Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July everyone. Today I was planning on spending the afternoon at Jones beach and then catching some fireworks in the evening, but the weather doesn’t seem to want to make that happen. It’s been a very cloudy and cool day, and reports from the beach say its raining now. So trying to decide if I want to still try to head over there for the fireworks. We shall see!
Anyway, for the past year I’ve been trying to plan a trip to the Galapagos Islands, and as of June I got it booked! Bonj and I will be going down there for a 10 day boat tour of the islands in September.
In preparation for that, this weekend I splurged and got a High Def camcorder. Right now I’m trying to decide which comunities I want to join online for video sharing. I’ve joined with the ovious choice, youtube, but haven’t been happy at all with the quality of the videos. Below are some sample vids I took with my cam that I posted on divx’s Stage6. It does require a divx web player plugin to be installed, and a fast connection, but if you can manage both the videos look amazing! Let me know what you think.
[Edit: Originally I had the following two vids embeded in the page, but it looks like that doesn’t work well with stage6 right now, so click the link to see the high quality vid]
From the car near my office & the pond at my apt
Ruben’s Brother’s Big Idea
Here’s the second video on youtube: