Episode 4 Script Done

I've finished writing the script for Episode 4 (working title: "Send Money") and am feverishly working on voice overs and animation. This episode touches on a time-honored tradition of public television: the pledge drive. Look for it soon.

Confessions of a Pixel Pusher

I was doing my taxes recently and the tax software I use initially takes you through a series of questions, the answers of which help to determine how your tax return will be filled out. One of the first things the software asks is whether or not you've experienced one or more life changing events in the past year. It's the same type of question an insurance or financial expert would ask you to determine what your next move should be.

Marriage, birth of a child, loss of employment, and death of a spouse. They want to know if you’ve experienced the very things in life that change your life, your place in the world. Things that give you reason for pause or dictate your next step, whether you like it or not, and alter your reality. These are things of magnitude and importance.

And for the life of me, I cannot think of one thing, let alone four, in the online world that even comes close to the life-altering magnitude of marriage, starting a family, loss of livelihood or death. Those things can shake you to your core. The web might make me click a little harder but it just doesn’t move me like that.

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