• @drthomasho Sakura’s my favorite place for sushi in Indy. #
• Taking a break from work… so much more left to do, though… … … … … … … … … … … … <— (not Morse Code) #
• Back to work, after the Bob’s Roll, Hoosier Roll, and ever popular Soft Shell Crab Roll. I <3 Sakura. Tasty. #
• Looking for WJJK’s logo (high-quality)… Anybody out there know who at Cumulus Media I need to talk to? #
• Awake… time to start working on more 500 spots. Indianapolis in May… #
• People are on a roll at the station today. Me: "The client wasn’t happy with the logo size" Media Manager: "And the client was your boss?" #
• Render render render render… it’s the hit new song by After Effects, "Waiting to Render." #
• Maybe I’ll get to be in another spot… #
• Getting ready for a shoot in the station parking lot… #
• http://twitpic.com/118z <- #
• Finally back at my laptop… you would think that portable means "take it everywhere." #
• Fun, fun times. #
• Watching the ABC Upfront. Good shows returning. Scrubs moving to ABC mid-season next year. "Start Here" #
• "TV’s are bigger than ever. Children are fatter than ever. And gas is more expensive than ever. If we can’t make money we should be ashamed" #
• My mind has turned to jelly… these 500 spots don’t make any sense… ugh… #
• I promise I won’t tell what’s in @mmagnolia22’s show tonight… well, maybe… #

This could be my biggest fear as someone who works in broadcast television.

Now, they claim this was supposed to be a recorded segment, and the wrong tease was cued up. Last time I checked, a station like WNBC (which is facing major cutbacks) would be on some sort of automation system. Which means a Media Manager-type would have to ingest the spot, and I’m hoping would catch “what the fuck are you doing?”

It definitely makes for a more exciting newscast, though.

Anyone in television have an opinion on that?

• Feeding the addiction… #
• Can someone please explain to these people that "Tax Rebate Checks" and "Stimulus Checks" are, in fact, two very different things. #
• Argh… I haven’t had a chance to do anything on the Internet today! Been stuck in Intranet hell. #
• The people on the Intranet are not nearly as interesting as people on the Internet, or even everyone on Twitter. #
• Time to come up with Nightcast teases… can’t go wrong with stimulus checks… #
• Wow… it’s definitely been a complicated day… hopefully it turns into a sushi night before my stomach kills me for not feeding him. #

• "It’s the time… of the seeee-ason for Ägetting stuff together to take to Goodwill…. ? … -ing?Ñ" #
• Saving Private Ryan is such an amazing movie. I’ve stopped getting work done, and haven’t dared to put in Batman Begins. #
• @drthomasho I know, I was surprised. #
• Okay, so the guy next door is completely ruining my TV viewing experience. WHY DO YOU NEED TO HIT A SNARE DRUM REPEATEDLY RIGHT NOW? #
• @drthomasho The Taco Bell remark… I got distracted as well. #
• @drthomasho That’s a big hurdle to overcome… maybe if you made changed each of your tweets into two tweets… #
• @drthomasho It would help if I wrote a sentence that made sense… subtract "made" from that last tweet. Wow. #
• "Due to graphic violence and adult language" this is closest you’ll ever get to being in an actual war… unless Bush + Draft destroys world #
• Mother’s Day… #
• Ugh, I just cannot make a good pot of coffee this week… #
• @roguepuppet Flavorful, but not overwhelming. I haven’t been using enough coffee lately; I’ve been having flavored water instead. #
• Party at The Villa apparently… where are they all coming from? #

“On*Star, how can I take your money?”

Okay, so that’s not what they really say when you push the blue button, but I’ve always thought of them as a scam. What are the chances that I’m going to crash in the middle of nowhere with no one there to see me? (Granted I do travel on many country back roads where sickle-wielding caped men try to kill young people just for being young). I just don’t see the purpose in paying an ungodly amount of money every year to have someone call 911 for me, that’s why I have a cell phone with GPS. Oddly enough though, I don’t see a problem with paying nearly $100 a year for RADIO (you know, that thing can come through the air for free?).

So, I’ll never use the blue button. Have no desire to. Have no need to. I won’t even push the phone button next to it, again, that’s why I have a cell phone. But I must say, that the e-mail I received the other day could make my free year of On*Star completely awesome.

My car e-mailed me.

Seriously.

I thought it was pretty cool to get a “Diagnostic Report” from my car. Now I know this isn’t supposed to surprise me because I’m a “geek,” but c’mon, how can you not be intrigued by this? I just hope the car doesn’t figure out my cell phone number, I’d hate to start getting texts like these at 3:00 in the morning:

R U redy 2 go outz?

Meetin up wit a hot Bonneville 2nite!!

I had so much ethanol I blew a gasket. It was awesome!

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On a completely unrelated note, I finally finished the Helio spot I’ve been complaining discussing on Twitter this week. Take a look… (I’m still not a fan of the disco ball, but at least it’s on the air)

http://www.sethkeever.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/5553_heliodance15_hi.flv

• @jennews I’m not sure it’s possible to go wrong with either… #
• I feel like John Stossel’s mustache might decide to attack me through the television. #
• Can I get 30 minutes without someone needing something? I forgot, I’m an "adult" now. Finally going home after a 12 hour work day. #
• It’s never good news to find out that a co-worker’s position is being eliminated. #
• "Clear & Present Danger" is on Bravo… yipee! #
• Sometimes the Adult Swim bumps are just disturbing… #
• Eddie Izzard stand-up on DVD. #
• Time for sleep. Busy day of moving stuff to @mmagnolia22’s tomorrow. #
• @dpstud Is your testing working? #
• Awake and doing stuff… including cleaning #
• @richstyles Enjoy the night, my day’s just beginning. #
• I can see paradise by the dashboard light… #
• Time to start packing and moving boxes…. BOO work. #
• The depressing part about packing things up is realizing how much of your stuff is actually crap. #
• Wow… that went surprisingly quick. Taking first load from NW side to downtown. #
• @mmagnolia22 There are at least 2 weddings and a bingo game going on in a 3 block radius. #
• @commuterfeed IND I-65 at 38th St - Slow both directions - ISP motorcycle patrols #
• "What the hell is that getting on the highway?" "Why that’s just an IFD rescue unit with a boat attached." #
• I wonder if anyone would buy this TiVo Series 2 from me… (a TiVo I bought from @seanokey for $50 two years ago)… my bet is, NO. #
• Was using AT&T at the apt. @mmagnolia22’s using Bright House… until U-verse is available. #
• Last trip… then off to find E-85, a car wash and a vacuum. #
• "Keeps lifting me higher…" I feel like I’m in Ghostbusters 2 (which should have been subtitled "Secret of the Ooze without Turtles".) #
• @drthomasho Good point… I’m never one to shy away from a good deal. #
• http://twitpic.com/ygd <- #
• I didn’t know how swanky the renovated Taco Bell at IUPUI is. I feel like I might need to be wearing a tie. #
• 2 Double Decker Tacos, 2 Tacos, 2 Meximelts and a Nacho Bell Grande, all for less than $10. And I’m not even drunk. TB is an amazing place. #

• Sick of waiting on these renders… We’ll see how much longer I’m here… I really want a burger and a beer. #
• Always enjoy the Chatam Tap… and what were the chances of seeing @jennews out?! #
• @mmagnolia22 Don’t talk about my personal problems on Twitter! #
• I envy those who don’t have to take their work home with them. Ugh. #
• Just watched Lost! Ah-may-zing! #
• Awake and almost done reading through all my RSS feeds. Then back to finish the Helio promo (if my brain stays inside my head). #
• Yay for animating a 3D disco ball #
• Ugh…. damn my perfectionism. #
• What to promote, what to promote? I hope no one from 8 or 13 can hear me thinking… #
• @wilw Wow… every Kenny Loggins song ever, is now stuck in my head. That makes for a happy Friday! #
• Finished with the confetti and ambient lighting effects… waiting on a disco ball to render, then time for more lighting effects. #
• Wait, where’d my coffee go?! #
• What does "WRG" mean in chat? It’s all over the Detroit mayor’s cell phone texts to his co-worker/bed-buddy… #
• Just because it’s your first May, doesn’t mean the track is the most important thing every day… #
• @spazcer Good call… I might be an idiot. #
• @newmediajim Hogan is a pretty important world figure. Just wait until Chuck Norris calls a newser… we’ll forget about everything else. #
• Kevin and I are playing around with Trueview looking at the Speedway as the rain rolls in. Neat to see it on RADAR and the track video feed. #
• http://twitpic.com/x3t <- #
• Noodles & Company… in my belly. #
• It can’t possibly be this complicated… oh wait… it is. #
• Ugh, back to the time-consuming project… #

• Ugh… too many keyframes. Still have to make realistic confetti and a disco ball (with no 3D software). Yikes. #
• Just because you "claim" to be a designer doesn’t mean you are (me included); designers are not inherently web designers nor info architects #
• Oh, and what’s the point of an entirely Flash website? Have I missed something along the way? Sure it LOOKS cool, but does it help content? #
• @sherrypg After Effects only. Building a track matte now so my "confetti" (fractal noise, colorama, particle world) falls behind the talent. #
• @sherrypg By the way… love "Raiders"… good choice. #
• @sherrypg Fetal position is calling my name. Hoping to shoot a real disco ball. The whole thing only has to be ready by tomorrow evening. #
• I should probably write a blog post at some time… too bad work has made me brain dead #
• http://twitpic.com/v99 <- #
• Time for sleep. #
• @newspicture If that there black dirt road is wet, then them fast driving machines can’t go nowhere, cans they? #
• Feeding the addiction on a dreary day. I’m almost glad I work in an area with no windows. #
• @lostremote Wow. That’s fantastic. Congrats! #
• @danielle_i Ummmmm…. beer, maybe? They let people do that before going back to work… right? #
• @mmagnolia22 "It’s a dry heat, though" #
• Trying to do 3 things at once: crazy post-prod effects, write promotion, do nothing. Guess which one is winning. #
• I think my confetti effect is almost done, now I just need a disco ball… #
• You know how there are those people you just can’t stand? Well, now I’m in a shitty mood. #
• Ugh. That’s all there is to say. #
• Hmmm… the disco ball for the Helio promo is proving harder than expected. Why doesn’t my edit bay have Zax! #
• How can it take more than one minue to aquire a network address on the work network?! #