http://skylady.trippy.org Elinor Gates' Ramblings Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:15:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, I had a little glitch with iMovie and my Sony Handycam movies. I very happily had everything working nicely with sound for my MPEG2s in iMovie then perian updated itself and broke something, so that sounds for my movies stopped working. Just uninstalling and reinstalling perian did nothing ... http://skylady.trippy.org/?p=47 As most of my friends know, I traveled to South Africa in November for a safari vacation focusing on birds and mammals. I’ve managed to distill the 4000+ photos into various albums totaling about 500 photos highlighting the various plants, animals, and vistas from the trip. Instead of ... http://skylady.trippy.org/?p=46 I purchased a Sony HandyCam video camera not even considering that it might not play nice with my Mac. As many people have discovered, iMovie, Quicktime, etc. on Macs don’t read MPEG2 encoded video. After many hours of reading posts on-line I have finally gotten iMovie to recognize the videos from my ... http://skylady.trippy.org/?p=45 For those of my friends who are birders, here is the list of birds I saw in Australia in January. Almost all the birds on the list were lifers for me. Birds that were not lifers are marked with an *. Orange-footed Scrubfowl Australian Brush-turkey Australian Pelican Darter Little Black Cormorant Magpie Goose Pacific Black ... http://skylady.trippy.org/?p=44 It has been snowing for days here on Mt. Hamilton. Today, the ice, snow, and wind was too much for one of the black locust trees around my house and it fell. Unfortunately, my car was in the way. I don’t think much damage was done to my car ... http://skylady.trippy.org/?p=43 I took a great vacation to Eastern Australia, visiting Sydney and the Blue Mountains, then North to Cairns and Daintree. The weather was hot, though otherwise very nice, with only occasional rain in the Daintree rainforest. I’ve put a photo album of some of my best and interesting photos ... http://skylady.trippy.org/?p=42 Spring has sprung again and wildflowers are starting to show up in all their splendor. This has motivated me to not only go out looking for new flowers in the area, but also to organize the photos I have. Thus, I’m updating my web guide to Mt. Hamilton ... http://skylady.trippy.org/?p=41 The morning of Feb 9th, the Lyubov Orlova arrived at Almirante Brown research station. We went ashore (waking up the research crew - oops!) and there weren’t so many penguins here as at other locations. I was in the first group ashore and followed Emily, one of the ... http://skylady.trippy.org/?p=40 The Tour of California bike race added Mount Hamilton to its tour route this year, thus Wednesday work pretty much stopped at Lick Observatory so we could all watch the top bicyclists in the world ride through the Observatory. I wanted to get some photos of the tour as ... http://skylady.trippy.org/?p=39 The morning of Feb 8th we arrived at Port Lockroy and Jougla Point. Port Lockroy is a research station and historic site. The main building there is now a museum showing what life at the station was like and also houses a gift shop and post office ... http://skylady.trippy.org/?p=38