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My Sister Lisa Had A Boy!!!!

Steve Levitt — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:54:31 +0000

My sister Lisa Gainsley just gave birth to an amazing looking Baby boy today

Baby, Mom and Dad are doing well, stay tuned for pictures and more details, Matt came into the waiting room and announced the news, but didn’t have a name, size time anything, but our newest member has arrived!!!

Update: Lisa was amazing from what I hear, she only pushed for about 20 minutes, what a rock star!!!!

Name: Isaac Maurice Gainsley
Date: 4/16/08
Time: 4:58 pm.
Weight: 6lbs 13oz.
Length: 20 3/4 inches.

See his first Video:

Family Photos

Steve Levitt — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 21:34:02 +0000

Our good friend Sammy Counter took some amazing photos of our family at the Jonathan Club a couple weeks ago. If you would like to get in touch with her let us know and we will put you in touch. she really captured the essence of the little guy. See levitt family photos here.

New Video Camera - Flip Video

Steve Levitt — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:31:06 +0000

Google this year gave out the Flip video camera to some of its top clients, SEM firms like the one I work for, and Account Managers who handle some of our larger accounts. It seemed like such a great and simple way to shoot and upload video that i thought I’d go out and buy one. Here is what it looks like:

Its very basic in its form and function. After an out of the box experience where I had to reformat it and re install the operating system with help from Flip’s tech support, I had the thing running and shot some video with it. Its pretty cool in that no software needs to be installed on the computer, you can plug it in via USB, run the software and upload from anywhere. I use YouTube to publish my videos and quality isn’t the best but overall this is a great one for amateur quality video shooting and ease of use. I really got tired of pulling the memory card out of my old camcorder, waiting the 20 minutes to translate the video into the right format then download to YouTube. so here are the specs and a link to buy one if you are interested.

Here is a link to the Flip Ultra Video Camera Page at Amazon

Product Specifications
Internal Memory:	30min.- 1GB, 60 min. - 2GB
Screen Size:	1.5″ (diagonal)
Screen Resolution:	528 x 132 pixels
Video Resolution:	640 x 480
Frame Rate:	30 frames per second (constant)
Video Bitrate:	4.5Mbps (average - auto adaptive algorithm)
Video Format:	Advanced Profile MPEG4
Lens Type:	Fixed Focus (0.8m to infinity)
Aperture:	f/2.4 (fast lens for great results in low-light environments)
Zoom:	Smooth multi-step 2x digital
Interface:	8 Buttons (Power, Play, Delete, Record and 4 way navigation)
Dimensions:	4.17″ x 2.16″ x 1.25″ (H x W x D)
PC Connection:	Built-in flip-out USB arm (up to USB 2.0 speed)
TV Out:	NTSC (cable included)
Battery Life:	Up to 2.5 hours (with 2x AA Alkaline batteries)
	Up to 6.5 hours (with 2 x AA Energizer® e2® batteries)
Tripod Mount:	Yes
Operating Systems:	Windows XP, Windows Vista
	Mac OSX
Min Requirements:	(Windows) Intel Pentium 4 2.0 GHz computer with at least 512 MB of RAM, Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista, SVGA display monitor (1024×768) and video card, Windows Media Player 9.0, Microsoft DirectX 9.0
	(Mac OSX) PowerPC G4 1.0 GHz, Intel Core with at least 512 MB of RAM, Mac OS X 10.3.9, SVGA display (1024 x 768) monitor and video card, QuickTime 7 or later
Online Sharing:	Unlimited Private Sharing
	Video greeting cards
	Upload to YouTube (public and private)
	Upload to AOL Video (public and private)
	Prepare for web publishing (any other site)

Ethan’s Second Birthday

Steve Levitt — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:38:57 +0000

We had a very small gathering (immediate family ony) this weekend to celebrate the little guy’s 2nd bday. Click Here to see pictures of Ethan’s 2nd Birthday

Ojai Over New Years

Steve Levitt — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:38:03 +0000

We went up to Ojai and had a great weekend over new years. We spent a ton of time playing the park where they had this crawl through tube with windows where we caught a couple good ones of Ethan sticking his face out of the tube window.

Halloween ‘07

Steve Levitt — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:30:45 +0000

Grandpa Joe was here the other night and i pulled these pictures of EJ off his camera from Hallowwen. enjoy.

Sunrise at Bonavita

Steve Levitt — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:28:18 +0000

Woke up and saw this amazing sunrise yesterday and snapped a few pictures.
See more pictures of the sunrise at Bonavita

Ethan’s Trucks

Steve Levitt — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:22:27 +0000

The Little guy has developed quite a colelction of trucks. There seems to be an arms race developing between grandma Joyce and Papa Barry.

Ethan on Rosh Hashana ‘07

Steve Levitt — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:20:32 +0000

found these pictures on a memory card that im not sure i ever uploaded. here were pictures of ethan on Rosh this year with his plastic shofar and yamulke after a day at temple. Enjoy.

Ethan in Hawaii - Old pictures

Steve Levitt — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:17:34 +0000

Found these pictures of Ethan on an old memory card, they were from our trip to hawaii in august, some great shots of the little man on the beach and lounging about in his diaper. enjoy and please note the amazing attention to sunblocking…