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Worthless Genius Podcast Season 2 Episode 1

January 1, 2010Podcastacquisition, adobe, adobe soundbooth, android, App, application, audio, back catalog, blog, blogging, border, career, comment, comments, computer, cs4, E-Memory, episode 1, episode 2, evernote, everything, facebook, falling in love, family, flair, free, future, genius, hero, href, htc, human computer interaction, img, import, ip, margin, me, memory, microphone, mp3, mysterious universe, phone software, Podcast, post, rac, remember the milk, review, Revolution, schedule, season 1, Software Spotlight, son, style, swing of things, the future, thing, total recall, twitter, use, web development, width, Will, work, Workflow, Worthless, worthless genius, Writing, wwwBenjamin M. Strozykowski

What’s this? A new Worthless Genius Podcast Episode?

It’s been forever since the last episode of the Worthless Genius Podcast, so bear with me as I get back into the swing of things.

In this weeks episode, I touch on the following topics:

My new production process with a new microphone and Adobe Soundbooth CS4.
Season 2 will hopefully slip into a more regular schedule.
My family is expecting our second son!
Graduating finally with an Associate’s Degree in Web Development.
Contemplating the future of my blogging/writing career.
My acquisition of an HTC Hero
Mysterious Universe Starts Up Again
- Season 1 Back Catalog Available
- Plus Memberships Available
Total Recall: How the E-Memory Revolution Will Change Everything – A fascinating look at the future of human/computer interaction. I whole-heartedly recommend picking this one up.

Thank you for tuning in to the Worthless Genius Podcast. I hope you’ll stick around for Episode 2 of Season 2. Next episode will have a bit more flair, as I get used to Soundbooth and the overall workflow process.

Feel free to contact me through the link above. You can also find me on Twitter and Facebook. And remember to leave some comments here on this post letting me know what you think!

Or you can download it here: mp3 format

Creativity Blockage

June 30, 2009Rantsabout, art, blog, brain, comment, comments, concepts, conference, creative person, creativity, day, distraction, elementary, ethereal, extension, father, fear, finishing, future, habits, help, husband, ideas, intellect, Intellectual, ip, issues, material, me, message, missions, novel, novels, parent, parents, post, procrastination, product, Productivity, psychological, question, quote, ratings, read, school, stuff, style, task, tasks, thoughts, twitter, universe, video, wiki, words, work, world, writer's block, WritingBenjamin M. Strozykowski

I haven’t made much time recently to sit down and write. Between summer class AppIndie 2.0 work and family stuff, I haven’t exactly been a maven of productivity.

Just as I haven’t been writing any blog posts (the last one was when?), I haven’t been working much on my novels, or any of the other creative pursuits that I’ve come to enjoy. Though I make an effort to show up for my writing time, but nothing seems to come out when I sit down.

Writer’s block is probably nothing to stress about, but just the same, it feels me with that bit of anxiety that seems to permeate through the rest of my life.

While some of my friends and colleagues seem to be moving forward with their work and creative pursuits, I seem to be just stuck in the mud.
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Software Spotlight: Evernote

April 10, 2009Software Spotlight10, account, ADD, adobe, adobe air, application, art, article, basis, beginning, blog, blogging, book, brain, browser, category, change, check, college, computer, content, data, day, dev, done, dos, everyday, feeds, firefox, free, function, functionality, future, good, Google, google reader, graphs, GTD, home, ibook, ibook g4, import, interface, internet, iphone, issues, laptop, levels, linux, mac, mac os x, medium, memory, next actions, notebook, OCR, open source, platform, Podcast, product, project, public, quote, RAM, read, recommendation, replace, school, search, service, services, simple, software, Software Spotlight, space, spotlight, study, stuff, style, system, target, task, tasks, tea, teacher, technology, text, the future, time, ubuntu, upgrade, valid, voice, web 2.0, web-based, wiki, wikipedia, windows, windows version, wine, work, Writing, wwwBenjamin M. Strozykowski

Remember Everything

Evernote is a service that promises to help you “Remember Everything”, promising to:

allow you to easily capture information in any environment using whatever device or platform you find most convenient, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, from anywhere.

Evernote is basically a self-described “external brain” that allows you to store any idea, reminder, memory that you need to remember in a trusted system.

I have been using Evernote for a few months now, and I wanted to weigh in on the system, and share my setup and how it helps me remember things.
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The Fear of Using Windows – Part 3: Windows Alternative: Linux

March 1, 2009Rantsadobe, apple, application, browser, cds, command line, computer, concepts, everyday, expensive, flash, forum, free, function, functionality, future, garageband, gos, interface, laptop, learning, lifehacker, linux, mac, mac os x, malware, memory, microsoft, migration, money, office, open source, operating systems, photos, photoshop, platform, player, price, project, projects, RAM, software, style, support, switch, system, systems, theme, time, ubuntu, video, virus, wiki, windows, work, XPBenjamin M. Strozykowski

In the last entry of this series, I discussed the true cost of owning a Windows-based computer. Although the one-time upfront fee may sound like a great deal, in order to keep your computer running for years to come, you must invest a large amount of time, money and effort.

In this entry, I would like to discuss an alternative to the Windows operating system: Linux.
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Worthless Genius Stats

February 10, 2009Rants60 days, 60 posts, adsense, akismet, blog, blogger, bloggers, blogging, coding, Comic, comment, comments, content, future, ideas, import, initiative, large, novel, novels, page, plugins, post, read, site, spam, stroz.net, style, switch, target, the future, wordpress, words, work, worthless geniusBenjamin M. Strozykowski

As a bit of an aside, today I’d like to talk about some stats that I’m pooling here on the site. The stats are going to be for posts created on the old Stroz.net blog, but not including SPAM or page hits while it was running there. If you care, you can keep reading. Continue reading →

The Challenge of Rewriting

January 1, 2009New Year's Challengeblood, career, challenge, chapter 1, chapters, dime, dimenxia, focus, mistakes, nightmare, overneath, read, rewriting, stories, story, style, thoughts, wife, words, workBenjamin M. Strozykowski

On the fourth day of the New Year’s 30 Day Challenge, I’ve decided to take a look at the first chapter of my novel, Dimenxia, which I wrote 4 years ago. I’ve never had to do a substantial rewrite of a piece of literature before, and I decided to share my ideas to potentially help out other authors going through the process.

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When Do You Know When You’re Done?

November 12, 2008Rants, Uncategorizedabbreviated, best strategy, blog, brian herbert, chapters, character profiles, content, diaries, dimenxia, done, doom, frank herbert, future-proofing, game industry, goals, half-life 2, herbert, id software, ideas, inspiration, kevin j. anderson, kludge, lewis, liquid story binder xe, magna opera, masterpiece, motivation, novel, organization, overneath, popular, post, quake, read, release date, search, significance, sketches, story, style, subtle political agendas, success, timeline, tolkien, too much information, undocumented, universe, valve software, when it's done, woody allen, write anything, writer's block, writers, WritingBenjamin M. Strozykowski

Yesterday’s post, How Not To Write A Novel – Or 4 Ways To Drop The Ball quickly became the most read post on this blog. I wanted to follow up with another good writing topic that has been on my mind for the past few days.

When Do You Know When You’re Done?
Some writers start out with a clear vision, and a solid outline which allows them to write exactly what they need, regardless of whether there is extra content that seems to be needed for the story to properly be conveyed.

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