Longest. Drive. Ever.
December 4 We spent Saturday night in Red Deer this past weekend, driving down for some pre-Christmas family fun and visiting. It was intended to be a quick trip. For those who stumble across this rant...
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podcast-aholic
The medium is maturing, to be certain. Forget satellite radio; customize your listening with a blossoming selection of custom audio-files updated to your pod on a daily basis. Skip the commercials, and...
View Articlefour more hours of paint
How does one spend Saturday evenings in the suburbs? One option is to lock yourself in the garage with five gallons of green fence stain and a diminishing stack of lumber, turn on the radio, and work...
View Articlead ignorantiam
I was enjoying our new receiver last night. It comes across as quite droll, I’m sure, but — apart from my car — I haven’t had good access to a high quality radio in years. The AM band still holds a...
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Related Research
December 13 I spent the day dealing with Audacity because a few months ago I threw the idea onto the table at work that we should make a podcast for the website. Someone liked it. Now I’m in the final...
View ArticleLearning: How to Be In My 30s
For the entire month of June I’m planning on writing a series of blog-a-day posts based on a set series of open-ended questions to myself. This is one of those posts. June 12th // Something You Are...
View ArticleA Clarification Vacation
We were listening to the radio at supper time the other day and after a news story about some relatively complex medical story, the conversation in our house went (briefly) something like this… Radio:...
View ArticleCheck Your Bucks at the Door
Having been listening to the radio on the way to work this morning, I was sitting here in the coffee shop thinking about the dire week in financial news. I was also thinking about the uncompromising...
View ArticleMiddle Ground
Day Two of my new Photo-Per-Day Project, and yeah… two photos in the hopper. Lots to go… I’ve already figured out what’s going to be one of the major obstacles of this project: either I’m going to have...
View ArticleToast, Honey, and Minus Thirty
Our breakfast cereal is narrated by the morning news while the Girl is dripping honey down the front of her pajamas. But then such a mess is nothing compared to usual coverage of overseas protests,...
View ArticleFarewell, Tetsuro…
…sad to see you go. I found out the other day that CBC cancelled The RoundUp. I made sure I had my radio by my side for the last episode this afternoon. Chalk up another one for the culture...
View Articlecopycat interference
Back two years ago when owning an MP3 player was something unqiue and a little geeky, things were great! I had no need to worry when I was wearing earphones, and very little need to bother resetting...
View Articlewake me up when september ends
The difficulty of abstract thought is the feed of it. It becomes an addiction, I suppose, and grounding oneself while in the free fall of work and manic self-improvement is more akin to hitting the...
View ArticleAre we afraid of loving our own kids?
topic 00019 a mash-up of private (communication) & (family) building Listening to the radio the other day I was taken aback at the topic being discussed. Weekly, the morning show features a family...
View ArticleFailed: To Stand Out
June 7 – Something You Have Failedaka. Post 7 of Those 30 Posts in June Blog-Every-Day Posts I’m not interested in being famous, that’s not the point of this. But it happened again tonight. I was...
View ArticleHeard: The News
June 9 – Something You Have Heardaka. Post 9 of Those 30 Posts in June Blog-Every-Day Posts I do a lot of ranting about the modern media on this blog. Well… ok, if not a lot then some… and if not...
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