Jolt Country

(Subsequent Correction): The camera's name is Jazz. AMBA is the prefix it uses for the files it creates. (Most other digital cameras use the prefix FILE, a really innovative name.) (END Correction)

This is weird. A few weeks ago I decided to clean up my room, reorganize and box my stuff so that office supplies would be in one tote, computer things would be in another, and art supplies would be another, plus paperwork in another.

Well, two things turned up missing. My expensive package of Statler drawing pencils ($3.50 for 8 pencils ranging from HB to 6H), and my expensive new camera, I it's a Jazz, I paid about $70, discounted from the list price of $150 or so. It has some extra features that show it's higher quality than my DXG I mention below.

I have a $70 DXG which does most of the same things as the Jazz, they both are tripod mountable, both support all three video modes - low, medium and HI definition - plus snapshots, the big difference is that the Jazz automatically turns on when you open the display and the battery is a self-contained pak that you recarge through the USB connector, similar to a cell phone. The DXG uses rechargeable AAA batteries and you press the on/off button to start it.

Well, now my third camera is missing. The blue $39 Kodak camera I just bought. I generally keep it on my desk, but now it has also disappeared. Which makes no sense.

I could understand my Jazz getting lost, I could have had it with me outside and misplaced it, while I felt that was highly unlikely, it is conceivable that I could have lost it somewhere. But I never took my set of drafting pencils out of my room. And as the Kodak is usually on my desk, for it to turn up missing seems strange.

While I generally don't lock my door when I'm in my room, I do lock it whenever I'm gone. And I think that someone being able to sneak into my room while I'm asleep, be able to take these three items - and only them, nothing else seems to be missing - and escape without ever giving any indication they tried to come in and while I am sleeping in the room, seems even less likely.

So I suspect that somehow, somewhere in this room, my two cameras and the set of drafting pencils have slipped into an area I can't see.

What really surprises me is we're talking about a room about 10 feet square, with 5 pieces of furniture, there's not a whole lot of places stuff could vanish into.

So is this a game like Vark's "what's on my desk"? More like 'what's in tdarcos' pile of junk?'

Post a video of the crime scene and we'll all help you look for the missing items!




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New weird. I found the camera. I have a rolling drawer set, basically 4 drawers, two large and two small, and a desk organizer on top, and come with a set of casters you can optionally apply if you want it to be able to roll around. There was a cardboard box of postal supplies - metered envelopes, stamps, a roll of Priority Mail stickers - on top of the drawer set. Underneath that box was the Kodak.

I usually kept the Kodak in the desk organizer on top of my desk as opposed to the (otherwise empty) one on top of the rolling drawer set.

I still wonder about the other camera, a Jazz, which I called an AMBA after the prefix it uses for the files it takes, i.e. all files are named starting with AMBA and the 4-digit sequence number of the media file, e.g. 0001, 0002, etc., with the extension being .JPG, .WAV or .MOV for snapshots, audio files and video, respectively. If the media is wiped it starts over with 0001.

I am coming to the conclusion I lost the Jazz outside somehow, but that still doesn't explain where the package of drafting pencils went. While I'd rather find the missing $70 video camera, I still wonder what happened to that $4 package of drafting pencils that I definitely never took out of my room.

Oh, for those that say, "why don't you just gp buy another set of pencils," I did; I bought the larger package which has 12-different pencils in a collection of soft and hard leads. Also by Statler.