Christmas Is Upon Us
The Christmas Season is officially here. Known as “Black Friday,” the first day after Thanksgiving when all the stores are mad with super-low one-day sales and the public turns into shopping zombies to...
View ArticleYou Know You’re A Dog Person When…
You know you’ve become a total dog owner when you finish a loaf of bread, then hold up the plastic bag you were just about to toss in the recycle container and think, “Hmm. . . . I could scoop up a...
View ArticleFound Objects 3-26-2012
Haven’t posted one of these walking-the-dogs snapshot series in a while. I like taking “the kids” out for a walk around the neighborhood, slip in an iPod earbud, get caught up on the podcasts. Time to...
View Article“Breaking Into TV News”–All Done! And Two Weeks Of Vacation
I can’t remember when, if ever, I’ve taken two weeks off and didn’t go any place. Believe this is now referred to as a “Stay-cation.” The time off was necessary because I’d built up so much time at...
View ArticleCovering The Eclipse
News is not a regularly scheduled thing. Sometimes things happen on your days off and a call for volunteers is put out. I’ve always been fascinated by astronomy, the planets and alignments — so...
View ArticleEclipse Update – Video Highlights
The Solar eclipse was one week ago today. On that afternoon KCRA-TV in Sacramento, California, broadcast 90-minutes of live coverage from 5-7 o’clock, with a half hour for NBC Nightly News at 5:30-6...
View Article4K TVs — Now Under $2K
I’ve been saying for about six months now that we are living in the last days of HD. I now think that UHD and 4K may be here faster than everybody thinks. I’ve predicted that by Christmas 2014 one of...
View ArticleI Am NOT Making A New Film—And Why
(Advance To Reader: This Is A Diary Entry–What I’ve been up to, what I haven’t been doing & why. This is more written. And more will follow in subsequent entries. I’m still here. I’m still writing....
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