A little geographic perspective

Without getting into a debate on the rights or wrongs of Israel's actions against Hammas or vice versa...I thought this was interesting.

Imagine Topeka deciding that Liberty should be bombed. Roughly, that's the geographic scale of the current war over there.

From Public Pictures

Click for a larger version. Courtesy Google Maps™. Image assembly by me.

A little geographic perspective

Without getting into a debate on the rights or wrongs of Israel's actions against Hammas or vice versa...I thought this was interesting.

Imagine Topeka deciding that Liberty should be bombed. Roughly, that's the geographic scale of the current war over there.

From Public Pictures

Click for a larger version. Courtesy Google Maps™. Image assembly by me.

Weird

There's just no predicting. Last night, I couldn't get more than ten minutes worth of video capture off the VCR if my life had depended upon doing so. The PC would lock up and I'd have to do a hard boot at the power switch to regain control of my machine.

Tonight, 42:17 and going (it would appear) strong.

So, my Windows box is handling the video capture, and I'm on my Linux box doing work for the Day Job. My hope is to work out a way to flip that.

Late Edit: Okay...so, the DV capture program locked, or at least lost its connection to the PC, with about fifteen minutes to go on the tape. At least it let me close it, re-open and finish.

Weird

There's just no predicting. Last night, I couldn't get more than ten minutes worth of video capture off the VCR if my life had depended upon doing so. The PC would lock up and I'd have to do a hard boot at the power switch to regain control of my machine.

Tonight, 42:17 and going (it would appear) strong.

So, my Windows box is handling the video capture, and I'm on my Linux box doing work for the Day Job. My hope is to work out a way to flip that.

Late Edit: Okay...so, the DV capture program locked, or at least lost its connection to the PC, with about fifteen minutes to go on the tape. At least it let me close it, re-open and finish.