Comments on: Jeopardy is Wired http://blog.justdrew.net/2009/02/07/jeopardy-is-wired/ Interactive musings from a creative technophile Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:38:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Drew http://blog.justdrew.net/2009/02/07/jeopardy-is-wired/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Drew Sun, 08 Feb 2009 16:25:43 +0000 http://blog.justdrew.net/?p=34#comment-58 Weird synchronicity... Okay, get this: I posted this article in the afternoon after I stumbled across the Jeopardy Wired piece. Then, as I worked on some repetitive catalog work for a client, I was listening to an audio book about Miles Davis (great book, BTW- called Miles to Go, by Chris Murphy). I got to the point in the book where the author makes a temporary break from a depressed Miles to work with the new band, Weather Report. He just finishes talking about <strong>Jaco Pastorius </strong>and his awesome work on his fretless bass when I hit the pause button and wrapped for the day. Later last night, when I got back from meeting some friends, I fired up the DVR in bed and my jaw dropped when several of the days' clues tied back to my day. It was like a dream you have that plays back elements of the previous day's events. It would have been spooky enough to have one of the answers to a clue be the British show, <strong>Mastermind</strong> (yep, it happened), but to beat that; in a category called "J.P." there was a video clue about this Weather Report fretless bassist who sometimes had to take a fretted bass and remove the fretbars from the neck himself... I truly thought I was hallucinating. Weird synchronicity… Okay, get this: I posted this article in the afternoon after I stumbled across the Jeopardy Wired piece. Then, as I worked on some repetitive catalog work for a client, I was listening to an audio book about Miles Davis (great book, BTW- called Miles to Go, by Chris Murphy).

I got to the point in the book where the author makes a temporary break from a depressed Miles to work with the new band, Weather Report. He just finishes talking about Jaco Pastorius and his awesome work on his fretless bass when I hit the pause button and wrapped for the day.

Later last night, when I got back from meeting some friends, I fired up the DVR in bed and my jaw dropped when several of the days’ clues tied back to my day. It was like a dream you have that plays back elements of the previous day’s events.

It would have been spooky enough to have one of the answers to a clue be the British show, Mastermind (yep, it happened), but to beat that; in a category called “J.P.” there was a video clue about this Weather Report fretless bassist who sometimes had to take a fretted bass and remove the fretbars from the neck himself… I truly thought I was hallucinating.

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