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Last week we painted our bedroom

October 3rd, 2011

Last week we painted our bedroom. I thought it would be a perfect occasion to try out one of our wedding presents that I was totally stoked to use since we got it. My new GoPro camera! It’s mainly for when we go on our real honeymoon. So we can mount it to our helmets while riding scooters and motorcycles around Europe.

I used the multishot function on the camera to take a photo every 10 seconds for the time we were painting and then assembled them in Adobe Premiere to add the beginning and ending shots and the sound track.

We use Behr Premium Paint plus Primer for all of our painting and it covers everything! We’ve been painting a lot since we moved in then had emergency renovations to the entire house then had to repaint again. None of the room needed two coats but the wall farthest away from the camera got two because I painted the graffiti a little too thick and you could see it still when the paint dried.

There will be more GoPro videos coming soon!

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We Have New Luggage

March 3rd, 2011

London Fog makes nice stuff.

Last night we went to the Bay and picked up some matching his and hers luggage in preparation for our trip to Whistler Blackcomb in 11 days and our honeymoon in October! I’m really pumped. I also need to pick up a new board bag for the trip out west.

Our new London Fog luggage is really nice. Good heavy zippers and nice fat wheels. Mine has a really nice feature of a built in garment bag and K’s is super stylish in a houndstooth pattern.

Yesterday we also had our garbage can replaced with the medium size. In Toronto if you use a small garbage bin you get a rebate on your property taxes. $14. That’s the price of four garbage tags. We found we were filling it quite a few weeks in a row and having to buy tags. So we upgraded. With the medium bin you don’t get a rebate it’s something like $22 a year extra. Definitely worth it in the long run. The only down side is that it’s harder to get in and out of our garbage closet.

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Automatic Mario Is Insane.

November 30th, 2009

I’ve seen a few of these automatic Mario things before made with a hack of Super Mario World. Some of them were pretty amazing but recently a few have popped up that have been absolutely mind blowing.

This first one is the bast I’ve seen so far and I’ve watched it quite a few times. I think it takes at least two watches to really appreciate how it’s done and how the music goes along. It involves one level for each member of the band which is pretty impressive.

The levels start with Mario having a little momentum and then no buttons are pressed at all. Using bouncy blocks, power-ups, Yoshi, and various enemies to create the notes of the song.

This next one isn’t as interesting to me cause I think the music sucks. But it’s really high paced and the stitching of the three and four levels together works really well.

I’d never have the time or patience to do something like this. But it sure is cool to see someone putting my favorite old games to use. It’s also served to pump me up even more for this:

Four players… Mario with four players…

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