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Razr outdoor viewing revisited

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Thurman - 22 Jun 2006 20:38 GMT
As I started indoors from yard work today, I noticed the first butterfly to
visit my new butterfly garden. I was wishing I had a camera when I
remembered I had broken my rule not to carry the Razr on my riding lawn
mower. It was 2pm, sunny, the angle of the shot was about NNW. The screen
was more of an emergency signaling device than viewer.

I've tried cardboard tubes, screens behind the head, etc. with no luck since
the original posting of a sport fisherman in the Gulf  of Mexico using a
black garbage bag for a cell phone booth. I fetched a beach towel the wife
bought last week. It worked! If you cover your head with the edge of the
towel about nine inches away from the face and hold the Razr just under the
edge, protected from the sun, apparently side illumination is prevented
allowing a good view.

I'm sure the kids in the swimming pool next door were a bit alarmed but it's
better than them telling their dad "There's a man outside with a garbage bag
over his head". Caught outdoors again, I'll try just pulling my T-shirt over
my head, strictly in the interest of science.

For those on this newsgroup that want to argue anything:
The actual cover was a Martex 100% Egyptian Combed Cotton beach towel
purchased from Costco for cash. This infers no results from towels purchase
from Wal-Mart or Sam's Wholesale. I have no financial interests of any kind
in this except for a video to be released next week demonstrating a system I
developed for law enforcement using a Motorola Razr.

No butterfly's were harmed in this experiment, but I did step on a fire ant.
Dave - 27 Jun 2006 14:39 GMT
And the ocean is blue sometimes.  Then again, why would this message appear
in this newsgroup?  Does thurman realize that he can get mental help at a
clinic down the road for writing such unrelated c r a p?

Just my two cents.

> As I started indoors from yard work today, I noticed the first butterfly
> to visit my new butterfly garden. I was wishing I had a camera when I
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> No butterfly's were harmed in this experiment, but I did step on a fire
> ant.
Thurman - 27 Jun 2006 22:02 GMT
> And the ocean is blue sometimes.  Then again, why would this message
> appear in this newsgroup?  Does thurman realize that he can get mental
> help at a clinic down the road for writing such unrelated c r a p?

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>>Caught outdoors again, I'll try just pulling my T-shirt over my head,
>>strictly in the interest of science.

I understand your pain, but in Rockwall TX Sunday, I was helping a Luddite
program his new Ti-Vo when all the lights popped and all the phones rang
before everything went dark. When I glanced out the rear window, a 30 foot
cedar tree was on fire from a broken high line shorting against the TELCO
cables. In the middle of a drought, with winds gusting to 30mph, we are
pretty serious about range fires. (They killed 100,000 cattle in Texas
earlier this year).

The only camera I had with me was the Razr. Looking direct in the sun around
3pm, you couldn't read anything on the display. Remembering my own advice, I
pulled my shirt tail over my head, got several pictures of the fire and the
five fire departments that responded; thank you very much!
 
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