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Well, the interview with the local CBC affiliate was pretty cool. Very, very brief — only 5 minutes long, actually. It was really interesting seeing the inside of a very professional CBC studio — been curious about that for a while.

The interview went well, and I think I held up my side reasonably well. I’m not used to meeting people so briefly and having them be specifically interested in talking to me — that’s truly strange, and I hope that I never really get so used to it that it becomes anything else…

Thanks again to my friend Gus, whose email apparently started this ball rolling, and to Terry Seguin and the rest of the CBC folks for their interest.

Just got a call from the local CBC station. Turns out, a friend of mine (Gus!) sent them an email telling them about my Parsec award and how I do this podcast, so they’re interested in doing an interview about it.

Once I picked up my jaw from the floor, I said, casually: “Sure! What time?”

Well, it’s for the morning show, so it’s going to be at 6:45am ADT.

Erg.. That’s going to be difficult, so I’m going to have to get to be early tonight..

If you want to listen locally, you can go to 99.5FM on the dial. If you want to stream it, you can go to CBC Listen Live and click on the “Fredericton” button. (They stream in Windows Media format, unfortunately, but I hope people can still tune in.) If I can get a copy of the interview I’ll see about posting rights and probably drop it in the feed.

Oh! And I apparently just appeared briefly on CBC’s Spark, a show for which I have great respect. They also do a podcast version of their show — actually, they have an “enhanced” version, which includes the full interviews they do with people, which is pretty awesome. I haven’t heard it yet (it aired today, but the podcast also dropped today), but my part is merely me listing some of the blogs that I read…

So, yeah, today is a pretty awesome day.

Chuck & Kreg got a chance to go behind the scenes at the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas just before it closed. Check out their tour!

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