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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Oct 26, 2018 - 04:12pm PT
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Mguzzy, right on.
Mei, check out convert to MP3/Mp4 if you havent already. It's free, slick as a whistle, and it's my go-to for several years now. Wouldn't want to use the internet without it. :)
http://convert2mp3.net/en/index.php
EDIT: No longer works with music videos though. But everything else.
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Mei
Trad climber
mxi2000.net
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Oct 26, 2018 - 04:17pm PT
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Right on. // sorry, I just feel like saying it
HFCS, thanks! I used to do that before there was Youtube Red, which later became Premium.
Edit: answering questions below without cluttering the thread with yet one more OT post (yeah, HFCS, you should totally feel guilty about it): I've used VLC sometime back when there was a need. I'm not a sophisticated multimedia consumer and I'm lazy. Good to know about Vimeo download, but I don't use Vimeo much. Youtube lets me sync/download the videos onto my phone.
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
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Oct 26, 2018 - 04:23pm PT
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Right on! lol
Wondering here, are you also a VLC fan? I mention it because it's also slick as a whistle, imo. Or do you deploy something other, some X Red or X Premium perhaps?
And while were at it, what do you use then to download vimeo greats?
For that, I move to Chrome and use its add-on, which I think is also kick-ass.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simple-vimeo-downloader/ocaallccmjamifmbnammngacjphelonn?hl=en
Sorry for the thread drift. Consider it a PSA, folks :)
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Re life coaching
I'm sure there are 50-plus areas of life a 30 year old or younger (like McCandless) could effectively or productively coach or mentor me in. Like others, I could easily subsume this coaching or mentoring under the heading, life coaching.
Note once you have life coaching "as a thing" in society or culture, then what also emerges are a range and depth of life coaching systems (for better or worse). Then these can be researched, taken for a test drive on one's own, picked apart as necessary, and adopted more or less as one sees fit, pretty much like any other product or service.
My point above (not given that much time or attention at the time) was that any or all the contents of life coaching (or life mentoring or life management) which nowadays pretty much includes just about any subject matter under the sun (even consciousness and What is Mind?, lol, or meditation or spirituality) might make for some good podcast material especially from an charismatic thoughtful outdoors naturalist type like Alex.
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Edit: Mei, right on.
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re boulder problem location
"This was taken by the remote cameras filming @freesolofilm - there weren’t any camera men there because it seemed like too much for all involved." instagram today
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Oct 26, 2018 - 08:59pm PT
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Very intense and well done movie.
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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Oct 26, 2018 - 09:38pm PT
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I got called into work so didn't see it tonight but have heard from several non-climbers that saw it and said it made them want to start climbing.
ruh roh
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Mei
Trad climber
mxi2000.net
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Oct 26, 2018 - 10:15pm PT
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I didn't wait until tomorrow and watched/listened to this one. OMG, this episode is painful to sit through! For one, Rogan's utter ignorance about rock climbing surprises me considering he did interview Honnold a few years ago and also, you'd expect a career podcaster to do some basic homework about the craft that his interviewee is known for. While enduring his ignorant questions and comments and Honnold's patient explanations, I kept reminding myself maybe this interaction would be helpful to his audience, the majority of whom probably do not have any clue about climbing either.
However, I don't think Rogan ever grasped the magnitude of Honnold's free solo of Freerider from a sports excellence point of view despite all the questions. That's the painful part. That, and the fact that his first intuition and highest interest apparently is how people can make use of substance to help improve their performance in their own discipline even though he has no knowledge of the discipline.
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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Oct 26, 2018 - 10:34pm PT
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OMG, this episode is painful to sit through! Thanks for the warning, Mei! I will save myself the anguish. Seriously. :-)
The enormocast interview is very interesting and enough.
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Oct 26, 2018 - 10:55pm PT
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Rogan's utter ignorance Agree - nice enough guy - but a fuggin meathead - worst interview of any climber ever.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Oct 27, 2018 - 04:16am PT
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Super intense movie.. very well done. Absolutely friggin nuts soloing something that you fell on even remotely recently...all the people who have a hero worship attitude that Alex is too solid to fall are dead wrong. Pushing it way to close to the edge...
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Mill Valley, Ca
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Oct 27, 2018 - 08:10am PT
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Does anybody know the hardest grade Alex has redpointed?
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WBraun
climber
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Oct 27, 2018 - 08:16am PT
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tradmanclimbs
Relax dude.
Just let Alex do what he needs to do in this lifetime and you do what you need to do in your lifetime now.
Concentrate on yourself that you yourself remain solid enough in this lifetime to make it thru in one happy piece .......
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Oct 27, 2018 - 08:38am PT
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The last 15 minutes were really boring. I left about 5 minutes before the end to beat the crowds leaving the theater. Did he make it?
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Oct 27, 2018 - 09:17am PT
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Does anybody know the hardest grade Alex has redpointed? The average poster here might find it quite interesting and very foreign to browse 8a.nu.
Looks like 14c redpoint and 13d onsight - not too shabby!
His logged comment on Freerider:
"Solo! 3:56 on route. The end of an epic life dream. Such an experience. Logged it as a boulder problem - thanks 8a!"
Set up a profile for yourself, enter all your sickest routes and see how you rank!
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Oct 27, 2018 - 09:24am PT
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Interesting perspective...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/opinion/alex-honnold-free-solo-movie.html
Went down the hill last night to see the film, astounding feat and well done film. Upon reflecting on it all I hope Honnold finds a way to focus his amazing energy toward another goal other than soloing. His interview down at USC that is on You Tube certainly shows just how bright he is, he did say he’d like to go back to school. I hope he does and defines himself in ways that will continue to astound us. He is an extraordinary individual to say the least, best to him.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Oct 27, 2018 - 10:35am PT
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DMT,
hilarious----and on-point-----video.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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Oct 27, 2018 - 11:06am PT
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Anyone care to speculate on what Alex's pay structure for this movie is?
I could care less about money most of the time, but it occurred to me to wonder about it as the movie gets more and more popular with the general public. I'm sure it's hands down the number one climbing movie of all time, and hauling in what have to be pretty large box office receipts (and eventually Netflix, DVD, etc. money).
I just got to thinking that I hoped Alex has some sort of profit-sharing arrangement with the movie owners (was it Nat Geo?). No Alex, no movie. Seems like it's only fair that he should walk away from this with a nice chunk of change, given he's a professional climber and the clock is always ticking on the lifespan of that as a career choice. It's not like he can retire one day and start commentating in the booth with Howard and Dandy Don (apologies for the dated reference).
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Oct 27, 2018 - 12:28pm PT
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Rogen did ask Alex what he makes and from where, and Alex has actually detailed this in the past - about as much as a dentist he said. I'd guess lifetime earnings will not be like a dentist. Lynn Hill's primary income, for example, these days, is AirBnB.
Really, it's none of our business and I don't care much.
Interesting:
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=freesolo.htm
This is net at theaters. I have no idea how theater net turns into actual profit. Seems after all costs and people are paid, it doesn't seem so incredibly lucrative - like you'd have to keep making movie after movie - nobody is going to retire after just one. I would guess Alex is making more because of the movie than from the movie itself.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Oct 27, 2018 - 01:08pm PT
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Free Solo is playing at the downtown complex -- much to my surprise.
I wasn't expecting to see this when I checked the listings.
When did they stop listing the theater times in local papers?
I miss the old ads.
Meeting Laurie at three. This should be an interesting evening. She was taken to Yosemite in the late sixties and took the YMS basic course but cannot remember the instructor's name. This is our second movie date.
Armchair climbing's all we're good for now, I'm afraid. Well, I ain't really AFRAID afraid. It's a second date, right?
I'm waiting to see her reaction to the Sonni/Alex/Captain love triangle.
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
From Panorama City, CA
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Oct 27, 2018 - 03:50pm PT
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Super intense movie.. very well done. Absolutely friggin nuts soloing something that you fell on even remotely recently...all the people who have a hero worship attitude that Alex is too solid to fall are dead wrong. Pushing it way to close to the edge...
The belay rope probably got wrapped around Laurie's ankles again like it showed in one scene in the movie :>)
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