Cingular cell phone service - Razr outdoor viewing revisited

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Razr outdoor viewing revisited

Thurman

2006-06-22, 3:33 pm

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

2006-06-29, 7:33 am

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.

"Thurman" <thurman@bigplanet.com> wrote in message
news:BkCmg.1195$rC6.886@fe05.lga...
> 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.
>
>

Thurman

2006-06-29, 7:33 am

"Dave" <dselliott@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:Gyaog.93536$IZ2.68502@dukeread07...
> And the ocean is blue sometimes. Then again, why would this message
> appear in this newsgroup? Does thurman realize that he can get mental
> help at a clinic down the road for writing such unrelated c r a p?
>
> "Thurman" <thurman@bigplanet.com> wrote in message
> news:BkCmg.1195$rC6.886@fe05.lga...
<snip>[color=darkred]

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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