January 2010 – Page 5 – The Canadian Explorer

January 25 – “Live at 5”

Learning about accreditation today. Which turns out is a way bigger deal than you realize.

I received my official “you’re accredited” letter over the weekend, which means I’ll get a press pass and be granted access to some places.

Not all places though, that’s for journalists from the big guys (CTV / NBC) which makes sense – they paid the most for the rights to broadcast so they should get the best access. There’s 3 levels of journalists at the Olympics and now I’m in the 2nd tier.

Here’s the BC Media Centre; I’m probably going to hang out there a LOT. They let you have as much internet as you want.

Thanks for watching, TTYT!

Cleaning Off My Camera

My trick to remembering where I parked:

On the left when I found it made me miss my ponytail. On the right is what I’ll change my profile pic to.

Fred shirts for sale at… Walmart. Am I the only one that finds that odd?

That’s a studio milestone… odometre is in miles, eh.

Making a new footer and directory for a new year, kinda a big deal. That list of file names is an example of my personal nomenclature, ha.

The bottom photo is what’s gonna be the toughest thing about a video/day… rendering and uploading time.

I Was on the News Last Night

CBC’s ‘The National’, click that to watch and fast forward to a third through.

And just like that I became “the official sympathizer of the TTC sleeping guy”, ha.

I was right eh, he was up late with a family health emergency. Poor guy.

CBC and I interviewed each other, here’s my episode from that:

Dinner with Jody

After we left the restaurant I handed her my camera, “need to blog my new hair, photos please”.

Me: how did you make my camera DO that?

Jody: Stand here, I want to use the glow from the sign
Me: Kay
Me: Why does your face look like that?
Jody: Because look what I posed you beside
Us: ahahaha

January 22 – “Live at 5”

I said I’d be on Queen Street and Peter today from 12:30 – 1:15 with my camera, come say hi to Canada. And you did!

Have you seen that Twitpic of the sleeping TTC guy? CBC reporter Michael Dick arrived to do a story on him and so we interviewed each other. This was at 1:08pm.

And it was only after that did I realize every interview before I’d accidentally cut off the heads of everyone.

Thanks for taking the time, sorry I paid you back by decapitating you.

Tune in tonight at 7 for the telethon ‘Canada for Haiti’ and call in with your cash. Details here: MuchMusic.com

Thank you for watching, TTYS.

Update: I was on CBC’s The National lol here