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Friday / IU / photo / video — Comments Off on The last line in the song is “Ice to your blood, friends!”
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Jan 17

The last line in the song is “Ice to your blood, friends!”

We started a morning show today. Well, Lydia and Gabrielle did:

That opening is pretty great:

Fun fact, I used to do a morning show that used “Morning Mood,” which is a part of Opus 23 of Peer Gynt. And now there’s “In the Hall of the Mountain King.”

I wonder if they know the meaning of the song.

This was their first episode, so it’ll be interesting to see where they go with it. That’s always the challenge, grow something new. Three of the four other shows they are producing right now have been around before we all got here. Last term we launched The Toss Up, a sports talk show, out of thin air. And soon we’ll have a night show to go along with this morning show.

It is cool to see students producing work, creating new things. But to watch them start a new program from scratch, that’s particularly gratifying.

Today passed quickly. I spent no time in front of a computer today. There was a meeting and then that show and then another appointment and then a critique session and some other batch of errands and that was a full day. I sat in a parking lot and started reading the day’s news at the end of the day. That took almost all night. And, now, here we are.

IU / photo / Thursday / video — Comments Off on Eatin’ with Ernie
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Jan 17

Eatin’ with Ernie

There’s a place about three blocks from our building on campus that serves reasonably passable cajun food. Also, they have sweet tea. And it is quiet. And you can sit at a table with Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin. Or you can dine while looking out on …

Which goes nicely with my old line about dining with whomever you are reading, or reading about. So, today, I had lunch with Ernie Pyle in Paris.

Which, hey, the wind chills in both places were the same today. But I bet Parisians didn’t get flurried on during their walks back to the office after lunch.

Ernie walked on these paths as a student almost 100 years ago now. I wonder what he’d think of what he could see here today.

Sports show the students shot tonight:

photo / running / Wednesday — Comments Off on A shivery run
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Jan 17

A shivery run

Early night at the office tonight, so we jogged around campus. This was just a little more than three miles into the run.

We ran eight miles in all. I ran negative splits over the last three. The Yankee tells me this is good.

Must have been because the sun was down and it was 37 degrees by then.

So I’ve learned two things. First, training for a long run in the winter makes you faster. Second, if you have to train for a long run in the winter, don’t.

IU / photo / Tuesday / video — Comments Off on Camera three? Camera two!
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Jan 17

Camera three? Camera two!

I watched two shows get produced this evening. First was What’s Up Weekly:

Sierra and Sheila are going to take you through all the important and cool events going on around town. And there might be some fashion and celebrity gossip thrown in there, as well. They have a lot of fun on that show.

And here is the group getting ready for Hoosier News Source:

Tonight Sophia and Mackenzie are on the desk, and you see Lauren and Meredith who are doing a bit of floor directing and last-minute wrangling before the cameras started to roll. It was a decent-sized show:

This is the best story of the day. What the tweet doesn’t tell you: this was from 1,800 meters away. Her Majesty’s best man did this from more than a mile away:

The story says the bad guys were about to start shooting at a group of women and children.

Best headline of the day: The Girl Behind The Sparkle-Shooting Prosthetic Arm Is Just Getting Started:

The last 10 months have been a whirlwind for Jordan, who was born with a left arm that stops just above the elbow. After Fast Company first wrote about Jordan’s sparkle-shooting arm last March, she’s presented it at events all around the country, including a trip to Disney World, where she won the Dream Big, Princess award. Autodesk and Dremel gave her a 3D printer to use at home, and Awesome Without Borders chipped in $1,000 for filament.

“It’s just crazy,” Jordan says of everything that’s happened over the last year. “Good crazy. There’s no such thing as a bad crazy.”

And, finally, The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece.

cycling / Monday / photo / running — Comments Off on An easy 20 mile weekend
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Jan 17

An easy 20 mile weekend

It was sunny and 67 and gorgeous on Saturday. We were supposed to run 12 miles, but you get days like this in January here only so often. Or a day. You only get a day like this in January only so often. (As in, Saturday. That was the one day.)

So instead of running we decided to go for a little bike ride. So we set out for the bike and pedestrian trails around town:

It was an easy spin. Just as well, because it was the first time I’d been on my bike since the end of last season. She was in fine form:

A lot of people were out, because they understand the weather to be an exception to what is ahead of us, so the trails were often full. Lots of walkers and joggers and families and you can hear the briefest of a snippet of conversations on the trails and I’m always hoping they fall together to make some nonsensical story. You’re around people for about a second, and it’ll take forever, but I’m hoping.

And there are a lot of kids on bikes. Whenever I see a kid on a bike I always try to compliment their ride. “Oh I need one that color!” Give a little boost and all that. Not this girl, though:

She went by me too fast.

On Sunday afternoon it was overcast and 60. We were supposed to run 12 miles, but I only got in five miles. It just didn’t feel good (so I added four more miles today). But it looked like this, which is what most winter days look like here:

And this:

We passed that barn going the other direction the day before on my bike. I’d tried to take a picture of it from my bike, but my phone’s iOS decided to confuse my opening the phone app for “Yes, let’s update right now!” I just wanted a photo of the silo and I got an all new operating system, instead. It was good that I found the barn and silo again on foot. I had no idea where we were when we rode past it, which is the best way to start your year on the bike.

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