Oh, Media

[evilhippo]

So apparently, after a week of almost nonstop work (because picking up a part-time job on the side when you're working 50 hours a week is cool) and unusual (for me) amounts of social interaction, I suddenly and unexpectedly have a Saturday to myself. And I guess I'm spending my Saturday thinking, once again, about... the media. (Because all I

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[zolac_no_miko]

Argh, my phone doesn't seem to like NPR, I'll have to wait until later when I'm home. :(

...Btw, dunno if you've thought more about your maybe taking a vacation in May (it looks like you've been incredibly busy), but I thought I'd give you an update on Hawaiian archaeology. The dig will probably be over by Memorial Day weekend; I'm planning on going over the previous weekend so I can help with sifting/making lunches/rubbernecking/whatever. I plan to be on the Big Island for the long holiday weekend.

[evilhippo]

Boo, phone! (You have a droid of some sort, right? The NPR app or Stitcher might work? Sticher is still on last week's episode, though.)

Oh man, May. Yeah, I haven't had any time at all to plan anything lately (though all in all, I can't complain that much since I get to pretend I'm a writer now). I think I'm going to have to stay on the mainland in May... but that just means I can schedule a proper Hawaii vacation for some point when you're not mostly off in the rainforest with birds. (-;

[zolac_no_miko]

Droid 4 and yeah, it offered me the NPR app but I have this policy against, like, paying for things, and I figured it was easy enough to just wait a few hours.

Haha yeah, the timing, which at first appeared to be supernaturally fortuitous, appears now to be... not that great. But omg, congrats on the writing gig!! That's fantastic! Sorry I didn't say so earlier, but I miss a lot when I spend half my life in the deep woods. So... yay for acquiring jobs that are actually tied into our interests/career plans/life goals that keep us busy and make us exhausted but also happy! *highfives* :DD (I had the exact same jumpy-squealy reaction when I got mine. XD)

[evilhippo]

As far as I've known (approximately a week), both the NPR app and Stitcher are free. Though yes, if it's just a matter of waiting a few hours, no big deal. (-;

I think I'm pretty all right with the way unexpected fortuitous things intervened in our otherwise-perfect archaeological meetup (though really... we need to find a way to reschedule some sort of archaeological meetup, because I'm never happy with just having my cake). ^_^

[apple_pathways]

Hmm, somehow I can't picture Tumblr as the appropriate forum for any discussion, let alone this one...

Anywho, will give the retraction a listen! Since I can't listen to radio at work, I tend to forget about NPR and how much I like it from to time. Probably time to go on one of my binges and get caught up!

[evilhippo]

In my experience so far, Tumblr is not a good forum for any sort of discussion at all. It is, however, great for 1) gifs 2) art and 3) shouting into the void and listening to the echo.

Did you hear the original story? I'm kind of curious about what someone who didn't will make of it, but things right now are mostly an echo chamber of people who are public radio weirdos (I mean, it's a public radio story that was later debunked by another public radio program. A disconcerting amount of the argument I've seen has actually been derailed by how TAL is distributed by PRI, not NPR, so, you know, the whole thing isn't actually as much of a meta radio ouroboros as it seems.)

[zolac_no_miko]

...Those pieces of dead air were electric.

[evilhippo]

The first one ran so long, I actually checked to make sure it was still playing. Leaving that dead space in there says so, so much more about Mike (and Ira) than could ever really be covered otherwise.

[followingmyfish]

I listened to the retraction episode on Saturday and holy crap, I have never seen (well, heard) anyone pull off calm anger as well as Ira Glass did. That first moment of dead air was so long that I started to think that my radio had shut off.