Two hour raw video of snow removal operations in Montreal, Canada
These are the kinds of videos I like watching on YouTube. No narration, no music. Just real life happening without actually having to be there.
Minnesota nice even in the damn cold
For the 2nd year in a row in NYC, Christmas has been quite warm. I don't mind really -- it's nice not having to bundle up with every instance of the door opening -- but I do miss feeling of a cold Christmas. It just makes the song Baby, It's Cold Outside seem more relatable.
Anyway, I want some cold, but not Minnesota cold. Props to the people that live there. They really rough it out and take it all in stride.
Google uploaded a 10-hour video of confetti falling
Just for fun I guess. But maybe to sort of prove that snow and confetti basically ruin video compression on YouTube.
Why snow and confetti degrades YouTube video quality
Hmm, I've never really noticed this, but now I can't unsee it. Tom Scott explains in a very clear way why moving bits in video can sometimes degrade YouTube video quality. It has to do with how much information is compressed in a streaming video and how that information is channeled to users' computers across the internet. More moving parts in a video mean more data. But with a bottleneck of speed, that video can sure start to look crappy.
Look at all this snow still in front of Penn Station
Went for a long walk last night on Manhattan's West Side. Looks like the snow is melting fast, but not quite fast enough as you can see here in this giant pile of rock-hard snow.