I miss Bob! In fact I was wondering about him the other day. The L has lost a little spice since he got quiet.
In case he's still lurking out there, let me just say: Congratulations Bob! I always thought you were the kind of dude people paid attention to, but if losing 30lbs makes people attach even more "weight" to the important things you're saying, that makes me particularly happy.
Me, I'm fighting the good fight with an excellent physical therapist to undo decades of enslavement to computers. I'm plenty old, but I stand up straighter than I did when I was 19. In fact, I'm standing up now to type this, because I converted my home system to an adjustable sit/stand desk, probably one of the most important thing I've done for my health since I learned to swim at age 45.
Here's wishing all my colleagues good joint health and optimal vital signs in 2014.
Best,
Shirley
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Feeley <jfeeley@gmail.com>
To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tue, Dec 24, 2013 9:28 am
Subject: [Avid-L2] Wisdom from Zelin
Not sure Bob's on Avid-L2 these days...
Good conspiracy theory from Kerry, too.
jim feeley
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Subject: Re: [FCP-L] OT: It must be a plot
Date: December 24, 2013 7:17:09 AM PST
bah humbug.
I will be 58 years old in a few weeks. I was 194 pounds about 3 – 4 months ago. I started an aggressive "Atkins""style diet (at my Dr.'s office), and now, just a few months later,
I am at 166 pounds (my goal weight is 160, and I am 5'10" tall).
So what does this mean, in relation to FCP-L, and what we do for a living. STOP YOUR DAMN WHINING. Stop being a pussy. If you are a fat ass (like I was) – LOSE SOME WEIGHT.
It's not hard. And if you are an AVID only editor (or FCP 7 only editor) STOP YOUR DAMN WHINING and learn BOTH Adobe Premiere and FCP-X.
So if you KEEP LEARNING and WATCH YOUR WEIGHT, then you will never be a useless fat old man, who no one pays attention to.
Bob Zelin
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 9:21 AM
Subject: [FCP-L] OT: It must be a plot
Over the years, you have read my complaints about those stations and cable companies that distort standard definition 4:3 programming to fit high definition sets. I have bemoaned the fact that my grandchildren and, as yet unborn, descendants will lose the ability to discriminate between a true circle and an ovoid.
This morning I had an epiphany.
With the almost-daily headlines in the U.S. about the obesity epidemic, perhaps this is designed to help us feel better about ourselves. If so many of the "beautiful people" that we watch on television look short and fat, we won't be as appalled when seeing ourselves in the mirror.
It must be a plot.
Clearly, the way to combat this is to start contacting the diet-food lobby, Weight Watchers, NutriSystem, Lean Cuisine, every company that makes a non-caloric beverage and the like with my theory. If we all become comfortable looking like Jabba the Hutt, what happens to their business models? It would seem to be in their best interests to avoid advertising on those programs that are broadcast in the wrong aspect ratio.
I'm right! Right?
Or was it that last glass of spiked eggnog at the Christmas party?
Kerry
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Kerry Soloway
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