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GC058 — Give Obama a break, polling expose

Mike O'Connor — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:30:45 +0000

A long hiatus in Geezercasting — but now the deadlines and holidays are past and here’s a Geezercast to celebrate.

Two topics — the need for us whiners to give Obama a freekin’ break for cryin’ out loud, and a nice expose of a major national polling company by Nate silver of FiveThirtyEight.com fame.

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GC057 – Fixing stuff, and a good deal for congress-critters

Mike O'Connor — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 17:01:31 +0000

Couple ideas in this one. First, why the heck does Congress get to ignore insider trading laws that all the rest of us have to follow? Second, ruminating about fixing stuff.

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GC056 — Community media

Mike O'Connor — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:39:08 +0000

The media is full of stories that remind me why I worked so hard to set up community radio stations back in the ’70′s.

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GC055 — Cyberwar and reality TV

Mike O'Connor — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:31:12 +0000

Huh. Pretty short interval between Geezercasts here. But Marcie and I had a couple pretty interesting conversations on the Morning Walk and I thought I’d share them. One is about cyber-war and the other one is about how people are treated on reality TV shows. You’ll have to listen to hear how that all goes together.

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GC054 — High Frequency Trading and Hearing Aids

Mike O'Connor — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:46:28 +0000

I know, it’s a weird combination of topics, but I’m taking a breather from writing Broadband Task Force report-drafts and that’s what’s caught my fancy.

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GC053 — Invaders and elections

Mike O'Connor — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:46:48 +0000

Marcie and I are off to fight prairie-invaders today so there’s a little about that, and then there’s commentary about Al Franken’s arrival as our second Senator (with a dash of Sarah Palen).

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GC052 — Changes

Mike O'Connor — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:33:50 +0000

A quick Geezercast to settle me in to the new Vista/Mac world after a month of computer transition. Kids graduating from college and etc. are featured in this one.

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GC051 — A view from inside the collapse

Mike O'Connor — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:25:25 +0000

Dang. The economy isn’t getting better. A few reflections for the unborn grandchildren about where we’re at, where we’re going and the fact that life goes on.

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GC034 — Remembering “things”

Mike O'Connor — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:37:20 +0000

Ah. At last we got some snow and I finally have the perfect snow plow for the (three-quarter mile) driveway at the farm. I also rant a little about Richard’s tires.

But mostly I talk about a duck… And how this duck that I got from my granddad is something that I should describe to future generations, along with other important “stuff” so that people can carry the stories of these things on into the future. So the stories don’t get lost, and with them the real value of the otherwise ordinary things that we pass on to future generations. I think us digital kids are the first generation to be able to do this, but I bet that this is a tradition that’s carried forward.

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And here’s a picture of the duck (along with the screen showing this Geezercast in the making).

GC024 — Richard’s good decision

Mike O'Connor — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:27:38 +0000

Rich pulled a boomerang fish act and headed back to Northland College after two miserable weeks at George Washington University. I think he did the right thing and spend this Geezercast exploring the difference between a good decision and a bad outcome (along with embarrassing Richard all to heck, which is my duty as a parent). Along the way I talk about sunk costs, “Blink” and why I think sometimes we put too much emphasis on “toughing it out” when in fact you shouldn’t — a lesson that applies to business as well as personal decisions.

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