I guess you all know the feeling when you are creating a video and you have the Chairman Emeritus of the board of Directors of the company you work ford sitting there with a lit birthday cake in his lap, and the video camera trained on him won't work right, and the candles are burning down and he's getting really impatient? I sure know that feeling, let me tell you. Because it happened to me about three days ago.

I've been working a lot outside my job on these videos, which is interesting in that they allow me access to interview a bunch of people who I never would have had a chance to ask questions of. And in general people are pretty sharp and inspiring to talk to.

Now that I am a documentary film maker, I went to see the fog of war the other day, which is a documentary on the life of Robert McNamara, and I could really relate to how he had nothing to show while people were talking. McNamara was kind of the Rumsfield of his day, only he came into power with Kennedy, stuck around for LBJ and eventually went crazy and ran down the street with his hair on fire. But he was largely held responsible for our escalation in Viet Nam and may or may not have caused a few hundred thousand people to die for no reason. Anyway, this documentary was a bit long, but it did cover a lot of good stuff about how he made the plan where the US fire bombed Tokoyo and killed 100,000 civilians, and to hear him talk about the war.Normally I like Errol Morris but this one was kind of an effort to sit through.

I would tell you more, but even talking about that movie is giving me a headache. We did have some lovely wheat gluten before the move, prepared in a chinese simulation of meat products. Tasty.