Lego iSight mount

BoingBoing's link to the Lego Nintendo DS cradle reminded me of the iSight mount I've been using since getting the camera a year and a half ago.



None of the supplied mounts positioned the camera quite right, and placing it on top of the shelf was too high.



It uses the iSight's notebook lid clamp. A pair of 1x2 flat tiles attached to the side of the crossbar makes it the perfect thickness for the clamp.



The paired joints allow for a greater pitch range than using the standard mount alone. Plus, it fits perfectly between monitor and shelf at exactly the right height.

I also used to have a 12" free-standing Lego scaffolding for when using the iSight as a webcam.

"Lego. Is there anything it can't do?"     : )

All right Tivo, I get it already

You'd think that after 200 days, the Tivo would figure it out. The telephone's not coming back.

(You'd also think that after a couple hundred times answering a question the exact same way that my ATM could file a note somewhere that I'm unlikely to suddenly become bilingual and skip that particular question in the future. But I digress.)

I could get the Tivo to shut up by installing the cache/network card that's been sitting around for over a year. Of course, that means getting the Tivo disconnected, pulling the hard drives, mounting the drives in the shitbox PC that keeps my hiking shoes off the closet floor, dig up the Linux boot disc, get the software on the non-networked PC, install the software on the Tivo drives, install the cache card in the Tivo, put the drives back in the Tivo, make sure everything still works, then get the Tivo on the home network.

I get the feeling I'll be seeing the Tivo complaining about 300 days soon enough.

Well, that only took four days

:: whew :: That's a load off.

I had stopped doing backups last August (which are done to a hard drive) because I wanted to get a full copy of the backup set as it was before I did volume leveling to all the music files, and new backups would wipe those out (and there's not enough room on the 200 gig drive to hold both).

Could have gotten the copy made in two days instead of four if I was able to park myself in front of the computer for 42 hours, taking cat naps for the two hours it took each disc to write. Shows you the sorry level of commitment that I have.

Now I can bring these down to the office for safekeeping, until I lose them in a month when we move to a new building.