A short story about rural junior high basketball players passing time between games. Listen to Unincorporated #2 – The High Point [12 min] UPDATE: I just got an email claiming responsibility for inventing High Point. Made me smile.
Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
NBC – Nothing But Crap
“NBC’s decision to stop putting quality, scripted shows on in the 8 o’clock hour is the pathetic and cynical act of a loser.” – Jeff Jarvis Not that I know what any TV broadcaster has on at 8 o’clock anymore anyway – even TiVo is having a hard time keeping track.
TiVo Being Funny
I’ve mentioned before how desperate our TiVo is to recommend its paltry selection of over the air broadcast to us. The other day, I saw Jen delete a bunch of Hogan’s Heros from TiVo’s recommendations. Uh. I kinda wanted to….oh, forget it. Then tonight, going through the Now Playing, 3 of the Scrubs recordings were …
First Crack 88. Unincorporated
A short story about a private stash in a small rural community. Listen to Unincorporated [12 min]
First Crack 87. Again
I talk about the best TSA airport check point experience ever, review Keyspan’s cordless USB Skype phone, and say good bye to my grandma. Listen to Again [14 min]
Military Coupe? Let’s Go Shopping
After being in Thailand for only a few days I was shocked to read that I had 15 new messages. “Are you okay?” was the common headline. I was eating yogurt with bananas and felt quite fine. I was puzzled by the sudden dramatic concern for my well being. – Brenda
Tina Fey Had the Best Job in New York
TiVo grabbed the premiere of 30 Rock for us. Comparing it against Studio 60 is like comparing the past 15 years of Saturday Night Live against anything funny. Tin Fey’s work on Weekend Update was a small glimmer of hope in Lorne Michael’s otherwise deserted, stale series. Like the paper the next morning, the only …
Lowering the Barriers of Connecting Podcasters and their Listeners
I wrote this article earlier this year, and with the original site transformed into something completely different, I thought I’d put it here for us to enjoy for years to come. Podcasting has the same problem as television, radio, and that legendary tree falling in the forest. There’s no accurate way to measure the number …
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Thinking of the 35th Time Before the 1st
FeedSeeder was deployed on its first publicly visible server this morning. While it took much longer than I expected (better part of my non-client time for a week) much of that time was setting up the infrastructure; prepping the box, loading the project into Subversion, setting up the deployment recipes, etc. While it’s not rock …
Tip on Replacing Apple’s Personal Web Sharing with Apache 2
Remember to re-open the firewall on Port 80 after disabling Apple’s Personal Web Sharing. Apple toggles it automatically with PWS. I needed to create a custom entry in the firewall listings for Apache2 to be accessible from another machine on the network. Big thanks to McClain Looney for the reminder.