Sorry 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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GC040 — JC (Ken) Labowitz talking about being kidnapped
June 16th, 2007GC039 — 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.
GC038 — War, the Internet and a Band
April 9th, 2007Yep, that’s quite a mix of topics for one Geezercast, but that’s the way it happened. You’ll just have to listen to find out what was going through my brain this afternoon.
GC037 — Got me a ham license
March 24th, 2007Yep, I got skunked by the weather the first time out, but last weekend I made the grade. I talk about that and all the good engineering I’m starting to do. This show also features a one-time-only tune for the intro and outro which is a live, one-take snapshot of some of the “jam with the synth” stuff I’ve been doing recently. Not good enough to get promoted to “permanent theme music” status, but interesting.
GC036 — Rich gets booted off the air
March 4th, 2007Yep, another milestone — son Richard and his collegues got their radio show (Tea Time at 12) booted off the air this week. Makes a fella proud.
GC035 – Ham license, easy bread and etc.
February 18th, 2007Whew. Another long gap in the Geezercasting. This one due to getting Really Busy by accident and having no time left over for A Life. But dang nabbit — gotta get back to the life here. The big topic in this Geezercast results from the FCC removing the morse-code requirement for ham radio licenses — which in turn motivated me to get cracking on learning the stuff so I can take the test the day after that change goes into effect. So I’m off to Stillwater next Saturday with high hopes. This show explores the geek-culture of the ham community, why I’ve always wanted to be a part of that gang, and etc.
GC034 — Remembering “things”
January 15th, 2007Ah. 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.
So click here to listen to this 12 minute podcast…
And here’s a picture of the duck (along with the screen showing this Geezercast in the making).
GC033 — Weather station repeaters, and wireless Internet
January 1st, 2007Mostly this is the tale of fixing my Davis Vantage Pro weather station’s repeaters after the system conked out yesterday. I almost typed the word “diagnosing” instead of “fixing” in that first sentence, but truth be told I never figured out why the things crapped out, or how I fixed them. The experience provided me a springboard to rant some more about wireless Internet.
By the way you can view the offending weather stations (who knows whether they’ll be up or not) at www.farm.haven.com, we were working on the “on top” one.
GC032 — When I die…
December 11th, 2006Pretty grim title, eh? Not really such a grim podcast — mostly reflections on how we pass along all this new info that’s not really likely to show up in our wills. Like server passwords and the like. Heck, there’s even a business in there for somebody to start.
GC031 — Weather station
November 26th, 2006A wonderful geek project at the farm, putting up a weather station. I recount the adventure while simultaneously whining about my back, which went out for the first time in at least a decade yesterday.