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I have to say how much I enjoy videos that are unedited, short, to the point, have no verbiage or music..

well done..:thumbup:

keep 'em coming..
 
BRL said:
Awesome Bladite!
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i've shot video for years, and handed the media over to people who edit and such, they do their own uploads, whatever. paid gigs too :)

however, the last camera bought is SOOOOO old compared to today's tech, and cost about 10x as much too, well, the antics required to get stuff from that into a current system? magnetic tapes? oh, no way. battery life was godly though.

youtube... just never got the hankering for learning the methods. they made it easier. eventually i'll read the camera manual fully... but right now, the new toy is USB, drag/drop or even just click and browse to camera and upload. youtube makes it SUPER easy.

grumble - of course, i had to figure out a couple trick with the usb cable. camera has to be in a certain mode (duh - should've known THAT), and well, now it's a coup de zombie as they say in gore films :)

what things will happen NOW!

amusingly, SOMEONE took my forum name and is using it on gmail/youtube. mmm. bizarre.
 
pffft, 'read the manual'... be a man, and just smash it with hammers until it works right!
 
BRL said:
pffft, 'read the manual'... be a man, and just smash it with hammers until it works right!
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i got a piece of micro-filament and rewrote the firmware... took longer than i thought, as the holographic interface wasn't quite what i wanted :)

the automatic upload to youtube and infinite battery life setting is coming along :> i had to use the internal memory for the new software, so cloud storage is the way to go.

soon, i'll just have an "any angle any time" mode, where recording is just fixing time/space coordinates and dateTime strings. woo, talk about privacy invasion. on the other hand, files will be REALLY short :)
 
Cool vids Bladite! Thanks for the upload!
 
Breaking news on CNN!!

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Just a little TOO off-topic for Becker, so I moved it here into Chat. Left the thread title up for a couple more hours so folks can see it.
 
New mini cookset. Thread here: http://www.bladeforums.com/forums/showthread.php/892478-Just-a-Hot-Drink-(Cookset-Setup)

Guyon said:
I've been putting together a little pocket carry set for days when I do a quick 3-5 mile day hike in some of the nearby parks.
As the weather is getting colder, sometimes it's nice to stop and partake of a hot beverage, be it coffee, tea, or hot chocolate.
I wanted something light and compact that could just be tucked into a jacket pocket. Here's what I've come up with.

The kit consists of a Snow Peak single wall 300 mL cup, a Snow Peak 300 mL lid, the Gram Weenie stove, a 1 oz fuel bottle, mini Bic lighter, heat shield for bottom of stove, aluminum cover for top of cup. I keep the little parts in the cup with a plastic lid (no idea what it came off of). I also have a bandanna and the Snow Peak mesh bag (shown below). I still need to add a small wind screen.

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Here's the little Gram Weenie in action. The flame diameter is just right for the cup, and the thin aluminum cover (made from flashing) keeps the heat in. No need to check on the water; I just let it go till the stove runs out of fuel. With 1/2 ounce of fuel, burn time is about 7 minutes, and it will just start to bring 10 ounces of cold water to boil. By "just," I mean bubbles just start to form on the bottom of the cup. Since I carry my own water hiking, it's clean/treated, and I'm not worried about a big rolling boil with this setup. I just want it hot enough to steep tea or melt instant cocoa or coffee. For these jobs, the Gram Weenie does great.

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Making some green tea... My aunt and uncle are beekeepers and sell honey straws like the one below. Great way to add a quick bit of flavor to tea, and super easy to carry.

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Though most sites only mention the Snow Peak lid in conjunction with the double wall mugs, mine works just fine with the single wall version. Good tight seal.

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Packing it all up. Small stuff in the mug.

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I put on the clear lid and stack the aluminum cook cover and Snow Peak lid on top. Everything rolls up in a bandanna/pot holder.

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And goes into the mesh sack.

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Like I said, I still need to add a small windscreen that can ride inside the cup along with the other small items. This kit should be one that I enjoy on a lot of day hikes this fall and winter.
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Bladite said:
amusingly, SOMEONE took my forum name and is using it on gmail/youtube. mmm. bizarre.
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Guyon was gone on Google and was gone on Yahoo years ago.
I'm guyon5 on Yahoo and Guyon357 on Google (Gmail and Youtube).
 
Bladite, you are dorkier than I.
*bows*

-Daizee
 
Battle Creek Knives said:
now how do you know they didn't have that name before you.. ?? :)
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good question :)

a quick look shows that my bladeforum account (and general use of the nick) pre-dates gmail's inception

a the time, i did some searches to see if anyone, anywhere was using the nick, and "nope" was the answer. didn't want to confuse anyone. i use it fairly consitently on multiple knife forums.

maybe *I* registered it and forgot, but don't think so. after that, it's a copycat ;)
 
hey, 1066vik, or was it hatcreekk9sar what were those fantastic pants? Duluth Trading Company? Firehose pants? Cast Iron Twills? Other? bad brain!

PANTS!

great outdoor pants! what do you guys like? i just got some nice "technical" hoodies, and am looking for pants... esp for Winter (snowboarding, skiing)...

but in general, good, rugged, last forever stuff for outdoors...

Carhartt comes to mind, but falls short in the cargo pocket area

Wrangler Riggs are very nice, and give good value, esp compared to say Hagloffs Fjells...

(what's with all these doubled last consonants? :>)

Arbor Wear is rocking too...

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http://obtenebratio.deviantart.com/art/BACON-SLEDGE-RAPTOR-156288757

right!

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