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BQB Reviews a Go Pro Hero 5 Black
Why did I buy this? Someone please confiscate my wallet.
After seeing these things for years, but without a reason to justify buying one, I finally went for it.
Let’s discuss the pros and cons.
PRO:
- It’s got voice control, so that can help you take pictures of yourself with your friends, family, dog, cat, llama and so on.
- The Go Pro website has a whole host of mounts that you can use to capture action shots. There’s a mount for your helmet, a mount to wear on a strap that goes around your head, a mount to put on your car, your bike. There is a mount you can put ON YOUR DOG (Bookshelf Q. Battledog videos would include a lot of sniffing and pooping). There is even a mount you can put on your GUN so you can take videos of yourself shooting at (well, I hope targets. My attorney advises me to remind you that you shouldn’t be shooting at anything but targets). #Merica!
- It’s a good buy if you’re like some kind of highly active social media video blogger.
- I got a little handle to attach to mind so it makes it easier to walk around. It doesn’t have a screen on the front that can show you a picture of yourself which I think is a flaw they need to fix because otherwise, the handle makes it so that if you were some kind of fancy video blogger, you could record yourself easily while you are walking.
CONS:
- I’m not an active social media video blogger.
- I couldn’t strap a camera to my head without feeling like an asshole.
- I couldn’t strap a camera to my dog without feeling like an asshole.
- I’m not an athlete so my camera will never capture any stunts, back flips, white water rafting trips, parasailing, parachuting or any of that bullshit.
- So yes, I basically gave Go Pro a donation.
CONCLUSIONS:
All that being said, it is a decent camera. I’m a tech nerd. I enjoy this stuff so I find it fun to play with. If you’re active and you want to record your athletic abilities for the masses, this gadget is for you. If you’re a couch potato who wants to record video, you’d probably be better off just getting a standard hard drive video camcorder.
Or hell, just take videos with your phone like everyone else does.
Fun fact: Go Pro’s stock took a dive in 2016, the explanation being that pretty much every one who wants a Go Pro has one and the market for future Go Pro purchases is small. After all, there aren’t that many assholes who want to jump out of a plane and record their parachute free fall.
However, word has it that Go Pro is working on virtual reality and so on so who knows. Hopefully they have some surprises in the years to come.
BQB and the Meaning of Life – Part 25 – Lloyd Bunson
PREVIOUSLY ON BOOKSHELF Q. BATTLER AND THE MEANING OF LIFE…
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Sally’s web search resulted in a video of an old man in a tweed coat standing in his garage next to an ejector seat just like the one Vicky and I were plummeting to our imminent demises in.
Breakout Social Media Celebrity Lloyd Bunson, Host of “Lloyd Bunson’s Happy Fun Time Ejector Seat Channel.”
“Hello,” the old man said. “My name is Lloyd Bunson and welcome to Lloyd Bunson’s Happy Fun Time Ejector Seat Channel.”
“Wow,” Vicky said. “They have a You tube Channel for everything!”
“Over the next ninety minutes, I’m going to show you how to properly care for, maintain, weatherize, clean, and store your ejector seat,” Lloyd said. “Proper maintenance is the only way to ensure that your ejector seat will provide you with many years worth of flinging yourself out of perfectly good airplanes.”
“JUST GET TO THE PART ABOUT THE PARACHUTE OLD MAN!” I screamed.
“I’m sure you all have so many questions…”
“I can’t believe this has ten million hits,” Vicky said.
A flock of birds buzzed over our heads.
“And the big one I get all the time is, ‘Lloyd, how the heck do I deploy the parachute on my ejector seat?’”
“YES!” I shouted. “TELL US HOW LLOYD!”
“Simple,” Lloyd said. “First, reach your hand approximately one foot underneath the center of the seat like so…”
I copied what Lloyd was doing.
Vicky closed her eyes and began mumbling a prayer.
“…once you’re under there, you’ll want to feel around for a string.”
“Got it, Lloyd!” I said. “Now what? For Christ’s Sake, hurry up, man!”
“Go ahead and give that string a good old yank…”
I yanked the string. Nothing happened.
“Are you screwing with me, Lloyd?!!!”
“After you’ve yanked the string,” Lloyd explained. “Look to your left and you’ll find that by pulling the string, you’ve opened up a compartment containing a green button and a red button….”
“Push the green button,” I said, moving my finger over it.
“Whatever you do, DO NOT push the green button,” Lloyd said. “Push the red button.”
“Seriously?” I asked.
“Seriously,” Lloyd said. “Fun story, the engineer who designed these contraptions was totally color blind. So go ahead and hit that red button.”
I hit the red button. Nothing.
“You suck Lloyd!”
“Now you’ll find that on the right side of the seat, a blue lever has popped out,” Lloyd said.
Vicky looked at the side of her end of the seat.
“A blue lever!”
“Be sure to yank the lever up,” Lloyd said. “Because if you push it down, your seat will break apart and you will all surely die.”
“Why would they even build a feature like that into an ejector seat?” I asked.
“That’s what you get for buying a World War II surplus ejector seat that was built by Nazis,” Lloyd said.
Vicky yanked the lever up. A bright red parachute exploded out of the back of the seat. We immediately slowed down and breathed a sigh of relief.
“Damn Nazis!” I said.
“Now then,” Lloyd said. “Let’s talk about how to properly wax your ejector seat…”
Half of you looked up to see if there actually is a “Lloyd Bunson Happy Fun Time Ejector Seat Channel” didn’t you? Admit it.
BQB and the Meaning of Life is ejecting for now, but the story will continue after an all new episode of Pop Culture Mysteries!
Key of Awesome’s “Fifty Shades of Broke”
I love the youtube show – “Key of Awesome.” If you haven’t seen it yet, you should check it out.
As my 3.5 regular readers know, I’ve been complaining about Fifty Shades of Gray, arguing that its success exposes societal hypocrisy in that if Christian Grey were ugly and poor, it would be a horror film released on Halloween. But, since he’s rich and handsome, it’s classified as a Valentine’s Day Romance.
Great minds think alike apparently. Here’s Key of Awesome’s “Fifty Shades of Broke.” The premise? Grey loses all of his money in a pawnsi scheme and suddenly all of his “extracurricular activities” lose their appeal for the mousey interviewer.
“I liked it better when you took me to Paris after you whipped me!”
Anyway, Key of Awesome is great. Check it out.
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