I just spend almost an hour recording Part I Chapter IV of "The Everlasting Man." I've done such recordings countless times. Started just before midnight, finished just after one, actually. Just under an hour of audio.
Ran the thing to remove background noise, from computer fans, of which I have a moderate amount. I've also done that many many times. Then I closed Audacity, as usual.
The unusual part was when I opened my directory to pull up the WAV file and drop it on Levelator. And realized I hadn't saved a copy of the audio.
Oops.
Can't recover it. Can't find where Audacity saved a copy of the .AU files, since of course I didn't tell it to do that, either.
My Samson Zoom H2 is of course a Recorder, and I could have recorded on that. I would then have had an actual file as a matter of course. But I haven't done that in years. Audacity is so much more convenient. But with Audacity, no matter how much I record, if I don't actively choose to save it, it isn't saved.
And now it's 1:33 am, past my bedtime. And I've blown the evening recording with nothing to show for it.
Perhaps I should rethink that "I would make a great audio professional" idea. (sigh)
Griz
Friday, April 15, 2016
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Episode 157 - The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton - Part I Chapter III The Antiquity of Civilization
Various growls about the Podcast Awards, the Survey, and a couple of "job offer" phishes I got, claiming to be from Australian energy companies. Unfortunately no, I don't get to go to Australia. And then, The Everlasting Man...
Part I On The Creature Called Man
Chapter III The Antiquity of Civilization
Book Theme "Deliberate Thought" from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com.
Show Theme "Hot Swing" from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com.
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Sunday, April 10, 2016
Special Delivery!
Something I wanted to share with all of you. I just did a little piece, but it helped.
From: "DonorsChoose.org"
Hi Grizzly,
Ms. Russell and her students are about to get a special delivery, thanks to your support for their classroom project: Kindles Oh Kindles Are What We Need to Help Us Read!
To help teachers and to ensure absolute integrity, we purchase the resources for every project funded through our site. We just got word from our vendors that the materials for your project are en route to Edison Elementary School!
You'll receive thank-yous and photos from the classroom, but in the meantime, we can just imagine their excitement* when they open the new materials you've made possible.
Thank you for making a classroom dream come true!
- The DonorsChoose.org Team
That particular project I stumbled on very late, but it was nice to be able to help. Still got those other three, local Duluth MN projects on "Grizzly's Giving Page," of course... I'm broke till payday, so it's up to y'all for a while.
TTYL!
Griz
From: "DonorsChoose.org"
Hi Grizzly,
Ms. Russell and her students are about to get a special delivery, thanks to your support for their classroom project: Kindles Oh Kindles Are What We Need to Help Us Read!
To help teachers and to ensure absolute integrity, we purchase the resources for every project funded through our site. We just got word from our vendors that the materials for your project are en route to Edison Elementary School!
You'll receive thank-yous and photos from the classroom, but in the meantime, we can just imagine their excitement* when they open the new materials you've made possible.
Thank you for making a classroom dream come true!
- The DonorsChoose.org Team
That particular project I stumbled on very late, but it was nice to be able to help. Still got those other three, local Duluth MN projects on "Grizzly's Giving Page," of course... I'm broke till payday, so it's up to y'all for a while.
TTYL!
Griz
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Episode 156 - Donors Choose some more!
Devoted the whole show to my reactivated Donor's Choose Giving Page including three new projects from Duluth:
Seating for Active Students
Classroom iPads
and
Flexible Seating to Complete Our Classroom
All three are from Piedmont Elementary, not too very far from where I went to elementary school. They actually closed down all three of my elementary, junior high and high schools, so this was close. Give early and give often!
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Saturday, April 2, 2016
One Phish, Two Phish, Red Phish, Blue Phish
Got a rather badly done phishing email tonight:
Best Wishes,
After viewing your profile on Minnesota Workforce, We feel you may be a
good candidate for a position within our company, and hereby invites you
for an on-line interview on Friday 1st April 04/01/2016, at 9am Your time
with Mr Andrew Clark, of the human resource department. You are hereby
advised to read more about the position details below.
Job Title: Administrative Executive,Administrative Assistant,Data
Entry,Receptionist,Customer Care Representative.
Organization:ORIGIN ENERGY
Key Responsibility: Provides services by implementing administrative
systems, procedures, and policies, and monitoring administrative projects.
Requirements: Minimum Criteria: High school Diploma/College Degree
Basic Skills: Reporting Skills, Administrative Writing Skills, Microsoft
Office Skills, Managing Processes, Organization, Analyzing Information ,
Professionalism, Problem Solving, Supply Management, Inventory
Control,Verbal Communication
If you meet the prerequisite qualifications and would like to be considered for
the position, it is expedient you follow the instructions provided below :
Make sure you have google account on your PC or tablet, if you do not have, you
can do that on-line at www.gmail.com. Then create a gmail log-in with which you
would use to gain access to google hangout. Once you have access, add Mr
Andrew Clark to your buddy list. His Screen Name with google hangout is:
andyclark.OR@gmail.com
If the stipulated time conflicts with your schedule, it is expected of you to
email Mr Andrew Clark at this Email address: andyclark.OR@gmail.com
. He will be standing by
to abreast you with the rudiments of this job position via google hangout
right away. It is expedient to get on-line ASAP. I Wish you best of Luck in
the Interview.
Sincerely,
Minnesota Recruitment Team.
From the top, "Best Wishes." They don't even know how to use a mailmerge?
If it's from a company, why would it be from "Minnesota Workforce" and not from the company? And of course if the site had sent the email, it would be from their email, and not from a Jamie Walters at Gmail (likely spoofed, of course).
You'll notice the visible emails (also almost certainly spoofed) in the HTML-formatted version are links to a whole different email address. All GMail addresses, which are not hard to acquire. Given the way the links were set up, I suppose the "hidden" email address is one Unsub has access to.
Also, it's not "Minnesota Workforce," it's Minnesota Works. The so-called English tries to use big words with which they aren't really familiar. He's "standing by to abreast you..." Seriously?
Origin Energy is an Australian energy company. An Australian company is trying to hire people who's names they don't know, in Minnesota? Yeah, right.
They basically did a cut-and-paste from found job posting somewhere. It is likely but not guaranteed that the postings weren't from Minnesota. It's a bit creepy they got my state right, but that's not the world's best-kept secret. As for the email it was sent to, it's the one I use for the podcast, also not a secret.
As for "Supply Management" and "Inventory Control" being in the job description, I suspect this is for a drop-shipping scheme. Usually on these they say "We're a foreign company, and we need someone to receive payments for us. You receive and cash the checks, send most of it to us and keep X percent." They get most of the money, and they're not accessible, so they don't get caught. Meanwhile if you fall for it, you've just fraudulently received and profited from cashing usually forged checks, etc.
The contact instructions are utterly bizarre. Probably they want to keep themselves as anonymous as possible.
It is of course conceivable that this was a legit offer, and then'd I'd be shocked and appalled. But based on the above details, I really, really doubt it.
Best Wishes,
After viewing your profile on Minnesota Workforce, We feel you may be a
good candidate for a position within our company, and hereby invites you
for an on-line interview on Friday 1st April 04/01/2016, at 9am Your time
with Mr Andrew Clark, of the human resource department. You are hereby
advised to read more about the position details below.
Job Title: Administrative Executive,Administrative Assistant,Data
Entry,Receptionist,Customer Care Representative.
Organization:ORIGIN ENERGY
Key Responsibility: Provides services by implementing administrative
systems, procedures, and policies, and monitoring administrative projects.
Requirements: Minimum Criteria: High school Diploma/College Degree
Basic Skills: Reporting Skills, Administrative Writing Skills, Microsoft
Office Skills, Managing Processes, Organization, Analyzing Information ,
Professionalism, Problem Solving, Supply Management, Inventory
Control,Verbal Communication
If you meet the prerequisite qualifications and would like to be considered for
the position, it is expedient you follow the instructions provided below :
Make sure you have google account on your PC or tablet, if you do not have, you
can do that on-line at www.gmail.com. Then create a gmail log-in with which you
would use to gain access to google hangout. Once you have access, add Mr
Andrew Clark to your buddy list. His Screen Name with google hangout is:
andyclark.OR@gmail.com
If the stipulated time conflicts with your schedule, it is expected of you to
email Mr Andrew Clark at this Email address: andyclark.OR@gmail.com
to abreast you with the rudiments of this job position via google hangout
right away. It is expedient to get on-line ASAP. I Wish you best of Luck in
the Interview.
Sincerely,
Minnesota Recruitment Team.
From the top, "Best Wishes." They don't even know how to use a mailmerge?
If it's from a company, why would it be from "Minnesota Workforce" and not from the company? And of course if the site had sent the email, it would be from their email, and not from a Jamie Walters at Gmail (likely spoofed, of course).
You'll notice the visible emails (also almost certainly spoofed) in the HTML-formatted version are links to a whole different email address. All GMail addresses, which are not hard to acquire. Given the way the links were set up, I suppose the "hidden" email address is one Unsub has access to.
Also, it's not "Minnesota Workforce," it's Minnesota Works. The so-called English tries to use big words with which they aren't really familiar. He's "standing by to abreast you..." Seriously?
Origin Energy is an Australian energy company. An Australian company is trying to hire people who's names they don't know, in Minnesota? Yeah, right.
They basically did a cut-and-paste from found job posting somewhere. It is likely but not guaranteed that the postings weren't from Minnesota. It's a bit creepy they got my state right, but that's not the world's best-kept secret. As for the email it was sent to, it's the one I use for the podcast, also not a secret.
As for "Supply Management" and "Inventory Control" being in the job description, I suspect this is for a drop-shipping scheme. Usually on these they say "We're a foreign company, and we need someone to receive payments for us. You receive and cash the checks, send most of it to us and keep X percent." They get most of the money, and they're not accessible, so they don't get caught. Meanwhile if you fall for it, you've just fraudulently received and profited from cashing usually forged checks, etc.
The contact instructions are utterly bizarre. Probably they want to keep themselves as anonymous as possible.
It is of course conceivable that this was a legit offer, and then'd I'd be shocked and appalled. But based on the above details, I really, really doubt it.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Episode 155 - The Everlasting Man by G. K. Chesterton - Part I Chapter II Professors and Prehistoric Men
Part I On The Creature Called Man
Chapter II Professors and Prehistoric Men
Book Theme "Deliberate Thought" from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com.
Show Theme "Hot Swing" from Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com.
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Saturday, March 26, 2016
Hi.
Since you happen to be in the neighborhood, could you take a minute to take the listener survey? It is exceedingly short. Not a large enough audience to get advertisers. But the Libsyn folks were nice enough to provide a survey. So it'd be nice, and thanks in advance.
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