| Friday, 6 January 2012, 9:45 am Tags: CES2012, socialcam |
Posted via email from Leo Laposterous
| Friday, 6 January 2012, 7:23 am Tags: Audioboo, CES2012, scene |
| Sunday, 1 January 2012, 2:53 pm Tags: |
Posted via email from Leo Laposterous
Next stop, Antartica, courtesy Darth_Emma. If I can’t get there at least the camera can!
| Sunday, 1 January 2012, 9:22 am Tags: |
Of course not! I know finning sharks is cruel. It’s just udon.
| Friday, 21 October 2011, 1:35 pm Tags: |
| Monday, 15 August 2011, 7:53 pm Tags: ham, heilsound, icom, TWiT, twit brick house |
CQ CQ CQ Calling all hams! We’re having an open house at our new TWiT Brick House Studios August 20 and 21 and you’re invited.
A special event station will be active on 40 and 20 meters afternoon and evenings commemorating the official opening of the new TWIT studios of Leo Laporte, W6TWT. Tours of the new studios and classic Collins AM broadcast station will be available 10AM – 10 PM Saturday and 10AM to 5p Sunday to all Amateur Radio operators. The TWIT Brick House studios are located at 140 Keller St. in Petaluma, CA.
The call sign to be used will be W6KB, the Redwood Empire DX Association whose members have been instrumental in the planning and installation of the antenna system during the final construction of the new broadcast studios, home of the HAMNation netcast which is produced each Tuesday night hosted by Bob Heil K9EID, Gordon West WB6NOA, and George Thomas W5JDX.
The radios will include the IC-9100, IC-7800, and IC-7200, all courtesy Icom America and mics from Heil Sound. We’ll broadcast a preview of the new gear tomorrow night at 6p Pacific/9p Eastern on HAM Nation.
QSL direct to W6TWT, P.O. Box 1018 in Petaluma, CA 94953 or leo@w6twt.org.
| Tuesday, 9 August 2011, 6:58 pm Tags: callsign, ham |
My vanity call sign, W6TWT, became official today! Thanks to Bob Heil K9EID, Gordo West WB6NOA, and Tracy at w5yi.org for their help in securing an amazing call sign. (FCC ULS Listing)
I’ve registered W6TWT.org, W6TWT.com, and W6TWT.net. If you enter any of those URLs you’ll arrive here – my ham related postings on Leoville. That seems easier than setting up an entirely new page, at least for now. And you can email me regarding ham stuff at leo@w6twt.org.
I’ve also created a Twitter account for my call sign: @W6TWT. Not sure how I’ll use it, but better me than someone else.
| Friday, 15 July 2011, 6:25 pm Tags: ham |
I passed the Technician exam at the MDARC meeting in Lafayette! I am officially a ham. I’ll be back next month to take the General exam.
Here I am with the Volunteer Examiners after passing. Great bunch of guys!
| Tuesday, 14 June 2011, 9:43 am Tags: brick house, cottage, TWiT, twit studios |
We’re about a month away from moving into our new studios, two blocks away from the TWiT Cottage. (I’m predicting July 24 but we’ll see.) In case you missed the first walkthrough of the building it’s here:
But we’ve come a long way since then. In fact, you can see exactly where we stand on the TWiT Dropcam (thanks to Dane Jasper and the folks at Sonic.net who will be our primary bandwidth provider at the new studios):
Roger Ambrose, our creative director, is painting the floor right now, then we can begin installing lights, cameras, and wiring in earnest. We hope to be broadcasting from the studio around mid-July 2011.
Our brilliant lighting and camera guy, Brent Bye of Ocean Studio has created a Sketchup 3D walkthrough of the place which you can download from our Dropbox.
(You’ll need a copy of the free Google SketchUp program to view and interact with it.) Brent will be updating it over time and we’ll keep the latest version in the Dropbox, so check back.
We’ll be using the model to plan the placement of our 30 Canon HF G10 cameras and dozens of Kino Flo, Litepanels, and other lighting fixtures.
We have a great many people to thank for help with our new studio, including Crestron for studio automation, Newtek for the brand-new Tricaster XD850 switcher, Telos for our digital Axia audio system, Restoration Hardware for the furniture in the new studio, Bob Heil for our mics and stands, and many many others.
But most of all, I want to thank you, our community, for your perpetual support. There’s no way we could do this without you. And a special thanks to all of you who have bought bricks for our Wall of Honor in the entry foyer. As of today we’ve sold about 800 bricks, but there’s still room to buy a brick for yourself at http://bricks.twit.tv.
The new studio is going to be a major step forward, and your help makes it possible. We’re pretty excited – I hope you are too!!
| Tuesday, 24 May 2011, 7:21 am Tags: e-g8, Internet, twig |
As previously noted, I was honored and excited to have been invited to this week’s e-G8 summit in Paris, despite Cory Doctorow’s misgivings.
I felt it was important to go and represent the “free and open Internet” faction. It seems to me that we can’t complain about government intervention on the ‘net if we aren’t willing to come to the table and fight for our beliefs, and I had girded my loins for battle.
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to go due to a family emergency. Fortunately for us all, Jeff Jarvis is girding his very public loins in my place. (Along with, apparently, the original Internet freedom fighter, John Perry Barlow.)
Jeff has already joined battle, according to the Wall St. Journal:
During the Q&A session, one person asked the French president to “do no harm” when regulating the Internet. “I think what would harm you is not to recognize you as responsible citizens,” Mr. Sarkozy fired back.
Jeff will join us Wednesday from Paris on This Week In Google (1p Pacific/4p Eastern/2000 UTC on TWiT Live) to discuss the deliberations. I’ll follow with interest. I’m sorry to have let our side down, but I’m so glad there’s someone so much more eloquent speaking in my place.
Swag
