Day: November 19, 2025

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Off Settles Hill

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Heading back to the cesspool after a nice few days up in the Adirondacks, after taking NY 30 down to US 20. Cloudy day but more adventures to come, just watch your speed down that hill.

Sunday November 26, 2017 — Guilderland, New York

Cloverleaf

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Interstate 70 and 81 Interchange.

Sunday November 12, 2023

yt-dlp – how to download an audio track as an mp3 and start playing in vlc once downloaded

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I was wondering how to set up yt-dlp to download an audio track from Youtube as an Mp3, then play it in vlc once it was finally downloaded. After a bit of playing I found this command works well with yt-dlp.

yt-dlp -x --audio-format mp3 -P "/home/andy/Desktop/" -o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" --exec "vlc {}" [HREF]

Normally, though for videos I don’t want to download and save the full video as audio, so I use this command to stream the video to vlc.

yt-dlp -f b --simulate  --embed-subs --write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang "en.*" --exec video:'vlc --play-and-exit --meta-title=%(title)#q %(url)#q' [HREF]

Winter Camping is Fun.

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I am thinking about after regular season closes this year, doing another winter camping trip to the Finger Lakes National Forest. I had a lot of fun in 2018, and while it was cold and snowy, it was enjoyable.

Winter Wonderland

It’s kind of fun to be out in the wilderness in the snow, enjoying the cold and colors.

Piling up

As the snow falls all around.

A winter wonderland

The sun can be weak but next to heater with a hot cup of coffee, mornings are a lot of fun.

Rise and Shine, Finger Lakes Campers

And the fire is nice and warm.

Tonight's warmth

Winter camping can be fun.

Hello winter, my old friend