Last night was an AWESOME roller derby game. You missed out. You should have gone. You’ll go next time, I know.

Check out my “motion” shots (heh) — next time I’m bringing more lens and equipment and picking a better spot to sit (so I don’t have to stand up in front of people or stand in the wrong area and be told to move, hehe oops.)

An absolutely moving story about having to make one of those decisions you just don’t want to, but you know it’s for the best. It totally made me cry, so you’ve been warned.

I wish I could embed it here, but ABC News doesn’t seem to allow that. Pfft on them.

I found this link on Matt Nathanson’s MySpace status… and here I thought ABC News just used one of his songs as the story intro…

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=5665944

I can’t stop watching this…

• Advertising agency creative directors at play, designing mock presidential ads
  My favorites are the R/GA motion-sensing digital sign concepts. Though, I also like the Kaplan Thaler Group's tagline of "If this is all you're hearing, you're not listening".
  (tags: Advertising ads politics obama mccain)

• The crime that created Superman: Did fatal robbery spawn Man of Steel? – USATODAY.com
  "America did not get Superman from our greatest legends, but because a boy lost his father," Meltzer says. "Superman came not out of our strength but out of our vulnerability."

  Additionally, the part about the letter in the newspaper a day after the robbery would've given me a shock as well.

  (tags: comics superman article)

I fixed the coffee maker at work today. Yes I did, I think I should put that on my resume – Coffee Maker Fixer-Upper. It was missing a crucial piece that, when you put the coffee pot into the machine, opens the gate for all the coffee to flow into the pot. When this piece is missing, coffee grounds bubble out and spew everywhere. Wet coffee grounds, while they are not deadly nor rancid, are not fun to get all over you or clean up. Yuckie.

And as my reward, I’m watching 3 episodes of Dirty Jobs in a row. A Mike RowE if you will. ::teehee::

Look at what I made for Game Night. It was super easy, even though I didn’t have all the right decorating tools. All I did was make a 9×13 cake, cut it in half and stack it. Put some fondant on and do some decorating. I didn’t have the right kind of icing pen tool for the black parts (numbers, details on the arrow-pad, etc) so I used toothpicks dipped in black icing as a “pen”. I think I will invest in some decorating brushes for the next time.

• Tiger Woods 09 – Walk on Water
  Not a big fan of Tiger, but a big fan of well done marketing. This is EA’s response to a glitch in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08. Well done.
  [via Micro Persuasion]
  (tags: Games marketing humor viral Advertising)

• Tiger Woods 09 – Walk on Water
  Not a big fan of Tiger, but a big fan of well done marketing. This is EA’s response to a glitch in Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08. Well done.
  [via Micro Persuasion]
  (tags: Games marketing humor viral Advertising)

A few minutes ago (perhaps longer once I finish this post) CNN, via their Twitter account*, CNNBrk (for breaking news) tweeted a response to all it’s followers:

Apparently, some good 10 hours prior, CNN tweeted about Usain Bolt winning the 100m, breaking a world-record. This angered some folks who immediately began to throw around words like “DVR” and “spoiler”. While I think it’s a bunch of hooha and people need to just chill out and deal with it, I am compassionate to a point. There is a lot of hubbub with the airing of the Olympics this year. NBC claiming “live” when it’s not, tape-delay woes, etc.

But the internet exists for every moment. There is no delay. My god, look at what has happened because of all the instant-access everyone has – for example, the photos from cell phones during the London bombings. Instant media coverage. Flickr, NowPublic, Twitter… “the world at your fingertips”.

To me it’s an interesting topic, even though I have a certain belief about it myself, it is fascinating how times are a’changing. I remember when spoilers came from either a really good inside source (in relation to TV shows) or perhaps someone snagging satellite feeds hours before a program (you know who you are! hee) — but SPOLIER ALERT! was easy to avoid then. Now.. well if you’re plugged into the internet, you need to accept how everything works before you throw a fit.

For example, this season’s So You Think You Can Dance — I kinda/sorta walked right into a spoiler during the finale. I was watching the show while it was recording on my TiVO, but with a 30-minute delay. I do this often so I can fast forward through the commercials (my Advertising professors would be so proud.) It was down to the top three and Katee was eliminated. After I threw down the remote and declared to the air around me that I no longer cared who won, I sat back down to watch the show. Literally just a few minutes later I got a tweet from the Mercury News stating that “San Jose favorite loses dance contest”. So here’s the stupid part, I clicked on the link to read the article. BUT I did so knowing that MY favorite hadn’t won. So what did I learn after clicking the link? It went on about Katee being San Jose’s favorite (heh, I hadn’t known, apparently I didn’t read her bio – she’s FROM San Jose, doh) and then there’s a line about how Joshua was the winner of the show.

I still had the rest of the program to watch. In Jen-time it was still Joshua vs Twitch. But no more! Joshua had won. However, unlike others in Twitterville, I didn’t throw a fit about it. I knowingly read a tweet during a show that has an important “reveal”.

Adam later laughed at me and reminded me that I never go near the internet or even listen to the radio when the season finale of American Idol is airing, for fear of being spoiled.

So where was I with all of this? Oh yes, news or spoilers? I think the best rule of thumb is to avoid reading certain things (breaking news, tweets from certain people/sites, etc) until you watch your show. The issue with the Olympics might be a bit more tricky, given it’s not showing live for us in the states, but if you’re that hardcore about it – figure it out.

* I just read that the CNNBrk Twitter account was created by someone, not officially CNN, so they can send breaking news feeds to their phone. This opens a whole new sub-topic.. yowsa. I wonder if the user picks the news that gets tweeted or if it’s automatic.. hmm.

** Answered! Automatic feed – the user has no influence. All those grumblers need to stop following via text messages until the games are over or just deal with it.