Me and Jen put together this special Christmas medley song and video in honor of this fine holiday season. Download the mp3 and share it with the loved ones.

(Comments welcome here.)

Earlier this year, I purchased a new computer monitor. The monitor was set up on my desk like this:

Nice ghetto monitor stand there.
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Spent some time today shopping. In the rain. My mom got a ride down from Atascadero to my place. We rode the bus together to the other end of town. The rainy season has arrived here on the central coast. It’s been raining since late Thursday night. I know I complain a lot about our lack of rain. I guess the atmosphere reads my blog.

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With 2011 fast approaching, I’ve been giving some thought to an idea I had earlier this year. I haven’t covered this idea before because, well, there hasn’t been much to say. Those of you who’ve followed my Internet exploits for awhile know that my websites have moved around a bit. And indeed, I had been contemplating another move. I did some prospecting of potential domain names. I even found one I kinda liked. I was thinking that what I’d really like to do would be to move away from a traditional blog-style site. I was even thinking of starting a wiki that would contain all of my photos and various audio bits and videos and anything else. A singular place that would hold all of my stuff and would also allow outside users to expand on whatever was there. An interesting idea, perhaps. But what’s the point? I guess that’s the ultimate question.
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I’ve been sick. It’s the usual November/December sinus/lung/whatever garbage. I went through the absolute worst of it over the weekend before last. I think I’m on the mend now for real, and hopefully I’ll be over it in a few days.
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Being sick over the last few days has put me on a rather strange schedule. I found myself on the couch yesterday morning watching kids shows. In today’s podcast, I talked about those shows.

I couldn’t find any online videos for the first show. Here’s some kind of promo video for the second show:

Podcast: Download (Duration: 12:48 — 8.9MB)

Today’s podcast is dedicated to Wesley. Earlier today, I learned that he recently passed away. I am shocked and saddened by this news.

Wesley won an award at SXSW for this short film:

See his other videos here and here. Also, here‘s Wesley’s photo blog and here‘s the Facebook group I mentioned in the podcast. Finally, here‘s the song “Hey, Wesley.”

Podcast: Download (9.7MB)

I applied for a radio job over the summer. I didn’t get the job and that’s OK. In today’s podcast, I talked about the application experience and I also included the airchecks I produced as part of my application.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 8:29 — 5.9MB)

Since 2008, Jen and I have done a “split show” during NaPodPoMo. Here’s part one of this year’s version. To hear part two, check out Jen’s site later today.

Update: You can now get the second part of Split show here.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 11:58 — 8.3MB)

More footage that’s been waiting to be edited.

Cockatiels, doing stuff.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 3:44 — 25.3MB)