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The Voices in my Head

Yet more new features to the Abulcam! Actually, the return of a feature that was on the original AbulCam many years ago, but went away at one point when the function wasn’t supported in the updated software I had. I bypassed the camera software and got it done seperately….

In any case, while viewing the AbulCam you can now, for the first time in many years, type a message, hit a button, and that message will be read out loud on my computer using Apple’s text to speech features. Unlike the AbulCam of many years ago, you actually get to pick the voice yourself rather than that being something I set on my end.

So anyway, visit the AbulCam and talk all you want.

Of course, if people get too obnoxious, I can always turn it back off.

AbulCam Timelapse

I was messing around with some other things and had to slightly adjust what I was doing with the AbulCam to let me do it. In the process, I ended up doing something I’d thought about for awhile but never gotten around to. Timelaspe from the AbulCam! So now, when you go to the AbulCam as well as seeing live streaming of the Camera when it is on, you will also always be able to see a timelapse movie of the previous day. Enjoy!

As always, where the camera is pointing will change over time and by my whims. At the moment it is pointed out the window. Sometimes it will be pointed at me. Sometimes at other things. Brandy has respectfully requested that I make sure to have it either off or pointed somewhere else when I am not fully dressed. I will be honoring that request. I am sure that everyone reading this is very glad of that.

In any case, enjoy the timelapse!

Using Eggs Correctly

Cadbury Egg Cake
(shmivejournal)

Experiment:

Replace ordinary eggs in cake recipe with Cadbury Creme Eggs and observe results.

Hypothesis:

THIS IS GOING TO BE SO AWESOME

(via Boing Boing)

AbulCam Streaming

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The Abulcam has been upgraded so it now streams live video as quickly as the bandwidth can handle it. The thumbnail on the home page will also now self-update although it won’t stream. If I have the camera off, the Abulcam will show a black screen, but the last uploaded thumbnail will still be available. Click on the image in this blog post, the “Camera” link in the top navigation of this site, or the Camera image at the top of the home page to get to the streaming video.

Enjoy.

Walking in a Minter Wonderland…

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Brandy and Amy’s plane flight back to Melbourne from Seattle was full of fun and frolic of the sorts that result in complaints being filed against the airline. But I shall not get into that. If Brandy want to, she can do so on her own blog.

But one good thing did come out of that trip back to Florida. Brandy and Amy called me from the airport in Atlanta to tell me that they were at the airport Ben and Jerry’s eating the flavor above and that it was yummy.

I’ve never seen it or tasted it myself, but now I feel I must.

Volcano Be Here

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The Corrected Beat

When I woke up they told me I had completely messed it up. They made me sad.

So here is EXACTLY the track as it was while we were eating dinner yesterday.

Although it sounded better then cause it was looped and the echo carried over into the next loop, which it does not here. But whatever. Here it is exact and untouched. When I’d added a manual couple of loops and a fade at the end I’d also turned on a third vocal track which turns out was unwanted. Pooh.

The Beat

Amy does much better at this than I do.

Don’t Shoot the Puppy

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(via Boing Boing)

It took awhile and a lot of work, but I finished all the levels and won the game. Woo!

Ratings for Who

Eh, not a blockbuster, but probably good enough to make it worth Sci-Fi’s wire to use it while their other shows are on hiatus.

US Debut Ratings
(Shaun Lyon, Gallifrey One)

According to information from the programming department of the Sci-Fi Channel, Doctor Who did well its first night in broadcast. 1.58 million viewers tuned in to watch “Rose,” says the report, with 1.61 million viewers watching “The End of the World” and .78 million viewers each watching “Rose” and “The End of the World” in their 11pm and 12am repeat slots. These numbers are somewhat lower than the standard viewing the channel received for its broadcasts of its original series “Stargate: Atlantis” and “Battlestar Galactica” in the same time slots, but higher than any broadcast of syndicated series that evening (including repeats of “Firefly” and “John Doe”).

Now, renewing it to show the next season or two will depend on how it holds up over the next 13 weeks. If it is steady or up, they almost certainly will go for the next couple series. If it is down…

Of course, they are still going to be way behind. New episodes in the UK will be starting in just a few weeks.