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7-Mar-2004 (sun)
The restaurant space next door has finally reopened! Pizza and
hotdogs so far. But at least they're open late...
I got a new toy: I bought a servo-mounted video camera. I'd been
looking for the right one of these for a long time now, and finally
found one that seemed reasonable, though it was way more
expensive than it should have been...
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It's a Panasonic WV-NS324 dome security camera, and it looks a lot like
R2D2. The nice thing about this camera is that it has a normal video
output (so it works with our video switcher and webcasts) but it also
has a web server built in. All control of the camera's motion is via
web pages running on the camera itself (this is cool, because the fact
that it's controlled through HTML forms means it's moderately easy to
script.) It also can spit out JPEGs over the net, though I doubt I'll
end up using that part.
The most annoying thing so far is that the joystick-like control on
the built-in web page doesn't work with Mozilla or Safari. Their HTML
is coded for MSIE and for Netscape 4 (with layers) but
neither Mozilla nor Safari support that, so it's hard to position the
camera manually.
Once I figure out the right way to use this thing, it'll be able to
take the place of, like, half of our existing fixed-position cameras.
We'll be able to have mutliple different presets on the stage, for
example, so that when bands are on, there will be a wider variety
of close-ups and wide shots.
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9-Mar-2004 (tue)
I'm pleased to announce that the new
DNA Lounge Online Store is now open for
business! We've got
shirts,
stickers,
buttons, and
dog tags for sale now.
(The dog tags are way cool. You totally need some dog tags.)
In addition to those fine products, we also have our first in-house
ticket for sale: will-call tickets for the
Sorrow / Faun Fables / Hop-Frog
show on
April 14th are
for sale
as well. Eventually we plan to sell advance tickets for every
event, but we're starting with just the one.
We take Visa and Mastercard, and ship to the US and Canada.
(We don't do international orders because the rates of fraud are
way higher, and it's just not worth the hassle.)
We're running the store on our own servers rather than outsourcing
it, since we're gluttons for punishment around here. Anyway, if you
have any problems with it, or have any suggestions, please let
me know...
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11-Mar-2004 (thu)
If you're not in the US or Canada, you can still get our loot
by sending us a money order.
Also, tickets for the
Aslan Faction /
Psyclon 9 show are
on sale now.
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State Assemblyman
Leno has
introduced
Bill AB 2433, which
(as mentioned previously) would move
San Francisco's last call from 2am to 4am.
The bill will have its first public hearing on April 22.
Please send email in support of this bill! The more public support
that can be shown, the more likely the bill is to pass.
Send your email to
assemblymember.leno@assembly.ca.gov and
assemblymember.yee@assembly.ca.gov with the subject,
"I support AB 2433". Don't forget to include your name and address,
as that is necessary for emails to count at the State Assembly.
The
SFLNC site lists some important points that you might want to
mention in your email.
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17-Mar-2004 (wed)
Photos are up of
Exodus +
Hail Satan, and
Flavor.
We recently added two new shows to the calendar:
We're thinking that the
preparations we had
to make for the Incredibly Strange
Wrestling shows will be a dry run for GWAR. But GWAR is a lot more
wet.
Casey has started on a new art project, pictured to the right, to go
along with the Wall Of Lost License
Shame (which is growing quite nicely, thank you.)
What she's holding is, I think, 1/3rd of the keys that we've found
here in the last year or so.
The collected stack of abandoned cell phones was pretty impressive,
too. Those got donated to a women's shelter.
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19-Mar-2004 (fri)
