jesus christ! do you know what time it is? go to sleep!

i don't think i could do the web cam.

i just know there would be way too many photos of me picking my nose or something bouncing around the blogs.

i make enough of an ass of myself.

That's more like it, even if I did like the other way better :p But I figured it was more gentlemanly, or perhaps more sporting to let you know.

Thanks for the heads up.

And that remix is going on up at that place we both know about. Ya heard?

by the way, I thought it fair to warn you, dispite how much I'm enjoying it: now we can read what is on your screen. It seems a setting has changed and the resolution of your screenshot is different, i.e. we can see the upper left hand half of your screen now, but not the rest of the screen for some reason. If you don't want us reading your screen, I'd change the setting back.

I demand a list of chores that aren't labourious!

hehehe... it's cool, brittney. I know how much emails can be a labourious chore, so don't sweat it.... ;) but at least turn your camera back on soon :p If you aren't home, you should consider pointing the cam out the window or something so we can watch the outside of murfreaksboro.

Now get to sleep. 4:52 AM ET is barely a late night where I live. but it's like almost time for the sun to rise where you live :p

Well I just saw you dancing and smiling, and apparently looking at filepile. (still waiting for an invite!)
i dont know what it all means, but i dig it.

That message was intended for you, but I've done what I swore I wouldn't do ever again: let the emails pile up so that I can reply to them all at once. This becomes an overwhelming chore almost in no time.

Basically, I'm a lazy fucking procrastinator. Of the worst kind.

I am not lying when I say I have email writing time scheduled for first thing tomorrow morning.

Hey, didn't you write a note to me and tell me you were going to email me back? :p you never did.. maybe the note was for someone else :( I know you know my IP addy...

as far as the text, I can almost never see what the text says unless it's somewhat large, like the song titles on your windows media player (which is cool, I like to see what you are listening to...) If you are looking to be a little more open about what you are doing, you should sign up for audioscrobbler.com and install the winamp plugin, then you can tell the whole world what you are listening to..

I general I like the desktop cam more than I like the stalker-cam.. I can't quite think of the word to sum up why, maybe the desktop cam is more personal.. It's a lot like surfing the web without the trouble of having to actually move and make decision and stuff like that, you just let someone else do it for you. the stalker-cam is like playing The Sims with a broken mouse.

Brittney,
I've got more! Perhaps I'll fire up ye olde burner and slap a new mix/picture in the mail for ya.
I think it cool that you've shared your life with us. I have a a large and close-knit circle of friends, but I often wonder about the larger units of neighborhood, community and society in general...we've never met and probably never would under any other circumstances, yet I know something about you. That's so cool...

Edited by author 05-31-2003 03:41 AM
[geeking style="egregious"]...But it's been known for all time that System 9 is, well... System 9. Crashes harder than ValuJet, right up there with the OS with which our charming proprietress has been saddled.[/geeking]

And S. -

Bourbon or scotch? I am so up for that noize right now.

...While the text is fairly unreadable, someone accomplished at solving mysteries can accomplish a lot of up-to-no-good.

And for those looking for clues, reverse-resolution and traceroute utilities are a must. Less so whois tools for finding block owners, use of which too often ends for me in frustration.

...For some reason, my capacity for original thought has of late dwindled to zero. Damnit.

Edited by author 05-31-2003 02:38 AM
Britt, I also will belch for vouch for the unreadable-text-on-the-desktop-cam.

I can't see it either.

Also, I will chime in on the leaving-cam-objects-open-too-long-and-crashing-safari issue. It also crashes Mozilla for OS9. And it doesn't work at all for IE for OS9.

Tech tech tech tech blah!

pssst...want some whiskey?

Brittney, I too have taken a capture of your desktop~ trust me, you can't make out shnit text-wise.

Brittney,
I'm glad your keeping the cam, I think it's great. I too have been interested in putting a cam in my house, mostly to watch my cat's antics while I'm at work.

I like having your cam on then I can look up and I have a friend!
 
take care of you!

*sighs at the level of geekdom in the room*

*questions manhood*

*sighs*

I was under the impression that text and such could be seen on the screen cam.

If most everything is obscured, I may leave it on.

What ebk and will said. The screen cam was great. Especially when you were reading the Pile and I got exceedingly jealous and greedy and tried to see what was behind the great mysterious walls of wonder. And when I saw you leaving this comment on jonmc's site. But you're no more obliged to keep it on than you are obliged to eat your Wheaties. If it's freaking you out, by all means, keep it off.

That said, I'm kind of surprised at your propensity to leave it on while you sleep. That would make me way paranoid. Of course, I guess you probably don't get morning wood, huh?

Edited by author 05-30-2003 04:55 PM
I hardly think I'll fall into "the JenniCam trap." I feel absolutely no sense of obligation.

Just want to get my $50 worth. (I went ahead and purchased the software.)

I'm with the kid. I looked at the people cam once, but I was way more intrigued by the computer cam. I looked at that 3 or 4 times. Never could read a damn thing though.

But come on fess up now. You were really just hoping the wishlist items would come rolling in right? Now that they haven't, I mean who wants to be on display.

Seriously though, for what it's worth, I don't think I can imagine setting up a camera in my space. It seems really invasive. I recently posted a personal, semi-embarrassing entry on my site, and even that freaked me out a bit. So kudos for experimenting.

Edited by author 05-30-2003 03:45 PM
This is how much of a geek I am. When I checked out the cam, I had to zoom in on the PC screen to see what was going on there. All due respect to your hawtness brittney, but I saw a computer on the internet and said, "Cool, computer on the internet!"

Unfortunately, you can't read anything at that resolution. It was like trying to read a scrambled cable channel.

But now the PC screen is gone. Oh well.

Edited by author 05-30-2003 03:35 PM
Brittney:

Just think: you're already feeling kind of freaked out by the webcam after only two weeks. Imagine how Jennifer Ringley must feel after all these years in the public view. These days her site's main attraction is as a freak show, where the public can witness her painfully obvious sense of duty to carry on. She's not having a lot of "fun" with it anymore that I can tell. It seems more like a high-tech Hell.

Her biggest mistake was trapping herself in the whole fee-based scheme, where she's obliged to display herself to her "subscribers." I'm surprised she still has subscribers, as it's really not that interesting to watch. She's no longer the groundbreaking young college girl who obviously relished the thrill of masturbating for an audience. Instead she's just an ordinary woman on her way to middle age, with a job and a mortgage and a husband, living under a watching eye that never blinks. It's quite sad, really, and rather uncomfortable to watch, especially when Dex is on-screen.

So yes, while it is curiously fascinating to watch you go about your business (what's she writing? what's she thinking? is she high? is she happy? is she tired?), I'd hate very much to see you fall into the Jennicam trap. Turn the damned thing on or off whenever you want. It's your life, and nobody owns you.

Scott

I have gotten but one request.

And, it doesn't turn me on. I'm not that easy.

Brittney,
Nope, you don't know me. I came from your MeFi User page in a round-about way.

The Webcam can be an addictive thing, I'm sure you'll get assorted requests, like "gee would you scratch your itchy nipple?" etc.

When it starts creeping you out just turn it off, if it starts turning you on, perhaps you should also turn it off.

Paul

Edited by author 05-30-2003 02:29 PM
65.106.237.ish. If you were wondering.

I do the same thing with web access logs. I'm always curious to know how people got to my site, how long they were there, what they were looking for, whether I'm what they wanted to find.

It can be very addictive. I can't even imagine what it would be like to have that kind of info live. I'd never get any work done.

Tim

stacius: I thought you should know that I put that photo you sent of Dan the Man in the dash of my car.

It cracks me up, so there it stays.

Yeah. You should turn it off. I need to get out of the house.

Edited by author 05-30-2003 02:01 PM
Interesting. It is funny to hear you say some of this. being a newbie to the site, I thought it had been a long standing feature. You seem so comfortable. I suppose if I had read the past logs more...I would have know that. (Thank you Capt. Obvious).

Anyway, it is fascinating this technology we have.
I enjoy the show. Even the desktop cam.

Have a great weekend.

Oh..and to fill in a piece of your puzzle....I'm the verizon.net entry in the log. :-)

I admire your curiousity and courage. We already read your thoughts, musings, photos and memories but all of this is voluntary. I couldn't do it. Too self conscious.
If you wanted some privacy (whatever that means these days), it's your window, whether the blinds are drawn or not is really nobody's business but yours.