Update: Well, something went wrong with the uplink and the whole thing went south after about a half hour. I’m looking into this, and hopefully will have it worked out before next weekend. My apologies to everyone, I know how frustrating that was!
Update 2: I removed the embedded chat room. It occurs to me that people could type, um, unsavory things in the room and it would show up on my blog. So just to be safe, I took it out.
My live video chat will start at 23:00 UT Today (4:00 p.m. Mountain time). Here’s the countdown:
Here’s the viewer (or go directly to my chat page on UStream.tv.
See you there!
March 2nd, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Hey, you embedded the chat this time! Nice.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:36 pm
Hmm, the moment the feed disappeared, the comments got much funnier! Are they being archived somehow?
By the way, here’s on the fireball over Europe last nite - the first link goes to a weird YouTube video, actually made up of still frames from different camera angles.
March 2nd, 2008 at 4:57 pm
Great chat!
Thanks
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:06 pm
Aww, what a shame about the technical difficulties. Better luck next time.
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:08 pm
It was fun while it lasted.
- Hattix
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:25 pm
Phil, try http://www.speedtest.net to see if your upload caused the problem.
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:27 pm
FYI, at 0:22 UTC there were still 77 holding out on the chat. Favorite comment:
01:21 concestor17 : lol, a bunch of engineers sitting in front of their screens, looking at an “off air” sign
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Lol, yeah I was one of them, but had nothing better to do
March 2nd, 2008 at 5:49 pm
LOL I was one of the blue-screen geeks too. Just waiting and hoping, hoping and waiting……………. but you have to admit, the blue screen can be far more interesting than 90% of what’s on TV.
Daniel: I was LOLing at the comments too!
March 2nd, 2008 at 8:51 pm
I’m ashamed that I actually forgot about the chat, but I did join in late and saw 10 minutes or so of it. Much better lighting on your face, Phil, very filmic! Cool bluish light from the window to the left & warm incandescent from the right. Not too shabby!
Just after Phil’s computer locked up the wife called me away, so I guess I didn’t miss much.
Rich
March 2nd, 2008 at 9:52 pm
This was the first of your chats that I was able (or remembered) to join. For the time we had before technology went kersplooie, it was great.
Here’s to next week
March 2nd, 2008 at 11:46 pm
The first time I made it not to fall asleep before midnight, the first time I made it to your videochat, and what happens….
I smell conspiracy.
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 am
At least we talked about a few subjects.
Glad to hear you investigated a little about these “Lord’s Witnesses”; you are right, with so many failed NYC-nuclear-bomb predictions (In fact, there was one 2 days ago, and they “refined” the date for today or tomorrow), I bet some people swallowed it and moved from NY. This could be also, as you say, a potential suicide cult if not looked properly.
On another topic, Ibeechu made a Motivational-ish poster about you.
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg159/Pato2747/phil-1.jpg
I wonder if I can embed it…
[IMG]http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg159/Pato2747/phil-1.jpg[/IMG]
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:23 am
Argh, didn’t work.
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:28 am
http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg159/Pato2747/phil-1.jpg
This probably doesn’t work either.
March 3rd, 2008 at 9:32 am
Oh well. My girlfriend called me, and I told her I couldn’t really talk because Phil was having a live chat. She wanted to stay on the phone with me, so I gave her the URL and we watched it together, until the scientologists got him.
March 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm
I blame TU24 for this. Its magnetic field flipped the polarity of the flux capacitor, and Phil’s mac just couldn’t supply an additional 1.21 gigawatt of power.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Probably he had a Guru Meditation error.
March 3rd, 2008 at 4:14 pm
The countdown ain’t working.
March 3rd, 2008 at 6:27 pm
The motivational poster is hilarious.
Ibeechu wins.
Also, staying during the “off air” time and chatting was a lot of fun. What else are Sundays good for aside from last minute gaming and dinking around?
I’m definitely looking forward to the next chat. I hadn’t actually heard of the Lords Witnesses before yesterday (I missed the previous chat). Now I want to look into that.
-Paradigm-River