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

DIGITAL DAN
HOOKSHOW+DAN@GMAIL.COM


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

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

DIGITAL DAN
HOOKSHOW+DAN@GMAIL.COM

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)

DIGITAL DAN
HOOKSHOW+DAN@GMAIL.COM
LOWTECH LYNN
HOOKSHOW+LYNN@GMAIL.COM


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

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