Doc Skala's Old-Time Variety Hour, episode 6

sZGcRFFq (sZGcRFFq) at Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:15:01 +0000:
If you're still interested, maybe try a different medium. You could always use college radio. College radio is accepting because they have a CRTC mandate to not be all music. There are different kinds of programming they are supposed to have on the air, and actual content instead of just DJing is actually the one that most stations need a lot of.

Something like UoT's radio station would probably have very late night openings open and you plug your show. Of course you'd also have to show up.

This would give a kind of captive listenership, and you could always republish the show here.

* UoT
* York
* Ryerson

They all have radio stations, and you'd get way more attention then here online where everyone and their dog speaks into a mic and publishes a podcast.

trythil from 71.239.75.66 at Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:54:06 +0000:
Re: radicals: There's a lot of fun in kanji like that, at least from this Westerner's perspective, and knowing the radicals definitely helps with interpreting kanji -- much like how knowing Latin/Greek/German roots helps with English, I suppose. Some more that I like:

好 ("like"; commonly read コウ or す in the case of "suki"), are the radicals meaning "woman" and "child" put together. 明 (e.g. in あかり／明かり), meaning "light" (or "bright", I forget), is "sun-moon". A metaphorical usage of 明 is the compound verb 明らかになる, which can be translated as "become clear" or (more literally, I guess) "become illuminated".

Finally, an edge case for self-descriptive capacities: 凸凹 (でこぼこ), meaning "uneven". The individual kanji mean "convex" and "concave", respectively.

Someone once said (can't find who) that you can derive an entire civilization by its language. Not sure how true that really is, but in the case of the hanzi/kanji there's definitely a grain of truth there.

trythil from 71.239.75.66 at Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:56:52 +0000:
Also:

I'm not sure if you already have a copy of Hadamitzky and Spahn's _Kanji and Kana_ (http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Kanji-Kana-Revised-Language/dp/0804820775), but it's a great book.

Daniel from 69.172.69.137 at Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:07:54 +0000:
I'll be sad if you stop the podcast - I'm always blown away at your fluency of speaking and how deep you get into your interesting subjects, and bits like the christmas cake story (which didn't appear on an earlier podcast) are very endearing. But I can see how it might not be worth the time if you're not reaching the audience you want. However it would be a crime if there wasn't more podcasting in your future. I know you could do amazing things with a special topics podcast, like intellectual property or j pop, and it would be easier to promote, but I'll bet your restless intelligence would get bored of sticking to one topic.

I have a song like your dad's Sound of Silence right now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_nw7bODiQ4
Independence is No Solution for Modern Babies by Final fantasy, which I must have listened to 20 times this week. It may be my 30th birthday song - every year has a birthday song, since 26 - but more as a warning than the celebration past songs have been: as a modern baby going into my 30s, the solution is not independence.