Sending Videos

My research at some point involved imaging domains of fluorescent colloids. I needed to take long videos of these domains for further analysis. In these analyses it was important to store each frame with no compression to avoid loosing significant data. I had about >2 hours of video stored with no compression. The capacity I needed to store them was greater than 2 gigabytes.

Wanting to be able to show my videos to other groups and scientist especially at conferences and presentations, I uploaded the videos on youtube and labeled them as unlisted so that only people with a link would be able to see them.

So one day my stupid advisor sends me an email asking me for ALL my videos although I had previously sent him many links to those videos. So I go to my playlist and share it with him. He replies back to me that he has not received any videos. This time I share it again with him, myself and my officemate to ensure that the sharing actually works. My officemate and I receive the link and everything works perfectly. He again replies back and claims he has not received any videos.

My head starts to smoke so this time I just forward the sharing email I got from youtube to his email address and tell him that My officemate and I have tested the link and it works. He this time replied and I quote: "Cannot open attachment please reformat."

After laughing myself to death for a long long time and trying, really really trying to stay polite, I reply: "It is a link. You click on it."

That was one of the moments I realized how my time is being wasted with this stupid advisor with no fucking good reason. I shouldn't be spending time explaining the difference between a link and an attachment to my stupid advisor. I don't know where people who can't distinguish an attachment from a link should be but one is clear they shouldn't be a professor at Rice!