Mar 16
One of my pet peeves is when a newscast will show some amazing video shot by someone who doesn’t work for them. The news company should be ever so grateful. But what do they do? They call it “amateur video.”
I don’t think it would matter if Orson Wells himself shot some tornado footage and submitted it. It would still get the graphic branding it as “amateur footage.” Or if Steven Soderbergh captured a baby falling into a firefighter’s arms… “home video”. Home video? There’s no home involved. It wasn’t shot at home. What the heck?
Just because they weren’t wearing their company logo-branded windbreaker it’s automatically amateur? Please.
Will you news stations please just use a graphic that says, “Courtesy: Joe Smith” or “Footage provided by: Mary Miller”.
Mar 05
Normally I don’t recommend a careful cleaning of a file cabinet. No, it’s usually straight to the recycle bin or shredder. But I might change my mind. After all, I almost recycled this particular find.
Yeah, that’s right, I am officially certified in “Computer Literacy.” So you can take your J2ee, SAP, JAVA, ASP.NET, ActionScript, or whatever else you’ve got. Do you have this?
What’s that you say? 1992? Oh, well, yeah, I guess that’s true. I’m not even sure what it meant to be certified back then! Did it mean I was capable of doing the 25-in-a-row floppy disk install? Or that I could change the vacuum tube if it burned out? Or remove a punch card if it got stuck?
It probably meant that I finally beat Oregon Trail without losing a wagon wheel or dying from dysentery. Something my teacher never could quite do.
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