Geckos

[JoeP]

This has been brewing for a while, since the arrival of the :gecko: smilie and the continued residence of a gecko in our kitchen.

First, a random outdoor gecko (above our front door). Too snaky - not as cute.
http://images5.theimagehosting.com/PICT0003.6.JPG

The real McCoy (actually his name is Gecks): he has lived in our kitchen for a couple of months, close to ceiling height, zooming round - always in a different place.
http://images5.theimagehosting.com/PICT0002.7.JPG
http://images5.theimagehosting.com/PICT0005a.JPG

I'm trying to get a video clip. Any thoughts on file sizes? Formats? I can get quicktime .MOV off my camera, but I have an instinctive mistrust of quicktime on any non-Apple machine.

[Ex-zombie]

My daughter has a pair of African Fat-tailed Geckos. They don't have toe pads so they can't climb. They are beautiful and are the best pets she has had. They look like this:


http://img63.exs.cx/img63/9969/fattailedgeckos.gif

[livius drusus]

I am quite literally squealing even as I type. I love Gecks' big baby eyes and adorable toesies and I love the stripey, tiny-footed guys like Ex's daughter has.

:10:

[Lauri D]

I love the way it looks like they're smiling. :giggle:

http://www.wissen.swr.de/warum/rutschen/themenseiten/t8/images_content/gecko.jpg

[livius drusus]

Squeeeaaaaaaaaaaaal!

[Adora]

Well, my house has been infested with Indonesian Albino geckos for quite some time. I know they're an introduced species, and are probably eating up the food stocks of native lizards, but they're too fucking cute for me to hate them. They make funky noises too, and eat all the cockroaches, flying ants, mozzies, redbacks, other annoying bugs etc etc. So as far as I'm concerned, they're a welcome pest.

Too bad they can't eat the cats. In fact, the cats try and climb up out screen doors and eat the geckos. I usually have to give them a whack with the broom so they leave them alone (fucking cats...).

Anyway, did you know geckos are able to defy gravity using atomic forces? Not all geckos are able to do this, but the ones that can use the hairs on their feet, but not to stick to microscopic grooves, or anything like that. They use forces called 'van der Waals Forces' to stick directly to the atoms on the wall via electronic charges, since their hairs (which are also covered with other smaller hairs) can almost be as small as (or smaller than) a wavelength of light.

Atomic Geckos. Does it get any cooler? There's so a comic/cartoon in this...

[livius drusus]

That may well be the coolest thing I've ever heard.

[Corona688]

I'm trying to get a video clip. Any thoughts on file sizes? Formats? I can get quicktime .MOV off my camera, but I have an instinctive mistrust of quicktime on any non-Apple machine. divx is less blocky than mpeg, compresses pretty well, and should work just about everywhere.

[JoeP]

setae (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seta)

[Goliath]

I've got some good news.....

[Goliath]

PEEK-A-BOOOOO!!!!!

http://gutt.sg.free.fr/Images/gecko%20gekko6.jpg

:D

[livius drusus]

Erm... You're a little cross?

Whoa! There she is. What are all those extra legs doing?

[Goliath]

Erm... You're a little cross?

Nope...think "horrible pun"... :D

(and actually, I happen to be in a fairly good mood..)

[livius drusus]

Nope...think "horrible pun"... :D

(and actually, I happen to be in a fairly good mood..)

The pic didn't work at first is all, so it looked like a wee red X. IOW, I was making a horrible pun too. :muahaha:

[Goliath]

Nope...think "horrible pun"... :D

(and actually, I happen to be in a fairly good mood..)

The pic didn't work at first is all, so it looked like a wee red X. IOW, I was making a horrible pun too. :muahaha:

Aaack! I thought that you had responded bewilderingly to my horrible pun. Curses! And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids! :shakefist:

[Goliath]

Erm... You're a little cross?

Whoa! There she is. What are all those extra legs doing?

Cuddling and carressing...it's a gecko cuddle party! :D

Seriously, though, I don't know, either....I presume there are a bunch of geckos stacked together...dunno.

[livius drusus]

Cuddling and carressing...it's a gecko cuddle party! :D

Ugh. As if the extra legs weren't enough to tweak me.

[viscousmemories]

Cute geckos. :yup:

[Goliath]

Cuddling and carressing...it's a gecko cuddle party! :D

Ugh. As if the extra legs weren't enough to tweak me.

You know I love tweakin' ya, baby... :wink: :P

Hmmm, maybe someone tried to re-create one of the fight scenes from The Matrix: Reloaded?

"It's inevitable, Mr. Anderson...you will save up to 15% on car insurance!"

[freemonkey]

Ooooooooohhhhhh! I'm lovin' the geckos!!!

[JoeP]

PEEK-A-BOOOOO!!!!!

http://gutt.sg.free.fr/Images/gecko%20gekko6.jpg

:D

Mmm, gecko porn.

[JoeP]

I'm trying to get a video clip. Any thoughts on file sizes? Formats? I can get quicktime .MOV off my camera, but I have an instinctive mistrust of quicktime on any non-Apple machine. divx is less blocky than mpeg, compresses pretty well, and should work just about everywhere.
And what free software should I get hold of to convert? I have not really played with movie editing or conversion until now. Have winxp and obviously windows media player :puke: .

joe

[Corona688]

Ah, right. Pardon me for my oversight.

For converting video under windows I use the Stoik Video Converter (http://www.stoik.com/products/morphman/mm30_svc.htm). Free but requires an email address. If you need divx codecs for it, look for the Nimo Codec Pack.

[Corona688]

"It's inevitable, Mr. Anderson...you will save up to 15% on car insurance!" :giggle: That has GOT to go in the forum quotes :D Can I post it? Please?