Twitterpated

It's almost spring and you know what that means.

Yeah, well Spring Break...right. But what else?

Mmhmm, warm weather.... and?

Baby animals? Okay thats a stretch. Try again.

Easter! Correct! But what about Easter?

The fabulous candy. Easter is the best time of for candy. Forget Halloween. Halloween is all about quantity. Children throw quality aside in a mad rush to accumulate enough candy to maintain a month long sugar buzz. Easter is a grown up's holiday, as far as candy is concerned. Need proof? Let me introduce you to some of my friends.
First up: Starburst Jellybeans. These are the best thing to happen to jellybeans since J.K. Rowling invented them. She did. She makes everything better, even the bad Harry Potter movies. The problem with normal jellybeans is that they don't taste all that great. Sure, its fun to mix buttered popcorn with lime juice and almost throw up, but beyond taste experiments, jellybeans never had much to offer. Until now.

Next: Cadbury Creme Eggs. Despite the fact that these have actually shrunk over the years, they're still delicious. There was one one Easter when my Dad bought like 8 eggs for me. I kept them in my room. I'm pretty sure there were at least 4 left months later. They're delicious, but I can't even ignore the fact that they're a little too much.


Lastly: Reese's Peanut Butter eggs. Nuff said. These are the best of all the shaped Reese's. Pumpkins? They're okay. Trees? Those are pretty good, too. But eggs are definitely the best.

Join me and together we could rule the Universe as father and son!

Flame retardant jacket - check
Respirator - check
Goggles - check
Hard hat - check
Face shield - check
Gloves - check
Enough math skills to properly measure and cut metal tubing - ...almost?

I'm all about dressing up, and sometimes my job at the Scene Shop provides the perfect excuse.

If those respirators came in black, they'd be perfect for a movie featuring soldiers in a post apocalyptic hellscape chasing down the only people known to survive the nuclear fallout without contracting an ultra-mutated form of cancer, whom they'd like to force into highly invasive medical testing in order to find the cure. Holy crap that's a great idea.... I gotta go.

Feeling Official

Today was the day that Dana Priest, reporter for the Washington Post, held a lecture on campus. She is the reporter who brought the conditions at Walter Reed Hospital to the light, among some other important news stories of recent years. For my studio production class we set out to do a mobile show, trucking 3 cameras and tri-pods, audio equipment, a full intercom system, two tape decks, a mobile switcher/graphics generator and a ton of cables.

I volunteered to direct the show and Mike signed up for Technical Director, so we had a lot to do during the show. Since the show was on location at Hall Auditorium we were extremely limited in what we could do. All of our cameras were set up in the balcony, which made for some awkward angles. Dana Priest also decided to talk for over an hour and a half, which, when you're shooting three stationary cameras (or sitting in the audience, for that matter) makes for a grueling experience. There's only so much you can do with tri-pods, so we had our cameras searching for interesting shots all night, mostly to no avail. We got some interesting stuff going about half an hour in, when Mike suggested adding some camera movement. We panned across the crowd and eventually ended up with one shot that was a pan, a tilt and a zoom all rolled into one (that is every possible thing you can do with a camera on a tri-pod without messing with the focus). Long story short: we were desperate for something interesting.

At one point Stephanie said," Is camera 2 on air?"
"Yes, you're still on," I said.
"Ok, I just wanted to show you something."
I laughed and had Mike put a different camera on. "Take camera 3. Okay camera 2, what was it?"
On the preview screen, camera 2 pulled off of Ms. Priest and passed over the heads in the darkened theater, then zoomed in on a guy in a brown shirt, completely conked out. His head had rolled over and come to rest on the shoulder of the guy sitting next to him.
We all started laughing and someone said, "That pretty much sums up the night."

I just checked my e-mail and Glenn has made an announcement:
"Hello Folks, Due to the unbelievably long program at Hall Auditorium on Monday night, I have decided to declare an official COM312 Skip Day. There will be no Com 312 class on Tuesday Feb. 10. Enjoy the day and don't say I never gave you anything. "

Another good thing about being married

I can put garlic powder on my pizza, without harming my chances of getting a date.

Das tut mir leid

For those of you who don't keep up with The Colbert Report (read: unAmericans) Stephen sometimes pulls out what he calls the "On Notice" board. Being put On Notice signifies the official rebuke of Stephen and the Colbert Nation. Pictured left is the dry-erase version available at Comedy Central's website.

As most of you know, I'm generally a carefree, fun-loving individual. With that said, I'm putting a few things On Notice:

1. The German language
2. Cold
3. My bank account
4. Whoever invented the German language
5. Germans (presumably invented German language)
6. Windchill
7. Miami University (I saw a girl writhing on the ground with a broken leg yesterday, from slipping on the snowy sidewalk)
8. John Mayer improvising live

EDIT:
9. Ohio is also On Notice until it decides to be warm

Superbored Sunday

Lazy Sunday, wake up in the late afternoon...

Right now I'm waiting for my video to export. There wasn't anything to do today, so when Samantha said she was headed out to work on some homework, I drove over to Williams and finished up my latest video project. That's right, I actually came to campus on a Sunday. I'm pretty certain I have sworn to never do this. Of well.

I was expecting to spend an hour here. Looks more like 2 and a half. Unfortunately technology is never quite as fast as it should be. But, on the bright side, there's a new video coming soon! It should only take about 72 hours to upload it to Youtube, so check back.

WOOT! I think it's done. Peace.