Neither fish, nor fowl. I don’t know what to call it.   Netcast?    Maybe.

I do know that before this moment it was almost impossible to do on a shoestring. The hardware we’re using for The Squirrel Report would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars just a decade ago. Phone lines for dial in would have cost thousands each month. Forget the live streaming, that just wasn’t practical. It’s only in the last year that the cost of streaming live (quality) audio has dropped to where I can afford it. (As long as too many people don’t listen at once)

Now I can produce and distribute a live call in audio show each week for less money than a day at the range. A lot less.

Of course creating it is one thing.

Getting people to listen, well that’s a whole ‘nother thing entirely.

I would say wait and see.

I’ve been preaching the glories of ebooks since I was reading them on the screen of my Palm V over a decade ago.

“First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, then you win.”

What it is: Great ebook reader and front end to Amazon.

What it isn’t: iPad killer.

It’s a neat little gadget but I don’t know yet if it’s more useful than the $79 e-ink Kindle. It’s ok on the ebook reading, the screen is large enough. It will stream my music stored on Amazon’s Cloud Player but it’s WiFi only and I only really listen to music when I’m driving where the WiFi doesn’t work (and it’s all on my iPhone already). It’s does a good job of streaming movies from Amazon and Netflix but I only watch those at home and I have a large screen I use there.

I’ve already decided that I’ll swap the Fire for the iPad in my EDC bag (the murse). The iPad is superior in almost every way except size which makes carrying around a problem. I’ll leave the iPad at home for a while, where it excels as a living room/bedroom computer and see if the Fire can work as a replacement. At the very least I’ll be a lot less upset about losing the Fire than I would the iPad.

Is the Fire worth the $120 price increase over the $79 E-ink Kindle? Honestly, I’m not sure yet. If all I ever use the Fire for is reading books then no, it’s not. Time will tell.

No time for blog.

It’s starting to feel like Google + around here.

Hit the link on the sidebar and donate to cancer research.

Little, one foot tall zombies. (Like those little demons from “The Gate“)

They all looked exactly like Robb Allen.

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Yes, that’s right.

It was the Robb Zombie Apocalypse.