I play a song called “Banjo Boy” by Ryan Shupe.

I’m really wanting a Motorola Droid phone! I’m going to wait a while.

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I talk about the Antenna climb I did this weekend to put up the TV antenna (see photos in the last post on mikedell.com)

I played a song from Deirdre Flint called Food

I talk about Food an my problem with some of it

Also talk about geeknewscentral.com and Geekofthenorth.com.

Enjoy!

The antennas work great and I have HD on all the networks with no problems. The whole install job took about 1.5 hours with a good ground man (THANKS KEITH!) Keith also took the photos.

Now I can call the cable company and tell them to turn off the cable TV part of my service. I’m keeping the 10meg internet service!

-Mike

Welcome to November 2009! Rabbit Rabbit Rabbit (as Chick McGee from the Bob & Tom Show says at the start of the month)

This November 1st is a strange 25 hour day. This makes up for the 23 hour day we had in spring so now the space-time continuum is in tact.

Daylight wasting time is over. I wish we would just do away with this antique concept. In fact, we should do away with time zones all together. We need to adopt UTC as the time all over the world and go to a 24 hour clock. Who cares if you go to work at 0700 or 1700 or whatever? The sun comes up at 1400 and you go to work at 1800. Whatever works. Time is just a number.

Oh well. Have a happy 25 Hour day and Look out for new podcasts coming this week!

-Mike

Yeah!

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had spent of thousands of tax payer dollars to take Laura Bush to a play in NYC, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had reduced your retirement plan’s holdings of GM stock by 90% and given the unions a majority stake in GM, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent “Austrian language,” would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current in their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the 5th of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had mis-spelled the word “advice” would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potatoe as proof of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on Earth Day, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush’s administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually get what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had created the position of 32 Czars who report directly to him, bypassing the House and Senate on much of what is happening in America, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive?

Can’t think of anything? Don’t worry.

He’s done all this in 10 months — so you’ll have three more years to come up with an answer

I like the old theme because it is so flexable, but it has a bit of a problem with Blubrry Powerpress. Now, I would stick with it but I’m trying to simplify my blogging and podcast posting workflow and it’s so much better being able to post a podcast and not worry about extra settings to get the player to work in the post and all the other things that old theme made me do. I’m going to move that theme to another website of mine ( to be launched later ) where it will be the perfect fit. Stay tuned for that.

If you have a wordpress theme that you would like to see me try, let me know. I’m open to suggestions.

Thanks for dropping by!

-Mike

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I play a song from Vic Trip and a couple of songs from the String Cheese Incident. I also play one from the Ragbirds.

I will catch you in a week or less with MDW141. CU Then!

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I will be working on a podcast wrap-up on our trip to blogworld and our fun in Las Vegas.

I think I’m going to take a nap before my radio show tonight.

More later.

It’s good to be home!

-Mike

Met a lot of new people and hooked up with a lot of other friends from past years of the New Media Expo. One of the highlights was meeting Mike James and his wife Jeanne at the show and at the Rawvoice Party.

There were some interesting moments. Rob Blatt finished second in the Fat Burger XXX Challenge by eating a 1.5lb hamburger. Tech Podcast member Jeffery Powers also finished 2nd in his heat by eating the same size burger.

I would like to thank the Rawvoice Team for letting me be a part of such a great company and it was really great to have the whole team in the same place for once!

All in all, it’s been a great trip so far. Now for some Vegas Play Time! Kathy and I will be sticking around until Monday and then we will fly home to the Cold cold real world of Northern Michigan!

Heading out to the Rawvoice / Blubrry party at the Peppermill in Vegas.

Met and re-connected with lots of friends in the podcasting and blogging world. This party will be just more of the same I’m sure.

I will get some video of this party (hopefully without anyone wearing a Lampshade!).

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Yogi Bear – The Kahn Man
I’ll Walk you Home – The Restophonics
Mike James (no not that Mike James) – Self Righteous North Idaho Bitch
The Two Man Gentlemen Band – When you play my Kazoo

See you in Vegas. I will be at the Blubrry / Rawvoice Booth most of the time. Stop by so we can meet up and get some swag!

Catch me later!

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Hope you enjoy this show and See ya in Vegas for Blogworld Expo!

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How about the Toledo War of 1835-1836?

Well, if you listen to this, you will have heard of it.

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I play the song “Big Squirrels Won’t Fry” by Seth and Willie Fred

Hope you enjoy walking with me

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Enjoy!

*** Don’t know what happened, but it seems the file is really big.. I guess the music will sound good!

I did “sudo apt-get remove compiz” and “sudo apt-get remove compiz-core” and it’s all fixed.. Without the fancy graphics effects.

I also un-installed Windows 7 and made Grub boot Windows Vista first instead of Ubuntu.

It will work for now..

-Mike

The high temperature at the Gaylord regional Airport on Saturday…
August 22…only reached 61 degrees. This value ties a record for
the coldest high temperature for the date…with the older record
being set back in 1923.

In addition…the high temperature at Cherry Capital Airport in
Traverse City only reached 62 degrees on Saturday…August 22. This
value also ties a record for the coldest high temperature for the
date…with the older record dating from 1926.

Global warming?

Fast forward to now. I have since signed up with Google Voice (my main voicemail line at the right hand side of the page). On top of that I have a Skype-in number and just today, I picked up a “Say Now” number (www.saynow.com) So now, there are 4 numbers for me and 2 for my wife. I guess that’s ok, and the way it’s setup, it won’t bother us if people call (other then my cell phone when I’m sleeping).

I also picked up a Skype to POTS adapter which lets me plug in a normal phone to a computer running skype. So now, I can have my cordless phone working again and use it with the Skype in or Skype out or even normal Skype calls. It’s really handy! I just got that thing installed this morning and had a chance to talk to my friend Jeff Forester (aka Trucker Two Times) while he was driving his big truck around Nashville. IT worked perfectly.

So if you need or want to get a message to me via the phone. You can call my Google Voice # at 231-715-1366. If you just want to leave a note for the podcast, you can call my new Say Now # at 231 803-4069.

Hope your week is going good!

-Mike

Whodathunkit?

Anywho, I will be back on my normal schedule sooner or later.. (Likely later)

Thanks for listening!

-Mike

Had a great weekend at the Sugar Island Music fest up north. Could have been a little cooler and dryer but it wasn’t too bad.

Yes, I’m still here!

-Mike

I did change my microphone. Let me know how it sounds.

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