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Saturday, February 2, 2013

282 DEADTIME

"i don't want to put any ideas in your heasd . i want you to see it yourself . do you have a computer with you ?i'll send an enhanced vrsion . my video guy clean it up ."
"i don't have a laptop with me ." i didn't tell her i didn't own a laptop ." you'll have to send the enhanced version to my phone ."
i couldn't believe i just said that .
"okay ." i heatrd her typing. she said ,: who sent you the clip first ? the dark version you justr saw ?"
"don't know ." my suspicion was that mel had sent it , only because i couldn't imagine any else doing it . "just a second , it's from a ....yahoo account - i don't recognized the name . oh ....there's a youtube link too . in the subject line. lot of numbers ."
"as the words left my mouth , i recalled the doodlles on the cover ofthe bound book of sudoku puzzles in lisa' limited stay apartment in morningside heights.
one of the scribbles had been youtube .
"really ? what's the youtub linkl? never mind , just forward the clip you have to me ," merideth said ."i can capture the link that way."i hesitated while i started at my ohone . forwarding wasn't an intuitive process. while i tried to apply the schema , merideth recognized my digital dyslexia . with surprising patience , she was walked recognized my digital dyslexia .with surprising patience , she walked me through the simple process of forwarding the clip to her so she could capture the youtube URL.
i waited to recieve the enhanced version of the clip from her while she waited to recieve te youtube address from me . she won . i wasn't surprised . i was operating with a pretty high handicap .
after about thirty seconds she said, "okay ,i have the youtube version on my mac . it's playing now . it's not enhanced . but the effing thing is really posted on effing youtube . forty seven views sio far . it's been up for , let's se ...almost a month."
"i'm not ,,,,youtube conversant , merideth. could you translate?"
"somebody upload - you know what that means , yes?-the clip to youtube about a month ago . it's called 'grand canyon  floor ."

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