About time. And product. And being more deliberate.
It’s been a rough week for podcast-network overlords.
First, Keith and the Girl dug into the Podshow Contract then Eric Rice responds with a smack down.
Then, Graeme and Frosty in It Radio break the news that I’ve been making quietly acquiring podcasts for my own evil podcast network.
No, it’s not safe for work and not, and no, it’s not serious. Though, I do look forward to owning you soon.
(Note to self; watch less Ask a Ninja)
BJ and Tyler are the greatest team, if only because they’re giving tribute – via their t-shirts – to previous Race teams; “Bowling” / “Moms”. Rad.
Detour – Foundry or Laundry
Uh. Laundry. No Question.
“We Choose Not to Yield”
Exactly it’s way too early to yield. The teams in the lead are too even at this point, there’s no common enemy. Well, the Dentist couple is shaking out to be the common enemy, but they’re so far back it doesn’t make sense to yield them. Unbelievable – Dani & Danelle were yielded by the Dentist. WTF.
Roadblock: Venus Jigsaw
Looks like I’m doing it. Two extra pieces – interesting. Which 2? Hmmm. Looks straight forward enough. Jen predicts the extra pieces will freak out the Dentist.
There’s some pretty cool looking cars in this episode. Spacious, yet tiny.
Garrick’s Favorites
J Wynia ran some numbers concluding retiring at 65 will probably happen less and less.
I grabbed a Gyro and a Lamb Kabob from Holy Land Deli this evening and notice this advertisement for a local surveillance company.
The first blob of red text says that the City of Minneapolis requires any grocery, tobacco, or liquor store to have a functioning surveillance system up and running as of January 2006.
I’m not sure where their cameras were (I suspect back by the meats and cheeses). I just knew there was one in my pocket and probably in the pockets of 75% of the other customers.
What’s the point of capturing the images if no one else sees them?
A while back I pondered RSS feeds replacing Compact Discs as the primary way to receive music from your favorite artists.
As I mentioned in that post:
“With a podcast, musicians can release whatever they’d like, whenever they’d like; demo tracks, rough tracks, experiments, final edits, interviews, conversations about the song writing process, anything their fans would enjoy. All of it delivered automatically to their biggest fans.”
So, yes, I’m excited to see Jonathan Coulton – one of my favorite artists – experiment with a Thing-a-Week Subscription. Every week I get a new song from Jonathan Coulton and he gets a $1 from me (minus Paypal transaction fees, plus lots of word-of-mouth publicity).
I hope to see more more experiments with this model.
This morning, Jen and I were playing with MyHeritage.com‘s facial recognition system.
Here you can see the MyHeritage system found Jen’s face and someone lurking in the bushes.
Who could it be hiding in the Belgian forest?
Perhaps British mathematician, logician, and cryptographer Alan Turing?
Maybe, star of television’s Baywatch and Knight Rider, David Hasselhoff (I’ve heard he’s big in Germany)?
Or prehaps German-born author Anne Frank?
Back from SXSW 2006, J Wynia and I grabbed a morning tea and talked about:
A 10th Grade class in Sobriety High down the street in Edina made a video for Jonathan Coulton’s ‘Mandelbrot Set’.
Aside from being a brilliant project, making videos for JC is a an excellent way to get through Minnesota winters. I should know.
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