First line of an email I received at work today (yes, it WAS really actually work related):
“Yes we should re-label the Terminator Video.”
I was poking around on the server to see whether there were any video clips in the testing directory that I didn’t have, for variety, or maybe that test some aspect of the system better than the ones I already had. I found The Terminator. Well, a clip from Terminator 3. How rad of testing material is that? 🙂
The other two main clips I’ve been using for testing are called “drug runners” and “high wire”. The drug runners one is about this girl who flies a helicopter and chases down these guys in a boat who are illegally importing drugs. The high wire one is about this guy who climbs out of a helicopter onto high voltage power lines to fix them. He wears this special metallic suit and uses this metal stick to “make lightening” so he doesn’t get electrocuted (the lack of a ground connection also helps) and then he climbs off the helicopter onto two power lines to go out and repair them while they are live (because nobody wants their power shut off). They’re kind of entertaining compared to say…”the clock” video (which is simply an 8 frame per second video of an analog clock hand ticking) or the tank videos (just tanks driving around splashing through puddles and whatnot) or the guy in the engineering lab waving his hand in front of the camera.