Midimonkey Webcam

[frederic]

You're more than welcome Mr. Velvet

 

[Velvet Elvis]

Now of course if you REALLY want to make the cam interesting... you need to get a 200 ft network cable and mount the camera to a hat.... then walk around with it

Velvet Elvis

 

[Pascal]

of all threads to make my first posts in......

 

[Velvet Elvis]

Pascal... it happens to the best of us ;P

Velvet Elvis

 

[frederic]

Now of course if you REALLY want to make the cam interesting... you need to get a 200 ft network cable and mount the camera to a hat.... then walk around with it

Velvet Elvis

Heh-heh,. yeah, soemthing like that. I was going to buy the wireless version of the dlink camera, until I found the wired ones so cheap on skank-bay, so I made the choice financially. Too cheap to pass up!

Once I spackle around the center light opening, I can toss the flourescent fixture in, then power uo the room in its entirety, rather than having some of the feeds off, and I can put the camera in its official spot on the ceiling over the sofa cove.

I may be using different sofas... I acquired a leather sectional today for free... someone on my block was tossing black leather sectionals, and I couldn't find anything wrong with them. The joy of living in an estate section, people toss stuff because they want new stuff, not because anything is wrong with.

Though right now I have leather seating on my lawn

 

[Pascal]

I always joke with people when they come in... Welcome to Sanford and Sons Recording...

 

[frederic]

I always joke with people when they come in... Welcome to Sanford and Sons Recording...

HAHAHAHA.

I keep telling my wife, when she complains about my car projects scattered throughout that "I'm destroying the neighborhood", that I'm going to acquire a Benz, and put it on blocks in the driveway

I did the sanford/sons thing this morning with the sofa, nothing fell out but it was hanging out all over the place!

 

[Pascal]

Sounds like my back yard. I used to work on my Jeep out on the front lawn until I actually got a ticket one day.

Freakin' $50.00 fine for parking on my lawn.

 

[frederic]

Sounds like my back yard. I used to work on my Jeep out on the front lawn until I actually got a ticket one day.

Freakin' $50.00 fine for parking on my lawn.

heh-heh.

When I moved down here almost 3 years ago, I came down with a 90 tempo (wife's car), my 93 street terror Continental, a 75 extended cab dodge, a 71 eldorado convertible, an 89 jaguar, a low 8 sec 87 mustang, a homemade GTP/LeMans chassis, and an old chevy nova II that was stock except for the homemade active suspension powered by Linux

Now most of that has been sold/traded etc so we're down to an 89 tempo (long story), my F350, the Crown Victoria, and my 93 Continental, which has been at my buddy's service station for a year and a half waiting for some weird "we don't make it anymore" Lincoln part.

At least I only clog up my driveway, not the entire street as I did when we moved in heh-heh.

though, the last round of plywood was leaning on the shrubs in the street while I ran back down the road to get my tailgate which popped off.

*@#&$(*#@ !!!!!!

 

[Velvet Elvis]

Hey frederic...

What exactly DO you do all day for employment??? I NEED a job like that. From what I gather you sit around your studio all day working on stuff you want to work on while talking to people on the phone and eating chips

Plus your wife seems to leave you alone for the entire day... and night... wow.

Do they need any other employees!?!?!

Velvet Elvis

 

[kristian]

velvet elvis has the question i've been wondering. where does the money for all this losing money come from?

 

[anppilot1]

whats the deal with cable vs dsl for your feed? cause i have dsl through SBC. i want a 8 camera sys with a 8 way multiplexor, take 2 cameras in the studio, 1 in the new vocal booth im gonna build, and 1 in the corner of the studio showing everything, and then stream it out to a live feed.


mike

 

[frederic]

What exactly DO you do all day for employment??? I NEED a job like that. From what I gather you sit around your studio all day working on stuff you want to work on while talking to people on the phone and eating chips

I manage pre-sales engineers across the east coast (tampa to boston) for a huge telephone company. We are in the midst of a giant, global reorg that has been underway since November 1st, through december 8th, so essentially I have two jobs (old job, and new job), but the old organization is slowly disassembling itself, and the new organization isn't really going yet. So, I can "work from home" with great ease during this time, and eat potato chips and yap on the phone (conference calls etc) and occasionally hang a piece of sheet rock.

Come the "new world" post re-org, I'll be back to 75-80 hr workweeks, which is why I'm really, really trying to get this place physically complete, including paint and moulding. Then over the remainder of December through end of March, I'll be lying on my back under the rack cabinets and the console table, punching down and soldering TRS pairs until I have about 1024 TRS pairs front to back. Then I lay down the fiber, melt the ends, then I can turn the "midimonkey" sign on and I'm good to go.

I'm just taking serious advantage of a reorganization quirk. Trust me, this is not normal mode of operation.

Plus your wife seems to leave you alone for the entire day... and night... wow. Do they need any other employees!?!?!
Velvet Elvis [/B]

Generally, she does leave me alone. Though, the webcam is in the studio not giving you a view of the rest of the house. I walked in here at ooooh, about 9:30 or so and jumped on a conference call, but at 7:30 am immediately out of the shower I was replacing the neutral switch on her car, then after that replaced the traps in both kitchen sinks, installed a 3-prong outlet above the counter top for the coffee maker (removing a 2-prong outlet), then cut a tile to fit around it, matching the other tiles which she will glue on however that is done.

So don't think she's not making me do the honeydo list... I'm just doing it really early in the morning, and extremely late at night. Last night I turned the lights off in teh studio around 11PM or so, and hung a ceiling fan in her office bedroom.

And you wonder why I look exhausted when I'm in the studio during the day, and eating chocolate by the ton and coffee. I'm seriously running on caffiene and sugar :-D

 

[Velvet Elvis]

Well... any chance the phone company would want to hire me to sit at home during the re-org!?!? ;P

I'm just busting your chops... I sure you put in your dues like the rest of us.

I never have time to work on my studio... it hasn't changed a bit since I moved into the house almost 1 year ago.

I still have drywall to finish in a room for the rest of the family, so my studio is on the back burner. Problem is I don't get home until 7:00 pm at night... then by the time I eat and spend time with the kids.... its 9:00... do my honey do stuff... 11:00... do my work stuff at night... 1:00 am... then 7:00 the next morning its back at it.

I'm just being envious of watching you actually make PROGRESS in your studio.... sigh....

Velvet Elvis

 

[frederic]

Well... any chance the phone company would want to hire me to sit at home during the re-org!?!? ;P

Until December 10th... then we're all going to work like dogs. Actually, I have four open headcounts amazingly enough. Funny how that works when company's are downsizing.

I'm just busting your chops... I sure you put in your dues like the rest of us.

And then some. I often bleed from both eyes. But since we're part of a sales organization, the monthly commission is wonderful.

I still have drywall to finish in a room for the rest of the family, so my studio is on the back burner. Problem is I don't get home until 7:00 pm at night... then by the time I eat and spend time with the kids.... its 9:00... do my honey do stuff... 11:00... do my work stuff at night... 1:00 am... then 7:00 the next morning its back at it.

I negotiate. I put off redoing this room the "right" way for the first 2.5 years we lived here, dealing with mice stolen insulation, bad electrical, including one outlet that went "bizzaaaaaap" everytime you (un)plug something in, and many other things. After I remodeled enough of the house that my wife was satisfied it actually looked like a house rather than a peeling paint collection (it was horrible when we moved in, original decor, in original state), i've been authorized to finace a little studio construction. The deal was I can spend $500 a month unitl its done. What I did was agree, wait four months, then dropped $2K on plywood, insulation, studs, tools, drywall screws and the like, and while I spent four months monkeying with that stuff, I was collecting $500 amonth for the sheet rock, snake cable, rack rails, and additional tools.

I'm just a master weasal. Maybe my studio is misnamed...

I'm just being envious of watching you actually make PROGRESS in your studio.... sigh....

Velvet Elvis [/B][/QUOTE]

 

[Velvet Elvis]

Yeah... I' m not exactly able to put $500 a month a way right now

The last two months our bills have probably been about $200 to $300 MORE than I make in a month (and that doesn't include my gas and such for driving to work)...

YIKES!!

Long story on how that all happened....

anyway... I built/bought my family a new house last year... but for some reason we STILL have rooms to paint/repaint... and other stuff to finish before I can work on the studio

The good news though.... my parents are moving... they are giving me their pool table... just have to go get it

Hey freddie... I got a good idea... you send ME your $500/month and I'll manage the spending account for just a mere 10%!

Sound like a deal!?

Velvet Elvis

 

[frederic]

what a generous offer...

Um.... my wife does that for free Not because she's kind, just because she wants to keep me at $500 a month.

See, I can't leave home depot wihtout filling the truck bed

Anyway, you said long story, I can easily guess. New house, overbudget because of irritating contractors, the moving people misquoted by 50%, a dead car or two, immediate repairs from shoddy construction, new baby on the way, sudden medical bills, yeah, been there done all that.

This is why I let my wife manage the money entirely... her being scottish, she's extraordinary cheap... er... frugal. Not to the point where we dont have "nice things", but her ability to do long term planning whether financial or not is astounding. No matter what I've made over the years, I've always lived paycheck to paycheck, simply because I'm an impulse shopper. I buy a piece of moulding, I need a $400 compound miter saw to cut it with, which goes into the shopping cart I'm really bad in this area. but we compliment each other in this area very well so there always is balance. In fact I'm glad, because my studio project has worked out well financially, I'm a hair under budget currently and I've always had everything I need each step of the way. In the past I'd run out and buy everything I'd need for a project, then step over it for months while the project ensues. This is good.

Now if I could get her financial management ability into any and all of my car projects, I'd be in darn good shape. Though, I did clip a little of my studio fund to make twin-turbo headers for my truck So at least I know what I'll be doing in the spring, once I'm done converting it to GM fuel injection.

Vrooooooooooooooooooom!

 

[Velvet Elvis]

Close... new house... new van... unexpected car repairs... new child (actually two within the last two years!!)...

And... the mortgage company charging us property tax for the ENTIRE sub-division we live in... by accident of course... and then still not adjusting the escrow to where it should be.

And... multiple years of no raise... so in essence I am earning less each year.

Velvet Elvis

 

[frederic]

This is partly why I will never live in a "community", but rather in an old fashioned town/village/city where my property is mine and within reasonable guidelines I can do what I want.

Regarding "no raises", thats why I opted to "take a chance" and leave the various forms of IT/Operations I've lived in the majority of my career, and join a technical pre-sales engineering team a few years ago. Its nice sitting on THIS side of the desk, knowing what the gent/gal on the OTHER side of the desk is suffering (been there done that), and being in a position to fix it, for a fee, for services and products rendered.

Whats also neat is even though the IT spending marketplace has all but evaporated, my team is at 133% our annual quota as of oct 31st, and the year ain't over yet This is with the last 7 weeks being essentially wasted with people endlessly standing by the water cooler, going outside to smoke etc due to the fear of the reorg that just depthcharged the various divisions. People forget that companies rarely eliminate employees who are at 133% of their annual quota come November.

A lot of people think sales is risky... and I was one of those. Then I finally gave it a try, and wow, the difference is huge. The pressure is high of course but coming from the IT world I'm used to balding brokers screaming at the top of their lungs that "technology sucks" so having a huge quota given to me every Jan 1 isn't all that scary by comparison. The shock is overwith in one day, the rest of the year is smooooooth sailing.

My wife and I don't have any children, so our financial responsibility is a lot different than most people. I don't have to decide between diapers and table saws, at least so far. Maybe that will change someday. I just hope its AFTER my studio's completed

Well, just random brain spillage, don't interpret it too much

 

[gatorhaus]

Frederic,

Easy with that Nail Gun.

Where's your hearing protection?? I'll assume that your glasses are safety rated. geez, come on....

But seriously... you should have some hearing protection. Keep those ears good for mixing. I'm am truly paranoid about my ears.

Love the cam, man

BTW, is there a way for me to set the cam to refresh on its own????

Keep on working hard,
larry