So I shot video of most of the speech.
Part 1

Obama Speech Bloomington, IN 04.30.2008 001 from zebtron on Vimeo.
Part 2

Part 3
To come
Part 4

Part 5

Have photos on Flickr too.
Rob Riggle (from the Daily Show) was there as well.
I paid attention to him and the bouncing gigantic beach balls until Senator Obama finally arrived.
The line(s) to get in was pretty crazy.
Assembly Hall wasn’t full, but was pretty close.
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Some test video of my new R/C car with a camera taped to the top of it.
I am going to get a more permanent camera for it soon.

RC CAR video test 001

RC car camera test

Ready… go!

Peter and Elijah bike race from zebtron.
Now play some music….

peter and vince play from zebtron on Vimeo.
Is that god behind Sears?

I saw this little thing running looped video on monitors at Target.

Saw this disgusting stuff at the store the other day: Budweiser and Clamata mixed in a can… yech!

There was a video on YouTube recently of another commercial flight with insane crosswinds landing successfully.
How common are landings like this? Are they far more common than one might think and the sheer number of cameras in the world are just now showing us these incidents?
These pilots are great. They need to get special pay for saving such a friggin’ crazy landing.
And here is a Hong Kong flight that I saw on Dvorak’s blog.

I have the “Altered States” DVD from Netflix.
The DVD is a horrible transfer and has, shamefully, never been remastered and resissued.
Despite those flaws with the DVD itself, the film is wonderful.
The story is great, it has talented actors, and the visual effects are amazing (especially for 1980).
I threw the DVD on as a distraction and now and not going to be able to stop the film until it has played through. In some ways it reminds me of “Dreamscape”, but “...

Same video file uploaded (albeit a crummy quality source file)
Flickr

Vimeo

Wired has a really cool Wiki explaining how to get some great new features on a Canon camera using free custom software. It even leaves the existing firmware intact.
Biggest addition for me is the ability to shoot in camera raw format (CRW).
You will need to convert that CRW to a PNG, but that is pretty simple.
Even though the utility says it only support DIGIC II, it does work with the SD 800 IS which has a DIGIC III.
I am running a beta build on my Powershot SD800 IS.
Haven’t spent m...

Obama talks about music and art.
I love this man.
And he is right about ‘No Child Left Behind’.