The new terminology is “idea showers”.

Dear diary blog,

I’m enjoying a nice, relaxing holiday weekend, and have just now found time to scribble upon your moldy, crinkled pages. Where to begin? I’ve been taking a ton of photos lately, and as usual, they only consist of two subjects, primarily: my baby and robots (occasionally in the same photo). My current media consumption consists of mostly catching up on the past 4 years of Adult Swim cartoons that I’ve missed, and the occasional episode of Mad Men. I have several, random web-based projects that I’m working on, that’re up in the air at the moment. However, I’ve come to realize that my baby has a preternatural ability to know when I’m working on a project and scream her head off until I abandon everything and roll around on the floor with her. I downloaded an application off the internet that translates baby noise into regular English words. It decoded her gibbersh to mean, “Welcome to fatherhood, bitch!”

Anyway, I have a ton of great ideas floating around in my head right now, and the challenge is to get working on them (or at least write them down) before the next brainstorm. On a side note, I recently read that some corporations are prohibiting the term “brainstorm” for fear of being sued by employees with neural disorders. They new terminology is “idea showers” - I’m totally not making that up.

I do like that certain corporations value input, or “idea showers” if you will, from their customers. Starbucks even has a website devoted to stealing taking ideas from their over-caffeinated fans. I’m trying really hard to think of a clever idea. It’s gonna be hard, considering that my last one was picked-up on so quickly: I suggested that they close 600 North American branches and then help relocate the displaced employees. Zing!

023 - 07/03/08

020 - 06/30/08

This post is about toilet matters.

While shopping for baby supplies in the downtown Publix, I came across the following Publix-brand package for adult diapers. The image on the front had me intrigued, so I snapped this photo:

I kinda feel sorry for this guy, on several levels, I suppose. The man portrayed in the photo looks like his life is really on the “up-and-up” - which just goes to show that you never quite know who needs adult diapers. I guess he sorta makes wearing diapers cool, right? Actually, the person I really feel sorry for is the actor playing young Mr. Turdy Pants. He was probably told by Publix that he was posing for a granola bar box or allergy relief medicine.

Alternate theory: He’s carrying a duffel bag, so perhaps he’s on a cross country journey and can’t afford to the extra time it would take to make a proper toilet stop. Although changing the diapers would also take-up time. Perhaps he’s a stowaway on a freight train or a cargo ship. I’d love to hear your theories on this mysterious character…

018 - 06/28/08

014 - 06/24/08

“We’re gonna get into the TV box”

I’ve been back in the tech reporting game (with more Click on JL segments airing in July), and I’ve also just finished-up a three minute PSA segment detailing the digital transition coming up in 2009. And with more JL video, comes more semi-ridiculous outtakes. [previous OT reels]

Without fail, I’m compelled to do weird(er) stuff whenever I can see myself in a TV monitor while shooting. I even got my co-producer, Benjie to jump in on the fun with our impromptu “TV Box” song. No surprise: the outtakes are about as long as the actual video. [Special shout to fellow tech-guy, John Sanders for providing a great template for our DTV promo in the first place.]

013 - 06/23/08

Posing with our little statuette.

This weekend we went down to the ATL (that Altanta to all you folks who actually live there and don’t really call it that) for the Southeast Regional Emmy awards. Kyann’s sister graciously hung out in our hotel room babysitting little Miss Eliza while we soldiered through the languid awards program. And believe me, it definitely goes by slower when you’re not winning anything. By the end of the night each of us managed to leave with an Emmy statue (me - “on camera talent: performer / Kyann - “best newscast”). But the real delight was taking a break to pose with the best little trophy of all, our baby girl.

(We also had one of those professional photos taken with the three of us posing in front of the ridiculous, giant plastic Emmy, so I’ll probably post that when it’s available.)

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