The Irish political ship is adrift

Ireland is still without a government; the elected can't agree. It's vital an agreement is reached soon... pic.twitter.com/TSkeI2rFXq

— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) April 13, 2016

FFmpeg: Display and isolate macroblock motion-vectors in mpeg video

# Isolate motion-vectors using 'difference128' blend filter
# - add brightness, contrast, and scaling, to taste

ffplay \
   -flags2 +export_mvs \
   -i "video.mp4" \
   -vf \
   "
      split[original],
      codecview=mv=pf+bf+bb[vectors],
      [vectors][original]blend=all_mode=difference128,
      eq=contrast=7:brightness=-0.3,
      scale=720:-2
   "

Works best with higher-resolution videos; 4K source used in this case.

more info: https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Debug/MacroblocksAndMotionVectors
source video: Czech National Ballet - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn12Ffi15Go
shorter alt. version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KN_c4mdBpvg

What if Donald Trump is Putin?

What if, Donald Trump IS Putin? Like in a rubber mask. That's how they both can be Hitler! It all makes total sense pic.twitter.com/rugrEkVWh8

— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) March 31, 2016

context: https://twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC/status/715649757167951877

Archiving 2015/2016 FIS Alpine Skiing tv coverage

Archiving 2015/2016 alpine skiing videos: 6 months, all 43 races [women], various sources/quality, 1080i/p ... 142GB pic.twitter.com/8cTOhASzy4
— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) March 26, 2016

@oioiiooixiii I'm beginning to think you're a bit of a geek.
— Neal Ireland Hello (@intoyourheadpod) March 27, 2016

info: http://www.fis-ski.com/alpine-skiing/events-and-places/calendar?sector=AL&season=2016&discipline=ALL&gender=L&start=2016-02-01#timeline

Use sed to fix geographical anomalies

Is there nothing sed can't fix pic.twitter.com/wtFoLT92XS

— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) March 19, 2016

context: https://twitter.com/meesix/status/700059067822317568

Used Ski Suits

"I am looking for a used racing suit..." uh-huh 😂

source: https://www.instagram.com/p/1QjXAQr4fb/

Infini (2015)

It's like two different stories in one. The transition is so jarring, I'm convinced two concepts were combined to save money. If not, the beginning of the film is filled with deliberate red herrings, which do nothing but irritate the viewer.

imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3327624/

That's not a Bat'leth

Emm... no pic.twitter.com/GtYD3hEVt7

— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) January 23, 2016

Richard Stallman comments on Ian Murdock

context: https://twitter.com/FredericJacobs/status/694235802100961281

I see Richard Stallman has been accused of saying some non-politically-correct thing again.

— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) February 2, 2016

And [but] tomorrow I will hear how the FSF is nothing but a bunch of SJWs, on a crusade of Political Correctness, rallying against Free Speech.

— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) February 2, 2016

Related:

Ian Murdock: "The reason I abhor the term [GNU/Linux] now, it has very clearly been rejected by the larger community"https://www.linux.com/news/special-feature/stories-of-linux/465353-stories-of-linux-interview-with-ian-murdock-on-debians-early-days

— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) January 13, 2016

Longer quote regarding Murdock's abhorrence of the term "GNU/Linux":

Debian is still known as "Debian GNU/Linux," rather than simply "Debian Linux." Today, Murdock says that he "abhors" the term GNU/Linux, but at the time it made sense. "Even before I worked for the FSF, Richard [Stallman] called me one evening and said 'I'm concerned about fragmentation, and I'd like to make a statement that Linux is part of the larger GNU Project."

Murdock says that at the time, fragmentation was a major concern. "There was the libc at the time was a fork from glibc, there were a few other examples — the Linux community had taken GNU software and ran with it, and were not doing a particularly good job of coordinating with upstream GNU maintainers... who couldn't move quickly enough given the pace with which Linux was evolving. Some just gave up on coordinating as a result of that."

As a result, Murdock says that "I thought his argument was reasonable, and I thought his concern about fragmentation was quite valid, so I said 'sure.'" But things have changed, says Murdock. "The reason I abhor the term now, it has very clearly been rejected by the larger community. To insist on continuing to call it something the larger community doesn't use, it seems to me to be a bit pointless."
https://www.linux.com/news/special-feature/stories-of-linux/465353-stories-of-linux-interview-with-ian-murdock-on-debians-early-days

related: http://oioiiooixiii.blogspot.com/2016/04/jobs-banksy-stallman.html

Jobs, Banksy, Stallman

Banksy depicts Steve Jobs as a burglar, making off with a bag full of stolen concepts. Bravo https://t.co/EjmOsmiVVg pic.twitter.com/kNeLwE5Po1

— oioiiooixiii (@oioiiooixiii) December 11, 2015