The Right Way, The Industry Way, And The CAPS Way

Well, here begins the first post.

I am new to the world of habitual blogging, but as a fellow member of the entertainment direction and production profession, it would be highly disfunctional for me to not blog away with all the rest of you.

I had a hard time coming up with a name for my blog, and finally settled on 'the caps way'. To some of you this may not make any sense at all. But for those of you who have had the pleasure of being my supervisor, you may already know where this is going. The explanation is as follows; One day I was working for my favorite mentor to date and good friend Jason Cole. Most of you know him already, but for those of you who don't, please take the time to read his blog as well. (Jason's blog can be found here: http://productionnuts.blogspot.com/) Anyway, I was prepping our new multi-track rig for its first use and to complete the setup, the MAC required a admin password. I though Jason had given it to me before he left, so I tried it. Much to my dismay, the password I had remembered did not work. After several tries, I became rather annoyed with MACs in general and decided that I would call Jason even though he had already left for the day. (Against the code I know, but its all part of the story. Remember there is the industry way, the right way, and then there is the caps way) Jason was of course happy to help and told me what the password was. I informed him that I had already tried that, and that the MAC had rejected it. A long pause came from the other end of the phone, and a puzzled Jason says to me, "Well that's the password that I set not an hour ago before I left, I couldn't imagine why it wouldn't accept it. Do you have the caps lock on?". I looked down to the keyboard (which was a wireless MICROSOFT keyboard on a MAC, which was the first mistake, and second, lacked the basic green LED on the caps lock key to indicate its status. Instead, MICROSOFT in all their infinite wisdom, put the LEDs on the receiver unit, which as luck would have it was on the floor out of sight.) and I noticed that there was no indicator located on the keyboard and as an experiment, toggled the key and tried again. As luck would have it, the MAC now had not problems accepting the password, making me feel the the biggest idiot in the world, in front of my mentor. Life couldn't get much worse. I have never been successful in shaking the new nickname I had just earned and have instead decided to embrace it.

Now you know the story an hopefully the rest of my blog will begin to make sense.

Please feel free to comment as I value your opinions and input. If there is ever a day when you didn't learn anything, you have stopped living.