EGC Clambake for December 30, 2005
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We say goodbye to our current sponsors; goodbye iPod Observer; I play a song by the Dresden Dolls; I discuss the change in the Creative Commons license on this show; I play a song by Lauren Hoffman; I talk [...]
Year End Ritual
As I always do, I’ll spend a few minutes over the next few days listening over and over to the only Counting Crows song that matters to me - “Long December.” I find that pretty much since the song was released in the mid-90’s, I have never disagreed with the sentiment that:
And its been [...]
Public Radio Fan’s Podcast List
I’ve been a fan of Public Radio Fan for some time. It’s the resource I use to find out what stations stream the shows I want to record with RadioLover. They have expanded a little, and now they have a list of public radio shows that have podcasts. That’s heads up play, and a good [...]
Tags: publicradiofanSiderunners in the Twin Cities
For those readers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul region, the Siderunners will be in your town tomorrow night, Friday December 30. If you like what you hear on this show, go check them out and tell them I sent you. Here are some details.
Bands:
The Siderunners
Mark Stary & The Whiskey Roses
Burning Bridges
Venue:
Lee’s Liquor Lounge
101 Glenwood
Minneapolis, Minnesota
612-338-9491
Mac Geek Gab Comes Through
I’ve been listening to the Mac Geek Gab podcast since the beginning because of my relationship with the same guys with the iPod Observer (and Backbeat Media as well.) This morning, they just fixed a problem for me. I’m sort of suprised, in a good way.
My desktop OS X box, an old 400 MHz blue [...]
Punk Photos
Andy Rosen was a photographer who was working in London during the punk days, and he now has a flickr photostream of his photos. Cool stuff.
Tags: punkBack
The holidays were good, low stress and perfectly enjoyable. Much baking and cooking and eating and hanging around with family occurred, and then it was over. I celebrated the XMas afternoon by raking leaves.
I had to reboot my computer because it was locked up the morning of the 24th, and I didn’t even bother [...]
Low Obligation XMas
Will Shetterly points out his strategy for the holidays: don’t feel obligated to do anything. That’s what we are following. We aren’t really asking for or giving many presents, we are spending this weekend at home while my wife’s family visits and next weekend we’ll visit my family. We did some baking last night to [...]
Second Thoughts on Wikipedia
Having thought on this all evening, I now think that both the detractors and proponents of Wikipedia are correct. The deal is that the system works and is self-correcting, but only for the things for which are a set of people who have the facts, time and inclination to stay on top of entries they [...]
Tags: wikipediaWikipedia
I mostly stayed out of the Wikipedia froth of the last month. Although I met Jimbo Wales and his family at Converge South and thought they couldn’t have been nicer, I don’t actually think much of Wikipedia as a resource. At best, I treat it like a starting point to do web searches for primary [...]
Tags: wikipediaWritten in Venom
Around this time of year, my thoughts often turn to Norse mythology. That might not be as weird as it seems, because at least here in America our XMas traditions are pretty heavily steeped in the Scandinavian. I’ve always loved mythology, and I like the Norse because it is so different from the Greco-Roman stories. [...]
Tags: fictionwise, loistiltonEGC Clambake for December 21, 2005
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I talk about Christmas and play a Christmas song by Jill Sobule; I talk about the bogus “War on Christmas” and call Bill O’Reilly some well-deserved obscene names; I play an appropriate song by Fugazi; a few promos including [...]
EGC Frappr Map
I probably should have done this a while ago, before the fad ran its course and everyone wearied of it, but I have created a Frappr map for EGC readers/listeners. Show me where you are, show me that you care. I’m really curious what the geographic distribution is. Plus, you got to dig those Web [...]
Tags: frapprWhere can we find a baby mexican wrestling mask?
Where can we find a baby mexican wrestling mask?
Originally uploaded by <3 KB.
Ken Kennedy forwarded me this photo, which I really love. I wonder if this was what it looked like in the house with El Santo and Hijo del Santo 40 years ago?
Voices Return
I haven’t been proud of the long hiatus in episodes of Voices in your Head. It was never really planned as a hiatus, it just kind of worked out this way. Well, a new interview has been recorded and hopefully should be published early in the new year. I’ve been notably non-prolific with a seven [...]
Geek Christmas Carol
Quick pointer to something I was involved in - I’m a voice in the Geek Christmas Carol. I have to say that I have a big respect for cartoon voice actors now, as trying to react to other people who aren’t actually there is pretty difficult. On at least one line, I sound like a [...]
Lorem Ipsum
Eric Rice posted about this short film that he really likes. It is called Lorem Ipsum and is from the fertile mind of Dave Huth. I watched all 15 episodes plus the epilogue and I have to second that emotion. It is truly an amazing bit of work. It is a very well done film [...]
Tags: davehuth, loremipsumJohn Spencer, RIP
Godammit, there goes another good one. Actor John Spencer is dead at age 58. He was one of my favorite working thespians, the only thing worth watching in the last few years of LA Law and the best part of the West Wing.
My Least Favorite Things
I think some podcatchers are having trouble with the previous episode I just published. I know that my iPodderX did. This is probably because when I restored the system after the recent server box woes I did not have the MIME type for torrent files set correctly. It was serving them out as audio/mp3 rather [...]
Apprenticeship
Perhaps I’m overthinking it, but it seems like a sad statement of our times that there are multiple shows with people going through protracted televised ordeals and the final prize is a job. Wow, having a job is so special!
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