Ah, it’s so fun looking back at Cornell now that I no longer have to deal with all the BS.

Professor Delchamps Plays The Cornell Alma Mater (First Few Notes) on a Moog Synthesizer on Vimeo

I’ve written before about how my interests tend to go in cycles. I haven’t played Sims 2 or Civ 4 in ages. In fact, since getting to work after Christmas Break I haven’t really taken many photos either. I became consumed with Blender and getting my animations done. Then Vimeo raised the upload limit from 30 mb to 250 mb and I suddenly had to digitize all those video clips I"d been waiting forever to digitize. Here’s a video Vimeo asked us to make - they said to make a video celebrating the increase.

If there’s one thing those of us who have been creating websites for a long time know - it’s that inlining images is not to be tolerated. It’s considered very rude to waste someone else’s bandwidth - especially since they are probably paying per mb. What’s inlining you say? It’s displaying an image on your website when that image is on another server. You’re supposed to download the image to your server and then put it up. That way you only waste your own bandwidth. When the owner of the blog ascii.textfiles.com found out that someone had decided to use an image of his inlined in myspace templates, he had to get back at them. So he replaced the image with a very, very disgusting one. That’ll teach those stupid tweens not to inline images!

I don’t know if it’s Global Warming or El Niño, but 2 weeks ago in the Baltimore-DC area it was 70 degrees and outside in a tank top in January. This week, in fact, yesterday or so, it’s snowing in Dallas, Texas! I’m hearing this has ruined orange, lemon, and avocado crops. What the heck is going on here?

Here it finally is:

Aida’s Life: The Interview on Vimeo

My brother Daniel and I worked together on this video, an assignment for one of his classes at school. It’s a wonderful thing to have now that I’m so into genealogy. I also thought it was a very neat historical document because we interviewed people who experienced the revolution first-hand.

This is not the interview I was talking about last night, but I think it’s a great thing to share while I am working on translating and editing the video of my grandmother.

That tape I was waiting to rewind was an interview I did with my grandmother. She was only 3-4 months from dying. It’s freakin’ surreal! I knew I had this tape, but I couldn’t find it for the past 3 years! I had wanted to do this for years - video tape an interview with my grandmother about her life - for genealogical purposes. A lot of questions I’ve recently asked my mother, my grandmother answers in this tape. I just didn’t bother writing it down since I was video taping it. I couldn’t believe it when she died because I wanted to do this so badly and I wanted to get more interviews. She used to tell me story upon story when I was a child. It was my favorite thing to do at her house. I will post it to vimeo with some translations and an introduction. Probably tomorrow if I’m feeling especially ambitious. ---- edit it was 1 year and 3-4 months from her death - but still came out of the blue for me!

I’m waiting for a video to rewind which is the last time my grandmother Aida was on tape. This is the longest rewind EVER!

222 views to my clips in ONE DAY! Once again - this is the best thing ever for a creator of content - to have it experienced!