Windows Friendly version of the CVS Camera Video
I’ve gotten sick of people (all on Windows as best I can tell) telling me they can’t see the video of my CVS camera film, so I reencoded as MP4 and uploaded it. I deeply apologize to anyone that subscribed to the RSS feed and will get two copies of it. I don’t know any [...]
Tags: cvscamcorder, videoblog“The End of New Orleans” on Open Source
Tonight on Radio Open Source, their show is about New Orleans. Tune in if you can, stream if you can or listen afterwards via podcast.
Tags: neworleans, radioopensourceThe Gulf Coast
I wanted to post collating some of the thoughts about New Orleans and Biloxi, but my brother has already beaten me to it in a very good post. I’ll admit that I’ve been steaming mad about the whole white people “find”, black people “loot” syndrome.
Now is a moment of grief and rolled up sleeves [...]
Day Jobs Away
Both Jonathan Coulton and Drew Domkus quit their day jobs today. May their days remain Ramen noodle free. Good luck, guys.
New Orleans Devastation
I’ve been irked by people who feel it necessary to make jokes about either Katrina and the Waves or Led Zeppelin about this hurricane hitting New Orleans. Well, guess what. The levee did break, Lake Pontchartrain is flowing to the sea, the pumps are failing, 80% of the city is flooded as much as 20 [...]
Participation
A threshold was crossed today, one I’ve had my eye on for a long time, watching the numbers. As of today, this weblog has had more comments on it than posts. It’s a little bit of an artificial milestone, because some of those comments are from me (but none from spammers in that count.) This [...]
Video is Up
OK, I just decided to stop fighting it and go with OurMedia for now. The video of me hacking the CVS camera is now posted. I know it is too long, the camera work is shaky, but it’s the first video thing I have ever done and the first time I have ever worked a [...]
Tags: cvscamcorder, fireant, videoblogSmall Favors
Reports are that Katrina weakened in the gulf and is down to a category 4, with winds of a paltry 150 MPH. That’s down from 190 MPH yesterday. Still, I wouldn’t want it to hit my house. Here’s hoping that the flooding isn’t bad, the levees don’t break, that the path is through the lightly [...]
Email Drifts
I had been so proud of myself for catching up on the email a few months ago, and as of this morning I was losing ground again. I found myself at 121 mails in the in-box, and have whittled that down to the 60’s as of this evening. I must get back on top of [...]
Down and Out Podcast
Listener and frequent commentor “Brooklyn Bluesman” is doing a sub-series in his podcast where he is reading aloud Cory Doctorow’s novel Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom. Cool stuff, check it out.
Tags: corydoctorowSurvivor’s Guilt
As I said early today in the podcast, I feel twin emotions watching hurricane Katrina bear down on the Gulf Coast. One is great sadness for what is almost certain to be devastating and runs the risk of ruining the lives of or even killing my friends in that area. I lived there for several [...]
Tags: katrinaClambake Episode for August 28, 2005
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August 28, 2005.
I talk about hacking the CVS one-time use camcorder and creating a videoblog about the process; I mention that I have coined a new term for people who can use these hacks but not originate them - “solder kiddies”; [...]
Video Teaser
Recently I went down the street to a local CVS pharmacy and bought one of the one-time use camcorders, the ones you can hack to get your videos onto your computer. I actually have a videoblog that I recorded with the camera about hacking the camera, for a nice bit of recursion. I documented the [...]
Tags: cvscamcorder, internetarchive, ourmedia, videoblogGeorge Carlin Music Commentary of the Day
White people ought to understand … their job is to give people the blues, not to get them. And certainly not to sing or play them! I’ll tell you a little secret about the blues: It’s not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.
- from [...]
Basta
Just to let everyone know, there is no need to send me any more invitations to Google Talk. I’ve gotten a dozen so far, and I was already set up on their Jabber server before I got the first one. I can’t use their client because - surpriiiiiise, surpriiiiiiiise - it’s Windows only. When I [...]
Tags: adium, googletalk, jabberAchewood Sidesplitter
Achewood has been really up and down lately, but today it is side-splittingly funny. I just about wept reading this one.
Tags: achewoodMore Subgenius Podcasts
I was slightly shocked listening to last week’s Subgenius shows to hear the term “podcast” on it. Turns out KPFA in Berkley CA is podcasting its shows, including their Subgenius show “Puzzling Evidence.” Check it out. The podosphere needs all the subgeniousity it can get.
Tags: kpfa, subgeniusClambake Episode for August 21, 2005
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for August 21, 2005.
This episode is a celebration of the first birthday of this here clambake. I play the opening of the very first episode; I play a song by Ronnie Marler; I thank the audience for hanging with me; I play [...]
Duke Podcasting Symposium
Add to my previous post about all the blogging/podcasting/new media conferences this one that I had missed, the Duke Podcasting Symposium on September 27 and 28. Of the four conferences between now and January, three of them are within a three hour drive for me. I’d like to go to this one because it looks [...]
Happy Birthday to the Clambake
Today is the one year anniversary of the first episode of the audio version of the Evil Genius Chronicles. I published an episode this morning that I actually did yesterday that has no birthday content whatsoever. I was on the edge of not publishing this one and instead redoing it. The sound was a little [...]
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