Hanselminutes Podcast 98 - Raising Geeks with Scott's Dad
My ninety-eighth podcast is up. In this episode, Scott sits down with his Dad and talks about growing up as a geek, raising geeks, and the sacrifices families make to help their geek children succeed.
(BTW: Grandma is cool and Grandpa was also!)
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About Scott
Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. He is a failed stand-up comic, a cornrower, and a book author.
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Miss having you around.
I enjoyed this greatly and I think Michelle even got a kick out of it.
Hope all is well,
Ty
I use Juice to download your podcasts and to synch them up with Media Player as it's the only Vista podcast to Media Player program that I've found works well enough. Whilst your podcasts lack any album info via this method, I could live with that as they all automatically go into a playlist. This show and the last however now only have "Hanselminutes" as their title. Any chance of fixing this as a whole bunch of shows, all labelled the same isn't much use!
keep up the good work.
This show had something special. I enjoyed the time listening it.
Thank you Scott.
Maybe you find this kind of strange, but I have noticed that you are able to write in Amharic. I wonder, if you could translate a name for me, CHRISTIAN, and send it to me? He is my husbond and I want to tattoo his name in amharic letters, but I don´t know how to make it... well, it makes me happy if you do:)
Take care,
Malia
Give the Zune client software a try - it seems to handle podcasts quite nicely.
And no, you don't need a Zune to use it.
This was a great episode, really shows how nice of family you have. Your Pops is like a Windows Server 2003 just waiting for a request to build the 3rd chair for the kids table (v3.0).
Hanselminutes Fan,
Catto
I really enjoyed hearing from your dad and listening to you remember your childhood. I had a similar childhood (except we didn't sell the car... I just took over the home business computer). It's always interesting to hear the stories of other geeks in regards to their childhoods. It's amazing what just a little enabling can do.
I always tell people that the one greatest thing my father ever imparted on me was that he taught me how to learn and that it was ok to be curious.
Ang3lFir3
Excellent show. If podcasts where like food, this one definitely would fall under the category of "Comfort Food". Please archive in a "future proof format" for your kids to listen to when they get older. Can't wait for Mom's interview. Please thank your dad for sharing with us.
--bry
Thanks for the tip regarding Zune. However I downloaded it, installed it, signed up to Scott's podcast by pointing it at http://feeds.feedburner.com/HanselminutesWMA and it informed me it wasn't a valid RSS feed. So I went back to using Juice and Media Player.
Thanks,
Bob
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This is sooo cool!