Getting ready to have a back yard movie party watching 10,000 BC tonight.

Just because its Monday night doesn’t mean you can’t stay up late and have fun.

We did upgrade our screen this time and established a canvas on a wooden frame. We’ll see if that works better than hanging a sheet. Still shying away fromt he $600 options, but you never know. We might graduate to that eventually.

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This is a test of my night vision webcam. It is actually a day/night web cam. I’ve plugged it in via a Pinnacle usb video conversion device.

Here’s my original article talking about the setup for this goofy experiment.
http://www.softduit.com/…dockffice/

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That was the first test. Nothing spectacular and the audio could have been better. I have to figure the audio out a bit more as I fine tune my recipes for nocturnal web cam tests.

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This is a little silly but might actually be somewhat practical.  I work on a dock on a lake in North Carolina.  Out here with the bugs and the frogs and it is generally very peaceful.

The thing is that I do a lot of work with technology, including video conferences.  Now, at night if I run my normal web cam, it doesn’t pick up my image too well, because it is dark in the office.  If I turn on too many lights, it will be a bug magnet.

So a year or two back we had some break ins around the neighborhood in our old house.  I happened through Sam’s Club one day and bought a security camera with night vision capability for $40.  Its been sitting in a closet ever since.

But this evening, I am going to try and connect it up through my web cam connections and see if I can use it for a night vision web cam.

I’m sure there will probably not be too many people in need of this type of setup, but if it works, I’ll let you know!

Its this type of weird stuff that makes my job fun anyway and it sure beats the conversations I used to have about budget software, ERP systems, etc. when I worked as a finance manager. ….

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It may not be the most humane or insectane device in the world, but if you work on a lake in a Dock Office you need a good bug zapper!

In fact on some nights, you may even need two.

The trick is that you can’t put these in the actual office area.  You need to station them about 20 - 40 feet away so that when they draw bugs to them, they do not draw bugs in a cloud around the zapper and you in the office!

I’m actually looking at possibly installing a second bug zapper some where near my office soon.  The current bug zapper zaps a lot of bugs.  Every morning there is literally a pile of dead bugs below the zapper, but I need just a little bit more to keep my work area cleared out of the biting little buggers otherwise I will unjustly enrich the pharmaceutical companies buying up bug repellant and bug bite medicine…

Life could be worse but right now it is good!

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