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Oct 16

Just some quick photos

USA Today’s little decorative badge is trying to capture the national mood. How do you think they’re fairing?

I pedaled my bike to campus this morning. Here’s a part of my route, a nice clean path with neat little trees and curves:

And the second part of the route, a slightly wider path, upon which you can go at least four wide:

I found this print today, the first Indiana football team:

They played one game, this week in 1887, in fact. They lost, to Franklin College. That was their season, a tournament to determine the state champion. IU was coached by Arthur Woodward, an economist. A future state attorney general was on the team. Six teams took part in what was the first version of something closely similar to modern football in the state. The Indianapolis Athletic Club invited Butler, DePauw, Franklin, Hanover, Indiana and Wabash to play the October and November series in Indy. Wabash won it all. You like to think some old men in the middle of the 20th century were still reminding each other how they got the job done back in the eighties.

Friday / IU / journalism / photo — Comments Off on Why student media is pretty awesome
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Oct 16

Why student media is pretty awesome

On a Friday night, a bunch of college students chose to spend several hours in a new television studio:

On a Friday night, on homecoming weekend, they could have been anywhere. But there they were.

And, for a moment, I sat at the news desk:

Felt like old times, even if it was a simple microphone check.

IU / photo / Thursday — Comments Off on Thursday status:
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Oct 16

Thursday status:

Just another beautiful day on campus:

Took that picture from The Yankee’s office on the fourth floor. For a moment, I was as tall as a tree. Also, I was in my wife’s office, which is just a few feet from mine, and that’s nice.

IU / photo / television / Tuesday / video — Comments Off on We’re mass communicating here
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Oct 16

We’re mass communicating here

I’ve shown you a bit of the television studio and control room that they’ve built in the new Media School building. I should also mention this fine little radio production booth:

It has windows on three sides, so it can be a fishbowl broadcast studio, and a podcast and production booth. There is an adjoining production booth on the other side of one of the windows. And still more of editing bays and production rooms being finished downstairs. This is one incredible facility IU has here. And they let me play with all the fancy toys in these rooms. It is a pretty charmed thing, really.

And tonight, we were back in the television studio. We do sports shows on Wednesday and Thursday. But on Tuesdays we do a news show and a pop culture, fashion, what’s happening kind of show. I’m sitting in a control room full of talented young people, and there’s plenty more talent in the studio next door:

Here’s that show now:

adventures / cycling / Monday / photo — Comments Off on I can’t reference the same song in text and title
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Oct 16

I can’t reference the same song in text and title

This weekend we visited with my folks down the road aways. The four of us went out one night for a lovely steak dinner and we all felt like celebrating:

Because if you get a steak that good — oh, so, so good — you should celebrate it.

Rode my bike to the office this morning. On my thus far preferred route I actually go through the woods and over the river creek.

And then I have a half mile of a walking path, with a picturesque barn set off to the side:

After that there’s a roundabout, and one long residential uphill to campus. It is about 4.5 miles. Takes about 15 minutes. Twenty if I’m carrying my bag and am trying not to sweat.

It isn’t a long enough trip, by any means, to make me think of steak again. But I’m thinking of steak again.

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