Third Third (Day 3589 - 9/22/19)

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Stephen shows the 3 memory cards he has sitting on the kitchen counter along with various other things like his passport, stain remover, a GorillaPod, a Sudoku book, some Chinese coins, and U.S. coins. He says that the memory cards that he brought to record footage in China have just been sitting there on the counter ever since they got back. Stephen's memory cards are in cases that are labeled 1-5 and memory cards 3-5 are on the counter. He says that memory card 1 is upstairs and memory card 2 is currently in the vlog camera. Stephen says that Mal usually uses memory cards 3 and 4 for MalMakes. Memory card 2 is almost full, so Stephen quickly ends the clip and goes switch it to memory card 5.

Then, Stephen talks about how he has been super productive today. He says that he feels like vlogs are like a boulder in his life and working on them makes him feel productive. Stephen then goes to put the data in memory card 1 into the computer which will take 50 minutes. He talks about how the footage from China has only existed in the memory cards up until now, so he's glad that the footage is now stored in 2 places. Stephen says this memory card is the "third third" or the last part of the 3 parts of footage from China. He says that he makes sure that footage is backed up in 2 places in case one of them dies. It is frightening to him to only have data stored in one place. Stephen gives reasons such as accidentally eating the memory cards or Sagan crushing the memory cards by accidentally jumping onto it.

He talks about how he wasn't sure how much memory he was going to need for filming when they were going to China. Stephen didn't want to bring his laptop along because it's a hassle to bring it. So, he had to take a finite amount of space. Therefore, he took one 256 gigabyte memory card, three 128 gigabyte memory cards, one 64 gigabyte memory card. Stephen says that he filled the 256 gigabyte memory card and mostly filled the 128 gigabyte card. He could've shot more footage since he had so many extra memory cards, but he was consciously trying to limit himself. Stephen says that he tried to only shoot footage that he was actually going to use. He explains that it's easier to edit when there is less footage and faster editing means that the China vlogs will be released more quickly.

Stephen is glad that he can finally get these memory cards off his desk since they've just been sitting on his desk. He says that it is scary when data exists in only 1 place. Stephen says that it is better when the data exists in multiple places. He then talks about how people often ask him about how he stores data and how many times he backs up that data. Stephen explains that he stores it in the best way he can and makes sure that all that data is organized. For example, he has the footage from the 2018 vlogs that haven't been released yet, organized in a way where he will be able to find it when he needs to edit those vlogs. Then, he talks about how the vlogs from March 2018 aren't out yet. Stephen says that they took a trip around that time and he still has a lot of dash cam footage from that trip. He says that they went on a 3 week road trip to Maine and back, so he has a lot of dash cam footage.

Stephen says that his parents got Rocko a toy not too long ago for his birthday. He explains that there are certain toys that Rocko just doesn't like and those toys end up being given to Sagan and Kepler. Rocko didn't like the toy, so his parents gave it to them. It was a toy that had a UFO on a string connected to stick and it also lights up. Stephen says that this toy was appropriately timed because of the recent event about storming Area 51 which just turned into a musical festival. Sagan ends up biting the UFO toy and not letting go of it.