So, I worked today. 1p-8p, as usual. It was slower than usual today, though. No idea why. We had like three or four propane fills (on average, we usually have something like 12). We sold nothing off of the rotating grill. Nothing out of the hot sandwich rack. No pizzas. No sandwiches. No donuts (not that there were any to really sell...). So, eventually I get hungry. I feel like I'm in the mood for a sub. So, I call up the local Jimmy John's. Subs so fast I'll freak my ass!. I call at 5:45, and the woman on the other end of the phone tells me that their delivery person won't be available for a half hour. Now it's 6:15 and I call. I place my order, warning them that if they get my order wrong again (for the past few times I've order from them, they haven't given me my order correctly, always screwing up some detail I asked for) I wasn't going to pay. I do this all very politely. The woman confirms the order, and tells me that my order should be there in twenty minutes. It's 6:45 now, and my food is 10 minutes late. I call up and ask Jimmy John's about what's going on. They tell me that the man is on his way, and that's all they can say. It's 6:55 before my food shows up. It's twenty minutes late. The guy comes speeding into the parking lot, and gets out. He hands me my order. I confirm that it's exactly what I ordered (for once!) and pay. However, I must admit, twenty minutes late and speeding into a parking lot are not really good ways of getting a nice tip. I call up Jimmy John's and complain about my food being late, as well has having to wait for their driver to show up. Adding up the times, I've had to wait a little over an hour to eat. The manager explains that their regular driver wasn't available to make the rounds today (that explains the first half hour) and that the man they pulled for the job was a regular floor employee, so he didn't know the route. *thinks for a second* I can get from my house (which is two blocks away from where I work) to Robert and Wentworth (where JJ's is located) in little less than ten minutes. Forty minutes is a little extreme, but I'll understand twenty. Ten to make the sandwich (remember, there's other people there ordering too) and ten to deliver it. The manager also points out that he doesn't know who quoted me twenty minutes, because apparently they never deliver in twenty minutes. Now I'm just thinking WTF?! Even pizza places deliver in a half hour, and they have to cook my food, plus deliver it. They're usually on time, and they get my order right. Why can't they make a sandwich and deliver it in that amount of time? My order wasn't even complex or large. Besides, I remember the first time we ordered from Jimmy John's, two of us ordered, and the food was there in fifteen minutes. It was early. Yes, that was a sub so fast I freaked. I think they just got lazy up there. I think I'll order from Rocco's tomorrow.

Multi-pass encoding is a wonderful thing. And, in theory, it's simple too.

You take a video, and you run it through the encoder telling it that you are doing multi-pass encoding, and that this is the first pass. It saves all the information on what it does to a log file. Then you take the same file, and run it though the encoder as many times as you want, with it reading from the log file. Each additional pass you make, it reads the log file, and then optimizes it just a little bit more. The result is a high quality video that uses the least amount of space possible.

In my case, it's not so. I've done about four passes on this one video, and apparently I shouldn't be tweaking the settings each time. As a result, I've become rather disgruntled that I have to start from scratch now. But at least my resulting video will be nice and crisp and clear! And this is a video that begs for details to be kept.