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268487 Brent Beach <brent.beach@g...> 2019‑05‑12 Re: Ellipsograph
Bill

This could be your chance to become a youtube star! They seem to take 
any length video and don't care how many people watch it.

On 2019-05-11 18:31, Bill Webber via OldTools wrote:
> Hey Nichel,
> 
> It's ellipses.  I had not experimented with making videos.  I figured 
> some doubting Thomas, or doubting Nichel, would challenge me for 
> pictures.  Unlike planes, I didn't think folks would buy an ellipsograph 
> sitting on an oval as proof of functionality.  A plane with a mouth full 
> of shavings is generally accepted as proof the planing tool works.  (No 
> one has yet been caught stuffing shavings into the mouth of a plane.)
> 
> So I made a fifteen second test video.  It took 5 - 10 minutes to upload 
> to galootcentral.  The download took only a little less time.  And then 
> the fifteen second video played back, in like, 15 seconds.

Brent
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Brent Beach
Victoria, BC, Canada

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