How I spent my "today"

Today I spent a good six hours on a TV shoot for a show that will most likely never be shown here in the states, but will draw a few million people on BBC1.

I'm not sure how much I should talk about, only that it's Wallace and Grommet's new show "Wallace and Grommet's World of Inventions", where the claymation pair feature interesting inventions by interesting inventors from around the world.
The segment that was filmed today focused on a local inventor from the turn of the century, Nathan B Stubblefield, who came up with a primitive form of wireless telephony in the 1890s.

The host for today's segment and some other "on location" shots is this guy, who is pretty awesome and very humble. In fact, all the crew was very nice. They could have easily done this in a field in England, but came to western Kentucky to film a bunch of locals putting copper rods in the ground. It was a great way to spend the day, and I feel that Ruger will be featured pretty heavily in the episode.

So much going wrong at once.

Let's see. We have the largest ecological disaster in the history of the planet happening right now, along with a bomb in Times Square and Nashville is now a mermaid paradise.
If I wasn't busy with finals and a cumulative project I would use this time to analyze how newsites are covering each event. Sadly, I don't have that sort of time anymore.

And that "largest ecological disaster" line is only because the TVA coal ash spill from christmas 2008 released only a little over 1 billion gallons of toxic, mildly radioactive gunk into the Tennessee River (don't eat the fish) and THAT was labeled the "worst ecological disaster" and so far, as of today, BP says the oil spill is only 2.7 million (at a rate of 210,000 gallons a day, other estimates put it as high as 12.2 million) but covers 50x150 square miles.