Today I went to export a wedding video I’d made from my computer to my camera. I was quite distressed to find my computer spouting rude messages blocking me from completing this task, specifically, a message stating: “Your firewire camera is not powered on or is not available. Please try again.” Certainly, I thought to myself, my computer must be incorrect. It is fallible, much more so than I, and it is not looking directly at the plug that is attached to my camera. So I tried again, at the request of my computer, with no more favorable result.
The enlightenment of a good friend (you know who you are) revealed to me that I had not plugged in the firewire cable, but instead a power plug. It was not any power plug. It was not even a plug that serves any sort of computer or videocamera purpose at all. It was in fact my cell phone charger that I was plugging into my camera.
It turns out that many people make this same mistake. Did you know that the recent number of lay-offs in high-end video production companies is because of the fact that employees are constantly trying to charge their cell phones with their firewire cables and using their cell phone chargers to attempt to import and export video footage? It turns out that there are an estimated 5,000 hours of unproductivity per year due to this very error. Production supervisors have yet to determine the cause of this confusion, due to the striking differences between these two separate entities, including their shape, size, and the fact that one plugs into the back of your computer while the other plugs into a wall outlet. And I have now been offered a hefty sum of money to go into these companies and train employees to distinguish between cell phone chargers and firewire cables. I have accepted the job, and I’m going to start with a variety of demonstrations of what not to do, such as showing employees what happens when they try to film footage with their computer and edit the footage on their cell phones.
Okay, well, approximately 100 percent of that last paragraph was false. I was trying to redeem myself but it appears there is no redemption for an error of this magnitude. Next thing you know I’ll be brushing my teeth with the car keys and sticking my toothbrush in the ignition. Is there no end to this lack of common sense?
There should be a moral here. I’m just not sure what it is.
–Troi out
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September 10th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
There are any number of tragic mistakes that could put an end to your everyday item misadventures. I leave the rest to your imagination as everything I thought of was quite morose.