I do not condone this behavior.

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I upgraded my DSL service with Verizon today. They try to push their FIOS service so much that it is difficult just to get them to talk about DSL. They are like timeshare salesmen who won't take no for an answer. I must have said 5 times in a row that "I appreciate you are trying to sell FIOS, but I do not want it and won't change my mind". I finally did get what I needed but it wasn't easy.

I made this youtube using low-tech and high-tech means. I still have a cassette deck that I use to record music off the radio. This is a special version of this song that I taped when it was played on the radio. So I played the tape on my stereo and recorded the "movie" on my basic digital still camera, and the uploaded it to youtube. The quality is OK especially at the beginning, but fades a bit toward the end of the song. But there is something about this song that I find dream-like. This version has a fun intro with the singers talking for the first half minute or so.

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The videos I have uploaded now have over 3,200 views. I am fascinated that they got this many views. Youtube has a feature called "Insight" that analyzes the views. Right now, about 78% are from males. How they can tell that I don't know since computers can be shared. And most views are from middle-aged people which makes sense since I mainly uploaded songs from the late 60s to the mid 90s. Newer stuff seems to be harder to get past copyright, and I guess most of it has been posted by the artists or others who know how to get past the copyright issues. Again I don't know how they know the ages, but I guess that is part of the tracking that is done when people visit different websites.