GuuzakaTube
06/09/17
Southeast
Courtice Adventure
Ah,
and southern Ontario is finally
seeing
some days of proper
warmth! No
14°C-17°C, but temperatures of like 23°C-27°C! YES
MAN! As
a result of the good warmth, I've been enjoying the outdoors a little
more, with evidence coming from the four videos brought to you from
the early June 2017, southeast Courtice trip. Let's discuss those
videos and a few other things.
So
this is the first place I've targeted for this adventure. To get
here, I decided to start from Roy Nichols Motors Limited, went south
on Courtice Road, turned on Sandringham Drive, turned again on
Avondale Drive, and kept walking until I found Lydia Trull. While I
enjoyed walking around this school and exploring its spacious areas,
I hated the fact that the video came out slightly blurry despite
being shot in 1080p, and the fact that I had to remove the audio. I
also hated how I still
didn't hold the camera high enough! You'll
hear me hilariously complain about that again at the end of the
Methodist Church video. Some might say “Just junk the footage
altogether!” or “Stop
showing these segments if you're not going to get it done right!”
Yes, I could just junk it, but you've been gracefully given the
options to skip them with warning slides letting you know where to
skip to for the best bits. It's something that will get better with
time, so I keep these as reminder to show how and where to improve.
Besides, as bad as some of them are, they could be much worse. Nobody
has honestly complained about any of this to date, so this is
truthfully just me self-lecturing more than anything at this point.
I'm sure they would have if the channel had enough traffic, hence why
I need to point these dreadful faults out and let you know that I do
have intentions to improve. Anyways! That's been enough of that, so
let's move onto the next school: Good Shepherd Catholic Elementary
School!
So
because these places were so close to one another, I filmed myself
walking to the next
destination after finishing the previous. Unlike the Lydia Trull
video, this video actually lived more up to my expectations in terms
of resolution and audio, so you won’t hear me bickering about how
garbage-like the video was! Video technicalities aside, this school
was also more interesting to walk around too. It seems like it was
seemingly larger or maybe it just had more walls and corners to give
it that feel. Like the other Courticean schools, this one also had
large fields and lots of garden beds around the area. You see, things
like this with the combination of the warm weather is just what makes
photography and filming so much more interesting. Hilariously, while
I was at one of the entrances doing some photography, I gave a pair
walking their dog a
slight spook! Not intentionally, but I guess they
were really surprised
to see a suspicious-looking man fishing around the gardens and
must've been wondering why that was so. Now let us laugh out loud?
No? Ok, let's discuss the next place that's literally right next to
Good Shepherd: God The Father, God The Son and God The Holy Spirit!
Alright,
so you all obviously know that I did not catch the Holy Trinity in
physical action (that would be such a fateful encounter!), but I did
film a high school named after the trio's collective term: Holy
Trinity. Right off the bat, you'll notice that this video undesirable
audio which was replaced with my marvellous narrations. It
also suffered a bit from that HDR illusionary bounce.
Video nitpicks aside, this was a very interesting high school to walk
around. It was huge, had a lot of corners and walls, a
big field, a
big track, jungle of portables, and then you had a motorbike event
taking place in one of the parking lots. Cool indeed. How does this
school compare to Courtice
Secondary School?
No idea about the interiors because I've never been inside either of
them, but I do have to give more props to this one for being the more
interesting of the two to walk around. Unfortunately, I did not
explore the Holy Trinity's track, nor did I cover the road leading
out to Courtice road, but the video and trip was still interesting
enough in its own rights. After filming this place, I walked to
another more distant,
but close enough church in the area.
Ah,
yes! It's been a while since I've done a church walkaround, so I was
pleased to see that not only did this place happen to be close to the
Holy Trinity, but was also vacant at the time of its filming. Mind
you though, despite the fact they're both religious buildings, the
Holy Trinity Catholic Secondary School is affiliated with the Roman
Catholic Church, while this church is affiliated with Methodism, as
the name suggests. Anyways! You know these buildings have nothing to
do with one another from the names and location. Though the actual
walkaround was brief, it was a pretty, tidy church to walk around. In
the 3rd
segment where I explore the back, they even happen to have what looks
like a detached house in the back parking lot, solely dedicated for
winter related weather. Never quite seen anything like that to
date! Shows how much they care about keeping their property
presentable and accessible. I was curious about what lied beyond the
back bushes,
but obviously didn't venture off due to concerns of wondering onto
forbidden zones!
Windows
10 Creator's Update Complaints
Finally!
A place where I can ramble in length about how irritating the Spring
2017 Creator's Update is! Like all regular Windows 10 Home editions,
your updates are forced, with only little flexibility to delay it for
a week or so! The next thing I hated is the fact that after the
update finished, I tried to log in only to be treated with a black
screen! Are you kidding you me?! I tried waiting for 15 minutes or
so, to see if anything would improve, but nope! Nothing. I then had
to Google on my phone for fixes and known causes of this. Turned
out that I wasn't alone, and that this was known as the “Creator's
Blackscreen of Death!” The last time I saw a “Screen of Death”
was when I was using an old computer a few years ago running Windows
Vista. Those were the days of frequent
Bluescreen Deaths! Thankfully, I've never seen a Bluescreen of Death
on this Windows 10-powered Dell *Touch wood*. Anyways, I resorted to
restarting the computer and that luckily fixed it and brought
everything back to normal. Sheesh! What a pain! Another thing I hate
is the fact that it
did nothing
to
help performance, rather it was sluggish at first, until eventually
returning to normal speeds! Mind you, my PC is a quad core, Intel i7
powered setup, so Microsoft is to blame to here! Another thing I hate
is that this update isn't even as exciting as the name suggests! I
watched I
of it sometime ago, and have long forgotten about what good it was
supposed to be. Groove
Music Maker, My People, Improved Notification Center, Windows Capture
3D, and OneDrive Placeholders are examples of things that have been
axed from the Spring update. I admittedly don't care about the list
of the things mentioned (except Groove Music Maker), but still!
That's a pretty serious load of things that didn't make it in time!
Another thing I hate is the fact that items in folders viewed under
extra large, large, medium and small icons have
gone back to automatically arranging! Before,
you could have this disabled in Windows 7-10, but since the Creator's
Update, you can no longer freely rearrange them the way you want! How
annoying, bossy and controlling! Why did they feel the need to even
touch that? Let us
choose how we want to arrange our files regardless of the view! And
the final thing I will complain about for this segment is how
BlackBerry Link no
longer works! That's
right. Still using a BlackBerry Z10, Q10, Classic, Porsche 9883 or
Passport? Admittedly, not very many people are, but you will notice
that BlackBerry
Link
will no longer work! Thankfully,
you
can still transfer files from your smartphone to your computer and
vice versa.
Instead, you'll just have to go to My PC and then click on the folder
that represents BlackBerry's drive to export or import files. Ok, so
to
be fair, that's more so BlackBerry's fault for being so darn
negligent towards BlackBerry 10 and not updating it frequently
enough! Update your BlackBerry 10 devices' software and compatibility
already, or just be honest and call it quits! Many strongly believe
that BlackBerry 10 is already done, despite the company's so-called
commitment.
Commitment
my foot! Microsoft is another one with terrible commitment
to their own smartphones, as seen in the Windows 10 Mobile Creator's
update where smartphones
like the Nokia Lumia 930, 830 and 1520 were left behind, while the
weaker Lumia 640 and 650 gets it. Such a strange logic... yes they're
newer devices, but their chips are still weaker! Ok, that's enough
ranting for this Spring 2017 Creator's Update. What
do you hate about the Creator's Update? Let me know in the comments
below!
On
Twitter recently I've posted the following: “Decisions.
Some are easy; some are not.”
The reason behind
that, was
that
I was
faced with the decision of either a) putting the automotive
commentary
video together today to have it uploaded, or b) typing up this blog
entry. As much as I wanted to get that grossly overdue commentary out
of the way, I knew that I wouldn't get it done in time, so I decided
to just go with the blog entries for the videos from last weekend to
avoid doing two adventurous write-ups during the weekday. Well, guess
what? I didn't even manage to get this entry done in time anyway, so
now it's going to be delayed to Monday (busy over the weekend) before
I upload everything to social media! Darn it! My whipper I hired from
June 1st
hasn't been whipping the slackness out of me hard enough – kidding!
That didn't happen. But seriously though. I had intentions to have
this entry done for Friday, so I could dedicate Monday to getting the
automotive commentary done, but now I'm going to have to take part of
it get this done.... Really, really annoyed with myself about this...
Now I know, I know, this is seemingly trivial compared to other
issues, but still: targets, completions and deadlines, whether they
be for more serious things, or lesser things, are something you
should try to consistently
get right! Consistency
is key. Aside
from delays and missed targets, what is next? Well, I plan to film
some outdoor videos over the weekend as usual. However,
instead
of editing them on Monday, priority will be placed
on putting up this post and videos on social media, and then
hopefully getting the
ridiculously
overdue commentary complete! Once that's finally put together, I'll
then proceed to editing them on Tuesday, or even Wednesday if I have
to. There was also plans to do a post on a response to YouTube videos
this week, but given that there wasn't even time to get this finished
for the slated date, that of course didn't happen. I'll have to keep
that in mind for next week as well. So yeah, as you can tell from
reading this part, there's hopefully going to be a lot happening on
my
YouTube channel and the social media accounts affiliated
with it. I'll have to tell my professional whipper to go full force
to make damn sure all of this happens!!! Oh, speaking of accounts,
you'll now see a link to my DeviantArt page for the rare drawings
associated
to the equally rare videos you'll see on the channel. The other new
link would be to my photobucket page, which currently has nothing,
and probably won't have much for now, as it serves only for direct
links to
images and possible requests. There are no smartphone hands-ons this
entry, but does anyone even care about that? Hard to tell without
voices, but I think it's a nice addition.
