Cool things for this week.

A bit of personal success for me today. I've been working up at one of the local high schools, helping them with their DMX cable runs to their onstage electrics. After a brief confusion over the actual number of wires needed in the 5 pin XLR connector (correct answer, boys and girls, is 3!), I got their Revolution moving lights working. Although I'm not sure I actually did anything other than program their board correctly, they see me as a wiz. Now all I still have to do out there is fix the last two boxes attached to the next two electrics (the band shell was in so we couldn't fly them in today), and I'll be done.
Went up to THE CITY, Monday, to see a demo of the new ETC light board, the Ion. SWEET little board. Lots of really cool innovations (ex: now, a moving light takes up 18-36 channels for all the attribute controls. The Ion has each unit as ONE channel, with all the attributes attached to it without taking up channel space.) You can select a moving light, and pull up a color wheel display (that's not the actual display but it looks like the left part of that image.) and pick a color on the spectrum and the intel will make that color!, or select a catalog number and it will make that. Really sweet! And it's all USB or ethernet connections, in addition to the standard DMX connections. I think I want one. I'll get to see another demo at the USITT convention. Which I'm going to...

Oh yeah, the 'upskirt' pic is now at 370 views. Keep 'em coming.