For posterity...

Photobucket
While I haven't used it in years, I activated an old Photobucket account for this assignment. I don't know what I was expecting but I was genuinely surprised by how much has changed. When I first used Photobucket, it was a necessity to have the account in order to share pictures with my friends, probably through my Livejournal account that I had at the same time. This was probably around 2002-2005. And I stopped using it when it was no longer a necessity, largely because of Facebook. However, going back to it now I'm happy to say it has evolved from when I first uploaded the picture below.

What else is there for an 18/19/20-something to upload?

If someone knows the source of this picture, please let me know!

I'm happy to see that Photobucket has added so many new user options during my years of neglect, especially in terms of syncing with Facebook, that make it useable again for me. (I'm currently uploading my Facebook photos to have them backed up to another place!)

YouTube
If you go looking for it, you can find my own personal YouTube channel (that notes I was most recently active three years ago). On my channel you can watch a mediocre taping (thanks to a mediocre camera not a mediocre cameraman, thanks hubby!) of a profanity laden play I wrote a few years back called, "Hunger." Instead, I'll leave this video for you here.

John Green, a fabulous YA author, and his brother Hank (along with a crew of others that includes some of their high schools teachers), have created a few different veins of this series. All of them are combined under the umbrella of "Crash Course" videos. I recommend watching all of them! I especially love their chemistry videos, as they help me understand what my husband is doing for a living.

Google Maps
What I love about being able to add media to blog posts is our ability to use them as conversation points, whether they are markers of memory, creating a shared experience, or revisiting something we may have forgotten some details about. So, for this I decided just to add a map of something that I looked up recently, one of my favorite parks in El Paso, TX. An old high school haunt, Madeline Park.


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