http://generalpurposepodcast.blogspot.com en-us Sound recording licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike United States 3.0 License (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/) For all your general-purpose podcasting needs Paul R. Potts Musings on sound, culture, politics, technology, science fiction, and geek fatherhood from the mind of Paul R. Potts Musings on sound, culture, politics, technology, science fiction, and geek fatherhood from the mind of Paul R. Potts Paul R. Potts paul@thepottshouse.org clean Paul R. Potts Or, What I Listened to on my Summer Vacation, by Little Paul R. Potts, Age 40 Fragments of audio from my summer vacation in Michigan's upper peninsula, and thoughts about sound and recording. http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20001%20-%20Learning%20to%20Listen.mp3 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:30:00 -0400 19:04 Creative Commons, field recording, Michigan clean Paul R. Potts Some sound from a Sunday morning at home with the toddlers. A sound collage recycling some audio from the previous podcast along with audio from my two younger children, Veronica and Sam, and some ukulele playing. http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20002%20-%20I%20Like%20Peanut%20Butter.mp3 Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:51:00 -0400 7:52 Creative Commons, field recording clean Paul R. Potts An interview with my pre-school daughter, recorded October 25th, 2008. Step inside the mind of a pre-school girl as she takes a walk in the woods with her father at sunset, and lets her imagination, creativity, and sense of humor off the leash. http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20003%20-%20A%20Walk%20in%20the%20Park%20with%20Veronica.mp3 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:30:00 -0400 35:58 Creative Commons, field recording, Ann Arbor clean Paul R. Potts Hear a blow-by-blow description of the birth of my baby son, including audio from the delivery room. Note: may not be suitable for young children. Joshua is a fully web 2.0-compliant baby: his birth has been twittered, blogged, and now, podcast! You can hear my status reports and audio recorded right in the delivery room. May not be suitable for young children. NOTE: revised to improve the mix and remove some dead space at the end of the file. http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20004%20-%20The%20Arrival%20of%20the%20Newbie,%20Part%201.mp3_CORRECTED_1 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:56:00 -0400 26:14 Creative Commons, field recording, Twitter yes Paul R. Potts Hear a blow-by-blow description of the birth of my baby son, including audio from the delivery room. Note: may not be suitable for young children. Part two. Grace labors on into the wee hours of the night and the conversation meanders into votesmart.org, the bailout bill, economics, and the notion of GDP, inspired in part by reading Joseph Pearce's book _Economics as if Famiies Mattered_. Note: may not be suitable for young children. http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20005%20-%20The%20Arrival%20of%20the%20Newbie,%20Part%202.mp3 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:08:00 -0400 35:14 Creative Commons, field recording, Twitter yes Paul R. Potts Hear a blow-by-blow description of the birth of my baby son, including audio from the delivery room. Note: may not be suitable for young children. Part three. Grace's labor is not progressing well, but the pitocyn drip keeps her contractions going and an epidural helps greatly with the pain. Note: may not be suitable for young children. http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20006%20-%20The%20Arrival%20of%20the%20Newbie,%20Part%203.mp3 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:30:00 -0400 35:30 Creative Commons, field recording, Twitter yes Paul R. Potts We interrupt your regularly scheduled podcast for this cover of Jonathan Coulton's song "The Future Soon," sung by my son Isaac, when he was thirteen and his voice was in the middle of changing. I'm sure he'll get his revenge one day. Take my 13-year-old son, have him sing a Jonathan Coulton song about adolescence, love, and robot armies. Screw around with it. Listen to the results. Add some tracks. Screw with it some more. Add some cowbell. Then, since it is already incredibly screwed-with, screw with it one more time. Finally, it seems right! So, here it is. Isaac sings the main vocal line, although his voice is Cher-ized and heavily processed. There is a scratch vocal track of mine in there, but it is beaten to a pulp. Then, an sweet and mellow acoustic guitar turned into something not so sweet, and a fretless bass that grew tentacles and tried to strangle me as I mixed it. http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/The%20Future%20Soon%20(Jonathan%20Coulton%20Cover)%20featuring%20Isaac%20Potts.mp3 Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:24:00 -0400 3:35 Creative Commons, field recording, Twitter clean Paul R. Potts Hear a blow-by-blow description of the birth of my baby son, including audio from the delivery room. Note: may not be suitable for young children. Part four (conclusion). Featuring the song "Stroller Town" by Jonathan Coulton. After the epidural kicks in and she gets some rest, Grace's labor progresses through the morning until the moment of the birth itself arrives with startling speed. Note: may not be suitable for young children. http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20007%20-%20The%20Arrival%20of%20the%20Newbie,%20Part%204.mp3 Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:11:00 -0400 38:55 Creative Commons, field recording, Twitter, Jonathan Coulton yes Paul R. Potts Mom left me in charge of the 4-year-old and the 10-week-old while she ran an errand, giving me a chance to experiment with in-ear binaural microphones. Baby Joshua is upset because his mom has left for an errand and he is teething. But my four-year-old girl and I figure out a way to distract him. Listen on headphones for maximum effect. http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20008%20-%20Binaural%20Baby%20Boozle.mp3 Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:45:00 -0400 2:54 Creative Commons, field recording, binaural clean Paul R. Potts In a recent drive to and from Saginaw, Michigan, my wife and I recorded a wide-ranging chat, which I present entirely unedited. Part 1 of 3. In Part 1, Grace and I talk about the so-called ACORN scandal. My apologies for the sound quality; the original was extremely noisy. Izotope RX did a great job cleaning up most of the road noise, but the remaining audio has some phasing artifacts. Also, audio broadband noise does not really play well with compressors. http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20009%20-%20On%20the%20Road%20with%20Paul%20and%20Grace,%20Part%201.mp3 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:40:00 -0500 30:22 Creative Commons, Interview yes Paul R. Potts In a recent drive to and from Saginaw, Michigan, my wife and I recorded a wide-ranging chat, which I present entirely unedited. Part 2 of 3. In Part 2, Grace and I talk about Saginaw, and reveal our tentative plan to move there. I delayed releasing this part until we felt prepared to talk about this plan outside our immediate family. http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20010%20-%20On%20the%20Road%20with%20Paul%20and%20Grace,%20Part%202.mp3 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:36:00 -0400 28:35 Creative Commons, Interview yes Paul R. Potts In a recent drive to and from Saginaw, Michigan, my wife and I recorded a wide-ranging chat, which I present entirely unedited. Part 3 of 3. In Part 3, Grace and I talk about a potential future Potts family home in Saginaw, and by extension, home design. http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20011%20-%20On%20the%20Road%20with%20Paul%20and%20Grace,%20Part%203.mp3 Thu, 18 Mar 2010 2:06:00 -0400 40:47 Creative Commons, Interview yes Paul R. Potts A late-night conversation with my wife Grace about our upcoming home purchase, politics, cars, kids, and other hazards of modern life. In which Grace and I discuss Saginaw, mortgages, schools, education, the state of the middle class, and many other topics. http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20012%20-%20A%20Good%20Argument%20for%20Editing%20(Unedited).mp3 Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:47:00 -0400 01:01:26 Creative Commons, Interview yes Paul R. Potts A chat with my wife Grace about our upcoming home purchase. In which Grace and I discuss the arrival of my father and the plans for the Saginaw house. http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20013%20-%20To%20the%20Airport,%20Batman!.mp3 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:10:00 -0400 23:55 Creative Commons, Interview yes Paul R. Potts A chat with my wife Grace about the so-called "Tea Party," what they seem to stand for, why they seem so angry, and why they are receiving so much ridicule from liberals who ought to be working with them to find common ground. I'm interrupting my backlog of conversations about the Saginaw house to squeeze in this topical discussion. It seems like the only opportunity we ever get to have an uninterrupted conversation is in the car! Part 1 of 2. http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20014%20-%20The%20Tea%20Party,%20Part%201.mp3 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:00:00 -0400 23:37 Creative Commons, Interview yes Paul R. Potts A chat with my wife Grace about the so-called "Tea Party," what they seem to stand for, why they seem so angry, and why they are receiving so much ridicule from liberals who ought to be working with them to find common ground. I'm interrupting my backlog of conversations about the Saginaw house to squeeze in this topical discussion. It seems like the only opportunity we ever get to have an uninterrupted conversation is in the car! Part 2 of 2. http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20015%20-%20The%20Tea%20Party,%20Part%202.mp3 Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:05:00 -0400 13:34 Creative Commons, Interview yes Paul R. Potts On the way to Saginaw to meet with the house inspector, my father played us some music from the back seat of the van. My father plays some folks songs and accompanies himself on ukulele. He played more, but I'm only including those songs that are free of copyright restrictions. http://thepottshouse.org/pottscasts/gpp/GPP%20016%20-%20Grampa%20Richard%20Sings%20the%20Blues.mp3 Thu, 29 July 2010 12:45:00 -0400 8:51 Creative Commons, Interview no