HookShow#49- DIY Christmas

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Running Time 26:48
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Blog site comments from Ascii Adam
Job Update
Pregnancy update

• Voice comment from Uncle Jerry

Facebook wall comments:
Jamie Eschbach, Cousin Nicole

FACEBOOK QUESTION
Are you going to do more online shopping than brick & mortor stores? What is your favorite site for online deal shopping?
With responses from: Ascii Adam, Uncle Jerry, AJ J, Jamie Eschbach, Máia Whitaker

Topic1: DIY Decorating

Photo: Kris De Curtis

• Quick DIY Photo Ornaments
• Ideas for Creative DIY Decorations
• Ornament ideas from Better Homes and Gardens

Topic2: DIY Gifts

• Bake cookies for exchange
• Calendars and cards from your photos
  
• Make your own special wrapping paper

• Glass Marble Magnets
• Homemade Christmas Gifts
• DIY Electronics
• DIY Christmas ideas for forum

Pop up card ideas

• Tree cards
• Angel Card

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The music featured in this podcast:
Intro: Buddha Chill by Joe DJ- trancentral
Music: Christmas Wish by gidgets ga ga, Give Me A Second Chance For Christmas by Candy Butchers

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Hookshow#48- Holiday bargains and giving back

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Running Time 22:56
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TXT messages
Pregnancy Update

Topic 1: Saving money
Inspired by Ascii Atom's post about saving money

• Coupon mom
• PriceGrabber
• Campusi
• NewEgg
• DealHack.com
• SlickDeals (mobile version)
• BargainShare
• Dealigg
• Keycode
• Freshbargains
• Fatwallet
• BlackFriday.info

Alot of these sites claim the same savings, do your own comparisons to get the best bang for your buck and minimized stress this holiday season.

Topic 2: Giving Back
Inspired by Jumping monkeys podcast "Spend, Save, Give"

• Changing the Present
• DonorsChoose
• One Laptop per child

OLPC on wikipedia

Read to review

• Podcast Donation

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The music featured in this podcast:
Intro Buddha Chill by Joe DJ- trancentral,
A podcast Christmas theme by Tom Shad, A Pirate Christmas by Tom Smith

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HOOKSHOW #47- SMS and the web

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Running Time 21:30

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Topic 1: SMS and the web

• SMS on wikipedia

Google Search: TXT 466453 (GOOGLE)
Commands examples:

• General information 'help'
• Local: 'blockbuster sf'
• Weather: 'w nyc'
• Movies: 'm 94114'
• Flights: 'ua 14'
• Sports: 'ny jets'
• Stocks: 'goog'
• Define: 'd clew'
• Froogle: 'f ipod'
• Calculator: '127*56'
• Personalized SMS queries: 'set location'+city & state,or zip

Google Calendar: TXT 48368 (GVENT)
(need to link with your profile)
Commands examples:

• Next event: 'next'
• Today's events: 'day'
• Tomorrow's events: 'nday'
• or text a new event to add it via quick add.
• To Cancel: 'stop'

• Goog411 with maps

4info: TXT 44636 (4INFO)
Commands examples:

• General information: 'help'
• SPORTS: 'cubs' 'mlb' PLAYER STATS 'lebron james' 'partiots qb'
• WEATHER: w+ zip,city,area code, airpot code 'w 33124''w boston''w 651''w sfo' BY DAY 'w'+ day(tomorrow,friday) +zip,city,areacode,airport 'w tomorrow 651'
• 411: 'pizza 10016' 'best buy miami fl'
• STOCKS: 'ibm' FUND 'qqqq' INDEX 'dji'
• YELLOW PAGES and Driving directions: business type +zip,city 'pizza 94110' business name+city,zip,area code,airport code 'locksmith 651'
• All search categories:'MENU'
• Other search categories:
• flight status,movies,wifi hotspots,news,horoscopes,drinks,jokes,pickup lines,price compare, package tracking,tv guide, hotel reservations, city search, celebrity gossip
• To get detailed help, text HELP and category: 'HELP SPORTS'
• To Cancel: 'stop'

Facebook:TXT 32665 (FBOOK)
(need to link with your profile)
Commands examples:

• Update status:'@ out at john's party'
• Get profile info:'john smith'
• Get cell:'cell john smith'
• Message:'msg john smith whats up?'
• Poke:'poke john smith'
• Fire:'fire john smith'
• Wall post:'wall john smith happy bday'
• Add a friend:'add john smith'
• Write a note:'note this is a mobile note'

Twitter: TXT 40404
(need to link with your profile)
Commands examples:

• To your stream: type your message
• Track a subject: 'track'+ subject
• Turns off tracking for that subject: 'untrack'+ subject
• Shows all of you current tracks: 'stats' or 'track' alone
• Turns off all tracking: 'track off'
• User information: 'whois username'

Jaiku: TXT ?
(need to link with your profile)
Command examples:

• General information: 'help'
• To your stream: type your message
• To a channel: #channel then your message '#jaikufans Hello everyone'
• Activates updates: 'start'
• Stops updates:' stop'

Paypal: TXT 729725 (PAYPAL)
(need to link with your profile)
Command examples:

• General information: 'help'
• Send money: 'send'
• Request money: 'request'
• Buy things: 'buy'
• Donate: 'give'
• Cancel transaction: 'stop'

More txting services:

• Remember the milk
  
• Ping Me
  
• Text Memos
  
• AnonTxt
  
• Rssfwd
  

Txting widgets for websites

• Txtdrop
  
• 4info
  

FACEBOOK QUESTION
What alternative uses for SMS do you use on your phone? (ie. Google, Paypal, Twitter)
With responses from: Jason McLaughlin, AJ J, Dean Jensen, Joel Peter Anderson, Ascii Adam


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The music featured in this podcast: Intro Buddha Chill by Joe DJ- trancentral

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HookShow #46-U3 and Portable Apps

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Running time 16:17

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Updates

• daughter
• Using my phone as a modem

myChingo comment

TOPIC 1:U3 AND PORTABLE APPS
Cruzer U3 2GB Flash Drive

What is U3/ Portable App?

• U3 from wikipedia
• List of Portable Software from wikipedia

_Where to find Portable apps?_

• PortableApps, PortableFreeware , Make Use Of, Loosewire.typepad.com, U3 Shortcut creator

_Recent Podcast/ Blog posts_

• Chris Pirillo, Life Hacker

FACEBOOK QUESTION

"What is your Favorite portable app of your USB Flash Drive?"

• Dean Jensen: ClamWin, CCleaner, AutoRuns, and HiJack This
• Joel Peter Anderson: locknote, Life inside one big text file
• Ascii Adam

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HookShow #45 -Discovering WAP/Mobile Sites

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Running time 19:50

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Autumn Brew Review

TOPIC 1: WHAT IS WAP / MOBILE SITE?
Wireless Application Protocol from Wikipedia, Wireless Markup Language from Wikipedia, XHTML Mobile Profile from Wikipedia, Open Mobile Alliance from Wikipedia

WHAT WAP SITES HAVE I USED?
_Search Engines_
Google, Google Products, Ask, Wikipedia

_Communities_
Twitter, Facebook, Jaiku, Flickr, Netvibes, Podcast Pickle

_RSS feedreaders_
Feedm8, Bloglines, NewsGator

_TV / Entertainment_
TvGuide, Kare11, Nbc, YouTube

_Local News, Weather_
Local Wireless

_Shopping_
Paypal, Amazon, Ebay

_Misc_
All Recipes, Webtender, CitySearch, MapQuest, Fandango, Whitepages

_Directories /Review sites_
Cantori.org Mobile Websites, Review Centre- wap sites, SurfWap, CELLIFY, Wap Review, YesWap, Small Sites, Winksite, Mowser

FACEBOOK QUESTION
"Do you use the web on a Mobile device? What is your favorite Mobile optimized site? "
Dean Jensen, Ascii Adam, Kreg Steppe, Joel Peter Anderson

HOW TO CREATE A WAP /MOBILE SITE

• Free Webmaster help: WML/WAP Tutorial
• W3C: wap Tutorial
• C# (sharp) corner: Building a WAP Site
• WAP tutor
• WAP Simulator

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The music featured in this podcast: Intro Buddha Chill by Joe DJ- trancentral

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HookShow #44-HomeBrewing with my Brothers

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Running Time: 29:26

More Parenting in 2007 Facebook comments:

• Jamie Eschbach, Michael Koppelman,and Rob Walch

Blog Comments from the last show: Ascii Adam

Topic 1: Making a Homebrew beer
Definition of Beer
Live Recording from Matt showing us how to make a home brew on Sat Aug 25th

BEER BREWING MATT, ASCII ADAM

• Nukey Brown Ale Kit from Northern Brewer
• Homebrewing on Wikipedia

Facebook Question: What is your favorite BEER? Why?

• Kreg Steppe: Weihenstephan HefeweissBier and Stouts
• Michael Koppelman: Summit Extra Pale Ale
• Dean Jensen: New Castle Brown Ale
• Ascii Adam: "Pompous Ass" Beer (our homebrew)
• Joel Peter Anderson: Free beer or a dark beer
• Jamie Eschbach: I used to like Premium Grain Belt, MGD and High Life. Now, none.

Useful homebrewing & beer resources:

• Beer from Wikipedia
• Home Brewing Wiki
• Brew Watch on Pageflakes

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The music featured in this podcast: Intro Buddha Chill by Joe DJ- trancentral

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HookShow #43-Reviews Galore

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Running Time 19:15

PERSONAL NOTES

UPDATES
A Seminar with Josh McDowell - Why Belief Matters for Young people
coming up on Sept 29.2007

TOPIC 1:Review of my phone (LG VX 8300)

• MP3 player
• WAP wireless web on EVDO
• 1.3 MP camera
• VCast
• Expandablity - 512 MICRO SD card

VX8300 blog
Modding it- Bit Pim, Qualcomm Pure Voice conversion
ICE (In Case of Emergency) numbers

TOPIC 2:Interesting finds at the local Farmers Market
Ruhland's Strudels Haus

• Handmade Frozen Strudels
• both Sweet and Savory variations.
• $15 to 20 a strudel (Feeds about 5 to 10 people)

My family's reaction

Boo Sauce

• Spicy Marinate and Sauce
• $5 a jar

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HookShow #42- How Has Parenting changed in the year 2007?

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Running time 13:25

Topic 1: Keys to raising kids Gods way from Family Camp
1. Be Consistent
2. Be a Parent First and a Friend second
3. Build up you child/ spouse
4. Allow them to go thru Tough times
5. Make it exciting to be a Christian

Topic 2: How has parenting changed in 2007?
An open letter to Toddlers

I asked the question to a few communities I am a part of, these are a few of the responses:

Facebook:
AJ from Bald Guy Show
Ascii Adam

PodcastMN:
Garrick Van Buren

• Kneebouncers
• babycenter.com
• Daily candy Kids

Micheal Koppelman
Dean Jensen form SoHo podcast & Handbell Podcast

• Minnesota Dads At Home

Blubrry:
Ken from GameZoneRadio
Dale from Tech talk for Families

My Recommendations
Podcasts: Jumping Monkeys, Daddy Panel
Blogs: Parent Hack
Gadgets: Camera Phones and Flickr, Photos on ipods

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The music featured in this podcast: Intro Buddha Chill by Joe DJ- trancentral

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Hookshow#41- Fireworks and Summer Camp

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Running Time 13:31

Fourth of July

• Parade, Fireworks, Carnival

Topic 1: History of Fireworks

As we were watching the fireworks, my wife and I discussed what we thought the reason fireworks became a tradition for celebrating the Fourth of July

• The history behind fireworks for the fourth.
• Wikipedia, Fireworks.com, History.com

Topic 2: Family Camp at Camp Lebanon

• a christian summer camp, open over 60 years
• theme of the weekend "Raising kids Gods way"
• Stayed in a cabin

Large facilities including trails, playground, volleyball court, basketball court, game room, etc..

Waterfront

• Several boats for fishing, tubing, canoeing , paddle boating and sailing
• my sailing experience with my wife
• the sail boat rescue

Swimming area

• A few slides, the inflateable "SAturn" and a floating dock
• comments about my daughter's swimming

The health scare coming home

NEXT EPISODE:
How has parenting changed in the year 2007?
(blogs, podcasts, communities, gadgets, toys)

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The music featured in this podcast: Intro Buddha Chill by Joe DJ- trancentral

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Hookshow #40 - Family Fest,& Bridge Building

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Running Time 26:40

Adjusting to being a stay at home Dad

Topic 1: Family Fun Fest
Live recordings from a carnival at Celebration Church during the week of June 21st

• Intro, FacePaint, Classic Car Ride, Carosel, Mini Doughnuts, Giant Slide, Duck Game, Kangaroo Ride, Bear Ride, Swing Ride, Ring Game, Bounce Ride, Baloon Animal

with Digital Dan, Jo Mamma, Harold and Gwen

Topic 2: Bridge Building inspired from Make Magazine, Instructables
Supplies

• Several Popscile sticks
• 2 Hot Glue Guns
• 3 Teams of 4 people

Team Adam

• Tall Complex design
• crushed on first amount of pressure

Team Dan

• "A" frame pieces glued together
• Didn't have enough time to complete the design
• Fell flat with pressure

Team Matt with Low Tech Lynn

• Basic design (compact)
• Won the competion -all of the kids successfully stood on it

Coming Soon a utube video produced by Ascii Adam

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Hookshow 39 Fathers day & Birthday

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Updates from previous shows

• Hypermiling
  

Podcast Recommendations

Eric Larson

• SDR news


• Marketing Edge


• I Connect Dots - Ericast Review


• Future tense

Ascii Adam

• Mad Money Machine


• TFNN -The Tom O'Brien Show


• Online Trading Academy -Vince Rowe


• Vanguard:Plain Talk on Investing


• Make Magazine

Jobs

• Mike Tech show about Resumes and interviews

Topic 1: Fathers day

• Recorded my experiences with my daughter
• New father's day tradition -Handprint shirt

Topic 2:Birthdays

My Birthday

• myspace friend comments


• on this day birthday stuff -Kakorama

Ascii Adam's 25th birthday

Birthday Spectacular

• Last years Rocket Launch


• This years is Coming soon

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Hookshow #38- Being Green2 and Podcasts Recommendations

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Updates

Experiencing some terrible twos

• "Making Children Mind without losing Yours"

Topic 1:Podcast Recommendations
5 Podcast recommendations for my Mom from podcasts that I listen to (work safe/ family friendly) that she might like.

• Mostly Trivial, Rev Tim, The Radio Adventures of Doctor Floyd, One Minute How tos, the World Technology podcast

Please send me 5 podcasts that you listen to that you would recommend to her.

Topic2: Being Green part 2
Ascii Adam's comments

Green Expo in Minneapolis

Gas Prices

• National Stop buying Gas day. May 15
• Fuel efficiency
• tire air pressure
• gas cap
• vehicle maintenance -up to date oil changes, repairs

Cleaning Chemicals (brought to my attention from my mom)

• Enzyme based
• DIY cleaning-baking soda and water, Newspaper

Memorial Day weekend

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The music featured in this podcast: Intro Buddha Chill by Joe DJ- trancentral

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Hookshow # 37 -Earthday and Birthday

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I really tried to producing a good show. I did a lot of research, made a lot of edits and worked on the sound quality. Enjoy!

A special intro by Low Tech Lynn

Topic 1:Earth day
A conversation with Low Tech Lynn, We discussed:

What are we doing NOW to live Green?

• Recycling
• Earth day events at UST- An Inconvenient Truth, local Eco village
• Calculate your Carbon Footprint (Ecological Footprint)
• Using washable diapers (with cleaning tips)
• Using Public Transit and walking

Is it better to buy organic foods or to buy from a local farmers market?

• Off season foods
• Pesticides
• Farmers traveling to different markets
• Knowing the farmer you buy from
• Growing your own garden

Do you leave lights on when they don't need to be?

• Open the blinds and turning the lights off
• Motion detecting lighting fixture

What can be do to save the earth with our electricity?

• Researching alternative power sources with your power company (Solar /Wind based
  power plants)
• Coal burning power plants in China

"Coal (burning) emits all, but six of the elements in the periodic table including uranium!"

Other things that can be done

• Appliances-higher efficiency, recycling programs, repair, and gifting
• Motor vehicles- hybrids, E85 [Corn: food vs fuel]
• Lighting-Compact florescent, LED lights
• MAKEzine: Why throw it out if you can reuse it?
• Carbon offsets

Education

• TV -Discovery Channel, NOVA
• Movies -an Inconvenient Truth
• Podcasts - Living Planet,
  
• Websites -Institute for Lifecycle Environmental Assessment,
• Books
• Locally -Green party, plant a tree, highway cleanup, eco-villages, nature centers

Topic 2: Gwen's 2nd Birthday

• Gwen's interruption (she wanted a balloon)
• Parents birthday chat
• Daddy's chat with Gwen (her favorite is Dora and Elmo)

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HookShow #36 Easter& Geeky Stuff

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Update on Job

Mention from Frank Nora on the overnightscape podcast #583

Topic 1: Geeky stuff
Palm Blogging -unable to get it to work

Chatopus- palm chat client

Twitter- "What are you doing?"

• several APIs
• able to update /be updated via IM clients
• My Twitter
  

Topic 2:Easter
Volunteering for Good Friday and Easter production

Family Time

• Coloring Easter Eggs, Egg Hunt

The true meaning of Easter

• Jesus betrayal, torment and death for our sins
• Rising from death in 3 days
• Jesus died for your sins so you can be closer to God

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HookShow #35 - Spending time with Family & Palm RSS

MyChingo message from M.Avanzini

Topic 1 - Spending Time with the Family

• Sledding
• Story Time at the Library
• Children's Museum

"The Little Big Book for Dads"

• Stories for children
• Stories from Dads
• Homemade Recipes
• Craft Project ideas

Topic 2 - Palm Rss
I have a Tungsten C Palm that can connect via Wifi. I found a few pieces of software that are really useful.

QuickNews (RSS Reader/ Podcast Aggregator)

• Updates via Hot Sync or Wifi/Data Connection
• Import OPML
• Able to Autodownload Images/Enclosures

TCPMP (The Core Pocket Media Player)

• Displays Album Art
• Decodes most formats -*.AC3 ,*.MP3 ,*.MPEG ,*.OGG

Palm Blogging Software?

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Song Aria di Regime-Ivete

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Happy Valentines Day

Just about everyone has their own experiences/traditions for Valentines day. From going out to a nice meal to receiving flowers & candy. This is how they day went for my family.

My daughter was really excited about Valentines day this year. This being the first year she started getting in to things like this being she is almost two.

Photo: transition

Her daycare is making a big deal about it. They wanted all the kids to get dressed is red and pink. The teachers of the daycare stated that they were going to have a party all day. The whole place is covered in red hearts and other fun Valentines decor. Sounds like a fun time for all of the kids.

We found some cute little "Strawberry Shortcake" Valentines that will be given out to her classmates/ friends in daycare. She put her personal touch on each card by placing every sticker on by hand. It was hard for her to give them up since stickers are her favorite.

I cant wait to hear about all of the fun she had and see what other cute Valentines were given out.

For my Wife and myself, We have no major plans or extra funds. We will try to spend some quality time with each other tonight.

Happy Valentines. Make sure to show your significant other how much you LOVE them.

For information on the origins of Valentines Day. Check out:

• Wikipedia article
• History Channel

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HookShow #34 -In Memory of my Grandmas

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Audio Comment from Eric from the Ericast

Topic
Both of my Surviving Grandparents died within two weeks of each other

Photo: Fábio Pinheiro

Dorothy Hook (Grandma on my Dads side)
"there was always room for one more"

• Big Christmas Celebrations
• Involvement in the church -Awana ,Gideons
• She loved to share her faith with the gift of Hospitality

>Funeral and Burial Audio.mp3

Mabel Gustafson (Great Aunt on my Moms side)

• Rice pudding with Almonds
• Involvement in the church- Quantity cooking

>Reflections on the Life of Mabel.pdf

Lessons

• Make sure to tells all of you loved ones that how much you care for them
• Share stories/pictures with the younger generations
• Learn what you can from your elders

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