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TC 121 - A Bit of Context
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Let me know if show notes are required. It seems that having 'em would run counter to what this Free Association thing I'm trying to put together is all about. But I'm willing to consider alternative views.
Image provided by Ardesia under Creative Commons licensing via Flickr. Grazie tanto, Ardesia!!Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TC 120 - Hitting the Sweet Spot
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This one-hundred-twentieth episode came unexpectedly on a Sunday afternoon at home. Show notes don't really seem to make sense for this one as it's pretty self-explanatory.
Curious listeners might be interested in tracking down the Warren Ellis blog post referenced at the close of the episode which was prompted by a recent report about some science stuff from the BBC.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TC 119 - For the record...
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It seems that this is the time of year when this podcast always appears to crash and burn. Over the past three years a number of folks had declared an end to Tokyo Calling through the silent weeks of late May, June and July. Some might even have felt that the pattern was beginning to repeat itself this year.
The point of this short little recording is to declare that nothing could be further from the truth. Though, the fr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TC 118 - Always check, it might be mate
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Well, it's done. It was a fun, challenging and exciting process to put this one together. This is an example of the direction I'd like to take the Tokyo Calling podcast (what am I signing myself on to do?) - there are other ideas in the works as well.
I'm not quite sure how to describe this one. The phrase "audio melange" came up in the Twitter this past week. If you have any ideas about what to call this sort of thing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TC 117 Solid Golden Week
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It looks like Japan's First Podcast will be coming through TalkShoe for the foreseeable future. Free hosting that actually returns a small sum compared to paid hosting leaves no choice. This is especially the case considering some decisions I've made about future directions for this podcast. All the details are laid out in a semi-coherent form in the later half of the episode.
In the first half is the Kodomonohi fukubik ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TC 116 - By the way . . .
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I decided to wrap up the week with one more bit of audio. This didn't work so well over the TalkShoe because of the low quality of the recording. I was surrounded by noise and wind as I made the walk from Iidabashi to Suidobashi. Hopefully, there's enough here to warrant putting it out as an episode.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TC 115 - Waxen Grimaces in the Morning
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Decided to enjoy a leisurely walk to campus this Monday morning rather than transfer to another hot and crowded subway car. On the way there, I recorded some random thoughts about frowning salarymen, girl scouts, teaching matters, and this Wednesday's Calling Tokyo Calling.
Relevant Links:
Graham Stanley
Voice Thread
Calling Tokyo Calling on TalkShoe
WIkipedia entry on Steampunk
Image courtesy of LouiseDK via a Crea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TC 114 - Back to School Special
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Follow Japan's First Podcaster as he returns to teaching duties for another school year. From Office 2007 to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on the way to the Meat Grinder, from a muscle-bound Lothario and his wingman to a university administrator with a stack of student complaints - the only sane way to cope is to Do Easy (DE).
Relevant Links:
The Discipline of DE (Do Easy)
My TalkShoe "Shows"
Wikipedia entry on "W ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TC 113 - Hat in Hand
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time
segment
links
00:00-09:03
CTC Returns
Calling Tokyo Calling on TalkShoe
09:07-12:08
Stroke of Luck
Jerome Stewart Gets Lucky, too
12:12-15:20
Trotsky on an elevator
Trotsky on stage
Patchouli on Wikipedia
Umbrella Self-Defence
15:25-18:03
The Final Obento
Happy Lunchbox
17:40-22:10
Donation Drive
Wojtek
Andy
Dr. Gene Scott
22:05-29:40
Epilogue
Kevin's Short Cummings Audio podcast
Music:
Fix ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TC 112 - I'm So Thick
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time
segment
links
00:00-27:57
Wandering to a barbershop
Chinese Yellow Sands hit Japan and Korea: Mis-speaking yet again, I called it yellow dust
No One Goes to Japan: blog by an American student staying in Tokyo
Blue and Brown Books: blog by a Canadian philosopher teaching English in Shizuoka
Letters to Nana: podcast of audio letters with photos from the Canadian philosopher to his Nana
27:08-29:09
Musical int ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TC 111 - Who's Scottlo Scorbal?
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This episode is another freewheeling affair which was recorded live before a camera for an actual internet audience on Yahoo!Live. I wouldn't know where to begin in terms of writing up some show notes - once again, this one was all over the place.
Please accept the following links as a token of good will.
Olympus LS-10 Linear PCM Recorder
David Lynch: comments regarding viewing movies on the iPhone
Meet Scottlo Sco ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TC 110 - My Other Self
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I really don't know how to explain this one. I'll try to come up with something in the coming days, if I don't pull this post down first.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | tc_vlog_022 Click To Play
I just realized that the last vlog post was made in May, 2007. Now that I'm doing the daily updates on Tokyo Calling TV, I wonder if there will remain a need to do vlog entries. Any thoughts or suggetions?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | I Heartily Endorse This... (ep01)
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A busy week has prevented me from producing either a Tokyo Calling or My Ears to Your Ears episode - though offerings for both are in the works. Fortunately the work I've been doing has allowed me to listen to music. A couple of music podcasts I've recently come across soothed my jagged nerves through this arduous process.
The two podcasts are recent additions to the essential NeoJaponisme blog. After listening to both of them a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TC 109 - A Most Fortunate Discovery
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time
segment
links
00:00-1:59
Introduction
 
1:59-2:20
The House on Landsford Drive by gurdonark
Creative Commons licensed via ccMixter
2:15-16:15
Elementary School Kendama Tournament
Japan Kendama Association
16:10-16:40
lab_sound (part 4 - alternate) by jaspertine
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16:35-27:57
Vending Machine with David Lynch Coffee
Petty Larceny with Schlomo
David Lynch Signature ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | My Ears to Your Ears episode 01 - I Remember Seeing Orson Welles on TV
After too many months of dormancy, the ZionRadio Padcast feed delivered three tasty 70 minute mp3s to iTunes this morning. I listened to a hypnotizing episode entitled "music a fe rule" throughout the various stages of my commute during the day. The idea for this audio miniature occurred while listening to twisting-sweep-in-a-swamp sort of jam at the 49 minute mark whilst thinking about Orson Welles on the way home after a long day in the classroom.
Sadly, the ZionRadio website seems a b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TC 108 - Open Gates
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time
segment
links
00:00-10:29
Open Gates
Brezny's Free Will Astrology
JapanPodcasters.com
10:29-10:50
Now or Never
10:45-31:29
Pause Talk
JeanSnow
Paper Bird
Shantell Martin
Test Tone
Hitotoki
31:22-32-55
Onarimon Station Noises
32:46-40:27
TCTV Talk
40:23-40:47
Toto: Child's Anthem
40:43-49:18
Epilog
Toto and Boz Skaggs together at MEETSPORT
Eric Rice on Identity Hacking
Momus on Mask Mak ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | TC 107 - The Road to Self-Discovery
Podcast: Tokyo Calling 107 (click to listen)
Getting Started
Inspired by a couple of blogging and self-help gurus, this podcast features a few of my personal and podcasting goals for the coming year. Problogger goes so far as to schedule a Resolution and Goal Setting brunch at the beginning of every year with his wife. I don't know if Mrs. Tokyo Calling or the TC Singers would tolerate such indulgence. Though, I don't doubt its value.
Looked at from another angle, in his Personal Devel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 106
Recorded on my way to and from a Saturday make-up lesson at the science university, this 30 minute he's-at-it-again-cast features thoughts on my second daughter's recent attempt to enter a national elementary school and how that effort impacted our family. Also included is a debriefing on the lessons in which I showed and asked the engineering and business management students to write about some holiday videos I'd recently found online.
The most popular video among the students seemed to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 105
Hoping that the third time is a charm, this 30 minute setting-the-record-straight-cast features recap, explanation, and examination of topics that were less than fully covered in the two prior episodes.
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Systemic InfectionListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 104
Wish I could blame the poor sound of this 24 minute echo-chamber-cast on the pain killers from my recent injury. In fact, some dude giving a talk on podcasting at a recent Tokyo Mac Users Group (RINGO) meeting recommended using a bit of reverb when recording. He said it would add a little something. Unfortunately, I recorded with some of it instead of adding it after the fact. My fear is that this is unlistenable.
In the final five minutes I explain the links below to my Mother's new onl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 103
Here's a 22 minute recording made while walking in Chiyoda-ku this afternoon.
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As I'm feeling a bit under the weather and am rushing to meet a couple of deadlines, the episode I had intended for 102 could not get produced this week. Instead, I blushingly offer you this 24 minute tumeric-laced-recording. I really never intended it to last more than a few minutes - just to say that there wouldn't be an episode this week is really all I meant to do. But that wasn't to be.
I seemed to shift into an unknown over-drive gear once the power-drink kicked in. Before I knew ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 101
If all the recent junk-emails about bigger being better are to be believed, then this 71 minute bait-and-swithc cast will be the best episode ever. What was originally intended as a response to Timo's comment on episode 99, wound up being something entirely different. I'll leave the final judgement to you: the kind listener.
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Time
Prologue
0:00-5:48
Bait & Switch in Suidobashi
6:27-9:58
Segment 1 at Yasukuni
10:15-30:56
Segm ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 100
At long last, here is the much agonized over one hundredth episode of Japan's First Podcast. Thanks to all who been listening for a while as well as those who have recently found their way here.
Here's to the next hundred.
Thanks to San Nakji and Gareth Q. for sending in audio comments.
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This 48 minute recording is a long-winded retelling of how my eldest daughter and I spent a wonderful sunny Sunday afternoon in late October. We saw quite a few interesting things along the way as we went to the National Science Museum in Ueno.
Relevant Links:
Karamoon's podcast featuring an interview with BicycleMark
Tokyo Science Museum at Uneo as reviewed by travelwithyourkids.com
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This 43 minute flattop-cast features your host mindlessly blathering about a variety of mundane topics. Listening back to myself droning on about marking papers, getting a haircut, eating the new Halloween Special edition caramel Kit-Kat, feeling content, reading to my daughter, and playing chess makes me cringe. I honestly can't imagine how or why good folks such as yourselves can endure such stuff.
If there's one thing I've learned in reading comments and emails from subscribers over th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 097
This 30 minute recording began in Yotsuya and concluded from the Tokyo Calling command post. Topics include a productivity report, sumo death investigation update, Japanese recipe website, $3000 dollar painted tortillas, and a call for submissions for the big third anniversary show scheduled for October 26, 2007.
Relevant Links:
Tokitsuumi to become Tokitsukaze oyakatavia sumotalk.com
Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office
CookPad site for Japanese recipes
Brezny's Free Will Astrology
Thank ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 096
This 44 minute episode begins with some reminiscences on the occasion of our daughter's eighth birthday. It continues with thanks to Robert Sanzalone of pacificIT and BlogNation Japan for the interview he recorded with me on TalkShoe last Saturday.
That's followed by some news from Japan. Topics include the new Prime Minister, the recently introduced early earthquake alert system, and some controversial sumo stories:
Asashoryu
Woman on the Dohyo
Death on the Dohyo
Thanks for l ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 095
A brief talk about our recent visit to the Ueno Zoo begins this 25 minute recording. After that, I discuss a couple of podcasts that I've been enjoying lately from MaximumFun.org: The Sound of Young America & Jordan, Jesse Go!
Coming up this Saturday morning (Japan time), I'm schedule to join Robert Sanzalone from Blognation Japan for an interview on his PacificIT Talkshoe program. Stop by and say hi, if you can.
As always, thanks for listening.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 094
It's good to be back and to be able to share this 30 minute recording.
No links or show notes to post for now. I'm still trying to remember how to do this.
Thanks for hanging in there.
There's more to come.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Back in TokyoHere's a quick little update and announce cast to help me get back in to the routine. I'm hoping to get back into the podcasting groove in the coming days. Tomorrow we'll have a CTC episode at the usual time on TalkShoe. Please stop by and say hello if you can.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 080807 Update and AnnounceI'm going to have to suspend operations for a few weeks as I prepare for and go on vacation. This short announcement was just put together to let everyone know and also to announce that this coming Friday's CTC will have to be cancelled as well.
Andy joined in for a short chat about a recent collaborative project we've begun with Mogulus. More information on San's Merry Band of Turtles (SMBot) will be released when it becomes available.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 080507 Update and AnnounceI know I need to do a better job of writing up some details and information about what is to be heard on these various recorded bit of audio.
I promise to do better in the future.
Thanks for listening.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Calling Tokyo Calling 011This 40 minute episode of Calling Tokyo Calling was simulcast live via Mogulus on Tokyo Calling TV.
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 093A wide range of topics worked their way in to this 52 minute crazy-quilt-cast. Things that I've been listening to and watching on the net comprise the bulk of the episode. Also included are responses to a couple of frequent listeners and a couple of songs from the Tokyo Calling Singers.
Relevant Links:
Plantronix USB Headset Microphones
Terrance's Wine Podcast
NPR's OnPoint with Tom Ashbrook
ABC Podcast
Digiki's Polypunk Podcast
Snack Fan Japan
Ground Report TV
Mashup Town TV
Thanks for ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 092
This 15 minute jack-hammer-cast was recorded during a short walk from Suidobashi to Korakuen through the Tokyo Dome City complex. Between loud bursts of noise from nearly every direction, I managed to report on my lack of progress with work which has been caused in part by a new project called Tokyo Calling TV.
In fact, a link to tctv has been added to the thin navigation bar at the top of the page. Feel free to check it out (Flash 9 is required), though the current pickings are slim.
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Celebrating a new month with this 15 minute two-fer-Sunday-cast.
Relevant Links:
William Blake Archive
Mr. Hopkinson's Computer as featured on WFMU's Beware of the Blog
Another William Blake worthy of consideration
Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 090Topics in this 17 minute Happy-Fathers-Day-cast include morning calisthenics, celsius to fahrenheit conversion, the start of rainy season, Calling Tokyo Calling, and a couple of milestones on the horizon.
Another CTC has been scheduled for Friday June 22nd, at the usual time. Topics as mentioned in this episode will be your favorite spots in Japan or places you'd like to visit when you come to Japan. Hope to hear from you then.
Running time: 17'00" ..:.. Filesize: 5.9 mb
Bit Rate: 48 Kbps ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 088The levels are a little mismatched between segments of this 31 minute bounce-hit-cast. I'd rather have spent more time editing the file but ultimately the overwhelming reality of my schedule has forced me to release it as is.
It looks like I'll have to slow things down with the podcast for the next 7 weeks or so. I'll try to get two more episodes out this month.
Calling Tokyo Calling will continue it's Friday morning/evening run for as long as I can maintain this balancing act.
Links me ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 087This 32 minute process-this-cast was recorded over the course of six days in three locations. As much as I loathe the phrase Jump The Shark, I wonder if it describes what has happened to this podcast of late...
At least, I'm having fun.
Relevant Links:
Richard Gere on Fresh Air
Keltin's Sphere of Shadows podcast
CC Mixter
Calling Tokyo Calling 003 live interactive podcast: scheduled for 9:15 am EDT, Friday June 1st
Running time: 32'57" ..:.. Filesize: 11.4 mb
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This past Sunday, the Japan's First Family of Podcasting headed down to the Sunday Cycling Course at Meiji-Jingugaien. All shapes and sizes of bicycles are available for free rental. This footage was shot as I followed my daughters on green Raleigh that was past its prime.
Still still we had a wonderful time peddling through the scenic surroundings of the former 1964 Olympic Village. The nearly 2 km circuit winds around the outer gardens of Meiji Shri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 084
This 45 minute walking-in-the-rain-cast was recorded on the way to and back home from Teachers College - Tokyo in Suidobashi. Included is a bit of talk about what I've been up to and what's been on my mind (par for the course).
The episode ends with some musings about what other sorts of directions might be explored in the future.
Relevant Links:
Public Radio Talent Quest
Wikipedia on Freaks and Geeks
Fresh Air with Terry Gross
Mighty Mur Lafferty
Matthew Wayne Selznick
Running time: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | tc_vlog_020 Click To Play Here is video I shot while watching cherry blossoms with daughter #1 a couple of weeks ago.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | tc_vlog_018This 43 minute fu-ling-yu-cast was my last best chance to get a podcast up before a week of playing major-league catch up. Hopefully, I'll be able to post a vlog of hanami later this week.Running time: 43'20" ..:.. Filesize: 14.9 mbBit Rate: 48 Kbps (mono) ..:.. Sample Rate 22.050Once again, thanks for listening! !Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 081Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 080Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | tc_vlog_017Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tokyo Calling Episode 083Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download |
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