I discovered that the dog gets a little camera shy! This is incredibly convenient when I want him to stop staring at me when I’m eating:
Oh, and that is his kennel in the background! The kennel is under a table with a patterned table cloth. This makes the kennel invisible on those rare occasions where I actually shut the door.
99.54% of the time it’s as awkward as it looks in the video.
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And this a video of us on a frozen lake:
As I say in the video, I though driving on a lake was absolutely crazy…so when I saw this on the fail blog last night I felt vindicated.
Me (to Jamie): “SEE? SEE? That could have been us!”
Jamie: “Eh, that only happens at the beginning or end of the season…”
Ermp. Okay.
I finished uploading some videos from last weekend’s Bemidji trip. The rest are on the youtube channel.
A Minnesota Court of Appeals has cited a youtube video in an unpublished opinion.
The case is about a 14-year-old gymnast who tried this:
The girl (of course) landed on her head, was injured, and sued.
Now, it’s hard to explain the complicated vault, so this is what the court did:
Goetz began participating in gymnastics programs when she was five or six years old, and it appears from the record that she is a fairly skilled gymnast. She attempted the difficult Tsukahara vault for the first time in the autumn of 2001. When performing a Tsukahara vault, a gymnast runs along a long mat, jumps off a springboard, does a half twist, pushes off a pommel horse with her hands while upside down, does one and a half flips, and lands on her feet facing the horse.1
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1 The school district cited a video of Mitsuo Tsukahara performing his namesake vault at the 1976 Olympics. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TmYqSOYZr0 (last visited Dec. 16, 2008). Goetz did not object to the citation. We found the video to be helpful.
I think this is brilliant. It would be terribly convenient for courts to create a youtube channel that contains videos of pertinent material, including depositions (instead of transcribing them in opinions)…
…heck, or even Westlaw – “Defendant robbed a bank…see the video here.”
… “Defendant cussed out judge and was thrown in jail for contempt of court…see video here.”
Sure, it might put TruTV out of business, but I still think it’s the business.
This story is via Fresh.mn Twitter and Minnesota Lawyer .
A video of South Beach today…
I have no idea why the quality is so bad. Let’s blame youtube.
Crap. So I got behind again…oodles of snippets…
