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Livin' Free on 8/28/05

Sean Hanson & Pat B. — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 18:29:09 GMT

Look! Another new podcast!

Just introducing our new host and what some plans are for the future.

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Livin' Free on 8/20/2005

Sean Hanson & Pat B. — Sun, 21 Aug 2005 02:00:36 GMT

Livin' Free on 8/20/2005

No show notes this time. Sorry.

Livin' Free - 7/7/2005

Sean Hanson & Pat B. — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 03:06:45 GMT

listen to Livin' Free 7/7/2005

I. Greetings & Any Housekeeping
A. “Welcome to the July 7th, 2005 edition of Livin’ Free”
B. overview of last show
i. Live 8
ii. historical sites in Philly
iii. figuring out podcasting
a. figured out how to get iTunes Music Store submission friendly feed info. input last night
iv. NECC
a. “good” showings & “bad” showings - took something away from it vs. already knew quite a bit before hand and not walking away with much new information
v. “Big Lebowski” party
C. outline today’s show
i. Initial follow-up on NECC for work
ii. Job stuff - missing most of July because of MN
iii. NY Times reporter goes to jail
iv. AP reporting LA Times reports agreement between NHL & Players Association
v. Man Lights Himself on Fire to Propose
vi. contact info. and not podcasting next 3+ weeks
vii. Andy Spillane

WORK

II. Initial Follow-Up on NECC with tech. dept. from work
A. meeting yesterday (7/6/2005)
i. four of five tech. dept. people attended (a Technology Specialist, the Lower School Project and Technical Manager, the Director of Computer Education/Assistant Director of Technology, and myself; director of tech. not able to make it)
B. meeting = “How can we implement what we saw/heard into our school?”
C. video editing seemed to be most popular choice to add to curriculum
D. two of us (myself included) and the curriculum coordinator went to a PowerPoint presentation
i. taught how to make PowerPoint for listener and not for presenter
ii. we all agreed that info. from this session will be used when teaching kids how to make a PowerPoint; also when teaching teachers about PowerPoint
E. I brought up the podcasting session I went to
i. kind of tied it into video editing and school newspaper
ii. our school’s not cable wired so we couldn’t really do streaming video announcements
iii. I don’t know if I came across the way I wanted; maybe we could do a school podcast of sorts and post it on the school website to give parents (current and prospective) more info. and we could save some paper on the regular school newspaper

III. Missing next three weeks+ while in MN and driving back to PA
A. Going to two other weddings and then I’m getting married
B. makes things difficult for planning for next year
C. can’t get into work to help plan for next year
i. would be helpful for me since I’m switching departments at work
ii. maybe by email, but then you miss out on some stuff - tangents don’t always get added into a meeting’s minutes and tangents can be good some times

NEWS

IV. NY Times reporter Judy Miller going to jail
A. many might have heard about this already
B. talking to my mom about it
i. she’s way to the left of the fence
ii. I’m a little to the right of the fence
iii. she starts talking about freedom of press and people now being scared to give info. if reporters give sources
iv. I agreed, but this is a special case - it possibly endangered someone’s life and therefore the source needs to be held accountable

V. LA Times reporting NHL and Players Assosciation agree on deal
A. LA Times = NHL and the players' association are closing in on a new collective bargaining agreement
B. LA Times saying agreement would have:
i. hard salary cap linked to 54 percent of league revenue
ii. 24 percent rollback of existing contracts and qualifying offers
iii. provision limiting salary of any player to 20% of the team cap in any season
iv. salary cap = $37 million & not including medical/dental/pensions
v. being presented to NHL exec. committee Monday; players meeting to approve deal
C. NHL & NHLPA denying it
i. Players’ association spokesman Jonathan Weatherdon said, “The report is inaccurate.”
ii. Bernadette Mansur, the NHL vice president of communications, “There is no BOG (board of governors) meeting scheduled at this time.”

FREAKISH STUFF

VI. man sets himself on fire and then proposes to girlfriend
A. July 4
B. Grants Pass, OR
C. Todd Grannis
i. 38 years old
ii. co-owns an Internet wholesale company
D. climbed up a 10-foot scaffold
E. got lit on fire on cape soaked in gasoline
F. jumped into pool after bursting into flames
G. got out, got on a knee, and proposed as a friend slipped him the ring
i. fiancée = Malissa Kusiek
H. Grannis said he came up with the stunt through the help of his friend, professional stuntman Eric Barkey
i. Barkey showed photo of himself on fire and said, "You could do that," Grannis said
I. Grannis met Kusiek, the owner of a local hair salon, when she cut his hair.
J. Quotes:
i. “Honey, you make me hot....I hope I'm getting the point across that I'm on fire for you.” -Grannis
ii. “At first I was mad, because I thought, ‘He’s not a stuntman.’...Then, of course, the tears started flowing. Of course I said ‘yes.’ I was so thrilled.” -Kusiek
iii. “I kept telling her sometime before I'm 50....She wasn't expecting it. She had no clue.” -Grannis

ENDING

VII. Contact
A. Email: href="mailto:hans0283@d.umn.edu">hans0283@d.umn.edu</a>
B. AIM: hansdawg
C. Livejournal.com
i. tj_mcnasty
ii. tj_mcpodcast

VIII. Minnesota
A. I’ll be in Minnesota until August 1
B. driving back to eastern PA
i. taking a couple days (stopping in Chicago, maybe in Columbus)
C. will be probably be making production notes while out there
i. able to pump out shows when getting back

IX. Andy Spillane
A. guitarist
B. Marquette University student
C. produced album named “The Hands of a Tragedy”
D. will be playing some of his music from time to time
E. currently recording new music
i. sending to me before CD even cut
F. ending the show with “Without a Trace”
i. 1st track from “The Hands of a Tragedy”
ii. shortest track (by almost 2 minutes) on CD
-longest is last track named “Aphrodite’s Curse”

Livin' Free - 7/3/2005

Sean Hanson & Pat B. — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 22:13:41 GMT

Livin' Free - 7/3/2005

I. Greetings

II. General House Keeping
A. will now be adding "production notes" with each podcast
i. I suppose checking tj_mcpodcast easiest for getting them

III. Yesterday
A. Live 8
i. train going down=packed=I had to stand
ii. too many people at event
iii. left after Destiny’s Child as a result of too many people
a. Black Eyed Peas, Bon Jovi, and Destiny’s Child only did a few songs each
iv. had a good corndog and hot dog on way out; fries were bad - not completely cooked?
B. historical sites
i. Constitution Center & Independence Visitor Center (next door to Independence Hall & Liberty Bell)
a. wanted to see what 4th of July events were happening
b. Independence Visitor Center has a bunch of stuff going on - witnessed personally them reading names of U.S. soldiers dead from Iraq and a pair of boots set up for each out on the lawn
c. Constitution Center - nothing that I could tell but has a Lincoln/Civil War thing going on this summer (started June 10)
ii. wanted to see more, but I had too much walking for today and had a headache
iii. luckily went to Market East train station and wound up with a seat
a. train even more packed than going down there
b. train also 20 minutes late
c. took about 15-20 minutes longer than usual (45 minutes as opposed to 25-30 minutes)
C. podcasting
i. over the last couple of days I’ve tried to get a handle on podcasting
a. had a thirst for it before NECC - more about NECC later
ii. I’ve had a few problems with the code and the feed and iTunes not liking the feed
a. it worked on other things like iPodder
iii. I tinkered around with the settings of the feed
a. website that provides my feed writes code for me and thus
changed code when I changed the settings (score!)
iv. you can now subscribe to my podcast using iToons 4.9
a. other “players” out there, but it seems like many people have iTunes right now

IV. Last Week
A. annual National Educational Computing Conference, or NECC, in
at PA Convention Center in Philly
i. from Sunday-Thursday
a. I was there Tuesday-Thursday
ii. went to numerous sessions about technology
a. multimedia projects, adolescent readers that’re behind, websites that’re accessable to handicapped, handhelds in the curriculum, technology for diverse learners, 10 palm apps. (actually deatiled 11), assistive tech. in instructional tech., technology in the classroom, differentiated instruction, technology in a diverse learning environment, video editting, podcasting, how to make students better at powerpoints
iii. lots o’ free stuff in main ballroom & tons of tech. vendors
a. actually three ballrooms, but walls opened up to make a big one
b. this room his ginourmous when opened up like it was
c. wide variety of vendors too
iv. ran into four coworkers at this thing
B. technically not “last week” in the sense of the Sunday-Saturday week, but Grossman’s surprise party is within the last 7 days of writing of these production notes, so...
i. “Big Lebowski” theme
ii. showed up dressed as Walter
a. even had a Folgers coffee can with “ashes” in it - labeled it with “Donny” though
b. even had the yellow tinted glasses, vest, and boots
-only the birthday boy noticed the boots (score!)
iii. I bowled well for me
a. I bowled about my average, but it was 2 most consistant games ever for me
-no strike followed by three gutter balls and then something like a 3
b. rolled very few gutter balls at all
iv. lots o’ fun

V. Sign Off
A. contact info.
i. AIM: hansdawg
a. emphasize spelling of hansdawg
ii. tj_mcnasty livejournal
a. tj_mcnasty
B. see ya

podcast for 6/30/2005

Sean Hanson & Pat B. — Sat, 02 Jul 2005 00:42:44 GMT

Listen to 6/30/2005 podcast here