somebody has had it with our baby grand’s inability to stay in tune.
Posts from the ‘tech’ Category
Oct 29
Jul 3
Lost. Found
So I lost my phone.
It was about 9am when I looked for it to make a call, and it wasn’t in any of the 36 normal landing spots at home.
So I looked in the 17 alternate landing places to no avail.
I even looked in the couch.
I began replaying the day before… when did I last have it… when did I last use it….I even tried the ‘find my iphone’ feature, but my phone wasn’t connected to a network anywhere. Hmmm….
And with a gut-blanching suddenness I remembered.
I had taken it outside the night before while this was happening. Because I wanted to take pictures.
I remembered that there had been a bit of a scuffle, so I put my phone down to help out. I remember thinking, “I HAVE to remember to take that back inside”.
Then, my son had a bit of an accident on a scooter, so I had to help him get into the house and quiet the screaming.
I forgot about the phone.
Where did I leave it?
Here.
Wondering what that is, exactly? Try this view.
I PUT IT ON THE BUMPER OF THE CAR.
(I know.)
When I realized all of this, my husband had already met a friend for breakfast and had returned home, driving this car. He looked at the bumper… and was convinced the phone had gone with him. Because it had been raining, and the phone shaped outline implies something was sitting there in the rain.
Be still my heart.
He, being an amazing husband with a great appreciation for personal communication, retraced his steps.
And he found my phone.
My phone rode on the back of his bumper, in the spot pictured above…. for about 4.5 miles…
…down our bumpy driveway…
…through a half mile of washboard gravel road, including several hundred feet through a construction site (none of which Neil drives through with, say, great restraint)…
… a few miles of 5 lane suburban roadway, including several stoplights…
… IN THE RAIN…
… to this restaurant.
He found the phone lying face up in the parking lot. In perfect condition.
(pause to offer thanks and absorb the ridiculousness of my own actions)
He is, and has been for 15 years now, My Hero.
Mar 26
Scary or cool? You decide.
Interesting clip about ridiculously amazing technology in development. Worth the watch.
(h/t: churchcrunch)
Thoughts?
Dec 3
Cyclorama-slamma-jamma
My husband and his production crew just finished construction of a cyclorama, or cyc wall. Don’t know what a cyclorama is? Read about it here. Here’s a picture of Neil & his production coordinator standing in the cyc wall they built.
Isn’t it pretty? It’s for green screen, or chroma key, shots. Read about what that is here. The rounded corners had to be created from plaster by hand. Which took some skill and some time. My husband did a stellar job with the design, construction, and management of this project.
The wall has been built at the end of a long narrow gallery that is used for art shows, video shoots, etc. When the green wall isn’t needed, it can disappear behind a lovely red curtain.
Poof.
Oh, and I also learned a nifty trick. If you stand very close to a green cyc wall, looking directly at the wall so that there’s only green in your periphery, anything you look at next will appear magenta. No kidding.
(That one was for free.)
Mar 29
Saturday’s Mac Quiz
Can you ID all the Macs in view from my kitchen?
Extra credit: what’s on the bigger screen?
[Edit: later that night...the collection grows]
A blast from the past is enlisted.
