A Lot About A Little, and a Little About a Lot.
Doug and I left off of talking about Ham Radios with a mention of Frequency, so for tonight's chat, we sequed into time travel in movies, specifically focusing on whether observers in the future who are aware of the time travel going on should be aware of any changes to their timeline or not. Movies are incredibly inconsistent when it comes to this, even within the scope of their own stories.
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...Picking up where we left off (which was admittedly about 5 minutes prior), Doug and I chat about Ham Radio in a couple of movies, how he got into it, and why he enjoys it so much.
Listen to "Ham Rodeo" on Spreaker.
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...Doug tells me a little more about audio tech and we talk about audio quality in media like digital vs vinyl, and why people may prefer the older formats for reasons beyond just hipster nostaligia. We steer towards Ham Radio talk and a movie called Contact at just the right time.
...In which we talk about taking time to reset, migrate to talking about The Beckett Foundation, and then veer into a really touching local news story about a couple that saved a dog's life after a car accident.
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..."Some Stories for our Audience" - a podcast episode Live From Doug's House. Well... live from my house. In this one, we shamelessly play three new singles by Jamin O'Donovan in full without permission while we talk a little about him, Ireland, and learning to swim at an early age.
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...I've been working on a fun mapping project using data provided by George Mason University's Speech Accent Archive.
Each subject recorded the same paragraph of text containing a wide variety of English language sounds:
Please call Stella. Ask her to bring these things with her from the store: Six spoons of fresh snow peas, five thick slabs of blue cheese, and maybe a snack for her brother Bob.
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...It's been a hell of a year. Friendships have changed, routines have been uprooted, and my dog died (not of covid), not to mention hundreds of thousands of Americans and millions around the world. Of the many changes in my life, one of the more pleasant ones is my neighbor and new friend Doug. Not only is he helping me with a project to do some good in my dog's honor,
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