Local election
Streamingly Idiotic

No doubt you will have noticed that The Tribune has started broadcasting live streaming video of the county supervisors race forums. Last week, we hosted the 3rd district debate here at the Tribune office and today we went to the Paso Robles Inn for the District One debate.I won't bore you with the details of the technical wizardry that was required to stream the video, because that's really not a very interesting story. Let's just say that we managed to get everything working with only minor hiccups and I'm pretty happy with the results.
There was, however one fairly major hiccup that occurred right after the Paso Robles broadcast. You see, there's a reasonable amount of equipment involved in the process; we have to bring microphones, a camera, a computer, tripods, etc. Not to mention all the wiring that has to be done to get everything connected. It's a fairly lengthy process that requires someone of obviously genius-level intelligence to facilitate.
It's such a shame that it was left to me then, since I am clearly an idiot.
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