Six years ago, I was on The Weakest Link. A bunch of posts were written about the experience, most of which was wrapped up nicely in essay form and published in a book. And finally – FINALLY – I’m able to upload the video to the Internets and embed it relatively easily.

Me on The Weakest Link from Ernie Hsiung on Vimeo.

I’m the blond girl in the flowery dress. Ha ha, just kidding.

But Ernie, you say. It’s 2008 and this was years ago. Why now? Sixty percent of the motivation is because the movie file was on a VERY old laptop I don’t use anymore – whereas in 2003 I had to host the file, embed the file, and not guarantee the movie will play properly due to your settings. Now everything is centralized and people embed video without second thought.

As for the other 40 percent: pure vanity – why fight it? I’d like to think that if I were suddenly to disappear from his earth tomorrow I’d like to be remembered, that there would be digital evidence that I had actually existed somewhere. And what better evidence than millions of zeroes and ones, forming the shape of me answering the question of “what is 9 x 5″ on national television?

(And to Tom, who recorded the episode for me a long, long time ago: Thank you. I owe you a beer.)