Four words you don’t want to hear coming from the video conference room at 7:00 am
by Lee Potts ~ May 2nd, 2008. Filed under: Housekeeping.“Try pushing that button!”
Sounds like someone’s Friday might be off to a rough start.
I’m a day or so behind schedule. There’s a somewhat more substantial post in the works and it should be online sometime tonight. This week’s “Friday’s List of What You Might Have Missed” is also going to be delayed and should be up tomorrow.



May 30th, 2008 at 6:09 am
Just love that post…. I am sure there are many sentences of 4 words or even less that you hear during video conferences that are just delightful like that.
how about:
“Can he see me?”
“What’s a dial-in number?”
Steve LaRoses last blog post..what is going on.
May 30th, 2008 at 6:13 am
@ Steve LaRose: Or the ever popular, “Are we on mute?”
May 30th, 2008 at 9:09 am
Just love that post…. I am sure there are many sentences of 4 words or even less that you hear during video conferences that are just delightful like that.
how about:
“Can he see me?”
“What’s a dial-in number?”
Steve LaRoses last blog post..what is going on.
May 30th, 2008 at 9:13 am
@ Steve LaRose: Or the ever popular, “Are we on mute?”
July 28th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
How about: “Is this mic on?” (followed by tapping the mic head)
July 28th, 2008 at 4:57 pm
How about: “Is this mic on?” (followed by tapping the mic head)
July 28th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
@ Rick: Actually that’s not as bad as two or three, sharp spittle-filled breaths deliver directly to the mic head followed by “can you hear me now?”
July 28th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Well, that’s true, but I was trying to stick to the 4 word rule…lol. If you want to add words then I am sure we can expand the phrases that we least like to hear while on a gig.
July 28th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
@ Rick: Go for it, don’t be constrained by what I happened to overhear that morning. I’d love to hear some of the things you’ve heard.
I was actually thinking more about the blowing on the mic. I’m not a sound guy but isn’t that a good way of screwing up the condenser?
July 28th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
@ Rick: Actually that’s not as bad as two or three, sharp spittle-filled breaths deliver directly to the mic head followed by “can you hear me now?”
July 28th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Well, that’s true, but I was trying to stick to the 4 word rule…lol. If you want to add words then I am sure we can expand the phrases that we least like to hear while on a gig.
July 28th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
@ Rick: Go for it, don’t be constrained by what I happened to overhear that morning. I’d love to hear some of the things you’ve heard.
I was actually thinking more about the blowing on the mic. I’m not a sound guy but isn’t that a good way of screwing up the condenser?