As usual, school will be interfering with my availability for the June 4 event. Bah, I say. It is a small consolation, but I will be off in a foreign country busily converting prices into heavily devalued dollars and wondering where all my spending money has gone.
Monthly Archives: March 2005
The biggest dork in the world
Good news, everyone. Our local public radio station (KCRW) is now podcasting its locally produced content. Being the big public radio dork that I am, I once considered getting the Samsung MP3 player instead of the iPod since it could record audio files directly from FM transmissions. Ultimately, the fact that it was ugly as sin, not as easy to use, and bigger (remind you of any poker sites?) made me settle on the iPod. Size matters.
But that’s partially a moot point deprived of practical significance / made abstract or purely academic* now that you can get these podcasts. Here are my three picks:
The Treatment – film and culture interviews
To the Point – current events roundtable
Final Curtain – radio obituaries
As for all the NPR and PRI shows that take up the other 75% of KCRW’s news/talk programming, I’ll have to settle for being tied to the network for their RealAudio streams, or shell out for the somewhat pricey Audible.com** downloads.
* See DuggleBogey below.
** Audible.com likes to give your session a unique ID and include it in the URL as you browse, which means that I can’t link you directly to their TV and Radio section. Their internal links also use JavaScript. Both measures will likely confound both the search engines as well as users who want to direct people to specific categories or products. Why are they so ass-backwards?
From the outside looking in
Sometimes I’m reading a blog and I realize it’s terribly boring. Then I get to wondering if this happens to my two readers. As with my poker game, I hope I’m slightly above average.