tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-183679692009-03-02T09:09:57.866-08:00Clay K Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03326367915455818643noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18367969.post-32017366063630781952009-01-30T10:11:00.000-08:002009-01-30T10:27:51.151-08:00

I have been playing with the Gigapan for a while. For those not in the know, the Gigapan is a robot that lets you shoot extremely high resolution (gigapixel) photos. This is one I did at he car show last weekend. Enjoy function FlashProxy() {} FlashProxy.callJS = function() {}

Clay K Carsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03326367915455818643noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18367969.post-29057542972254584542008-07-24T09:53:00.000-07:002008-07-28T10:42:52.089-07:00

Kyle called the other day to let me know that the culinary school was hosting a bunch of young kids from a local day care and showing them how to cook. I let the photo guys know and they sent Stephen Thornton out to cover it.His pictures turned out great aand i made the Arkansas front so it was definitely worth the trip. Stephen sent me the photos and it was really nice to see how Kyle

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Margaret and Eldon celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary AND Eldon got his chair. Seriously, he actually got a chair you can sit in. Very cool.They threw a big party at Acadia. Lots of good food and drink. There were a lot of testimonials, remembrances, and toast. They tended to get longer and longer the more folks drank. It was a hell of a party.So Schulz's, congratulations. You guys

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I finally finished the Costa Rica video. I edited 12 hours of raw footage down to 40 minutes. The wildlife stuff came out pretty good. We had the party for the folks that went on the tour and everyone seemed to like it a lot. I am posting the short intro on YouTube. Let me know if ypu like it

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Janet's college roommate, Cindy, got married this weekend. We made the trip to Fort Worth and had a good time. The wedding was pretty hip and casual. I took pictures and really am just posting this now quick and dirty to provide a link.Cindy and Thomas, best wishes. You make a great couple.Now, off to Costa Rica...Wedding photos are her (Flash required)

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I have been doing a lot of video and am getting a bit better. Final Cut is very cool and the camera is awesome. Chris had a car show last weekend and I tried to do a project. I think it turned out OK. Take a look

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Someone left a little present for us. Apparently someone tried to burn our house down. Well, maybe not that bad, but it was suspicious. A bottle, broken and burned in the driveway. It had a rag stuck in it and looked like a molotive (sp?) cocktail. I called the police. They sent the fire department (sirens and everything), police and fire inspector. Pretty exciting. The fireman in charge

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I tried my hand at video production. Kip is in referee training and it seemed like a good sequel to the hardware store story. He did better than I did. After a dozen or so hours of editing, this is what I came up with. Enjoy

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A plus to having a burned foot. I got a chance to try out one of those sporty motorized shopping carts. Kip needed cereal and Toby wanted Granola bars so we headed off to Sam's. I have always seen people using those motorized beauties, and I was jealous. Today was my day. They are really sweet. Acceleration isn't bad and it really handles well. The upholstery wasn't great; my seat was torn,

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I have a whole new respect for those firewalkers you see on the National Geographic channel. I was smoking some butt this morning. I was going electric, but decided to do it the traditional way since I was going to be home all day. I started some charcoal in the chimney. When it was ready I carried the chimney over to the smoker.And the bottom of it fell out.And I was barefoot.The deck was

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The air conditioning went out. Again. It started like ti always does. In the middle of the afternoon it would not keep up and it ran pretty much 24/7. Janet, who is now lord of air handling, called around and got Muex (the folks who fixed the plumbing disaster) to come out. Of course they found a leak at the compressor and in the attic. As usual, they talked about what a bunch of dumb $%^&

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I have not seen Katie much recently. She hangs out with her friends most of the time. She also has a job working at McAllister's Deli. So we now see for for about 20 minutes a day. If we're lucky.So Monday night I tried something different. I called haer and asked if I could take her and her friends to dinner. She said they would talk about it and get back with me. I am pretty sure they

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It is 12:53 am and I am bored stiff. Janet is out of town and James is on vacation so I decided to cover the night shift. I got my iTunes synced between my laptop and desktop, watched the Godfatehr and played poker until I won $750,000, then lost it all in one hand. I tracked janet's flight to Phoenix real-time on Google Earth, played with some new iPhone apps and researched the best way to

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I had the feeling something was wrong, a little off, but I couldn't put my finger on it. Then, through a fat fingered accident, I found it.claycarson.netYep, there is another Clay Carson. I was pretty sure he is just a cheap imitation of the original, but I decided to take a look at his site. He is 19 years old from Arlington, Texas and lives with his parents. He likes Mac's and his blog site

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I should never try to fix things. Kip and JT were swapping the motherboard on a Dell server that bit the bullet in the power event yesterday. They were working on trying to get the heat sink off. It was a little plastic lever and tab that locked the sink on top of the CPU. They were being very careful but having some problems. I decided it was my turn. I got it off very easily, changed the

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About 10:00 am we heard a boom and the lights blinked in the storage room.... and the phone started to ring.I am not sure where it hit, but it was close. It is a small, but distinguished list of casualties:Classified SwitchWEHCO switch3 jet direct cardsSecurity system PC (a real pain)My bosses PCMy Mac (at least the network adapter)Telephone operator consoleCall reporting serverData Features

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I finally had a squirrel take the merry-go-round ride. It ws pretty funny. He (or she) leaped on the perch and hung on for dear life. It made two and a half revolutions before he lost hs grip. He headed for the chain link fence. The deck is high enough that he almost made the neighbor's yard. I didn't see him again for an hour.Of course, I missed the picture. I had been lulled into

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I did some home improvement this weekend. Hung vinyl siding on the shop.I planned ahead, thinking it would be nice to wait until the hottest weekend of the year, and it was not a dry heat. I had sweat literally dripping off of my nose and took three showers a day. It was not as hard as I thought. The gable end was tricky. I am not good at the angle cuts. The trick was driving the nails.

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I have not written about this because I did not want to face it, but Kyle is seriously thinking of joining the military. He is leaning towards the Navy and wants to do special forces. I know part of the draw is the excitement, but he seems to have realistic expectations. I am not trying to imply that I am happy about the idea, but it will definately help him move on with his life. I like the

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We did a repeat supper club tonight. A few years ago we had a shrimp boil. I have a 60 quart pot I filled with water. It took forever to boil. We ate all the appetizers, drank al the wine and considered ordering pizza before it got hot, We ate at about 10:00pm.Today went better. I started the water 4 hours before dinner. We had potatoes, corn, sausage (Alex brought them from New Orleans)

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Yes, I did get my iPhone. I got in line about 3:00 and I was number 16 in line. Everyone else was a fanboy like me so it was entertaining. The guy at the front of the line had been there since 2:30 am. By 6:00, there were about 60 people waiting. Things went pretty fast. I was home by 6:45. the activation, number porting and syncing went perfectly and I was up and running in a half hour.The

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I now hate squirrels. I used to think they were kind of cool. Sure, they make a mess at the bird feeder and go through the seed pretty fast. But they are acrobatic and clever. For years I have been wanting the Yankee Flipper bird feeder. For the uninformed, this feeder has a motor driven perch. Birds have no problem, but the weight of the squirrels engage a switch, maing the perch spin,

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I was watching the late local news. At the end, they did a promo that said something like "You might have camped out overnight for concert tickets, but would you camp out for this" and the video showed about 100 people with tents and coolers on a parking lot.I thought "I can't believe they are already camping out for the iPhone in Little Rock!!" I actually, for a very brief moment considered

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I dare you to watch this and not laugh out loud. Not a chuckle or smile, but loud enough to disturb everyone around. Not possible. I don't think Janet would go for this, but I'll ask World Championship Wife Carrying

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If you just can't wait for the 29th or dig up a spare $600, but don't want to be left out of the fun, a guy at buymeaniphone.com has a solution. Just download this file. Then a sharp knife, a lot of patience and a little fold, bend, spindle and mutilating later, you will be in business.

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