Lake Neuron

I have already embedded a five-minute video of various random moments from training yesterday. I have a seven-minute video with Gail Drake talking about the LEAMIS mission and message and have uploaded it two different times since 2 this afternoon; both times, it seemed to upload successfully but YouTube would still show the “this video is processing” message hours later. The video is well within YouTube’s posted length and file size limits.

I think I’m going to try one more time — but I won’t delete the second attempt just yet.

I saw this just this morning on VH1, and loved it, and then Chris Thomas helpfully posted a link to the YouTube at his blog:

When I was in California in February, my brother and I were talking about music in some context, and I mentioned The Killers, and he acted surprised, as if it was remarkable that an old fogey, six years closer to death than he, would even have heard of them, much less enjoy them. But I like The Killers. I don’t own any of their CDs, but I hardly have anybody’s CDs. And I love all of their singles (”singles” being an appropriately old fogey-esque term).

Hat tip: TV Barn.

Let me be the second (after Newscoma) to wish you a very Patrick Swayze Christmas:

I hesitate to describe this clip in too much detail, lest I ruin the surprise. It will be of obvious interest to fans of the TV show “Scrubs,” but even if you’ve never seen the show, watch this clip — you’ll have a smile on your face by the end, I guarantee you.

The focus of the clip is a boom microphone operator, the crew member on a TV show or movie who holds a microphone on a very long pole over the actors to pick up their dialogue.

And listen for a great song, by the group Keane, towards the end.

Hat tip to Newscoma.

What if “Star Trek” had been conceived 50 years earlier?

BIG hat tip to John at Locusts & Honey.

…. TV’s Frank (Frank Conniff of “Mystery Science Theater 3000″) will weigh in on the writer’s strike:

If Microsoft turns its Zune into a phone the way Apple turned the iPod into a phone: