New podcast: How soldiers eat on the front lines
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There’s a new episode of the Crispy on the Outside podcast up and it’s a very special one. We interviewed Capt. Kevin Adams, a good friend of mine who is an Army JAG officer stationed in Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. If you know me, then you probably know Kevin, too.
We talked about what soldiers in the Army eat. This is a fascinating episode that you don’t want to miss. He tell us about the base’s dining facilities that offer less-than-comforting comfort foods, MREs, and the many fast food options available. Notable among these is a the trailer inside of which is a detailed replica of a real Starbucks. Kevin goes in to detail about the foods the Army provides for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and also the rules of eating and staying in shape.
Also up today is the new episode of In Conversation. Cord and I talked about cleaning house, zen and meditation, Wordpress and blogging, Facebook and Twitter spam (check out twerpscan.com), Cord’s super-secret conference and intimate groups, InConversationCon 2011, RSS and Yahoo! Pipes, Grand Theft Auto 4, and publish then filter.
New episode of In Conversation is up: Nerds in space.
Photos from my continuing Vegas adventure are up on flickr.
Do you know about nicechat.info?
In case you don’t know, I bifurcate my online output. While this is my personal website, I post the really personal stuff (photos, videos, wacky YouTube memes) at nicechat.info, my tumblelog with Kathleen. I need to figure out a better way to point to that site from here since I don’t think that content belongs here (do you?).Here’s something I just posted. It’s a video of a couple of Flickr sets I recently uploaded. It’s made with an amazing tool called Animoto. Very cool. I might spring for the paid version.
Me on the Cato Daily Podcast
I totally forgot about this, but last Friday I was featured on the Cato Daily Podcast. Marking Sunshine Week, I spoke about online transparency. You can grab the MP3 or take a listen here: Just finished the first video from Crispy on the Outsite TV: The McJito! Happy St. Patty’s Day!
McClintock, Garrick seek online account of state spending - I’m quoted today in Capitol Weekly, California’s state politics newspaper.
Nerd improvement
The latest episode of my podcast with Cord Blomquist, In Conversation, is now up.In this episode, Cord wonders why websites can’t be truly off-the-shelf, while Jerry obsesses over goofy Web 2.0 stuff that Cord’s still skeptical about. Also: Murphy’s Law and the Peter Principle, Napoleon Dynamite vs. the Wes Anderson oeuvre, web ads, why Elliott Spitzer’s unsafe at any speed, and nerds can fix things, so why can’t you? Check it out. To subscribe in iTunes, click here.
The latest episode of In Conversation is up. Cord and I discuss Macs, immigration and assimilation, internet illiteracy, and niche vs. mass appeal online.
Announcing Crispy on the Outside
Folks, after much preparation, I’m happy to pull back the covers on my latest web venture: crispyontheoutside.com. It is an irreverent food blog authored by my good friend Baylen Linnekin. Its focus will be the delicious underbelly of the food world, with a special emphasis on outlawed foods and unconventional tastes. Just now Baylen posted this breaking story:
Gordon Ramsay quietly closed his second restaurant in six months over the weekend. Problems at La Noisette seemed to center more on the space than the food. With the closing, he also loses one of his dozen Michelins, and further shifts the focus of his empire to a more mid-market clientele. …
The shutdown was abrupt, and as of 2pm EDT, La Noisette — though most of their website was shuttered to all but the Google cache — was still accepting reservations. (I reserved online for today, and received immediate confirmation that “a member of our team will contact you shortly.”)
A favorite feature is “This Week in Bacon,” and great posts so far include “Pigs Shudder in Blankets During Cooks’ IHOP Knife Fight” and “McFlurry of Activity Shows Amy Winehouse Can’t Get off the Sauce.” Awesome.
Please check it out. I’d love to hear your comments. Also feel free to subscribe to the RSS feed. And we would be so grateful if your would write it up on your blog.
In Conversation
Folks, I’d like to tell you about the new podcast I’m doing with my friend Cord Blomquist. It’s called “In Conversation” and it’s a weekly talk show for nerds. You can find it at www.inconversation.net. This is the third week we’ve recorded a show but the first time we’re actively spreading the word about it. Please do check it out and subscribe for free using iTunes or your favorite podcast client.
In the new episode Cord tells us about his experience as a guest on C-SPAN TV’s The Communicators show (you can listen to the show on this MP3). We also discussed the reasons why neither of us vote, Ross Perot’s original copy of the Magna Carta, web applications and webmail, the Alphasmart Neo, primitive computing, and self-imposed limitations with a sprinkling of copyright and Ron Paul. You can take a listen right here, but I hope you’ll check out the site and subscribe.
I’ve created a new site called OpenRegulations.gov that is an alternative interface to the federal government’s Regulations.gov database. The notable improvement is that unlike the official offering, OpenRgulations.gov offers an RSS feed of Federal Register notices for each agency. I explain it in more detail here. Please spread the word!
I have an op-ed in today’s Des Moines Register about government online transparency. It’s also been published in the Austin American-Statesman.
The Nerd Handbook. Great advice for everyone who deals with nerds. Has me pegged: A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head. … [Y]our nerd’s focus can be deliciously overwhelming, but it will stop. Once a nerd believes he fully knows how a system works, the challenge to understand ceases to exist and he moves on in search of The Next High.
From the press surrounding the new book Write it When I’m Gone I learn that my namesake Gerald Ford spelled his nickname Jerry with a “J” as I do. I’ll never apologize again.
I’m blogging at jerrybrito.com again. I’ve been doing most of my blogging at nicechat.info, but there’s some stuff that just doesn’t fit there. So, here goes again. I’ve redesigned the site, so if you’re reading this on RSS, I hope you’ll come and take a look.
Our new site: Paperclippy!
Just wanted to let you know about a new project Kathleen and I have started that I think you’ll appreciate. We’ve started a shopping blog for professional women at www.paperclippy.com. We’re doing a soft launch of the site today, which means we’d love it if you checked out the site and told us what you think. Feel free to tell friends about it, but don’t go crazy. In a week or so when the site is in better shape we plan to send out another email asking you to please help use spread the word. We’re very excited about it and we hope it’ll be useful to working women everywhere. Hope you like it!
Tech Policy Weekly
I’ve started a new podcast along with my friends at the Technology Liberation Front. It’s called Tech Policy Weekly, which pretty much tells you what it’s about.
On the first episode we talk about wireless net neutrality, the proposed XM-Sirius satellite radio merger, and whether a commons is an alternative to spectrum regulation. You can check it out here, and you can listen to it right at your computer. If you like it, please subscribe, and please tell your tech-inclined friends about it. Thanks!
Think diffident
I have a new article up at American.com on Apple’s controversial $1.99 charge to upgrade consumer’s Wi-Fi cards. Snippet: “The rule that made Apple’s mess predates Sarbanes-Oxley—but Sarbox’s stiffened penalties may well have changed Apple’s calculus. What was previously an accounting principle that could have, in a special circumstance like this one, been benignly neglected with the use of an explanatory footnote, the Act now makes rigid. The possible criminal penalties that can now attach to any unusual accounting mitigate the incentives to account for things elegantly, when the elegant way of keeping track of things requires some added explanation.”More new stuff
Here are some links to my recent output. I recently moderated a roundtable discussion on net neutrality with panelists from Heritage, PFF, Public Knowledge, and Free Press. Audio and photos of the event are online. Also, the June edition of AFF Radio, which I host, is also online. The show features James W. Antle on what Democrats can learn from Republican foreign policy, Brooke Oberwetter on the truth about global warming skepticism, and Will Wilkinson on how free labor markets contribute to individual happiness. Finally, if you’d like to subject yourself to an hour of me speaking non-stop, you can download audio (mp3) of my recent lecture to Hill Staffers on the subject of copyright, incentives, and orphan works. The slides (pdf) are also online, but they’ve been converted from Keynote to Powerpoint to PDF and they don’t look to great.-
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