Missing The Office

Last night I had a meeting that was, unfortunately, scheduled at 8:00. Alas, I was to miss a new episode of The Office. Fortunately, Apple is marvelous and I consoled myself in the point that I could download the episode this morning on iTunes and watch it on my iPod at the gym.

What, ho! I awake this morning and THE NEW EPISODE ISN'T AVAILABLE!

I mourned for a bit, and then the ol' brain started spinning. Why wasn't it available? What could cause such a fallacy?

Here are three theories:

1. Someone fell asleep at the wheel and it just didn't get done. The most likely scenario, but also the most boring.

2. B.J. Novak read my blog from yesterday, felt threatened, and retaliated.

3. Apple is planning on some kind of significant upgrade to their video content/distribution for their 30th Anniversary this weekend and are holding off on releasing anything new until it's launched.

Update: It was finally put up at about 10:00 this morning. (It was actually put on iTunes before I wrote this. But I needed to blog about something today.)

I swear I just saw B.J. Novak

I was concepting with an art director across the street in a hotel lobby (we have to do that now since there isn't a concepting room here anymore) when, I could swear, B.J. Novak (the intern, Ryan, in The Office) walked out of the elevators and past us.

I instinctively did the "Hey, I recognize you from somewhere" head nod, but didn't realize at first who I was, or thought I was, looking at. I told a doubtful Ryan to take a look. He at least confirmed the incredible likeness.

What sealed the deal for me though was that when "B.J." walked out of the building, I noticed he was wearing a new Puma hat (and, as you can see from the picture, The Office gang recently signed an endorsement deal with Puma).

Granted, I have no idea what he would be doing in Salt Lake and at that specific hotel, but I'm pretty darn sure it was him.

What would I have done if he'd walked back toward the elevators instead of outside? Eh. Probably asked if it was him, and if it was have said, "The show's great. Keep up the good work." Nothing too exciting, but I'm not really the stalker type.

Old Look

Sorry. The new look just wasn't settin' right with me.

We love them

Ryan and I feel the need to express our love for those we Scare-O-Nate. We love you. We do it because you're good-natured people and we're fond of you. We wish we could hang out on the weekend, although that would be awkward. You're the kind of people who we admire. The top percentile. We, in fact, love you.

Or your desk happens to face away from your office door.

Sincerely,

Team Scare-O-Nater

New Look?

What do you think of the new template I'm using? Is it working? Sound off in the comments.

Thanks.

Good people

I have had a realization again tonight, and it is that I have been blessed to be associated with great people throughout my entire life. Growing up, in collge, on my mission, work... all great people. It's humbling to think that I get to spend time and, in some cases, be related to such amazing people. I've known so many who are just inherently good. They're great examples to me, and then I married my wife and...wow...she's the epitome of what I want to become.

In short, I've been blessed to keep company with extraordinary people, and I sincerely hope I'm worthy of their friendship.

Microsoft Should Make Cars

A tidbit I picked up from a friend's blog:

MICROSOFT SHOULD MAKE CARS

At a recent computer expo, Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated: "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 miles to the gallon." In response to Bill's comments/General Motors issued a press release stating the following:

If GM had developed technology like Microsoft, we would be driving cars with the following characteristics:

1. For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash twice a day.

2. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you would have to buy a new car.

3. Occasionally, your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would accept this, restart, and drive on.

4. Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart; in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.

5. Only one person at a time could use the car, unless you bought 'Car95' or 'CarNT.' Then you would have to buy more seats.

6. Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was more reliable, five times as fast, and twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.

7. The oil, water, temperature and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single 'general car fault' warning light.

8. New seats would force everyone to have the same butt size.

9. The airbag system would say 'Are you sure?' before going off.

10. Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.

11. GM would require all car buyers to also purchase a deluxe set of Rand McNally road maps (now a GM subsidiary), even though they neither need them nor want them. Attempting to delete this option would immediately cause the car's performance to diminish by 50% or more.

12. Every time GM introduced a new model, car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.

13. You'd press the 'Start' button to shut off the engine.