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Nearly VPT Webcam--It's Back.
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Nearly VPT Webcam--It's Back.
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Re: Nearly VPT Webcam--It's Back.
Cool! Those members going tonight (you know who you are) go under the clock and wave at exactly 7:15. I'll be waiting 
Athina
London
Liam x 1, Ollie x 4, Dean x 11, Rhys x 8, Aaron x 4, Scott x 9, Josh x 10, Ryan x 10, Adam x 6, Kaine x 7, Harris x 6, Harrison x 2
New York
Peter x 1
London
Liam x 1, Ollie x 4, Dean x 11, Rhys x 8, Aaron x 4, Scott x 9, Josh x 10, Ryan x 10, Adam x 6, Kaine x 7, Harris x 6, Harrison x 2
New York
Peter x 1
Nearly VPT Webcam: It's crying ...........
The Nearly VPT Webcam is crying (or emoting in some way) to note the closing of Broadway Billy (It was this way for most of Saturday afternoon going into the evening).
I think it's shooting down towards the river, on Vauxhall.
It's interesting to see how this bit of WWW-tech recognizes tremors occuring across the pond.
tzwicky
I think it's shooting down towards the river, on Vauxhall.
It's interesting to see how this bit of WWW-tech recognizes tremors occuring across the pond.
tzwicky
LIttle Ben has botten ... little-r!!!!!!
I know it all has to do with the Underground renovations and stuff, but has anyone else noticed that Little Ben has been made "Little-r"?
I think it happened a few days ago.
The poor thing has been top-hatted.
Checking in at the Nearly VPT Jam-Cam is a daily ritual for me, so I couldn't help but notice.
See for yourself. It's quite surprising when you look and it's gone.
I don't read every forum post, so it might have slipped past me, but has anything been published .... with sad photos and everything?
tzwicky
I think it happened a few days ago.
The poor thing has been top-hatted.
Checking in at the Nearly VPT Jam-Cam is a daily ritual for me, so I couldn't help but notice.
See for yourself. It's quite surprising when you look and it's gone.
I don't read every forum post, so it might have slipped past me, but has anything been published .... with sad photos and everything?
tzwicky
Re: LIttle Ben has botten ... little-r!!!!!!
Day queuing, I witnessed the removal of little Ben.tzwicky wrote:I know it all has to do with the Underground renovations and stuff, but has anyone else noticed that Little Ben has been made "Little-r"?
I think it happened a few days ago.
The poor thing has been top-hatted.
Checking in at the Nearly VPT Jam-Cam is a daily ritual for me, so I couldn't help but notice.
See for yourself. It's quite surprising when you look and it's gone.
I don't read every forum post, so it might have slipped past me, but has anything been published .... with sad photos and everything?
tzwicky
Video to follow soon.
“The dance is over, the applause subsided
but the joy and feeling will stay with you forever.”
W. M. Tory
but the joy and feeling will stay with you forever.”
W. M. Tory
Re: Nearly VPT Webcam--It's Back.
“The dance is over, the applause subsided
but the joy and feeling will stay with you forever.”
W. M. Tory
but the joy and feeling will stay with you forever.”
W. M. Tory
Nearly VPT Webcam--It's back, June 14, 2012!!!!!!!!
OK, I think it just happened in the past few days, because it's kinda like a bad habit and I check the Nearly VPT Jam Cam every day, or at least every other day, and I just noted it's back, after many, many months of not working, right around the time a lot of traffic pattern work was being done right in front of the VPT.
Little Ben is gone, I assume, still, and the traffic is all ripped up.
But the cam seems to have not moved from where it always was, though it's looking down toward Vauxhall Bridge Road at the moment (Thursday early morning 1:35 AM).
Just while I've been penning this post, it's shifted from the right side of the road, showing the backside of the Apollo Theatre with a small Wicked sign, but now it's panned towards the left side of the street with that row of small, mom n' pop tobacco/newstand type stores.
It's an OCD thing, OK?
tzwicky
Little Ben is gone, I assume, still, and the traffic is all ripped up.
But the cam seems to have not moved from where it always was, though it's looking down toward Vauxhall Bridge Road at the moment (Thursday early morning 1:35 AM).
Just while I've been penning this post, it's shifted from the right side of the road, showing the backside of the Apollo Theatre with a small Wicked sign, but now it's panned towards the left side of the street with that row of small, mom n' pop tobacco/newstand type stores.
It's an OCD thing, OK?
tzwicky
Now it's panned across ........
At 1:15AM (east coast of the US) the Almost VPT Webcam/JamCam has swung around and is pointed down Victoria Street and showing off Sainsbury's, as well as what exists of the traffic triangle that's right in front of the VPT.
The JamCam is full of surprises in the past 2 nights.
Kinda cool.
Since it's about the only place open every night after BETM, Sainsbury's is where I grab dinner and another Pepsi, before I stumble through Victoria Station and back to my command suite, just beyond the Passport Office and the treacherous few yards of sidewalk alongside the Veterinarian All Night place, where some dog owners have been known to forget pet etiquette (though that's forgivable since they're at the all-night Vet Office and all).
tzwicky
The JamCam is full of surprises in the past 2 nights.
Kinda cool.
Since it's about the only place open every night after BETM, Sainsbury's is where I grab dinner and another Pepsi, before I stumble through Victoria Station and back to my command suite, just beyond the Passport Office and the treacherous few yards of sidewalk alongside the Veterinarian All Night place, where some dog owners have been known to forget pet etiquette (though that's forgivable since they're at the all-night Vet Office and all).
tzwicky
Ummmmmm, it's finished?
I had to try to cap the Nearly VPT Jam Cam from 4:15 AM Thursday.
The little slice of street and triangle showing on the cam is suddenly clean, pristine, lacking any traffic barriers.
Lookit!
Whazzup locals Billymaniacs?
tzwicky
The little slice of street and triangle showing on the cam is suddenly clean, pristine, lacking any traffic barriers.
Lookit!
Whazzup locals Billymaniacs?
tzwicky
Dread........
In the U.S., when one primary contractor finishes his primary job, everything might look complete.
But bet on a sub-contractor showing up the next morning and jackhammering it all to ruins, because they have their work order and it's a different work order than the one just completed, and these companies are probably competitors, or city departments that refuse to communicate even if they're in adjacent cubicles on the same floor.
The little patch of civil engineering looks marvelous at the moment.
Hope it stays that way aboveground at least, while Underground Victoria expands like a virus spreading ever wider till it reaches its limit.
tzwicky
But bet on a sub-contractor showing up the next morning and jackhammering it all to ruins, because they have their work order and it's a different work order than the one just completed, and these companies are probably competitors, or city departments that refuse to communicate even if they're in adjacent cubicles on the same floor.
The little patch of civil engineering looks marvelous at the moment.
Hope it stays that way aboveground at least, while Underground Victoria expands like a virus spreading ever wider till it reaches its limit.
tzwicky