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Andrew Recommends
Podcasts I've listened to and liked.
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Created on: 15 Nov 2004 Language: English |
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Broadcast 09 Kenmore Square (13.27MB; download) -- LISTEN This week on the Radio Program: architectural forensics. Lily Dennison, Jim Ryan and Mr. Butch all used to live and work in Kenmore Square. They take us on a guided tour of a place that no longer exists.... Selected by: Andrew Grumet [ stations ], Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:04:36 UTC
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Staccato 3 (39.51MB; download) -- Ambient Dance - Chill out music
Listen (53 minutes, 96kbps MP3)
Music by:Transient, Imtech, Ominous Cloud,
bhasmantam, Holzkopf, Matmos, Inclination, Dan the Automator. Selected by: Andrew Grumet [ stations ], Sat, 11 Dec 2004 18:42:51 UTC
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It Stinks - National Treasure... not so much (5.31MB; download) -- This is the inaugural podcast of It Stinks and we start off with the brand new
Nicolas Cage film 'National Treasure'. Selected by: Andrew Grumet [ stations ], Sat, 11 Dec 2004 03:48:36 UTC
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In Mike's Life 08 Dec 2004 (4.39MB; download) --
December 8, 2004
- 1954
Hello, and
welcome to 1954 In Mike's Life a weekly autobiographical retrospective of the
past 52 years beginning with the year I was born and ending with my 52nd
birthday.
On this podcast
I talk about not only the events that happened during each year of my life but
also my own personal recollections of, during the last 35 years, my experiences
as a software developer.
In 1954 my life
changed dramatically. . . For the better!
As some of you
might remember, from last week's program, my birth-Mom (literally) ran away with
a traveling salesman and I ended up in an orphanage.
In 1954, the
people I grew up knowing as Mom and Dad, Kathy and Bob Lehman, first took me in
as a foster child and then, as fast as they could, adopted me. Boy was I lucky!
The world of
1954 was much different than today's world. In those times a married woman
without a baby was on socially difficult ground. Kathy, unfortunately, couldn't
have a baby for medical reasons. So, I was welcomed in to her home as if I were
the most valuable gift anyone could receive. It wasn't all growing-up-roses but
it started out nice.
In 1954, Dwight
Eisenhower was President, the first nuclear submarine, the Nautilus was
launched, the first kidney transplant was performed and segregation was ruled
illegal.
Alan Ameche won
the Heisman trophy, West Germany won the World Cup, Linus Pauling won the Nobel
Prize for Chemistry and Ernest Hemmingway won the Nobel Prize for literature for
Old Man and the Sea.
In Movies, the
Best Picture was On The Waterfront staring Marlon Brando and Grace Kelly won
Best Actress for The Country Girl. As often happens, the best movies weren't
the most popular. The Top 10 Movies for 1954 were:
1. White
Christmas
2. The Caine Mutiny
3. The Glenn Miller Story
4. The Egyptian
5. Rear Window
6. The High and the Mighty
7. Magnificent Obsession
8. Three Coins in the Fountain
9. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
10. Desiree
The most popular
Fiction book was Not As A Stranger by Morton Thompson and The Holy Bible,
Revised Standard Edition was, as last year, the most popular non-fiction
book.
As a regular
feature of In Mike's Life, here's a clip from one of the top 10 songs of
1954. Dean Martin singing That's Amore.
Dean Martin was
my Dad's favorite singer of all time. My Dad used to play his records and watch
his TV show with a passion he rarely displayed.
My Mom, in 1954,
carted me back-and-forth across the country to show me off to my Dad's Mom and
her 4 brothers and 4 sisters.
In 1954, people
traveled by train as there were not yet any interstate highways nor was air
travel affordable for the average post-war family.
If there had
been frequent rider programs, we would have been platinum members.
Another regular
feature, on In Mike's Life, is what was happening in the world of computers
and software.
As I'm still a
few years away from starting my own computer adventures (though it starts
earlier than you might think), here's what was going on in 1954:
John W. Backus an employee of IBM designed the programming
language FORTRAN(7)
FORTRAN: FORmula
TRANslator.
Engineers and
scientist flocked in droves to programming with a higher level computer
language. Rewiring of machines to reprogram them belonged to the past. Another
gigantic step forward!
In this year
IBM's first commercial computer: IBM 704, was introduced. With build in indexing
and a Floating Point Unit it could reach 40.000 additions per second and capable
of approximately 5 kFLOPS. Principal architect is Gene Amdahl who also designed
the first Operating System ever for a computer, in this case it was the IBM 704
The first
company to start with mass production of silicon transistors is Texas
Instruments
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can-you-believe it department.Jack Tramiel starts Commodor Selected by: Andrew Grumet [ stations ], Fri, 10 Dec 2004 13:25:58 UTC
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BROADCAST 08 Connections (13.28MB; download) -- LISTEN This week on the radio program: Connections. Kara gives us her story of lost love, web design, and a message from outer space and Joe Davis tells us about Poetica Vaginal, a quasi-covert science-art project he spearheaded in... Selected by: Andrew Grumet [ stations ], Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:11:00 UTC
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Podcasting, baby! :-) (2.18MB; download) -- Time to stop talking, and start... er... talking... I've pretty much figured out how to do this now, so I'm going to be podcasting shows with the working title of "VoiceOver". I've recorded a short introductory MP3 (4 minutes 44 seconds, 2MB) which I think of as a manifesto... basically, it gives a bit of background on why I'm going to be podcasting, and specifically what I *won't* be talking about.
So long as I haven't fouled up, the file above appears as an enclosure in the RSS feed for this blog; which means that if you use an enclosure-aware aggregator or an application like iPodder, then by pointing it at the feed http://feeds.feedburner.com/AnalysisservicesAndSelf URL, the manifesto (and all of the subsequent podcasts) will be automatically downloaded to your system, as if by technology.
I'll leave it at that for a couple of days, so I can iron out any bugs or issues with the feed (hopefully none) and put the first podcast proper up on Saturday. It'll be a bit of a musical extravaganza... muahahaha!
One thing that I forgot to include in the manifesto was an explanation for the name, VoiceOver; well, partly because I'm going to be doing a voice-over of things that interest me, such as music; but primarily because I'm *over* and *done* with the voice I've got, will be starting speech and language therapy to change it on Monday, and want to record the change in my voice over time. So, VoiceOver... hopefully no-one else is already using that name, but I'll use something else if that's the case. Selected by: Andrew Grumet [ stations ], Mon, 06 Dec 2004 14:10:26 UTC
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laluna-austin (5.27MB; download) -- Board-recording made by FOH engineer Alan at the Lila Cockrell in Austin, Texas on October 8th, 2004
http://www.ssri.biz/music/mp3/laluna-austin.mp3
Selected by: Andrew Grumet [ stations ], Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:16:54 UTC
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Cinnamon Bear Podcast Announce (1.62MB; download) Selected by: Andrew Grumet [ stations ], Sat, 04 Dec 2004 15:15:03 UTC
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Coverville 24: The Coverville Lounge (27.85MB; download) -- Welcome to the Coverville Lounge. Have a seat. Tonight you'll hear the following (links included where available): The Recliners - "Creep" Ben Folds Five - "She Don't Use Jelly" Richard Cheese - "Only Happy When It Rains" Mel Torme -... Selected by: Andrew Grumet [ stations ], Fri, 03 Dec 2004 14:08:32 UTC
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Ethan Zuckerman: New Solutions (13.93MB; download) -- IT Conversations audio from Pop!Tech 2004 (New Solutionss): Ethan Zuckerman founded Geekcorps, a non-profit technology volunteer corps. Geekcorps pairs skilled volunteers from US and European high tech companies with businesses in emerging nations for one to four month volunteer tours. Volunteers have served in 14 nations, completing over a hundred projects, and will serve in Ghana, Senegal, Mali, Vietnam and Morocco in 2004. Geekcorps became a division of the International Executive Service Corps in 2001, where Ethan served as a vice president from 2001-4. Selected by: Andrew Grumet [ stations ], Fri, 03 Dec 2004 03:53:08 UTC
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