links
Posted on March 12, 2007
Someone once told me that blogs are basically supposed to be “links with commentary”. And while I tend to go the more “talk about myself all the time” route, I like to share links from time-to-time. So let’s get to it:
1. The Onion is starting a video version of their insanely awesome website (you know, which is the electronic version of their completely brilliant newspaper). There’s a promo on YouTube!
2. Saw a link to this SkyNews story about an Australian child predator. The video is just plain weird. There’s a point where the pedophile yells at the reporter and calls him a “raper” - which sounds even crazier to my American ears because it has that cool accent and sounds like “reappa”. [link to video]
3. Sci-Fi channel is encouraging Battlestar Galactica fans to make and upload their own BSG mash-ups (the winning entry will air during the show later this season). They even supply a ton of audio and video clips. I’m in brainstorming mode right now…I gotta make a video!
4. My pal Mac has started posting his ‘dream cast’ for the Gi-Joe movie that’ll never get made. I plan on making my own list by the end of this week.
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wildfire
Posted on March 12, 2007
Tonight I smell like a delicious, smoked BBQ brisket. Not because I’ve been marinating in sauce all day, but rather the fact that I spent some time on the front lines of a wildfire. Although all it takes is just a few minutes of standing in the presence of a wildfire to become completely hickory smoked for about a week. [as you read this, I’m spraying everything with Febreeze - including myself]
Gordon and I were sent running out the door as the morning meeting wrapped up, charged with a simple assignment: get there, shoot as fast as you can, and haul ass back to the station (no sat truck). And that’s exactly what we did. By the time we got to the fire we only had 30 minutes to shoot our story before jumping back in the SUV.
Lucky for us, a spot fire sparked-up as we were coming down the road and we were able to get right up next to it and shoot teases and stand-ups.
This photo doesn’t really do it all justice. There was way more fire moments after I snapped the photo, and it also doesn’t capture the intense feeling of having my face and shins melting from the nearby heat (or the mental countdown in my head until I have to run away before getting nailed by the fire hose). [link: our news pkg]
Anyway, this is just Monday, I can’t imagine what the rest of the week is gonna shape up to be like.
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attack
Posted on March 11, 2007
Kept it pretty low key this weekend, as I wasn’t feeling all that great. I think it was a combination of fatigue, jetlag, and lack of sleep [even though those are all kinda the same thing]. I also went and saw the movie 300, and even though I was kinda dizzy, it just made the cartoonish decapitations (and there were many) more exciting.
And I finally got my Xbox 360, which was bittersweet. Not because I found out the unit I purchased had the front completely bashed in (true!) and I had to return moments before the store closed. But, because my super-pal Hasser won’t be able to finish Gears Of War with me, as he’s packing up and leaving South Carolina tomorrow. We got halfway through the game together, but now I’ll have have to finish fighting the Locust horde by myself.
I’ll post my new gamertag and all that business when I get my box online tomorrow.
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cap’n
Posted on March 7, 2007
Back at work today. I had such a short vacation in PDX that I missed seeing all my friends. I also missed a bunch of my favorite TV shows (that probably sounds wrong, but I sorta think of my shows as friends too - sorry).
Anyway, the world I came back to today was not the same as I had left it six days ago: the newsroom was clean (execs are visiting), my Tivo was full (wtf?), and Captain America is dead (no way!). Years from now people will be saying, “Where were you when Cap got shot?” and then reminisce about the day that “changed the world”.
I first heard about it when I was in the comic book shop, oddly enough (although I vaguely remember seeing Cap on the front page of Yahoo - which I didn’t bother to read). The dorks in the shop were all, “Uh…he’s dead” and stuff. I asked if they had an extra copy, as I don’t subscribe to it even though I read it every month. But, the comic shop guy taunted me with a copy that I couldn’t have, so I just drove two blocks away to the other comic shop in town and got it without hassle (but he did warn me that ‘the media needs to cover the story responsibly’).
Filed Under geekery | 4 Comments
pdx
Posted on March 3, 2007
Been having a swell time the past few days in Portland. It’s wild how many things have changed since I’ve been gone (or the fact that I missed half of them when I was here for a whole week in September). Right after getting here I promptly ate a bunch of delicious happy hour treats and then lost my cell phone - which made it difficult to call my friends, as I don’t know phone numbers anymore.
Also, I was trying to find a the perfect photo to attach to this post and I ran across this sign in my old neighborhood a few hours ago:
My runner-up photo was a “keep Portland weird” banner hanging in a boutigue window with a bunch of strung-up Barbie doll heads and a Decemberists poster. Very PDX. Anyway, I still have a few days left to relax and “get my Oregon on” before heading back to the Upstate. Talk to you later.
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