He re-encodes the video overnight. The next morning, he plays it for the family.

“The cross wasn’t just a symbol. It was data. Each knot, each grain of wood, each degree of tilt — they were all packets waiting to be reassembled. And I realized: my video wasn’t corrupted. It was just encoded wrong.”

The screen shows a corrupted video file — his meticulously recorded lecture on “The Mathematical Inelegance of Gravel Road Construction” — now a pixelated mess.

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