Archive for February, 2005

Monday, February 28th, 2005

Podcast: Ace In The Hole

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Sunday, February 27th, 2005

Andy’s Take On The Oscars

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Saturday, February 26th, 2005

Article Link

For some of you who have been sending me “what the heck is podcasting” email, here’s a link to a good article on the subject from ipodlounge.com.

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Saturday, February 26th, 2005

Rachmaninov in the Rain

As it happens, I’ve spent the afternoon listening to Rachmaninov through my gorgeous noise canceling Shure earbuds, playing a game or two of Settlers of Catan on the laptop, surfing for new blogs (suggestions welcome via comments), drinking latte, and talking with my old buddy B.R.
On my way home from Starbucks the cell phone rang [...]

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Saturday, February 26th, 2005

Working Out The Kinks

Just a note to let you know that I’ve added a transcript to last night’s audio entry. It’s never my intention to exclude any of the nice folks who take the time to stop by Casa Eclectic. The truth of the matter is that I am an incredibly slow writer. I often spend an hour [...]

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Saturday, February 26th, 2005

Podcast: Three Values

Update: Transcript added below the fold with profuse apologies to my deaf readers and those trapped in the land of slow connections.
This one really is an experiment folks — live and unscripted. I just didn’t have the energy to write so I knocked this out in one take in about 15 minutes and surprised myself. [...]

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Friday, February 25th, 2005

Podcast: Of Hellcats and Water Gaps

Clarification: Well, proving positively that Texan English is as difficult to write as it is to speak, I misunderstood what Art was after. He clarified by email today proving that my fence building skills have gotten rusty at best. “I know about them water gaps but what I was referring to is a wire gap, [...]

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Thursday, February 24th, 2005

The Morning After

First off let me say thanks to everyone for receiving the first podcast so warmly. Your comments and emails made me feel like a regular home-brewed media star. To my certain knowledge my only previous broadcast experience involved speaking to the Men’s Bible Class back in the Little Town. The group met in the local [...]

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Thursday, February 24th, 2005

The Issue of “Po”

Okay, I removed the offending entry “po” from my Blacklist spam filter. Hopefully all of you who have been having trouble using the English language to leave comments will have a little easier time now.

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Wednesday, February 23rd, 2005

Inaugural Podcast

Tonight we enter a new era here at Casa Eclectic with the debut of the site’s first podcast. Click here to download or expand this entry to read the transcript. As my set up gets more refined I’ll have an RSS feed for those of you using a podcast aggregator.
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