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cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I landed today in Falls Church, VA, at the invite of George Brett, a long time internet colleague who I finally met for the first time in February at the EDUCAUSE ELI conference. He urged me to visit him, so I did– I am. He and his wife and daughter offered me the same open warm hospitality I have gotten everywhere on the trip. After a fabulous pork medallion dinner, I got to show off the StoryBox but the real prize was having George do his first ds106 radio show. He had fun with his old time music he played via his iPad: cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog He was part of the internet scene going back to the early 1980s, and was around many of the early wizards — as he quipped: I shoveled [...]

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Kevin and I go back to Mr Murray’s 9th grade Biology class — and so we sat some 34 years later in his home in State College, PA rejoicing a long lived friendship. And what’s best is that only part of it is reliving the old days. So Friday night I gently arm twisted him to do a ds106 radio broadcast. Among our conversations about the old days- how we did that super 8 video production of I am the Walrus in Mrs Tharpe’s English class, we also got to a really interesting part where he talked about his passion for coaching a girl’s high school soccer team. The irony is that we played together in high school, though I bailed after JV, he went on to play varsity. Full circles here. Not to lavish too much, he has been [...]

This first order of business after arriving at Cole Camplese‘s house (past a huge hello hug) was a trip to Otto’s to fill up the fuel tanks for the evening’s activities… cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Well, actually before all this was a round of play in the front yard with Cole’s kids. I do have my priorities. It has been inspiring to watch and read and follow and partake (running out of verbs here) Cole’s posts about the disaster of floods that destroyed much of his home town in Bloomsburg- he is putting up a strong front to the only source of news, the local paper, who is not allowing their pasts tories to be in the open, as D’Arcy Norman described, creating a “cone of silence”. Some shit is being kicked up, that’s how Cole Rolls. His flickr set of photos are spreading [...]

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog This cassette tape came zooming out of the past, right from 1976, to me at my sister’s house– she had found it this past summer while cleaning up at my Mom’s house. Yep, on these slender piece of ribbon, 35 years old of magnetized particles, stored the audio of my squeaky punk 13 year voice doing my bar mitzvah performance in Baltimore. This surely needed to be aired on ds106 radio for 6 people to hear. I did not have access to equipment to digitized directly, so I had to set up my mp2 recorder in front of the speaker, the audio volumes were way over. Big deal. Here it is right out of the 1970s! cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Alan’s Bar Mitzvah (1976) When I played it back, I had to listen a [...]

cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by The Rocketeer A number of things these days I find interesting are ones where you say “I can try and explain but you really had to be there” This includes they way people have described the Unplug’d conference (I’ve met like half on my road trip), and also very much ds106 radio. Usually these things are ones that you talk about so much that you may annoy people around you. The answer to almost anything becomes… “ds106 radio”. Well here is one more. Those I who have been around me know I don’t spend much time sleeping. I honestly find a lot of time sleeping tiring… and a waste of time! It’s like the way Keith Richards open’s his autobiography: For many years I slept, on average, twice a week. This means that I have been conscious for at [...]

Big wheels keep on rolling, and the leg of travel through the more populated parts of Ontario produced two more nights in a row of meeting people and bringing them kicking and screaming into ds106 radio (just kidding, no kicking, no screaming, they ask). On Monday I drove to the part of Canada that is south of Detroit, the town Windsor, for one of the key meetups of the trip, a chance to meet Windsor Di (her name is not “winsordi”) a most gracious and outgoing host who provided the most detailed tours and photo suggestions of the trip. Our connection goes back to commenting on flickr, where Di is a Force of Good, and the Amazing Story where she made wood pens out of a log I emailed to Canada last Spring (original flickr photo where this started). Not only did Di give me the Best Welcome Hug of [...]

Just some quick catchup on stops in Saskatoon and last night here in Winnipeg where people not only opened their opens, filled my tunny, but wanted to get their first experience broadcasting on ds106 radio. cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Last Friday it was at Rick Schwier’s home in Saskatoon along with Rob Wall, one of my long web friends I got to meet for the first time that day. Rick had seen my tweet about getting great green chili in Colorado, and he aimed to top it with his home-made, and I must say, it was right up there, with bonus points for being made there. After geeking a bit with the StoryBox, I asked if they wanted to go on the radio- I was sure Rob did given his long run doing the Ed Tech Posse podcast. I am trying recall here, but [...]

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I’ve spent an enjoyable evening visiting George Siemens in Edmonton= happy accident as the original plan was to meet mid afternoon for coffee and I was going to truck on to North Battleford to meet Rob Wall, but I was late getting to town– I was mesmerized by the Gopher Hole Museum which caused me to be later for lunch with Raj Boora which caused me to call George who nicely offered to let me stay over (I will get to see Rob tomorrow). That was way too much explanation. George treated to a great Thai dinner down on funky Whyte Street in Edmonton, and the town later provided an epic street person sidewalk show as we enjoyed after dinner coffee. Among things discussed was ds106 and ds106 radio. George was game to do a live radio show, which we [...]

(one last post before I exit for camping!) For those in the ds106 Radio fold, this week’s drama has been the reported demise of our New/Old Radio Friend, Scottlo. The “death” part being a bit downloayed, it has been a fascinating thing to watch unfold as he (Scottlo? Otto? Frank?) examines, reinvents, who he is online, especially now, as he leads a course on “Sock Puppets”. Last night on the radio, we (@mikhailg and @jimgroom) held a “wake” for him, but it nicely eveolved more into a great discussion of identity, and and a dviersion into Border Blasters, John Romulus Brinkley, dramatic definitions on Urban Dictionary, and even an unexpected use for goat parts. And it was nicely topped when (Scottlo? Otto? Frank?) joined us, and provided some more insight into what he is thinking. I am hoping somewhere out there is an archive- it was not the “smoothest” technical [...]

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Maybe. This afternoon I went out for a bike ride, and enjoying the tranquility of my small time life, I left my house unlocked. That was my first mistake. Apparently my hippy neighbor, one Maynerd G. Cosmo, decided to make himself at home in my house. Cosmo is a lost hippy, someone stuck in the 1960s. He made a mess of the place, leaving crushed fritos all over the floor, and some unidentified sticky drink residue all over my table. He also helped himself to my stash! But my mistake was leaving my laptop out, and that dirty hippy not only helped himself to my twitter stream, polluting it ith his goofball philosophy, but he went on the ds106radio and did a Trippy Hippy radio show! Trippy Hippy Hour (Maynerd G. Cosmo) (82.5 Mb 1:25:56). The playlist Cosmo infected the [...]