| Joe Perez |
Apr 4, 2020 07:07 AM |
That settles it.
I have managed to make tiny rubber ducks an official geometric reference point on all robotic cameras at WGN. The word "duck" is actually inscribed upon the floor in studios 1-3 at all of the various camera pedestal locations, and also mentioned many times in the code which runs the robots. The stagehands at WGN now refer to the home-front position of each camera as "the duck."
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(Mind you, these are gruff old IATSE union stagehands. And yet I have made them giggle like children.)
We also have a room which is dubbed the "Kool-Aid room." It's a large storage closet on the 2nd floor, which had no room number when I got here, but did have jagged a hole in the wall caused by careless application of a pallet jack. So I printed a photo of kool-aid man and stuck it to the wall with 3M spray adhesive. Now, when you say "It's in the kool-aid room," everyone knows exactly what you mean.
I am going to make it my new mission to somehow integrate the phrase "the cat's ass" into official station documentation. I don't know how just yet, but it's going to happen.
Why bother going to work if you're not going to make it humorous? |
