I’m returning with a podcast to my unborn grandchildren that puts me on record in opposition to the Charlottesville protest.Â This is a reflection about the paradox of tolerance and the need for speaking out against hatred and violence.Â It’s

GC070 — Election and frac sand updates

Nov 11th, 2012

A rainy Sunday morning inspired me to blow the dust off and update my unborn grandchildren on the elections this week, comment about how cool Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight blog is and relay the improving news on the frac sand battle. Click HERE

GC069 – ICANN

May 21st, 2012

The second in a double-header day of Geezercasting.Â This is a really brief discussion of ICANN, where I’ve been volunteering a fair amount of my time over the past 7 years or so.Â ICANN manages the domain-name and numbering systems that glue

GC068 – Frac Sand

May 21st, 2012

Â Hi all, a somewhat gloomy (not grouchy, just gloomy) Geezercast that started off perky but got dragged off into Frac Sand Land by accident.Â This issue has soaked up a lot of time for Marcie and me over the last several months.Â So my unbor

GC067 — A 1-year anniversary “Best Darn Government Money Can Buy” podcast

Oct 30th, 2011

This time I explore the real-life embodiment of “the parting on the left is now parting on the right” lyric by the Who (bonus points for the name of the song).Â Y’see, I’m starting to think that the Tea Party and the Occupy Wall Street people

GC066 — A “layered” tune, annotated

Jul 2nd, 2011

A friend of mine asked that I explain my latest parlor-trick approach to music making.Â There are lots of different ways of making tunes on computers, but I’ve been fiddling around with a sortof “live layered jam” approach where I cycle throug

GC065 — What if Google turns evil?

May 8th, 2011

All kinds of news from the farm (big new-bird news for Marcie, big new-fiber news for me).Â Plus the big story of the last few weeks — online privacy.Â Which then morphs into my personal story of moving myself off of Google services as much a

Geezercast Special — the Bounty Boogie

Apr 3rd, 2011

Richard, and the rest of the crew of the tall ship Bounty, are heading out in a couple days.Â They’re leaving from San Juan Puerto Rico with a destination of St Petersburg, Russia — so this is a two-way crossing of the Atlantic. I decided to d

GC064 — ICANN .XXX and Japan Tsunami

Mar 27th, 2011

This Geezercast is a reflection on my recent trip to the ICANN meetings (in San Francisco this time), the huge earthquake and tsunami in Japan that happened just as I was flying out there and the continuing hijinks of the Republican governor an

GC063 — Madison protests

Feb 27th, 2011

This Geezercast focuses on the giant labor protests in Madison, WI over the last week.Â Takes me back to the days when I lived there (early ’70’s) and all the community organizing stuff that was going on. Click HERE to listen to this 14 minute

GC062 — Best Darn University Money Can Buy

Oct 17th, 2010

Ah. The government isn’t the only place where I can find examples of the power of corporate money. The University of Minnesota had a rough go with the way they squashed a pretty innocuous film about the impact of Big Agriculture on the Missi

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