I would love to check those places out but I got family in town this weekend until Monday that I haven't seen in some time. MLK and Craig, huh? Let me see where I put that bulletproof vest. . .
As for the cameras, I think we will just have to agree to disagree on that one. It's funny how two people can look at the same thing and see totally different things. I agree that the lens distorts the image but the car seemingly comes to about a dead stop. . .decreasing speed (whether by true speed or optical illusion) by about 2/3's. But there is no way Steven is moving 2/3ths slower rounding that corner compared to when we first see him come into frame from the right. Granted, his pace could have changed but I checked it with a metronome (yes, I play the piano) and his pace is a consistent 100 paces a minute in cam 3, even on the other side of that bush. And it picks up to about 104 steps a minute in cam 7. So, his speed is pretty consistent. I know you can't use that to gauge true distance because the distant is distorted due to the lens but his pace is his pace no matter what kind of lens you use. In the end, though, if his car did slow down. . .let's say 25 percent. . .we still don't know why. . .whether he was reading a street sign or he was slowing down for the water drainage gulley in the road. By the way, the gulley is on the WSW side of the intersection so he would have gone through the intersection before going over it.
But, getting back to his walking. . .and I know this is out there. . .Steven is about my height. SO, I measured my steps. From heel to heel, toe to toe. . .whichever. . .it is about 2 1/2ft. per step. That's 4.1ft. per second given a pace of 100 steps per minute. Using my trusty cellphone calculator, that comes out to 2. 8mph. That is definitely below the average walking speed for an average "young" person. Average is like 3.3 for "younger" people as defined by wikipedia.
I know those are rough numbers but I am probably within 5 percent of accurate either way. You can definitely tell the demeanor of a person by the way he walks. I have said from the outset, way back in part #1 of this thread, that Steven's walk. . .head forward, a marching pace (it's creepy synching his footsteps with the metronome because his pace is right on, each step at the same pace. . .no variation), fumbling with something in his hands, and now we know at a speed slower than average. . .points toward being nervous about what he is doing there. He is not admiring anything. I have stated before I take a walk every day in my neighborhood and I am always looking around. My pace is pretty solid too but that is because I am exercising. I don't fumble with anything, even if I am texting I am pretty smooth. But he is fumbling with whatever.
To me, his walk tells me he is doing something that he shouldn't be or wherever he is going has him nervous. It is not the walk of a guy going to meet friends. It is not the walk of a guy going to meet some girl. In that case, he might be nervous but he sure as heck would not be walking slow. It may be the walk of someone going for an interview. Some important meeting. Something like that. But I would not say his walk is one that says "fun" is in his near future.
Laytonian, I have a lot of time on my hands after family leaves. So, if there are a few things that need checked out, I don't mind. I just don't want to be in a position where I think I am chasing ghosts. It's all good.
