Silly me
My DroidX Smartphone shoots a pretty good video.
Good enough to not bother purchasing a video-camera, which I’d have so little use for it’s not worth buying.
So I’ve shot a couple. Mostly of our dog.
Many are of our dog exploding out the back gate to tell off deer behind the back fence.
The other day I shot a longish video of our dog perusing a puddle at Baker Park in nearby Canandaigua. 38 seconds.
She’s hunting frogs — POUNCE! She’s very much the hunter. (So far, at least three frogs.)
There is a large concrete drain-pipe to the puddle. We have to keep her out of it. What if there were rats? Once a rat snagged a previous dog on the lip and wouldn’t let go.
Dogs don’t seem to worry about that until it happens. Then it’s “Help me, Master.”
The video looked pretty good.
So upload it to my sister’s Facebook.
My sister is in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Easier said than done — for a stroke-survivor who’s never done it before.
Okay, no editing; that’s later.
The video is good enough to not need editing.
Okay, crank up video on DroidX.
“Share,” but no Facebook.
Not surprised.
I hear Facebook and Google are mortal enemies.
“Droid” is Google’s Smartphone operating-system.
So it looks like to upload to Facebook, I hafta get the video on my laptop.
Hook up USB cable. Transfer video, save on laptop.
Now I can upload to Facebook from my laptop.
I open my sister’s Facebook to upload the video.
“What happened to ‘upload video?’” I cry.
“Good old Facebook,” I say. “Every time I open it, something is slightly different.”
This is the first time in about three weeks.
“Every time I open it, I hafta blow 10-15 minutes researching how to drive it.
I don’t have 10-15 minutes to waste. Can’t they ever leave well-enough alone?”
I opened my own Facebook: no “upload video.”
My wife opened her Facebook; no “upload video.”
But she stumbled upon “upload video” under “upload photo.”
“Thank you, Facebook. I didn’t know a video was a photo.
Silly me!”
So upload video to my sister’s Facebook from my laptop, but it’s upside down.
We’re parrying Smartphone monkeyshines here.
How can I know what is upside down if my Smartphone is always righting the display automatically?
I guess I hafta shoot two short video-clips from either position to see what is upside down.
But that’s later.
There’s no correcting an upside down video-post, or so it seems.
My laptop video was upside down, so that’s what posted to Facebook.
Funny; Facebook can redefine “video” as a photo, but can’t seem to flip an upside down video — or can it, in which case it freezes my machine. (It has......)
This all reminds of years ago at the Mighty Mezz.
A computer-geek asked me how to work the Optical-Character-Recognition (OCR) scanner, with which I had much more experience.
“Face down,” I told him. “Face up gets the back of the sheet. Face up ya get nothing. The HEX-spurt has spoken!”
Next step: upload video to YouTube.
I don’t think I have a YouTube account, and YouTube wants a Google-account.
“I already have one,” I said.
“I went through this before with GMail, which I never could access on my laptop because it wanted a Google-account.”
My Google-account is what I drive this here blog with.
My GMail, which I never use, is a Smartphone app. I had to set up GMail to purchase my DroidX.
I get the feeling Google is trying to take over the entire known universe.
Google fatcats in megabuck Mercedes.
So much for YouTube, I thought. They’re not getting a third Google-account, I already have two.
Until I tried “Sign In,” and off-we-went.
I uploaded the video, but it too was upside down.
Delete that, except easier-said-than-done.
I finally deleted the YouTube video, after contorted “Try-This-and-See-What-Happens” navigation.
YouTube e-mailed me congratulations for successfully uploading my first YouTube video.
Like HELLO, it’s upside down.
My sister’s Facebook video remains, upside down but not deleted.
I’m sure she can deal with that.
• “Canandaigua” (“cannan-DAY-gwuh”) is a small city nearby where we live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” It’s about 14 miles away. —We live in the small rural town of West Bloomfield, southeast of Rochester.
• “Baker Park” is a city-park in Canandaigua.
• I had a stroke October 26, 1993, from which I pretty much recovered.
• The “Mighty Mezz” is the Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper, from where I retired over five years ago. Best job I ever had — I worked there almost 10 years.
Good enough to not bother purchasing a video-camera, which I’d have so little use for it’s not worth buying.
So I’ve shot a couple. Mostly of our dog.
Many are of our dog exploding out the back gate to tell off deer behind the back fence.
The other day I shot a longish video of our dog perusing a puddle at Baker Park in nearby Canandaigua. 38 seconds.
She’s hunting frogs — POUNCE! She’s very much the hunter. (So far, at least three frogs.)
There is a large concrete drain-pipe to the puddle. We have to keep her out of it. What if there were rats? Once a rat snagged a previous dog on the lip and wouldn’t let go.
Dogs don’t seem to worry about that until it happens. Then it’s “Help me, Master.”
The video looked pretty good.
So upload it to my sister’s Facebook.
My sister is in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Easier said than done — for a stroke-survivor who’s never done it before.
Okay, no editing; that’s later.
The video is good enough to not need editing.
Okay, crank up video on DroidX.
“Share,” but no Facebook.
Not surprised.
I hear Facebook and Google are mortal enemies.
“Droid” is Google’s Smartphone operating-system.
So it looks like to upload to Facebook, I hafta get the video on my laptop.
Hook up USB cable. Transfer video, save on laptop.
Now I can upload to Facebook from my laptop.
I open my sister’s Facebook to upload the video.
“What happened to ‘upload video?’” I cry.
“Good old Facebook,” I say. “Every time I open it, something is slightly different.”
This is the first time in about three weeks.
“Every time I open it, I hafta blow 10-15 minutes researching how to drive it.
I don’t have 10-15 minutes to waste. Can’t they ever leave well-enough alone?”
I opened my own Facebook: no “upload video.”
My wife opened her Facebook; no “upload video.”
But she stumbled upon “upload video” under “upload photo.”
“Thank you, Facebook. I didn’t know a video was a photo.
Silly me!”
So upload video to my sister’s Facebook from my laptop, but it’s upside down.
We’re parrying Smartphone monkeyshines here.
How can I know what is upside down if my Smartphone is always righting the display automatically?
I guess I hafta shoot two short video-clips from either position to see what is upside down.
But that’s later.
There’s no correcting an upside down video-post, or so it seems.
My laptop video was upside down, so that’s what posted to Facebook.
Funny; Facebook can redefine “video” as a photo, but can’t seem to flip an upside down video — or can it, in which case it freezes my machine. (It has......)
This all reminds of years ago at the Mighty Mezz.
A computer-geek asked me how to work the Optical-Character-Recognition (OCR) scanner, with which I had much more experience.
“Face down,” I told him. “Face up gets the back of the sheet. Face up ya get nothing. The HEX-spurt has spoken!”
Next step: upload video to YouTube.
I don’t think I have a YouTube account, and YouTube wants a Google-account.
“I already have one,” I said.
“I went through this before with GMail, which I never could access on my laptop because it wanted a Google-account.”
My Google-account is what I drive this here blog with.
My GMail, which I never use, is a Smartphone app. I had to set up GMail to purchase my DroidX.
I get the feeling Google is trying to take over the entire known universe.
Google fatcats in megabuck Mercedes.
So much for YouTube, I thought. They’re not getting a third Google-account, I already have two.
Until I tried “Sign In,” and off-we-went.
I uploaded the video, but it too was upside down.
Delete that, except easier-said-than-done.
I finally deleted the YouTube video, after contorted “Try-This-and-See-What-Happens” navigation.
YouTube e-mailed me congratulations for successfully uploading my first YouTube video.
Like HELLO, it’s upside down.
My sister’s Facebook video remains, upside down but not deleted.
I’m sure she can deal with that.
• “Canandaigua” (“cannan-DAY-gwuh”) is a small city nearby where we live in Western NY. The city is also within a rural town called “Canandaigua.” The name is Indian, and means “Chosen Spot.” It’s about 14 miles away. —We live in the small rural town of West Bloomfield, southeast of Rochester.
• “Baker Park” is a city-park in Canandaigua.
• I had a stroke October 26, 1993, from which I pretty much recovered.
• The “Mighty Mezz” is the Canandaigua Daily-Messenger newspaper, from where I retired over five years ago. Best job I ever had — I worked there almost 10 years.
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