Me at four. Happy and stylish.

Welcome to “…in some weird postmodern way…”, the personal blog of Kennneth John Odle, teacher, writer, artist, blogger, podcaster, and nice guy (except on Tuesdays). No, it’s not supposed to make sense.

You can find out more about me here. You can find out more about me by reading more about my life and hobbies below. Clicking on the orange RSS icon will allow you to follow the feed for that category of posts, if you are using an RSS-compatible browser, like Firefox.

I am currently testing the “static front page” option that WordPress offers. I’m not at all sure that I like it. If you want to view this blog as just, well, a blog, then click here.

Podcasts

I started podcasting during the summer of 2011. I currently have three podcasting projects you can follow:

The Silent Noise Project — Sometimes I find things interesting and I want to talk about them. So I do. I can’t guarantee you will find them interesting, however. Individual results may vary.

Project Wideawake — New and different music from around the world. I can guarantee three things about this podcast:

1. You will hear music you have never heard before, and won’t hear on the radio.
2. You will hear something that you like.
3. You will something that you can’t stand.

Project Analog Echoes: Notes from a Pre-Digital Childhood — I have tons of notes and music and sound bits for this one, but it won’t be launched until October of 2011. Stay tuned! (I told you the name of this one would probably change, and it did. If you remember the old name, +5 intelligence to you!)

Computers and the Internet

I refuse to call myself an expert, but I do offer a series of articles and tutorials on using the WordPress blogging platform and on the internet and computers in general.

WordPress Tutorials — If you are wondering how to configure a custom menu, or what you can do with it, or how to create short codes or child themes, this is the place for you. Keep in mind that these are tutorials, so on the up side, there are lots of screen captures to guide you through the process. The down side is that including all those screen captures takes a lot of time, so these sometimes take me a while to write.

General Internet and Computer Helps — These aren’t tutorials; they’re more like a list of how’s and how not-to’s.

Food

I love to cook. And I love to eat. I like to cook for lots of other people whenever I get the chance. I am slowly evolving into a vegetarian, and will be adding new recipes as I find/tweak/invent them. In the meantime, you can:

Read (and try) my recipes, many of which are vegetarian. I sometimes invent new recipes from scratch (this is often by accident); more typically I find a recipe somewhere else and adapt it to my own tastes and the contents of my pantry.

Learn about some of my favorite ingredients. Even though I am tending toward vegetarianism, I have a reluctance to fill my pantry with strange/bizarre/esoteric/Martian food products, so chances are that if you can’t find it at your local grocery, you won’t find it here. However, I do have a fondness for the unusual, so there will eventually be plenty here about those items that you pass right over in your quest for an extra large box of “Super Sugar O’s” cereal.

Explore food preparation and cooking techniques. Every once in a while, I think I’ve found a new way to cook something. Then it turns out that someone else (or everyone else) has been doing this for years. Still, I’m excited enough about it that I’m going to talk about it. Because it is new to me, these posts will often take the form of a tutorial. My plan is to add videos for many of these. If you are a food noob, these will probably be of interest to you.

Writing

I spend a lot of time writing. If I spent as much time marketing my writing as I did actually writing, I would be filthy rich. I will eventually talk about (and post) what I am currently writing, but I’m too busy writing to actually do it right now. That’s a bit of a catch-22, isn’t it? (Or, as a former employer of mine said, it’s a bit of a “catch-21″.)

Art

My art activities have been pretty much been nil lately. No time, no money, no market. This will change, as soon as I find the time and energy to devote to them. Stay tuned!

Other Hobbies and Interests

I know I’ve left a lot of stuff out, which I will add to this page as those parts of this blog grow. In the meantime, you can navigate this site using the navigation menu above or over on the right side of this page.

Enjoy. Feel free to leave comments. You can also just read this as a blog, where everything is just mixed up in a delightful jumble. Don’t give me that look—it is delightful.

You are also welcome to my geekdom.

Merely Canadian

Please do not blame the Canadians.