This week, a very special episode of the DrupalEasy podcast has Jacob Redding and Paul Suway of the Drupal Association join Ryan, Andrew, and Mike to talk about recent happenings, changes, and new programs in the Drupal community’s official support organization.
Monthly Archive for July, 2011
The end of the NASA Shuttle program’s 30-year mission to boldly go to the International Space Station has caused a lot of hubub on Florida’s East Coast. Take a look at some of the people affected.
Welcome to Titusville from Ride5 on Vimeo.
Welcome to Titusville shows the impact of the 30 year Space Shuttle program on the residents of Titusville, a city that lies only a few miles from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Music by Phillip Sheppard
If it were not for NASA, we would not have UCF (originally built as a tech school to train engineers to work in the Space industry), the “Beach Line”, Waterford Lakes, and tons of other amenities in Orlando. People give Disney a lot of credit for bringing economic development to Orlando, but the people employed by military contracts, Lockheed, Siemens, simulation and training, and other engineering industries is really the backbone of Orlando’s higher-paying jobs. This is a huge impact to our entire region, not just the few towns neighboring Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral.
Join Andrew Riley, Mike Anello, Ryan Price, and special guest Ric Shreves (from Bali) for a "very special", time-zone-busting, theming-happy episode 61 of the DrupalEasy Podcast.
I am getting ready to do some yard renovation – moving my fence to make some room in the backyard for a Shed
YouTube is a wealth of resources, here are a few:
- A good explanation of why you might want to compost. Here is an example of the Kitchen Compost Keeper
she mentions in the video.
- A good in-depth discussion about making compost
- 100% Recycled Composter
- Repurposed Wine Barrel with skateboard wheel platform
- Repurposed 50 Gallon Drum
- Composting for Dummies
Peter Murphy and his Orlando Live project (along with Izon Orlando) is carrying the torch we were hoping to carry when we started Orlando Scene TV years ago. Mark Baratelli and The Daily City is also doing awesome work to get the people out in the streets with his Food Truck Bazaar events around town. Here is an interesting collaboration with the above mentioned folks and United Arts of Central Florida for their “The Arts Matter” campaign.
Orlando LIVE – TheDailyCity.com Food Truck Bazaar from Concrete Lion Pictures on Vimeo.
Here are a couple of neat fire-related YouTube videos I stumbled upon these neat ways to start fires, all homemade:
- Newspaper, wood and string, suitable for starting a woodburning stove or fireplace.
- Char cloth, for the rustic campers – I first saw this made by a crazy man in a top hat, and he was using old underwear as the fabric.
- pine cones dipped in wax, not a bad idea for something more crafty and decorative, in this case fitting a holiday / winter theme.
- Last but not least, something to put out your fire, a fire extinguisher made from vinegar, water and baking soda in a repurposed soda bottle.
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54:31 Ryan Price and Darren McDaniel talk about The Starfish and the Spider, the Creative Community in the Dorms at Northwestern, sources of motivation, Napster, freelance musicians in Nashville, Urban ReThink / DMAC / CCoMO, Rebooting the News and a bit on Google+ (Plus).
Darren McDaniel is the Founding Director of Urban ReThink, a coworking space and event venue in Downtown Orlando. A strategist, sociologist, educator, entrepreneur, a hat-juggling creative, a Central Florida native, Darren received his bachelor’s degree in Radio-TV-Film from Northwestern University. He freelanced in film and video for two years before seeking refuge in graduate school. While earning his master’s degree in Southern Studies from the University of Mississippi, Darren discovered his inner sociologist and continued his studies as a Ph.D. candidate at Vanderbilt University.
At Vanderbilt, Darren focused on the intersection of work and occupations and social psychology. His dissertation examined the identities of Nashville’s striving freelance musicians and the consequences of operating in an “understructured” career. Armed with theory, Darren returned to his creative side, writing/producing/directing the feature film, The Essence of Irwin and later founding Petentials.com, the Internet for Pets. Past Director of Programming for the Downtown Media Arts Center, Darren joyfully serves as Course Director for Digital Storytelling at Full Sail University.