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Hey, I’m on TV!

2010-06-27T06:04:48Z

I joined the other technology fans on Thursday, June 24, to upgrade my iPhone 3G to an iPhone 4. I didn’t go over board; I could’ve lined up at six (having reserved a phone the week before), but I didn’t show up till around nine AM. I stayed in line for four hours, getting my new phone right around one PM. As I got close to the store entrance, Fox 2, WJBK, showed up to shoot some video, and I ended up in the background of a couple shots. You can recognize me, on the extreme left, by my malformed Benjamin Franklin physique.

They’ll let anyone on TV nowadays

My Nephew, The Doctor

2010-06-11T19:13:00Z

My nephew Joe got his medical degree from Wayne State University School of Medicine on Tuesday. Here are some videos I shot, the first one is the “hood ceremony” from Sunday, at Chene Park (and coinciding with the air show on the Detroit River); and the second one is the commencement itself, at Fox Theatre in Detroit.

Newspapers in TV Shows

2010-06-05T23:00:06Z

From Izismile.com (found via Whedonesque.com). Does Ed O’Neill really like this newspaper? Thirteen years on and he’s still reading the same page.

Married with Children 11x24 (1997)

Modern Family 1x16 (2010)

Out My Window

2010-05-30T04:29:31Z

Lightning footage, shot on my Kodak Zi8 on Thursday, May 27.

Picture of the Week

2010-05-01T05:53:15Z

I’ve been enjoying this picture so much this week that I feel I should just copy it from Tumblr and post it here. It really is a delightful and heartwarming image of Spring…

From Tumblr via Reddit

Update: I discovered the image comes from a site called The Big Caption.

Steve Jobs is a Stupid Dumbass Idiot

2010-04-17T22:39:12Z

For quite a while I’ve been patiently waiting for Apple to support Blu-ray drives or allow Blu-ray playback in their Mac line. I’ve heard how licensing Blu-ray is a “bag of hurt” but assumed all those problems would be worked out in time. Today, I see someone wrote to Steve Jobs about this very topic, and Jobs shot back this short, simple, taunt of a response.

From 9 to 5 Mac.com

I cannot fully illustrate how fucking infuriated this makes me. Jobs’s alternative to Blu-ray is YouTube?! For one thing, Flash on YouTube performs like shit on a Mac. For another thing, YouTube might say it is 1080p, but it is compressed so much that the video quality is a laughably poor substitute for 1080p from a Blu-ray disc. In short, saying YouTube is similar to Blu-ray is like like saying a sheet of paper is a replacement for an iPad.
That dog don’t hunt.
Over the last few years, I’ve bought a Power Mac, a Mac Pro, a PowerBook, a MacBook Pro, a couple iPhones, and numerous iPods. I’ve talked family members into getting iMacs and Macbooks. I’ve spent a lot of money on this company. But I have gotten tired of waiting for them to upgrade their optical drives — or even to allow Blu-ray playback from some third-party vendor’s external drive. Windows laptops and desktops have had this capability for a couple years now, but it seems Apple can’t handle it, or, more likely, doesn’t give a shit. This has become readily apparent now, direct from the head of the company, in the form of a stupid, thoughtless, tossed-off comment. Well…fuck you, Steve Jobs. My next computer will be running Windows.

Silent Clock

2010-03-27T06:40:52Z

My God—it’s actual text!
Yes, it’s been a while since I’ve actually blogged on my weblog, but I had to say something now that the news has been confirmed. Plus, there’s the fact Facebook said my paragraph was too many characters.
It was confirmed today (Friday) that 24 has been canceled. Fox claims it’s too expensive to continue. Having a website devoted to TV and movies, this is big news. However…
I hate to say it but I’m not feeling too broken up about 24 saying bye-bye. Love the show and Keifer is excellent, but the stories have become increasingly implausible, the dangers have become redundant, and the time-wasting subplots all to frequently spoil any momentum. I’m content to give the series a proper send-off and just re-watch the earlier seasons. Back when there was only one President Palmer.
Farewell Jack Bauer. Get yourself some rest and thanks for being such a hero.
... Silent clock ...

(P.S.: a movie franchise sounds cool though, but they should’ve done that back when Jack could have escaped out of China.)

WSU Match Day

2010-03-18T20:14:25Z

From WDIV. Supposedly, my nephew Joe is somewhere in this video…

Update: okay, supposedly, Joe shows up at the 00:27 mark, in tan slacks and a gray sweater, with his back to us. He also got an award for outstanding performance in the field of internal medicine.

Meryl Streep in The Pottymouth

2010-01-27T05:28:54Z

I seem to like these clips, where a bit of profanity slips by the network censors. I guess it illustrates how harmless it is when they actually hit the airways, how pointless it is to try and camouflage them. Also, it’s funny to hear the E! censor try to bleep the word and fail so badly.
Here’s the video, from E!‘s Golden Globes post-show coverage…

2009-09-12: U2 in Chicago

2009-09-14T03:57:23Z

We left for Chicago yesterday morning and returned this afternoon, for another pilgrimage to see U2. It was a great show as always, but I’m still of a mind that their best tours are the stripped down ones, like the Elevation tour, rather than this current one, which, like Pop Mart, threatens to dwarf or diminish the band with its huge, distracting, yet admittedly impressive stage.
My photos are available here and here’s a collection of clips off my Cyber-shot camera.

2009-09-12: U2 in Chicago from ShortFatGuy on Vimeo.

(Originally uploaded September 13 but revised, re-edited, and re-uploaded September 15.)

Obama Responds to His Republican Critics

2009-09-11T05:36:11Z

In the wake of last night’s address to a joint session of congress, President Obama had this to say to the critics of his health care proposals:

Possibly my new favorite Internet meme

From Flickr, by way of Reddit.

Number Nine… Number Nine…

2009-09-09T13:09:57Z

09/09/09

Happy World Beatles Day!

Ford Model T Centennial

2009-09-07T22:39:33Z

Looks like I’m using the Labor Day weekend to finally complete long unfinished video projects. Here’s footage I shot Friday, September 5 2008, of the Model T Centennial, at Ford’s World Headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan.

Ford Model T Centennial (2008) from ShortFatGuy on Vimeo.

Mackinac Island Wedding

2009-09-07T00:38:40Z

It only took eleven months to put this little video together. Maybe I was afraid to confess one big reason I attended Brian and Lindsey’s wedding, as you’ll plainly see, was just to get back to Mackinac Island.

Mackinac Island Wedding (2008) from ShortFatGuy on Vimeo.

2009 Dearborn Homecoming Fireworks

2009-08-09T16:14:07Z

The tradition lives on!

2009 Dearborn Homecoming Fireworks (HD) from ShortFatGuy on Vimeo.