Re: podcasts, mics, evolution and PG !

On 8/25/06, John Brawley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > i have some ideas.  i think it'll be fun.
> He said the main thing.  "Delivery" is nearly _every_thing.  Diction,
> animation, intensity, focus, "flow," etcetera.
> (I was a stage actor once; I speak from experience.)

thank goodness content is irrelevant.  :)

> > i'm going to do more than talk about the code.  i think d@h offers
> > lots of opportunities to talk about evolution in general and even
> > about memetics, as well as about fluidiom code and he geometry behind
>
> I was not aware you were seriously interested in evolution itself.

do you mean biological evolution?  because d@h represents "evolution
itself".  i've been inspired by a stack of books from Richard Dawkins,
who is all about evolution, biological or otherwise.

> Perhaps I can drive some of a mailing list full of professional
> 'evolutionists' your way, from the NCSE (National Center for Science
> Education --Eugenie C. Scott, president) mailing list.

sounds a bit like herding cattle, the way you put it.  why would you
want to drive them my way?

> _Philip_Glass_ ??!!
> EXcellent choice.  You're 'into' "alternative" composers?

yeah, except i'm too afraid of getting slammed.  i hope to get the
time this weekend to explore http://creativecommons.org/audio/ and
cut-and-paste other music in.  too bad, because like Kirby said, Phil
Glass is ideal for this.

>  Any Tomita being
> considered?  Kitaro?  Vangelis?

is any of their stuff less encumbered by copyright than Phil's?

> Have you the Philip Glass // Ravi Shankar collaboration?  (A most
> 'atmospheric' CD.)

no, but i'd like to hear it.  i've got lots of Glass.

-- 
Gerald de Jong
[email protected]
http://www.darwinathome.org

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