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Walter Biscardi

BMD approves new Expansion Chassis for Mac Pro

This is HUGE! BMD has approved an expansion chassis that allows up to four GPUs to be added to a Mac Pro or any manner of PCIe cards. Since Apple won’t give us any more than four slots in a single machine, this is a HUGE addition for folks like me who are trying to [...]

BCM Construction Update: Day 180

We are officially 6 months into the construction of our new facility and are down to the final elements. Parking lot is striped. Floors and ceilings are fully in, now it’s time to finish and move in! Today Joe and I worked on some of the detail work in the game room and machine room. [...]

Holiday Recipes - Struffoli and Bow Knots revealed

I’ve gotten some queries as to “just what are bow knots and struffoli?” I was preparing them yesterday so here’s some visual references to what these are and how you prepare them…. Here’s a look at the Bow Knots, or what I call “Nonni’s Bow Knots” in the recipes. Nonni is an Italian nickname for [...]

Holiday Recipes for you and yours!

And now for something completely different….. Those who know me know that I love to cook. Check that. I LOVE to cook. All cuisines, all styles, you name it I love to prepare food. Even more than that, I LOVE to cook for friends and family. As often as we can we have folks over [...]

BCM Construction Day 166: Kitchen and painting

We’re really headed to the homestretch with another weekend of painting. The kitchen / gameroom is really starting to come together! Vanna White (Rebecca) presents the kitchen / gameroom. Cabinets are in place, ceiling is painted, lighting and fans are in, dishwasher is ready for installation and the fridge is in place. Other side of [...]

BCM Construction Update Days 143-160

Did not realize just how long we’ve gone without an update. A lot of the interior finish work has been moving right along and we have a lot of photos to share so let’s get right to it! NOVEMBER 21 Long time Colorist and good friend Ron Anderson pitches in on the painting. Putting in [...]

BCM_Construction_Day 142: Floors and ceilings start!

Today was a whirlwind of activity at the building. Flooring crew, ceiling crew and doors! Man, stay away for a few hours and the whole place changes! Stack of doors ready for installation. French doors, solid doors, double doors, we pretty much have one of everything…. Ceiling grid installed in the Media Library. We’ll have [...]

Tangent releases vWave Lite for iPad

This past week Tangent Devices released the Tangent Wave Lite for use with the iPad. This mimics the Shadows, Gamma and Highlight control wheels that you would find on a control surface like the Tangent Wave. You can see how the controls really mimic the look of a standard color control panel. They even have [...]

BCM_Construction_Day 140: Painting and parking lot

We went into the building on Saturday to do some of the detail painting and found a completed parking lot! Finally, we can stop walking through mud and dirt to get into the building. Landscaping came out fantastic too. It’s a good base to get us started and we’ll definitely be modifying it as we [...]

BCM_Construction_Day 139: Parking Lot and Landscaping

Major changes outside today. From morning to afternoon the exterior took on a major change….. 8:30am, prepping the parking lot, smoothing and grading everything properly. Looking further to the left, dump truck taking away some of the extra dirt left over in the parking lot. 8:30am working the hill in back of the building. Prepping [...]