schmoozing

i talked with professor Guest today at work. he is excited about the idea of finding out which parking spots were open using a webcam. he said he's been meaning to do a similar project on his own. work was rather slow and the bosses were away at lunch, so we didn't have much to do related to our jobs.
i also saw doctor Movellan last night at robotics. when Movellan heard that we only had 9 weeks, he said he didn't think that was enough time. He suggests that we use frame-by-frame difference to track moving objects.
ekiga will display video just fine, but i can't get ffmpeg, luvcvideo, and mplayer to do any video capture. i might just have to go straight debian. mooneer was able to get both my camera and his working. none of this ubuntu stuff.
i'm off to class, k c u later bye.