Don’t Touch Me There
April 27, 2006
Mike and Amber have a moment as we tape Call for Help.
That’s Sean to the right.
And yes, there are three Macs on the desk. The 12 inch is Amber’s. The 15 inch MacBook Pro is Mike’s. The 17 inch belongs to the show.
Loading ...Worlds Tallest Building
April 25, 2006
Pop Quiz: Where is the world’s tallest structure? Hint: it’s not New York City or Kuala Lumpur.
Conserving the Past
April 25, 2006
BCE Place in Toronto.
This is with my camera phone so the quality isn’t great - but I couldn’t resist the juxtaposition of this old building embedded inside a modern atrium.
To me this is the epitome of modern Toronto.
Leo at Grand Canyon
April 24, 2006
We were so fortunate to have clear weather. It had snowed the week before and there were gale force winds the day before we arrived.
This is about as clear a day as you can get at the Canyon, although a nearby controlled burn created a touch of haze. The far edge is about 10 miles away. We could see Mt. Thompson - which is 100 miles off - very clearly.
The canyon is so dramatically beautiful that even when you’re there it’s kind of hard to absorb. It is truly humbling.
TWiT Central
April 12, 2006
Someone asked me what my podcast setup looks like. It’s pretty simple.
That’s a Mackie Onyx 1620 mixer on the right. It’s connected to the PC on the left via the optional Firewire I/O card. Skype is running on the PC.
I feed the PC my audio from my Heil Sound PR-40 mic via the mixer’s firewire out, and record the Skype audio and my audio on a Marantz Solid State recorder (the PMD-660) on the far right. Then I edit the podcast with Audition 1.5 (I upgraded to 2.0 but it was terrible so I went back to 1.5) and post it.
I also do my KFI radio show from the same place. You can see part of the Zephyr XStream ISDN Codec I use to connect to the station on the far right.
I wanted to memorialize this because I’ve rented a second office across the way and I’m moving in there in a couple of weeks. I hope to have a little better setup over there. At least I’ll have more room!
Pete and Scott from Apple are coming up to visit me Friday. I told them I didn’t have the fanciest setup - they said “that’s good. We want to see how little is required to podcast.” I’d better dust before they come!
I was recording episode two of FLOSS Weekly when I snapped this shot. (Don’t tell Chris!)
Watch out brother trucker
April 12, 2006
Naturally a big rig was parked right next to this sign in Petaluma.
All Things Considered
April 5, 2006
When I was a younger man my goals were few: publish a story in the New Yorker, appear on All Things Considered, and host the Tonight Show. At least one of them is going to come true. I’ll be on ATC tonight talking about Apple’s new Boot Camp program that allows Windows to run on Intel Macs. I have no idea when I’ll be on, but audio from the show should be available on the NPR web site after 7:30p Eastern.
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