OMG! Now with a POLL!

OMG!!! I HAVE A WEBSITE!!

This morning I got up early and then went into a tizzy trying to decide what to do first. Do I upload vids? Set up email accounts (I can be sisabet at sisabet dot com - now how cool is that?) or upload vids or jiggle the browser window some more and watch Spike and Angel go at it? I would like to think that there are actually no correct answers to those questions.

Sigh

But the issue of uploading vids is present. I actually lost some vids in the simultaneous (if you consider months apart simultaneous and I do) computer/site crash of Aught Five. I recovered many through the wayback thingamabob and other people had copies and whatnot. I think I have a CD backup of work that I made back when I actually backed up my work. So, um, yeah - that is reeeeeeally old.

But the thing that really sticks out on me when looking at a lot of these video files is that, my GOD, the encode is crappy. And it is a mixture of me using crappy source and a crappy codec to clip and then trying to compress the entire thing down to around 12 mb cause Dawn said that was about right.

And it was about right - back in 2003. Broadband is much more prominent now - most video files seem to be over 20 mbs now (and it wasn't too long ago that Dawn tsked at me for wanting an 18 mb version of Without You I'm Nothing because it was too big) and while I can appreciate the need dial up people have for smaller files -- I don't know that dial up people on a whole really watch vids as much as broadband people. I mean - it is just a question of logistics.

Right now it isn't a matter of space or bandwidth as when I walk around my site - I can hear echoes. And I have this crazy insane bandwidth package. No, really - that is what it is called: The Crazy Insane Bandwidth Package (loves hard on f1renze). So I should be okay on those ends. But I want to make my webvids prettier and that means re-encoding and whatnot (and maybe I will have a teeny version for dial up users. That isn't a bad idea, actually). And re-encoding takes *time* - SO...

Since I suck at follow-through and planning and yet I take orders really really well - give me an idea of where I should start with the Great Re-encode and Upload Plan - Now in improved Poll form! It is all scientific!

[Poll #604387]

Happiness is a Warm Gunn

I was tagged by sockkpuppett

Name 10 things in no particular order that make you happy and tag five others

1. The other day I was wondering if I knew of any songs that would be about planets exploding and then I realized that I have multiple fandoms where "OMG! Planet ASPLODE!" has actually happened. And on some it was MORE THAN ONE PLANET!

This thought made me giddy over my toothbrush.

2. I tried to wax my eyebrows without professional assistance this weekend and a bit of wax migrated across my brow and was unobserved by me until I pulled. I now look like I have a teeeeeeny scar right there. I imagine I got it fighting vampires.

It is the little things - really.

3. The emails I get from renenet during the day, detailing everything from random events at her jobsite to what the characters in her head are doing at that particular moment and how to survive the next few hours without access to slash. Or sharing research! It brings me much joy on its own, but there are always a few lines or three that cause me to guffaw.

My cubicle-mates think I am nutz.

4. The emails I get from sockkpuppett during the day that always show me really weird or neat or weird and neat things. Or give me Angel Moments.

Mmmmmm....Angel

5. Diet Mountain Dew. Whenever I need it - it is there. Cold and refreshing and with just the perfect hit of caffeine.

Truly a drink of the Gods.

6. No matter how cracked-out I think the SGA fandom can get? They can always top themselves. There is nothing I can even DREAM UP that they can't top and on a daily basis.

I've waited all my life for this.

7. Free Food. Yes, I hate my job. But about once a week they feed me and even without the pension, that is enough to inspire me to stick around. Today it was Penn Station.

Mmmmmm Steak Sandwich...

8. My friends. If I wanted to sit around and cry or moan or do nothing but vid Magnum PI to Richard Ashcroft - they would support me and better yet? Encourage me to find my grail.

They are my Lady in the Lake. Sniff.

9. Spamalot.

Just. Dot.

10. OMG!! I HAVE A WEBSITE!!!

I am the master of my own domain! Literally!


And now I tag? I tag everyone and no one. Dude - FIND YOUR GRAIL AND THAT'S YOUR MALE!!!