This is a Geezercast from inside the tornado. Just words for my unborn grandchildren as I watch worldwide financial-market chaos.
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GC048 — Stock Market Crash
October 10th, 2008GC047 — Digg, Reddit and the Attention Game
June 8th, 2008This is the first video and audio Geezercast, the prior 46 are audio-only, but hey we’re advancing here. So I talk a little about all that. In addition to a little geek rambling about the audio/video thing, I talk about posting a story to Reddit and Digg and obsessing about how high it got in the rankings.
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GC046 — Financial news is like Y2k news
May 12th, 2008In the early days of the Y2k problem, there were Pollyannas and Doomers. One side said “no problem!” the other side said “this is the end of the world as we know it.” Neither side was right — we muddled through. Now the sub-prime mortgage problem looks a lot the same way to me, with very polarized opinion and little credible info in the middle. That’s what I ruminate about in this Geezercast.
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GC045 – Obama and biofuels
February 8th, 2008Couple things on my mind today. I’m pleased with how things are going with Barack Obama’s campaign and like the implications for you my unborn grandchildren. And Marcie just forwarded an interesting piece from the Times that supports my view that biofuels are dumb — at least the way we’re approaching them right now.
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GC044 — Pat’s passing
December 18th, 2007Mom died this month and this is the “lessons learned” Geezercast. A few words to my unborn grandchildren for when I do the same. It’s not as gloomy as that sounds, but it’s not wild entertainment either. Just some words…
GC043 — Debt crisis and riding out the storm
November 4th, 2007Uffdah. Pretty choppy month or so on the financial markets. I talk a little bit about debt, the dollar, oil and cars, and the future. No conclusions — just great opportunity for my unborn grandchildren to giggle over the irony of it all.
GC042 — haven.com sale and repercussions
October 8th, 2007Yep, big life-changing event. Haven.com, the family URL, got sold a few weeks back. The negotiation took a toll on the Geezercasting time, but probably means more Geezercasts in the long run as I drift back toward the “retired” end of the spectrum. I talk a little about some of the other repercussions too — selling our house and moving into a condo, and buying a 5th wheel.
GC041 — I 35 w Bridge Collapse
August 5th, 2007This is a note to my unborn grandchildren — it’s a good plan to maintain your infrastructure. Otherwise, bad things happen like they did here in Minneapolis last week. Oh, and there’s a rant about cheapskate politicians in there too.
GC040 — JC (Ken) Labowitz talking about being kidnapped
June 16th, 2007Sorry about the long hiatus, there’s been a lot going on. But to make up for the long silence, here’s a really long Geezercast that mostly features JC Labowitz, and his wife Patty, talking about how they survived JC’s being kidnapped several years ago. He told this story to a gaggle of us classmates at our college reunion a few weeks ago. Pretty darn amazing tale. JC gave me permission to replay this for ya, but he didn’t extend that permission beyond this podcast so let me know if you want to push this along and I’ll put you in touch with JC.
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GC039 — My ham radio call KZ0C, and thoughts about identity
April 15th, 2007Yep, got my vanity call-letters from the FCC yesterday. So now you know my call. And of course, I got the domain — www.KZ0C.com. All that rumpus leads me to thoughts about ongoing identity… Domains, email addresses, last-names (and what a goofy system we have for THAT), how WORT got its call, all get covered in this podcast.