Means Report

The ramblings of some old dude.

YouTube is now letting users create an AI avatar that looks and sounds like them for use in Shorts. The creation process is available in the main YouTube app and YouTube Create. It involves capturing [...]

Image 360 Test

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Anna had to have a surgery in Lawton Ok which required a 4 day stay. I rented this Airbnb property. While I was there I thought I would kill some time and learn how to us my Insta360 X3 camera. Here [...]
I surmized at the time of what killed Charlie Kirk was an exploding microphone. Stories of Israel taking out Palestinians with exploding pagers where going on about the same time. What went wrong [...]
Trump has been doing a lot of lying lately and throwing MAGA under the bus. Some of his most ardent supporters who are largely responsible for getting him elected have been turning on him because [...]
The water situation in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)—Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman—is one of the most unusual in the world. In short: The region has extremely little [...]
I am done pussy footing around with liars. Trump and his administration have been lying to us and protecting the Zionist Fake Jews. Liars are going to lie so what should anyone believe about what [...]
While wading through mounds of AI generated videos on YouTube I came upon this video from BlackCrag's channel. He is talking about how YouTube is changing with the advent of AI produced videos. His [...]

Looks Like I Have Competition

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After setting up my new blog, I thought I would check to see if it shows up on any of the search engines. Well yes it does although it wasn't my site. It is a Brad Means on News Channel 6 - WJBF, ABC [...]

Let's Do Some Whittling

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I have always had sort of a passing interest in wood carving and whittling. When I was a young man in Cub Scouts they gave us a block of wood and said here you go, make yourself a car and enter it [...]

The OU Planter Project

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Several years back I had a screened in porch that was in desperate need of repair. I tore it down and built a hardened sun room in the same space. As a result, I had a large amount of scrap wood that [...]