Lots of things they tell you about old age, but brain fog is not one of the best ones.
I spent a holiday in lockdown, hacking a wii machine that’s just sat in a cupboard.
I got it to work, loading in games from various platforms, using just a memory stick and a memory card.
To make it even better I could buy an old gamecube controller and play driving games and shoot em ups. As is my luck, I couldn’t find an old gamecube controller in any of the second hand shops, so I played with the wii controller and made do. Eventually, it all got put away again, comfortable in the knowledge that it was now good to go whenever I felt like it.
Today I was out pottering and spotted a gamecube controller, so I bought it. Pound to a penny I’ve completely forgotten where I put the files, the memory card, etc. to hack it with all the games on *sigh*
I’ve got a movie file that’s recorded with sound, which is a whopping 5.5 gig to upload. Too big obviously.
I’ve had large files before, recorded without sound and separate microphoned sound track was added, the eventual file size was just 0.7gig.
The question is, how did this file size get so big? How can I make it small enough to upload? Then will I end up swearing at geeks when what I’m told “it is a simple process,” then turns out to not be a simple process and fails to reduce the file size?
I need to master this so that I can use it in my short films in the future.
Sprog2 found a decent programme on the iplayer last night, Ghosts.
No idea how we found it, but it’s about a selection of ghosts, from various time periods, all haunting the same old house. There’s an MP, an old army general, a caveman type (from before the house was built), an old lady of the manor, a maid burnt at the stake, some servants whom contracted the plague, an edwardian poet, a scout leader whom was shot through the neck with an arrow, you get the idea.
A struggling young couple, some relative of a distant aunt that owned it before she died, take over the house and all is well, until the young lady falls from the window and is put into a coma for two weeks.
As she’s lying on the floor immediately after the accident, in her hazy view she notices a figure at the upstairs window.
When she returns to the house after recovery, she can suddenly see and hear the ghosts.
This got me thinking, I know old Jack died in our house, I wonder if he’s still around?
How would I deal with ghosts around the house? I think I’d love it to be honest, what fun we could have!
Not sure the rest of the tribe would be as open to living with ghosts as much as I would though, they run a mile at a moth!