It's been a little over three years of ownership by now, and a long strange trip indeed. . This year one of the demos I'm intending to take on the road is a simple slideshow, running on a big ol' monitor I've arranged a means for putting up on the roof of the car without denting it too badly, which will hopefully be daylight-visible when the canopy is over everything. When people come up and watch that for a while and take a flyer that leads them to the plentiful web resources about hybrid cars and the community, they'll get a really entertaining view of what we're about. Especially if a certain scruffy weirdo is standing there able to explain each image within the 6 or 7 seconds it displays. Alternatively, one nice thing about this is that I can run the power and video cables out through a cracked side window, lock up the car and walk away and leave it all running for visitors next to a table full of flyers, and then I'm able to wander around and see the rest of the events. . This community tends to generate lots of images. The slideshow is pulled from all over the place -- pictures you've contributed, pages I've assembled, material from papers and tech documents, and many other sources. A sort of "thumbnail review" of it all is here -- it loads about 2.6Mb total. Here's a sample: . . Do you see your own car? . Trust me, you *don't* want to know how the meta-pictures were generated; it was a somewhat klunky process. They aren't linked to anything but most of the source material is already kicking around on the net. There are a few unreleased shots from writeups that I may or may not put together depending on sufficient material and useful conclusions. . Another summer of road-trips is beckoning before us, and I hope this will be just one more thing to help spark public interest in efficient technology and conserving fuel and still having fun with personal transportation. Let's all continue working to get the word out, while we still can. . _H*
Great job putting that together. Looking forward to seeing the full-size version on your monitor. But I'll need the "scruffy weirdo" to tell me where some of them were taken!
Ooh, I do see my own car... I made the hit parade at least twice!! Woo! That reminds me Hobbit, I never sent you the pics I took when you dismantled my dash light dimmer... I'll PM you a URL and you can do with them what you like. p.s. since you have some technical-looking stuff in there, and since I know your dislike for anything other than basic HTML on the web () you may not yet have seen my PSD demo page, so here's a screenshot in case you want to include that in your slideshow.
