UPDATE: Video was re-uploaded to give on-screen thanks to your fellow patron Paul (who provided footage of the record cutting process). Any comments you left on the old version are going to go poof in about an hour. Also, captions are live!
Hello there! Knowing who you all are, there's a pretty good chance you already k...
2023-03-23 14:19:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi! So I've been meaning to do this test for a while, and as this is part of the "how to manage a power outage" conversation in the upcoming Home Electrification 2: Some Kinda Boogalo, now's the time to do it to have raw numbers for the script.
Hello again!
Here's a Connextras video I just cranked out. It'll go out with the main video, which will probably be tomorrow. I have a few odds and ends to sort with that, still.
2023-03-04 18:17:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all! It's been a while. Too while.
That's... that's not a phrase. Oh well!
So, hi! I didn't mean to disappear for so long but I ended up coming down with a dreadful cold or something right as I neared the ...
2023-03-03 04:25:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Oof. That thumbnail face.
I discovered recently while embarking on an experiment I explain at the end that electric water heaters, despite being about as basic a thing as you can get, have a genius operating scheme de...
2023-02-09 18:09:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Yep. I'm doing it! But only on Connextras.
So, this is mostly a "food for thought" type deal. I hope I made that clear in the video, and I'm sure there will be an endless stream of folks who a puzzled I didn't choose ...
2023-01-30 16:38:36 +0000 UTC View Post
For real this time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnJZSk4JHFM
As you may have guessed I've taken a bit of a rest over the holidays, but I'm back! And there's plenty o' stuff happening. But that stuff will take a lot of effort, so...
2023-01-23 23:19:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Merry Christmas, all! Well, Christmas eve. And barely. In this time zone, anyway.
I've brought you a gift! It's this video.
I've been staying up waiting for this to finish uploading and, well, I'm headed to bed....
2022-12-24 06:36:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello! I'm pretty far along the next video and have been doing some test transfers. I picked up a Lumix GH5-II, a camera upgrade I've been eyeing for quite a while, once I confirmed how the synchro-scan function works. And I'm happy to report that it makes flicker-free footage of the projector!
It's not perfect - I don'...
2022-12-18 15:56:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Can you tell this was rushed? It was a bit rushed. Two of the NEN topics I told you about in the update video got pushed back because one of them is actually definitely a lot of effort and the other one... well I couldn't figure out a way to do what I wanted to. I'll get there eventually, though!
For now, this:
2022-12-12 02:51:04 +0000 UTC
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I have these two lamps that I thought would look better with a milk glass appearance so I, on a whim, tried something which... worked! Way better than expected!
Longevity is of course to be determined but for now this...
2022-12-05 01:31:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In this very silly and rather over-the-top video, I'm explaining and defending a very common thing in US home design. My spidey-senses have registered that a lot of folks just... don't understand this? And it's a feature I really, really like so I figured I'd yell at the internet about it.
This is just a simple connextras video ostensibly on whether fuel stabilizers do anything.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQFkbg7he-4
2022-11-22 17:22:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Amazingly, I met my deadline! And with nearly two whole hours to spare! The second installment of No Effort November is here, and it's on DX Encoding.
With luck, I'll have two more NEN topics cranked out. Might only b...
2022-11-20 04:11:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello, all!
I said I'd have this done last week. I'm a bit late - I really needed to plan this out more than I did, but I think the end result is interesting.
An actual No Effort November video is coming, I hope...
2022-11-17 17:39:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Howdy, folks!
It's here. The first video of No Effort November! We're taking a look at the TV guardian, generously sent to me by your fellow patron, Colin! This (to me) hilarious device watches closed captioning data for profamity and protects your kids' little ears. It's delightfully weird! Bu...
2022-11-08 22:21:41 +0000 UTC View Post
This video isn't of the spooky variety, but it is of the rambly variety! Isn't Halloween all about rambleys? Right? That's it?
Uh, anyway, link:
So yeah, October didn't end like I wanted it to and it's been a fa...
2022-11-01 00:47:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I imagine to folks not much older than me this might feel like a "well, duh" kind of a topic, but I think there's a case to be made that this old idea wasn't terrible!
This was supposed to be one of my trademark "quic...
2022-10-15 02:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Somehow, 11 months have passed between when I first took this camera apart to fix it and this video getting made! I honestly have no idea how as I've been wanting to make it for a long, long time. This camera is fascinating!
https://youtu.be/bwm_Dya0PFQ 2022-09-25 18:05:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This juuuuuuust finished uploading so resolutions are rough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WuJtcgExa8
It's a much more casual conversation, but definitely worth having.
2022-09-08 04:19:42 +0000 UTC View Post
It's done!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iyp_X3mwE1w
Thanks everyone for your feedback - I changed more than a few things, including adding an "in a nutshell" to the beginning that definitely should have been there from the start...
2022-09-08 02:04:27 +0000 UTC View Post
And boy is it rough! This is literally the result of first edit pass run through where I look for bloopers and toss out bad takes, then spat out as a video. A number of the cuts need adjustment (plenty of false starts you're gonna see) and there's one where I got through half the line and then started over. I catch those sort...
2022-09-02 15:59:32 +0000 UTC View PostHello all you lovely people,
It's been a while since I've checked in with you. The quick turnaround of the coffee maker video made me hopeful that I could get the next video out by the end of August, but that video turned out to be a monster.
This will be by far the longest single video I've done ...
2022-09-01 02:15:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Yep. Here's a Patreon exclusive for you - the full taste tests!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2RKY4mpJQM
This just barely finished processing so all resolutions might not be there yet.
For those who rely on captioning, sin...
2022-08-11 00:29:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Specifically, the cheap kind.
You may notice that this video is pretty long for a video on coffee makers. Well. Lemma tell you a story. You see, one day, I was poking around on the Interwebs when I came acro-
OK, I suppose it's best to just watch it!
I learned this when I was like 15, and since it's been in my brain that long it didn't occur to me that this might be an interesting topic. The intro to this is genuine, by the way. Was looking around for something to cover while I waited for a thing to arrive in the mail (it's here! gonna start work on that video very very s...
2022-07-31 20:39:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Yep! I took forever getting this to you and it's, as usual, off the cuff and way more rambly than I intended. But there's a lot in it! I've finally found a better system... or I guess A system... which is helping me get scripts done faster. At least, I think.
Time for something a little more "classic TC" and also important. I've not exactly felt as if my last couple of videos have been my best work, and while I guess I need to do one on the American drip coffee maker (and a script is already in the works on that front) didn't want yet another barely-technical topic to come up next...
2022-07-07 20:40:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I have a light topic for you today.
Yep. So... I don't really have any proof that Philips might be moving to discontinue these but what I see worries me. More than one of you has actually reached out to tell me about ...
2022-06-20 21:16:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi there!
So... I shot this the day before I published the first video, and I intended this to be an immediate follow-up for the main channel. Welp. The shoot didn't go to plan, and also I wasn't thrilled with the end...
2022-06-06 22:26:59 +0000 UTC View Post
