Dec. 23rd, 2009

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I tried making videos on my camera. I didn't get the swim/crawl of my niece, but I did get standing with inadvertently appropriate background music. Very bad picture quality, though--so sad. Actually, that's got to be due to bad lighting because I can't use the flash on the video, and I always need flash for good pictures in that location.

I'd show you the video, but I have given up. Sometimes I really, really despise computers.

First I have to upload the video somewhere. Of course the new place I found to upload pictures to doesn't take videos. But then I thought of YouTube.

So first I have to create a YouTube account. I went through all the steps, but then it said it couldn't create a new account because I already have one. So I tried all the usual names and passwords and they don't work. So I said I forgot my password and they let me reset it. But then they said that I have to connect my YouTube account to my gmail account. And no matter what I do, either I don't have an account or I already have an account (whichever one doesn't let me do anything).

If I again try to create a new account they say my username is already taken. It was free a few minutes ago, so it must have been taken by me! But if I sign in using this username and password, it says the username or password is incorrect. Why won't it let me in?

How do people figure out new things to try until they make stuff like this work? I am out of ideas.
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The Saturday before last, we accidentally showed up at the place we go dancing a bit early. The dance is held at a dance studio, and we got to see a couple practicing west coast swing, probably our best dance.

Here's some dancing that looks sort of like ours. These guys are a little better than us and they know some moves we don't, but you can get the general idea of how we dance.



Isn't that nice?

I told Robin, "See those guys? That's what I'm talking about when I said some people are so good that they make our dancing look formulaic."

It took only a few more seconds of watching the practicing couple before I realized that the guy must be the person everyone was talking about who had come in fourth place in some recent world championship. They were incredibly smooth and did some unbelievable moves. I remember one where he turned the gal away from him, lead her to lean back on his shoulder and then moved away so that her head slipped down his back and down his leg. When her head got down to the back of his knee, he straightened it, thus popping her back into in upright position. By the end we were basically speechless and slobbering.

I found some videos of him, none with that particular move, but you can see something similar to what we were watching here:



That performance was a Jack and Jill Improvisation. I don't know if that means they never did this dance before but surely it means it's not a routine. It might be just regular leading and following by people who are amazing.

Here's what he looks like with his regular partner in a planned and practiced dance:



Here's another one I quite like, though the picture quality is quite bad:

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