The first day...

So here we are, the first day of the new job. I'm thinking it will be great and that this team will be fun to work with even though it'll be quite a change from the last one I was on. I'm going to miss the vibe in the RAZER office for sure, but I doubt I'll have much time on my hands to think about it - this job is going to be crazy busy.

Today though, as a sweet fuck you from nature, the wind broke my scooter by knocking it over in the street. How fucking lame is that. I hope to god the damage isn't a lot because that's not in the budget so to speak. Now I have to deal with getting it looked at... fucking ass - stupid wind.

Necks, you never know how much you miss them ‘till they are gone…

So, today is day 4 of my venture into old-man-dom and I assure you it sucks ass like a rookie inmate holding a bottle of syrup. That’s right, my shoulders and neck are totally fucked right now and for some reason, they aren’t getting better. I’m not liking it in the least (surprise). But, I’ll get over it because I’m a trooper, and I won’t/can’t let it take over my life. I’ll just have to be happy moving like a robot until it goes away.

On that note, the “going away” note, I have to work my last 40 hours here at 969 with gusto. So I’m off to train my well sideburned replacement in the ways of the show. Let’s hope he’s got moxie, because I’m gonna ride him like a birthday party pony.

AMAZING NEWS, THE BLOG

A couple of exciting developments have recently emerged in my life and here they are:

1 - 2 HUMAN (now ANDROID APOCALYPSE) just aired for the first time on Movie Central in Canada. It’s bad, really bad. Please watch it and tell others to do so, but realize that it’s shit, mostly because of the talent-less script and poor direction. Also, I’m terrible in it as well, in part because of the latter.

2 – I now work for the CBC again. That’s an exciting change. I handed in my resignation to 969 on RAZER on Wednesday and I’m finishing my last week with the crew here next week and starting fresh in the concrete bunker that is the CBC in Vancouver on Monday the 11th. The show I’m moving to is called Living Vancouver and I’ll be doing segment producing in and around Vancouver. So, if you have any cool pitches for story ideas around town, please feel free to email them to me – the only catch: they must appeal to people that would be home around 1pm weekdays.

3 – You never know who reads your blog… Found that one out the hard way the other day when someone read the blog and took something the wrong way. I apologized and let them know that I’m not one to allude to people on the blog, and that if I want to talk about someone, I’ll be very specific. So if I don’t mention your name, please don’t take offence.

4 – I won SO YOU THINK YOU CAN IMPROVISE last night. It was a fun show and I’m excited to do another this Saturday. I enjoy performing regularly, it keeps my brain from wanting to scratch it’s way out of my skull. I’m also performing next week at Chivana’s on Monday night at 9 and at VTSL on Friday at 8, 10 and 11:45 – show up if you aren’t afraid.

5 – The scariest Robots ever. I just read an article from Wired news about Sobots – autonomous software robots… basically they work like this: they are a software entity like a virtual robot that can transfer it’s consciousness wirelessly from computer to computer to machines and even to the internet. Sounds strange, but it could be really useful to doctors walking through a hospital with many patients, or a scientist overseeing a huge lab project, or even some type of crazy government dictatorship that wanted to oversee every detail in a person’s life. Here’s a quote from the guy that wrote the article, in passing at the very end of it (followed by the link to the article):

“It's a project as far removed from robotic soccer as landing on the moon is from model rockets. The possible uses of this kind of system verge on science fiction, but so can its abuses. The researchers concede that in the wrong hands, sobots could be the tools of a complete surveillance regime beyond the wildest dreams of Orwell.”

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72154-0.html?tw=wn_index_3


That’s all I got for now. I’m off to punch some kittens.