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Todd W — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:56:09 +0000

GOP Meltdown

Todd W — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:26:21 +0000

I can’t really find a single good thing to say about the current state of politics. The GOP has manifestly disappointed me with the slate of candidates (Fred Thompson could have done it for me, but he ran a lousy campaign). McCain is a RINO, Huckabee is the worst thing we could have, Romney strikes me as a used car salesman, Giuliani is pretty left-ish and probably not acceptable to the party (and for the life of me I can’t figure out why someone who is left of Giuliani does okay so long as he has the word ‘Christian’ next to his name e.g. Huckabee). It is just a lousy slate of people, and it is clear that the party of Reagan died some time ago.

Voters get the party we deserve.

Cleaning Up

Todd W — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:00:57 +0000

Yeah, I think I’m back to this thing. You might see some changes in the next few days as I start cleaning up and re-organizing some things.

Test Post

Todd W — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 21:32:13 +0000

Blowing the dust off….

Long Silence

Todd W — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:51:38 +0000

A whole month went by without a post. I’ve got to admit that surprises me. I’ve been so busy it only seems like a couple of weeks. I’m alive, and things are going well. AudioMonk.com is still doing very well, and I’ve had to expand by bringing my brother and a mutual friend on board as formal partners to divide the work and start designing the company to move to the next level where we will have actual employees. We’ve just come off of a two week break in our advertising to catch our breath, and we finally have all of the work caught up to present day. Now that we’ve taken the time to write some processes and lay out a procedure map, the work should flow more smoothly from here on out. In addition, I’ve established a direct relationship with parties in India to do some of the transcription work at rates favorable to us and them. I never would have believed this would go so quickly.

From the media consumption perspective, I have won back some time to read and work through Netflix again, so those will continue to be updated. I have some reviews in me, and maybe I’ll get some time to put those together.

And if you made a habit of checking here over the past month of nothing, many thanks from me.

I’m Not Dead Yet

Todd W — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:47:45 +0000

Long time, no blog.

Truth is, I just don’t have the time for it right now. AudioMonk.com just ‘re-launched’ with a new look, and I’ve been swamped in work up until today. I certainly can’t complain, but it has been more successful than I had thought possible. Maybe I’ll be giving up that pizza job soon.

Spring is here, without a doubt.

She looks like she is up to something. It’ll probably be bad for me.

I’ve plowed through a lot of books in the idle moments I manage to shoe-horn in between three different jobs and the occasional sleep. Charles Stoss is currently wowing me with Glasshouse, Singularity Sky, and Iron Sunrise. Glasshouse in particular is a book I’d like to heavily endorse. As usual with Stross, there are more ideas per page than most writers pack into a single book.

On the DVD front, I’ve been slowly picking my way through HBO’s Deadwood. What a great f*&#ing series if you can f*&#ing all of the f*&#ing swearing. Seriously, it is great, but the language is some of the most vile stuff I’ve ever heard. There is a YouTube clip out there (no, I’m not linking) where someone strung together every curse word from one episode. It runs about 4 minutes and you can almost make out the plotline.

Have fun, and thanks for stopping in.

links for 2007-04-10

Todd W — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:20:32 +0000

Impressive

(tags: jet exhaust)

300 - The Payment

Todd W — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:14:47 +0000

I just sold my movie review of ‘300′ to Associated Content for actual money. I’ll provide a link once it shows up over there.

Update - Link added. Go say nice things about me. Bonus are accrued if people read and comment.

Busy

Todd W — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:09:16 +0000

Sorry to those of you who check back here for fresh, pithy posts from your’s truly. I’ve simply been buried in work for AudioMonk. It’s a good problem to have, but I’m getting that drinking-from-a-firehose effect. As a matter of fact, I’m probably going to have to farm out some work to keep up.

I’m not going to quit blogging, but you’re probably better off sticking this blog in your RSS reader rather than stopping back every day. I’ll shout when I return.

Now back to transcribing…

Copyright

Todd W — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 13:05:39 +0000

Let’s light up the debate again.