We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Program
Filed Under (Cameron, Extended family, Family, Kristin, Mark, Paris, Uncategorized) by Jay on 08-11-2008
Tagged Under : News, USNA
(Original post 10/22/08 — repost 11/8/083
As many of you know, Karen, Paris and I were recently in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania for six days. I planned on taking a ton of pictures and video, but we got so wrapped up in the “enjoying” our company part that we didn’t really shoot much footage of any of them. This is especially true with Kristin and Cameron (the two we should have shot most!).
I do have some video I’ll try to piece together, and Sami was busy firing away with his camera. Maybe he’ll share?
In the meantime, I received a DVD in the mail today from USNA courtesy of the Parents’ fund. It’s a video detailing the fun known as “Plebe Summer”. This is a generic USNA piece…it is not the video I expect to receive soon that will feature more of Mark. But! At the very beginning of this Plebe Summer video, you’ll see footage of our young man humping that damn zodiac he thought was so funny (until he had to carry it, row it and carry it again). He may appear a couple of more times as well, but any of you that have searched through thousands of photos (like I have) know that “they all start to look alike”…
This thing is 18 minutes long. It’s “okay”…it’s not going to rock your world, but it does offer some insight into the USNA experience and Plebe Summer. If you have a chunk of time and you’re in the mood to learn about the madness, hit the “play” button.
Enjoy –
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I’m trying to get away from the need for a YouTube link. YouTube doesn’t play nice with videos over 10 minutes long, and I thought the quality was just so-so. Since I’m on a Mac, I picked Quicktime as my default video player. My website host also prefers Quicktime. For you Windows Mediaplayer freaks out there…sorry. You probably have Quicktime on your machines anyway. If not…it’s free to download.
Make sure the video loads a bit before you hit “play”.
We’re using flash video now courtesy of our friends at Bill Webb Studio (no relation…sorry). We owe them our thanks! And I owe them some money…