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Change is good

March 25th, 2011

Things have been a bit sparse around here lately. And if you’ve been following along for the last few months, none of this will surprise you.

I decided a little over a month ago that it was time to retire Shawnogram. The site is coming up on its four-year anniversary. And it has served me well over the last four years. But it’s time to move on.

I’ve been thinking that it’d be good for me to have a real “business-card” type of website. Something I can point people towards to showcase some of the “professional” things I do. And for the most part, I don’t feel Shawnogram (or any other site I’m contributing to) can really do that.

The plan going forward is two-fold. My new professional site can be found here: http://shawn.mx/ The site contains some basic information about me as well as a journal where I’ll be writing about things like music, podcasting and media production. (There are already a couple posts there to get things rolling.) I’ve also started an attendant Tumblr blog where I’ll be posting personal stuff and various digital ephemera. There are already some posts there as well.

My advice is, if you want to get everything, bookmark/subscribe to both sites. The RSS feed at shawn.mx is podcast-enabled, and you can subscribe to it in iTunes or any other podcatching program. It hasn’t yet been submitted to the iTunes Store, so you’ll have to subscribe manually for now. (Contact me if you need help doing this, it’s actually pretty easy.)

I’d like to thank everyone who’s followed and contributed to this site over the last few years. I hope you’ll stick with me through the changes. Good things are ahead.

(The audio enclosure below pretty much just restates everything I’ve posted here.)

Podcast: Download (Duration: 2:34 — 1.2MB)

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Phantom Power Media studios 4.0

January 18th, 2011

In what is possibly turning into an annual event, we spent last weekend rearranging our recording studio/computer room. This is our fourth, and hopefully, best version of the setup so far.

The old studio setup. Note my computer on the left-hand side of the photo and Jen’s computer on the right-hand side.

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Tags: Flickr, music, Phantom Power Media, podcasting
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NaPodPoMo week 1

November 7th, 2010

Some thoughts on the first week of this year’s National Podcast Post Month.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 12:03 — 8.4MB)

Tags: All Things Azeroth, AudioBoo, Facebook, Inside My Head, Jennifer Navarrete, NaPodPoMo, podcast, podcasting
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Birthday #34

July 12th, 2010

Yesterday was my 34th birthday. It wasn’t really an exciting day, I guess. But it was still a good one.

I went for a walk in the morning. Made it out before the marine layer burned away. Managed to enjoy some of that clean ocean air before it was gone for the day.

In the afternoon, I ordered a pizza (and a salad!) from Woodstocks Pizza. Woodstocks is probably my favorite pizza place here in San Luis Obispo. It was a fine birthday lunch.

A little later on, Jen and I produced one of the funnest (and funniest, at least to me) podcasts we’ve ever done. Immediately after that, we split a piece of German chocolate birthday cake (my favorite!). The cake was actually baked for me by my employer. Here’s a picture of the whole cake before it was sliced up:

The cake was amazing. (We brought home one piece from the office and shared it. The rest was left at the office for my coworkers to enjoy.)

Jen’s been sick with sinusitis (she went to the doctor today and got some antibiotics) so she wasn’t up for doing much. Too bad, ’cause we had planned on going out for karaoke. Instead, we just finished out the evening playing World of Warcraft. Which is just fine by me.

A birthday balloon, also provided by my employer.

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Coming soon: epic nerdery

June 29th, 2010

I’ve been editing the All Things Azeroth podcast for a few months now. I took on this duty for a few reasons. For one thing, it’s a fun challenge to take a bunch of someone else’s audio (each episode consists of anywhere from two to six different files) and mold it into a coherent piece. More importantly, I do make some money for my time, and money is good. As the show’s tag line states, All Things Azeroth is indeed “your World of Warcraft podcast.” And I’ve never been a World of Warcraft player. That is, until today.

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Tags: All Things Azeroth, money, podcasting, World of Warcraft
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Big room move of 2009/2010

February 5th, 2010

We spent the New Year’s weekend moving things around. The plan was to take the stuff in the back room, and swap it with the stuff in the front room. I had the idea to do this last November, because I thought it’d be good to move the studio into its own space, and to make our living area a little more open and comfortable. We’ve been living with this new configuration now for about a month, and we like it.

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