Balticon
Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for Jun 3, 2018 - Minor Authority and a Clipboard
In this episode, I play a traditional song of the season by Jonathan Coulton; I discuss the intersection of minor authority and lack of decision making power; I talk about attending Balticon 52, ad hoc family, and how physical space affects the feel of a con; I talk about how the long-standing and...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles for August 24, 2017 - DDOP 24: Baltimore MD
In this episode, I discuss my trips to Baltimore MD and the surrounding suburbs. Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 24 2017 Links mentioned in this episode: Support this show on Patreon Balticon Auphonic podcast production tool is so good! Dog...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 2 2017 - Dying to See You
In this episode, we start out with a song from Sarah Shook and the Disarmers; I discuss Adam Curry’s new project for podcasters; I discuss the death of my mother and various strategies I had for dealing with that including alt-country bands and heavy drinking; I discuss the Two Dollar Pistols and...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for Jun 2 2016 - The Rebirthening
In this episode, I play a song by Duncan Cameron; I talk about my involvement in Knowledge16; I admit I am an introvert; I discuss why I my current job is my favorite I've ever had; I am trying to support podcasts via merchandise; I subscribed to Adventures in Angular and Gillmor Gang; Here is the...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 18 2016 - Sculpting My Personality
In this episode, I play a song from Cheap Trick; I talk about my recent business trip and whether I am an extrovert and making myself be the person I want to be over the course of decades; I tell a fugazi tale of losing my Kindle and getting another. Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 1 2016 - The Polite Conventions
In this episode I play a song from Valley Lodge; I discuss the problems in producing anything regularly; I catalog my failure to meet my writing goals; I talk about my queues of podcasts, comics, books and TV shows; I discuss the true seriousness of OCD and how no one is "a little bit...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 22 2015 - Communions
In this episode, I play a song by Shelby Earl; I talk about John Roderick, enjoying his podcast and being impressed by his candidacy for Seattle City Council; I talk about Atlanta storm sewers and elections; no Balticon for me; I read the Patrons and also give a shoutout for the Grantblings...
read articleNo Balticon in 2015
As much as I'd like to go to Balticon this year, yet again it is not happening. There is always next year (my rallying cry since 2011.) Have the fun for...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 19 2015 - Around the Podiosphere
In this episode, I talk a bit about the real world hitches that keep delaying the show; I talk about some podcast listening I have enjoyed including Gregg Schigiel interviewing Jackie Kashian; Eddie Peppitone; Brian Quinn and Sal Vulcano; I talk about a local con that is losing me; I bring up...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 8, 2014 - "DDOP 9: Beer"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 8, 2014 In this episode, I talk about craft beer; a local Oskar Blues tap takeover; how I used to drink beer as a teenager compared to how I do it now. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show,...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for September 13, 2013 - "My Life In Fandom #28"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, September 13, 2013. In this episode, I finish up the fandom series by covering the years 2000 to present; after that I discuss a few quotes I found funny from recent podcast listening. You can subscribe to this podcast feed via...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 24, 2013 - "Sleepless in SC"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, May 24 2013. I discuss getting no sleep, missing my friends at Balticon, being in the middle of fiascos and having my hosting turned off, I talk about how I love comedy podcasts but I hate them using the "pioneer"...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 20, 2012 - "Haters and Conventions"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, February 20, 2012 (yes, it took me almost two weeks between recording and posting.) This episode is another of a new format recorded in my car. I briefly discuss where I am in the LetterMo challenge; I talk about the notion of...
read articleAn Interview with Me
A few months back this was posted but in the low blogging summer of 2011 I forgot to ever post it. Paul Fischer of the Balticon Podcast interviewed me there a few years ago, and it was recently posted. We talk a lot about life engineering, optimizing on happiness, new media and other fun stuff. Give...
read articleLimor Fried on Open Source Hardware
I've been way behind on watching podcast videos. I had to make time to sit down and watch some out of self defense as my laptop hard drive is about to fill up. I've been interested in the work of Limor Fried all through the podcast era. I first came to her via the podcast of her keynote at the 2007...
read articleNight of the Livid Walt
I listen to the Tell 'Em Steve Dave podcast and lately I've been enjoying it more than it's big brother podcast SModcast. Like all podcasts in my list I'm about five weeks behind. On the episode I'm listening to now they make a reference to a fan created animation. LIke most of these, it is an...
read articleWrite A Song in One Hour: Balticon 44
At Balitcon 44, I participated in a panel that was one of the most fun things I've ever been a part of at any SF or comic convention in my 25+ years of attending them. The panel was called "How to Write a Kick-Ass Song About Anything." I went thinking it was going to be songwriters at the...
read articleEbooks From TV - My New Side Project
It's true, I do not need Yet One More Side Project. Regardless, I have one. Talking to Paul Fischer at Balticon a few weeks ago, I was mentioning to him my ebook buying dynamic. I said that "If I see a book on Colbert or the Daily Show that interests me, I look to see if it is available for...
read articleSpecial Correspondent for Technorama
I'm still barely dribbling out the con reports from my trip to Balticon and in that time since I've been writing them, I've been to a whole other con, Heroescon in Charlotte last weekend. I had a lot of fun there, did comic shopping and autograph hunting and all the things a fanboy does at a good...
read articleMy Balticon 44 (2010) Wrapup, Part 2
Part two of Balticon by strobe light. Saturday evening: I was on a panel at 5 PM with Phil Rossi, Norm Sherman, Dan Tabor and Thomas Gideon. It was called "Art, Music and Literature in an Age of Technological Reproducibility." We talked about creative commons licensing and the ethics of...
read articleMy Balticon 44 (2010) Wrapup, Part 1
I have a bad habit of starting chronological convention wrapups, being too detailed and burning out before I finish. Instead, I'm going to recap this year's Balticon anecdote by anecdote. I will feel no compunction to do it in any particular order or in any number of posts. I'll write until I feel...
read articleFlickrphallophobia
An incident from my past was brought up at Balticon, in a story that Evo Terra regaled a group with one evening. I'll give the Reader's Digest condensed version. Podcast Expo 2006, it was year two of the Ontario California conference. We were reprising our "spontaneous poolside barbecue...
read articleMy Balticon Drive Playlist
Here without much comment is my Balticon road trip playlist. I"m noting specific shows if I think that episode is notably worth checking out specifically from that series. Ride up: Writers Almanac Rock and Roll Geek Show (Burton Avere joins for doing a Classic Albums Revisted on Get the...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 30, 2010 - "Prose and Cons, 2010"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for May 30, 2010. I play (most of) a song by Phil Rossi; I do a recap of my time as an impromptu guitar tech; I recap CREATE South 2010; I play a song by Mudhoney; I talk about my experiences so far with Baltion 2010; I play a song by Jonathan...
read articleThe Movie Is Happening
Tomorrow is a big day for me. The indie documentary idea I've been talking about for years is going to have it's first shoot. I'm excited, slightly nervous but mostly ready to get some actual footage captured. I'm not an experienced filmmaker so I've been cramming like a college kid the night before...
read articleSocial Media Vacation, Week 2
Not only am I not finding it hard to stay away from social media, I'm thinking about staying away nearly permanently. In my previous fit of pique where I dynamited my entire Twitter network I only used Twitter when I was at science fiction conventions. That was predominantly to find out which room...
read articleMy Projects and Action Items from Balticon
I walked away from Balticon in May with a list of things to do. I had three primary ideas/ action items. I'll lay them out as ideas. Anyone that wants to take these ideas and run with them, go for it. I'd much rather see them exist in the world than be a Dave (tm) branded project that never...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for July 26, 2009 - "The Alan Bean of Podcasting"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for July 26, 2009. I play a song by Wolf Parade; I play a sponsorship announcement from Bob's Institute of Time Control; I talk about vacationing in the North Carolina mountains and trying to refocus on what is important; about enthusiasm for and...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast Extra: Balticon 43 Panel, "Peer Media vs Broadcast Media"
I've been having a hard time getting the show produced lately. I had planned to do an episode this weekend but my MacBook is fighting me every step of the way lately. Because of all these problems, I'm filling in the gaps with the audio of a panel I was on at Balticon 43 a few months ago. The panel...
read articleBalticon 2009 in Strobe Flashes
I'm really bad at doing thorough con wrap-ups, as evidenced by the fact that I usually don't actually finish them. I though about presenting my Balticon 2009 wrapup as a compressed novel in honor of the recently late but always great JG Ballard but that turned out to be really difficult. Imagine...
read articleBalticon Hangover
I'll attempt a writeup of my Balticon experience later today. This is no promise, considering that I never actually finished my Orcycon 2006 or Dragon*Con 2009 wrapups. Yesterday I had a panel from noon to 1 PM. I drove straight from my panel to Baja Fresh for lunch (second time that weekend eating...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 22, 2009 - "CREATE South and Balticon, 2009 Style"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for May 22, 2009. This is my first ever episode recorded in a car. I give a wrapup to our 2009 CREATE South conference; I play my goto song for this kind of topic by Alana Davis; I then talk about Balticon and why from here on out I will be...
read articleBalticon Rocks
I'm having a great time at Balticon. I'm shocked that it is early evening Sunday. I've been doing stuff practically non-stop since I got here and yet there are many many things I have yet to do, people I have yet to talk to and so forth. I've seen Brenda Clough and Keith DeCandido in the halls but...
read articleOff to Balticon
I'm heading out the door for Baltimore. I'm ahead of schedule, let's hope that's a good omen. I'm doing a Reality Break interview at 7 PM and then I'm giving my talk at 10 PM tonight. There is some talk that all programming in the room its in will be live streamed. If that's the case, I'll post the...
read articleBalticon - T Minus 24 Hours
Very close to exactly 24 hours from now, I'll be getting in my car and pointing it north up I-95 for my trip to Balticon. I'm excited about this trip. I have wanted to attend this convention for many years and am delighted to be able to do it. My talk "Amateur Means You Do It For Love" is...
read articleBalticon Is Nearly Here
Next weekend, I'll be a guest at Balticon in Hunt Valley, Maryland. I've never actually been to Maryland so this will be a big adventure to me. If you are wondering what to expect from the con, this promo should give you some idea. I've got my first science fiction interview for Reality Break lined...
read articleBalticon
Over Memorial day I will be a guest at this year's Balticon. Paul Fischer has been inviting me for years and for once I was able to accept. I've never been to Baltimore in my life, so that should be interesting. From here forward, I'm probably not traveling that far to any solely new media...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 6, 2009 - "Starting is Easy, Finishing is Hard"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for April 6, 2009. I play a song from Glass Eye; I talk about CREATE South and Balticon and Dragon*Con, about organizing a conference and what we are trying to do with CREATE South in Myrtle Beach; I play a solo song by Kathy McCarty, talk about...
read articlePros and Cons
I've had to decline a heartbreaking number of invitations to come to conventions and/or conferences this year. In several cases, I was invited to speak or lead sessions and I just couldn't do it. Being in a job situation without vacation contributed a lot, where I would have to not only pay my way...
read articleEGC Clambake for January 20, 2006
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for January 20, 2006. Ladies and gentlemen, we have the return of an old friend! I interview John Mark King and we premiere a new Rocket City Riot song; I play a promo for the Balticon Podcast; I talk about Kevin Smith and the...
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