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    dear reader/listener/viewer/enjoyer/co-conspirator:
    lest i be judged for it, i inform you now that this project continues to be a scratch pad, a space for experimentation

    in other words, enjoy what you find here, and feel free to participate, but try not to take anything personal, and don't believe that this project presents an accurate view of me or my life

    this is a window, certainly, but one that hasn't been cleaned in quite some time

    your view may be foggy, obscure...you may see things that aren't really there...

    --harold

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    please consider downloading my most recent music podcast.

    and yes, i love my mom and my dad;
    they've always been good to me, no matter what impression you may have received here

    they never locked me in a cellar or anything
     
    highlighted post from the archives: me rambling about a new job (from two years ago)
    i recently messed with the archives, so they may not work correctly, but you may take your chances:
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    i once was an active member of the

    association of music podcasting

    musicpodcasting.org

    along with these fine music podcasters:

    all florida indies - bing futch
    audio gumshoe - rich palmer
    audio popcorn - krash coarse
    aural icebergs music cast - tiffany rapplean
    capital rock show - bucket aka jason
    darkhorse radio - alan carr
    ears to hear - jill lawton
    eclectic mix - george l smyth
    homegrown podcast - nic treadwell
    indiefeed - chris macdonald
    le jazz affair - sal calfa
    rubyfruit radio - heather smith
    sober cafe podcast - gracie hollombe
    sundown lounge - larry winfield
    tempo of the down - harold (that's me!)
    the darkcompass podcast - rowland cutler
    the fabrications podcast - matt macfarlane
    the phill(er) - phill ramey
    the radiozoom podcast - john bollwitt
    thepillarcast.com - jon tucker
    uc radio podshow - michael yusi
    zaldor's world - les zaldor

    ¡the text on this blog wants to leap out of its borders!

    this is...

    something that happened

    somethingthathappened.com
    		stories by harold j. johnson, in various formats - including text, audio, video, and podcasts
     
     
    Tuesday, March 27, 2007  

    There are dudes like Kosso who keep me excited about podcasting and its related technologies; he simply has that energy, that spark, that personality that makes you want to be involved with whatever he is doing. He's also got a good sense of humor.



    So today Kosso is teasing us -- that is, the world -- about the portending debut of Podcast.com. No, no, wait -- that's inaccurate, for Podcast.com has already debuted. Simply visit the site; it's already there, see? And it's been there awhile...



    I'm not being clear here. Allow Kosso to explain:

    It won’t be too long now until we can start to creak open the doors of development and let some more people into the system at podcast.com to get testing and using it!

    And:

    The geeks ‘under the bonnet’ here are also very excited about all the DATA (mmmmmm!) which you’ll be able to generate at podcast.com, which could be used in so many other podcast applications. Even one you might want to create yourself! There is heaps and heaps of RSS and OPML for you to play with.


    I'm intrigued.



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    Friday, March 23, 2007  

    Never located those library books I lost, one by Philip K. Dick and the other titled Doing Nothing, the latter of which seems to be my biography. Dick's book was getting very interesting; maybe I can find a copy of the book in e-book format online so I don't have to wait until I have the cash on hand to pay the library for the book. I'm a good citizen, generally, and I plan to pay the library what I owe. Anyone know where I can locate some e-books? You know, the kind that aren't DRM'ed? (Hey, I'm already paying for the freaking book! Don't you dare ask me to pay twice.)




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    Thursday, March 22, 2007  

    Finger's back in service, more or less. I can handle typing without a Band-Aid on, anyway. Another Bender last night. This one was bad. Luckily didn't end up in jail. Recall speaking to cops, too. Something about Denny's. Think I slurred it, "Benny's". To the cop. While they were driving, slowly by me. Something I said to the cops as they were parked or getting into their vehicle. What was it? Something about food? So they rolled up to me -- well, by me -- slowly, the passenger side window rolled down. Cop says, "There's a Denny's open..." and tells me the location, which I already know. "Benny's". Like I said, lucky I'm not in jail again.



    So the Bender. This time, simply drank enough to kill an African elephant. No: A Woolly Mammoth. Drank and drank and drank. What was I trying to accomplish? Spent a couple of hours with bums. So today: Looking into 12-Step solution.



    Lost two library books somewhere last night. That's just plain wrong.




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    Tuesday, March 20, 2007  

    Having difficulty typing since I cut my inmdex fi nger witbh a razor while in tbe shower. An accident.



    Been busy walking about and spending time reading. Also working on this projkect: Obsolete Feed. (That link is a feed, so you'll want to do sometbin g like add it to your iTunes player or some otber RSS/podcast application.)



    The posted video is a taste of what you'll find in iTunes once you subscribe to Obsolete Feed:


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    Sunday, March 18, 2007  

    What's with Blogger not being able to keep us logged in anymore? I really dig the New Blogger, but It seems I have to log in each and every time I wish to make a new blog post. How irritating.



    I'll tell you what else is irritating: When you're sleeping on the night of Saint Patrick's holiday, only to be awakened at the sound of your only door being kicked out of it's frame by some criminals who aren't your friends. Yes, some fools actually broke into my home yesterday. Now that's irritating, yes, indeed. Probably Karma coming back around to deliver a good swift reminder of my own past misdeeds...



    What's irritating you today? Come on, there's gotta be something. Maybe it'll feel good for you to post it here, in my comments area.



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    Saturday, March 17, 2007  

    My first vlip videos (currently the 6th and 7th videos in the batch, which you may skip to once you start the player below):


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    Friday, March 16, 2007  

    Been posting commentary a bit more often here lately, rather than narratives; hope you don't mind. Here's an item I should probably be mentioning on my blog and video podcast Video Harold, but I want folks to see the video I've got posted there before I begin resuming my text posts.



    NewTeeVee reports the addition of Vlip to the personal webcam community offerings already out there. My question is, why did the new Internet video sharing service, Vlip, select a name so close to one of their established competitors, Blip? Is it because they hope to be confused with Blip, a very well-constructed website/service?



    Name aside, I'm going to be optimistic about the service, which I've now registered for and am later going to be delving into. It's always exciting for me to learn about the launch of a new web video service. Okay, maybe not always; perhaps this whole online video craze is already getting old for some of us living on the cutting edge. When I say us, though, I don't really mean me. I'm not bored with online video yet, and perhaps never will be; there's alot of good stuff out there, mixed in with the bad, and I'm interested in seeing how video migrates to mobile devices.



    I'm rambling. Let's get back to Vlip. So I'm not sure how the service works yet, and I don't have the time to check it out tonight, but if you can find my member site over on Vlip.com -- if I have one, that is -- then make sure to vlip me off, vuckers!



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    Thursday, March 15, 2007  

    With emerging services like AutoTwit, it's almost like you're not even personally responsible for being a twit anymore, since the service takes over for you. I'm not going to explain any further; I'm already uncertain about Evan & Co.'s motives behind the naming of their service.*



    (I'm still sore about something to do with Odeo that I really needn't/shouldn't be holding a grudge about. My feelings were simply hurt in an email exchange with Evan, but looking back today, I recognize that it's really not necessary for me to have been affected by the correspondence in such a way.)




    *I wanted to add the following to the first paragraph, but removed the passage:
    That's a joke, fuckers. (See how I abuse you gals? Those of you who take the time to subscribe and/or read and post comments to this blog? I remind you, or warn you, if I've not made it clear in the past, that this is a very unstable project. Curated by an even less stable. You know. Author, or something.)

    I decided to remove the passage not because I care how it affects you, but because I thought that it distracted from the content of the second paragraph of this post, which I felt was more important for you to gather. I still think you're all a bunch of lazy fucks who watch too much television and twitter away about less-than-meaningless things. You should all pick up a book once in awhile, it'll do your brain some proper damage. Who am I to judge, though? I'm the Biggest Fucker Of Them All, who seems to enjoy scaring people away...(I'm working on the intimacy thing with my psychiatrist, so don't you worry your little heart, now.)



    It's amazing the range of topics I can span in one moderately-sized post.


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    Wednesday, March 14, 2007  

    Mau II was brilliant, and shortly after reading the final pages I had the happy fortune of discovering the Philip K. Dick book I'd been waiting for had now arrived at the local branch of the public library. So on the bed is the book, Ubik, a book Benjamen Walker has clearly been inspired/influenced/or something by. (I wonder if he really tattooed the cover of the book onto his arm? If so, it's a good thing he didn't go with the cover of the edition I'm holding, a tacky and hideous image for the Vintage Books edition.)



    Here's a not-quite-so-rare-anymore-now-that-it's-on-YouTube-and-perhaps-the-DVD-of-A Scanner Darkly interview with the writer.



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    I'm compelled to post a quote, nearly any quote that has to do with writing, from Don DeLillo's Mao II. Here's the one I've chosen:
    The only way to be in the world was to write himself there.

    Yeah. That's a good one. As thought, it seems, by the hostage, the poet prisoner.



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    Tuesday, March 13, 2007  

    Today I spoke with Doug, twice, A Grand Total Of Three Hours Regarding Our Mutual Experience. What is our mutual experience? you might be tempted to ask. You'll just have to wait for the podcast to be released; I'll begin editing the recorded phone conversation tomorrow.

    Here's Doug from a past occasion, many moons ago. Whether or not our lives have improved since then is highly debatable, as you'll find once you hear the forthcoming podcast. So make certain to subscribe to my feed so that you don't miss our (mis)adventure

    On a technical note: I used the software/hardware kit I recently picked up, PhoneValet. Mixed results there. The first conversation wasn't properly recorded, resulting in the horrible 17-second screeching sound that is this. A couple of hours later I made some adjustments and then recorded two hours of our continued conversation; this time the recording came out excellently, pristinely, brilliantly. (What adverb am I looking for here? Or wait, I shouldn't be using an adverb at all there, should I? Just how random can I possibly be in this post

    In all fairness, the problem could reside anywhere; I'd just migrated my Mac system from an ATA (IDE) to an SATA drive, and I'd previously had problems with this particular SATA setup in two different Power Macs. Seems either the Macsense adapter I'm using or the Seagate drive I'm using.

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    Monday, March 12, 2007  

    My, how the 'Net operates! Never ceases to amaze me, net-savvy as I am and after all these years.



    Prior to this week, I had a minor awareness of Chris Brogan; I was peripherally aware of the fellow. I'd heard his name but wouldn't have been able to tell you where, how, what. Then, along came a mention of Network2, the Internet TV guide (that is, guide to TV on the web). Perhaps mentioned by Mr. Brogan himself, on a blog or something. I bookmarked Network2 so that I'd have a fighting chance at remembering to check it out later.



    Around that time, I'd attended a videoconference in which everyone was talking Twit. (Twitter, that is, a web and mobile service I'd played with but didn't immediately see the value of. I'm still working out whether it's valuable or not.) Next thing I know I'm twitting away and find myself befriended by a Chris Brogan, who turns out to be the Community dev over at Network2. So I begin reading his articles, which he's posted on places like lifehack.org. Now I'm subscribed to Chris' blog, and wishing I had the car running so that I could attend the Video On The Net conference that Mr. Brogan made me aware of...



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    Saturday, March 10, 2007  

    Today I attended another videoconference put on by us videoblogggers. Here's a direct link to the actual replay of the videoconference. Witness two hours of vlogger conversational madness! Or don't. In fact, I advise you not to. I believe you'd have much more fun being introduced to Rick's package; I did and I lost 15 pounds!




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    Monday, March 05, 2007  


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    Some observations about my experience in jail...

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    Friday, March 02, 2007  

    I seriously doubt this website -- or blog, or podcast, or whatever you consider it -- will ever meet your expectations. So don't expect anything, and it's possible you'll be pleasantly surprised.

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