I was going to write about high tea at the Ritz-Carlton for A’s birthday, but I felt like telling the story in ASL instead. So you can view the video for that here (WMV file), and the translation follows. There’s a bit of Truffle in there too.
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I had promised kgola a little video with a couple of signs, and quarterling seemed interested too (?), so I made this video blog. It also gets into the new Gallaudet president a little bit, and at the end is an introduction of Amanita. :MK:, my sister-in-law, walks by in the background!

I still had Windows Movie Maker open when A started playing with Toadie and a lunchbag, so I took a short video of that, too.

Transcription follows, use rot13 to decode:
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eudyptes sent me to Firefox Flicks, where users can submit video testimonials for Firefox. The weekly winners get $50 Amazon gift certificates and Mozilla schwag, and the grand prize winner gets $500 from Amazon. So I made a long and fancy video testimonial, complete with subtitles, only to find out that Firefox Flicks insists that you upload directly through their site - and they only give you 30 seconds! So my nice script was pretty much useless, and I just said something along the lines of “Uhh…Firefox is great! It has lots of options! It’s a great product! Go ahead, try Firefox TODAY! What are you waiting for?!” So I made the fancy one into a blog entry instead, and uploaded it here. I won’t bother posting a translation here because it’s subtitled! (I’m not sure if I’ll try that again…it was kind of a pain.)

Added: The testimonial I actually submitted to them can be found here but it’s pretty cheesy.

I forgot to mention this earlier, but our kitty Amanita is apparently deaf. She’s probably about nine or ten years old, and she recently had ear mites, but those have been cleared up. We’re not sure how long she’s been deaf, but my brother-in-law pointed it out to us this morning so we did the usual tests and didn’t even get a flicked ear. We’re holding off on bringing her to the vet because she acts fine and we don’t really feel like dealing with another veterinary crisis right now.

This is my third video blog entry! Putfile was being screwy, so I looked for alternative hosts and came across ZippyVideos. (If you want to sign up, please let me know so I can give you a referral link. Or don’t, up to you.) Anyway, this is still in WMV format, because for some reason the MPG version I made isn’t uploading. I e-mailed the ZippyVideos people to ask about it; if I can get it uploaded I’ll mention that here. Also, I’ve updated the links to the first two entries to point to the new locations at ZippyVideos. Stuff is public at ZippyVideos, which is a little odd…people I don’t know are watching me already! Anyway, the non-ASL-literate can check below for the English translation. And yes, I know everything is a little blurry, leaving trails…I’ll have to figure that out at sometime other than 1:00 in the morning.

By the way, I also started a community on LiveJournal called signing_blogs, so join that if you’re into this kind of thing.

Added: I’ve moved my video blogs again, this time to YouTube. It is decidedly more Web 2.0 than the other two services, and it gives a 100mb upload limit instead of 20mb. And it already seems to have a lot of deaf users, which is a major plus because it helps develop the signing blog community.
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Whee, it’s a second video blog entry! I will probably just keep storing stuff on Putfile and translating it here, unless I figure out how to do subtitles on the signing in which case I’ll just put a link to each new entry. The quality still isn’t good; I have to figure out how to adjust compression settings. English translation below!
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Okay, I just have to show off one of my gifts from yesterday. Those of you that understand ASL can click here; those of you that don’t can peek at the translation below.
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