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We went across town yesterday for Lori – she's looking for a dress to wear at an upcoming Governor's ball. My Uncle Brad (in-law) and aunt Angela (in-law, twice removed) gave both Gretchen and me a gift certificate to Macy's. Now, I'm not a clothes-shopping kind of guy. Never have been, never will be. Jake and I wandered all around the store, looking for something that I could actually use. The Meade Digital Camera Binocular caught our attention. The price was set with a 25% discount, so I yanked the unit off the shelf without batting an eyelash. We brought it home and immediately fell in love with it. I hooked that sucker up to my laptop, installed the drivers, mounted it as a Webcam, inserted my wireless card, walked the equipment to our front window, set the new device on the sill, opened Webcam32, then ran down the block with Jake. That's me on the corner. That's me by the street… light – losing my religion. Have you seen it? We encoded that series of snaps with Boomer. My neigh-bores aren't that exciting, so we'll have to find something else to capture. Any ideas? This thing doesn't do well in low-light conditions.
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Anonymous
January 12th, 2003
at 1:12pm
I have a great idea! You should run down your street carrying a rather large Lockergnome.com banner. It'd work! Either that…or maybe you could run around with a rather large lod.castrate.org banner?(hint hint)
Anonymous
January 12th, 2003
at 1:37pm
All you need is the theme music from “King of the Hill”
Anonymous
January 12th, 2003
at 1:52pm
Haha i agree with jeff. Looks great. Boomer looks like a great tool for time lapse photography with your webcam, u can actually see it getting darker.
Anonymous
January 12th, 2003
at 4:01pm
no ideas yet for the binocular cam .. I love what you captured so far tho. :) I'd say more of those.. SF life! :) As for Boomer by itself, with your regular cam, you could capture a series of party shots some night and string them together like that.. a Pirillo party on speed! ;)
Anonymous
January 12th, 2003
at 4:05pm
I just stopped by the amazon site that is advertising your binocular cam.. wow, that is cool! :) Very afforable too! That would be GREAT for places, like concerts or TV show tapings where a camera is not allowed but you can bring your binoculars.. love it love it. ;)
Anonymous
January 13th, 2003
at 12:52am
Hi Chris, i have one this might sound stupid but why don't you do a contest where you can hold or show somthing and have your fans guess what it is, hey i could be fun.