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Nerdio audio experiments, podcasts

There’s No Place Like It

Welcome to the next Nerd’s Eye View podcast. It includes three stories about home. In the first segment, Julia remembers home with a song. In the second segment, Jesse asks about the words to the Czech national anthem. In the third (read by me) Marilyn talks about finding home in an unexpected place. The music …


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WGBH Morning Stories and Nerd’s Eye View

If you go to WGBH Morning Stories and click Home Alone you’ll hear – hey, wait! That’s me! I start at about the six minute mark, but you should listen to the whole thing. I am giddy with delight to find that I don’t sound like a complete idiot. It is odd to hear the …


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Audio Sandbox, Anyone?

Update: This is a recycled post from 2006. The project did happen. It’s called “There’s no place like it” and it’s here. Hey you disaffected disinclined expatriates, wanna be expatriates, travelers, and non-travelers out there! Hey! Hello! I’ve been listening to a lot of experimental audio lately. And I’d like to try mixing a little …


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Thanks for Nothing, Julie Andrews

Note – July 31, 2008: I recorded this piece in October of 2006 when I was really hating expat life. Currently, we’re in Seattle and while my feelings about expat life haven’t changed all that much, I’m not in that place anymore. Heads up, there’s profanity in the audio, you can’t miss it. I thought …


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Doctor My Eyes

We were sitting with the parents in the lovely garden of the Stift’s Cafe at Klosterneuburg. The place was fairly empty – it was Monday and the museum was closed. The wind was swirling the first brown leaves across the plaza but we were protected by the garden’s walls. The waiter was kind and spoke excellent English and the food wasn’t bad either. We were talking about travel fatigue which right now, I have in spades.


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Please Pass the Olives

I’ve posted this story before, but I’m all hopped up on audio these days, so I’ve recorded it. You can listen to it here. It’s a *.wma file, again, for size. You’ll need Windows Media Player to listen to it. If you want to look at pictures while you’re listening, go here.

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