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10/9/2006

Tony, Tony.

Filed under: — Mike @ 7:49 pm

Heard tonight spilling out of the mouth of ESPN’s Tony Kornheiser on Monday Night Football (from memory so it may be slightly off):

“Most 40 year old Americans first heard of Mountain Time as a result of the Denver Broncos and Mile High City.”

Uhhh…. what?

Tony obviously has very little clue when it comes to time, and cannot comprehend simple concepts like “time to shut your mouth” and “time to hang it up.”

My prediction is that Tony doesn’t make it back to the booth next season. We’ll see if I’m right.

Mike

It’s the meeeers.

Filed under: — Mike @ 7:40 pm

Anyone else sick of the Texas Instruments DLP commercial? I’m referring to the one with the little girl who is standing next to an elephant in some azur water with digital crap flying around her head.

Here’s what I dislike about it:

1. It is “mirror,” not “meer.” If you are going to have a kid do your voiceover work (stupid idea because kids voices are grating and hard to listen to, do not offer any inference of authority, and are simply not convincing), at least make sure you coach the child to properly say the words you have written. Mirror is a two-syllable word, not a mere one syllable as this commercial would lead you to believe.

2. You do not need to airbrush the skin of children, at least not as heavily as is done on the commercial. Put simply, if the kid you picked to do your commercial needs airbrushing to make their skin look like that of a child, then you need to pick a new kid.

3. If you are going to try to sell me on how your new technology can make an ultra-realistic image, then maybe, just maybe, you could consider setting a realistic scene. I don’t believe your technology can show me a realistic image if your commercial is mostly computer generated. Computer-generated images do not look realistic, no matter how much money you throw at them.

Texas Instruments, please go away.

Mike