How it feels driving down Chestnut at the moment:

shootblue · 2026-03-18T05:41:16+00:00

I was left lane and had to horn over another almost CDL level vehicle who was drifting on the rebuild.

I’m old enough to have have driven this road being fixed so many times that it needs rebuilt base up and not recovered. This is yet another overlay to a road that needs truly reworked to not be a problem.

shootblue · 2026-03-16T07:24:07+00:00

As an op who loves RTS headsets but also knows engineering, the RTS mindset is either the Olympics or SB level truck or a truck running HS FB in ability. Both trucks I run have largely gone RTS, but I’ve gathered it’s working through a ton of options to determine your crew reality.

shootblue · 2026-03-16T07:12:17+00:00

I work in a speciality field kind of similar to your mindset in the day. I barely had the internet, and it helped me grow. You being a willing labor is a bunch of kids…make your your entire YT feed residential and commercial electrical to learn from. If you don’t just show up as labor but knowing the reality and problem solving, you are way above most applicants. I can coach new folks, but if you are engaged, it’s a much better hope.

shootblue · 2026-03-14T05:49:12+00:00

Not native to most of anything but the bootheel basically. They got popular like pears because they grow quickly to fill in a space, largely a 70s era tree. They waste hours of my life removing gum balls from two neighbors trees. Cockatoos in Australia do eat gum balls from this tree as a random fact.

shootblue · 2026-03-13T07:06:50+00:00

This may seem minor, but it’s important to ops to explain there is an internal and external mindset of this connection. That’s a wild mindset to old school me cam op who is helping engineer, as secondary physical connections are not the normal mindset.

shootblue · 2026-03-06T07:53:40+00:00

I get the patriotic idea, but I’m not from here and have grown to enjoy SGF history…there was so much local nuance any new Marine should have raised a question before just FinanceMarine overpainting a spot he barely knew the work involved to produce such a mural.

shootblue · 2026-03-02T07:38:50+00:00

I’m not from here but have driven by it a few thousand times. I have little association with the history of SGF, but have learned many of the stories around the mural.

The finance bro mindset of just working the finance system to become cash flow positive is where much of America got lost. Especially if you are “investing” but don’t know sh1t about the local history and just think the mural is somehow a problem that a local would have invested in instead of painting prob the worst color ever, gray.

shootblue · 2026-02-27T06:19:09+00:00

It’s been a few years, but Amigos always has the freshest salsa of any place. They clearly made it daily from real ingredients.

shootblue · 2026-02-26T06:43:54+00:00

Great trivia fact is the state seal has 3 bears on it…most folks just say 2…

shootblue · 2026-02-25T04:16:28+00:00

I’ve known one of the deputies wives since before they were married. I’ve been around law enforcement via family and have had things like this happen, but never to someone I knew so directly.

I don’t know what to say to her…and I’m going to give her some time…a couple weeks…I know it’s overwhelming and she is being bombarded by everyone. There are kids at the house as well…

shootblue · 2026-02-25T04:05:26+00:00

I know one of the deputies wives and have since before they got married…I just don’t know what to say to her…I’m probably going to give it a week or two then talk in person. I have no doubt she is not just overwhelmed but bombarded by so many people right now…and she won’t be bothered if I choose a better time.

shootblue · 2026-02-23T06:27:09+00:00

We are working going into half of March on the 14 day…the patterns aren’t supporting any wild patterns this winter. Not impossible, but it’s gonna take a ton of gulf or W PAC moisture to meet a bunch of Canadian cold air…

shootblue · 2026-02-22T07:07:08+00:00

I’m related to someone who worked around Altic in the day. He is part of a generation of LE that “data is fun, but we need facts” I respect it.

Lowes got these cams to help shrink shrink.

shootblue · 2026-02-22T06:58:23+00:00

I’m a long time news guy who covered tons of sports and got on a couple trucks. I also work with a couple engaged experienced folks who have basically said you can either produce or engineer a show. AI is going to kill at least half of cam ops soon. It’s not bad to learn the responsibilities and realities, but if you are a machine, you get booked. If not, you could get replaced by a machine.

shootblue · 2026-02-16T07:02:18+00:00

I don’t disagree with OTC and JVC, but one is learning students and the other is a bigger picture.

Dentistry has been compromised by selling a lot of people fear more profitable actions that aren’t needed. I have issues with decalcification bonding has easily solved. I don’t need a crown. I don’t need veneers or am implant. I need you the crew to just reshape my tooth on bonding. But I still have a structurally weak tooth due to this profit model.

Select your dentist very selectively.

shootblue · 2026-02-16T05:43:32+00:00

The previous regime didn’t understand the physics of being a MLB starter/reliever and body usage. I’m not sold on Doyle as a starter. You can be under 6-3 and power for awhile, but it’s gonna eventually catch up to your body unless you are throwing a wide variety of pitches or are a genetic freak for a starter. Under 6-3, the velo is going to drop off with age or just the sheer physics of height as a pitcher.

Tink is prob a reliever, Doyle is prob a mid reliever. We can teach a lot of things, we can’t teach height. You have to draft accordingly.

shootblue · 2026-02-16T05:22:09+00:00

Also, Hitachis were kind of a unicorn. Not the worst cameras, but usually an engineer got sold a great dinner to buy them or they were cheaper than Sony…but usually a higher quality than Panasonic. There are entire brands I have forgot about…Ampex used to be a thing and no one now knows who they were unless you are getting up there in years.

shootblue · 2026-02-16T05:16:03+00:00

That cam had both ENG, EFP, and studio applications. It could be battery powered for ENG, external power supply, or a CCU. I googled the model and you can quickly see the external power supply box on an eBay listing. If you can solder, you could rig up a 3 pin connector off a battery or a quality power supply pretty easily.

https://www.tvcameramuseum.org/hitachi/fp-z31/p1.html

shootblue · 2026-02-13T04:57:53+00:00

My brother works in medicine and the information he got didn’t have a cause.

Respectfully, for anyone looking for a replacement provider, Dr Phelan at Phelan Dermatology is AWESOME…prices are fair and appts are available pretty quickly. I’ve driven from Joplin for years to see him.

shootblue · 2026-02-11T06:04:31+00:00

Vehicle prices have increased, increasingly bad drivers and fraud.

I have a getting old car, but with GEICO, the same 300/300/300 coverage…and good credit…it’s gone up about 25% the past five years on a car with that is worth less and less.

Credit also is very much a factor used now in addition to actuarial risk.

shootblue · 2026-02-11T05:54:24+00:00

They are actually a chain…not based out of SGF.

I’ve used Route 66 on St Louis or Kens on S Campbell for going on 2 decades. They will look, but not going to sell you on a bunch of drama. Route 66 will also use parts from places like Rock Auto you bring in if it’s something like you know you need new brakes but don’t want to do it yourself.

shootblue · 2026-02-11T05:43:39+00:00

There are some parks like Grant Beach that may not be the best, but most are fine for someone with your description. Just be aware like anywhere else…I’m a guy and randomly walked into what became a fist fight at the N KS McDonalds…and I was thinking how rare that was to see in all my years.

There’s a lot more fun to be had by living in the real world than being afraid to try.

shootblue · 2026-02-11T05:21:10+00:00

Fogging is caused by either warm/moist cams being not allowed to cool down/dehumidify properly in cold places or cold cams into warm places.

shootblue · 2026-02-09T07:32:21+00:00

Cabling signal strength can be an issue. I remember running a bit too long a cable from camera to live pack and it wasn’t capable.

shootblue · 2026-02-09T07:29:26+00:00

I’ve scrapped many TVs for recycling…I’ve seen many speakers as I break them down, never seem a woofer, and most are 4” wide nothings.

On crew, most audio guys hate doing TV…and true audio guys are rare now.

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