Is The Internet There?

E3 is still occupying all my time. Won’t be able to post that Gimpshop binary until Saturday morning. Oh well.

Anyway, we were working late last night at E3 and I got silly and thought that a website called istheinternetthere.com would be really funny. Maybe it was only funny because it was late and I was really, really tired.

I told some of the other production guys and they laughed (they were even more tired than I was).

Then, I told my favorite broadcast engineer and DIY god, David the idea and he had it registered and built a page within 15 minutes – exactly as described.

Behold! Now you never have to worry if the internet’s there.

Also, not to rub it in your face or anything, but I got to tell Nintendo Executive VP, Reggie Fils-Aime that I’m a huge Nintendo fan and I let it slip that I recently bought a USB SNES controller for my Mac to play emulated games. He laughed. I hope he knows that I’m only playing the games I owned (and loved as a kid) and still love.

Reggie came on our show as a guest and I had the pleasure of producing his interview which involves pulling video clips to roll during the conversation, shaping the interview a little, preparing the guest before they appear on camera and ultimately leading the guests onto our show’s set to spend some time in front of the cameras.

Reggie showed me (and the rest of the green room) the Wii controller and the cool (and elegant!) retro pad they’ve created to play legacy Nintendo games. Reggie was extremely nice, the interview went great and the whole experience reminded me of the first time I met Mickey Mouse at Disney World.