Archive for February, 2008

Director, reporter, music-picker

Friday, February 29th, 2008

Uptown Radio: 2/29
I directed today’s broadcast, and had a piece in the first half. Aside from one bobble only someone on our staff would detect, and one audible bobble (when the second newscaster jumped the gun and came in early) the show ran remarkably smoothly and precisely to time.
In the heat [...]

Punctuation geekery on the NYC subways

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Kate has, in the past, gently discouraged me from getting many more punctuation tattoos. One, she says, seems like it should be plenty. Despite this, I’ve often talked about getting an ampersand, because I like the form of the thing, or a semicolon, because I just frickin’ love using them SO MUCH. [...]

The sub-prime mess, explained in pictures

Saturday, February 16th, 2008

http://docs.google.com/TeamPresent?docid=ddp4zq7n_0cdjsr4fn&skipauth=true

Our first of thirteen

Friday, February 15th, 2008

The tech staff(*) at the J-school are still tightening the bolts and applying a chamois to the site, but here’s the link where you’ll find my Radio Workshop class streaming, live, our hour-long radio show, every Friday afternoon at 4 p.m. EST:
http://web.jrn.columbia.edu/studentwork/radio/news/index.asp
You will not hear my voice on today’s show, as I’m Senior Producing [...]

Holes I never noticed before

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

This is the lid to a food processor. Note the teeny hole in the center of the, er, plug piece. If you put an egg yolk and a squirt of mustard and some salt and pepper and a scant tablespoon, combined, of lemon juice and vinegar and maybe a smashed up garlic clove [...]