Running on Empty


Old Tech of the Day – Webcam

Reviewing an early home webcam. Oh and it sucks. Kind of long this one. Sorry.



PodCamp AZ

PodCampAZ

So I have been hearing about this for the last few months and I decided that I am going to go. I don’t really know what my thoughts are entirely on it or how it is all going to work, but it sounds very very cool. The whole event is about whats considered “new media” which is basically a post-modern look at the way media has been done. So the event will be a bunch of discussions on things like pod casting, life casting, video casting, and perhaps fly fishing.

So i think what with me running a few blogs and getting WAY heavy into online video I would probably benefit from this. Plus a bunch of people i know are going to be there. And after the way that the Viddler meetup went I am very excited to hang out with that crowd again. (Though they will not all be there) But I also am keen to actually meet Brent from IBoughtAMac who I very briefly shook hands with on friday.

Justine from Tasty Blog Snack will be there who is a viddler regular and has been featured on many of the video sites like YouTube and MySpace and way more. Also the guy from Ask A Ninja will be there. Those two alone make it totally worth while.

So check it out. PodcampAZ.org



Old Tech of the Day – Lappy

Pentium 133 laptop labeled as a Texas Intruments Extensa. 16mb of ram and a 1.3 GB hd.



WifeToday
October 29, 2007, 8:18 am
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So my wife and I did a video together. There was some discussion about the lack of significant others on Viddler. I think we are going to start a group called WeToday (because it rhymes). All the same apparently she wants goats.



Old Tech of the Day – Processors
October 26, 2007, 7:53 am
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Today I go over some processors that I found in the Back.  Nothing as fancy as a 286, but close.  



Old Tech of the Day – Olympus D-500L
October 25, 2007, 8:13 am
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My featured old technology today is an Olympus digital camera coming with 10x zoom and 850 Kilopixels.



Me Today
October 23, 2007, 4:46 pm
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 In the new office. lots of exciting things 



Me Today
October 22, 2007, 9:02 am
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So today I am starting a new job.  Now I can get paid again.



Should Cows Breath Underwater?
October 17, 2007, 2:06 pm
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Scuba Cow

Ok, So I am starting this experiment. I am going to ask an arbitrary question, and you answer the question by buying a shirt. The shirt is not expensive it is going to be $12 plus shipping, because I want to get a good response and obviously I would like to sell all of the shirts.

The current question is this…Should Cows Breathe Underwater? You vote yes and you get a shirt with the image above screened on it. You vote no and you get a similar image but with a line through it. Your purchase adds towards the poll and you get to write a response as to why you chose this answer.

Does this seem like a good idea? Yes or no? Would you or somebody you know participate in such an experiment? Comments are welcome. I expect to be launching this site early next week.



First Day of Filming for 62mph
October 14, 2007, 3:18 pm
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Austin AE86

Yesterday we started filming for 62mph.com. It was a long day and we had a lot of stuff to work out, but I think overall it went really well. We went on a canyon drive outside of Phoenix and had a really good time. The drive went really well, and we found a place that was nice and secluded where we could get some good shots.

We also started filming in a large parking lot, however people have a tendency to want to alert the police of anything and so we had to leave rather abruptly. We did however get some good photos during this time. None of them were of us driving however.

In the future I think things will go a lot faster. Maybe a few hours tops. Most of the shots are going to be pretty similar. I think we need to have a couple of people with us doing sound and video in the future. This will allow Allen and I to be on camera together more often and be able to interact which is what we are looking to accomplish.

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