Category Archives: organization

Double digits!

Posted on June 1, 2014 by baudattitude

If I look back five or so years, there’s a post where I cheerfully proclaim that I’m not insane enough to actually try to rip every DVD I own. That post turns out to have been a lie – I … Continue reading →

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TERAble Twos

Posted on April 16, 2014 by baudattitude

I’ve gotten to put aside a couple of games this week – my six month nostalgia kick with EQ is decidedly on the wane and I finished Project Diva 2nd# on Hard – so my evenings and lunchtimes are considerably … Continue reading →

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One more DVD ripping hurdle down

Posted on July 4, 2013 by baudattitude

One of the things about having six years worth of posts here is that it serves as the journal I’ve never been disciplined enough to keep.  Very sporadically updated, mind you, but it still comes in handy from time to … Continue reading →

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Milestones, check

Posted on January 20, 2013 by baudattitude

My wife and I have had a fairly complicated method of organizing DVDs that means that it’s been tricky to define how much progress I’ve made on the project of converting all of our assorted home video formats into something … Continue reading →

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Ripping progress and rants.

Posted on January 14, 2013 by baudattitude

Getting all of our movies converted for iTunes has been progressing, but a little slowly. I’ve finished ripping and encoding up through “Troy” as of last night, so I have, uh, U V X Y and Z to do. That’s … Continue reading →

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Signs of Progress

Posted on December 28, 2012 by baudattitude

For the last two or three years, I’ve been a little obsessed with the idea of mobility, the idea that my wife and I can simply pack up and move without too much trouble. We’re nowhere near that point.  Unfortunately, … Continue reading →

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Going Postal

Posted on November 13, 2012 by baudattitude

I’ve been selling an awful lot of stuff on eBay lately in order to get some space back in our closets and bookshelves. It’s actually been an overwhelmingly positive experience – out of about a hundred transactions so far, I’ve … Continue reading →

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Humility

Posted on October 25, 2012 by baudattitude

It’s been about 18 months since I built my latest PC.  I do everything that could be charitably described as “work” on my 2009 Macbook Pro, so the PC is mostly used for gaming and video encoding. Not that the … Continue reading →

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Oh dear God, numbers

Posted on October 8, 2012 by baudattitude

Remaining English-language DVD movies to rip: ~270 Remaining Movies (anime, foreign) to rip: ~160 TV season DVD sets, non-anime: 182 TV season DVD sets, anime: 174 Note that while anime TV seasons includes OVAs, so there’s stuff like Video Girl … Continue reading →

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In which I continue to make progress.

Posted on October 8, 2012 by baudattitude

It was a very productive weekend as far as whipping video files into shape goes. After my Handbrake-related epiphany last week, I’ve managed to turn a little under two hundred mkv files into m4v files, while hard-coding subtitles, then converted … Continue reading →

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