Journal entries in 'Things I Like' for March, 2006

I was going through all my old camcorder tapes today, trying to locate the video of my brother and I almost getting hit by a plane at St. Barths. I didn't find it, but I did encounter a bunch of fun videos I had forgotten. In lieu of the propeller death video, I figured I'd put these up instead. Odds are they won't be amusing to people who weren't actually there at the time, but I figure that's probably most of you anyway.

My Xvid encoder was being obstinate, and would sometimes refuse to encode a video with anything other than the absolute lowest audio quality setting. Ah well, they're not too bad, and it's only one or two of them.

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I just learned a fun fact: the lightsaber props in Star Wars were made from the flash guns for Crown Graphic cameras like mine. To make it look more high-tech, they slid the LED display from a pocket calculator into the mounting bracket on the flash gun. Apparently large format photography enthusiasts are bitter because the flash guns have become rare and expensive these days, since all the nerds have cut them all up to make replica lightsabers. Hee.