pic: Woohoo! I've got an ipod!

[Rich Kressly]

Hey Baker, what exactly does the Delphi Corporation pay you to do out there this time of year? After a long FIRST season which includes time away from those beautiful daughters and lost time at work, I'd figure a guy like you is waaaaaaaaay too busy to spend time on something that is usually reserved for a ninth grader with no summer job and no girlfriend/boyfriend.

Oh, and the ninth grader can probably do a better job with the Photoshop work.

Can't you just feel the love.

[David Kelly]

Originally Posted by Max Lobovsky

Maybe its just my eyes, but I think I can see significantly worse compression artifacts around the "I am JVN" suggesting that it was added to an existing jpeg and recompressed. The text also looks different in general on close inspection. If it was a fake, it was simply white text overlayed the picture. It was a good choice of picture though...

we have a winnner! DING DING DING!! It's totally a recompressed image with text layed over it.


I've got a $10 bet with somebody on this that it is fake, so I want proof.

[Amanda Morrison]

I bet DK $10 that it's real. I hope him (and whomever else wants to take a bet) are prepared to buy my meals at Kickoff.

I have thoroughly examined this and have determined that it must be real because:

-I think the camera's quality explains the text.
-I think that Andy couldn't possibly photoshop something that well (no offense)
-I think that since I found out about them etching the iPods for free, he would do something this crazy
-I think someone could talk Andy into doing something this crazy. I NEVER doubt the insanity of pig farmers.

Bets are open.

[Rich Kressly]

Sigh

So not only is the most esteemed WFA winner ever goofing off with Photoshop, but two of the most esteemed college members of FIRST are making side bets (cough - illegal gambling - cough) about said work. I believe the off season can officially be over now

[Amanda Morrison]

It's just a small, friendly wager on the wrongness of the CD Community.

I tried really, really hard and couldn't find photoshop lines... I dare anyone else.

p.s.- I just looked at Kyle Fenton's iPod, and I think it's funny that the font is the exact same... although Kyle's is blurry, I still maintain that it's not photoshopped.

[Billfred]

Originally Posted by Rich Kressly

Sigh

So not only is the most esteemed WFA winner ever goofing off with Photoshop, but two of the most esteemed college members of FIRST are making side bets (cough - illegal gambling - cough) about said work. I believe the off season can officially be over now

...so if the off-season is over, and the pre-season can't start until school starts (a smidge over a week for 1293, not to mention the info meetings), where are we?

WE'RE LOST IN AN ABYSS OF THE FIRST CALENDAR! HELP!

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by Rich Kressly

Hey Baker, what exactly does the Delphi Corporation pay you to do out there this time of year? After a long FIRST season which includes time away from those beautiful daughters and lost time at work, I'd figure a guy like you is waaaaaaaaay too busy to spend time on something that is usually reserved for a ninth grader with no summer job and no girlfriend/boyfriend.

I had a tough conversation with my 5 year old today. She said "why are you at work so much?" That kinda tore me up. I said "You are right. I have been working too much lately." So, we out for ice cream tonight. Tomorrow night, we will have some other fun.

I have been putting in 12 hour days for the past month, which stinks because it is nice outside. We (me, 2 other engineers, and 4 stilled tradesmen in my department) just got done shipping a fully-automated robot to our Milwaukee plant, for the calibration and test of our latest Engine Control Modules. The robotic cell incorporated an EPSON Scara 65S robot. On the head of this robot, it had 3 festo cylinders, 1 keyence bar code scanner, 1 Schunk gripper, and 1 ATI tool changer, weighing 6.5 lbs. It was neat to watch, once we got it working. At full speed, it sounded like a Pachinco game. We went from design to shipping in 5 weeks. And it has to run 2 shifts a day when installed. Now, I gotta make sure all of my prints are right, because production wants 4 more.

And... I am trying to start this side business thing, which takes up my evenings, after the kids get to bed.

It's August already? Wasn't it May last week... yikes!

So... with all of that said, a guy has got to have fun. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." OK... back to work.

Andy B.

[Kyle Fenton]

This is my 4g iPod with a real engraving.


The iPod looks real, but the text looks fake. The text is too clear and to big. But good job though.

[Arefin Bari]

Andy Listen's to metal?

[Kyle Fenton]

Originally Posted by Ryan Forystek

Anyone noticed that the ipod is all scratched up on the back, when they claim it's "new". Heck, my new one has absolutely no scratches after 2 days.

I have had mine for a week and it is scratched up and has a bunch of notable fingerprints. It must be the kind of metal they use. But I can clean it off pretty easy.

Originally Posted by Amanda Morrison

p.s.- I just looked at Kyle Fenton's iPod, and I think it's funny that the font is the exact same... although Kyle's is blurry, I still maintain that it's not photoshopped.

Yeah my digital camera doesn't have a macro option, so it needs a minimum distance to be clear.

[Ben Lauer]

I am going to have to back up Amanda here, even though this may prove to be wrong.

I am a photoshop ignorant, but if you look at the over all image you can see things in the reflection that kinda look like ceiling panels. These lines go directly through the text, which makes me think that it is real. As for it being crooked, if you align the text with the bottom it looks strait, but if you align it with the top it looks crooked, I think this is because of the glare of the flash.

I can prove the photo is fake. I took a look at the advanced properties of the picture file



Baker's camera is a Cannon A-60...

According to the properties, the picture was uploaded from a Nikon E5000....

Edit

Case is still open...

I think its pretty safe to say the iPod does not belong to Baker.....

So its time to prove the engraving is fake

[KyleGilbert45]

Just to back DJ up, I also took a screen shot of the advanced properties.



Look they used Adobe Photoshopped 7.0

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by D.J. Fluck

I can prove the photo is fake. I took a look at the advanced properties of the picture file

...

Baker's camera is a Cannon A-60...

Brandon Martus owns a Nikon E5000.......

According to the properties, the picture was uploaded from a Nikon E5000....

Case Closed

OK, Perry Mason, here are a couple of rebuttals to that stroke of genius:

Maybe I got a new camera too.
Maybe it's my ipod, but not my camera.


Andy B.

Originally Posted by Andy Baker

OK, Perry Mason, here is one for ya: Maybe I got a new camera too. What is your answer to that?

Andy B.

That camera was discontinued a long time ago