Friday, April 17, 2015

Video During Texas Drought Impeded by Rain

The trouble with the Great Texas Drought, at least here in Fort Worth, is that it's raining all the fookin' time.  We don't want to hear a lament about the weather as we've been hearing that whiny crap from Boston all Winter but at least this time there was not a Polar Vortex nor a Chronsynclastic Infundibulum.

It looks like Sunday is a day of good video light.  You couldn't get me to the Zoo on a Sunday with the World's Longest Line of Cocaine so that means Rose Garden instead which also has no cocaine but will also have no children.  There is also a Japanese Garden but it costs five dollars to enter.  Haiku is so inscrutable and rock gardens are soooo contemplative ... but I'd rather shoot something interesting or at least alive.

Note:  these charges are somewhat pissing me off as Krohn Conservatory was strictly tips-only.  Volunteers staffed many positions and professionals were paid either by the city or Friends of Krohn, possibly both.  Krohn Conservatory in Cincinnati is a magnificent place.  It's not too much longer until the annual Butterfly Show and that is a festival in three dimensions and every color you can imagine.

The Fort Worth Botanic Gardens spread over a hundred acres and I think I have the perspective on it for an expedition so finding the roses is probably realistic for Sunday with the Zoo being the possibility for Monday.

Note:  no-one says it much but the weather forecasts are so incredibly accurate now relative to times past.  I remember when you couldn't count on getting a good answer from a weatherman on what would happen this afternoon.  You'd have a better chance by reading "The Farmer's Almanac" than you would watching some idiot (cough) meteorologist on TV.


That means today is potentially the Day of the Computer Upgrade.  This is the Big Magoo as the improvements thus far have been solid, beneficial, and useful ... and they are sexy like Kim Kardashian's ass (i.e. not at all).  However, dropping these CPU chips into it will double the computing power of the machine immediately and that will be noticeable in anything you do.  Then it  has a backside like Diane Kruger and it'll be in the movies for sure.

This is a fearsome upgrade as I've never considered this kind of move previously.  Failure is fatal as it's very unlikely going backward will be successful if the upgrade forward fails.  Therefore, the only answer is to get some more chips and try it again.  That would suck so ferociously that it's just not permitted to happen.

This is an almost-guaranteed Silas Horror Show and I'll definitely use the action cam on a head strap to film it.

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