Que sera, sera, whatever will be, will be, but first I need more coffee.
It is very cold outside right now. My weather app sex it’s 19 degrees Anyway still learning the ins and outs of my iPhone. Finally figured out how to do special characters. So if I need to type ‘überdørk’, I can.
As a Gaelic learner, I mostly need gràves and accénts, but if I were learning say Spanish, I’d need a tilde (~) over the n as in cañon.
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I do really like my new iPhone. I even found an app that allows me to post, but not view Livejournal entries. I can use Safari for that.
Well today is my last day at TU. I’m off to Tucson, again. I never expected to be going back, but Melissa got a great gig with the U of A law school. I did get a job. Ironically enough not in Tucson. I’ll be working remotely as a contractor for a small web firm in Stillwater of all places. It’s a short term contract, but if things work out I’ll get more work.
The other bit of good news is that we sold our house yesterday. It’d been on the market since May. The housing market isn’t that bad in Tulsa. We made a few missteps that I think hurt our chances early on, but ironed those out.
As for the housing market in Tulsa. It is slowing, but what hurts it is the perception created by the national situation where the housing markets are really dire. For example, the market in Tucson is pretty bad. Not as bad as Las Vegas, California, or Florida. Arizona is pretty high up on the list though. To be blunt the Tucson market was overpriced. As homebuyers, Melissa and I will have the luxury of finding the house we want for a reasonable price.
All in all, I consider us to be very fortunate in this economy. Things could get worse for us, but we are in a good position to weather the storm. As long as the Great Depression 2.0 isn’t worse than 1.0. We can definitely call it the Great Recession.
Steve Jobs wants you to know this post was sent from my new iPhone. Yeah, I’m being an ultradork.
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When I say links of interest. I mean links of interest to me. They may or not be of interest to you. I may update this throughout the day and add more. Note: LJ’s time is time of creation, not of my posting.
I’d heard of sleepwalking before, but not sleep emailing.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3743289/Zzz-mail-What-happens-when-sleepwalkers-go-online.html
There must be something wrong with the Brits. More doing stuff in their sleep. In this case: non-consensual sex.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1095017/The-sexsomniac-builder-forces-wife-sleep.html
TEH BIRTH OF JEBUS
http://scaryduck.blogspot.com/2008/12/condensed-history-birth-of-jesus.html
Dan Quayle’s brain gets something right. Either the world is ending or it’s broken clock syndrome (correct twice a day).
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/bill-kristol-defends-uaw-i-dont-think-i
Bad movies can make lots of money on opening weekend if you advertise them and build up the hype. Apparently Delgo didn’t. In fact it had the worst opening evar! They could have learned lessons from Snakes on a Plane or The Blair Witch Project.
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/delgo-worst-opening-ever.html
December 21, 2008 will be the 40th anniversary of the Earthrise picture. For the first time humanity saw the entire Earth all alone in the vastness of space.
http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.htm?programID=08-P13-00050&segmentID=6
For the past two years, that I’ve been to Fencon, I’ve had the good fortune to record some podcasts. In fact, I still have some that I recorded from the previous year that I have not posted (sorry guys). I have posted a few and plan on posting a few more in the near future.
I started podcasting for Conestoga, another science fiction convention, and I’ve wrapped that podcast up since I’m moving to Tucson. I was inspired by Paul Fischer of the Balticon Podcast. He provided me a lot of good advice on getting started. To replace Conestoga I created Escape from Cubicle 17. Both Conestoga and EFC17 are fan podcasts. I have interviewed artists, authors, editors, publishers, fellow fans, and even an agent.
My biggest problem is putting podcasts out on a regular basis which is the key to building an audience. I’ve listened to and compared mine to other fan based podcasts and I do a decent job. So quality isn’t an issue, nor quantity. I’ve posted 40 Conestoga podcasts and 9 EFC17 though there is some overlap between the two. I enjoy doing them. It’s a little disheartening that I don’t have more listeners, but dem’s the breaks. Once I get settled in Tucson, I’ll see what my situation is and see if I can manage my time better to continue podcasting.
Since I no longer manage the Conestoga website (sftulsa.org) my podcasts will likely go away there. I’ve got copies of all of them and will re-upload them on the EFC17 website in a separate feed.
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