Listening to Dave Slusher’s interview with Phil Torrone of Make Zine reminded me that no product, software, or website is an end itself. All these things are tools. Tools that build off one another. Tools that need to be integrated to be useful.
Amazing Race 8 – Episode 8
Thought I’d kick off this post by sharing a more travel-related Amazing Race blog – The Pratical Nomad. Edward always has an interesting take on improving travel – or what the Amazing Race should have done. He goes in-depth.
Ok, onto to this week’s installment.
On one of our first cross-country road trips, Jen and I went through southern Utah. The rock formations make it one of the coolest parts of the country – and nearly makes up for Nebraska’s ‘Attack of the Killer Corn Husks’.
Detour: Ride Down or Drop Down?
This is actually tough. Sure, mountain biking through Mowab sounds like fun. The Amazing Race producers usually offer a task fairly location-appropriate and one that feels more like a stapled on hairpiece. That being said, where’s the rappelling gear?
A little googling uncovers that this ‘Bart’ isn’t The Bart. The original Bart the Bear died 5 years ago – even for a reality show, that’d be tasteless.
Roadblock: take a ski jump into a swimming pool.
I’m doing this one. No question.
This is a non-elimination round? No. Phil, please just put the Weaver’s out of their misery.
Current Standing of Garrick’s Favorites:
- Lintz – #1 (about time!)
Tuesday’s Triple Play – Let’s Go Shopping
The day after Thanksgiving (or Halloween, or Arbor Day, or St. Patrick’s Day) marks the start of the holiday shopping season. This week’s Tuesday Triple Play is dedicated to the entertainment of retail.
- High at Home Depot from Minneapolis’ Diesel Jenny
- IKEA from Jonathan Coulton’s Smoking Monkey
- Sandbox [real] from Too Much Joy’s Cereal Killers
- Money from Michael Koppelman (yes, I can count. This track felt real good with the other 3, so I left it in. Consider it a Holiday bonus.)
Garrick on KARE 11s Podcasting Segment
If you missed it, here’s the KARE 11 – Podcasting, have opinion will share segment.
If you’re wondering about a new First Crack podcast – as you can expect, Cooper threw my recording schedule for a loop. Podcasting to resume after the Thanksgiving holiday.
Until then, peruse the archives and send over your suggestions for interesting conversations.
Hunting For a Non-HFCS BBQ Sauce
Today, Jen slow-cooked some pork loin and when it was fall-apart with a fork tender, we drained it, smothered it in BBQ sauce, and ignored it some more.
After ignoring it good and long, we forked it onto some sesame-topped buns, threw on a scoop of ‘slaw and called it dinner.
Yeah. Tasty goodness. Worth staying in for.
The only thing that could make it better is if the BBQ sauce didn’t have High Fructose Corn Syrup as the second ingredient. I’m pretty sure a sauce exists without HFCS in the ingredient list – let alone first or second. Unfortunately, SuperTarget didn’t have it on their shelves.
Anyone know where I could find it?
The Long Tail of Media Attention
Tonight at 10pm, rumor has it the podcasting segment recorded by Minneapolis NBC affiliate KARE 11 with me and many others within PodcastMN will air. As much as I’m always happy for an opportunity to spread the word on podcasting and PodcastMN.
I get much more excited about being picked up by other bloggers and websites for 2 reasons:
- I can link to them easily – meaning I can share them with you.
- They get picked up by search engines now and in the future – meaning things have a lifetime past their initial release.
Hugh, as always, is far more eloquent.
Lawyers That Get Niche Publishing and Podcasting
Some of you may remember the 6-part series I did with Parsinen Kaplan Rosberg & Gotlieb P.A. over at the First Crack Podcast. For your convenience, I’ve consolidated all the PKR&G podcast conversations including 2 bonus conversations that didn’t make the original series.
This week PKR&G came out with their annual lifestyle magazine, “Perfectly Legal”. It includes text versions of many of the conversations and – just in time for the holidays – many other recommendations from the firm. There’s also a nice article on how podcasting builds and extends personal relationships written by yours truly.
All the articles in the 32-page issue were written by the someone with a relationship to the firm, all the photos are of people in the firm, and the magazine itself gets sent out to those again – with relationships to the firm.
This isn’t millions of people. It’s the right people. The people that trust and respect PKR&G, the people that will recommend PKR&G to their friends.
You don’t pick a lawyer by scanning a directory, why would you do the same for a podcast?
eMac Fax Modem Killed My Phone Line
I had to send a couple faxes yesterday. Something I do so infrequently that I just use the OS X’s built-in faxing on these rare occasions.
The modem on my Powerbook hasn’t been working right for a while now – neither has the disc drive. I’m getting a real good idea of how much I need these features when they don’t work right (very little).
Anyway, I was using the fax machine in Jen’s eMac. It wouldn’t go through and it wouldn’t go through, and it wouldn’t go through.
This morning, the faxes still hadn’t gone through – plus the DSL was down and no dial tone on the line.
Two great guys from Qwest came out and took a look this afternoon.
Conclusion: the eMac fax modem freaked itself out, and didn’t hang up correctly on one of the attempts, taking the whole line down with it. DSL and all. Dang.
The Business Models of Water
As a follow-up to How to Build a Business from Podcasting I thought I’d share this with you:
- There’s a case of Ice Mountain bottled water in my kitchen (the extra big case from CostCo).
- There’s also 2 Brita pitchers in my fridge and 4 Nalgene bottles – of different sizes – in the cupboard.
- The house itself has 6 built-in faucets – 1 each in the kitchen, laundry room, and outside near the garden, 3 in the bathroom (shower, tub, sink)
Only the Ice Mountain bottles have advertising.
Tag It garrickvanburen for My Attention
Erik Haugo has started a for:garrickvanburen tag over at del.icio.us for things he thinks I’ll be interested in.
Thanks Erik.
If you’re reading this right now, feel free to use that tag for the same purpose. I’m also watching garrickvanburen on Flickr and Technorati. Similarily, if there’s a podcast you think I’d enjoy – you can pop it in my Backlog station @ gigadial.
Fellow Minnesotan – jwynia just publicized the for:jwynia tag