Corvallis Slushpocalypse

Yesterday evening, Oregon State University decided to start classes two hours late today in case the forecast snow came to pass.  This morning when I woke up at 6:30am, I saw several inches laying atop my car.  By the time I got out of the house at 7:30 the snow had turned to slush.  This is a snowman some of my residents built outside the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house.

 The feared ice-covered roadways turned out to be nothing more than a bunch of slush.

 A few people were heading into work this morning in spite of the delay.

 Not many cars in the parking lot.

 Slushy footsteps.

There were people waiting in front of the library for it to open.  They will be surprised when they have to wait until 10am before they can enter.

 Snow on a statue.

 The MU Quad covered in slush.

 Not as much snow as I would have liked.  Better luck next storm.

 

Mc Alexander Field House Rock Gym

Evan and I went climbing last night for a little while.  Geoff caught wind of the new rock wall and wanted photos.  This these two poorly lit pictures from inside the newly remodeled Mc Alexander Field House.

This new rock wall is excellent.  The back side is one big bouldering area.  The installation of this rock wall doubled the number of people who can be simultaneously climbing at OSU.

The View Outside my Office

After my successful experiment with time-lapse photography the other day and the extended battery pack I built last night, I decided to test out shooting a time-lapse from my office window.  Thus, I produced the above time-lapse.  Not the most interesting scene in the world but it’s a start.  I set my camera to take a photo ever 15 seconds for about 150 frames.  Using the Canon RemoteCapture software installed on a Windows XP Virtual Machine, I drove the intervalometer at that faster speed.  Next time I think I will reduce the resolution of the images so it doesn’t take up so much space on my hard drive before I process them into a video.

So… what should I do a time-lapse of next?  My Roomba frolicking in my apartment?  Meal time at the fraternity?  Clouds rolling through campus?  Traffic outside my apartment?  My office-mates working in the lab?