My Own country Ideas: Brainstorming ideas: Currency will be a chip implanted within your body.  There will actually be 2 chips. 2 will be implanted at birth, 1 is from 0-16 years old so your parents get charged for your expenses. The other is from 16-grave that activates at 16 yrs old. All expenses are […]

This episode was definitely out of the ordinary as far as “This American Life” episodes usually go, but it was definitely important that they made an episode like this. I liked the structure of how it was set up as well. I also thought that the lack of music really made a lot of the...

Jeff’s TAL Retraction Assignment.

             I listened to “This American Life” Episode 460 called,”‘Retraction”.  Unfortunately, Ira Glass had to air this episode as a retraction to a previously aired program; in which I listened to, and  had strong feelings of both pity, and sorrow ( maybe some anger as well). I had good thoughts about Mike Daisy, who is a […]

Radio Lab’s podcast Parasites had a couple of themes that were mentioned periodically.  One was mind control; certain bugs use mind control on other bugs, animals, rodents, and maybe even humans.  Another theme that was touched on was the idea of cheats versus honest creatures; the cheats being the parasites that live off of other […]

Assignment: Listen to the RadioLab Podcast Parasites Answer the following questions on your blog/website. Submit the URL to this assignment. First part Very cool creepy sounds to build intensification — It reminds me of old scary movie music, but it … Continue reading →

This week  we talked about binary and hexadecimal. We also looked at how to convert from one to the other. This is the third time I’ve come across this topic in college so far so I’m pretty familiar with it. Binary is all 1′s and 0′s and is counted using the power of 2′s. It goes...

Brian Seitz March 2, 2012   Objectives: Use and learn Wireshark to sniff packets.   Equipment list: Computer with internet connection and Wireshark.   Notes and Observations: At first looking at Wireshark was extremely confusing but after just a little bit it started making more sense. A lot of what was in it was pretty...

Overall this podcast was a nice change of pace compared to “This American Life”. This episode however didn’t really pull me in. I think it is mainly because of the topic. I liked the music and sound effects choices they made for the episode. I also thought that the two or three hosts worked really...

This week we talked about encapsulation and tcp/ip. Drawing the diagram on the board as a class and walking through the packets and frames made a lot more sense than the activity that we did first. I added one link to Diigo today as well. I was going to add a second but I noticed...

Having previously listened to several “This American Life” pod-casts, I initially disliked RadioLab1, thinking it was just a radio “hack” show. They butt-in when the others are talking; they way over-due the sounds and music at times.After getting past the first ten minutes I began to actually listen to it constructively.They seem to mimic “This […]

I seem to have been continuously docked points for nothing more than stating my opinion when that is specifically what I’m asked for in the assignment. I mean… look at some of these assignments. On the “Visual Metaphor” assignment we were basically asked to present a photograph of what it means to be a student. […]

I can’t believe I actually figured out how to extract audio from video.  Yes!!!  Most of the sounds I used are sound that I like (these sounds are in blue) and a few others are just anything I could come up with.  The url to these sounds is http://soundcloud.com/kmcarpenter5816/10-different-sounds. The sounds are described as follows: 1. Popcorn popping 2. Water spraying onto a pan […]

This assignment called for recording 10 sounds around my house.I chose ten that are constantly heard within the walls of my abode.I’m hoping we will compile as a class, all our sounds, and come up with something interesting to listen to. Who knows? I named the tracks with names that represent what is being played, […]

This assignment called for recording 10 sounds around my house.I chose ten that are constantly heard within the walls of my abode.I’m hoping we will compile as a class, all our sounds, and come up with something interesting to listen to. Who knows? I named the tracks with names that represent what is being played, […]

Can you take samples of sounds and make a song out of them? That is what my challenge was for this assignment. Below are the sounds that I recorded at my home.  I recorded everything from opening a can of pop to the sound of opening and closing scissors. The sounds that sound like drum...