pic: Woohoo! I've got an ipod!

[Heretic121]

Originally Posted by Jay H 237

Look at the bottom of the ipod. All the writing is legible except for the serial number so someone definitely blurred it out. So it could very well be possible that "I am JVN" was added in.

Sometimes you just have to study the photo carefully.

i concur with your good eyes, but as you said possible =D... i see no reason why or how it could be photoshopped, where you can see that there is depth to the engraving of it... and you can still send in ANY ipod for 25-50 bucks and get it engraved... so i feel 95% sure its the real deal...

[Astronouth7303]

Originally Posted by Amanda Morrison

Can anyone prove it's photoshopped? I thought it was too until I found out that you can get them engraved now... now I'm starting to wonder...

Anyone live near Andy Baker?

[Andy Baker]

Originally Posted by Astronouth7303

Anyone live near Andy Baker?

LOL... I do!

As for the ipod...

You guys are on the case, I see. I'll admit, there is a twist. One person has nailed it already.

Andy B.

[Ryan F.]

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.

[Amanda Morrison]

Hey now... in my defense, I'm not completely old and blind... I can tell with the blurred serial number that it was photoshopped, but I'm having trouble seeing the engraving photoshopped. Can anyone blow it up or anything?

p.s. - How the heck could the Pig Farmer learn to use photoshop?! I think he was crazy enough to actually order one.

p.p.s. - who said it was new?

[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.

[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]

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.

[KyleGilbert45]

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



Look they used Adobe Photoshopped 7.0

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

[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.

[phrontist]

If you really want to prove it, shoot a short video clip in which you rotate the iPod side to side, turn it over in your hand, pass your hand over it, etc.

[Brandon Martus]

I can safely say it is not mine.
I had nothing to do with this.

I will provide proof if necessary.

[Brandon Martus]

Proof: http://www.pubarso.com/misc/notmyipod.wmv

Windows Media Video showing my iPod, reflecting in the light. No engraving.