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I May Have Found What I’m Looking For (Note Taking with Less Friction)
This is a follow-up to my first post, wherein I detailed the increasing friction and my growing complaints with Evernote, after about a decade of use. When I left off, I confessed switching to Microsoft OneNote, in part due to being free without restriction (except storage) and its integration with Microsoft 365 (née Office) for…
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Searching for Note Taking with Less Friction
This is my first post of 2023 and also my contribution to #bringbackblogging, wherein I’ve pledged to post at least three times in January. (Goodness, I remember posting three time a day, some two decades ago). The effort is largely a response to a infantile billionaire’s acquisition of Twitter, and the overall effects of dominant…
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Weird Dreams
Weird dreams last night make for a weird morning eat some yogurt and granola try to shake it off
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Cleaning for Podcasts
Like most people I presume, I have a love/hate relationship with cleaning. Of course it’s drudgery, but it has not always been the work part that I avoid. In part, I’ve avoided cleaning because once I’ve started I want to get it right. I want things to be really fucking clean. Once I’ve started that…
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Mediageek Can Never Get Enough Pirate Radio
Last night I finally watched Pirate Radio (a/k/a The Boat That Rocked) on HD pay-per-view, as it seems I can never make it into a regular movie theater these days. I quite enjoyed this romp through the short life of a fictional 1960s UK pirate radio ship, inspired by the infamous Radio Caroline. While the…
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Zine Weekend
This past weekend I attended the first Chicago Zine Fest, which also happened to be the first zine fest I’ve been to in almost five years. Attendance seemed quite high for the events that I went to, which was great to see. Friday night’s zine reading at Quimby’s bookstore was standing-room-only from the stage at…
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FCC Steps Up Pressure on Boulder Pirates
A short blog post from Monk, formerly the brains behind the first iteration of Boulder Free Radio KBFR, reports that two separate unlicensed stations in Boulder, CO were recently “shut down” by the FCC. A new KBFR with new a new crew behind it has been operating in Boulder since sometime last year. Monk has…
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My blog hates twitter so much
Like a new too cool for school stepbrother that it just wants to punch so hard. Now the blog won’t even let me post more than 140 characters
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The Irony of the Vinyl Resurgence
Back in the 1980s when the Compact Disc first hit the market there was great excitement in the high fidelity and audiophile world anticipating the arrival of crystal-clean digital sound that would be unmarred by the vagaries of analog playback long suffered by music lovers. Whether vinyl LPs’ clicks and pops or cassette tapes’ hiss,…
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Lubbock, TX loses an alternative radio voice
I very much regret to report the news of yet another college station leaving the air. This time the news comes by way of Jennifer at Spinning Indie: nearly 50-year-old college radio station KTXT at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas was abruptly shut down on December 10th by the university. Apparently the school is…