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I would like to take a moment to thank Chris for the new theme. It’s so cool that I’ll just have to come back later this week and write something truly substantial.
Thanks again, Chris!

Well, we finally got around to testing just how shallow a greenscreen arrangement can be. We tried flooding our green sheet with light from below (a small but bright source) in addition to the two soft boxes aimed from the sides. But nothing really gave us less than four feet of clearance necessary between the […]

I’ve been trying to understand why DiggNation  is so popular. Of course, everyone likes Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht.  I certainly wouldn’t mind hanging out with them once in a while - if it could be real and interactive. But the passive, virtual companionship of a couple of admittedly pretty cool guys is little more […]

OK, so my wife and I are preparing to test our first public netcast. It’s going to feature something that we know and understand - and something from which others might benefit. It’s all about living in very small spaces and having limited resources. We’re going to call it “Living Nano”. We’ll probably just upload […]

Yes, Friends.
Whenever you order a new camera, even if you check the “ship by Pony Express because I haven’t gotten around to ordering a compatible SD Card yet” option, your new camera will ALWAYS arrive long before its memory card - forcing you to either…
A) Go to Circuit City or Best Buy and get another […]

It’s good to see LockerGnome back up. From here, it looked as if all Pirillo sites were down throughout the morning.
So I decided to investigate whether or not it would be worthwhile to adapt my old Canon FD lenses (superb optics and mechanical action - acquired when I was a tender young undergraduate) to a […]

Hi, Everyone!
We’re happy to finally be a part of the LockerGnome community. Chris has built the best grassroots technical support community online today; and we look forward to its expansion into other areas as well. We have lots of experience doing things the “hard” (labor intensive) way - no MacBook Pro’s in our budget, since […]