Dinner with the Gulkers
So, one of the things I used to enjoy was preparing dinner parties with friends where I would play amateur chef, and spend the better part of a day prepping, cooking and otherwise getting a fun dinner together.
Since cancer, chemo, steroid myopathy et al. have become my norm, I don’t have the stamina or strength […]
Water prompts a podcast
First Blush has an almost painterly photo of water gushing from a Stanford culvert this morning. Which gets us to the topic of water, which was a really big deal at the AlwaysOn Going Green conference in Davis last week.
Water is already in short supply in many parts of the world, and climate change has […]
A giant New Yorker with a big shoe on the cover
…showed up in the mail yesterday. I suspect this is a gift from friend Michael Rosenberg, who is perhaps leary that I’ll jut be laying about in my new life (I only wish, Michael - Linda will never allow that particulare scenario).
I am trying to polish my journalistic skills as part of the new regime, […]
A simple podcast about… podcasting
So, we have been determined to learn about podcasting, and the audio recording that goes along with the deal. We have just been too busy with the ‘new life’ (and dealing with spouse’s long lists of ‘to-dos’ now that she has a mate that she regards as otherwise not gainfully employed).
Anyway, yesterday we hooked up […]
Equipment failures
So, we’re getting geared up to begin podcasting in a more serious way (like we need something else to do). It is amazing how the prices of things like high-quality microphones, mixers et al have dropped in the past few years or so: a very good mic costs $45, a high-fidelity, low-noise mixer costs $35 […]
The good news…
The video of most of yesterday’s Summit sessions are already archived and play back fine from AlwaysOn’s site.
The bad news is I can’t seem to get the live feed of today’s sessions, which will not play well with my coverage plans this AM. Best laid plans… maybe I’ll have the time to learn to make […]
Podcasting
We got a bunch of sound bytes at the Stanford Summit yesterday: but we’re still learning how to put podcasts together. We’re going to try to get one or two up today, in between keeping an eye on the Summit proceedings. Wish us luck! Apple’s Garage Band has multimedia podcast capabilities… still reading the manual… […]
Photo fun
So, we’re hoping to recover a little of the ‘dark time’ that disappeared last weekend, with Linda in Chicago, and spend some time working on photography this weekend. One project is to get my 1970s portfolios online (in glorious black and white), which is also an experiment with Google apps. I’ll be building a micro-stock […]
Prepping for podcasts
So, we’ve been reading up on how to do successful podcasts, and discovered that good microphones are important. I have a very inexpensive USB mic on my desk, and the Olympus has built-in mics which are said to be OK, but not great.
So I ordered a new stero microphone from Olympus: at $60, it cost […]
Shrinking tools
For years, on and off, I’ve carried around a small black notebook as a way to capture ideas, notes and to-do lists. My favorite notebook is the nicely-made Moleskine with quadrile-ruled pages. The Moleskine has quite a history with famous artists and writers.
Once made by hand by Parisian stationery shops, the last maker of Moleskines, […]