Note: all off-site links (red) open in new windows.
Picture updates about every twenty minutes
If there is no time stamp in the pictures, the webcam is off.
If the time stamp is much more than twenty minutes ago, it's off
temporarily.
Even if I'm not updating, you can see the last four images at the bottom of the page.
This is the Java version, which updates at the same frequency as images are uploaded. However, it doesn't necessarily do so at the same time.
While fiddling around the interesting (if slow) Overstock.com, I found the Logitech QuickCam Express going for $17.95 (what we used to call "twenty bucks"). OK, it was factory reconditioned and it's very basic, but what the heck?
The software that came with it wants to store vast numbers of big picture files on the C: drive and mine is full, full, full, so, it's about useless to me. I foolishly installed Microsoft's Net Meeting, only to discover that Bill wanted my soul and at least one body part to ever use it. Don't bother with CUSeeMe, either: won't work with USB cameras and seems to be a sort of chat with pictures. Since I won't chat without pictures, why chat with them?
So, off to search the web. With a little looking, I found an exceptionally nifty piece of software, visionGs, and, thanks to its author, it's free. Simplicity itself: it grabs a picture from the webcam and ftps it to my website. It can be set up to do it in any number of ways and the author gives us some web software to make the display end nice.
All things considered, no web-site should be without it (although it does help to have some kind of broadband connection).
This is all highly subject to change (I've changed it three times in the last half hour). That's the way it is with new toys: you play with them until you break them or you get tired of them.
Even though it says "Updates about every twenty minutes":
And that's far from all the time.
Even though it says "NIFOC" and I'm not fond of clothes:
Q: Is this some kind of porn site?
A: If a fat, 61-year old guy gets you aroused, then I guess it could be. That's certainly not my intention, but it doesn't bother me much. Do you know about search engines?
Q: So, why nude?
A: How did you get in here? Go back and start over.
Q: OK, I understand your nudity, but why put it on the Internet? What are you, some kind of exhibitionist?
A: The reverse. Exhibitionists want others to be excited (or maybe just annoyed) by their nudity. I want others simply to accept it as a given and not be surprised or upset. We all have bodies; if the Bible can be trusted, they are "very good" -- at least God thinks so; wearing clothing when it's not required for protection (when welding, for example) is unnatural.
If you don't think so, look at all the harm not being nude causes. We won't get back to Eden just by adhering to the dress code, but it helps.
Q: How much do you weigh? That sure is one big stomach.
A: It's the camera angle and my slouching posture that makes my stomach look so big (that and all the fat). Bookmark this page and watch the stomach go down. Make bets with your friends.
Q: You don't seem to do much other than sit at that computer.
A: I do, but when the computer is on, I tend to be here sitting at it. Actually, see the preceding section that sort of explains how this page works and look at the timestamps on the images.
Q: Your room is a mess. Don't you pick up after yourself?
A: Yes. Just not soon. Stacks work for me, though. I have a stack-organized mind in a queue-oriented world.
Q: Why is one (or more) of your hands near the top of your head?
A: You know, I thought I'd out-grown that. I twist my hair. Used to drive my Aunt Pearl nuts.
Q: How often do you get your hair cut?
A: Obviously not often enough.
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