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  1. J Sigmo

    Deer Collapses in the Street

    It's hard to say why the deer was in distress. Hopefully they were able to get it the help it needed or euthanize it humanely. You have to be careful approaching, let alone picking up and handling, a deer or pronghorn (antelope). I heard a funny story about some guys near here many years ago...
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    Close Call

    Thanks, Tony. I sometimes get busy and don't check in here for long spells, but it's great to see so many familiar people when I do get a chance to check in!
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    Moving to new house. What are your latest recommendations for cameras, POE switches, etc?

    All of the cameras came yesterday. Andy shipped everything very quickly! Man, is that PTZ unit a beast! I'm thinking of ways to mount it that will be sturdy enough to handle its mass and the high winds we get around here. Since this is a corner lot at an intersection where one street...
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    KP7 Aurora June 1, 2025

    We had thunderstorms and clouds last night here in Wyoming. It may well be the same story tonight for us.
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    Close Call

    I, too, hate vertical videos. But I do see the point if the only people watching will be watching on a phone, and they will be holding it vertically. I also hate the way people tend to crop things when filming and photographing. I've been a photographer since I was about 6 years old and my...
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    Moving to new house. What are your latest recommendations for cameras, POE switches, etc?

    looney2ns and all: I checked back, and Andy had both of the cameras that looney recommended back in stock, so I ordered 8 of the turret cams and one of the PTZ units. That should give me plenty to play with. Now it's like waiting for Christmas morning. I'm especially looking forward to...
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    Moving to new house. What are your latest recommendations for cameras, POE switches, etc?

    Thank you, The Automation Guy! I need to study all of this, but it seems like one of the Netgate appliances with pfSense might be an easy solution. Right now, I'm running an Asus router and using its ability to run a VPN that allows me to use OpenVPN on our phones and remote PCs to tunnel in...
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    Moving to new house. What are your latest recommendations for cameras, POE switches, etc?

    Thanks, you guys. I got most of the cameras I have now from Andy and Empire. Good to hear he's still going strong!
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    Moving to new house. What are your latest recommendations for cameras, POE switches, etc?

    We bought the house across the street from our current residence. I've enjoyed our current system, made primarily from cameras, switches, PCs, Blue Iris, etc., that I've learned about from the experts on here. I have a PC I'll use, and I'll put Blue Iris on it. But I'm sure cameras have...
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  10. J Sigmo

    Delivery Driver with pulsing IR

    This is very interesting. I haven't noticed any of this on my cameras, but then I haven't looked for it. Thanks to everyone for posting these videos and thoughts.
  11. J Sigmo

    Listen up people --- Florida is not a fully tamed State

  12. J Sigmo

    The Typical picture of a Perp on Nextdoor-type Apps with Consumer Grade Cameras like Ring, Nest, Arlo, Canary, Wyze, etc.

    Now dare you! And now I need to root around in my mom's house basement to see if I can find my old Lite Brite! :)
  13. J Sigmo

    My daily tree and bush trimming crew right on time

    It looks like the business end of the shaver they're advertising. Maybe a big image of one comes into the picture or goes out of the picture as part of the commercial. Either that, or the UFOs are spying on the filming!
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    Amazon attempts to open my front door to deliver package

    Now that you bring that up. If the driver didn't find a keypad, I wonder how much time he would have spent looking for one. We put in a new storm door and a new main front door a few years ago. The storm door is almost all glass (with a screen insert you can swap for the glass one). We...
  15. J Sigmo

    Video shows suspect fire shots at person in Chicago

    I don't know why they're bothering to ID the suspect. They'll just let him out without bail immediately.
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    My daily tree and bush trimming crew right on time

    I always wanted to get into Bonsai.
  17. J Sigmo

    Ducks on thermal camera

    Disco. Disco Duck! Disco. Disco Duck!
  18. J Sigmo

    Ducks on thermal camera

    The push in connections should be illegal! I really like the receptacles with the side clamps. I always sort of hated the loop around the screw, even though it does make a good connection if used correctly! I'll pay more for better devices to get the clamp type connections! They're what I've...
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    Ducks on thermal camera

    I think the genius that wired that part of your place might be the guy who owned my house before we bought it. He was very frugal! Connections behind walls with no junction boxes, and he liked to pull every centimeter of slack out of each box, too. You couldn't even pull a switch or...
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    Ducks on thermal camera

    I want one! I've just never sprung for any of them yet! Aluminum wiring. Nasty stuff if not handled correctly. People don't realize how quickly aluminum oxidizes, and how great of an insulator aluminum oxide is. It's sapphire! Hard, great insulator, and forms within minutes of exposing the...
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    Ducks on thermal camera

    Many years ago, a guy brought a thermal imaging camera into the place where I worked. He was somewhat desperate because he had connected it backwards to a big 12V battery, and fried it. This was an AGA "Thermovision" thermoscan camera back in the late 1970s, or early 1980s. I got the job of...
  22. J Sigmo

    Drunk felon gets his car stuck on sewer pipe and then gets arrested

    I'm not sure you can blame all of the action on him being drunk. Even drunk, you'd think he would have seen some problem with driving over that pipe. I wonder how he'd do somewhere that gets snow. :)
  23. J Sigmo

    Holy Storm Surge!

    I have an amusing "fishing" story. And this has absolutely nothing to do with Florida, hurricanes, snakes, or alligators! ;) A rig was operating near Gillette, Wyoming many years ago. At one point, a wireline company came in to do an open-hole log of the well. Unfortunately, at least part...
  24. J Sigmo

    I'm thinking this deer caught on someone's Ring cam was crazy with the rut...

    The woman definitely initiated the attack on the deer. I don't blame her for defending her dog, but the dog was safe under the car by the time she tried to do a Ruth Buzzi on the poor thing. I'm not sure where the deer started out, but it was already terrified after it came out from behind...
  25. J Sigmo

    Imagine going to your porta-potty to take a dump and you see this

    Where's my treat, buddy?
  26. J Sigmo

    Who will win the midterm elections?

    Who's got the cajones to try to retrieve that rope from the one guy's antlers?
  27. J Sigmo

    Another "That camera is following me" clip

    Well, now I'm jealous, and imagining that I could spend entirely too much money and time setting up a similar setup. I'm impressed with how well this works, and fearful of how much time I'd have to spend getting something similar to work well! Bravo, anyhow! :)
  28. J Sigmo

    Bike Drop

    You guys all beat me to it, but I was gonna ask: "Where's your secret service detail when you need them?"
  29. J Sigmo

    VIDEO: Off-duty Alabama officer hit by car in his front yard

    That boy is in a heap o trouble! And they scared that poor rabbit out of its hiding place, too. One wonders what events lead up to this. The perpetrator surely knew the cop, and knew that he was a cop. There has to be an interesting story behind all of this.
  30. J Sigmo

    Really Bad Car Accident Caught On Camera

    I don't think she would have thought she could "thread the needle". Too many cars bumper-to-bumper in that intersection. As sad as it is, it appears that she may have done this on purpose, but her plans to kill herself were thwarted by the amazing safety systems and design of the Mercedes...
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