EGC Clambake Episode for Dec 18, 2004

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I talk about my sponsorship and how Kristopher Smith was inexplicably surprised by this; I expound on my belief that people worry too much about “selling out”; I relate the tale of my trip out to see the [...]

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Jason Loveall Fights the Power

Jason Loveall is the fiddle player for the Siderunners and I bought his solo CD at the show. He verbally gave me permission to play his music in the podcast, but I absolutely love what he wrote on the back cover of the CD (which obviates the necessity for the permission anyway). I reproduce it [...]

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Love that Chi Town

Very busy, not much to say, but Chicago is fricking cold as hell this weekend.
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Run on the Side

Last night we did indeed make a company field trip out to the Hideout to see The Siderunners. It was a kicking show, unamplified, with the band playing at one end of the bar as loud as they could. It was kind of like a troubador experience. We were standing right over by them, like [...]

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EGC Clambake Episode for Dec 16, 2004

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I talk about my itinerary of freezing my ass all over the country; I proudly kick off our sponsorship by iPodderX; I talk about the time spent on topics and the slow distributed conversations spread throughout the podosphere; [...]

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You Go, Myrtle Beach International!

Holy crap, there is free wifi in the Myrtle Beach airport! I guess you do what you need to do to keep the golf tourists happy. Always good if they can log in and upload their sales reports while they brag to each other about how the Hooter’s waitresses were giving them the eye.

So, if [...]

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Fencing

Due to the insistent and consistent prodding of someone I know, I went to the open house of the local fencing club last night. I fenced for a fairly short time in the early 90s, never advancing much beyond rank beginner. Hell, I haven’t even taken the gear out of the bag in many [...]

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John Waters XMas

I heard a snippet of this Fresh Air interview with John Waters where he talks about his XMas album. It’s hilarious, as it is every time he talks, and I really do like the songs on his album, in particular “Santa Claus is a Black Man.” Wow!

He had a great quote talking about Santa Claus [...]

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Rebroadband

After suffering with the slow internet access as long as I could, I finally called Time Warner technical support. It reminded me a lot of the David Spade Capital One commercials - I got the feeling this guy’s real job was to get me the hang up the phone and reduce the call volume. I [...]

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With Deepest Sympathy

Retired Colonel David Hackworth writes about the allegation that Donald Rumsfeld appears not to be actually signing the letters to the family of soldiers killed in action. This guy is a piece of work. That seems like the very least you can do, to actually sign the letter that says “your child/parent/spouse is dead”.
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Unbroadband

I’ve notice over the last several weeks a pattern with my Time Warner cable modem. The service gets really slow over some weekends, and then around Monday morning goes back to normal. Right now, it is slow again. I have this lurking suspicion that something is boned in the inner workings of Cisco routers and [...]

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Recounts in Ohio

According to Wired, members of the Green and Libertarian parties in Ohio are asking the Ohio Supreme Court to review the outcome of the election before the electoral votes are cast. Would it be too goddamn much to expect this kind of spunk from the fricking candidate himself, and the Democratic party behind him? Would [...]

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EGC Clambake Episode for Dec 13, 2004

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I talk about my appearance on Script School Radio; I wonder what Tony Kahn said about me at Internet and Society Thing at Harvard last weekend and ask if anyone has the audio from his session; I play [...]

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Radio Inflections

Via I love Radio comes the information that in September 2004, as measured by this study, Canadian teens spent more time listening to new media (which are MP3s, internet radio, podcasts and that sort of thing) than broadcast radio. Full article here.
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Leyendo las bitacoras

In his Really Learn Spanish podcast, Johan van Rooyen gave some advice on increasing ones comprehension. He suggested that novices read entire novels written in Spanish without pausing to look up unfamilar words. That seems like a crazy suggestion because, especially at the beginning, you are reading books that mostly go by without being understood. [...]

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Feedster Claim

I’m not exactly sure what this does for me, but I’m claiming this feed at Feedster. It seems like there are benefits that one gets for doing it, so why not?
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Script School Radio

Yikes, forgot to post this earlier. I’ll be a guest on Script School Radio today. The show starts at 5 PM EST or 2 PM PST or 10 PM GMT. You can call in on their toll free number, so that should be cool. The subject is Legal Bittorrents, so call up if you have [...]

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Lazy Reportage

I saw this reference to someone burned out (no pun intended) on the story of laptops causing infertility. I too have experienced this story over and over interminibly for the last few days - online, on TV, on the radio, etc. In all that repetition, not one of the reporters has asked the question that [...]

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TNH Speaks Truth

Teresa Nielsen Hayden says something of sheer truth. [Update: I originally attributed this to Patrick, due to a misreading of my RSS reader.] She discusses that class of Christians whose faith is so fragile that exposure to any glimpse of anything outside their core is problematic. She talks about Gerald Allen, of the group trying [...]

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EGC Clambake Episode for Dec 8, 2004

Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC episode for December 8, 2004.
I talk about my capturing of internet streamed radio and play a choice nugget of wacky Cajun music; I discuss the ongoing dialog with Tony Kahn and dealing with the anger within with a interlude on why I [...]

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