Technical Jargon Overload

[AndrewMeronek]

Oh, jeez. I find this to be hilarious! Maybe a reminder of trombone "gurus" who claim to know all sorts of crap. The opening line makes me giggle uncontrollably due to my "day" gig:

"Here at Rockwell Automation’s world headquarters"

[Posaunus]

Go Rockwell!

How did he do this with a straight face?

[ithinknot]

The turboencabulator has a long and noble history.

The Chrysler version is even better.

In a similar, if more worrying, vein.

[BGuttman]

Good grief! And I used to use all this stuff. I have no idea what he's talking about!

[Posaunus]

The turboencabulator has a long and noble history.

The Chrysler version is even better.

Elon Musk is already working on a new technology that will blow Rockwell out of the water!

[robcat2075]

How did he do this with a straight face?

I used to work on videos like that. At Nortel.

Someone in our dept. would write a script extracted from technical documentation or a PowerPoint sales presentation.

Then we'd have a casting call of "talking heads" culled from audition reels that all the local aspiring talking heads had sent us.

You could spend a day shooting something like that, getting all the boxes lit right and making sure all the right doors were opened and pointed to at the right time.

It didn't matter that they didn't know what they were talking about, they just had to sound like they did. Confidence!

Usually I was creating graphics for these things but sometimes I was directing shoots.

Back when internet video was new I got one of these assignments plopped on me and they said, "Do not use any moving camera shots! Moving camera shots do not compress well! Do not use any moving camera shots!"

So i block the whole thing out so it doesn't need so much as a single tilt or pan, shoot it, edit it and then when we screen it at the next department meeting, the first complaint is... "You never moved the camera!"

[timothy42b]

Love it! Great find.

[Bach5G]

When he opened the door, I thought there might be a sandwich in the microwave.

[baileyman]

Yeah, but good resonance and good time. Would it be better if he were playing Bordogni?

[AndrewMeronek]

The turboencabulator has a long and noble history.

The Chrysler version is even better.

In a similar, if more worrying, vein.

Apparently there is a "Turbo Encabulator Diagnostic Procedures Manual And Songbook."