Graftark

14Mar/080

What radio?

Holy crap! I am old?

I was just thinking about the question posed by Leo Laporte; "Is radio dead?"

Yup, he asked that right here on the Pownce but that is not what I'm thinking about. What has me writing this wordy diatribe is what I wrote for a response. I apparently have an affinity for talk radio, makes sense due to the amount of podcasts I listen to. Really though I listen to more people babble on than I do to good ol' music.

Seriously, my commute to work has me listening to Thom Hartmann, who I must say is one of the most brilliant people I have heard on the radio. It is a show that is in stark contrast to the show I listen to on the ride home which happens to be Coast to Coast AM hosted by George Noory.

Is it the fact that I am older now or just the fact that I do not enjoy the auditory feces people call music these days. I know I'm being a bit harsh but on occasion I feel that way especially when you can just get on the internet and discover and download music you do like. Which makes me want to mention www.archive.org mainly because what I do listen to tends to be bands that allow tapers and many of their live shows are posted there. Good times.

Well that's about it. I think it's just a matter of where you are in life and at this point I would rather listen to people blabbing.

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19Feb/080

Twitter Updates for 2008-02-19

Checking out Flock... seems like an interesting take on integrating social networking with a browser. #

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15Jan/080

Twitter Updates for 2008-01-15

Cross: Cross says: Sometimes I forget that I have a Pownce...: Cross says: Sometimes I forget that I have a.. http://tinyurl.com/yu3fwz #
Cross: Got myself a new mixer... best thing about the purchase...: Got myself a new mixer... best thing abo.. http://tinyurl.com/245uxq #

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4Jan/080

Resolutions

Now that the new year has arrived people begin to ask about what your resolutions are for the new year. I never really paid attention to the resolution thing until this year. There are a few things that I need to have happen and I figure that this will be the year to get on that road.

First things first, the obvious; lose weight. That is a very typical thing to 'resolve' for the new year but in my case it is imperative. I need to get myself into the habit of exercise and putting down the damn candy So I'm looking at wanting to lose 60 pounds, at the minimum... I really let myself go.

With regards to my presence here on the Internet, I have always wanted to get into tech writing and reviewing and I believe that I can do just that I need to focus in on that. There is also Nervous Reflex, the site that is ever changing due to the fact that I can never really get it to what I think it should be in my head. I want it to be a user drive content site for gamers, modders, and developers. I have a few things to deal with before I actually open the site to users. I need to take measures against comment spam and blog spam (since the site is a multi-user version of WordPress spammers are able to create spam blogs).

The Nervous Reflex podcast is also coming back, I don't know if it will keep the same name but I am currently shopping for a good microphone to unleash my terrible sounding voice on to the world with. I also received a new video camera for Christmas (many thanks to my loving wife), which I intend to use in order to create video content.

Basically, what I need is FOCUS... I need to keep my eye on the prize this year. What's the prize? Well, the prize will ultimately be myself not feeling like I waste my free time doing stuff that I don't find enjoyable.

Right now I have to focus on getting my ass to work... thanks for reading and stick around... Focus, focus, focus!