oxdottir
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Channel: The agony and the ecstacy of engineering
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Channel: The agony and the ecstacy of engineering
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I'm an ivory tower type of person, but don't hold that against me. The avatar is a picture of a Chthulu cupcake, one of many baked and photographed by a friend, and photoshopped into solitary splendor by another friend. Given that it was a Chthulu cupcake, I couldn't resist having it say "bite me," but I'm not really cantankerous, just irresistibly drawn to a quip.
Member Since: 2007-08-29
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In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
Sorry, oh enigmatic one!
*discard
Thanks for the heads-up. Research has been so busy I haven't been on VS in months....
In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
I submitted a video that is hot, and my inclusion of the science channel, very much on purpose, is controversial. I said I would like the determination to be made by you and not random star-invocations. Here is the video:
http://www.videosift.com/video/Girl-spins-on-escalator
And here are some comments :
>> ^MarineGunrock:
nochannel happy femme comedy
How the hell is this science? And what part of this discusses engineering or demonstrates it?
>> ^oxdottir:
Geeze, MG. She's using matched linear forces to provide a rotational spin, and the escalator gadget is being used emmergently. I'm slapping those channels back on, and if the science channel guy wants to eject it, let him. But as the engineering channel guidance counselor, THAT one stays!
>> ^xxovercastxx:
By that standard we could mark probably every video on the sift as science and/or engineering. Show me a video that doesn't feature gravitational forces in action. Show me a video that doesn't feature a lever, wheel & axle, or an inclined plane somewhere.
Science is usually rigorously enforced, thankfully. A number of the other channels are becoming catch-alls or the channel owner's favorites list. The frickin woohoo channel even says "anything else that we find suitable.." right in its description.
>> ^oxdottir:
Specious argument. Yes, many videos have gravity in them, no those videos don't usually show the existence of gravity producing a novel or surprising result. Should the Science Channel owner disagree, I would not complain.
I created the engineering channel partly out of frustration that there was no appropriate venue for cool gadgets, cool use of technology, and discussions of same. This is smack dab in the intended area, and I would know that better than anyone. Which doesn't of course, keep you from being snippy, but that's the interwebs.
>> ^rottenseed:
oh and this is nature too because humans are part of nature.
and sexuality because those tight jeans make her look sexy to me
>> ^oxdottir:
I removed those channels. If their owners really wanted them in, I wouldn't complain.
I am clearly from a different planet from some of you. To extend the metaphore above, a video that contained gravity as part of the world is not worthy of a science tag. A video taken of two disparate sized objects that were dropped off the tower of Pisa and which landed at the same time would be, even if no words were spoken. Rembar, whatever you want is fine with me.
In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
You are a class act, my dear MG.
(seriously--I'm talking about your upvoting of the comment where I chided you)
In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
Your Pqueued sina is dead (I tried to watch)
In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
nice comments!
In reply to this comment by bamdrew:
I guess I can put this in *science, now that I've dragged some nerdy language out on the comment board,
Thanks for the clarification though.
In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
It's not the posted date. It's the original submission date. It's confusion, which is why I discarded my own submission eroneously. If you hover over "published by" it says 4 days 10 hours. Yours says 3 days something hours. I did it very carefully when they were both live. I can't do it to yours now, because you can't see that with discarded videos. But I checked over and over.
I'm not trying to be nasty. I discarded my own when I saw yours at first, then I posted to sifttalk: http://www.videosift.com/talk/Can-we-have-time-stamps-on-original-submissions and then lucky undiscarded mine because the dates confirmed mine was first. I didn't know until today that you could get information from hovering over "published by" or "submitted by".
In reply to this comment by spoco2:
Wha?
So, my post, when I hover over the posted date I get: June 15th 2008, for the other post I get June 17th 2008.... Um, how am I second on this one?
In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
This post is a dupe of http://www.videosift.com/video/Roller-Coasters-increasingly-intense-rides, which was submitted first, verified by hovering over the "published by" field abovve.
*discard
So, my post, when I hover over the posted date I get: June 15th 2008, for the other post I get June 17th 2008.... Um, how am I second on this one?
In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
This post is a dupe of http://www.videosift.com/video/Roller-Coasters-increasingly-intense-rides, which was submitted first, verified by hovering over the "published by" field abovve.
*discard
In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
Thanks very much Lucky. I am really glad to learn this trick.
Now, is there anything I can do about having discarded as a dupe a posting that was actually the first of its kind?
In reply to this comment by lucky760:
If you hover your mouse over the "published by" or "queued by" text below a videos' title it tells you when it was originally posted.
In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
*beg
In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
i got another one...
In reply to this comment by Thylan:
This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Dick Clark Productions, Inc.
copyright dead
I wish I had time to post more videos (also to watch more videos), but I hope to one day create the Brazilian channel here - until people find out that I always hide in the mountains during Carnaval.
In reply to this comment by oxdottir:
I'm glad you found the sift! I hope you post lots more things from the Brazilian perspective.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Long-live-version-of-Discovery-Channels-Boom-De-Yada