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tealinUsually I do something for Lent on this blog, be it sketchbook pages or art tips or something, but as I stand here on the edge of Mardi Gras I am looking at a churning ocean of so much work that instead, this year, I'm giving up social media, because that is an enormous distraction I just can't afford.
As mentioned before I've been trying to switch to podcasts from streaming radio, which presents the challenge of listening to them faster than they accumulate. I put off the CBC's Q, and only this week have been starting to tackle the 20+ hours of backed-up arts and culture commentary. Here are some of the highlights from recent episodes:
Q Media Panel on Ukraine, the crisis, its possible over-representation in the news vs Venezuela and Bosnia, western media's pro-rebel bias, and so on. In the midst of the internet's hand-wringing over World War III it's really nice to hear smart people step back and look at the coverage critically.
Q: Neil Young on the Oil Sands - Wow. Wow. ... Wow. [flies flag]
Q: The Philosopher's Mail - using the clickbait, scaremongering, and gossip which makes The Daily Mail so popular, to discuss important matters of depth, with a sense of humour. In other words, someone made a newspaper just for me!
MORE CBC:
Sunday Edition: Post-Antibiotic World - We don't fully appreciate how much the world has changed since the introduction of antibiotics, but perhaps we should, because we may be forced to return there.
Sunday Edition: The Return of Anti-Semitism - Outside the friendly confines of the US and Canada, anti-Jewish sentiment is back on the scene. Oh, yay.
Day 6: Backscatter - A former TSA employee talks about how ultimately useless those full-body X-ray vision scanners were, and how they were (mis)used.
BBC:
Night Watch - It's not May yet, but there are protests in the streets everywhere you turn, so Commander Vimes is back to show them how it's done.
Cabin Pressure: Paris - Captain Crieff and the Mystery of the Stolen-Not Stolen Whisky (this show is a font of happiness and makes the world a better place, get hooked today).
Dilemma - I've listened to a lot of Radio 4 (a lot) but this show has some audience interaction that I have never heard on anything ever.
Well that's about it from me ... Tomorrow I'll hand over the blogging reins to my one and only all-time total hero Edward Adrian Wilson, because the world needs more Bill, and I want to introduce him to everyone. He has more to say than just listing radio links, so this place will probably improve in my absence.
I'll be off 'the Internets' until late April, but because the only alternative is the hated telephone, I will still be on email. If you need or want to contact me you can still do that. I like email. :) My address can be found in my userinfo, and all PMs and comments end up in my inbox anyway so you can use those as well.
As mentioned before I've been trying to switch to podcasts from streaming radio, which presents the challenge of listening to them faster than they accumulate. I put off the CBC's Q, and only this week have been starting to tackle the 20+ hours of backed-up arts and culture commentary. Here are some of the highlights from recent episodes:
Q Media Panel on Ukraine, the crisis, its possible over-representation in the news vs Venezuela and Bosnia, western media's pro-rebel bias, and so on. In the midst of the internet's hand-wringing over World War III it's really nice to hear smart people step back and look at the coverage critically.
Q: Neil Young on the Oil Sands - Wow. Wow. ... Wow. [flies flag]
Q: The Philosopher's Mail - using the clickbait, scaremongering, and gossip which makes The Daily Mail so popular, to discuss important matters of depth, with a sense of humour. In other words, someone made a newspaper just for me!
MORE CBC:
Sunday Edition: Post-Antibiotic World - We don't fully appreciate how much the world has changed since the introduction of antibiotics, but perhaps we should, because we may be forced to return there.
Sunday Edition: The Return of Anti-Semitism - Outside the friendly confines of the US and Canada, anti-Jewish sentiment is back on the scene. Oh, yay.
Day 6: Backscatter - A former TSA employee talks about how ultimately useless those full-body X-ray vision scanners were, and how they were (mis)used.
BBC:
Night Watch - It's not May yet, but there are protests in the streets everywhere you turn, so Commander Vimes is back to show them how it's done.
Cabin Pressure: Paris - Captain Crieff and the Mystery of the Stolen-Not Stolen Whisky (this show is a font of happiness and makes the world a better place, get hooked today).
Dilemma - I've listened to a lot of Radio 4 (a lot) but this show has some audience interaction that I have never heard on anything ever.
Well that's about it from me ... Tomorrow I'll hand over the blogging reins to my one and only all-time total hero Edward Adrian Wilson, because the world needs more Bill, and I want to introduce him to everyone. He has more to say than just listing radio links, so this place will probably improve in my absence.
I'll be off 'the Internets' until late April, but because the only alternative is the hated telephone, I will still be on email. If you need or want to contact me you can still do that. I like email. :) My address can be found in my userinfo, and all PMs and comments end up in my inbox anyway so you can use those as well.
