Unbadgering
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snousleFinally, A few moments to stop moving.
Badger was extremely pleasant despite some logistics issues. After cooking for the setup crew, my responsibilities were limited, but I still stepped in to the kitchen a few times to help get things done. Really screwed up on the rice, though. I have almost no experience cooking with food pans and ovens, much less those WWII era gasoline fired beasts that are somehow both too hot and too cool at the same time.
The RMC cocktail party is one of the high points of the year for me, though this year it seemed awfully subdued. Our new initiate (Gary Bowie, of the Satyrs) hardly even got wet - not sure how that happened, it all went by so quick I didn't even get a chance to step up to the plate, as it were. But the urinal punch fountain was brilliant.
Packing up the truck is the job from hell. Curiously, it is more of an information and communication problem than a physical labor problem. Makes me think that the stereotypical way of teaching "teamwork" - through various group exercises - is misguided. A more formal approach to structuring of work would do wonders for tasks like this. Even if it can't be made faster and easier, it can surely be accomplished with less drama.
[Now that I'm older, and can look at my youth more dispassionately, I can see all the ways in which collaborative work was not a way to bond, but rather a means of persecution - there are few better ways to drag someone down than to make them feel and appear useless in front of their peers. So it remains an emotionally-charged thing, but also a source of insight.]
I've been shooting a fair bit of video, and have a few entertaining clips from the run. But it's all in high-def, and having almost no experience with video I am unsure of how to trim it down to size and distribute it.
A lot of things have changed this summer, and in particular I find myself not giving a shit about a whole lot of things that once seemed important. This is actually a positive change - apathy is a goal I've been pursuing for years. :-P This happens to include a markedly reduced interest in posting to LJ. My sense is that the well is dry, and I find myself with nothing to say that hasn't already been said before.
Badger was extremely pleasant despite some logistics issues. After cooking for the setup crew, my responsibilities were limited, but I still stepped in to the kitchen a few times to help get things done. Really screwed up on the rice, though. I have almost no experience cooking with food pans and ovens, much less those WWII era gasoline fired beasts that are somehow both too hot and too cool at the same time.
The RMC cocktail party is one of the high points of the year for me, though this year it seemed awfully subdued. Our new initiate (Gary Bowie, of the Satyrs) hardly even got wet - not sure how that happened, it all went by so quick I didn't even get a chance to step up to the plate, as it were. But the urinal punch fountain was brilliant.
Packing up the truck is the job from hell. Curiously, it is more of an information and communication problem than a physical labor problem. Makes me think that the stereotypical way of teaching "teamwork" - through various group exercises - is misguided. A more formal approach to structuring of work would do wonders for tasks like this. Even if it can't be made faster and easier, it can surely be accomplished with less drama.
[Now that I'm older, and can look at my youth more dispassionately, I can see all the ways in which collaborative work was not a way to bond, but rather a means of persecution - there are few better ways to drag someone down than to make them feel and appear useless in front of their peers. So it remains an emotionally-charged thing, but also a source of insight.]
I've been shooting a fair bit of video, and have a few entertaining clips from the run. But it's all in high-def, and having almost no experience with video I am unsure of how to trim it down to size and distribute it.
A lot of things have changed this summer, and in particular I find myself not giving a shit about a whole lot of things that once seemed important. This is actually a positive change - apathy is a goal I've been pursuing for years. :-P This happens to include a markedly reduced interest in posting to LJ. My sense is that the well is dry, and I find myself with nothing to say that hasn't already been said before.
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Date: 2010-09-13 07:12 pm (UTC)The other option, of course, is to just whack the file on a web server somewhere and share a download link with those you want to be able to see it. That means you can't embed it here, but it's the simplest answer.
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Date: 2010-09-13 07:20 pm (UTC)I also have a very flaky internet connection that makes moving large files difficult - after failing 10 times in a row to download iOS 4.1 via itunes I'm just about fed up with it!
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Date: 2010-09-13 08:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-13 08:34 pm (UTC)I think AVIdemux - a free app - can handle trimming your files, and scaling them down if you insist on doing so. (Talk to me about the options for scaling and encoding. There's a lot of possibilities, and it may not be obvious what the best choice is.) The latest version of .mov is the same as .mp4, which I know it can handle - and I can't imagine the iPhone 4 creating an old-fashioned QuickTime file.
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Date: 2010-09-13 07:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-14 01:02 am (UTC)I think the easiest answer is to provide a "see through" type drawing, not unlike a cutaway of an engine, which shows how things are generally organized in the truck relative to everything else.
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Date: 2010-09-14 04:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-14 06:53 am (UTC)And the well has not gone dry. (You can take that any way you want) :-)##
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Date: 2010-09-14 10:28 pm (UTC)