This past week has been rather crowded at many levels:
- Hockey season started officially last weekend; that will eat up time I could spend writing or doing chores.
- All the new Apple products along with the related good news: one in five of all computers sold in the US are Macs!
- Still breaking in my iPad. I do enjoy it greatly! I find it easier to read on than I anticipated despite the Kindle’s passive display.
- Netflix streaming is a huge magnet now that Battlestar Galactica is available. Yes, I know how it ended courtesy of a friend opening his mouth and spoiling a major element after I saw the first season on DVD. I just want to see certain things I heard were technically accurate like the supernova the ship avoids.
- Somara contracted the cold I have finally shaken off. She is currently better too.
However, I managed to squeeze in some time to edit this raw footage from my iPhone 4 with the new iMovie ’11. Getting my brain around the software’s interface was the biggest obstacle for me. I have clung to iMovie HD (version 6) as long as possible. The following two versions after HD puzzled me too much to bother. After watching the presentation on all of the improved features in iMovie ’11 (version 9), I took the leap. Based upon the result, I didn’t drown yet I need a coach in the form of a Missing Manual or Visual QuickStart book to regain the editing speed I had with HD. I would like to do more, especially something with a trailer…my next trip to Vegas?
This was a much better project than last week’s banner raising, something I put off until it didn’t seem very relevant or fresh.
Anybody who doesn’t care about hockey can stop reading here.
As for the penalty shot…the game against the Monsters was an awesome nail-biter. Both teams failed to score on each other through two periods. Then the Monsters succeeded in pulling Krahn (Stars’ goalie) out enough to get him on the open side. The Stars returned the favor through Backman (a Yalie!) later on but they failed to hold on when the Monsters took the lead again in 40 seconds. My team got a break when the ref (who seemed oblivious to numerous tripping incidents on both sides) caught one of the opposing players covering up the puck in the crease (only the goalie can). I was shocked to see that Coach Gulutzan chose Sceviour to take the shot. I would’ve chosen Gagnon, Rallo or McCullough, the stronger scorers. Well, the video proves why Gulutzan is the boss and not me. Sceviour has great hands!
The Stars went on to win with Wathier’s wraparound goal in the final minute. If the Monsters were a second faster on their last shot, they could’ve tied it but unlike football, nothing counts after the buzzer.