Confluences are the building blocks of the world’s waterways. When two or more rivers meet, changes in velocity and turbulence tend to result in geologic scouring; erosive activity that may alter the shape of the river and its bed. The action may produce a ‘scour hole’ downstream from the confluence. For a river runner, a… Click for more / Podcast Player>
Jim (@jcollison) is joined this week by Christian Johnson and Mike Howard from jpeg2RAW.com. Christian is back in school at the University of Maryland and we had a chance to catch up with him. We covered our new pre-show music channel using Grooveshark, some issues that Christians has been having with his host provider and… Click for more / Podcast Player>
Last week was crunch time in the National Football League (NFL). With the 2013 regular season approaching rapidly, NFL teams cut about 700 players from their rosters over the Labor Day weekend. That was a big cut—about a 40 percent drop in player employment—as rosters were pared from 90 to 53 players. However, it’s not… Click for more / Podcast Player>
Jim (@jcollison) is joined this week by Paul Baran (@Tinkererguy) from http://Tinkertry.com and Windows Home Server MVP John Zajdler (@Dieharder) for Home Tech episode #133. We spent the majority of the show talking about how John is using Windows To Go on a 32GB Data Traveler Workspace drive from Kingston. We get an update from… Click for more / Podcast Player>
“So much depends / upon / a red wheel / barrow / glazed with rain / water / beside the white / chickens.” Well, the U.S. Federal Reserve’s monetary policy is a lot more complex than the simple tools mentioned in the oft-memorized William Carlos Williams’ poem, The Red Wheelbarrow, but an awful lot is… Click for more / Podcast Player>
Jim (@jcollison) is joined this week by Andrew Morris(@unrealshots), Christian Johnson and Mike Howard from jpeg2RAW.com for Home Tech episode #132. We are back to old school with 132 as we left the show notes open to any tech topic the guys wanted to cover. We chatted about being banned by YouTube.com, the return of… Click for more / Podcast Player>