Mansur Syed http://www.mansursyed.com/blog Thoughts and musings from your friendly neighborhood Manzi. Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:35:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Dropbox Saved My Memories http://www.mansursyed.com/blog/dropbox-saved-my-memories/ http://www.mansursyed.com/blog/dropbox-saved-my-memories/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 15:19:00 +0000 Manzi http://www.mansursyed.com/?p=118 So a week ago, I took a train trip around the country. I took a bunch of videos and photos on my phone and was hoping to stitch it together when I got back to make a nice video. Sadly, when I came back, my phone decided to die completely. Verizon told me I needed [...]]]> So a week ago, I took a train trip around the country. I took a bunch of videos and photos on my phone and was hoping to stitch it together when I got back to make a nice video. Sadly, when I came back, my phone decided to die completely. Verizon told me I needed a replacement and that’s when I realized, “Crap! All the media I collected — its gone!”

So I go back home and wait for the new refurb unit to come in. I felt defeated. Then logging into my computer I noticed my camera uploads Dropbox folder had new files in it.

All the pictures and videos from the trip had uploaded prior to the phone defecting.

With the wonder of Android and Dropbox, and a promptly delivered refurb unit, it was as if nothing went wrong.

Thanks Dropbox!

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]]> http://www.mansursyed.com/blog/employee-orientation-video/feed/ 0 When will this blog be real. http://www.mansursyed.com/blog/when-will-this-blog-be-real/ http://www.mansursyed.com/blog/when-will-this-blog-be-real/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 22:35:45 +0000 Manzi http://www.mansursyed.com/when-will-this-blog-be-real/ I have gone through so many iterations of the site. I think I might finally decide to create a gallery of all the versions of the site that have existed over the years. Well, to be fair, they never came into existence, but more along the lines that they … were thought up.

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Previously I had done a few shorts with my colleague The Good Sir.  These shorts were an experiment in rapid film production. Each one was created in a day. They can be viewed on the Good Sloth’s Youtube page located here.

More recently, I was able to get my hands on a Nikon D90 through work. This is when my friend Joe and I conjured up the idea of Quantémoc. Its a test for both my own talents as well as a trial testing the D90 for video production.

Here are two raw scenes from the short:

Quantémoc confronts Brad McKinley

Quantémoc meets a homeless man:

This is it for now. Keep on checking for the final trailer for the short. I should have it up soon!

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Now that the greetings are out of the way let me begin my first post.

This site has been a long time coming. I’ve gone through countless redesigns and made a nearly neverending collection of web page templates. Finally, I gave in and decided to pick a theme and install wordpress on this server and just start writing.

I’ve decided to split Running Sloth [dot] com and Mansur Syed [dot] com into two separate sites. This one will hold any thoughts or ideas I might wish to share with strangers. The prior will host all media and presentational works relating to Running Sloth Productions. Running Sloth won’t be released officially for a little while longer.

Till then, please bookmark this page or leave a ‘internet wit’ comment below.

I will write more as time permits, but for now, this is the home of Mansur Syed, also known as The Running Sloth.

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