root of all evil : YouTube

Memories

root — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:38:00 GMT

This post's music is sponsored by the Song and Lyrics thread. Let me paint you a picture. We are sitting at Jakes , a burger joint that has a wicked patio deck out back. It's a random Wednesday night. A live band is playing--called the Donkey Group. Three...(read more)

Connecting . . . 32%

root — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:47:00 GMT

A great song for you guys while you read (bare through the beginning): You might be wondering about the title. Well I just recently stumbled on Linkedin.com , very cool. For those professionals out there--or college students about to enter their first...(read more)

Netflix Review: Basic

root — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:20:00 GMT

Wow. That about sums it up. I'd tell you more but it would ruin it. Just go watch it. Haha, I bow to the person who wrote this. Great plot twists. 4 out of 5 eggs. Since that was an insanely short review, I leave you with some music. I think this fits...(read more)

And then there were two.

root — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 02:03:00 GMT

So down to two story lines I think. These two are the ones I think I'd like to do the most out of all 13 of them, heh. Can't decide, however, so I will leave it up to you guys. Sin Premise: The series would be seven books long, in every book the antagonist's...(read more)

Writer meet Block.

root — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:10:00 GMT

So I have a week of vacation and a punch list of things to do. One of them is to hash out a brilliant storyline with dynamic, relate-able, characters....or at least a storyline. Now I have plenty of story ideas, the problem is picking just one (or trying...(read more)

Move'in

root — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:23:00 GMT

Guess what? It's Saturday night and I feel like dancing: (Rated M for Mature) Want to know what's even better? I'm on vacation ALL week. No work (if I can ignore my cell phone)! My to do list this week: Fix sound card to work with Mint on HTPC Get CD...(read more)

Mrs. Root

root — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:24:00 GMT

My lil Korean working it. Just kidding. She is hotter. |o.O| Note, if you got bored with that video prior to 00:55, please hold out a little longer *grin* But if I was forced to choose between that one and this one: I'd have to pick the second one (hint:...(read more)

CR Day and Jabba

root — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:40:00 GMT

For those of you who don't know, the GF (Cassie) and I don't like valentines day. Morally against it and something bad always happens when we celebrated it. So over the years we've decided to have our own day. Cassie and Root Day to be exact. The day lands on the 15th of Feb. We went to dinner and then went across the street and went to a movie. Might have guessed which movie we went and saw by now: Step Up 2

Holy Sexiness Batman. She is Hott with a capital H. If you go watch it (which I implore you to) you will know what I'm talking about (hint: there is rain involved). By far better than the first one, so ignore the first one (if you haven't watched it yet--which I liked it but not great) and watch this one, especially if you like the dance crews I've been showing you guys. The actors are alright too, it's just the script that has a few low moments... but not enough to ruin the movie (like the first one). Bottom line? Worth the full movie price.

The really sick part about that movie? Some of the crews in America's Best Dance Crew is in it. If you have a good eye you will see some dancers from Live in Color and, of course, our beloved JabbawockeeZ. Speaking of, have you seen their latest one on that MTV show? Here it is:

And speaking of YouTube, I just favorited a number of videos. If you aren't subscribed to my favorites, I'd highly recommend it. Some really funny ones. I'll post them on my blog eventually.The Source is still on hiatus until I can afford a video camera. The computer upgrades came first, sorry my beloved users.

Until the next good movie comes along,

How to Post Youtube Videos

root — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:34:00 GMT

Would you like to post up a YouTube video? Here is the step by step, do it yourself, run book.

First, find a video (or create your own and upload it to YouTube).

We will take this sexy beast's video as an example:

Note the "Embed" code, middle right of that image (if you can't see it, click on the image to see the full size version). If you click on the code (<object width=.... ) once, right click, and copy. You should have something like this when you paste again:

<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/tvaEEi4fuqw&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/tvaEEi4fuqw&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>

This is HTML code. We like HTML code.

Go to your blog or forum post and select the HTML icon:

In this new window, paste the HTML code anywhere in it... I prefer the bottom because I'm cool like that.

Before you click "Update" in this new window, search for a the url that the video is at. In our example it's

http://www.youtube.com/v/tvaEEi4fuqw&rel=1

Which you see it noted in the code twice. Copy everything that's after "http://www.youtube.com/v/" which, in this example, would be:

tvaEEi4fuqw&rel=1

Now you may hit "Update". The HTML window should go away and you should be back to your post. Notice that nothing has changed, this is because the code you inserted is behind the scenes. We will now reference that code in the post. This allows us to specify where in the post we will be showing the video.

When you find the place you want to put this in, type the following :

Remember that piece of code I just told you to copy? That's how we reference it! Make sure and put "YouTube" and not "youtube". It is case sensitive.

Your end product should be:

Until the next tutorial,

JabbawockeeZ Impresses me again

root — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:30:00 GMT

I just hate the editor that decided to make that many cuts out of sync to the fing music.

Laugh... Now!

root — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:20:00 GMT

Watch:

Feel better? I don't. I want a hott co-host.

Don't look at me like that PROACEX1.

It's that time of the year

root — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:15:00 GMT

But first... Watch this:

YouTube. Gotta love it.

Anyways, what time of the year is it you ask? Valentines Day? Nope. Morally against v-day.

This time of the year I upgrade. Why? Because 1) Vday generates some decent deals and 2) Holidays are over and the weather is on the verge of being good to go outside but not.

So I'm upgrading my main machine. Taking the step into dual core land with AMD's X2 3600, a new case, a new mobo to go with new processor and new memory to go with the new board.

Now this might not seem like an upgrade to you but you don't know what it's replacing. Remember, I'm cheap.

Although I didn't really hold back on my server.... [HYPOCRITE]

My main machine is hooked up in my living room, hooked up to my 42" TV, and where I watch most of my *cough* TV shows.

Speaking of TV shows and telling everyone that I wasn't born with a man card, have you guys ever watched Cashmere Mafia? Dang, stupid GF got me hooked on it. Think Sex in the City (not that I ever watched that show) but better.

I think I just lost half my users that read my blog. I'm down to 1 person now.

*grin*

More Dance

root — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 01:43:00 GMT

So I showed those dance videos to the GF and she came back with these two:

The Jabbawaockeez (longer version). Middle is freaking insane, and they got some good rhythm/beat syncs.

This other one, while the music sux, is one of the best robot syncs I've ever seen in my life. Pay special attention to the middle... around the 4:00 mark, you can stop it (not that noteable afterwards).

Till next time,

Update: Crews|Travelling|Bad Scale

root — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:03:00 GMT

A new show that I'm into (what is up with these dancing posts root?), from MTV. It's called America's Best Dance Crew.

First one up is from the west side and holy bullet action batman, that's insane! You have to watch at least the beginning of their routine.

My next favorite one is because of their geeky Starwars reference and their great ending. Jello + Street Fighter? Awesomeness.

And I save the best for last (even though the video/audio quality is poor). Really great routine and it reminded me of the Tomas Crown Affair (newer one), which is one of my fav movies. This upload really doesn't do it justice.

With that out of the way, some of you might have heard that I'm travelling. I'm actually in North Carolina doing IBM training. Because I'm out of the house and not having things to do after work (or in this case training), I've had some free time. Finally got a story idea and I've picked up the metaphoric (electronic) pen again. Got one chapter down, (yay!), and going through the editing process. Got an outline down for book 1 and I'm liking it. And for those of you who don't know--or haven't guessed by now--I'm a writer by hoby.

Which I'm shocked by the quality of this Holiday Inn Express in Triangle Park. Perhaps I've just had some bad experiences with--whoa. Just saw Step Up 2's trailer. Jesus, that's sexy. Heh. Where was I? Oh yeah. Hotel. They got a shuttle service, 5 miles out you can go anywhere for free. Woot! Bar time!

But it is boring, and thus I brought my Netflix movies. Speaking of, I sitll owe those two reviews don't I?

Well I've watched "John Tucker Must Die" which was actually funny, but the ending was poorly done in my opinion and the story direction has been done a million times already. Still funny though.

The other one I've watched is "Final Contract". For the love of God don't rent it. Had maybe 2-3 funny parts but that's it. I put it just a little better than "Cat Woman". You heard me, a little better. Have you ever watched Cat Woman (Ms. Berry)? If not, you must watch it to understand the ultimate rating scale of badness. Like "Ultra Violet" bad.

My third movie that I've yet to watch is classic "Reservior Dogs". I know. I know. I haven't seen it yet but I know a number of it's refrences. I'll probably watch it tomorrow night. I fly back Saturday night, unfortunately.

Until I get back from NC,

The Source: Episode 3 "You know. Awesome.&quo

root — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:11:00 GMT

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Too busy to post up a proper post. Will do so later this week. Here are the quick links. EggXpert, what about a tool that creates the YouTube code? I hate being busy... I'll edit it later with the right links.

Part 1:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ms795O0F3CU

Part 2:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BZGP6XtOWzo

Part 3:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_u_1Geq9qj8

Until I get my act together,