Utilikilt Alert

I've just learned from a reliable source that Patrick is going to be wearing the Utilikilt again tonight. Must be in honor of our LAN party on the show tonight. Either that or it's sweeps.

Quicktime VR of The Screen Savers studio

Here's a Quicktime VR picture of the Screen Savers set from my point of view at home base. (You need Quicktime to view this. If I've coded this properly, Quicktime should load automatically, even if you haven't installed it yet. The movie itself is about 1.4 megs so it may take some time to download it. Click on the picture and drag your mouse to move around in it. You can look up and down, too.) Thanks to Alex Lindsay of dvGarage for taking the picture. You can read all about it on The Screen Savers web page. (NOTE 7 Oct 2007: I'm trying to figure out when this is. This is the second Screen Savers set - Patrick Norton is already co-hosting, you can see his skateboard behind home base. We're already moved to Studio B - making room for Tech Live I guess - but lots of pieces are still missing, including the LAN party set, the spiral staircase, and the audience risers. The "babe corral" isn't finished yet either. The control room is visible behind it. You can also still see the old Money Machine set behind the cameras. This must have been very early on with the new set.)

Seattle XP

We had a great time in Seattle. I flew in on Friday, taped a piece on Tacoma, the self-proclaimed "America's Number 1 Wired City." Then we did a show to tape on Saturday. The edited show will air on Friday, 10/19 and through the weekend. Uncle Paul's museum, Experience Music Project, looked great. Wait til you see how Microsoft's XBox looks on the wall sized screen behind us. We had a capacity live audience of about 300, pretty good considering that the Mariners were playing at the same time. It was so fun doing the show with a live audience. I would love to do it that way every night. Thanks to everyone who came to the show. The weather was awful. At the end of the piece I did in Tacoma there's rain dripping off my nose and the lettering on my microphone is starting to run. It was cold too. All the natives said that we had just missed beautiful weather. Yeah right. They probably say that to all the geeks. I flew back right after the show, so I didn't have any time to see more of Seattle. But I have a feeling we'll be back. Next week I'm flying to NYC to do Live with Regis and Kelly. They're doing a technology week. Bill Gates is on on Thursday 10/25 (XP day) and I'll be on the next day, Friday 10/26. I'm going to show Regis a bunch of tech gadgets. Should be fun.

Just when you thought it was safe...

Pat's still under the weather, so Pirillo's back for the Halloween edition of The Screen Savers. I lobbied for Kate Botello, but they decided to go with Chris again. How scary!

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.