Notag http://www.frostmage.org/blog Where you aren't good enough to be in a guild Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:54:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en End of the 2009-2010 Snowboard Season http://www.frostmage.org/blog/2010/03/14/end-of-the-2009-2010-snowboard-season/ http://www.frostmage.org/blog/2010/03/14/end-of-the-2009-2010-snowboard-season/#comments Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:54:21 +0000 Gileon http://www.frostmage.org/blog/?p=1018 March 7, 2010 was the last turn of the 2009-2010 snowboard season. Seemed to be a short season this year. Late start (Dec) and what I feel is aways an early end.

Reading my 2008-2009 entry not much has changed in a year.

Economy is still terrible. There won’t be any snowboard trips this year. And can I blame global climate change on the ever earlier warm weather in March?

I’m gonna console myself by leveling up my warrior. :-P

Snowboard Season History

Last run of the 2009-2010 season was March 7, 2010

First run of the 2009-2010 season was December 5, 2009

Last run of the 2008-2009 season was March 15, 2009

First run of the 2008-2009 season was November 16, 2008

Last run of the 2007-2008 season was April 5, 2008

First run of the 2007-2008 season was November 30, 2007

Last run of the 2006-2007 season was April 3, 2007

First run of 2006-2007 was not tracked. Bummer!

]]> http://www.frostmage.org/blog/2010/03/14/end-of-the-2009-2010-snowboard-season/feed/ Testing: Embedding a USA Karate calendar into a blog http://www.frostmage.org/blog/2010/01/11/testing-embedding-a-usa-karate-calendar-into-a-blog/ http://www.frostmage.org/blog/2010/01/11/testing-embedding-a-usa-karate-calendar-into-a-blog/#comments Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:43:00 +0000 Gileon http://www.frostmage.org/blog/?p=1017 Ick!

Removed it :-)

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Went back and reviewed my blogs from Jan 2008 and as I remember there were many new people working out at the gym. I tend to think of them as the “new years resolution people”.

We are 8 days into 2010 and I’ve walked into a completely empty gym most nights.

Just a sign of the economic times?

People don’t like working out when it’s -15F, -10F, -2F, 5F :-P or some ungodly cold temperature?

I’m not complaining! Just seems unusual.

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Me: “What’cha counting?”
Kid: “The grey hairs.”

Huh?! What? Like we need reminders we are getting old. :-)
To add insult to injury my other child comes over and inspects the sink.

Kid #2: “Count the dark ones, there’s less of them.”

There you have it. Brutal honesty of children. :-)

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Today, high of -10F, really unfun temp for snowboarding.

I’ll see if I can sneak in some time after the Viking game tomorrow.

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]]> http://www.frostmage.org/blog/2009/12/28/no-snowboard/feed/ Flash (.flv) to iTunes Video File (.m4v) http://www.frostmage.org/blog/2009/12/25/flash-flv-to-itunes-video-file-m4v/ http://www.frostmage.org/blog/2009/12/25/flash-flv-to-itunes-video-file-m4v/#comments Fri, 25 Dec 2009 06:58:50 +0000 Gileon http://www.frostmage.org/blog/?p=1012 Visiting the family at the farm and sitting on the end of a 1M/1M Microwave link. Normally this is ok bandwidth and adequate latency. Throw 18 laptops, couple iTouch, couple iPhones -and- a blizzard and you have little bandwidth and even worse latency!

Speedtest.net shows our lovely 1M/1M link is down to 0.33M/0.21M and 2083ms latency! Of course I had this vision of catching up on some Raid Fight videos on YouTube.

Streaming YouTube wasn’t happening. So, I needed to download YouTube videos and play them locally. Thought this would be easy, but had to jump through some hoops.

I believe saving YouTube locally breaks the ToS so take that with what it’s worth. Use your googleFU to figure it out yourself and read other people’s warning messages.

The tool I found that worked best for snarf’n the YouTube video and saving it to disk is iSkySoft’s Video Downloader for Mac. Hit the previous link for how to use it. Drop dead simple.

By default you’ll get a .flv in “~/Movies/Free iTube Resource”, now I want iTune Video, so I used HandBrake to convert the flash files.

Worked like a charm.

]]> http://www.frostmage.org/blog/2009/12/25/flash-flv-to-itunes-video-file-m4v/feed/ Sunday late afternoon snowboarding http://www.frostmage.org/blog/2009/12/20/sunday-late-afternoon-snowboarding/ http://www.frostmage.org/blog/2009/12/20/sunday-late-afternoon-snowboarding/#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:16:52 +0000 Gileon http://www.frostmage.org/blog/?p=1011 Leaf made his debut today. Good to board with my kid brother. :-)

Really looking forward to having the -whole- crew back and on the slopes the same day!

Got there in the later afternoon and crowds where heavy. Like clockwork, 4pm rolled around, people just seem to leave.

I think only 2 runs are not open. Highland rabbit run and Tree Trip run. Rolllers in the Highland are there but way to close and rutted.

Leaf got some good pictures.

Bridge run had plenty of snow but large mount of snow down the middle of the run made switches on the hill tough. I think they need to run the snow-cat through the run and even things out.

Ended the night in the Meadows riding fakey.

Gonna miss next weekend cuz of the holidays. Will really look forward to the weekend after that to get back on the slopes.

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Saturday temps hit mid-20s so I and kid#1 packed up our gear and headed out to Afton.

To my amazement a crew member from the past took time off of work and met us out there. Chief has returned.

Packed powered (of course) was the stable for most runs with the occasional “pillow” of snow made by the snow machines (not!).

We forgot kid#1’s goggles so it was an icy dagger run through the snow makers. Fun stuff.

It looked like all of the Meadow and Alps are open. Terrian park in the Meadows and the rabbit run in the Alps. The major runs in the highlands are open. Bridge was open, but full of snow makers. Highland rabbit run was closed. Atomic Drop was closed. Jump Park closed.

Funny story.

We took a run through the meadow’s terrain park so kid#1 could check it out. We stopped at one particularly long kinked-box-slide and watched. Everyone was having problems with it.

1 crew of teenage boys was filming and being a typical all-boy snowboard crew. One member came down and face planted hard. He got up and dusted himself off to the jeers and laughs of his crew. His response, he flipped them the bird.

Kid#1’s eyes got very large and she pulled on my sleeve and pointed for us to go down the hill.

On the chair-lift she leans over to me in a voice filled with exasperation and says, “Dad, did you see that boy give his friends the middle finger?!”

I tried to keep a straight face and just said, “Yep.”

She sat back into the chair-lift and talking to no one in particular said, “Why do teenage boys have to be so naughty!”

Well, isn’t that a question for the ages!

I treasure these times with my daughter. She’s old enough to have an adult conversation with but still young enough to want to be with her dad and thinks it’s cool.

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Thought that was kinda cool of the dev team.

Watch this little dog. The butt-drag/sniff animation is funny!

Perky Pug (direct link) or Youtube below:

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