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Dave — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 20:19:59 +0000

Sunday night has turned into my weekly podcast evening. I have several that I enjoy, time permitting. My routine used to be one of Leo Laporte’s podcasts, either Windows Weekly or TWIT possibly both if I got started early enough. Then I would listen to Major Nelson’s xBox 360 podcast as it does not get uploaded till Sunday evening.

I’ve added a couple more shows, and moved them to the top of the list now that I am trying to do more 3d and 2d work on the computer. The goal is to eventually (once my skills reflect the goal) snag some freelance graphics work and possibly land a day job in that industry. These podcasts are both from graphics artists, Ninja Mountain and WIP and are geared at artists trying to break into the freelance illustration market, primarily SciFi and Fantasy. They are very entertaining listens and offer some great insights and advice. You also get some great interviews Ninja Mountain in particular just did a 2 hour interview of artists at GenCon that was great.

Check em out, and hopefully I’ll still find time for the other casts still too.

3D Stainless Steel Printing

Dave — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:39:52 +0000

This really isn’t a new technology, but it is getting easier and cheaper. Ten years ago this would have caused the DIY scenes collective heads to explode. Even now it is pretty remarkable. Take a look at Shapeways site for some examples with the pricing for printing things in metal.

Blog may experience some weirdness

Dave — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:31:56 +0000

I am experiementing with themes so things may get wonky again. Some of the things I load in my sidebar are not really updated pluggins so they take some tweaking to get to work.

Sorry I’ve been away

Dave — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:20:43 +0000

Not promising anything, but we’ll see about some more posts. For now I thought I would point out an interesting hit from another one of those oddly named towns.

Bad Frakenhausen, Germany

Perpetuating a spontanious meme

Dave — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 13:39:01 +0000

Posting this because the blog I saw it on posted it because they found it randomly and was a mused.

FriendFeed

Dave — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:22:33 +0000

Going to push my luck a little here. I recently talked a friend back into Twitter so now I’ll mention another social app I find very cool. Quite honestly, I am mostly a lurker on these sites. I do update Twitter from time to time, about as frequently as the friends I follow, so it works well. FriendFeed is sort of a mashup of a large number of the other social apps. You essentially share your feeds at sites ranging from Twitter to Netflix to LastFM. Here is one of the widgets.

I am debating whether I’ll include one of the available ones in my blog sidebar, but like my delicious links, it is already in my About page. You can find some pretty interesting stuff out there, and like most social media some serious time wasting can be accomplished.

Jumping on the bandwagon

Dave — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:17:14 +0000

Not sure if this is really a meme, but it is spreading around some of the folks I follow on Friendfeed and twitter (which has gotten very reliable again) The one hundred pushup challenge. I started this morning, and hopefully by posting I shame myself into completing it. I started out solidly in rank 3 so was not incredibly ashamed from the get go.

Gith and visitors.

Dave — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 18:04:45 +0000

Hi to all the folks popping in from RPGnet to read those interviews with Stross and Cordell. They were both done as a collaborative effort from several folks working on the old planewalkers.com which went silent for quite a while. It was quite fun and both the subjects of the interviews were very nice to particpate.

I’ve got a couple of post ideas, however

Dave — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:11:31 +0000

With things being the way they have been the last couple of days and my general unease with the sudden downturn in my host, expect a delay and further updates before I make real posts.

Google Reader saves the day.. sort of

Dave — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:28:15 +0000

Well I went to google reader to see if it would have my old posts still marked as read. You had them all there. So copy and paste repostsw are up. I did lose a few comments, but this is better than nothing. I’ll try to figure out a way to get those comments back if the database restore proves fruitful.