Photos for first week of 2014

Got through the first week of taking a photo a day in 2014. Using my ipod and tumblr are definitely making it easier to do it.

Here is a collage of the first seven photos.

Individual photos are found on tumblr.

On to next week.

New Year 2014, New Photo Challenge

Trying out using tumblr to do that photo a day challenge in 2014.  Will take photos with my iPod, so I can upload them directly to tumblr.  Easier than having to transfer from a camera's card.  Better chance I'll finish the year this time.

Photos will be on photoadayin2014.

I may try posting a weekly composite of photos taken during the previous week.

NaNoWriMo Ends

And I didn't get anything written or drawn.  Oh well.  It's always fun to dream of doing it.  Next year then.

NaNoWriMo Begins

First day of NaNoWriMo.  Did a little bit of writing.  Got 264 words down.  Other stuff to do right now, so will write more tonight.  Hope....


Evening Update.  Never schedule a 2 hour dental appointment on the first day of NaNoWriMo.  Just 264 words today.  Tomorrow will be better.

The day before NaNoWriMo...

A little pre-nanowrimo video

Just a few more days to the start of NaNoWriMo.  And there are word count widgets!

Plain Word Count


and
My Month's word count


and
A graph of the word count


and
The word count of my area



Here's hoping my word count grows over the month of November.

Testing the posting of audio clips onto my blog using Soundcloud





Info on how to do it in this youtube video

Ginger Tea cleans the bowl

Some of what I'm listening too

On the listening list today.

Flash Pulp

Some Other Scotland

Every Photo Tells

Brass Needles

Talking On My Morning Walk

Split Worlds

Just a few.  There are others, but these are the ones I'm listening to today.

Rambling Amble #3: King of the Nerds Review

After watching the season finale of King of the Nerds on the Syfy channel, I had some definite thoughts on the show.  Some spoilers.  Good show, worth the watching.  Not perfect.  Lots of room for improvement in season 2.

Part of FlashCast #84, on the FlashPulp podcast.  I agree with Jrd.  Having a popular vote on the last episode makes it "President of the Nerds," not "King".

Rambling Amble #2: Vine Review

While taking my daily walk (which doesn't happen every day, but I try), had some thoughts on the new app, Vine.  Let's you record 6sec videos and post to their site and crosspost to Twitter and Facebook.

Since I had to make it a video to load it here, used some of the vids I made the other weekend while playing bingo in Alpine Oregon.  Tiny town, location of our Community Center, serving the southern part of the Benton County area.  Opening spot is a doodle I made on the Sketch Club app.  I was trying for blackberry vines as they cascade down a pine tree.  Happens lots around here.  Other pics were taken during this amble.

It's a great app, and if you have a device that can use it, I highly recommend it.  It's still a work in process, but I enjoy being on the ground floor of new stuff.

Also part of FlashCast #83, on the FlashPulp podcast.  Many great segments to listen to on the pod.

Rambling Amble #1: Robot Combat League

Watched the first episode of this new SyFy show the other day.  Was walking with the dogs and thought it be fun to record a review of it on my iPod with my new cool headset.

The picture in the movie I made from the audio is a little Sketch Club drawing from my iPad.  It's what I was doodling while watching the episode.  It's my interpretation of the fight.

Again, I can't just upload the plain audio.  Had to turn it into a video.  But that's ok.  Let's me share my doodle.

Update 1: You can also hear this as part of the FlashCast #82.  Part of the FlashPulp family of podcasts.

Update 2:  Since I like to record during my daily walk (ala Nathan Lowell), I'm going to call these recordings "Tibbi's Rambling Ambles From Oregon", or maybe just "Ramblings Ambles" for short.

New Headset

So I got a lovely present for my anniversary earlier this year.  Open Ear Headphones.  Uses bone conduction to take the sound to your ears instead of sticking things in your ears.

Better yet, it includes a microphone so you can record sound.  Decided to test it out, ala Nathan Lowell's walking talks.  Just to see how well it dealt with the rustling of my coat and all that outside noise.

Weirdly, while Blogspot allows the uploading of video files, it doesn't allow the same for audio files.  Had to turn the audio file into a movie so I can add it into this post.  Silly, but that's blogger for ya'. :)

 

The podcasts I mentioned in this short bit of sound are FlashPulp/FlashCast and Brass Needles.  I highly recommend them.

December 1st was an exciting day.  Not only did I get a second Thanksgiving dinner with family on Saturday, but it was the launch of the audio podcast of Cowry Catchers Book 4: Out of the Ashes.

In celebration of this release, there was a video contest on the author's website.  The winner would get to select an existing character, who would be featured in a story. 

I entered, as did one other person.  And guess what?  We were both so good we both won!  Here are the two winning videos.

My winning video:

(Character selected: Thessalyn)


Other winning video:

(Character selected: Lu)

So, enjoy the videos.  Also, listen to all the books, including the latest at the Cowry Catchers

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