Achewood is Killing Me
I’m a many years fan of the frequently raunchy Achewood webcomic. Today’s strip has been making me giggle for four hours. I think the quote of today is “No one is going to like anything you do to their coffee with a dildo.”
Myrtle Beach Blogging Conference is Go
We decided that we want to hold the conference next spring, and that even if 20 people show up we’ll consider that a success for the first year that we can build on. Our first order of business is to name the conference so we can start to do all the other things like set [...]
Tags: myrtlebeachMyrtle Beach Blogger Conference Get Together TONIGHT, 11/29
For those if you in the Myrtle Beach area who are willing to get together and discuss the possibility of us holding a blogging/new media/technology conference this spring, we are meeting at the Liberty Beer Garden at Broadway at the Beach tonight at 5:30 PM. We need to make a go/no go decision soon and [...]
Thoughts on the Zune
Thanks to friend of the blog/podcast Ken I now have a 30 GB Microsoft Zune on indefinite loan. I got it the day before Thanksgiving. Because of all the videos I had in my backlog it took two days of syncing and transcoding for it to be completely ready to go. I started actually using [...]
Gmail and “Privacy”
One thing I see people saying over and over that they feel it is a violation of their privacy to have contextually targeted ads in the sidebar when they are looking at their GMail web interface. Truly, I never understand that feeling. I understand feeling it is cheesy or overly crass but a privacy violation? [...]
Ron Paul in Myrtle Beach
Presidential candidate Ron Paul will be in Myrtle Beach today. A number of my coworkers are deep in the Ron Paul Madness. I’m not really sure what drives it myself. The best I can guess is that he is the guy who allows you to disapprove of the ridiculous waste of the war without having [...]
Tags: myrtlebeach, ronpaulAn Open Letter to APM
I am a regular listener to Garrison Keillor’s Writers Almanac and have been since before they had a podcast. However, they screw up some simple things that makes listening to their show kind of a pain. I thought I’d actually email my issues to them, and blog it as well while I’m at it. I’ve [...]
Buy Nothing Day
So in principle I support Buy Nothing Day. It’s the same message I’ve been preaching on here and in my podcast for years. No TV or goodie is as nice as the feeling of being out of debt. However, I’m buying something today. There’s an item we’ve been talking about getting for six months, is [...]
Zune Time
Thanks to Ken Kennedy, I’m going to get a borrowed Zune to play with. I’m kind of curious how well it works for the podcast workflow. I’ve already installed the Zune software on my one Windows PC and gotten it ready for the device to get here. The Zune management software seems to have the [...]
Blogstipation
I haven’t been blogging much the last week or so. I think there are two things at play. One is being busy and offline for chunks of time. The other I think is Twitter. Because I have this venue for my half-assed unformed notions, I just dump them there rather than trying to expand them [...]
Closed Openness
Doc Searls posted that a new Gillmor Gang is up. I followed his link and end up at a Facebook login page. WTF? As someone who is still resisting that particular Borg, I can’t listen to the Gillmor Gang? Oh well, screw it. If that’s the price of admission then I’m probably not willing to [...]
Cooling My Heels in the Cold
I’m sitting in the auto shop waiting for them to service my car. It seems like it will take less time than I thought, so I might even be in to work about the average time for me. I was hunkered down and prepared for it to take all morning but mercifully it seems like [...]
Bloglines Spam
I just received one of those emails from Bloglines that says “User X has recommended the following blogs to you” followed by a list of Chinese spam blogs. I don’t if I’m bugged that I received this email or pleasantly surprised that it has taken this long for me to get my first one of [...]
EGC Clambake for November 12, 2007 - “Heather Gold Rocks My World”
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for November 12, 2007.
This show is my interview with comedienne, talk show host and all around deep thinker Heather Gold. It’s a long show and it is almost all the talk with Heather, so it’s a little bit of a format breaker. We talk about [...]
Pile of Index Cards
Via Reverend Dan comes this extreme example of a organization via the pile of index cards. I am seriously underutilizing my Hipster PDA so this system really impresses me.
Evil Genius Shirts
OK friends, I need some input. I’m going to reprint the EGC shirts. I’ve now taken orders for stuff packages for t-shirt sizes I don’t have to sell. I need to either print more or stop taking orders, and I’m going to reprint them. The white shirts are now end-of-life. I’m only reprinting black shirts [...]
Conferences: Doing vs Talking
Eric Rice puts his finger on something that bothers me as well. Since 2004 I’ve been to a number of bloggy/podcasty/new media type conferences. I went to Bloggercon 2004, 2 of the 3 ConvergeSouths, 2 of the 3 Podcast/New Media Expos, and Orycon (a science fiction convention at which I also impaneled on blogging.) I [...]
Modern Girls Got No Shame
Modern Girls Got No Shame
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A few years ago, I made a blog post about how unbelievable my teenage self would find the modern world. “You mean to tell me that I’ll be able to see down girls pants and I won’t really [...]
Punk Rock and Social Media
Justin Kownacki has an interesting post comparing social media to punk rock. I’ve long said that although I have a history in radio, to me podcasting is less like that and more like the science fiction and punk zines I read and/or published in my youth.
Earlier today on Twitter I said that the spiritual [...]
Absent Friends
Ken notes the tenth year since the passing of his son. Two years ago, I wrote the story of Ken, his son Ryan and myself. One day out of the blue, Ryan took a stand and made my life better. Have I done the same for others? Did I miss my chance? When I see [...]
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