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Postby ThadFilms » Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:04 pm

So back before I was doing this documentary I would pick up whatever work I could get, including once getting a gig - I kid you not - editing together a two camera set-up of a deer feed seminar. Two days on deer feed. I think it was really at that time that I decided it was time to work on my next project. Sure podunk video editing projects beat delivering pizzas, but not by much.

I digress, so it was in those days of no money (roughly six months ago) that I get a call or email, likely both, from HB Pony Dad about a monitor for sale on craigslist in Austin. You see HBPD is a monitor nut and probably spends as much time on message boards for that kind of stuff as he does on PF.

The monitor in question was Sony's largest and last in their line of Trinitron CRT monitors. I believe it's a 27"-er.

"Thad, this guy's selling this monitor for 50 bucks, because get this, it's too bright! There's a site that shows a fix for that.... these things go for 700 bucks!" Blah, blah, blah.... eventually I let him know that I really didn't have the 50 bucks to, on a whim, see if this sure-fire fix would work (I mean it seemed like it would) as my money was better spent on, well, food frankly.

So HBPD says he'd buy it and I just have to go pick it up... and he'd then pick it up from me if he ever made it back to Texas.

Thus, I was stuck with a gigantahuge monitor that might or might not work. And when I say gigantahuge I mean it, it was tough getting the beast in the car.

What do you know, a week or so later I hook the beast up go through the steps, and bam I have the sweetest looking monitor west of the Mississippi.

Ever since then, HBPD has been bugging me to post some pictures. Here you go buddy, and here's to your monitor!


Pardon (Padron?) the quality of the pictures, they were taken with my camera phone...


My edit setup:

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HBPD's Monitor:

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Due to PF.com's tendency to crop images these days, you might need to right click to see the whole image.

(If you do right click, make sure to note the existence of the Rose Bowl Game commemorative plastic cup to the right of the monitor in that last pic. Just a point of clarification, I didn't put the cup there just for this picture. That's my go to office cup.)
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Re: For HB Pony Dad -- HBPD's Monitor

Postby Mestengo » Fri Oct 30, 2009 3:58 pm

WTF's in the cup?????
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Re: For HB Pony Dad -- HBPD's Monitor

Postby Stallion » Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:20 pm

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Re: For HB Pony Dad -- HBPD's Monitor

Postby ThadFilms » Fri Oct 30, 2009 6:26 pm

Stallion wrote:Its Thadlive.com


Mmmm! Tastes delicious!
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Re: For HB Pony Dad -- HBPD's Monitor

Postby HB Pony Dad » Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:46 pm

ThadFilms wrote:
Stallion wrote:Its Thadlive.com


Mmmm! Tastes delicious!


Hey Buddy!

Looks effing GREAT as nothing beats the clarity of a CRT and glad to see you are putting it to good use.

It would just be gathering dust here as the 19" SONY CRT I hooked up for Alexandra rarely gets turned on except to check e-mail from her iBook or switching to watching a DirecTV women's programming show!

After today, I need whisky, but I drank it all up.

Guess I settle for Bombay Sapphire Martinis tonight! :shock:

Take care of that puppy because someday when the economy inches upward I may even see HB Pony Daughter, SMU, and Texas again! :mrgreen:
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Re: For HB Pony Dad -- HBPD's Monitor

Postby smupony94 » Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:08 pm

Thad - did you move or finally clean your place?
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Re: For HB Pony Dad -- HBPD's Monitor

Postby Mestengo » Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:47 pm

Guess I settle for Bombay Sapphire Martinis tonight! :shock:
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Triple olive dirty? Call me ghetto but I like a slim-gim in then stir then eat. :mrgreen:
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Re: For HB Pony Dad -- HBPD's Monitor

Postby ThadFilms » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:37 pm

HB Pony Dad wrote:
ThadFilms wrote:
Stallion wrote:Its Thadlive.com


Mmmm! Tastes delicious!


Hey Buddy!

Looks effing GREAT as nothing beats the clarity of a CRT and glad to see you are putting it to good use.

It would just be gathering dust here as the 19" SONY CRT I hooked up for Alexandra rarely gets turned on except to check e-mail from her iBook or switching to watching a DirecTV women's programming show!

After today, I need whisky, but I drank it all up.

Guess I settle for Bombay Sapphire Martinis tonight! :shock:

Take care of that puppy because someday when the economy inches upward I may even see HB Pony Daughter, SMU, and Texas again! :mrgreen:



Hahaha, well I have this puppy WELL taken care of. BTW - I don't think I've mentioned this to you, but, um, are you cool with me crashing with you for about, uh well, ten weeks whilst I am finishing this film out in LA?

Already planning on it! :P


(Actually kind of thinking I might move to LA with this thing.)
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Re: For HB Pony Dad -- HBPD's Monitor

Postby ThadFilms » Fri Oct 30, 2009 10:40 pm

smupony94 wrote:Thad - did you move or finally clean your place?



Man, I don't see my place but once every four weeks or so.... no that's at my studio. My place hasn't been cleaned since I had that cat named Mulder running around that hell-hole. (Um, that hell-hole that is walking distance from downtown, blah, blah, blah.)
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Re: For HB Pony Dad -- HBPD's Monitor

Postby ThadFilms » Sat Oct 31, 2009 3:42 am

Somehow, I left this note unscorched....

HB Pony Dad wrote:After today, I need whisky, but I drank it all up.


Better restock before mid-December when I hit town!

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