Thursday

adventures / photo / Thursday — Comments Off on Travel day
24
Mar 22

Travel day

We drove back to Bloomington from Cleveland today. It’s almost six hours, but we needed to stop every so often for things like gas and food and stretching our legs, meaning it took the better part of three weeks to get back today.

On the drive I saw a car using C-clamps to hold the wraparound bumper in place.

It was a Lexus.

Soon after we stopped, and I saw this in a dusty, uninviting little convenience store.

I haven’t spent a lot of time in Ohio, but it is starting to make sense to me.

There’s not a lot to see on the route, but here’s a bit of the agri-scenery.

If you don’t like that, there’s also Columbus and Cincinnati, but really, if you’ve driven around part of one city on an interstate, you’ve driven around them all, really.

In a smaller way, these little views are far more interesting, if you catch them at the right time of day.

Then, finally, the garage, the cats and some rest. And then back to work tomorrow.

adventures / Cozumel / SCUBA / Thursday / video — Comments Off on Thursday dives
17
Mar 22

Thursday dives

We had four more dives today, our last full day of diving of this abbreviated trip. Cozumel is famous for its drift diving … the currents just take you away, and you don’t even have to do much swimming. In all, the diving has been a wonderful experience.

Now if only my sinuses and ears would cooperate. Maybe they’ll be better tomorrow, when we will, sadly, have our last two dives.

basketball / IU / television / Thursday / Twitter / video — Comments Off on There was basketball
10
Mar 22

There was basketball

I had a meeting canceled today because the people in the meeting wanted to watch the basketball game. And yet I still somehow had that meeting? Not sure how that happened.

At least they saw a good one?

If that’s not for you, maybe this is. Ernest Shackleton’s lost ship, Endurance, has been found after 107 years. This 4k footage shows the preserved vessel almost 10,000 feet below the surface. Shackleton was on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in pack ice and was slowly crushed. The crew escaped, camped on the ice, watching their vessel and their means of survival destroyed before them. And then the ice beneath them started to crumble. As it disintegrated, they launched lifeboats, and endured (see what I did there?) a miserable 720 mile, stormy journey to escape. And now, 107 years later.

Also, just last month, the British Film Institute (BFI) released restored footage of that expedition, including when the ship’s mast collapsed. Shackleton was adamant the film be saved, and it’s now a key part of early 20th century Antarctic exploration history.

Isn’t that something?

Here’s something else. More sports! These are the shows the sports gang produced last night. First up, let’s talk-talk-talk about basketball.

And you can also get the highlights and look ahead to all of the other sports in full swing around here.

And here’s still more sports talk, but this time with a broader range of subjects.

And now I have to go do laundry tonight, so I can pack tomorrow.

IU / Thursday / video — Comments Off on We go on
3
Mar 22

We go on

The week that just keeps plodding on. But I’m feeling strangely refreshed after a mere 9.5-hour Thursday. After an 11-hour Wednesday, which followed an 11-hour-plus Tuesday that was preceded by a 10-hour Monday.

Best part of the day: It turned out that a meeting I had scheduled today is actually next Thursday, giving me an important hour back.

At 12:18 the script for tomorrow’s show finally came in, and I was able to devote my last free hours between now and then to putting it in the prompter. Also, another handful of people have been added to the two-hour program.

Also today, I did a field shoot. And I had a studio shoot, which I missed, because I had a photo shoot.

I crossed 40 hours for the week at about 5 p.m. feeling a special blend of tired from the last few weeks and focus on tomorrow that kept me from thinking of taking pictures of the guys taking pictures in the photo shoot.

Anyway.

Some of the students were shooting some sort of game show today. I didn’t see it, as I said, but some ceramic prop they brought got broke. I was told it was a piggy bank shaped like a giant basketball. Everyone seemed to think this was hilarious. I assume this will make it into the show, which will make its way online in due time.

For now, here’s one of the sports shows that crew shot last night.

Tomorrow: The big show! And other things! And then a weekend!

IU / photo / Thursday / video — Comments Off on Talked with someone in Ukraine today
24
Feb 22

Talked with someone in Ukraine today

The guy in the front of the room in the picture below is one of our professors. He keeps in touch with some of his former students and one of them is a graduate school alumnus who works in Kyiv. She joined the professor’s broadcast media analysis class to talk about what she and her family have seen and heard and done in the early hours of Russia’s invasion and war with Ukraine.

She wrote an opinion piece for CNN this morning, and had this chat and we captured some video. She talked about spending a night finding all the fallout shelters and gathering things in case they needed to evacuate. She talked about hearing artillery shelling and distracting her kid with Ironman movies. She said they’ll all probably sleep in their clothes tonight, just in case they need to scramble.

Of course, cats the world over understand video chats, and hers cat tried to steal the show. She said the cat carriers are prepped, as well.

There’s just a little something there, at the end of that video, that will stick with you.

To be in a war, to know it is coming close to your home. To have the composure she had this afternoon. It’s a scary, impressive thing.

To lighten the mood, let’s take a look at some of the sports shows the IUSTV gang produced last night. Here’s the highlight show.

And here’s one of their new sports talk shows. They are discussing basketball, of course. It is Indiana, after all.

There’s another sports show, and so much other stuff, tomorrow. It, and the weekend, are only a day away.

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