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photography 4 Comments

“Published” Photos?

I received a message on Flickr today, from an Alexandra Moss at schmap.com. It seems that these two photos are to be included in the second edition of an electronic guide to Baltimore — with my permission, of course.

How neat!

It somehow validates my meager talent and boosts my self-esteem when I get non-solicited praise on my photography. I forget sometimes that I really am OK.

Incidentally, these Schmap Guides seem to be pretty cool. If I could put one of these on my Palm IIIc, or even an iPod Photo, that would really be the bee’s knees.

podcasting

New Podcast Episode Coming Soon!

I was sitting here tonight, feeling like being a lazy slug, when the sudden urge to podcast struck me. I hooked up the handy-dandy MXL 990, printed off the notes I’d written myself TWO MONTHS AGO, and sat down to podcast about why I hadn’t been podcasting.

I’m so kewl, I even figured out how to make Movable Type post entries at a scheduled time in the future. So, Episode 11 of the Low Carb Lifestyle Podcast will be up at 8am tomorrow morning.

I’m going to try to keep a weekly schedule, complete with main topics that are recorded weeks in advance (what a concept!). I have… *counting* …eight show topics right here on a list by my desk, with two book/diet reviews ready to go and a couple more books to read yet.

So, miracle of miracles, my podcast is back! And, for those of you not eating low-carb… it’s really not going to be totally about low-carb eating. Some of my future show topics include:

  • Vinaigrette
  • Average Your Weight
  • Disappearing Low-Carb Products
  • Throwing Away Food
  • Setting Yourself Up For Success
  • Order An Appetizer
  • Positive Thinking
  • Stop When You’re Full
    (or, it doesn’t do any good to put your fork down between bites if you’re going to stuff yourself anyway)
  • Moving Outside Your Comfort Zone
  • Review: Body For Life
  • Review: Carbohydrate Addict’s Diet
  • Review: Protein Power

Basically, I’m writing down ideas that come to me at random times, and planning to write an outline about each of them and jabber about them for about 10 minutes each. Resources and references will be used heartily.

Oh, speaking of resources… I have a voicemail line! 206-984-2-EAT (2328). If you’re into the diet thing, and have some diet or exercise advice or commentary you’d like me to include on my show, please call! You’re also welcome to e-mail me mp3 files, too, if you so choose. But you know those free night and weekend minutes are eating a hole in your cell phone pocket. 😉

writing

Self-Publishing

There’s only one work of writing that I’ve actually a.) finished and b.) felt was acceptable overall. I wrote it back in 2001, and I will admit that the first paragraph or two was loosely based on my own real life. After that, I let the story do its thing, and if elements of myself appear in the main character… well, it happens.

I’ve decided to post it here, under a Creative Commons license. I think it’s entirely too cliché to ever be published anywhere, but deserves to see the light of day somewhere. I did post it on my website years ago, and got some positive feedback about it, so here it is again.

I know my writing-related limitations. If you feel the need to critique, I’ll try not to take it too hard, but I’m not specifically calling for critique. I’m just sharing, for whatever fucked up reason. Remember, this is a sample of my writing from five years ago — not that my writing style has changed *that* much since then. Although I was hard-pressed to keep myself from making minor edits as I plugged in the HTML for italics and such.

[Update: I didn’t mean you shouldn’t leave any comments… If you read it and liked it, or even if you were ambivalent about it, feel free to leave your thoughts.]

Please be aware that this story contains sexual situations, occult hocus-pocus, and ending dialogue adapted from a chapter of one of my favorite Star Trek books. If you aren’t turned off yet, read on…
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