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Aug 06 2010

The Road Goes Ever On

Published by Bill Ruhsam under opinion, blog admin

Forest Road

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say.

–J.R.R. Tolkien

I read The Lord of the Rings at an impressionable age. This particular poem is one of the ones that stuck with me. It’s generally applicable to almost any situation that involves inconstancy or motion or change.

Today marks the third anniversary of the first podcast published on Talking Traffic. I thought about doing a retrospective of some sort via the podcast but decided it wasn’t worth your time. So, here is me marking the moment. I hope you’ve been enjoying reading and listening here.

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Mar 21 2010

Episode 32 Coming Tonight!

Published by Bill Ruhsam under interchange, blog admin

Look what I did on Friday:

Diverging Diamond Interchanges

So, for your edification, I gave my presentation again, to my microphone at home. I was going to record the actual presentation, but there were technical difficulties.

Look for it at Midnight!

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Dec 13 2009

Talking Traffic Wordle

Published by Bill Ruhsam under fun, blog admin

Lest you think I’m doing nothing with Talking Traffic here is a wordle comprising every word from every episode.

Wordle: 29 Episodes of Talking Traffic

I compiled all the episodes into one document recently and just now thought, “I wonder what the wordle looks like?”

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Dec 03 2009

Episode 29.5 - Metacast

Published by Bill Ruhsam under metacast, podcast, blog admin

Topics: Metacast, Where we’re going?

 
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Mar 04 2009

Welcome Podcastle Peeps!

Published by Bill Ruhsam under blog admin

Welcome to anyone who is here via Podcastle. I hope you enjoy your stay. Check out my lineup of traffic podcasts at iTunes or by doing a search here on podcast.

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Nov 18 2008

A Post! (in which I suck)

Published by Bill Ruhsam under blog admin

Alas, Monday has come and gone. No podcast. My listeners are going to start to think I don’t care. But, I do care.

Update: Episode 26 is roughed and needs to be vetted and recorded. Further Update: Ironman training is kicking my butt. There’s not much time left in the evenings for anything besides spending time with my wife and making dinner. I expect that I’ll get used to this level of physical output in a few weeks but for now if I don’t get the podcast done on the weekend, it’ll probably have to wait ’til the next one.

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Nov 10 2008

Whoa Baby! Post Coming! Hardware Issues!

Published by Bill Ruhsam under blog admin

Hey there everybody!

Yes, I’m still podcasting. Yes, there’s more Talking Traffic coming! No, I have no good excuse.

Although if you care to know the reason, it’s because of hardware envy.

Through several editions of Talking Traffic, I became dissatisfied with the sound quality I was getting from my microphone setup. There were some transient popping noises that were inescapable due to the equipment I was using (Logitech Headset). As both myself and my wife are podcasting, plus I’ve been asked a couple times to record for Podcastle, we decided that the move to a more professional arrangement was called for.

Thus began 8 weeks of really annoying activity. The upshot of this annoyance is that I couldn’t get any of the audio interfaces I was buying to hook up to my computer and work. In case you’re in the market for a Presonus Firebox, do not believe the standard “plug and play” crap. For some people, it works just fine, but for others, including myself, it’s an interminable fight with hardware incompatibilities that you don’t learn about until searching through the forums. So far, most of the help from Presonus has been in the form of “try this and tell me if it works” which I find a pain.

So, I’m giving up on the Firebox. Anyone want to buy it? It’s in perfectly good shape, but my computers don’t like it.

For now, I’m borrowing another I/O from a friend, so I can state with confidence1 that there will be podcast this weekend. I’m thinking that Transportation Finance, in the context of the economic crash, is a good topic.


1Of course, my confidence has now doomed me because I haven’t confirmed the compatibility of this borrowed equipment yet. Anyone want to take a bet about whether it will work when I set it up tonight?

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Jul 18 2008

Episode Coming! And Blog Changes

Published by Bill Ruhsam under blog admin

Yes, yes. I know it’s been a while, but I finally polished up Episode 22 and will be recording it this weekend. You’ll get to have it on Monday morning, as usual.

Also, stay tuned for more changes to the blog theme. This one, unfortunately, has some issues I don’t feel like dealing with. I’ve been working on my personal blog over at The Evil Eyebrow and with some modifciations, I’ll probably use that theme. Then I don’t have to worry about two different sets of headers, stylesheets, etc.

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Jun 19 2008

Blog Theme

Published by Bill Ruhsam under blog admin

The Theme I had originally installed on Talking Traffic was dissatsifying me. So I’ve changed it. What do you think?

I plan to alter the header image to something more transportation-engineering centric, eventually, but until then it’s a nice picture.

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Mar 24 2008

Fixed a Few Things

Published by Bill Ruhsam under blog admin

Regarding last night’s PEBKAC posting, I’ve made a couple changes which should have my Itunes feed showing the most recent 30 episodes. That will give me 13 weeks to figure out category posting, or some other method to make sure that older episodes are available to people who want to hear them. As things change, I’ll let you know.

For now, episodes 1-17 should all be available via Itunes.

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