Wishing for Wings That Work (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} cowboy_r) wrote,@ 2009-10-29 13:09:00 |
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It's another week.
I was awoken this morning by a phone call from lysander_cat, which is rather surprising, 'cause normally, my phone is on silent at night. Well, let's be honest... here, lately, my phone is pretty much on silent all the time. Anyway, lysander_cat had car trouble on his way to work this morning, and called me, so I went out to where he was stuck, took him to work, and took care of getting his car to the garage. (Amusingly, as I was writing that, I realized I was pronouncing "garage" in the British fashion).
As I was out, driving around, I was listening to Skepticality Episode 114, about the new Skeptic Magazine sponsored podcast, Monster Talk. It started me thinking.
If I get the job as a science writer (and I'd very much like to... I honestly feel I'd be good at it, and it would be good for me) I think I'm going to pitch some new media approaches to the boss. One of them would be a weekly or fortnightly podcast about science, and new discoveries. NASA does their Science@NASA podcast, as well as making This Week at NASA available as a podcast. The SETI Institute makes Are We Alone, and The Planetary Society does Planetary Radio.
I don't know how many listeners each of these podcasts has, but I know that the organizations find it worth producing the podcast... so I'm thinking that the organization I'm hoping to work for would find a Science podcast worth the time to produce it, as well.
On a completely unrelated note, I happened to be looking at Twitter this morning, and glanced at the list of people who are following my tweets. I understand all the outdoorsy and horsey people who've followed me in hopes that I'll look at their products, because, well, look at my username.
I was a bit mystified, however, to find that "ThickSingles" is following me. What in the world did I tweet to show up on their searches?
Oh, and if you're wondering why someone as manifestly non-ranch-handish as I would choose the name "Cowboy R," you should watch this video and compare with my bio.
Okthanksbye!
