A very mediocre 'maker project' - maybe you should hire her, Mediocre Labs?

@mfladd It's ok. She's 25.

@mfladd Her no. Houseboat yes.

@mfladd why wrong? what's not to like? she knows electronics, she's funny, she's cute and she incorporated a mannequin arm into her wake up machine.

@mfladd If she's really on a boat that is bobbing that much, why aren't the cords or other crap hanging on the wall moving? That's not a port hole, it's a friggin' video screen. Edit: she lives in a basement or garage or something even more sketchy.

@medz Maybe she likes it in the basement, maybe she asked to go down there.

Hey, is she spelling out help with insulated wires? You think you can trust a victi.....person.

@medz So I watched again, specifically studying the porthole. It looks plausible. The small boats are bobbing but the big boat furthest away barely moves. The point of view slightly moves, and sways from side to side like a moored boat would. The window area appears to be sunken compared to the cabinet area, where you would expect it to be raised if it were concealing, say, a TV. And the cabinets in the bedroom wall look utilitarian like a houseboat, although you could also count this as a point for sketchy garage living.

If it is fake, it's a well done fake, and involves going to a fair amount of trouble to present the appearance of being in a boat.

@djslack You have a point about the sunken window vs the raised walls, but why the rectangle shape around the window? Like a flat screen mounted in portrait orientation. The walls could be thicker so there was something to mount the shelves on. Everything just seems too square for a boat. Lots of sharp corners and 90 degree angles.

@medz I'd agree and if you carefully at the video in the port hole it loops - there is a small jerk as it resets. Also the white in the rectangle is not the same color white as the rest of the wall. I have lived on a boat. The things in that video that would be moving is the hanging wire, rope on the knob, the right angle ruler propped up would slide back and forth (and fall over) with that much bobbing, possibly the small paintbrushes would move or all be fallen over. If the pliers were hanging on one nail they'd swing a bit too. Also she'd move on occasion with the extent the boats in the background are bobbing - even if you are used to boat movement, you still swivel at the hips a bit and give with your knees a bit as you keep your balance (and she would have a wider leg stance) and she is standing perfectly unaffected in a normal leg stance. Also her pillows are straight on plywood with no mattress. In most of her videos she is in a normal house. However one of her videos that does look like a houseboat. I think she may have stayed on a houseboat at one time and misses it so since she is a techie set up a reminder in her garage.

@medz Those porthole windows are only so thick, so in lots of applications the wall is inset around them.

And many houseboats are nothing but 90 degree angles.

But check this one out I found during the search:

That looks pretty slick.

Here is the houseboat she says she lives on



although most of her videos are regular houses
In the regular house ones and the alleged houseboat (likely garage or shed) notice no bead board, the windows are different, how low the ceiling is on the house boat but not in the the other videos - none of this is consistent the other videos including the one that started this thread - so I all of this supports plus that port hole loops - you can see the hickup when it restarts - that the alarm clock video was not made on a house boat.
Go to here
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3KEoMzNz8eYnwBC34RaKCQ/videos?view=0&shelf_id=2&sort=p
to see her other videos - the bed thief, breakfast machine, job interview, toothbrush machine, etc, are not made on a houseboat - or at least not on the houseboat that is showing in the actual houseboat videos.

@Kidsandliz Well, I reckon there are 2 levels in the alleged house boat. The video the OP posted was on the lower level while the vids you posted are of the upper deck. I still say the port hole looks sketchy. How close would that outboard motor have to be to her boat for it to appear that close?

Edit: you'll also notice how the shelves on the upper deck have bars on the front to keep items from falling off. This is needed on a boat. The shelves below deck don't have these. All of the crap would eventually fall off. Especially in water that moves that much.

@medz Yes I would 100% agree with you. And the lower level would have curved sides and a lower ceiling because it would be in the hull of the boat, mostly below the water line. The "nice" part of the boat would be at the level she is at based on what is out the porthole (look at the water level and horizon - clearly she is not much below the waterline where she is standing) which would make it unlikely you'd have a work area there. The ceiling is actually pretty high (and generally below the living area is a lower ceiling in any house boat I have been in, walls are still square and they wouldn't be, and as you say you could not be underway without both rails on the shelves or some other method to secure the mess.

To me the biggest clincher is this though: Look closely at the port hole through the entire video. The boats in the background are on a video loop. You will miss it if you blink at the wrong time but they have an abrupt hiccup where she has looped it.

@medz @Kidsandliz

Examining the footage forensically, we find the following:

From 4:58 to 5:31 there is a second porthole visible frame right. You can discern that the motion of the small boat with the outboard motor in the second porthole (which can be seen briefly) is consistent with that motion exhibited in the porthole which is center framed. The porthole appearing frame right is obscured several times by what appears to be a tire affixed to the boat acting as a "fender" or "bumper". Additionally, the metal objects to the left of the porthole in the center of the frame do sway very slightly several times (it is almost imperceptible, but it is there).

She didn't fake the second porthole.

The "looping" effect is an illusion - I understand what you believe you are seeing, but the effect is from a series of quick edits.

The video the OP posted was indeed filmed on a houseboat which is securely and tightly moored / anchored. The boat is most likely never underway, especially if there are sewer / water hook-ups to the vessel.

@Pavlov well, you're the expert

@Pavlov ditto what @medz said... : )

@medz @Kidsandliz

I was on the fence on this one and was inclined to agree with parts of your combined assessments and consider that she may have embellished the view out of the porthole until the second porthole came into camera. Had I not seen such second porthole, I may not have commented.

@Pavlov @medz @kidsandliz, @djslack

For what it is worth I am still strangely attracted to her - with or without the houseboat. Wrong? Probably.

@carl669 I already know your answer ;)

@mfladd I wouldn't throw her out of bed . . . but that fucking alarm clock might.

@Pavlov Don't mind @mfladd. While everyone else is debating her portholes, he's just thinking about her afthole.

@jaremelz Sea, why do you always have to take things to the stern?

@mfladd Well, I tried for the bow, butt your sternpost got in the way ;)

@jaremelz raise the flag, all hands on deck - we are getting underway.

@mfladd And boom, that's how you steer into a headwind.

@jaremelz Pun help requires me to call @Attyvette. With that I will exit - stage left.

@mfladd Quitter. And so fast, too.

Houseboat tour

@2many2no It's getting the magic smoke back in that's the problem.

@2many2no I don't think an adjustable linear regulator is supposed to take that much current.

@PocketBrain The LM 317T doesn't have NEAR enough smoke in it. You need the 318 or even the 319 for this application.

@Moose It's true.

@Moose My corporate safety guy collected photos of industrial accidents- one was a woman getting her scalp ripped off in a photocopier. I'm very careful with spinning objects now.

@Moose I too was like "ah crap, another hair in spinning death machine vid."

@Moose I'm a girl and have had long hair most of my life. Lucky me I never had one of those hair eating dolls but my brother's toy pull back truck did their damage OWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Foxborn I had one of those too, used it until one day it scared the $#!# out of the cat and she ran across me at full speed & claws out.

@mehk LOL

@Foxborn I've got one of those too. I like it but don't currently use it. I just key my girlfriend yell at me that the alarm is going off, seems to work ok.