Kristen’s heading to Houston Baptist University in 2 months. We decided to finally retire the 2006 Sportage in our family (thank you Mom) and get her a new Kia Sportage with the latest collision avoidance safety features standard in the Sportage 2020. Doesn’t look too bad either!
One of the best stories I’ve heard. Hopefully more medical schools will follow. I believe it has a huge potential to solve what’s wrong with our medical system in America.
New Your Coverage: Surprise Gift: Free Tuition for All N.Y.U. Medical Students
There is room for improving on the program:
CNBC: Why NYU’s tuition-free medical school offer may not live up to its hype
“In the field of medicine, schools have become worried that students saddled with steep debt are increasingly pursuing top-paying specialties rather than careers in family medicine, pediatrics and research. “
I use a wallet case for my phones. It holds my driver’s license, a few cards and some bills. Don’t have to keep track of a wallet and I think it offers some of the best protection for a phone. This new case with a strapless design does a sufficient job of keeping the cover closed. On the way home from Dallas during the Cleveland Cincinnati game I found this terrific use of the case. I was able to secure it by folding the cover and pinching the vanity cover on my passenger visor! It held strong the entire trip and offered a glare-free convenient position to watch the game on the road! Probably helped that my newest phone, the Motorola G6 is on the smaller size. So far it’s been a great phone!
I was set to get a new Google Pixel 3 phone $150 off $800 during Thanksgiving. Then I came across the G6 I could get for $189 at Costco ($50 off). You can get it on Amazon for $200. I decided to give it a try and so far, I’m pretty happy with it. My Google Nexus 6 phone was starting to have issues and no longer allowed Android Auto to work in my car.
The phone is slightly thinner but taller with a 18:9 ratio rather than the standard 16:9. It has tons of features which I’m still discovering. This is the first phone I’ve owned with a fingerprint scanner and I really like how convenient and quick it is to unlock the phone. I can define motion actions as shortcuts to various functions. For example shaking it twice will turn on the flashlight!
It has a 12m front facing dual-camera. Judging from the 1st photo I shot on our back porch, it is plenty nice!
I could buy a phone like this EVERY year at this price and in 4 years I would have spent as much as an iPhone!
I want to move all my external storage to solid state drives. I get nervous that my disk-based external drives will eventually stop working.
This Samsung T5 SSD 500GB USB 3.1/USB-C is my first SSD purchase.
It’s tiny and fast! Love it. Bought it back in May for $160. Amazon now has it for $124.
When I fill it up, hopefully prices of the 1TB model will fall and I’ll buy my second.
Based on iMovie version 10.1.9
How to create highlight video from Volleyball game
Keyboard Shortcuts
<Space>: Play
< L >: Fast Forward (repeat for faster). Use <Space> or <K> to pause
< J >: Fast Rewind (repeat for faster). Use <Space> or <K> to pause
< Left Arrow > Single frame backward
<Right Arrow > Single frame forward (Try holding down)
< Up Arrow> Previous Clip
<Down Arrow> Next Clip
<X>: Select Entire Clip
Split Clip : <Command><B>
<Command>Click to toggle selection
Select All: <Command><A>
Copy: <Command><C>
Paste: <Command><V>
Undo: <Command><Z>
<Option> < F > : Add Freeze Frame using current position. Grab frame handle (circle at top) to shorten/extend time
Remove (soften) Audio: Position cursor toward bottom of clip in timeline just above sound graph until you see double-arrow cursor, grab and pull down
Advanced Editing
Crop/Zoom
Slow Motion
Stabilize Shaky Video
Adjust Color
Syncing Audio/Music with Video
Miscellaneous
Working on multiple highlight videos at once.
What if you want to create different highlight videos from the same source video? iMovie only supports 2 video timelines and you can take advantage of that and stack one set of clips over the other. The top timeline is really designed for overlays like text and such, but it can be done with some careful management.
Another option if you only need to save off a few clips for another purpose is to simply use copy/paste of a clip from your main project to another. After copying, switch projects and paste the clip. Not ideal but it works.
This is one of my favorite tricks.
When I make a temporary change to code, usually for testing, that I do not want to commit, I simply add a comment above the temporary code with the words DO NOT COMMIT. When I try to commit that file, git will abort the commit and warn me:
+ // DO NOT COMMIT
pre-commit: Blocking commit because detect
In the root of your project, open the hidden .git folder.
Use CMD + SHIFT + . to toggle display of hidden files if needed.
If it doesn’t exist, create a hooks subfolder.
create a file named pre-commit with the following content:
#!/bin/sh
# Check if this is the initial commit
if git rev-parse –verify HEAD >/dev/null 2>&1
then
against=HEAD
else
echo “pre-commit: About to create the first commit…”
against=4b825dc642cb6eb9a060e54bf8d69288fbee4904
fi# Use git diff-index to check for @DONTCOMMITTHIS
# http://stackoverflow.com/a/7292992/3307822
# https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/git-hooks/local-hooks
#
declare -a strsToLookForArr=(
“DONTCOMMITTHIS”
“DONOTCOMMIT”
“DO NOT COMMIT”
)for str in “${strsToLookForArr[@]}”
do
if git diff-index -p -M –cached $against — | grep ‘^+’ | grep -i “$str”
then
echo “pre-commit: Blocking commit because $strToLookFor detected”
exit 1
fi
doneecho “pre-commit: clear”
exit 0