I brought 2 cameras to the 2022 Boston Marathon near the 5-mile mark - my GoPro Hero 9 and the Canon xa40.
Here is a sample of 4K footage from both cameras. They were taken from the same point moments apart. It's a good idea of the quality of the videos p
roduced by these cameras.GoPro Hero 9 - Default Activity Settings in 4K mode with wide lens.
Canon xa40 - Auto Focus and Auto Exposure in 4K mode
Every once in a while the house phone would get a call from Apple about my iCloud account. These are clearly scams because there's no reason for Apple to be calling you about your iCloud account.
In the following very brief call you can hear the person trying to set up the scam. I think that the next step would be for them to log into my account to "fix" the problem.
I get a lot of strange calls. Most of the time I have my phone on Do Not Disturb. Every once in a while I'll get a voice message from a potential scammer.
Here's a voice mail that I got. They put some weird background music that made me want to put a slide show of flowers.
Transcript was provided by Apple and it seemed pretty accurate.
This is the Covid mortgage health center we are reaching out to you as a follow up on a state disbursement notice that was recently forwarded to your home this is for a 2% interest rate program based on a mandated program for the federal cares act and offers you savings around $400 per month on your mortgage and one of the case counselors would like to explain the program to you on how to obtain the savings you were eligible for the program is time sensitive and we need to speak to you within the next 24 hours you may contact us back today on this number.
This weeks audio clip is from April 30, 1999.
Michael Savage, a popular radio talk show host from KSFO in San Francisco, replays his show opening.
The whole purpose is to make light of some of the failed NATO bombings of Yugoslavia that were going on at the time.
This week's Media Monday features some commercials I found on a VHS tape that had content from November 1999. I pulled off some commercials from that recording.
This week's media Monday is a mix of some 2006 commercials. These were recorded using iMovie on my old G4 computer.
Here's this week line up:
This week's Media Monday is a phone call that I got last week about car insurance. This is a typical type of call that I get.
When the call got transferred none of the information that I provided to the original person was sent. Why did they ask me them? What are they going to do with that information?
The second call I got was an automated call. I got that particular call a couple of times that day and only once got beyond saying 'Good.'
I get this spam calls all the time usually they piggyback on each other. Almost if a vendor sells my active number and a machine takes immediate action and calls the number.
PermalinkThis week's media is a montage of a video of Juliana going to Wachusett's Mountain in Palmer Massachusetts. She spent 2 mornings learning how to ski. We spent the third-day free skiing.
Video was shot using a GoPro Hero 9 attached to a ski pole via Gooseneck Clamp mount. The weather was really cold on the third day that the GoPro couldn't warm up to work properly.
Mount Wachusett's offers 90 minutes of skiing. Students get an opportunity to ski before and after the lesson to practice what they learned.
We arrived early each day so we could get the first lesson of the day. The lessons start at 8 am.
Level 3 start on the Easy trail and end the day on the intermediate trail. Level 4 conductors their classes on the intermediate trail.
PermalinkBack in the 1990s, Infomercials were the late-night filler spot for many networks. I enjoyed watching them as a good way to fall asleep.
When going through my VHS collection, I found the Memory Power by Harry Lorayne infomercial. This is the kind of infomercial that would put me to sleep. It's just a show that will put you to sleep.
Watch this broadcast from 1998:
You can order the Memory Power by Harry Lorayne 5 Cassettes/ 1 VHS Tape Set~1988,1992 for about $20 on eBay.
The funny thing is that some people are selling the 1992 cassettes as new, they ordered the tapes but never bothered to open and listen to them.
PermalinkIs it possible to purchase a training program that can help you read faster? Kevin Mark Trudeau and Howard Stephen Berg think they can.
Watch the first ten minutes of this infomercial from 1998.
You can find the complete package that Howard Stephen Berg was selling on the infomercial on eBay. There are plenty of people that are selling the Mega Speed Reading Course for about $10.
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