The Landi Family

Well it came and went and to be honest I'm glad it's over.  The show reminds me too much of Comdex in it's final day –  I can only dream… 

The hotels double and triple their room rates, the whole city offer terrible service – especially the hotels that are charging you X2 the normal price, forget about the Taxi and Valet lines in the morning, you won't be able to find a seat if you can even get something to eat at the convention center and the parking is so far away it's too damn funny to say the least but thanks BMW and CES for taking up most of the limited parking with even more exhibits. 

The funny thing was how many LCD/Plasmas TVs can you show at one event and TBH what was new about any of them, besides one that will not even fit in your house… Consumer show my ass.

The coolest thing at the show, Bumble Bee from the movie and you can't even buy one. Click image to view full size.

Oh well See you next Jan in Vegas for CES 2009

I guess you could say the lines where bad. This image was taken Christmas eve at Epcot.  Click image to enlarge. 

I've actually known about this one for a while, however this was the first time I could snap a shot of it.

 This one is located in Downtown Disney, next to the main Disney store main entrance ( more or less, South/East of the buillding)

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While attending the ASIS event in Las Vegas, I came across one of the few R2-D2 mail boxes around the country.  This is is located outside the main entrance of the Las Vegas Convention center, North. 

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As I arrived at the Denver convention center for the CEDIA show.  I came across this rather large blue bear peaking into the convention center's front entrance. 

 Note the size of the bear is impressive. Notice the gentleman sitting in the chair below the bear

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 Shuttle launch STS-117 taking off on June 8th 2007, from Kennedy Space Center here in Florida.

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While the wife and daughter where finishing in the puddle next to our house. My wife caught a catfish today, Jan 1st. 

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Captured from my driveway, a spectacular night launch of STS116 Click to view (Quicktime required) This video is just over 1 minutes long and weighs in at at just over 72MB! I Originally shot at 1080i, but I reduced it down to 1280×720 H.264 to reduce the file size. Shot using a Sony HDR-HC1 camcorder

Today I captured the successful lauch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-115

Video was taken from my driveway about 56 miles west of Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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It’s only 46 seconds but weighs in, close to 38 MB !!

I reduced it down to 1280×720 H.264 using a Sony HDR-HC1 camcorder

 

Back in the late 70's, my dad who reconditioned old slot machines sold at least 4 of these Clamshell Mutoscopes to Disney for their new theme park in Florida.  

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 Click images to enlarge Up until the late 80's these where located in the penny arcade on Main street. However, Disney turned the old penny arcade into a modern video game arcade and removed all their penny machines, including the ones pictured above. Fast forward to 2006, I now live about 40 minutes from Disney World. While at the park a few weeks ago we where caught in one of Florida's daily rain storms. When I took cover in the newly remodeled train station's second floor, to my surprise, I came across my fathers old machines. I remember playing on these in our basement along with all the other old slot machines, steam shovel games and some very old pin ball machines.