Friday Schedule

Here we are in the airport with another audio blog. This one introduces producer, Ken Marquis, and Jennifer Crist from affiliate relations. Jennifer is filling me in on my schedule for Friday.
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Balto Blog: Crabby Friday

I'm also capturing a little video on the trip using my Olympus C-3040 digital camera. These are Quicktime movies encoded in MPEG-4. If you haven't installed Quicktime 6 you will be prompted to do so. They should stream well even on a 40 kbps connection. On Friday, Mario Armstrong, the mayor's Technology Liaison, took us on a tech tour of Baltimore, which included a visit to Bo Brooks, the classic Maryland crab house. Here Johanna Hall and Jennifer Crist from Affiliate Relations teach me how to eat a crab while producer Ken Marquis looks on: Eatin' Crabs Later in the day Ken and I went to the DC bureau so that I could be a part of the fun during the Mitnick-Wozniak version of The Screen Savers. There we met with Peter Barnes and Gary Nurenberg. We also got a gymnastics demonstration from producer Alina Mesenbourg: Perfect 10 Then Gary and Alina took us up to the bureau's roof for the live shot. They have a beautiful view of DC from up there with the White House and Washington monument as a backdrop. You are supposed to call the White House when you go outside, however, so the snipers on the roof won't pick you off. We forgot to call, but fortunately, no one shot at us: White House View A great day in Baltimore, despite the rain. Saturday dawned clear and bright and I'm getting ready for a trip to Arundel Mills for our first appearance. We're hoping to take in an Os game at Camden Yards tonight.

Balto Blog: Arundel Mills

More video from our trip to Baltimore. Here we are arriving at Arundel Mills for our first appearance. I ask Patrick, "what happened to your pants?" Bass Pro (17 seconds) I'd say there were about 500 people waiting for us as we entered the mall. Thanks for making us feel like rock stars! Rock Star (53 seconds) The first person in line was E_B from Leoville bearing Tasty Kakes! OMG! (5 seconds) Four hours and 47 minutes later, we meet the last person in line afer signing well over 600 autographs. Sign The Pictures (25 seconds) Afterwards I went over to Books A Million and quickly signed about 50 more books - if you run over you might find one. Last night Patrick met up with friends, but the rest of us were lucky enough to score tickets to the sold out Yankees-Orioles game at Camden Yards. Ken and I had Boog's Barbecue and I bought a laser engraved Little League bat for Henry ("Hank Laporte"). What a beautiful ballpark. We took a water taxi to Fells Point for a few drinks at Crabby Dick's, then back to the hotel so Jennifer, Johanna, and Jane could look for Yankees. Next stop, the Best Buy in White Marsh in about two hours. Then on to New York City for World News Now and Live with Regis and Kelly.

Call for Leo

A quick programming note: I'll be hosting Call For Help on Friday while Chris is on vacation. That's 10/11 at 5p Eastern. Also Patrick and I will be making a rare appearance in the San Francisco Bay Area, at the Best Buy in Dublin, on Saturday, November 16. It'll probably be from noon to two. And because it's a local appearance we're hoping to get the entire Screen Savers crew there, too! That'll be a real first.

Last Night at World News Now

Abby came with me on Sunday night to help me shoot the World News Now segments for ABC. WNN shares the set with World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Here's a look at the familiar ABC News logo. Abby took this shot, too. Here I am getting ready for the segment. Finally a short video starting with Abby on the WNN set. The video ends with Peter Jennings view when he does the news. The chair in the lower left corner is Jennings's chair. As you can see he look into nothing while delivering the news. All the good looking stuff is behind him. Click to view Quicktime video (20 seconds) I'll post pictures and video from today's Regis rehearsal next time.