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Thursday, May 08, 2008
All hands to the escape pods....
No, I'm not giving up and abandoning ship. "Escape Pod" is the name of a podcast I subscribe to and I'm really enjoying. First, what's a "Podcast" some of you may be asking. Think of it as a radio broadcast that you subscribe to and download to your PC to listen to. In this case, every Thursday they post a new, Sci-Fi Short story (usually Hugo Award Nominee's) that you can download. You can go to the site and just download the MP3 file, or if you use a program like iTunes, you can "subscribe" and iTunes will download it for you automatically and even sync it to your iPod. You don't have to have and iPod or other mp3 player, you can listen to them on your PC.
Myself, I like to listen to them on my walks.
Now, my buddy Greg has been trying to read more and more books. I used to be able to digest a book like nothing. I could take in a 450 page paperback in a weekend. But, after the accident in 2004, I have trouble PHYSICALLY reading for more than about 15 mins at a time. I get a bad headache and it's not my eyes. So, I have been turning more and more to audio books so I can still get my fix.
FYI - our Church has a podcast of some of our best messages, and Pastor Tony just uploaded the first of the "Leaving the House of Blues" HERE.
Oh, and for those of you that still like to read, or for those like Pastor Tony that are lucky enough to have an Amazon Kindle (on my wishlist, FYI!), there is a bonus. Click the link to the Hugo Awards page in the text above and you can download eBook versions of some of the stories to read.
