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NASA Loses Moonwalk Video
Ever go on vacation and take some pictures and maybe a video of your trip? Sometimes they get lost and that really sucks. Imagine that you were the first person (astronaut) to take a trip (to the moon) have some video (broadcast to millions of people). You’d want to keep that right? Someone (society) might want to see it one day.
Only in recent years was the agency reminded of what it once had — clean and crisp first-man-on-the-moon video images that could be especially valuable now that NASA is planning a return trip.
About 36 years after the tapes went into storage, NASA was suddenly eager to have them. There was just one problem: The tapes were nowhere to be found.
Oops.
Step-By-Step Guide to Getting DVDs to Video iPod
In preparation of an upcoming trip, I’ve been equipping my video iPod with all of the DVDs that I’ve still neglected to watch. Since some of you might not know how to do this I’ve made a nice little guide for both Windows and Mac users.
Windows Users
- You’ll need to download DVD Decrypter and Videora (both free).
- Then follow this very easy guide which is essentially a two-step process.
- The converting takes the longest part, around an hour total for a good machine.
Mac Users
- Get a hold of the free software Handbrake which will rip the DVD to your hard drive.
- Then download iSquint another free program that converts the DVD file into an iPod friendly one.
There you go a very simple and easy process for both operating systems. You can also download and convert YouTube videos by reading this or just rip and burn DVDs the old fashioned way. Of course if you have any questions holler at me in the comments 🙂 If there are any ‘how-to’ techno-geek questions (about anything) out there contact me and I’ll do the research and post some kind of dorky and easy method.
Any suggestions for movies or TV shows that I should have on there to make the hours of flight fly by? hehe, get it? Fly by? Oh, ok, whatever!
Army Stories Part 4: From One World To the Other
I have a recommendation for anyone who will be going to Burdur – learn to like the people you are waiting in line with as you enter the base.
Getting into the place everyone is jockeying for position and it is easy to get confused as to where to stand and it’s just as easy to lose your cool too. One person making fun of the other amidst the crowd is annoying. More annoying is the fact that the people you are in line with are the people you will be spending almost all of three weeks with.
Grouped into sections of 30 or so people this becomes your squad, or in Turkish ‘manga‘.
The first thing one notices as they get pass the beeping metal detector and into a room full of chairs lined up is the order of things. If there are 20 chairs, 20 people sit there. No empty seats and no skipping a seat to sit with your friends. You’ll be told once in a stern tone, but everyone continues to talk and then the stern tone becomes agitated yelling.
This may seem obvious or trite to those who are or have been in the military. It does catch you off guard however because it is so different than the civilian world. In ‘real’ life you can sit where you want and more or less can feel as an equal to people you run across.
My first thoughts were:
- Shit, I can’t do what I want.
- I can’t complain or talk back about it.
- I need to pee.
…as I’m filling out waivers.
Part 1, 2, and 3, here.
UNICEF Recap: January 2007
The number of dollars raised for UNICEF by L’avant Poste this month: $25.00.
Thank you!
Airports Secure As Long As Al-Qaeda Stays Sober
Because it seems that drunk people have no trouble entering airport ‘secured’ areas.
An intoxicated 28-year-old man apparently broke into a secure area near McCarran International Airport and stole a luggage cart tug car before being arrested early Tuesday.
About Anil Polat
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