More Snow
Tuesday October 31, 2006 at 12:10 AM
Well, we finally got more snow! Last night around 2AM it started snowing like crazy, and we ended up with about 3-4 inches on the ground by this morning. So now it’s going to be awfully cold over the next week, barely getting above freezing if we’re lucky.
Remember that webcam I setup last week? I’ve been archiving it, and I wrote a nice Linux script that runs each day and makes a time-lapse video of the entire day. Here’s what happened today with the snow:
Not much happened, oh well. Anyway, right now it encodes to MPEG-4 and each second of video is about 15 minutes of real time. I’m using a PHP script I wrote, along with mencoder (MPEG-4) and ffdshow (Flash) to encode the video, and then archive the day in a zip file.
Live Webcam
Thursday October 19, 2006 at 9:14 AM
Over the past few days its been cold and rainy and snowy out here. Yesterday we woke up to about two inches of snow (yay!), but most of it’s gone now.
Anyway, back in July I ran across an eBay auction for a cheap webcam, and picked it up with the idea I would start a live webcam when I finally had high-speed Internet. Well, here it is! 
This is the view out over Michael Grove looking west. It should update every 10 seconds, and is also being archived so I can make some cool time-lapse video later. Here are some interesting links for the project:
- Google Map showing where the camera is
- Cam2Web, the free program I’m using for archiving
- Logitech QuickCam Express on eBay
Right now there is a dedicated Windows 2000 computer that captures and archives images from the webcam. It uploads to an Ubuntu Apache server, which is then port-forwarded through my Qwest DSL modem to the world.
Visiting Family
Sunday October 08, 2006 at 4:00 PM
This weekend my parents drove all the way out to Bozeman to see me for a few days. Their vehicle came out packed with various furniture, and went back packed with Wheat Montana.
- Going around Big Sky (6 pics)
While they were here, we drove up to Big Sky and walked around. There is a lot of construction going on before the snow arrives. Speaking of which, our forecast is saying we’ll get snow on Monday and Wednesday this week.
Also, you’re probably wondering what the “spinning noodle” is. Its actually called the “Wind Arc,” and will spin around in the wind. I walk past it every day on my way to classes.
