Don't Touch Me There

Don't Touch Me There
Originally uploaded by Leo Laporte.

Mike and Amber have a moment as we tape Call for Help.

That's Sean to the right.

And yes, there are three Macs on the desk. The 12 inch is Amber's. The 15 inch MacBook Pro is Mike's. The 17 inch belongs to the show.

TWiT.tv expired

Yes I'm an idiot. I let twit.tv expire. I've renewed it now, but if you get a GoDaddy landing page try thisweekintech.com instead. You won't be able to log in, however, because the login points to twit.tv. As soon as the renewal propagates through DNS everything should be back to normal. I've renewed for nine years, so this shouldn't happen again until 2015. It just shows you how confident I was about TWiT that I registered the domain for only a year! (In my own defense, I had auto-renewal turned on but GoDaddy had an expired credit card.)

Pictures from tonight's show

I borrowed a digital camera from the products department to take some pix for the Blog. This is from Screen Savers. I'll do some from TechLive tomorrow.

My view from homebase on the set

My desk in the back of the set. See the spycam on top of the monitor?

Megan has such a nice smile

Jesse getting her microphone on (that's Fred helping out)

Click on the thumbnail to see the full image.

Camera colophon

I used a Nikon Coolpix 880 to shoot those pix. As usual the Nikkor optics are very good. I shot them on Fine, 2048x1024, but at that res I only get 10 shots on the supplied 8 MB compact flash. So the next shots will be Fine/640x480 since I resize them anyway. We'll see how they look. The camera itself feels kinda cheesy. And it uses disposable lithium batteries. Ick. Either rechargable NiMH or rechargeable lithium for me. That's what the Canon I want uses. I'm pretty sure I'll buy the Canon Powershot S300 when it's available. It does a neat in-camera stitch for panoramic photos and can take Quicktime movies, too. Plus it's very compact so I can carry it around with me. We have one in the products lab. I'll borrow it when they're through with the review to make sure it's what I want. Gotta run and catch the van to get my car for the big repositioning. When I drive in there's no parking at the studios, so I park in the garage at Townsend and take the van to the studio. The morning shift leaves after 1p so I take the van back and get my car from the garage and repark it here at the studios for a quick getaway after the Screen Savers. What a waste of time, but parking has always been a big issue in SF. -sigh-

Craig Barrett

Well I'm on the map now. Craig Barrett, Intel CEO, called me a "middle-aged reporter" implying I was ignorant because I asked him who needs a 2 Ghz chip. Gee, I must have touched a nerve!