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IU / photo / Tuesday / video — Comments Off on Pushing buttons, listening to questions, watching shows
28
Mar 17

Pushing buttons, listening to questions, watching shows

I got to spend part of this morning in a conversation with the dean, my boss, and New York Times columnist Roger Cohen:

The dean is the gentleman on the left. He hosts a podcast where he talks with campus researchers, newsmakers and various guests. Cohen has a small role on campus and is visiting this week in fulfilling some of those responsibilities, so he stopped in for a chat. He always seems like a kind man in interviews and today was no different. He’s also quite thoughtful, as you might imagine for a columnist. It was a fine way to spend part of your morning.

I also sat in on some student leadership interviews today, taught someone how to use a phone and watched the production of a news show. Those are always fun. I especially enjoy when they add new elements to their programming. Here’s a new interview segment, which concentrates on student entrpreneurs:

cycling / Friday / IU / photo / video — Comments Off on “We’re up! We’re up!”
24
Mar 17

“We’re up! We’re up!”

In the studio, you sometimes find yourself standing in just the right spot with just the right light near just the right piece of glass. I looked up and there was the jib camera, just waiting patiently to be used.

jib selfie

I doubt that is what the jib camera had in mind.

Yes, the cameras think of things like that. If Disney can anthropomorphize all of the animals and Pixar can animate all of the toys, why isn’t one of them doing all of that with the electronics? Especially in this great age of the Internet of Things.

Yes, I imagine it would be a prequel to the Terminator series. So?

In the studio this morning, two cyclists from the Theta team stopped by for an interview and a demonstration. They put their bikes up on rollers and then invited the morning show hosts to give it a try. It was predictable and funny and cute:

Of course I rode one of the bicycles. That means house, hotels and now the workplace. You can never ride a bike indoors enough that the novelty wears off, if you ask me.

Softball game this evening, watched the right team set all kinds of crazy runs records. (They should have us back more often as we are clearly good luck.) Barbecue tonight. A bicycle ride, outdoors this time, tomorrow. Good start to the weekend, that.

history / Indiana / IU / music / Thursday / Twitter / video — Comments Off on I was not awake at 5 a.m.
16
Mar 17

I was not awake at 5 a.m.

A good singalong makes one happy:

Too-high, too-wide photo still to come.

I found this today:

Two young men hit by a train in 1917, both lived. And then I found this and this. One lived to 80 and had three kids. The other lived to 85 and had four children. And this quick look online tells me that a man who died at 85 in 1983, in my lifetime, knew his grandfather, who fought at Kennesaw and Nashville and against Hood in Georgia and Alabama. That man, in my lifetime, could probably recall his grandfather who fought in the Civil War on land I know fairly well.

So it is a small world, I guess. Though anything is possible if you start a story with “So this guy found himself crawling out from under an actual trainwreck.”

Today, Indiana fired their basketball coach. Just as the tournament begin, his tenure ended. He’d gone to the Sweet Sixteen last year, indeed, three of the last six years he’d been there, and he won the conference championship twice. But they decided to go a different way, so there was an announcement, and a press conference. And, despite this also being Spring Break, the student media was there:

Dedication, hustle and showing up will get you places in that business. So it is great to see students from both the television station and the newspaper reporting it at full speed. Good for them.

Monday / photo / video — Comments Off on Feeling the flurries
13
Mar 17

Feeling the flurries

I’ve posted three or four photos this month which suggest that spring is on the way. Meteorologically, it is. But then today, this:

That is the same tree I shot in one of the early spring pictures. The second one, I believe. That feeling of seasonal goodwill has been delayed just a bit. Today, this:

But it doesn’t hurt the morale. The little bit of damp snow, I mean. It gives a nice juxtaposing on the landscaping:

Though, I’ll grant you this sort of thing would have looked better in December or January:

IU / photo / Twitter / video / Wednesday — Comments Off on You know you want to see my air guitar movie
8
Mar 17

You know you want to see my air guitar movie

Best thing I’ve done today:

Still writing and typing and copying and pasting and hacking away on my week-long project. Actually we’ve made good time on it, and this is because my co-authors have all written interesting and important information. Trimming that is sometimes a challenging thing — That part was important! And this over here was so well-written! — but that’s the task. We have been given a deadline for Friday and we’ll hit it. Deadlines are magical focus magnifiers. Plus I’m working with some sharp people on this.

Here are some more sharp people, they were getting ready to shoot a weekend sports talk show:

Big, bright futures ahead for all of those folks. Some talented young broadcasters are coming along right there.

And here is a show some of our students produced on Tuesday night:

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