blue angels in sf this weekend.

[anachroschism]

dude willyum those are some SICK raptor shots. Huge aviation nut my whole life, actually volunteer in aircraft restoration at the San Diego aerospace museum and the USS Midway museum.

Live near Miramar, the Top Gun base, and there are constant flyovers from FA 18's, even some f117s on occasion.

Before i got my APC i planning to build a MIDI controller out of scrap avionics and insturment panels, will get around to it one of these days. Analog airspeed indicators as volume indicators, X-Y paramater manipulation with an f-16 joystick, stuff like that. It would of course be huge and heavy and completely unpractical, but thats kinda the point.

[Machinesworking]

waste of tax payers dollars,loud and annoying....who cares.

It's the Air Force equivalent of Joe Camel. Also really fucking annoying when on LSD. Never liked it much after that in SF, hard to think of it in terms of cool aviation when the sound triggers air raid nightmares on acid.

"Look mommy there's airplanes in the sky!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzn5L_vkfew

[Willyum]

It would of course be huge and heavy and completely unpractical, but thats kinda the point.

haha, that's cool... I did something like that once... I'm a 1980's oldschool game freak, I have a full sized arcade machine in my house with 6,000 games on it and used the controls to run Live... it was fun for about an hour then got frustrating quickly.

[H20nly]

I have a full sized arcade machine in my house with 6,000 games on it and used the controls to run Live

nice it had to be fun for a minute!

[channelite]

In the late 90's they were in NY on a fall day. I was waiting for the bus and one of those jets flew over Ave U in Brooklyn really low. It made all the car alarms go off. It was really really cool.

[anachroschism]

I have a full sized arcade machine in my house with 6,000 games on it and used the controls to run Live

nice it had to be fun for a minute!

saw somewhere a MAME cabinet with a built in kegerator. That would be fun for a while until I puke on it and short the screen out.

theres a program called joy2midi i think that takes usb input, in my case a saitek flight sim rig, and sends midi notes. I had a constant noise loop running in live in the background, attached various buttons on the stick to turn on n off a various efx, then got baked and played crimson skies and falcom 4.0 for a while. Sounded like a robot cat getting strangled through the drive thru speaker.

here it is
http://www.coolest-gadgets.com/20090818 ... iltin-keg/

[Willyum]

saw somewhere a MAME cabinet with a built in kegerator.

Yea, that's what I have... I was collecting MAME games for about 12 years, then there was a big battle between MAME rippers and they started selling MAME packages 'at cost' (8 DVD's of MAME Roms plus shipping for $12)

For anyone who doesn't know what the MAME project is... It started with a bunch of people who were mad that the arcade companies would not release the games to the public, so they would extract the Original game ROM info off the real arcade machine, and use an emulator in Windows to emulate how the original arcade OS (operating system) ran.. there were only 6 OS's in those early days.. So the MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) program where running the actual REAL game not an emulated game, it was the OS that was emulated.

So my MAME machine was actually running a regular version of Windows. The controls are just switches connected to a converter connected by USB. It was extremely easy to use all the arcade controls as midi switches.

[H20nly]

sweeeeet.

very

[tweeter]

Willyum,

AMAZING shots! Thanks.

-t-

[ethios4]

@ Willyum - Great photos! Photography is my 'pure' hobby. I don't ever want to read about it, or sell it, or do it for anybody. It's strictly for my own pleasure and I aim to keep it that way!

I saw one of these flying over my house a few days ago....

Maybe it wasn't one of those exactly, but it was definitely 100% unmanned....no windshield, distinctive 'cockpit' hump at the front. Flying slow and low enough for me to get a good long look at it. It was creepy.

I went to a Blue Angels show when I was a kid and got to watch a stunt pilot crash directly into the ground. It was pretty fucked up.

[john gordon]

i have to admit,i was kinda digin watching them today.