Maybe you wont become a best selling author, but it is pretty amazing that you can publish a book on your own with the technology available today. Here is an NPR story about an author going outside the normal process Barry Eisler’s ‘Detachment’ From ‘Legacy’ Publishing : NPR.
Plus we have a friend, Jen Tucker who published her own book as well:
Saw this link the other day for “Bucket List Brewery Tour.” I have visited two of the brewery’s on the list, but not the one closeted to me. Who is up for a trip to 3 Floyds or a crazy road trip to all of them? One is in Alaska, so that might be a long drive.
Found a link to this video on the Freakonomcis Blog and thought it was great. Easy to understand, entertaining, and it points out the foolish decisions that we keep making with our coins.
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When I travel and we are working late into the night it can be hard to find a time to talk with my son. In addition, my son loves to pretend to talk on the phone, but hasn’t been so keen on talking on the real telephone. This time was different. He left me the voicemail below. You may need to listen to it more than once to understand everything he said, but it warms a father’s heart.
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I know that I haven’t posted anything about my music appreciation project in the last month, but it has been a big success. I enjoyed listening to a number of different stations including the Avett Brothers and Eric Clapton. I found a couple new artist that I really enjoy and have a great new station on Pandora; Joshua Radin. I have been listening to the Joshua Radin station for the last couple of weeks and it has a great mix of music, with very few duds.
Below is a list of artist’s that I have found to be very interesting and enlightening.
My musical tastes are fairly limited. As a kid my mom mostly listened to oldies stations and my Dad listened to NPR. When y
our favorite “songs” are Morning Edition and All Things Considered you might end up a little musically declined. My wife’s family appreciates music for all of it’s artistic greatness. They listened to a lot of different music growing up, can sing, play piano and one of them is even in a band.
I enjoy listening to a lot of different music (just not rap music for some reason), but it isn’t something that I really seek out. In addition, for me it is really filler/background part of the environment. I can listen to a song 20 times and still not know the lyrics, artist, etc. So in an effort to expand my musical experiences I am moving forward with a project to listen to a new artist each week on Pandora until the first of the year. This is a great way to experience some new music and possibly find some really great artists that I haven’t heard of.
Each week you can see the artist that I am listening too at the top left corner of my blog (screen shot of what to look for to the right). What I need is some suggestions of artists to listen to for the next couple of weeks. So far I have listened to the artists below:
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