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Last night, this:
Today, was fall break. There were just a few people in the building, but I was there. I was there.
Late in the day more people came into the building. While many of the students have vanished, a lot of alumni have rolled into town.
There are big events in the Media School this weekend. We’re celebrating the 150th anniversary of the campus newspaper and hosting the distinguished alumni awards ceremony, as well. So I’ll be there for those as well.
In the studio this evening with these two shows:
And then we reset the control room for a live shoot. On the multiview was student government, which was a signal we were taking from three floors above us and streaming online:
It involves a lot of buttons:
It was a long night, and a good practice run. We learned a lot, and we’ll soon be doing this on a regular basis.
We had a beautiful day on Saturday and so The Yankee and I spent the afternoon pedaling around the countryside.
Lately, I’m having to work to keep up with her. She’s fast! Still, I managed to get some nice lines in the composition, though.
We had a nice dinner that night, too:
Today, I walked off campus just in time to see the sun say goodnight:
I seldom manage to be in a place that gives a great western view this time of day, but this time of day, this time of year, gives off some nice light:
The gates were built in the 1980s. And it only took 80 years or so to get them built. Students had raised money for them at the turn of the century. But the board was going to do the same thing so the students’ money went to another project. The university put the gates on hold while nearby buildings got built. They wanted to match the plan to the aesthetic, you see. So a few generations go by, a few different plans for the gates come and go. And then in the 1960s there was a new move to build those gates. But there was also criticism; people deemed it a wasteful expenditure when the money could go to scholarships and financial aid. The gates were put on hold again. And then, in the 1980s, the man who ran financial aid for the university donated the money and had them named in honor of his parents. And now we have the Sample Gates.
It was one of those days where I was in the studio constantly. First, we did the morning show. Here’s my pal Avery offering up a new segment:
You can see the show here:
After that we had a special interview in the studio. On the right that’s Claudia Nina, the Brazilian literary critic, journalist and author.
The chair of the Portuguese and Spanish program is interviewing her. Someday soon they’ll share the interview, which was quite intriguing.
And here’s one of the two shows students shot last night:
I spend a lot of time in that studio.
Tomorrow, the town will receive its first automated vehicle. It is said to be a bus. And you can ride in it. They gave away tickets! But if you didn’t get a ticket, there’s still a chance! They are doing walkup tours. All of this reminds me of those old newspaper stories about the first plane in town. Here, it was 1911, and the headlines read “‘Birdman’ with Machine Coming.”
“Take a ride in the air ship, and listen to the band play. Welcome to our city. There will be a hot time … stand on the hub of the wheel of the center of population and feel the world go around.”
That October, the flight crew reassembled their plane (it had to be hauled in by train) in the meadow next to our building. The paper says thousands of people came from all around to see two flights. An uneven field, a barbed wire fence and a stall on takeoff caused a crash.
The locals rushed in and started tearing apart the plane for souvenirs. One of the flight crew threatened to shoot the looters, so much of the plane, and the pilot, Horace Kearney, survived. He flew the plane again that December, but died in a plane crash the following year.
The next summer, there was another plane and another flight in Dunn Meadow, another pilot got his plane in the air. He crashed into a fence trying to dodge power lines and telephone wires.
So maybe that’s the reason they are also closing the roads for the automated bus.
The bus is expected to go up and down one of the main business roads. Today they’ve cleared off the parked cars, too. This is apparently going to be a three or four block ride up a straight street.
So, naturally, we’ve closed all of the intersecting roads, as well.
Blocks of two-lane gridlock.
You don’t want to inconvenience the robotic bus, after all.
