Youtube amazes me. This summer while we where in Moscow I used our digital camera to capture a short ~40 second clip of a humorous traffic scene (which we actually saw many of.) I didn’t think to much of it until after giving our slide show to a few folks - the video was well received. I used iMovie to cut it up a bit and add some appropriate music and posted it to youtube to share with friends.. pretty much leaving it at that. Without any effort towards promoting the clip on my part the youtube community went to work.
Within 4 days, it had been viewed 5,000 times.. within 2 weeks, 20,000 times.. It’s been just over a month since it went online now and it’s now had move than 40,000 sets of eyes viewing it. While these numbers are insignificant compared to the hottest videos kicked around each day by youtube viewers, I’m still amazed that something that I put very little effort or thought into has managed to attract such an audience.
UPDATE: This clip has now been viewed well over 80,000 times.
From the venerable Seattlest. I was going to try and sum up the pain and joy and chaos brought on by last night’s crazy game, but I’ll just let them do it.
Romo sign procured from Qwest Field by our roommate, who was at the game, sitting behind two Dallas fans. For some reason they didn’t take their sign with them when they left.
Our headline is the reminiscence of the Cowboys’ botched 19-yard field goal, by a guy who watched today’s Seahawks playoff win at the Kiwi and Kangaroo on Aurora.
Mike Holmgren, coaching genius:
What do you do if your 238-lb star linebacker tackles the other team’s 265-lb tight end just short of a first down that would end the game, but the line judge makes a bad spot and it’s not actually a first down and the clock is running down while you’re waiting for the replay officials to review it?
1) Do NOT call the time out, let the Cowboys run the clock down 30 seconds.
2) After the call is reversed, call a timeout to ice the holder.
3) After the holder catches the snap, but inexplicably drops it in the four-inch distance between his catch and the ground, takes off running and gets tackled from behind inches short of a first down on a terrific individual play by Cowboy-killer Jordan Babineaux–since you ran the clock down there will be less time for the other team to score when they get the ball back.
What follows are views of the botched 19-yard Cowboy field goal attempt:
“I didn’t get to see nothin’. I got hit in the groin at that time, all I saw was stars. I was just glad that somebody came and picked me up and said, ‘we goin’ to the sidelines, it’s the offense’s ball’ … I woke up and it was like ‘…we off the field,’ so I was like ‘ok, help me off the field, maybe I can celebrate later.’”
