An Inconvenient Film
Coastal Carolina had a screening of An Inconvenient Truth tonight and we went to it. I’ve heard lots of people wax rhapsodic about it, so I had expectations set at a certain level. Frankly, unlike most people on my side of the political fence I just plain did not think much of the film. There [...]
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Levelate Me
Podcasters, if you do a show and particularly if you do interviews or multi-person, multi-mike shows, you need the Levelator. I’m running all my interviews through it nowadays and it makes a world of difference. When two people are not at the same level, this evens them back out and makes it all good. It’s [...]
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Tags: gigavox, levelatorKansas Day
Ken writes about Kansas day and waxes slightly rhapsodic about the place. By coincidence, I just traded emails with one of my high school friends from Kansas yesterday, someone who found me via this blog, so I’ve been thinking about it too. I wasn’t born there and we left slightly before I graduated high school, [...]
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EGC Clambake for January 28, 2007
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for January 16, 2007.
I play a song from What Made Milwaukee Famous; I talk about money, the power of having it and the lack of power in owing it; I call BS on this “jobs that Americans won’t do” rhetoric that is [...]
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Tags: asthmatickitty, barsukrecords, sufjanstevens, whatmademilwaukeefamous, yeastradioScoble On the Rampage
There’s an interesting debate heating up over at the Scobleizer. Scoble took some people (Engadget specifically) to task for not linking to him on his scoop about the new Intel fab and technology, choosing instead to link to the New York Times story of the same. On the one hand, it’s hard to feel sorry [...]
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Tags: scobleshowGTD Update, January Edition
That’s right, I’m cool. I’m spending my Saturday night blogging about GTD. Oh yeah! Here’s where I stand, because inexplicably people seem to be interested in how this turns out for me.
Two weeks ago I did my belated initial processing of my giant inbox. It made a huge difference in the tidiness of my [...]
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Phrase to Retire
“X called, they want their Y back”. When I hear anyone say this, what I think is “1997 called, they want their tired fricking cliches back, you uncreative boring yutz.”
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The Chaos of Wordpress Plugins
I love Wordpress and part of what I like about it is the ecosystem of plugins that add value to the base system. I loved the same thing about blosxom when I used it and even authored a few plugins myself. However, Wordpress either needs or the authors need to hold to a little standardization [...]
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The Nerdy Side of a Breakup
XKCD has a melancholy cartoon about the sysadmin side of a breakup. Ahh, the price of love amongst nerds.
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Science Fiction Authors, Revolt from Wikipedia!
Kathryn Cramer makes an interesting proposal to move science fiction author bios out of the Wikipedia space. Her main reasoning is that the SF field is highly interconnected socially, but Wikipedians frown on writing about people you know personally. Thus, the people with the best knowledge of the writers are excluded from writing about them. [...]
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Mike Fisher and Goofaman Productions
I’ve been lucky to have just randomly met a lot of interesting people while living my life. This post is about a guy I met in a comics shop in Augusta GA when I was a teenager. His name is Mike Fisher and he’s the mastermind behind Goofaman Productions. For those of you who read [...]
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Timeline of Firing Sprint
I cancelled my new Sprint PCS service tonight. I’d had it for less than two weeks, and over the course of the evening decided I don’t want to be their customer. Here’s the timeline.
January 9 - We order new phones from Sprint
January 11 - We receive the phones. I test it out, and the microSD [...]
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XMas Haul
XMas Haul
Originally uploaded by evilgenius.
I never did post about the stuff I received for XMas. I got some shirts and socks and other practical things, which proved to me that I am now old. Getting socks for XMas and being happy about it is a [...]
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Tags: aksaninja, bone, marjanesatrapi, tikibartvTransit Card Mitten
I love it when the Crafters get all analytical and inventive. Via Makezine comes this story of a Bostonian who knitted mittens that also contain the transit card (which is proximity, not something that needs to be swiped.) I live in a place with effectively no transit and seldom a need for mittens (except maybe [...]
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Bitpass Shutting the Doors
Here’s another startup in the act of biting dust. Micropayment company Bitpass is shutting the doors. The only thing that ever gave me the slightest reason to want to use them is that Scott McCloud’s online comics and Telltale Weekly both used them. In fact, McCloud was involved in the company as an advisor. I [...]
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Recent Viewing
Since the holidays, I’ve seen a lot of movies. Here’s a capsule rundown of all the ones I can remember.
Tarnation by Jonathan Caouette. This is famous for having been made in iMovies for a few hundred dollars. It might well be the first feature film produced like a videoblog. It’s a harrowing documentary of [...]
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Clayton Cubitt of Operation Eden made a post on Martin Luther King Day that just says it all. Note in the caption to the photo he points out that the photo subject, James Peters, is still living in a FEMA trailer a year and a half after the storm.
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Download Free Science Fiction
Via Bill Shunn comes this link to free downloadable science fiction. Some of the works (including Shunn’s novella “Inclination”) are available by following links on this page.
I actually wonder now that the ballots are a mix of traditional paper publishing (from magazines with ever declining circulations) and others are from online zines, does the [...]
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One Billion Phones
Since the beginning of podcasting and videoblogging, I have heard this received wisdom about how important the cellphone market is to new media. “There are a billion cellphones out there, so you have to pay attention to them.” Now, I got a new phone the other day, a Motorola RAZR. I picked this model specifically [...]
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Permalection
So we are two months out from the last election with twenty-two months until the next one, and 20% of the news I hear is about who is or will be running for president in 2008? Give me and my country a break. This is what it has come to now. We are in [...]
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