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And now a bit of landscaped fauna meditation to help you through Wednesday:
Here’s another picture of some of the hand-planted things:
Inside: though the control room is dark today, the engineers are down to the last bit of their build. We should be in the new studio in the next few weeks:
Very exciting indeed.
I’ve been trying since mid-July to get this shot since I saw one like it on a cycling site.
First, the one I saw, was shot by a stationary photographer. Second, it is hard to frame this just right while pedaling myself and holding my phone. Third, The Yankee is moving really fast.
You know, every building just about has closed doors. No signage, no one going in or out, just locked door knobs. And that makes me curious. Today I saw inside one of those at the office:
It is just a small server room with some wiring and routers and whatnot. I looked inside and left quickly, before Hal 9000 could take over. That’s just not something you need mid-week. He starts running A/B testing on you and the locks and your whole weekend is “I’m afraid I can’t let you do that, Kenny.”
Today someone built up some bike racks in the sub-basement.
You can literally ride in off the street, up a sidewalk ramp and then walk your bicycle through three doors to an indoor, climate controlled storage room. A camera will be going up at the door. There will eventually be a digital lock on the door. They’ve put some thought into this.
Not pictured: My bicycle. I need a chain, I suppose. Until then, I’ll just stow it in my office after my four-mile ride in.
So how did you start your weekend? Today I helped haul a giant plasma television covering into the building.
Sadly, that’s not going in our house. Seriously big, more than a little heavy. This crate holds 550 pounds of gorilla glass for a four-foot by two-foot video wall. I didn’t have to put it on the wall, but it was interesting to watch:
And, at home, we’re transcribing recipes. Hardly a big, gigantic screen worthy event. Doesn’t have to be. It seems like, sometimes, Friday evenings aren’t what they used to be.
And that’s more than fine.
My second in-the-building bike sighting:
I imagine this won’t last long. I’m going to ride my bike to campus, but I will leave it in my office. At least until the indoor bike storage area is complete. (We have one of those. Pretty fancy, no?)
We’re one day closer to being in the television studio today. Pretty exciting stuff. We should be in there in another week or two. Here’s the tally light on camera two:
There are four robotic cameras in the studio. You can control them all from a joystick and a touchscreen in the control room. Very fancy.
