In case anyone is even remotely curious (and, to my astonishment, 157 people so far have been ), I recorded a (decidedly amateur) video of NASA’s launch of Shuttle Discovery on Tuesday of this week. You can view it on YouTube. While you’re there, you can catch another video of my friend performing Stuff Like That There from her talent show appearance this past Thursday.

I’ve got a couple gigabytes (yes, that’s with a “g”) of photos from the last year uploading as well … that takes a long time since the United States is mired in this laggy, bullshit asynchronous broadband hell in which I can snarf down a CD image at almost a megabyte per second, but can only upload stuff back out at the snail’s pace of 50 or so kilobytes per second. That’s okay, because I’m also assuming my web host is going to shit a brick when I set the gallery off to the task of importing those 4,500 images It’s set to de-prioritize all of its work, so it won’t step on anyone else’s site performance, but who the hell knows how well this will work

The new camera has been well-behaved so far; it’s capable of taking 3 megabyte pictures (with JPEG compression), but fortunately it has more sane settings that drop that down to 500-600k or so while maintaining the same resolution and picture quality.

In the meantime, enjoy the videos!