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Geek vs. Geek

Jan

7

2007

This week my boss is still directing. More 16 hour days on set, and a lot more learning. The TV geek part of me is very happy. However, the gadget geek part is having a slight panic attack. This week is both the international Consumer Electronics Show and the Macworld San Francisco expo. Now, I ...

Happy New Year! 2

Jan

1

2007

Hope everyone had fun last night. I definitely did, though I believe “getting hammered and playing Cranium” qualifying as fun makes me approximately 400 years old. Sadly, this will be my last update for a few days because I’m about to get sucked back into the vortex of work. My boss is directing the episode ...

Governator Update 3: Rise of the Bunny Slope

Dec

27

2006

My dad passed along the story in the local Sun Valley paper about Arnold’s unfortunate accident, which identifies the culprit run: The California governor, Hollywood actor and part-time Ketchum resident was taken off the mountain in a ski patrol toboggan after he reportedly tripped over his ski pole, fell and broke his right femur near ...

Governator Update

Dec

26

2006

In tomorrow morning’s LA Times there’s an update that finally, among many other things, discloses some of the circumstances surrounding the Governator’s skiing accident: A friend who spoke to Schwarzenegger after the accident said the governor was “aggravated” about what happened, describing the accident as a “slow fall” on an icy surface. Schwarzenegger’s press office ...

More Fun With Local News

Dec

26

2006

While watching the Salt Lake City local news tonight, I heard the following sentence: Members of a local family spent Christmas in the hospital after exchanging stab wounds instead of gifts. Obviously not a funny subject, but the way they worded that made me burst out laughing.

The Greatest Celebrity Encounter Ever

Dec

25

2006

Here in Sun Valley, you occasionally run into famous people. Usually, it’s just an L.A.-like part of the background noise, like Jamie Lee Curtis ending up behind my dad in line for lunch at the ski lodge, confirming for me that it was Christopher Guest I’d just seen. Sometimes, however, you actually get to meet ...

Achtung! Falling Governator! 2

Dec

23

2006

Apparently it’s a good thing I wasn’t out on the slopes today, because I would have had to deal with the circus of Arnold Schwarzenegger snapping his femur up on the mountain. I feel a bit bad for him, as I’m well aware that leg injuries are No Goddamn Fun. Especially if some poor ski ...

Ooh, Shiny

Dec

21

2006

New Blogger has arrived, and I have just found the way I will be wasting the time I’m spending not skiing (and not working on other stuff I should be working on): Going through my archives and tagging all my posts. Sweet. Edit: I’m trying to get the label alignment work right (they should be ...

Meet The Limpers

Dec

20

2006

Meet George (70 years old). He managed to ski several runs despite a) a pinched nerve that causes chronic back and leg pain and b) falling once on his own, and c) getting plowed into by a snowboarder. Because of b) and c), he was sore enough that he was not able to ski today. ...

Brrrrrrrr 1

Dec

18

2006

I spent four years living in Chicago, and during that time I was virtually impervious to cold. I mean sure, there was the time junior year when I rode my bike to class in the howling wind and the -20 air temperature, and I said, “Man, it’s pretty fucking cold out.” But I was tough. ...