But apparently there is.  FedEx has managed to take 8 full days to get us our tape shipment sent via 3 day shipping.  Which, when speaking geologically, is actually very similar to 3 days.

As a result of this Epic Fail, there won’t be an episode today.  Or tomorrow.  My bet is that we’ll be live again Wednesday morning.  In the mean time I’ll have a couple more posts from the American East as well as my November financial update.

To tide you over until then, check out these babies:

Damn, son.

That’s my new remote storage.  Having filled up 750Gb with material for only the first 6 episodes of this season I decided to upgrade to this pair of monstrous 1.5Tb drives to carry the load from now on.  Those are the new Seagate ST31500341AS drives that are making as many headlines for their failures as for their insane capacity.  Apparently I’m a gambler.

Also, I bought them on Black Friday at a discount that left me paying the simply unthinkable price of $0.08/Gb.  Even 4 months ago the best deal you could get on 3.5″ storage was $0.15/Gb.  I’m paying more per month for $0.60/can beer than I am HD video storage.

I’ll post another entry later this week detailing just how one transfers 750Gb off of a RAID array and onto a long-term storage drive with only two functioning SATA ports between four computers (hint: you don’t).