tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58432202009-10-13T00:51:48.458-07:00The adventures of a time traveling, crime busting, vampire slaying, breakdance fighting, multi-universe saving, TV news photographer in <strike>Portland, OR</strike> South Carolina.JLnoreply@blogger.comBlogger500125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-28129372469237287792006-12-13T20:45:00.000-08:002006-12-13T20:49:50.902-08:00

The continuing adventures of little lost robot are now taking place here on my wordpress blog. Chances are you ended up here becuase of my Blogger profile or something. Hope to see you there! little lost robot

JLnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-70734168129568962782006-12-11T13:47:00.000-08:002006-12-11T14:06:31.058-08:00

I've been locked out of my blog for the past few days. I've been able to update my blog for YEARS without a problem, but all of a sudden it just mysteriously doesn't work. Apparently, Blogger changed the way stuff uploads to my Yahoo-based server (or is it vice-versa?), so I had to do a bit of forensic HTML and FTPing to figure out a workaround.The solution I came up with involves nothing more

JLnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1165805660200259782006-12-10T18:23:00.000-08:002006-12-11T13:32:35.042-08:00

Saw this sign in the beer and wine section of the local supermarket today and smiled.Aside from that, here were other exciting highlights from this weekend:1. Had this whole, "Let's go out tonight!" thing planned for Saturday, but Hasser and I ended up getting sucked into watching the entire third season of Little Britain instead. And now,we'll be talking like Lou and Andy all month long, much to

JLnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1165295439712839332006-12-04T20:43:00.000-08:002006-12-05T05:07:27.460-08:00

This year my holiday robot tree is out of control. We got a fiber optic tree, and another half-dozen ornaments. I was planning on taking a photo to post on the blog, but I got carried away and made a little video [below].It was thrown together pretty fast, but you have no idea how hard it was figuring out whether to edit the photos to the robot voice or the music - which obviously didn't sync up

JLnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1164897870543501142006-11-30T06:38:00.000-08:002006-11-30T06:44:30.730-08:00

I had a heart attack this morning when I went to glance over my website...and it wasn't there! Instead was my 404 redirect page, which routed traffic into the folders and files of my site. Scary.Somehow the index was deleted from my blog, so I quickly republished and then changed passwords like mad. Paypal, Blogger, MySpace - you name it. Like I said: heart attack.I'm so switching to wordpress

JLnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1164855586412782972006-11-29T17:42:00.000-08:002006-11-29T19:05:23.186-08:00

"Oh snap!" I believe is what I whispered during the newsroom meeting yesterday when Andy Still (the news director) announced that Jane Robelot will be joining the WYFF4 news team in January. We were all rounded-up from our daily assignments and called into the newsroom, where moments later the Robelot made her grand entrance [video].I didn't stick around for too much more after the introduction,

JLnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1164685316624277922006-11-27T19:31:00.000-08:002006-11-27T19:42:33.573-08:00

Earlier I was going on about how Cinemax has been playing the Star Wars marathon over and over again every weekend. Well, I neglected to mention that prior to the actual marathon, Cinemax constantly played this (really long) music video set to Coldplay's "Fix You" (prompting Stereogum to write a post a few weeks back, titled "Coldplay are Star Whores")After watching that, I'm still kinda torn

JLnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1164638415793896872006-11-27T06:26:00.000-08:002006-11-27T06:40:15.873-08:00

It's Monday morning here at LLR headquarters and I'm recovering from the holiday (shopping weekend). Here are a few random thoughts:1. On Thanksgiving I was the lucky photographer who landed "vo/sot patrol", meaning that I ran all over town shooting various Thanksgiving-related stories. At each of these events I sampled some turkey. Later that day, we had a make-shift Thanksgiving lunch, at which

JLnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1164167764956950252006-11-21T19:34:00.000-08:002006-11-21T19:58:15.373-08:00

Few quick items to report on this Tuesday evening. The first is showing off my promotional swag from NBC's show Heroes. My very own "Save the Cheerleader pom-poms!"I saw this thing in the promotions office and was all excited, and then after thirty seconds or so I realized, "What the heck am I going to do with these things now?" The first thing I did was annoy my co-workers by doing the

JLnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1163642932622276302006-11-16T22:31:00.000-08:002006-11-16T17:04:58.476-08:00

Watch any network during sweeps and you'll see the numerous promos and episodes touting the possible or imminent demise of a beloved cast member. It's an act of attrition that viewers have come to expect from their favorite shows, and the evening news here in Greenville is no different. Judging from this promo, it looks like I'll be joining the crazy lady from Desperate Housewives and Mr Ecko

JLnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1163643331037067162006-11-15T18:09:00.000-08:002006-11-17T12:30:35.856-08:00

I worked pretty hard at work today. Luckily, my job was to rock out on the loading dock.That was actually just a frame grab from my video segment this week, so the actual number of frames that I'm rocked was more like 2850. No wonder I'm so tired!

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In all my time at WYFF4, I'm still rather amazed that Nigel has never made it into the blog before today. And I never imagined that this would be the image [below] that'd introduce him.We were shooting a promo for an upcoming sweeps story, which involves a great deal of special effects. Jar Jar also appears in the promo with us, but obviously he hasn't been added in yet - nor have our lightswords

JLnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1163470260090998632006-11-13T17:51:00.000-08:002006-11-13T18:11:00.136-08:00

I was locked out of my apartment building tonight. The keycard I was issued has become increasingly weak with each passing day, and the electrickery inside it finally gave out.Actually, it gave out a few days ago, but I've had some really good timing with other neighbors arriving. However, tonight one guy didn't recognize me and wouldn't let me in - which is responsible, I guess. In these

JLnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1163469023182132782006-11-10T18:43:00.000-08:002006-11-13T17:51:07.526-08:00

I thought Sony had perfected video game crack when they released Everquest a few years ago, but that Playstation has taken it to a whole new level with Guitar Hero.Now that Guitar Hero 2 is out, I see my lunch break (and whatever free time I have after work) disappearing altogether.

JLnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1163124805823049432006-11-09T17:55:00.000-08:002006-11-09T18:17:05.353-08:00

On a tip from the Reaves family, I went to Old Navy to check on some possible robot merchandise - which was only possible because I wasn't wearing an Old Navy shirt at the time.Anyway, I hit the jackpot. There was so much stuff: ornaments, wrapping paper, dog chew toys. I bought a few things, but there was no way I could justify spending over $60 on a ton of weird Old Navy junk. Although I will

JLnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1162998554207063262006-11-08T06:51:00.000-08:002006-11-08T08:03:18.780-08:00

In case you haven't heard: last night was the midterm elections. With a dozen other people, I was sent down to Columbia (the state capitol) to perform in the media circus - a thinking man's media circus, if you will. Think: "Cirque Du Solei meets voting fraud".There were crews from three to four TV markets in each location, and that's a whole lot of live trucks. The lens on my little digital

JLnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1162785135327326472006-11-05T19:44:00.000-08:002006-11-05T19:52:15.406-08:00

It's been a rather relaxing weekend. I saw Borat on Saturday, and then got to relive some of the magic as HBO ran a marathon of Da Ali G Show episodes later that night.Oh! I want to know how many people (like me) yelled, "Holy S#!t!" at about 9:51 during Desperate Housewives tonight. I totally called who was going to be shot dead, and was still surprised when it actually happened. Of course, the

JLnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1162785495880443742006-11-04T19:54:00.000-08:002006-11-05T20:00:49.636-08:00

Election day is only a few days away. Here's my favorite grassroots political ad thus far:

JLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1162438511897468532006-11-01T19:26:00.000-08:002006-11-02T19:42:00.893-08:00

Here's a random shot from my work day today. Umm...probably a good idea I don't say too much. Although I would like to mention the best line I've heard on TV this week (from 30 Rock's Tracy Jordan): "Live every week like it's Shark Week." I believe Cooper and I were doing just that.[update: here's the "doll video" - video link]

JLnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1162264624598952472006-10-30T19:11:00.000-08:002006-10-30T19:17:04.663-08:00

Haven't behind the wheel of Blogger much, as I've been creating my new Wordpress template! Expect to see some weird-ass stuff as I start to convert everything. Supposedly there's a magic button that'll let me effortlessly import the past few years of archives, but nothing is ever that easy - so expect the pages to look funky if you happen to stop by this week.

JLnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1161910351549532792006-10-26T17:27:00.001-07:002006-10-26T17:57:03.163-07:00

Here's two robot related items I stumbled across today.First, I was reading the latest issue of Blender and laughed when I found shots of "the biggest midget in the game" Lady Sovereign playing with a shiny, new robosapien. I'd be hard pressed to think of anything that would make me love the Sov any more that I already do, but this photo did the trick. Each issue the magazine gives a random rock

JLnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1161785241713075922006-10-25T06:47:00.000-07:002006-10-25T07:07:21.873-07:00

Yesterday I was sent on assignment to a conference held by the area power company. They assembled a bunch of various public agencies to talk about how to deal with power-related issues - such as downed power lines. Sounds kinda boring right?It sorta was, until they pulled out the props. The power company had a small scale neighborhood called "power town", in which they used action figures and

JLnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1161571313373509252006-10-22T19:27:00.000-07:002006-10-22T19:41:53.420-07:00

Not much to blog as of late. I've been swamped with a bunch of personal projects and doinking around in Everquest. Also, I've been seriously contemplating the relaunch of my website using Wordpress - really changing up the way I do things, and enabling my to blog more often.But until then, here's a small story I meant to write:I was in the comic book shop a few days ago, and instead of engaging

JLnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1161135136907716732006-10-17T17:41:00.000-07:002006-10-19T18:56:45.850-07:00

Today being Tuesday, my pal Melinda and I had our "Did you see Heroes?" chat over IM while watching other shows. Here's an excerpt from our conversation:Last year I thought the concept was clever as I surfed over to Dwight's blog on NBC's website. I checked out Margene's diary from Big Love.I guess if you're a fan of a certain show then all the added content might be cool. But, it's started to

JLnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5843220.post-1160704381349111242006-10-13T11:01:00.000-07:002006-10-12T18:54:04.940-07:00

Here are several random things that'd I pass along on this Friday morning.1. I liked the series premier of 30 Rock. But the show after it: not so much. I can only take so much of Jon Lithgow screaming, you know?2. I've been really behind in getting comic book scripts to my artist-friend Julia, but that doesn't keep me from promoting the book at Comic Foundry. [link to video 'interview']3. WYFF-4

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