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Comment and I'll give you a letter; then you have to list ten things you LOVE that begin with that letter. Afterward, post this in your journal and give out some letters of your own.

sokkmonkey gave me the letter R.

0. Reading
1. Research
2. Rocky Horror Picture Show, The
3. Rush
4. Remuneration
5. Radio
6. Renaissance, The
7. Rain (but only when it's really pouring, with thunder and lightning and all)
8. Radioastronomy
9. Rugrats (mine)

350D + 50mm + polarizer, ISO100, f/1.4, some stupidly fast shutter speed.

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So as some of you may be aware, I have a weekly Internet radio show on a progressive rock channel. I play import, progressive and electronic music. The station is about to move off of OGG (a better format, but too geeky for today's iPod-carrying crowd) and over to MP3, which will allow the station to go mainstream in terms of podcasting and promotion.

As such, I'm going to step-up my show a little bit, and add something I've always wanted to do, which is a recurring comedy bit.

A bit of background on what I have in mind.

From the early 80's through almost the end of the previous century, there was a radio show on KHTY (Santa Barbara, CA) called "Space Pirate Radio." Guy Guden had the air from midnight until 6am on Sunday nights (Monday mornings), playing pretty-much the exact same format that I do. Indeed, it was his show that turned me on to a lot of the music I like.

One thing that Guy did, during his show, was a recurring comedy bit with some pretty funny characters. The bit revolved around "Grungy Steinberg," the front-desk night guy at the "Green Neon Motel." He would start the bit off being on the phone, having a discussion with someone. You'd only hear his side of it, but it was done really well. At some point he'd say that he had to go, because someone would be coming in. More often than not, it was the motel's cook, "Chef Bruno Linguine," who would have some odd thing going on, and hilarity would ensue. All of the voices were done by Guy.

Now, one might say I want to rip off this format. And one would be right. The show is off the air, has been for over ten years, and isn't coming back. And I really liked the format. So while I'd prefer to call it an "homage," I'll cop to rip-off.

But I need to come up with my own characters and setting, and I don't intend to voice them all myself if I can help it. One idea I had, in addition to having wondersquid help, was talk to others on the phone and record the conversations in and then edit them.

So... I need to brainstorm on characters and settings apropos to a serialized radio comedy.

Just thinking out loud...

FREE Theatre Festival Thursday-Saturday in Old Town!

DATE: Thursday, Aug 21 through Saturday, Aug 23
TIME: 6p.m.-10p.m. Thursday & Friday, 1:30-10p.m. Saturday
LOCATION: Old Town, Lansing
MORE INFORMATION: www.renegadetheatrefestival.org

Performances include comedy, drama, musicals, children's theater, performance art, readings of new works by local playwrights and improv, with participants from 13 performing arts companies.

On each of the three nights, visitors will have a dozen choices with shows at 7p.m. and 9p.m. in traditional performance spaces and some unique locations including Creole Gallery, Mama Bear's, Perspective2, Studio 1210, Grand Café Sir Pizza and the CiesaDesign balcony overlooking the river. Saturday afternoon will feature several children's theatre plays.

For a complete schedule of performances visit www.renegadetheatrefestival.org.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Volunteers are needed Thursday & Friday after 6p.m. and anytime on Saturday. Even if you have just a few hours to help it would be greatly appreciated!

Volunteers will help Festival coordinators greet people and count attendees at the performance venues and then catch a free show!

Interested? Contact Angela Mishler by phone, 517.282.7306, or by email, angela_mishler4@yahoo.com.

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 I am in need of help. This is more camera relayed that pictures..so if this isnt allowed please let me know!

I just bought a Nikon D40, and have been using it without problems for a few weeks. Last week i took some pictures of my family at a get together, and today when i try to upload them onto my computer, it will not let me open the pictures! I had edited 2 pictures (red eye) and the edited pictures come up just fine. I know the SD card isnt damaged because i tired using another SD card that i have, and the same thing happens. I must have changed some wort of setting on the camera, but i cant figure out what it could be?!

Is there any way to reset EVERYTHING on the settings, and see if that works, or any other suggestions?

If I had a turnkey solution for a community web site, including user profiles, forums, social linking and the like, and wanted to pitch it to people who felt that there were demographics that weren't being served, how do you think that might go over?

In other words, can you think of a social demographic that has no serious Internet presence right now? "Democratic veggie gardeners," or "Women doorknob cozy crocheters?" Given that identified demographic, if someone gave you (and by "you," I mean anyone tied into the demographic) a web site that was ready to go on day one, complete with a catchy domain name and full web-based administration interface, could it stand a chance?

The idea being that I could supply the infrastructure if someone else supplied the time to maintain, moderate and market the site, and I'd give that person a cut of the ad revenue. Make the site popular, get paid. No risk.

Now, this is no different from many of the turnkey sites out there now - there are a few that let you set up complete communities based on monolithic templates. But with mine, there's room for more features and customization and it's 100% in-house owned, so if it does become wildly popular, a sale is possible (not possible with the online services) and the revenue cut will be, of course, much higher.

Just thinking out loud, since I have the infrastructure in place, but am only using it for clients.

The pale fur, the mud splattered face and the gravel behind just seems to please my eyes for some reason.

This is one of those really cool effects that no matter how many times I see it, it never seems to get old or boring. What can i say, I'm easily amused by simple patterns.



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You can click on 'em to see them bigger at my Flickr.

почему-то яндексовский поиск по блогам не находит мой пост про гоночный ( Hudson )

An experiment with a macro extension tube, a really fast 50mm lens, multiple exposures, and Photomatix.

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