I’m not much into spectator sports, never have been but living in this society, it’s hard not to be fairly familiar with football and baseball. I grew up under the tutelage of a farmer who was a baseball nut and, because I was left-handed, he spent years trying to teach me how to be a great “south paw” pitcher. I never got into it. I was too small to ever be picked for a team in either football or basketball so I never developed an interest in them. The only sport I ever took seriously was a non-spectator sport, fencing, and I got pretty good at that.
During the 2012 Super Bowl, me and a friend, who is a computer fanatic, spent the evening setting up a second-hand gaming computer that I had just acquired. The friend’s name is John and he’s the same age as me and he’s been in computer industry all of his life. Unlike me, John has kept up his professional expertise in the current technology and he’s a hell of a computer repair guy. If you ever need to have your machine looked at, contact me and I’ll turn you on to John, and you want to remember that he keeps economy in his sites, he’s always very reasonable.
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John and I worked on the computer throughout the game but it was a pretty damn good football game and we kept stalling in our computer work, diverted by the good game’s action. Lately, I’ve been spending too much time in places with those multiple, huge, hi-definition big screens that surround you like old style 1950s billboards, crowded together, insisting on your attention. Luckily, last night, at John’s house, there was only one medium definition screen with the sound turned way down. After all, we were working. But something caught my eye and inspired me to open up my memory and I burdened John with a whole bunch of my past hi-tech endeavors.
The thing that got me going was when one of the cameras up on the edge of the stadium caught the image of this special, unmanned camera that floats over the playing field and is magically driven by three cables so that it can follow the game action as though it was an owl or a hawk, close in and just above the players and their action. This was the first time I had actually seen this camera itself but I became aware of it over this last football season. It’s like it floats just a dozen or so feet off the playing field and is right in the middle of the action. When I first saw the images from this camera I was thinking . . .
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