This evening I volunteered my “services” to KCUR, to help start a couple of RSS newsfeeds and a Podcast. Someone from the station sent an email to our department at school looking for “a technical media whizbang”. I almost didn’t read the email after I saw that subject, because one of my deepest desires is to never be called a whizbang (it just doesn’t sound ilke anything I really want to be). After remembering that I never wanted to be a whizbang, I was curious enough to find out exactly what it required to be a “technical media whizbang”. Apparently doing something that takes a couple of hours qualifies me for the title (but I am hoping now that I have told them just how easy it is they will revoke the title of “technical media whizbang” from this job and never use that word again).
<p>I am hoping that if I get “the job” I get to meet <a href='http://kcur.org/voicesDetail.asp?ID=7'>Kim Noble</a>, <a href='http://kcur.org/voicesDetail.asp?ID=2'>Walt Bodine</a> or <a href='http://kcur.org/voicesDetail.asp?ID=26'>Steve Kraske</a>.</p>
<p>They might turn me down because I told them I didn’t want to help if I had to work with Windows, but we’ll see what develops. I don’t have any desire to learn ASP (Microsoft’s inferior dynamic programming language) and it feels wrong making something named after an <a href='http://www.apple.com/ipod'>Apple product</a> for Windows (although Apple has no problem doing it, but <a href='http://daringfireball.net/2005/02/firewire_hysteria'>that’s a different story</a>).</p>
Kim Noble, yes. Walt Bodine, yes. Steve Kraske, I don’t think so.
Take the test…and find out that you are not a media whizbang, just a pop star.
I am impressed I never knew a whizbang before.
Who calls carbonated beverages “other”? “Soda”, “Pop” and “Coke” I understand… but “Other”! Come on.
Everyone knows it’s actually soda.