Monthly Archives: February 2011
#20 The Fitness Tech Podcast: Trek up the Tower 2011 Coverage with Results (Audio and Video). Interview with Howie Halperin, Tony Dean and Race winner Ivan Marsh
Today in Omaha, some 1400 people made their way up 40 flights of stairs to complete a very tough vertical race called Trek up the Tower. Jamie and Jim were there with coverage in both audio and video. Hope you enjoy it.
Some of the highlights of the coverage is an interview with Howie Halperin, Executive Director of WELCOM and this years race director, a quick chat with Tony Dean and an interview with Ivan Marsh (his annual race event), the overall race champion and 5 time winner of the Trek (see a full set of results here) as well as some pre and post race commentary from Jim and Jamie with interviews from those who actually made the Trek. We have included all the media in this post. Most clips are 3 to 5 minutes, so take a look!
Congratulations to all those who participated, but an extra shout out to Ryan Wolf (overall 2nd Place) and Jamie Eikmeier (8th among all females and 118th overall) who recruited over 60 Gallup employees to make the climb! If you listen to the audio interviews carefully, you can hear Ryan a bunch in the background! Nice work Gallup leaders!
#13 The Home Tech Podcast: Skype Crashes, Antivirus Tips, Windows 7 SP1, Speech Macros and SyncToy!
With both the Home Server Show and The Home Tech Podcast back on their regular schedule, Jim, Brian, Christian and a new regular Andrew Morris, welcome Gordon Schmidt to the podcast. Gordon is a long time listener and fellow family tech support guy. With a full compliment of tech guys, it’s time to get down to business.
This this weeks show, we cover the new, redefined purpose for the podcast. “From Tech Guys, For Tech Guys!” Jim does a quick review of the new HP Pavillion dm1 Netbook, covers the much needed fix for his Xbox and media center and covers Windows 7 SP1 with the gang. Christian covers some speech recognition macros in Windows 7 and get the team all fired up about it. Gordon looks at SyncToy 2.1 right before a major Skype meltdown. You would have heard all the mayhem if you had listened live!
We close the show with some talk of tablets and cell phones. Christian’s Dad chimes in and later joins the podcast for a special extra show to be aired later next week.
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Yurbuds Aren’t Just for Fitness Anymore! A Review
Josh Olson is a Music/Worship Leader at Shadow Lake Community in Papillion NE, where I also attend. Josh approached me about borrowing my pair of Yurbuds after hearing about them from my Vegas trip and wondered if they would work as in ear monitors for musicians. I lent him my pair under the condition that he would write this review when he was done with them. While I knew they were great to use during fitness events, they now seems to belong on the stage as well? Maybe a complete black pair is in Yurbuds future?
Here is his Josh’s review.
I am a worship leader for a church in the Omaha, NE metro area. We recently installed an in ear monitoring system for our worship team members. The Yurbuds work great for singers! Normal sound isolating buds create an occlusion effect because when you close the ear canal, you create a sort of resonating chamber inside your head. The voice sounds so drastically different using sound isolating buds, that I have found it nearly impossible to gauge tone quality or even dynamic levels.
#19 The Fitness Tech Podcast: Interview with Ultra Athlete Jason Jaksetic
Jim, Carrie and Jamie (joined us late in the podcast) had the opportunity to do a Friday night interview with Ultra distance athlete Jason Jaksetic. Jason blogs at his site jasonjaksetic.blogspot.com and represent Spartan Races.
Jason walks us thru the his training, nutrition and what it feels like to compete in Ultra events as well as what he does to prepare himself for super long races! It’s an incredible interview and one you will not want to miss.
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Jason’s Info – http://jasonjaksetic.blogspot.com/ Spartan Races: http://www.spartanrace.com/
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#12 The Home Tech Podcast: Podcasting Vision, IBM and Watson. Is AI Here to Stay?
Jim was joined again by Brian Burgess, Christian Johnson and Andrew Morris. Jim starts the show with a bit of podcasting soul searching. With 12 shows now in the books, what has the podcast become and who are we trying to reach? Would love your comments on why you listen to the show and what you find most helpful. Email podcast@theaverageguy.tv.
For the rest of the show we talk about Blogging and Podcast basics, IBM’s Watson smoking real people on Jeopardy, new Motorola’s Tablets, upgrading a Mac Mini’s memories and the new Facebook page for the The Average Guy Network.
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