Recent content by nxt117

Pretty amusing - I hadn't checked back on this since Friday. It all worked great - thanks for the suggestions - the motorcycle battery did it. It was a good effect - made to look like a shotgun blast. By the way, if there is any doubt as to whether quoting AIM in your signature is cooler than...

Deeko - you appear to quote IRC conversations in your sig. I bow to your coolness. Tool.

Here is my costume - a shirt with a hole in the front - behind the whole is a PS1 LCD screen. On my back is an Xcam2 wireless camera. Basically, it will look like a hole has been blown through me. I need to power it up. The camera runs off 4 AA batteries. The screen will run off 12V DC...

I am not using over the web. USB camera hooked to PC - very long USB cable. I want to see the real time video on THAT computer. No network, no web, just me looking at the picture from the USB camera. Thanks

Thanks - but Xray vision only captures at a high rate of 10/min. Seems odd, I am really just looking for a way to view the image on the screen in real time (as fast as my camera will capture) and be able to blow up and minimize the image.

Any suggestions?

I have a USB camera that I use to check in on the baby when I am working. But I need better software for use with XP. 1. Just a window with the realtime video - no extra crap around it. 2. Easily go to full screen or to windowed view. Thanks for the help.

I am not sure where this discussion shifted, but the site is excellent - has anyone been reading this before? Says Issue 10 above - maybe thats just another joke. Lots of subtle humor there.

Sorry - bad link from me - fixed above and hereWeakly Standard

Am I wrong to this site rocks? get past the shocker article (which is funny in its own way) and you get to some seriously funny stuff. I loved the bennet and embed articles and news below is great. Maybe it just makes sense to someone who reads the news all day and knows what the Weekly...

I assume you are the kind of people that don't like the onion or never read spy magazine. I think its excellent. Get past the shocker part - the photo was funny but kind of easy. Read the Bennett and embed articles and show me where you can find better political humor on the net (or even in...

A friend sent me this. I gather its a parody of the Weekly Standard and pretty well done. I loved the shocker photo.   http://www.weaklystandard.com/

Thanks for all the "positive" advice - did and it worked great. I had the dry ice in a container surrounded by handwarmers. The container was strapped to the small of my back and covered by part of my costume. I used extra fishtank air tubing to snake the smoke around (the smoke is not cold...

My house is wired for two phone lines, but I only use 1 (for phone and DSL). I remember I saw a tutorial about running ethernet over an nextra phone line somewhere. Basically just splicing the RJ45 into the phone line. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I can't find it anywhere -...

As part of my costume, I want dry ice fog to come out of my pants legs (and maybe shirt cuffs). I was thinking of a hidden bladder/container on my lower leg, and tubing running out my legs and up through my body to my arms. Couple of questions: 1. What does the bladder need to be made of...