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A short mea culpa

Please forgive me for the relative abandonment of Wednesday’s baseball game.

A compacting of technical issues — poor 4G signal, laptop overheating, and general computer moodiness — came together at the worst possible time to prevent any watchable stream from happening.

I’m starting to look at ways we can prevent this in the future, including alternate Internet providers and laptop cooling solutions.

I’ve never had anything like it happen, so I must admit I was rather unprepared.

MW vs. Independence

We lost 40-43, sadly. But the game was great, and a hell of a nailbiter, especially near the end.

Here’s the full game:


The first few minutes of the first half


..was cut off from the rest because of these beautiful things called “technical difficulties” — this is video of the first and second halves.


Third and fourth halves.

MW vs MS

Whitney won, 57-41.

Here’s the clips, split by halves:

Halves 1 & 2

Halves 3 & 4

A postmortem: the 2-18 basketball game.

I have been told before by various people that I need to stop being so hard on myself and that no one else is doing this and blah blah blah.

Well, whatever. But this apology must be made: I profusely apologize for the terribly low quality for the first bit of our broadcast.

I am not attempting to justify or get out of what happened, but here’s the background: we had to literally run down to Aguila’s room with Mr. Hohne in tow (I told him: “I take back the one or two bad things I’ve ever said about you, you’re amazing.”) in order to get a tripod head thing to screw onto our camcorder since we forgot to bring one. In the rush to get the broadcast up and running, we forgot to check some settings in Flash Media Live Encoder which have to do with quality.. and this, pt. 1 of the basketball broadcast came out looking terrible

It should be noted that these clips are not separated by quarter; but, rather, by pure terrible luck. You can thank our stupidity and Samsung for the fact there’s not just one big clip.

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Watch Cowhide, all over again

Watch all of last night’s Cowhide broadcast below.

Watch all of Mt. Whitney 2010 Homecoming

Some would say that consolidation is the best policy and we should have shoved this all into one post.

I Most would tell them to shut up because I want Google rankings.

With that said, this post has embeds for our broadcast. It ended up being split into three different clips, which coincide with my stupidity and messing around with FMLE and what not. They’re not in any actual order.

JV vs Sanger

JV vs Sanger, Float Parade (begins at 40:00), Varsity vs Sanger (begins 1:10:00, extends into next video)

Varsity vs Sanger, Halftime Show (begins at 18:40), Homecoming Court Intro/Crowning Ceremony (begins at 25:00), game resumes at 40:00

After the event.

Homecoming was great. Even though we lost.

This is a fact.

Here’s a quick overview:

  • Jenny Taylor is your new Homecoming Queen, be sure to bow to her in the hallways.
  • Float results: 3rd Place: Freshman Float, 2nd Place: AVID, 1st Place: Pioneer Partners (once this was announced you could hear me yell “Link Crew got robbed!”) until.. ‘Grand Prize’: Link Crew
  • JV score: MW 24, Sanger 44.
  • Varsity score: MW 7, Sanger 28.
  • View a ton of pictures over at The Pioneer sometime Monday or Tuesday.

Oh, and you can view a ton of video after the jump.

By the way, before I cut this post off, I’d like to thank a lot of people:

  • Sherry over at CLEAR (formerly Clearwire), and CLEAR as a whole. CLEAR (and, last year, Clearwire) have given us loaner cards for every live broadcast we’ve done (a whole two!) — the quality of all of them have been top-notch thanks to their service and their generosity.. If you’re in the market for wireless internet, screw AT&T and Verizon. Go with CLEAR. Plus it’s unlimited. (Call ‘em up at 734-2006, too!)
  • HeadShot over at the VTD for calling me and telling me you could totally hear me joking around with my friends.
  • @JadedDAVe on Twitter for retweeting our Twitter adverts for the stream.
  • Mr. Hohne and Mrs. Corliss for letting this all go forward. They’re amazing. ‘Nuff said.
  • Justin.TV for not interrupting our stream with ads like Livestream and Ustream would have.
  • Oh, and Andrew & Damian over at the Times-Delta for letting me promote the stream in their liveblog. Their liveblogs are always great.
  • And, last but certainly not least, everyone who watched. We did it all for you!

Without further ado, let’s get to the videos. Again, click on that little “Read the rest of this entry” link to view ‘em.

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