I just want to remind everybody that on Election Day Tuesday, we want a fair fight. No kicking, scratching, biting, gouging, or hitting below the belt.
We had plenty of that during the campaign.
Friday, October 31, 2008
Marquis of Queensbury Rules
I just want to remind everybody that on Election Day Tuesday, we want a fair fight. No kicking, scratching, biting, gouging, or hitting below the belt.
We had plenty of that during the campaign.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
NaNaPooPoo, or whatever: The Drama Continues
Ya know, drinking and computing don't mix.
Last night, after a discussion on Twitter of whether I actually invented "NaNaPooPoo" as a term for NaPodPoMo (National Podcast Post Month), and after several too many beers, I registered two new domain names: "NaNaPooPoo.com," and "NaPooPooMo.com."
I have no idea why.
I have no practical use for those domain names, nor can I conceive of any for anyone else. I really should cancel both -- assuming it's possible to recover any of the money, which is at best uncertain. And yet...
Both were cleverly conceived, I thought. True I don't know of any potential use for "NaPooPooMo." Maybe someday, when the National Fertilizer Board decides to have "National Fertilizer Month," they'll come running, and I'll become wealthy and powerful overnight. Hey, could happen.
And "NaNaPooPoo.com" sure seems like someone would have a use for it, some day, doesn't it? It's just clever enough to be really useful for something -- say a humorous podcast of some sort. Unfortunately, I'm not a very funny guy, so it won't be my humor podcast. So maybe I should hold on to that one. Or maybe both?
And the one I've been thinking about registering for a while, that I really intended to register -- I still haven't registered.
LIS, drinking and computing don't mix.
Last night, after a discussion on Twitter of whether I actually invented "NaNaPooPoo" as a term for NaPodPoMo (National Podcast Post Month), and after several too many beers, I registered two new domain names: "NaNaPooPoo.com," and "NaPooPooMo.com."
I have no idea why.
I have no practical use for those domain names, nor can I conceive of any for anyone else. I really should cancel both -- assuming it's possible to recover any of the money, which is at best uncertain. And yet...
Both were cleverly conceived, I thought. True I don't know of any potential use for "NaPooPooMo." Maybe someday, when the National Fertilizer Board decides to have "National Fertilizer Month," they'll come running, and I'll become wealthy and powerful overnight. Hey, could happen.
And "NaNaPooPoo.com" sure seems like someone would have a use for it, some day, doesn't it? It's just clever enough to be really useful for something -- say a humorous podcast of some sort. Unfortunately, I'm not a very funny guy, so it won't be my humor podcast. So maybe I should hold on to that one. Or maybe both?
And the one I've been thinking about registering for a while, that I really intended to register -- I still haven't registered.
LIS, drinking and computing don't mix.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Monday Monday Monday! Going to Work on Monday!
Ya know, this NaPodPoMo stuff doesn't seem that hard, necessarily. I just recorded the first five days' worth of shows, and know what I'm likely to be doing for much of the rest. Decided to do a bunch of "Stories from the Hiber-Nation" episodes, since I can do those far in advance, and I have a whole lot of "Beggar" to finish.
"Grizzly's Growls," though, I'm kinda stumped on. All the stuff I've had happening in my life, I already discussed last show. Don't want to discuss politics, which seems to be the big topic for a few more days at least. Scary times, what with how vicious some folks are getting. Don't even wanna think about it.
I can do another project from "Grizzly's Giving Page," see if I can stir up some interest that way. I'm still the only donor who's used the page, though, and I hadn't intended on spending all my money on charity this month. I figured the only fair way to handle that aspect, was to donate $10 myself to each project I review on the show. And maybe, eventually, someone will decide it's as good an idea as I feel it is.
Monday morning I have to go to work, of course. It's been a while since I've worked mornings; I've been on a schedule where I didn't even start work till 2:00 pm, and that was rather short-term, too. For the next couple weeks, though, I'm supposed to be starting at 10:00 am, so I can do some work on B-to-B calling. It's only telemarketing, but that's what I get paid to do, so that's what I do.
Maybe I'll just keep it short and hope to get to the end of the show with my dignity intact. Could be worse, could be snowing. Oh, wait, it is snowing. Nevermind.
"Grizzly's Growls," though, I'm kinda stumped on. All the stuff I've had happening in my life, I already discussed last show. Don't want to discuss politics, which seems to be the big topic for a few more days at least. Scary times, what with how vicious some folks are getting. Don't even wanna think about it.
I can do another project from "Grizzly's Giving Page," see if I can stir up some interest that way. I'm still the only donor who's used the page, though, and I hadn't intended on spending all my money on charity this month. I figured the only fair way to handle that aspect, was to donate $10 myself to each project I review on the show. And maybe, eventually, someone will decide it's as good an idea as I feel it is.
Monday morning I have to go to work, of course. It's been a while since I've worked mornings; I've been on a schedule where I didn't even start work till 2:00 pm, and that was rather short-term, too. For the next couple weeks, though, I'm supposed to be starting at 10:00 am, so I can do some work on B-to-B calling. It's only telemarketing, but that's what I get paid to do, so that's what I do.
Maybe I'll just keep it short and hope to get to the end of the show with my dignity intact. Could be worse, could be snowing. Oh, wait, it is snowing. Nevermind.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Too Early, and Too Late
It's almost 2:00 am here. I've been looking at the next part of "Beggar," and trying to get motivated to get it recorded.
Instead of recording, though, I spent Saturday fiddling with a half-dozen social networks and a couple new microblogging setups. I also added links to all my various "Net Presences" on my Grizzly's Growls Presents podcast page. Most of the things I linked to, I never really use, but I feel like I ought to. I think it's by being Present so many places that folks finally hear about the shows and what I've been trying to do.
I grabbed a couple new audio files I can use to fill out the regular podcast. There's that "You Don't Need an iPod" thing, Nobilis' PSA of course, that sort of thing. I even have the Environmental Defense Fund sending me a copy of the audio for one of their commercials I rather admired on Hulu. I'm not a radical about the environment, or much of anything else. But I do feel it's important, there's stuff that just has to be said, and I have a "bully pulpit" from which to say some of it.
Sometimes, granted, I feel like I'm kinda cheating, using so much content from other folks. I suppose it's not unusual; most of broadcast radio & TV consists of playing music by other people, telephone calls with other people, news about other people. Almost no one creates all their own content, all by themselves.
But I keep feeling like I ought to be creating more myself. The show is supposed to be from me, not just clever manipulation of existing content, but something I create myself. It's a high standard, maybe an absurd standard, but it's a standard I feel strongly I should be achieving, or reaching for.
Anyway, it's way too early to start work for Sunday, and too late to worry about Saturday. Sometimes, I miss a step. To quote Professor Chipping, from "Goodbye, Mr Chips," The Milk's spilt. Don't let's cry.
Instead of recording, though, I spent Saturday fiddling with a half-dozen social networks and a couple new microblogging setups. I also added links to all my various "Net Presences" on my Grizzly's Growls Presents podcast page. Most of the things I linked to, I never really use, but I feel like I ought to. I think it's by being Present so many places that folks finally hear about the shows and what I've been trying to do.
I grabbed a couple new audio files I can use to fill out the regular podcast. There's that "You Don't Need an iPod" thing, Nobilis' PSA of course, that sort of thing. I even have the Environmental Defense Fund sending me a copy of the audio for one of their commercials I rather admired on Hulu. I'm not a radical about the environment, or much of anything else. But I do feel it's important, there's stuff that just has to be said, and I have a "bully pulpit" from which to say some of it.
Sometimes, granted, I feel like I'm kinda cheating, using so much content from other folks. I suppose it's not unusual; most of broadcast radio & TV consists of playing music by other people, telephone calls with other people, news about other people. Almost no one creates all their own content, all by themselves.
But I keep feeling like I ought to be creating more myself. The show is supposed to be from me, not just clever manipulation of existing content, but something I create myself. It's a high standard, maybe an absurd standard, but it's a standard I feel strongly I should be achieving, or reaching for.
Anyway, it's way too early to start work for Sunday, and too late to worry about Saturday. Sometimes, I miss a step. To quote Professor Chipping, from "Goodbye, Mr Chips," The Milk's spilt. Don't let's cry.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Listen?
Let's suppose you never listen to podcasts. Let's suppose it's because you think listening to podcasts is too hard.
Okay, then let's make it simpler.
At the top of my webpage at Grizzly's Growls Dot Com, there's a little yellow button marked "Listen." Click on it. It'll start playing all my shows, starting with my most recent, and working it's way back. Thre's a similar yellow button on the sidebar of the page for this blog, at Blog dot Grizzly's Growls dot Com.
Just a little javascript flash player, or something like that. Even opens up in a new window. so you can continue listening while in your main browser window you're still, um, browsing.
It'd be a shame to miss out, just because it seems too hard.
Listen.
Okay, then let's make it simpler.
At the top of my webpage at Grizzly's Growls Dot Com, there's a little yellow button marked "Listen." Click on it. It'll start playing all my shows, starting with my most recent, and working it's way back. Thre's a similar yellow button on the sidebar of the page for this blog, at Blog dot Grizzly's Growls dot Com.
Just a little javascript flash player, or something like that. Even opens up in a new window. so you can continue listening while in your main browser window you're still, um, browsing.
It'd be a shame to miss out, just because it seems too hard.
Listen.
Live on the Erkpod roundtable
I Skyped in briefly to the latest Erkpod Roundtable, btw, which was streamed live on uStream. I have no idea what was going on, other than me showing up. But I was there.
Frankly, I found the whole thing kinda intimidating. I don't do "live" very well, at least that's my impression of myself. Other folks said I did fine. And maybe I did. Even given I had no idea what the topic was supposed to be.
StoneCasting
One fundamental assumption of the Rules of Righteousness, is that one knows what is right, and exactly how one is supposed to behave.
But one rule of the New Age -- hell, a rule of every age since the Dawn of Man, is that none of us know what actions produce what consequences. The times, they are a changin'. That's the nature of "The Times."
So, since even the most clever and "technosavvy" of us don't have any frikkin' idea what's going on or what are the right actions to produce the right consequences... we can never be other than "sinners." We can never do other than Epic Fail.
We will, always and forever till the end of the known universe, fail to make the right choices. Because there are always new choices and new consequences. We will always fail; if not under the old rules, then under the new ones, whatever we find out later they were.
WE CAN NEVER REALLY BE RIGHTEOUS, in a world of constantly changing consequences. So, all the pointed fingers in the world need big floppy red gloves on them, to go with the foam-rubber noses, fright wigs and "clown shoes."
Glad I settled all that. I'll bill ya later.
But one rule of the New Age -- hell, a rule of every age since the Dawn of Man, is that none of us know what actions produce what consequences. The times, they are a changin'. That's the nature of "The Times."
So, since even the most clever and "technosavvy" of us don't have any frikkin' idea what's going on or what are the right actions to produce the right consequences... we can never be other than "sinners." We can never do other than Epic Fail.
We will, always and forever till the end of the known universe, fail to make the right choices. Because there are always new choices and new consequences. We will always fail; if not under the old rules, then under the new ones, whatever we find out later they were.
WE CAN NEVER REALLY BE RIGHTEOUS, in a world of constantly changing consequences. So, all the pointed fingers in the world need big floppy red gloves on them, to go with the foam-rubber noses, fright wigs and "clown shoes."
Glad I settled all that. I'll bill ya later.
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