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Eye of Providence

October 20, 2010 Books / Technology
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One of the rea­sons I started this blog was also the rea­son I got a hel­met cam — to act as a sec­ond memory.

Thing about the hel­met cam, though… besides the fact that it’s socially irreg­u­lar to be con­stantly hel­met cam­ming my life, it’s not very tech­no­log­i­cally fea­si­ble right now. The model I have can store about 16 hours of video at 1080p, but the bat­tery only lasts for two hours. Well, it’s rated for two; last time I tried to use it, it actu­ally lasted a lit­tle under one hour.

Yes­ter­day, when I was hang­ing out at Michow’s place when Richow men­tioned that for his job (he runs Experimetrix-​like stud­ies), he some­times hooks up the exper­i­menters with glasses that have hid­den cam­eras in the frames. I doubt the specs are as good as my hel­met cam, but the hid­den value is def­i­nite plus. I should try to get my hands on some and see how much daily use I can get out of them. At least until some­one actu­ally comes up with worm­hole cams.

Blaming The River

July 6, 2010 Friends / Stories / Travel / Videos
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Went on my sec­ond white-​water raft­ing trip on Sat­ur­day. This time, I went with Eddie C, Michow, James S, Joe M, Alice H, and Rachel Loh.

We were pre­pared for more near-​death and lost shoe sto­ries like from our first trip, but it actu­ally went really well. No one was knocked out of the raft this time, no one lost any equip­ment or cloth­ing, we did not get embar­rass­ingly stuck at the photo spot for sev­eral min­utes, and we did not have to hitch­hike to get home.

After a rough start at the early Class IIIs where we got knocked around a bit, we all set­tled down and got a sys­tem going, thanks to a “guardian angel” kayaker who gave us some pro trips as he passed us. Here’s a video of us shortly after that on some smaller rapids:

(There was a bet­ter video later on the river when we hit another Class III, but I’m again hav­ing some prob­lems with my cam­era. I think the bat­tery may not be charg­ing properly.)

Over­all, we did so much bet­ter this time, I think every­one who went on both trips was a lit­tle shocked. I’m a lit­tle sad, since our first raft­ing trip will always have bet­ter sto­ries, but you can’t com­plain about a smooth trip. :) We were say­ing that it’s prob­a­bly a bit of expe­ri­ence on our part, but prob­a­bly has a lot to do with the river’s flow being a lot greater this time. More water means less rocks to give us trouble!

Oh, and the kayaker told us to think about send­ing some­one to guide school so that we can hit higher class rapids, and I’m giv­ing it some thought now. Maybe some­thing to do next summer.

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October 25, 2009 Money / Twitter / Work
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