General Announcements
PEL is now on Twitter (+ other ways to share)
Posted by Mark Linsenmayer in General Announcements on March 5th, 2010
If you’d like to have links to our postings sent to you via Twitter, you can now do that; follow us at http://twitter.com/PartiallyExLife.
If you re-Tweet our episode posts to the millions of Twitter followers you undoubtably have, then you’ll have our eternal gratitude.
While I’m on the subject of spreading the word, why don’t you scroll ALL the way to the bottom of this page and hit the “Stumbleupon” or “Digg” icons at the bottom under “Share with your friends on…” This will nominate our page for wider circulation via those sites and will also make you cool. Note that you can do this with any one of our blog posts here as well; just click on the title of the post, and when a page comes up with just that post on it, then click the sharing icon. You’ll have to sign up for an account with those sites, but they’re kind of cool regardless.
More importantly, if you’ve not already gone onto iTunes and given us a steamin’ hot awesome rating (a review is nice too), go do that! I’m unclear re. what rating resources are available to you Zune users and other non-traditionals, but I encourage you people to do something as well… perhaps just stand in the street holding a sign with our URL on it. …Or better yet, buy a freakin’ T-shirt already!
Unreasonable & Unrealistic: A New Year’s Resolution
Posted by Seth Paskin in General Announcements on January 16th, 2010
I am considered by family, friends and business acquaintances to be calm, level-headed, rational, analytic, thoughtful, etc. It was part of what made me successful in my many roles in corporate life. And something that has perhaps prevented me from honoring my feelings and emotions in my personal life. While I don’t think I fetishize reason and rationality, I seem to be coded to make them my primary mode of being (PEL is perhaps a reflection – or symptom?).
So my New Year’s resolution is to be more ‘unreasonable’. By that I mean not only cut down on the rational, analytical approach to things, the measured intake of data and attempt to view things from multiple perspectives, but also to stop being so accomodating to everyone else’s requests – to be a bit ‘unreasonable’. Open myself to interpersonal energy and the immediate Zeitgeist. And guess what world, that might mean I take more risks and am a bit more selfish. I’m 41 and I deserve it, so deal.
A corollary to this is that I am going to start setting unrealistic expectations and goals. Got this from The 4 Hour Work Week, but it seems to fit.
Unlike Mark, I’m not going to commit to either doing or sharing weekly with y’all.
Cheers, seth
Thorough Musical Self-Examination: A New Year’s Resolution
Posted by Mark Linsenmayer in General Announcements, Nakedly Self-Examined Music on January 2nd, 2010
Yes, it’s a new year. Big, fat arbitrary deal. Well, yes, but I find it refreshing that something in our life of mostly culturally created pressures presents itself as an obviously merely cultural, arbitrary creation, as opposed to money, or romance, or politics, or your job, all of which, though largely if not wholly cultural, intrude in our lives in immediate ways that make them seem objective in some stronger way.
So, here’s my New Year’s resolution: I have a lot of recordings that need finishing, a lot of songs that I’ve never bothered to record decently, or at all, lots of recordings (video and audio) of old live shows and/or significant life events that I should digitize and put in an order such that if I die, then my relatives will be able to find things easily. I hereby resolve to fix, finish, or at least make progress on something 50 times (i.e. approximately once a week) over the course of 2010, and to prove it, I aim to post and possibly analyze to death at least some if this for the amusement of you, the kind readers of the world.
And I’m starting right now.
PEL Merch
Posted by Mark Linsenmayer in General Announcements on October 8th, 2009
The Partially Examined Life now offers a fine selection of overpriced T-shirts and a mug. Who will be cooler than you when you are sporting one or all of these on your person? Who? Tell me, please, as I’m honestly curious as to your no doubt mistaken apprehension on this topic. You having failed to give a satisfactory answer, I will provide one for you per my nature and/or perogative: No one, that’s who.
PEL written up in Madison’s Isthmus magazine
Posted by Mark Linsenmayer in General Announcements on July 13th, 2009
The big weekly entertainment magazine in Madison, WI included a writeup of the podcast in this article: http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=26356&sid=f8b220e5953615e25217a596b717e6fd
We’re mentioned at the end of the first section, then have a couple of paragraphs under “Talk Talk” near the end, plus the “Gallery” includes the excellent caricature that Ken Gerber did for us. (Incidentally, you should check out Ken’s blog at http://cartoonstand.wordpress.com/ if you haven’t already.)
A new place for discussion: urbanphilosophy.net
Posted by admin in General Announcements on July 8th, 2009
In addition to our Facebook page, we now have dedicated forum/discussion space on UrbanPhilosophy.net: http://urbanphilosophy.net/pel/. Participating there requires registering for an account, but it’s a simple and quick procedure that doesn’t cost anything or require to enter any more personal information than your e-mail. Also, Seth has posted an article there on Judaism, if you’re interested in that.
Updated FAQ/bio pages
Posted by Mark Linsenmayer in General Announcements on June 22nd, 2009
If you’re new to the podcast/blog or just wanted to know a bit more about who we are and why we’re doing this, check out the expanded “about the podcast” and the new “about the podcasters” pages. (Wes took a while to get his biography text to me, so I had exerpts from Hitler’s biography up there as a placeholder for a bit, but it should be mostly accurate now, except for the part about Seth being an intelligence spontaneously emerged from the Internet itself existing simultaneously in all of the Earth’s computers. (…this is not quite true because, of course, not all computers are connected to the Internet.)
Now on iTunes!
Posted by admin in General Announcements on June 2nd, 2009
You can now find us in the podcast section of iTunes. Go subscribe!
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The Partially Examined Life is a philosophy podcast by some guys who were at one point set on doing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it. Each episode, we pick a text and chat about it with some balance between insight and flippancy. You don't have to know any philosophy, or even to have read the text we're talking about to (mostly) follow and (hopefully) enjoy the discussion. Discuss episodes and provide feedback here or via our Facebook group. You can also e-mail comments to mark@marklint.com.
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