Looks like the Mexican government uses the FlexCam to fight swine flu!
For those of you wondering why I care what brand of infrared camera is featured on The Big Picture, I used to work for Infrared Solutions (now part of Fluke, the makers of those yellow multimeters) back in high school—my first professional programming job. Yes, it was Visual Basic, but I didn’t know any better. I got to work with some cool, encouraging people there. (And they liked me enough to have me back for another summer!)
For posterity, here are some more badass IR pictures I took while I borrowed the multi-thousand-dollar camera:
This was actually my first Facebook profile picture back in 2004. Man, remember that? Can you believe we used this? No Photos (you had to judge people based on that one profile picture), “Favorite TV Shows” wasn’t a field (I remember the groups “No Soup For You! (Fans of Seinfeld)” and “Family Guy Fanatics” were extraordinarily popular at the beginning. Of course, these groups were Stanford-specific because there were no global groups yet!), and the wall was a text blob (that you had to be courteous to top-post on, and you could only see who had most recently edited it, and sometimes someone would delete the whole thing or put dumbass ANSI art on there). …but I digress:
Independence Day (i.e., playing with bottle rockets) was a lot more fun with an IR camera. First, a miss:
…and then success!
