Twenty Acre Lake

I covered a lot in Episode 4. There are the Lists of the Week—top sci-fi shows and top gadgets. Next are the Question of the Week and next week’s question. And we finally start the Inferno journey! This week’s biggest addition is a great podsafe song from Stingray.

A couple of days ago, I had another video chat with Nick from The Nick and Jayne Show. He called the international celebrity superstar herself—Jayne—at her house so we could chat, but it was via his fax machine’s phone halfway across the room and I could barely hear her!

Let me know what you think. You can email me via the Contact link in the sidebar. You can also post comments here and/or join the forum. I’ve started writing some things in the forum, and I plan on doing a lot more of that.

Boston.com’s top 50 sci-fi TV shows of all time
PCWorld.com’s 50 greatest gadgets of the part 50 years

Stingray at the Podsafe Music Network

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After last week’s podcast-from-a-hotel show, here’s show number 3.

In this episode, I finally finish up the ‘distinctive guitar players’ list and the ‘top 100 movie voices’ list. Introducing the next two lists: boston.com’s ‘top sci-fi tv shows’ and pcworld.com’s ‘top 50 gadgets of the last 50 years’.

Last week’s Question of the Week gets discussed and I ask the next Question. For the overnight-skill-or-trait, I wanted to be a great pencil drawing artist, since I’ve always liked drawing but I’ve never liked practicing.

In this week’s design discussion, I compare three hotel room clock radios. It all came down to usability, with one style designed to be simple and easy and the other style not really designed so much as slapped together. Guess which one I had last week? Photos are behind the link…

Let me know what you think. You can email me via the Contact link in the sidebar. It’s a Gmail account. I’ve also got ‘paul at twentyacrelake.com‘, so feel free to use that, too. You can also post comments here and/or join the forum. The forum’s still brand new, but there will be updates to it within the next week (that’s the plan, anyway).

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Here’s show number 2 of Twenty Acre Lake. I had recorded another episode earlier, but I wanted to do some editing on it. I was in the middle of it and just plain ran out of time before I had to take off on another business trip. So when I hit my hotel room, I recorded a new Episode 2, edited and uploaded it, made all the updates everywhere… stayed up way too late.

In this episode, I remind everyone of the Lists of the Week, I describe the Design of the Week and ask the Question of the Week.

Let me know what you think. You can email me via the Contact link in the sidebar. It’s a Gmail account. I’ve also got ‘paul at twentyacrelake.com‘, so feel free to use that, too. You can also post comments here and/or join the forum. The forum’s still brand new, but there will be updates to it within the next two weeks (that’s the plan, anyway)

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Finally, everything’s set and ready and the first episode of my podcast is uploaded. Twenty Acre Lake is now available for subscription.

I expect a lot of changes as I move through these first 5-10 shows. I’m just figuring out what the show is about, anyway, so it will morph and grow. But I’m definitely going to be changing the theme music, and doing various segment bumper themes, too.

After I get 3 shows released, I’m going to sign up with iTunes and some others. I just want to make sure this is going well and I’m committed to it before I really start spreading the word.

Let me know what you think. You can email me via the Contact link in the sidebar. I decided to start out with a Gmail account, just because I know whatever account I post here will be spammed. I’ve also got ‘paul at twentyacrelake.com‘, so feel free to use that, too. You can also post comments here and/or join the forum. The forum’s all set up but there’s plenty more details to work on, so watch for that to change a lot, too.

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Yes, it’s taking much longer than I thought it would.

• I recorded the podcast today, but I know I’ve got a little editing to do. I made too many tracks and left in too much dead air.
• I still have to come up with intro and ending music. I’ve got some things already that I made in GarageBand. There’s no time to find podsafe music. I’d like to play on a new recording, but I can’t take the time right now.
• I want to go with the full iTunes spec in my RSS feed, so I am anticipating having to hand-code the file. I found a WordPress plugin to do it, but it also comes with its own player, and I need some time to play with it and see how customizable it is.
  

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Twenty Acre Lake is my podcast about design, culture and living. The show spans a lot of territory within those three topics, including several surprises. It’s my goal to keep it fast and interesting, and to maybe turn you on to great things you’ve been missing or never knew.

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All the setting up is just about finished. The first podcast episode will debut tomorrow, Wednesday. The message board will open at the same time, so stop by, sign up and introduce yourself.

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