Sep 17, 2016
Rowing medalist, challenged reader trying a Kindle
Interview starts at 14:43 and ends at 42:48
I remember walking home from third grade and throwing a workbook away, it was a book that I had made out of paper and was keeping notes in. I threw it in the bushes, because my teacher said, “You’re supposed to take this home and get your parents to sign off on your assignments, that you’ve done them all.” I threw it away, and I said I’d lost it. because I didn’t want to show that I’d not done the reading, because I hated it so much. I just didn’t like it. I can do the reading; I just don’t like it. And I still have that feeling today.
News
“Amazon Alexa, Echo, and the All-New Echo Dot Coming to the UK” - press release September 14, 2016
Amazon Echo - Wikipedia
“The Best thing about Amazon’s $50 Echo Dot? It’s available to all” by Devindra Hardawar at Engadget - September 14, 2016
“Brief: The Future of Voice Control Goes Far Beyond Dictation” by James McQuivey with David M. Cooperstein, Alexandra Hayes at Forrester Research - April 14, 2014
“Alexa—turn on my local Heart radio station” by Roy Martin at Radio Today Industry News
“Amazon Books opens in San Diego” by Jennifer Van Grove at The San Diego Union-Tribune - September 14, 2016
“Amazon Prime tunes into Audible” by Ben Fox Rubin at CNET = September 13, 2016
Tech Tip
More specs on the next generation Fire HD 8 tablet
Interview with John Biglow
Mind over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing by Craig Lambert (published in September, 1999)
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
The Amateurs: The Story of Four Young Men and Their Quest for an Olympic Gold Medal by David Halberstam
My Brilliant Friend by Elana Ferrante
FULL audio books for everyone channel at YouTube
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Kindle ($80) at Amazon.com
My interview with Temple Grandin in TKC 196 - April 30, 2012
Video - Part 1
Video - Part 2
Shadow Work: The Unpaid, Unseen Jobs That Fill Your Day by Craig Lambert
Craig Lambert on TKC 354 - May 2015
Comments
Kindle Paperwhite handmade in India at Snapdeal, Flipkart and Shopclues
Kindle Oasis skins at DecalGirl
Next Week’s Guest:
James McQuivey, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research
Outro
“Dock Talk: The Essence of Sculling” - my 360 YouTube video from Craftsbury Sculling Center
Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Perspective" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD.
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