Daily Breakfast #214
This episode of the Daily Breakfast is dedicated by Matt Blocker to his friends Mike and Ben. In this show: Dutch people are the happiest and most energetic people in the European Union; update on yesterday’s talk show appearance; getting organized with an RSS reader; Satellite technology and my morning run; Cranberry orange relish; Rudolphus Rubrinasus part 2; Geek dilemmas; English mistakes.
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Hey Fr. Roderick. I just want to thank you for your Latin segments of Christmas songs. When I was in high school many years ago, I took Latin and my teacher around Christmas time would teach us a number of songs in Latin with the translation (much to the humor of the class! LOL). One year we went to a retirement home to sing them for the residents. The only song I remember now is Tinnitus (Jingle Bells, though my memory is a little fuzzy on the spelling). Anyway, it was lots of fun, even though I have always struggled with foreign language. Thanks for bringing back great memories!
Fr. Roderick,
My MP3 player lists podcasts by “Artist” and “Album”. For the Daily Breakfast, under “Artist”, your name often seems to be corrupted and misspelled, and when I try to play your show the player locks up. I don’t have that problem with the other SQPN shows. Is there something funky your software is doing when it assigns the “Artist” or “Album” tags? Just curious.
Concerning YouTube:
There are several possibilities to download YouTube videos. One possibility:
Use the Firefox browser and install the video downloader plugin:
http://javimoya.com/blog/youtube_en.php
After restarting Firefox, the new plugin is available. Then, just watch the YouTube video of your choice in Firefox. At the bottom of Firefox, you will find a new icon. Click on that icon. A new window will be opened. There just click on the Download button. After downloading the file, rename it to anything with .flv in the end.
If you are using a mac, there is a very simple freeware tool that is capable of converting the flv file into a mp4: http://www.isquint.org
After installing ISquint, launch the application and then you can import the flv into ISquint (just drag and drop the file into ISquint). Choose whatever format and quality you want to have and click on start. That’s it!
Fr. Roderick,
You asked about how to share large video files over the internet for your video podcasts. Although I haven’t tried it myself, I saw a demonstration of a piece of software called SpinXpress that seems like it will do what you need it to do. You can watch the demo here.
I hope this helps, or at least points you in the direction of a solution.
C.Kirby
Fr Roderick, I recognise your usage of buienradar.nl. I do this quite often to decide if go to the station on my bike or by tram.
For those of you in Western Europe… On http://www.meteox.com you can see the European rainfall radar and from there you can go to your own country as well.
Fr Roderick, one other thing…
You *can* download movies from YouTube, Google Video and others. At least when you use Firefox and the VideoDownloader extension. Together with the FLVPlayer it works fine.
But I know very little about video editing, so I don’t know if you can use the .flv file in your video editing program, but it is worth to give it a try.
Hi Father,
The episode is from December 8, but you didn’t said anything about the feast of the Imaculate Conception. Isn’t it a holy day of obligation in the Netherlands?
Thank you and God bless.
“..you didn’t say anything…”
By the way, I am a Brazilian listener, and like very much the new “English for dummies” segment.
Hi,
Since a few days I have an Ipod and I experienced the lock-up issue aswell. I only ran into it with the DB but wasn’t aware whether it was my own stupid fault or something else.
I’ll an eye on it.
Gerben
A transvestite is a cross dresser. Not the same as a transgender, who might be someone who is born one gender, but for various reasons, surgically is changed to the other.
Either way, that woman made quite the blunder LOL.
Thanks everyone for the advice on sending video files.
The lock up and problems with the author’s name might be related to my family name having an umlaut in it…
Vonhögen always creates problems on digital devices..
@Matheus: I had totally planned on saying something about it in the Peculiar Bunch section, but I completely forgot… I recorded this after Mass, so perhaps that’s why my brain stored it away
Hi all,
I would like to install the “video downloader” on my mac. Is that possible ? If yes, how ?
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/
Thanks and best regards
Mike
@Mike- check this out:
http://www.methodshop.com/mp3/tutorials/youtuberip/
Thanks for answering, Father.
I see that I also wrote “Imaculate“, with a single m. It’s Immaculate, with double m.
Hi all,
Is anyone else having a problem getting episode #214? I am unable to download it and it wont show up in itunes? I even tried downloading winpodder and trying to subscribe again but it wont play.
Lynn
Father, “stick your neck out,” is a common English phrase and it’s one that *I* do quite often! Life is about risk taking and we’re glad you’re willing to do it for the Church.
they are canceling a shallow and superficial late night television show? tell them to come to america they will be celebrated.
Fr. Roderick
concerning time management, I would highly recommend you to check out the respective 2 episodes of the “Manager Tools” podcast:
http://www.manager-tools.com/sitedownloads/manager-tools-2006-05-15.mp3
http://www.manager-tools.com/sitedownloads/manager-tools-2006-05-22.mp3
The MT podcast provides excellent content and is one of my all-time favourites (-> jointly with DB and CI).
For good reason Manager Tools has won the Podcast Awards ‘06 in the Business category. So, you might actually have met those two guys when you were over in California….
And maybe you could also embed a few excerpts of these MT episodes in the time management segment of your DB show….
Mike
Hi Fr Roderick!
You’re finally unblocked again, and I’m slowly catching up on the DB episodes. I did have a thought about the reason why people in the Netherlands may be happier than people in Italy. I have noticed that if people concentrate on positive things they have, rather than what they don’t have, or negative things in their lives, they seem to be happier. Perhaps the Dutch are just better at recognizing the good around them, or that what they see on TV and in the movies is almost never the complete story!