https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSoKyMMIxso
It took me like six tries to come up with some good alien brain control pop culture refs but I think I pulled it off. Sorry for not releasing this one Early at all, I got it done right at the edge of a two week period and I wanted to release exactly 14 days after my last one.
2023-09-22 17:46:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey how about that, I got a video done in less than two weeks. This is exactly what it looks like. Probably won't release it publicly for a while, so - enjoy!
2023-09-16 05:13:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Didn't have time for early access at all on this one because my life has just been an absolute whirlwind lately, it's been over three weeks since my last video so I just put it out publicly already. At least my sewer is getting replaced on Monday!
2023-09-08 21:51:23 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkMwLbIQlOg
I'm still dealing with the sewer situation, and boy howdy is *that* getting much simpler and easier to handle by the day (this is my thickest possible sarcasm) but I managed to get Quick Start #5 out the door. I'll figure out a proper name tomorrow, hopefully.
This one was a real pain to put together because the Qosmio itself has a bunch of Quirks And Fea...
2023-08-17 00:53:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember my sewer disaster a year and a half ago? It's back. Long story short, the fix didn't go the way we hoped. I thought I'd bought myself a couple years, but I hadn't, and now we have to get it done right.
I'm only posting this here so you're aware; you're all already making my entire lifestyle possible, so please do not feel obligated, especially if you're financially strained yourself.
If there's anyone you can share with, that would be appreciated. I'm also considering doi...
2023-08-10 21:07:59 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVgK5NfVMP0
Phew. Well, I finally did the followup on the SCSI tower video. This was a slog.
It's probably pretty clear that I don't really love working without physical specimens. A lot of people on youtube will make whole videos without a single object to actually hold in their hands, just jpegs and video clips - that gives me hives, and this was no exception.
<... 2023-07-30 23:00:30 +0000 UTC View Posthttps://youtube.com/live/8Rep0f0eLTM?feature=share
I did a stream last week from my studio and had a good time. If you're free this early (or settling in for the evening, if you're in europe) I'm doing another one right now.
2023-07-18 17:04:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh boy! A video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNEulcJrJ2I
It is amazing how quickly plans fall apart on contact with reality. I know I don't need to explain myself, but I'm kind of astonished at how much has gone wrong the last few weeks and I figured I'd just let you all know What's Up.
How It's Going
Protip for anyone thinking of quitting their job the way I did: T...
2023-07-13 01:21:32 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, just wanted to remind you all that if you'd like to see more of me, I stream every week or two on my side channel, https://youtube.com/@CathodeRayDudeGaiden
I'll probably start a stream in the next couple hours, so subscribe if you want to maybe, possibly get notified when I go live, if YouTube decides to do it today.
It's a real freeform thing; sometimes I play games, sometimes I mes...
https://youtu.be/5e-J59gzaQY
I recently got a whole pile of Avid equipment from a friend, and while I haven't had a chance to fully explore it yet, I thought you'd all like a sneak peek at what it is and does.
https://youtu.be/q5M0TwnkWUM
Well, this is it. This is not the last episode of Quick Start (oh man, not by far; we aren't even at the halfway point) but it is the reason I started the series.
I began investigating instant-on OSes because of Asus Expressgate, but I'm not sure I actually would have made a video about it. On its own, it just didn't really rate a narrative - I mean, I ended up dra...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z524I1cy2k
You've already read about this if you're a patron, I just made a public video about it.
2023-06-12 15:44:26 +0000 UTC View Post
https://youtu.be/Lr-cjf5AX-c
Quick Start episode 3 is done! Or episode 4, if you believe the doofus talking over the credits roll. This is the second most boring ep in the series (the vaio p will probably exceed it; yes, I have one now)
GUESS WHO WROTE THIS POST YESTERDAY, THEN ACCIDENTALLY LEFT IT IN DRAFT STATE. ANYWAY, I QUIT
I might write a more detailed post at some point, and I haven't decided if I'm gonna make an announcement video or w/e until things are actually wrapped up, but: I did it, I told my boss I'm out, and while (for reasons that are ultimately beneficial to me) my last day won't be until the end of the month, the deed is effectively done.
I don't know that I definitely would have go...
Hi everyone. Things may be changing here, probably for the better. Possibly for the worse, but I doubt that.
I doubt it because of the enormous support I've received from all of you, and my audience in general, over the last few years. When I started this I did not expect to have more than a few dozen views a month, and a couple comments total, that both say "cool." Where I am is not where I expected to be, to put it mildly, and I'm reaching an inflection point where I'm asking...
2023-06-01 01:01:06 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0h8wWlBxY0
Against all imaginable probabilities, I am actually continuing this series, and I expect to have episode 3 out this time next week. How I'm accomplishing this is anyone's guess.
2023-05-22 02:15:09 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za_Ul08dtj8
Well geez louise is this ever a video. I am trying to make an actual Series that I will actually Commit to instead of trying to cram everything about a topic that deserves multiple presentations into a single 1.5 hour video. I would say "let's see whether that actually happens" but if it doesn't, I will be extremely publicly embarrassed, since I wrote "Ep 1" on...
2023-05-14 07:52:05 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mqkTFq7Ekg
This one was a real slog to produce. Took me three years! I'm pretty sure this is the finished version - first two RCs had some serious errors. I also suspect that some people will find the telephone audio portions unlistenable, but I'm not sure what I can do about that. Guess I'm taking feedback on that topic for a bit before I release this, but no guarantees ...
2023-05-04 17:46:34 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPlwxvbZIzI
Here's part two, in which I drunkenly fumble my way through inventorying the VT3 machine and then reassembling it and firing up the software, which... works exactly like the VT5 software from the previous video, so there wasn't much point in demonstrating it. The journey is the destination, etc.
2023-04-20 18:51:02 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-k4JsxLpqI
Finally received a package I've been waiting on for a while: the missing puzzle piece from my Newtek menagerie, a VT[3] system. The generous fellow who sent it to me was nice enough to send the entire machine, and the cables, and the control surface, so I basically have a complete original setup.
I shot and edited this super quick so I could get ...
2023-04-20 04:07:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Phew. It's always rough when it's been a long time since my last video, I worry that I'm in too much of a rush to do a really good job. But on this one, well, A) I'm positive I didn't leave anything out about the PC, and B) I put in the effort (it was actually like two days, not two hours like the video says) to actually compose an original song after 20 years of struggling to get myself to...
2023-04-06 09:08:36 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCLF15PNkKQ
I just finished rebuilding this machine for the fifth or sixth time and figured I'd share a little video illustrating the project.
2023-03-20 00:34:37 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO4zQM7nzEQ
Uhhhhhh whoops! Several errors!
First: The bit about the relays in the mixer? Completely false, and I don't know what i was thinking. Really old mixers DID use relays for switching, but by the 2000s, everything had framesynced inputs, and cut-through switching was impossible (and pointless.)
I knew this, and something about the statement wa...
2023-03-03 06:45:43 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBeTiu2juUw
Okay! Alright! Okay! A new video!
I made that post a day or two ago because I looked at the calendar, looked at my release history, and thought "oh my god I haven't had a normal video since December." I had two that I shot in my basement and one that was really out of character (I seem to do this around the winter months) but finally, here's a ne...
2023-03-03 01:36:05 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, I know it's been a while, and I just wanted to let you all know that I am working on a new video that I hope to have out by the end of the week, which is more or less a return to form. I know everything I've released this year so far has been kinda weird (I've been kinda weird) but this one will just be an hour long video about some video production gear. Thanks for sticking around!
(Uploaded a new version with a few tweaks before release; if you left comments you might wanna leave em again!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Sf2q2SLlA
As I explain at the beginning, I was originally just shooting a patron video, and then enough Events occurred that I felt like I should just share it publicly. I have no idea what people will think of this since it's such an unstructured mess, b...
2023-02-10 04:20:08 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjlvwFSh32w
Was in the office a couple days ago testing something for my next video, wanted to record it for you since I figured I wouldn't get to really demo it in the video properly, and then decided to ramble on about videos and collecting and mess around with a couple other things.
Also spent 40 minutes trying to compose thoughts about some of the comments I got ...
2023-01-31 04:19:56 +0000 UTC View PostThis isn't a patron-exclusive thing, but I've made some progress on a long-delayed project and I thought you might want to hear about it - and maybe someone out there will be able to help me move forward on it, since there's hardware I absolutely need before I can proceed, and it's impossible to find without networking.
First, even if you don't wanna read this post (fair,) here's a link to a non-exclusive, but still hopefully fun article on my website cataloguing everything I <...
2023-01-23 00:43:25 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PRpzAIbhtY
As always, I want to thank you all for your patience. It's been a month since my last video, and the longer I go without putting something out, the more frantic I feel. But fortunately, my desire to only release things I'm satisfied with takes precedence over that - if only it made the feeling go away, eh?
I expect to get a lot of comments on thi...
2023-01-22 23:49:35 +0000 UTC View Post
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHqiYQqclHk
I've been collecting digital cameras for years, and my usual criteria is "is this thing weird?" So far, I've collected a fair number of weird ones, but never really decided "hey, these are weird enough for a video" until these funky things came along.
This video might be the shortest I've ever made, kind of an experiment in quick production after a year o...
2023-01-01 06:26:35 +0000 UTC View Post