Charles Stricklin

Care to know what podcasts I subscribe to at the moment? Here they are:

1. 1 Year Daily Audio Bible
2. Apologetics.com Weekly Radio Show
3. Brookwood Baptist Church, Shreveport, LA
4. Buzz Out Loud from CNET
5. Career Advice, Workplace Tips & Job Search by JobDig
6. Dirty Little Secrets with Craig Gross and Mike Foster
7. Effective Website Secrets
8. Fitness Attack
9. Free Talk Live
10. GeekBrief.TV
11. History 7B: US History: from Civil War to Present
12. Hot Air TV
13. History IAS 180: US Foreign Policy After 9/11
14. Inside the Net
15. Internet Marketing Unleashed by Podcasting
16. LifeChurch.tv: Switch Films
17. LifeChurch.tv: Video Message Series
18. Live From the 101
19. Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram
20. Mighty Seek
21. Military History Podcast
22. No Idle Frets
23. podCast411
24. Podcast Tools Weekly Update with Paul Colligan
25. Podcaster Confessions
26. Podcasting For Dummies
27. Podcasting Underground
28. realVerse
29. Rocketboom
30. Second Life
31. Shelley the Republican
32. The Blog Herald
33. The Dave Ramsey Show
34. The Productive Christian Podcast
35. The WordPress Podcast
36. Today in Podcasting
37. Townhall.Com Talk Radio
38. Web Design Podcast from Boagworld.com
39. Weekend Journal
40. Willow Creek Podcasts
41. Wizbang Podcast
42. XXXchurch.com

Is there anything akin to OPML for Podcasts? What I’d like to do is share my Podcast subscriptions, or even the episodes themselves, from my iPod/iTunes.

All iTunes does is output an XML showing the locations of the MP3 files on my own hard disk, which isn’t what I want.

I took today off and relaxed, watching a few movies. Somewhere during the day, I realized that two of the three DVDs I rented could be categorized as “geek movies”, or having special significance to persons of heightened technological skills, so I’ve decided to make a list of what I consider to be the ultimate geek movies. Feel free to add any you think I might have missed.

1. All the Star Wars films
2. All the Star Trek films
3. The Matrix trilogy
4. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
5. Monty Python’s Life of Brian
6. Monty Python’s the Meaning of Life
7. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
8. Real Genius
9. Weird Science
10. Tron
11. The Last Starfighter
12. Sneakers
13. War Games
14. Pirates of Silicon Valley
15. Antitrust

That’s all I can think of off the top of my head. Can you add more?

My Mom sent me this, and I enjoyed it so much I thought I’d share it with you:

A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, “How heavy is this glass of water?” Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it. “If I hold it for a minute, that’s not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my right arm. If I hold it for a day, you’ll have to call an ambulance. In each case, it’s the same weight, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.” He continued, “And that’s the way it is with stress management.”

“If we carry our burdens all the time, sooner or later, as the burden becomes increasingly heavy, we won’t be able to carry on. As with the glass of water, you have to put it down for a while and rest before holding it again. When we’re refreshed, we can carry on with the burden. So, before you return home tonight, put the burden of work down. Don’t carry it home. You can pick it up tomorrow. Whatever burdens you’re carrying now, let them down for a moment if you can. Relax; pick them up later after you’ve rested.”

“Life is short. Enjoy it!” And then he shared some ways of dealing with the burdens of life:

• Accept that some days you’re the pigeon, and some days you’re the statue.
• Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
• Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
• Drive carefully. It’s not only cars that can be recalled by their maker.
• If you can’t be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.
• If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
• It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
• Never buy a car you can’t push.
• Never put both feet in your mouth at the same time, because then you won’t have a leg to stand on.
• Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
• Since it’s the early worm that gets eaten by the bird: sleep late.
• The second mouse gets the cheese.
• When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.
• Birthdays are good for you. The more you have, the longer you live.
• You may be only one person in the world, but you may also be the world to one person.
• Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
• We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp, some are pretty and some are dull. Some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they all have to live in the same box.

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.

You know, I’ve been a Christian for 36 years; I’ve been going to Bible study for longer than that, and this morning they brought up scripture in Zephaniah, and I’m ashamed to admit I actually thought to myself, “There’s a chapter named Zephaniah in the Bible?!?”

I’m really enjoying using Skype, but I’ve got a couple of suggestions for the developers that I wish they’d incorporate into future versions.

The first is really silly, but I’m a neat freak, and having any program create three separate folders in my My Documents directory offends my sense of order and control. Right now, Skype creates My Skype Content, My Skype Pictures and My Skype Received Files directories there.

Why not enclose each of those as a subdirectory of My Skype Stuff or something like that? In fact, why not let us choose our own name for that directory?

Another thing I’d like to see them do is enable recording of conversations from within Skype and have the program separate each participant’s voice in a separate track of audio. The ability to save that file as either .mp3, .wav or .ogg would be nice too.

I know! I know! I’m never satisfied.