By Dave Hitt on Jan 17, 2010 in Featured, Personal Adventures | 29 Comments
Jehovah’s Witnesses are actively discouraged (virtually forbidden) from contributing to relief organizations in response to disasters. On Friday afternoon someone on the Jehovah’s Witnesses Recovery Forum suggested setting up a site to encourage ex-JWs to donate to Haitian relief funds. Friday night several of us had a conference call to plan out the details. Now, [...]
By Dave Hitt on Aug 18, 2009 in Featured, Personal Adventures | 10 Comments
About a year ago I signed up with Mozy, an off-site backup service. For five bucks a month they back up your files on their servers, so you can restore them if you lose something.
The few times I’ve needed them it’s been a simple process. I’d click “restore” on their software and it showed me [...]
By Dave Hitt on Jul 29, 2009 in Featured, Personal Adventures | 0 Comments
Just a reminder, in case you haven’t listened to my interview with PodioRacket, you can find it here.
Blood Witness has received a lot of attention and kudos, and this was a fun interview that got into some of the inspiration behind the book. Check it out.
By Dave Hitt on Jul 23, 2009 in Featured, Personal Adventures | 4 Comments
As an amateur chief I’m always looking for new ingredients to make my meals more interesting.
For instance, one of my favorite ingredients is bulgogi sauce, a meat marinade made with Korean pear. You won’t find it in the supermarket. You’ll have to go to a store that specializes in Asian food. I [...]
By Dave Hitt on Jul 16, 2009 in Featured, Personal Adventures | 8 Comments
I’m about to start a novel that will have some complex characters and an intricate plot. After hearing writers sing the praises of Scrivener, which is a Mac only application, I’ve been looking for something that will do the same thing on a PC.
I’d like to be able to create an outline, [...]
By Dave Hitt on Jul 6, 2009 in Featured, Personal Adventures | 0 Comments
I’ll be doing an interview about Blood Witness on Podioracket this Thursday, June 9, from 9:00 – 10:30 PM (EST). If you’ve got any questions about the novel, Jehovah’s Witnesses, or cults in general, please join us.
Call (347) 996-3319 and join the conversation. While it’s running you’ll be able to listen to it live on [...]
By Dave Hitt on Jun 15, 2009 in Personal Adventures | 4 Comments
Once again I’ve been accused of not having an open mind. Once again it was in a forum where I was pointing out that Alternative Medicine is not only a waste of time and money, but can be deadly. The response was typical – I know better than you because it worked for me, doctors [...]
By Dave Hitt on Jun 10, 2009 in Featured, Personal Adventures, Pop Culture | 0 Comments
Blood Witness is finished! I just released the final episode.
Man, this was an intensive project. Each episode took about five hours of work: An hour to record, 3-4 hours to edit, 15 minutes of post processing, 20-30 minutes of mixing, and another half hour to tag the MP3 files, upload them, update the XML for [...]
By Dave Hitt on Feb 27, 2009 in Featured, Personal Adventures, Pop Culture | 0 Comments
I just did an interview about Blood Witness on the Not About Religion blog. Check it out.
By Dave Hitt on Feb 25, 2009 in Featured, Personal Adventures, Pop Culture | 0 Comments
In 2006 there was only one podcast award. It allowed anyone to vote on their favorite shows, once a day, for a month. This guaranteed only the most popular shows with the biggest audiences could win. I wanted an award with a different model, one that would give excellent but obscure shows a realistic chance [...]
By Dave Hitt on Jan 16, 2009 in Personal Adventures | 1 Comment
A few days ago I went in for a medical examination, where the doctor boldly goes where no one has gone before. Prepping consisted of stripping down to nothing but a flimsy hospital gown, lying under a flimsy blanket and getting an IV.
The nurse bringing me from the prep room to the examination room said, [...]
By Dave Hitt on Dec 13, 2008 in Featured, Personal Adventures, QH Podcasts | 8 Comments
(This post, with just a bit more embellishment, is now available as a podcast.)
Thursday night an ice storm hit the Northeast. Power flicked off and on a bit, but didn’t go off, and we went to bed.
Friday morning, about 5:30, we were awakened by a squeal from the cellar. All the power was [...]