Happy Nube Day… of the future!
This morning when I woke up (feeling like Joan Rivers), the first thing I did was grab my iPhone and get on Facebook. There, I was reminded that today is the best holiday ever created: NUBE DAY!
I literally screamed with joy as I read José's wall post and realized that it's one of my favorite days of the year.
Ten years ago today, my friends Simeon, José and I turned in our TeleNube commercial to our eighth-grade Spanish teacher, Sra. Warren. I forget what the assignment actually was, but our project that somehow fulfilled the requirements was a TV commercial for a new television network, TeleNube. As I recall, we even managed to film the thing at the CHS-TV anchor desk over at the high school.
See, nube (i.e., "cloud" en inglés) was our favorite word. Don't ask why. We were eighth-grade boys; we didn't need a reason. So creating a cloud-themed news network was kind of a no-brainer.
Check out the script of our promo below and run it through Google Translate if you must. I'm Tomás Indrelunas, and then there's Simeon Owens and Hector Jiménez...
TI ¿Estás cansado de noticias regulares?
SO Intentas las noticias de nube en el canal "TeleNube."
HJ Nosotros damos los reportes sobre el tiempo cada quince minutos.
TI Y todas nuestras emisiónes están cubiertas por la patente del canal "TeleNube..."
SO ¡Pantalla Nublada! ¡Vivo! del blimp "TeleNube."
HJ "TeleNube" el canal international numero uno de las noticias te lleva mucho más atras de las camaras y enseña visiones exclusivos que solo veras aquí.
TI Las noticias de nube es una mirada divertida en el tiempo y las noticias.
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HJ El presidente de los Estados Unidos... [Hesitate] ...¡Se me olvidó mi linea!
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TI Hoy es el primero de marzo y nuestro reporte especial es... [Begin laughing]
SO ¡Su cabeza está en las nubes!
SO ...No hay lluvia en el pronóstico. [Thunder and Rain] ¡uy!¡ay!
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TI Si tú no estás cerca de una televisión, visitanos en el internet en www.TeleNube.com
HJ ¿Donde puedes hallar las mejor noticias?
SO TI HJ
¡Aquí en TeleNube!
At first when I realized it was Nube Day, I got hella stoked because I realized that today was forecast to be a cloudy and/or rainy day in Palm Springs. I looked outside my window and saw that God has clearly decided to celebrate Nube Day too.
Shortly afterward, I realized that even though back in 2000, José, Simeon and I were television revolutionaries who were ahead of our time, we now live in the future and our vision of a 24/7 news network distinguished from the rest by the fact that there would always be nubes on the screen via our Pantalla Nublada system could finally become a reality!
So I hopped on livestream and made an account and then went to GoDaddy and registered TeleNube.com. And now, a mere two hours after I was sleepily reading José's Nube Day felicidades on Facebook, I'm just about to start the first-ever live broadcast on TeleNube.
You can tune in below, or better yet — head over to the newly minted TeleNube.com to celebrate Nube Day by watching the clouds hovering over Mount San Jacinto LIVE on the newly launched Web stream of the legendary TeleNube!