Xataka
One blog I am now reading consistently to help with my Spanish is Xataka, which is a lot like Engadget or Gizmodo. One of the mild problems with my former teacher, a very good teacher and nice lady, was that she was really shaky on the technonerdy jargon in Spanish. This blog helps with [...]
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Happy Halloween
The city of Conway decreed that trick or treating would occur last night, and so it did. I decided to wear my wrestler outfit - tights, boots and a Champion tank top - while I was handing out candy. D convinced me not to wear the luchadore mask because it would frighten the kids. Out [...]
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Audioblog for Oct 30, 2004
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the audioblog for October 30, 2004. I talk about life in a small town and “fitting in”; I talk a little more about Jaime Hernandez and Robert Rodriguez and play audio clips from each; and I play a Le Tigre song from the Wired [...]
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The Home Stretch
Teresa Nielsen Hayden has advice on these last few days till the election. They all boil down to basically “Don’t let the Rove machinations bring you down. Keep the faith, stay strong, vote vote vote!”
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Simple Pleasures
On a rainy and cold (relatively - it is 70 here at the end of October) day, there was something joyous and wonderful about just having a hot bowl of tomato soup for lunch. I had flashbacks to the hundreds of lunches I had just like that, on days just like this in Kansas. I’ve [...]
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Unreality Shows
It seems like every damn ad I see for an upcoming reality show is about some kind of bullshit show where the premise is that the participants are being lied to. Give me a break. These things are tedious enough, but when the core of them is a lie, they are unbearable. How can they [...]
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Light Blogging
Much day job, blogging will be light for a while, both text and audio.
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Red Sox
Although I wasn’t rooting for them, there are worse things in this world than seeing the Red Sox take the World Series. I’m hoping that this is a good omen less than a week before the election, seeing the underdogs from Massachusetts taking it all. Also, I fully expect that after the gazillion.1 lazy reporters [...]
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I Got a Fever!
I’m tired of arguing. I want to have a lovefest instead. No more friction, I want more cowbell!
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Rob Greenlee Responds
WebTalkRadio’s Rob Greenlee responds to me. I mostly agree with him and left him a comment on his blog about the couple points where I diverge from him. I probably did go too far in my previous post. Note to self - don’t post when you are pissed off by reading a bunch of backlash [...]
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They Only Jump When You Hit the Nerve
A combination of wise feedback from loyal readers and listeners of this blog combined with my inadvertent fever-induced vision quest and a good jolt of Robert Rodriguez has left me with a feeling of peace and clarity. I’m beginning to grok the podcasting pushback, and the more I understand it the less it bothers me. [...]
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Audioblog for Oct 26, 2004
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the audioblog for October 26, 2004. I talk about music permissions and Creative Commons; I play a song by Chuck D from the Wired CD and an excerpt from a Spanish language podcast; talk about Jaime Hernandez and Robert Rodriguez (who I suggest [...]
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Cards Laying Down
The Cardinals are making an idiot of me. Here, I’ve been saying that I thought the Red Sox used up everything in the tank getting through the ALCS. In fact, despite playing like crap they are winning consistently, and the Cards who were consistently the toughest team all year are unable to capitalize on that. [...]
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Audacity is Bugging Me
I don’t know why it is doing this, but my last few audioblogs have all been encoded at 22 kHz sampling rates. Each of the individual tracks are 44 kHz, the project is set to 44 kHz, and the bit rate is 64 kpbs. When I encode it to MP3 with Audacity, it shows up [...]
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Asking the Wrong Questions
Even though we have a fake feud going on (or at least we did, I think we’ve mutually dropped it for fear of a joke running on too long), I do like WebTalk Radio. It does seems like Rob Greenlee is torn and simultaneously understands why this new world of podcasting is exciting but is [...]
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Ill
I’ve been pretty sick for days now. This morning I felt better and recorded an audioblog entry, and then fell asleep on the couch before I could prepare it and post it. Now I feel like ass. I’ve been drifting in and out all day. I was napping with TechTV on and woke up just [...]
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Audioblog for Oct 24, 2004
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the audioblog for October 24, 2004. I talk about how negative reviews can suck the life out of you, citing Poppy Z. Brite and Caitlin R. Kiernan; I play some feedback from Brendan Creecy; I play a clip from another Gnomedex show on IT [...]
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Lights Go On, Some Stay Dim
I listened to yesterday’s episode of the Gillmor Gang. Dave Winer and Adam Curry were both on, as were several members of The Firesign Theater. It was really fascinating to listen to how quickly Ossman, Proctor and Bergman got from knowing nothing about podcasting to the “bingo” experience. This is a perfect example of what [...]
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Robots Play My Drums
Earlier in the week I saw this bit about the P.E.A.R.T, this drum playing robot, float through my RSS aggregator from a variety of sources. What I didn’t get until they mentioned it on in the BoingBoing citation is where this happened. It was a student project at my alma mater - the University [...]
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Violent Agreement
Just to put it in text once here, I actually like Russell Beattie and like his work. He and I disagreed on one small point in the larger context of enthusiasm for podcasting. I made a few remarks about him that were not called for, for which I’m sorry. He made a few about me [...]
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