{"id":243,"date":"2005-02-27T16:39:28","date_gmt":"2005-02-28T00:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/27\/jeff-boulter-local-television-celebrity\/"},"modified":"2005-02-27T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2005-02-28T00:42:03","slug":"jeff-boulter-local-television-celebrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/boulter.com\/blog\/2005\/02\/27\/jeff-boulter-local-television-celebrity\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Boulter, Local Television Celebrity"},"content":{"rendered":"

OK, local television background extra is probably more like it, but I was on TV. <\/p>\n

On Friday night, Bay Area Backroads<\/a> aired their segment on Geocaching<\/a>. A bunch of my friends were on it and I was in one scene at a dinner. I barely recognized myself in the quick pan of a dimly-lit room. The restaurant was Harry Hofbrau’s<\/a> in Redwood City on August 15th, 2004. <\/p>\n

I was disappointed that my other “special guest appearance” was cut. On the day they drove around in the Jeep, I happened to call Lee<\/a> as he was driving around with Doug. I needed a hint on a cache that I was at on Maui<\/a>. (It was actually missing and I replaced it.)<\/p>\n

My TiVo recorded the show (as it does every week) and I took the opportunity to install and try out tyStudio<\/a>, a video extraction tool for TiVo. It took a very long time to download the video off my TiVo, but that turned out to be the easy part. I cut out the segment and saved it as an MPEG2 stream. From there I had a hard time reencoding the 178MB file to a size appropriate for streaming on the web. I tried a bunch of utilities for several hours, but then finally got WinAVI<\/a> to convert it to a Windows Media stream that looked pretty good. <\/p>\n

I uploaded the segment so you can watch the whole thing<\/a> or you can read the transcript<\/a>. I guess this means my 15 frames of fame are all used up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, local television background extra is probably more like it, but I was on TV. On Friday night, Bay Area Backroads aired their segment on Geocaching. A bunch of my friends were on it and I was in one scene at a dinner. I barely recognized myself in the quick pan of a dimly-lit room. …<\/p>\n

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