Years ago I used to layout printed circuit boards. The software we used at the time required us to plot the layer artwork at 4 times the size of the finished board and then we sent them off to the vendor who would then scale them down during the PCB fab process. We would put text messages in the open areas that would read about how stupid our manager was. Once the artwork was scaled down these words were illegible and looked simply like a small dot on the PCB.
Made us feel better about something, silly yes, but it was a way to relieve stress.
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Thinking about it a bit more, I was reading the articles at Science@NASA and StarDate well before they started releasing in mp3 format. So, the 'podcasting' made it easier to 'read' something I was already reading, never did it allow me to find something new to 'listen to'.
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I have tried the podcast 'thing' for several months. Using iPodder, searching for podcasts all over the web, and then loading them to my Dell DJ.
Overall if I had to guess, I would say that I sampled over 200 podcast 'shows' over a 6 month period. There are now only two 'subscriptions' left in my iPodder interface: Science@NASA and StarDate. All of the others came and went. I found that I just could not listen to them for multiple reasons.
I am really into amateur astronomy and space science, so the recordings of the same articles that I would read at the Science@NASA and StarDate websites now loaded onto my mp3 player made it even easier to gain timely information about my hobby. I could even sit and listen to the articles via mp3 while at work doing something mindnumbingly repetitive.
Anyhoo, I would summarize by saying that if you find a worthwhile 'podcast' or two that provide a regular source of information in mp3 format instead of print, you will benefit. Otherwise I can't see much utility in just listening to people's podcasts just because the technology is there.
A few years ago at a local watering hole we had the pleasure of hanging out with a brilliant but misguided man nicknamed 'Fletch'. After several drinks someone dared all to recite the powers of two for a whole hour. Well, we all laughed, except Fletch. He started rambling them off... "2, 4, 8, 16, 32....". He must have been doing that for about 20 minutes before he gave up, took a last swig of his beer and then left.
Beyond 32768, I had no idea if he was correct with any of them or not, but it sure was interesting and fairly funny to hear.
how about a binary clock: http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/59e0/
or even better: (something for both of you)
http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/valentines/6796 /
*grin*
I dig engineering/development efforts that come out and dare people to break their 'stuff'. It takes cahoneys to do such a thing and pretty talented developers to back up such a stance. More power to em!
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Years ago I used to layout printed circuit boards. The software we used at the time required us to plot the layer artwork at 4 times the size of the finished board and then we sent them off to the vendor who would then scale them down during the PCB fab process. We would put text messages in the open areas that would read about how stupid our manager was. Once the artwork was scaled down these words were illegible and looked simply like a small dot on the PCB. Made us feel better about something, silly yes, but it was a way to relieve stress.
Thinking about it a bit more, I was reading the articles at Science@NASA and StarDate well before they started releasing in mp3 format. So, the 'podcasting' made it easier to 'read' something I was already reading, never did it allow me to find something new to 'listen to'.
I have tried the podcast 'thing' for several months. Using iPodder, searching for podcasts all over the web, and then loading them to my Dell DJ.
Overall if I had to guess, I would say that I sampled over 200 podcast 'shows' over a 6 month period. There are now only two 'subscriptions' left in my iPodder interface: Science@NASA and StarDate. All of the others came and went. I found that I just could not listen to them for multiple reasons.
I am really into amateur astronomy and space science, so the recordings of the same articles that I would read at the Science@NASA and StarDate websites now loaded onto my mp3 player made it even easier to gain timely information about my hobby. I could even sit and listen to the articles via mp3 while at work doing something mindnumbingly repetitive.
Anyhoo, I would summarize by saying that if you find a worthwhile 'podcast' or two that provide a regular source of information in mp3 format instead of print, you will benefit. Otherwise I can't see much utility in just listening to people's podcasts just because the technology is there.
A few years ago at a local watering hole we had the pleasure of hanging out with a brilliant but misguided man nicknamed 'Fletch'. After several drinks someone dared all to recite the powers of two for a whole hour. Well, we all laughed, except Fletch. He started rambling them off... "2, 4, 8, 16, 32....". He must have been doing that for about 20 minutes before he gave up, took a last swig of his beer and then left. Beyond 32768, I had no idea if he was correct with any of them or not, but it sure was interesting and fairly funny to hear.
how about a binary clock: http://www.thinkgeek.com/cubegoodies/lights/59e0/ or even better: (something for both of you) http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/valentines/6796 /
*grin*
I dig engineering/development efforts that come out and dare people to break their 'stuff'. It takes cahoneys to do such a thing and pretty talented developers to back up such a stance. More power to em!