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Bike Weekend iMovie

Jul 6

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Unfortunately last days I’m spending a lot of time at home because I’m sick. However I’ve managed to turn that so called “bad” time in something fun and nice by compiling a movie from my Bike trip on June 26th.

The trip to Tryavna was not only about biking, actually we’ve gather together to celebrate our dear friend Yana, Birthday and her name-day. The place is offering a very good trails for biking(either DH or AL), so Yana recommended to me over the phone that I’ve should bring my bike.  So this is what happened indeed, we’ve gather to celebrate on Friday night with beer and BBQ and on saturday morning after everyone awaken we gather together and choose the route. It was more than nice XC trail with a lot of great view and some technical parts. It was around 30km long. Here you can see only the last 3.25 km of downhill cuz I’ve forgot to start my App earlier.

After this trail I was still having an anger for a little bit more pedaling, so I’ve remembered that there was a geocache(this is something which I also love to do, but some other time for it) nearby Tryavna, which actually I could not find last time when I was in Tryavna, It was about 2 years ago. The target was clear so I’ve gone for second bike run + geocaching hunt. Fortunately this time I’ve found the cache and it turns out that from it’s final  coordinates there was a great marked trail downhill to the city. Instead of logging the speed and route, I’ve record raw movies with the help of my latest gadgets: Jobypod for iPhone. With this gadget I’ve manage to mount my iPhone to my bike bar. Sometime soon I hope I can tell you a little bit more about Jobypod in Products section.

So here is the final thing that I was performing today : The post-editing which I’ve done with very handy iMovie, it’s quiet easy and self explaning, you can also watch a lot of great video tutorials from apple website. It offers you a great video stabilization for movies with actions + you can perform very smooth transition and audio+video matching. It’s the perfect home editing tool. It took me more time to find the music which is suitable match  for my videos, than organizing and setting all the text, transitions, fades and animations. Note: For sure some of the features like video stabilization are going to take you a lot of time, if you don’t have a fast CPU.

So here is the final result of my afternoon work:

I hope you gonna like it, all feedback is welcomed all the time.

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ThirtyTwo TM Two 08/09

Dec 6

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This post was saved as Draft a long time ago(Dec 6, 2009), the time I’ve bought those boots. I did not find time the whole season for my blog to finish my article. Not the time came and I’m finishing my drafts. After the pictures you can find my opinion about that boots after the winter season.

This is an begining of new category: Products.

Here I will post reviews of mine exsisting and new products that I bought.

So here is my first object of review:
Brand new snowboard boots ThirtyTwo TM Two, model from last season at clearance price.

With the upcomming winter season I’ve started to prepare my equipment ready for the first snow. After short testing all of my equipment I’ve figure out that my boots are too soft. So the argument was there, then the action was needed – shoping for new pair of boots.
After long walk and fitting all kind of diffrent boots anf brands I’ve found the perfect one for me: ThirtyTwo TM Two.

It is model from last season so even the price was very good for such hi-end boot. Anyway I did not purchased it right away, I’ve read alot of reviews and spoke with all my snow buddys. The feedback was positive from everywhere. Then I’ve try to search around the internet EU stores for better price but I did not found so much good web stores as it is in US. If you know some good stores in EU please let me know about them.
Everything last checked: the boot was fitting perfectly in my Burton Cartel binding, both of the boots were on my feet and the feeling was great.
This boot gives you the support you need in the ancle, fixing perfectly your foot in the boots. All this is possible due the technologies 32 develop and implement in this boot, such as extra support in tong, evolution foam in the insole

It turns out that those boots are gr8 in mountain as much as they were in the shop. Of course there is some specific thing. You need to adjust very carefully how much pressure you would like to have in the tong, because this system could stop the blood in your feet. One more thing if you don’t use a binding which don’t fit very good on toe-cap you can unstitch some of the front joints.

Still the boot rocks, I’ve ride it the whole season at least twice a week + some winter long winter vacations like the one in French Alps for 10 days.

Perfect boot, perfect choice for every rider over 85kgs who need a good support in ankle and tong. Now looking forward to try Nike Zoom One.

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Small Europe

Nov 13

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A month ago something enormously fast and unexpected happened to me.
Some of you probably don’t know what’s my regular job is. I’m working as a service technician in Siemens Enterprise Networks(SEN), supporting SEN call center application, called ProCenter or Contact Center. The thing is that we support the whole world except USA so from time to time someone from our team needs to go on customer site for troubleshooting /upgrading customers servers. Which in general is great, because you meеt different people from different country’s, don’t forget that you are on business trip so you don’t have time for sights at all.

Back to the beginning, what happened last week: I just came back to work on Monday from 3 day vacation(connected with my birthday) on very second day, colleague of mine called me in the office with private request to replace him on customer site, from the very next day. After short look in my calendar I’ve realized that I don’t have plans for upcoming days so I accept the offer.
On the next day I’ve took a plain to Berlin at 7:50 in the morning. Two and half hours later I was in Berlin. I’ve checked in my hotel and in an hour I was in the office in Berlin. After the change of timezone -1 hour back my watch was showing 10:30 which is the regular start of my late shift. I was on time for work, 2500km away from home .
This makes think about the size of Europe and how a man can Work far away from home with just two more hours spending to travel with a plane.

Greetings from Berlin!  I will upload some pics.
“Chus”  – the local slang for bye.

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Vasil Tashev Personal and blog Birthday are both today

Oct 28

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Good morning everyone,

today it’s my birthday and it’s a brand new start for me. The day began marvelously when I pick-up Call over a sea from my lovely brother and his wife. They manage to send me gift (first to my parents, who later present his gift) at my home address without noticing it. He wake-up  me at the same time my parents went into the room and present his gift and theirs too of course.I’m so happy that this is my first post.

Lovely birthday morning, love you family !

Today it’s birthday for my blog too.

Something interesting facts regarding the prime number 23: Did you know that the average human physical biorhythm is 23 days.: http://bit.ly/4pJDfT

I will post pics of my gifts from today soon :), have a great all of you  mates!

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