http://mediajunkie.com christian crumlish doing stuff Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:21:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://mediajunkie.com/2011/this-aint-no-cocktail-you-buy-in-a-bar/ http://mediajunkie.com/2011/this-aint-no-cocktail-you-buy-in-a-bar/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:00:20 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/?p=7015 [+]]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2011/this-aint-no-cocktail-you-buy-in-a-bar/feed/ 0 http://mediajunkie.com/2010/another-day-come-and-gone-oh-well/ http://mediajunkie.com/2010/another-day-come-and-gone-oh-well/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:43:13 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/?p=4845 http://mediajunkie.com/2010/another-day-come-and-gone-oh-well/feed/ 1 http://mediajunkie.com/2010/finest-girl-in-the-world/ http://mediajunkie.com/2010/finest-girl-in-the-world/#comments Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:53:36 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/?p=4840 [+]]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2010/finest-girl-in-the-world/feed/ 0 http://mediajunkie.com/2010/my-life-cheeses-and-tequila/ http://mediajunkie.com/2010/my-life-cheeses-and-tequila/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 14:47:42 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/?p=4836 Ukepalooza act at WebVisions, where we debuted our duo act known as Cheeses and Tequila. Bill has now chopped it up into four video segments (one for each song) and posted them to Vimeo, … [+]]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2010/my-life-cheeses-and-tequila/feed/ 0 http://mediajunkie.com/2010/a-full-schedule-at-webvisions/ http://mediajunkie.com/2010/a-full-schedule-at-webvisions/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 14:19:58 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/?p=4815 Arrived in Portland yesterday and did some prep for one of my gigs at WebVisions, the Ukepalooza set I’m playing with Bill DeRouchey as the duo “Cheeses & Tequila.” This morning Erin and I are teaching our Designing Social Interfaces workshop. Tomorrow is Ukepalooza, and then immediately afterward I’ll be doing … [+]]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2010/a-full-schedule-at-webvisions/feed/ 0 http://mediajunkie.com/2010/here-comes-the-reuben-kincaid/ http://mediajunkie.com/2010/here-comes-the-reuben-kincaid/#comments Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:25:24 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/?p=4741 So sometime back in the previous millennium a bunch of us technical-publishing bohemians were sitting around wasting time as we were wont to do, coming up with band names, which reminds me of xian’s law: “There are more good band names than there are good bands.” One of the ones that I suggested that our … [+]]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2010/here-comes-the-reuben-kincaid/feed/ 2 http://mediajunkie.com/2010/four-alarm-pentatonic-ukulele-chili/ http://mediajunkie.com/2010/four-alarm-pentatonic-ukulele-chili/#comments Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:06:22 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/?p=4713 [+]]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2010/four-alarm-pentatonic-ukulele-chili/feed/ 4 http://mediajunkie.com/2010/coming-this-friday-to-sxsw-ukulele-for-geeks-secrets-of-the-pentatonic-scales/ http://mediajunkie.com/2010/coming-this-friday-to-sxsw-ukulele-for-geeks-secrets-of-the-pentatonic-scales/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:56:25 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/?p=4692 “At first glance the fretboard of a ukulele (or guitar) looks incomprehensible, but with the magic of pentatonic scales – ancient, nearly universal 5-note patterns, you can “crack the code” and hack the fretboard and start jamming along with your favorite tunes or musician friends in no time. “You don’t need to know the names … [+]]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2010/coming-this-friday-to-sxsw-ukulele-for-geeks-secrets-of-the-pentatonic-scales/feed/ 0 http://mediajunkie.com/2009/video-of-uke-for-geeks-talk-at-ignite-sydney/ http://mediajunkie.com/2009/video-of-uke-for-geeks-talk-at-ignite-sydney/#comments Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:18:44 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/?p=4517 my Ignite Sydney talk. Today I just noticed that the video was up on YouTube (yays). Unfortunately, there’s a person’s head obscuring the view of the ukulele for most of my talk, and I kind of start ignoring the slides after … [+]]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2009/video-of-uke-for-geeks-talk-at-ignite-sydney/feed/ 2 http://mediajunkie.com/2009/ukulele-for-geeks-live-in-tokyo/ http://mediajunkie.com/2009/ukulele-for-geeks-live-in-tokyo/#comments Thu, 12 Nov 2009 20:35:08 +0000 xian http://mediajunkie.com/?p=4506 (A few snaps of my talk from the Tokyo 2.0 PechaKucha night the other evening.) ]]> http://mediajunkie.com/2009/ukulele-for-geeks-live-in-tokyo/feed/ 1