Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Makin' Copies

So my group at work has not had a copier functional for 4 months. Last week they had a technician in, and despite it not being my gig, I escorted him. I bugged him with all kinds of questions about how the machine worked and how to fix different parts. (Yeah, don't put me somewhere with nothing else to focus my attention on, I can be almost as obnoxious as JamesF.) After he found the problem, it was stuck in the point of the tech saying "well I don't have the number, so I can't order the part", the helpdesk saying "well you'd have to talk to the sales rep", and the sales rep being otherwise unreachable. After a few hours of my time spent learning about the intricacies of photocopying... it was a rather choice voicemail I left for her. It was apparently the correct things to say, as the technician from the last visit called me directly when he showed to install the part that "no one could order". I'm just glad no one is asking me about the dang copier anymore. *grin*

I was upset to hear from JamesF that Google video upload was down. Since I had stayed up a bit past my bedtime to edit a video for the wife's blog. (It's a bit rough, since I was tired and didn't add transitions, but I still liked it. And no, I'm not telling you what it is, you'll have to wait and watch.) So hopefully by Friday or so, she'll have a post up. (assume about 24 hours or so after the Google gets the stuff processed.)

I am working on gathering a few more bits and pieces to make a couple more videos, but I'm afraid nothing will be as... unique... as JamesF's latest creation. Warning, discretion is advised for our younger viewers!

I have also realized in my quest for '80s songs (for movie soundtracks, keep up!), that I have a seemingly large and yet insufficient collection of tunes. Fortunately I have not yet come to the day that there is a song I want to use, and do not yet possess. I have, however, frequently arrived at the event of having a song, I NEVER intend to use. (Why oh why did I get that Tony! Toni! Tone! CD?)

**Update - Apparently the "E" with accent mark did not translate correctly. So it's not "tone" it's "tone-eeee". Thank you JamesF for the catch.

1 Comments:

At 11:23 PM, Blogger JamesF said...

Actually, when Google's upload is working, you can upload directly and have it be instantly available (provided the video file is under 100 meg). The link for quick uploads is here.

At least I think that's the right link, hard to tell right now since they're still hosed. Anyway, if you go to the main Google Video site there's a link to the right of the search field that takes you there (says "New" beside it).

And is the text correct on that last "tone"?

 

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