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I’ve got an abundance of bits and pieces of canadian telecom and internet experience, and I am thrilled to be in a place in time when all is changing, technology is developing, and the status quo is being disrupted. 

Floobergeist is a word that is beginning to defy definition.  The more I roll that smooth pebble around, the more it becomes to mean. Floobergeist started out as the magic dust that turns dreams into ideas.  And then it began to encompass the zing that happens when you have conversations about those ideas. And now, it’s the whole evolution from dream to conversation, with each step improving the later and the former along the way.

Everyone aspires to good conversations. They can lead you to adventures you’ve never imagined, and to people you can twig with.

Let’s have a good conversation…

welcome.

TV Rule of Thumb: White-board Appropriateness

May 28, 2008  /  jules kivell

Over the past few weeks, the Wiz and I have come to realize that the best shows on TV right now are ones where there is the appearance of a white-board, or where a white-board appearance would not be out of the question.

This all came about after my eleventh exclamation that “I’m going to die if I don’t get a clear, see-through white board and a juicy white board marker”.
The Wiz reminded me, for the eleventh time, that see-through whiteboards are just just for TV. So the camera can capture the actor, for visual effect. No one in the real world would use a see-through white-board, because you would never easily be able to see what you were working on. The see-through white-board is a creation of TV. Sort of like the super size frying pan that Coppertone used to fry models in.

The White-board rule of thumb can apply to almost all TV shows right now.

Awesome shows with white-boards, or the potential for a white-board to make an appearance:

  1. Regensis
  2. House
  3. Shark
  4. Medium
  5. Dexter
  6. Nip Tuck
  7. Ghost Whisperer
  8. Blood Ties
  9. Numbers
  10. CSI
Shows that don’t have a hope in hell of having a whiteboard (and thus have *good* odds of being *very bad*):
  1. American Idol
  2. Dancing with the Stars
  3. Survivor
  4. Wife Swap
  5. Anything on The WB
  6. Any Reality Gameshow
  7. SuperNanny
  8. Next Top Model
  9. Mama’s Family
  10. Everybody Loves Raymond

See…. it really works - the white-board rule of thumb. Go ahead. Try it. You know I’m right. ;-)


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