THE VIDEO NOTEBOOK

Showing the work.

The videos are still in preparation. These are the subjects and written companions I am starting with.

Budding Adventure, Chuck’s independent game01VIDEO IN PREPARATION

Making Budding Adventure, a game for my child

Tripo gave me the idea of putting my child into a game. Broken rigs, rejected faces and five seconds of running led from a Blender trailer to a playable world of our own.

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AI-assisted photo-based close-up of Chuck’s modified V10002VIDEO IN PREPARATION

Running a 125B local model on a used, 2017-generation V100

Strata gave me another reason to try the V100 attached to my second-hand laptop. Getting it installed, finding an old background program and testing my everyday work made the old setup worth keeping.

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Photo-based cover composite of Chuck’s second-hand laptop and modified three-fan V10003VIDEO IN PREPARATION

A used laptop, a V100, and a queue for my local AI

A second-hand laptop and an external V100 let me try local transcription, translation and document work. As the tools multiplied, I needed a monitor, a queue and some say in what ran next.

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Chuck’s Plantronics Calisto P240 USB handset on his office desk04VIDEO IN PREPARATION

The 100-yuan phone I use to put AI to work

I bought a used P240 to make work calls feel familiar again. Connecting it to Codex at home became a project of buttons, audio, callbacks—and making my own assistant at forty.

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VOICE / TEXT
SOFTWARE PROJECTS
05VIDEO IN PREPARATION

After years of online transcription, I built a local app

I wanted recordings to stay on my computer: drag in a file, separate speakers, edit names and export to Word. Then a five-minute gap in a long recording changed what I expected from “complete.”

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Each video will have a written companion to return to: the setup, the steps, the problems and the useful result.