I talk about a dietary choice that could help both your health and the health of other animals and the world. Every little bit helps, right?
(Yes, sometimes I will eat meat during the week, but I always offset it by having a fully meatless week following that, and sometimes I’ll eat meat if it would otherwise be thrown out, because at least then it’s made use of.)
Tagged diet, environment, food, health, meat, vegetarianism, veggie, weekday vegetarian, weekendI talk about exercise and my 100 Pushup failure.
I probably won’t progress much in pushups for the next month, since I won’t be doing any actual pushups aside from the tests. I might incorporate them into my next routines, though. Feel free to do something else that’s easily measurable if you’d rather not to push-ups.
Aberglas video by galron066: http://www.youtube.com/galron066
(I swear I didn’t know it was Andy when I included him my previous video.)
The exercise routine: http://www.dagbladet.no/2010/07/22/nyheter/innenriks/trening/sommer/12577545/
Origami Fish: http://www.origami-instructions.com/origami-fish.html
Some of this you know from the previous blog post. Some of it is just silly. Most of it is silly, in fact.
NUDE FOOD FRIDAY! (I uploaded it yesterday) Wooh!
This is hardly even cooking, but it’s easy and cheap.
Also, my parents are in town. They’re leaving tomorrow morning. It’s been unexpectedly great to have them here. Don’t get me wrong, I always love seeing my family, but it was especially nice to have them over to watch my play. It’s probably the age-old need for validation from one’s parents coming back to haunt.
The parent-child dynamic doesn’t really ever change. When I’m my dad’s age, I’ll still be his kid, and he’ll still be my dad. I’ll probably still breathlessly be telling him about this new game I’ve been playing and he’ll still be looking at me as if I’m from another planet. We want to impress our parents, and our parents want to understand our world, but at the same time we do not and cannot ever fully understand each other. When my dad grew up, he’d play in the streets because a car would only pass every half hour, if even that. My parents were both grown people when Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong put their feet on the moon. They can remember a time when they didn’t have a TV. I can hardly even remember a time I didn’t have a computer. In fact, I can’t. We’ve had a C64 since I was four. My nephew was searching for videos on Youtube at three years old. We can never fully know one another across such chasms of culture, history and technology.
It’s a crazy, weird problem that isn’t really a problem once you think about it. Once we accept that we are different like that and that we will always be each other’s parents and children.
Anyway, so yeah. It was a great feeling that they would come to see my play even if it is just a half-hour children’s play and not even paid work. It’s nice you have the support of the people who brought you into this world, innit?
In this video, I decided to move away from iMovie because it was ridiculously annoying to work with. If my software is going to be annoying, it better also allow me to do what I want to do. So I moved to Final Cut Pro, which is what I always used before I lost my camera. It’s not as “convenient” as iMovie, but I can do what I want with it.
Took me ages to edit, because I wasn’t sure what codecs and stuff iMovie records from the webcam with, so there was a lot of rendering and re-rendering… Which takes a long time on this computer.
The second video. Uploaded to youtube on monday. Mondays are for Movies.
I’m back on Youtube as of last saturday, and I aim to stick around and make three videos a week. I’ve realised that Youtube could still end up being a viable source of income if I really put my heart in it. Currently, I get a minimum payment every few months. If I can build a bigger group of people watching (through making an effort on videos, interacting with the audience and regularity) It might easily come down to once a month and then up from that. Right now, the goal is to save up for a new video camera (Why do I need a new one? Check the video), and then we’ll see.
Hope you enjoy!
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