The drop ceiling makes our place an easy install. Compared to the cheapest imaginable CCTV, this digital operation is a breeze. The control computer, once we match up a few minor compatibilities, is the link to making this system more sophisticated than many seen in casinos. The installer is on the ladder and the technician is at lower right. I had several flashbacks watching them work. My top regret working in a cubicle for years was that I missed out on the experience these guys have.At the same time, these guys know they’ve met people who know what they are doing. I’ve already got software working that had them baffled. Software is the part of the computer trade that can be tricky to stick to a simple model. In business, complication is rarely a good thing. We use a controller marketed by a company called DiViS, it seems quite capable and I look forward to getting in there for a test drive.
Wallace and Millie are back and the cat has disappeared. Wallace likes the way the trees have grown over the patio and creates all the shade. He’ll change his mind when the branches bend our awnings and bang on the roof during storms. He brought some pictures from the north end of Vancouver Island, I’ll see if he wants any published. Another gadget he’s got is one of those slide and negative scanners that operate at something like 4,000 dpi. Do those things really work? (Not as well as one would like unless you spend the big bucks.)
The audience at the club was too small to perform tonight. By mid-evening only four people were there, so I did not put on a show. But I got all those sound effects for bingo mentioned in y’day’s blog. You know that bugle sound that they play at the race track? It is a military signal known as “First Call”. I don’t get the connection unless they just play it because it is so neat. I also downloaded the Russian National Anthem, and let me warn you that is exactly what it sounded like.
Looking a little closer at our fugitive, Jason Derek Brown, it seems curious that accounts of him seem to quote the same scant facts, and in almost the same order and length. Rather odd. Don’t mis-read me, the guy is a murder suspect. But there is even a Wiki entry about him and the one thing now known for certain* is that he’ll never get a fair trial. That alone is one of the reasons I am an opponent of spectacularism in the press. If it were up to me, until after a person is convicted, he would be publicly referred to only as “that person there”. I said publicly.
Why does my spider-sense scream “setup”? A ten-speed bicycle was found near the crime scene on which Brown’s fingerprints were “positively identified”. Normally I would not even ask, but were any other bicycles found nearby? Did they also have fingerprints? Are they saying Brown, with an advanced education, was dumb enough to abandon incriminating evidence at the crime scene? A guy who capable of the perfect heist suddenly forgets the FBI likes fingerprints?
Shortly after Brown was placed on the list, the authorities began to emphasize another angle, that Brown was illegally fleeing prosecution. Does this imply there is a legal way to flee? (Having the surname “Kennedy” comes to mind.) Folks, in this case, the “prosecution” has 6,000 gun-toting agents, tacitly declared their intention to shoot on sight, put a $100,000 price on his head, then tried and convicted him in the media. Who wouldn’t “flee”? He’s not only the first educated man on the Top Ten Most Wanted, he’s the only first-offender. What in Sam Hill is going on? I’m not sticking up for Brown, but I damn sure want to hear his side of the story.
[Author's note 2015-10-16: another thing becoming certain is that years later, even if they do catch him, he's outsmarted his pursuers for so long as to make them a mockery. They need to institute nation-wide face recognition on innocent people just to catch this one suspect. And that's all he is? A suspect.]
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