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GeekNights Thursday - The Show About What to do the Show About
Tonight on GeekNights, Twitter plays GeekNights as we do a show about what we should do a show about, seeded with suggestions from the listener. In the news, a legend of a man, sorely needed in these times, passes away. We'll miss you, Muhammad Ali. AI is learning to play Atari games like a human child would. Old people have no idea what we're on about, but Hillary Clinton's campaign went a little Bulworthy.
The GeekNights Patreon goes on with the second remastered beta pre-release episode of GeekNights, complete with commentary. Our amazing original Tshirt is on Amazon, and a new one is on the way.
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By the look of it, what failed was the turnbuckle, not the operator or the arm itself- if you look at his hip, where the arm attaches to the socket block, you can see it snap, followed by the arm flopping down once the sled came off the mounting post when the counterweight hit the floor. It would have failed if he was salsa dancing, or if he was operating the textbook picture-perfect of a stedi op - doing what he did was not the real cause of failure, it should have taken that with no trouble. After reeling it out, on a well-balanced, well made arm, she should have been able to swing it back to himself just by moving his hips.
I looked up more about the arm, too, since it looked weird - Haven't listened to the episode yet to see of you mention it, but it turns out the entire thing is a a pretty cool setup. Works on elastic bands rather than springs, it's cheap, lightweight, simple, and works pretty bloody well, apparently. A pretty impressive bit of kit, all told.
They are meant to only stabilize the camera, not to hold it entirely by itself - but most setups of that type will hold the camera by itself, with weight allowance to spare. You wouldn't want to shoot that way, but it shouldn't come tumbling down if you don't have your hands on it.
2. Only fly from major airports (the destination can be a hop, but not your home airport)
3. Use Kayak
4. Clear your cookies before you search specific airlines' sites
That's it.
The only times I've ever seen the "there's only one price" situation, it's if I have to fly out of a smaller airport like BOS instead of JFK. Really, just always be flying out of JFK.