging, adventure race, Cheung Chau expedition, raft building, among many others in our action packed days.
Dinner in Mui Wo with a bunch of the gang in about an hour.
I just recorded 3 videos for people to see my new acquisition, "Understand Your Man" is a new one that I learned from Johnny Cash and then the ol' standby "Wreck of Old 97" and then finally a record of the "Redwing" tribute piece I arranged after Millard passed away.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Gorge Day Video Journal
Here it is, it took all night to finish the video uploads to YouTube, I hope it works (and that my commentary is ample and audible...)
Meaghan and Bryan at top of waterfall 8:47am
Bryan Climbing 8:57am
Waterfall Again 9:12am
Jumping into the gorge 10:35.06
Crossing the Handline 10:35.26
11:51
1:45
1:48
1:58
2:19
2:20.16
2:27
2:52
4:16
4:28.24
4:29.32
4:30.36
4:34
4:40
4:51
Meaghan and Bryan at top of waterfall 8:47am
Bryan Climbing 8:57am
Waterfall Again 9:12am
Jumping into the gorge 10:35.06
Crossing the Handline 10:35.26
11:51
1:45
1:48
1:58
2:19
2:20.16
2:27
2:52
4:16
4:28.24
4:29.32
4:30.36
4:34
4:40
4:51
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