I feel pretty foolish admitting that amidst the flurry of a few years of great games and that steady acquisition of modern entrapments built of cardboard, wood, metal, and plastic bits with which we’ve fallen in love, I’ve neglected picking up so much as a pawn to play a game of chess in (count them) [...]

As yet another spawn of the likes of unusually popular posts such as Mid.Month.Music.Mashup, I almost hesitate to post another “what I’m listening to” entry. Likely, with the onslaught of search traffic to that particular previous post, I’m not doing my server any favors. That said, my music tastes continue to border on [...]

As for the running clinic: one of the emphasized techniques that is revealing itself to be quite clear, in both the class and the propaganda, is the run/walk split. That is, when we were out the other night we did our run in the pattern of run five minutes, walk one minute, repeat four [...]

December 13
I spent the day dealing with Audacity because a few months ago I threw the idea onto the table at work that we should make a podcast for the website. Someone liked it. Now I’m in the final stages of editing — mostly delayed as I try to figure out the nuances for [...]

It’s been a month worth of upgrading. Upgrades are cool. Usually, it just means taking something you already have and improving, replacing, or appending it to make it better. My highlights of this pleasant process include:

:: I put my snow tires on the car yesterday and just this morning had the two-year old beast [...]

Mid-November arrives right on queue and I find myself in a jazz mood. I suppose this is because I’ve found myself sitting around in the bog listening to music more lately — and sitting around music tends to be, for me, some light jazz and lighter, worldly sounds. The breakdown goes something like [...]

The medium is maturing, to be certain. Forget satellite radio; customize your listening with a blossoming selection of custom audio-files updated to your pod on a daily basis. Skip the commercials, and go right to the juicy stuff.

I’ve been hooked on podcasts lately. There is a certain nudge of control that comes [...]

I’ve been flushing the iPod. I’ve downloaded a half-dozen new albums in the past few weeks in an effort to re-energize my listening collection, gradually upgrading from the nineties pop-alt that has been melting my brain as of late. The plan, thus far, has been to surf the archives of iTunes for albums that [...]

Having just last week finished listening to The Diamond Age in audio format, and then having downloaded a promotional copy of the (abridged) The Areas of My Expertise from iTunes as read by the author (otherwise known as John Hodgman, aka. “PC” from the popular Mac and PC commercials) in a way only the author [...]

Not having a vast abundance of free time to read these days (what with all the little projects that keep me busy from dawn ’til dusk) I’m finding it thoroughly enjoyable to use the twenty minutes each way to and from work to listen to audio books on my iPod. Not only does this [...]

December 23
It’s that time of year again.
I generally spend a few (good) hours every December compiling my odd collection of Christmas audio for those brief moments spent distracting myself from the chaos of the holiday rush. This year, hardly any different, is yet another step forward in the holy-crap it-sure is-easy to fill-an-iPod-full [...]

December 6
It was my birthday recently as many readers will quickly attest having attended the affair. And while in my post-thirty state I did insist on a minimal-gift policy, some folks took that as an excuse to go out and buy me things. I hardly object, of course, and I just thought I’d [...]