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Aug 16

Just a bit of the new workplace

Working in the new television studio today. Here’s the new news desk:

And here are three of the monitors in the adjoining control room:

I wonder where I’ll spend the most time while working with the television crew.

Just outside in the giant atrium, there’s the also-giant television screen:

They say it is 12 feet tall by 25 feet wide and four inches thick. Also, it has six Directv tuners which, right now, means a lot of sports:

I wonder how long before that becomes something you don’t gawk at when you walk by.

IU / photo / Wednesday — Comments Off
10
Aug 16

An office observation

I was moving boxes from here to there — because this is one of the things I am doing right now. And at the individual box level I was taking things out of boxes because, well, they were in boxes and what’s the point of that? We’re moved in to the new building and all.

Anyway, I dug out this remote control, which goes to some stripe of projection setup:

And that’s just classy design.

cycling / IU / photo / Tuesday — Comments Off
9
Aug 16

Turn right at the corn

I helped install one of these today:

Sadly it was in a classroom and not in our house. But it’ll look great in the class nevertheless. Except for the fingerprint smudges I left on it. That might sound passive-aggressive, but smudges can be cleaned, so don’t think of it that way, OK?

On our bike ride this evening:

We’ve been this way a few times now and I like this site. You hang a right and then you have the corn on your left. You go up the hill, take a big curve and a punchy little roller and then a long straight up to stop sign that means you’re almost done. It is a nice four miles and 15 minutes.

Here’s the next leg in that final stretch, where The Yankee and Stephen are pacing me home:

I think this should be a thing: Where were you the last time you heard The BoDeans?

Because you never forget Closer to Free. (Or most any of the rest of their catalog, really.)

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8
Aug 16

Pictures from the weekend

Allie and I spent part of the weekend watching the bike races:

But later she found a cable on the ground and curled up inside of it:

So now I have to leave circles everywhere, apparently.

Also, we hung out with The Mayor and her parents for a dinner party:

And I saw this at the office this morning. No idea, yet, what it is. Any guesses?

Probably some sort of drying air circulator or something like that. But I like the handles. Has a very Sean Connery-era James Bond feel to it.

Friday / memories / photo — Comments Off
5
Aug 16

Melts in your mouth, not in your … yeah right

Why is it that when I eat M&Ms it always looks like I just slapped The Joker?

That company has been lying to me all of my life.

Now, of course, I’m just a fully grown person trying to figure this out. I’m sure it was much funnier and more charming when I was a child.