Today’s quote might be a chinese proverb. I spent a few minutes looking for its provenance and found conflicting reports. Maybe its chinese, maybe its native american. Who knows? I bet most cultures have some proverb like this one.

Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand.

I have tried to explain podcasts to many people but only a few have understood. Sometimes when I show them ipodderx and itunes they start to get it. But I think until a person subscribes to a podcast and then listens to it away from their computer I don’t think they understand it.

So get a friend to download an ipodder and subscribe today so they can get it.

Or better yet get them to start their own podcast. Chris Brown are you listening? How about doing a weekly show together? 30 minute show tops.

First off I would like to welcome any new listeners to TodaysPodcast.com and thank Adam for the plug on the Daily Source Code.

I hope I don’t disappoint.

Today’s wise words come from Colin Powell the, unfortunately former, Secretary of State.

This quote needs a little setup- On the eve of the war in Iraq President Bush declared he was sleeping like a baby. Powell, a little wiser than the president, having served the US as soldier for 35 years, being awarded the purple heart and founding America’s Promise, a charity that helps children and youth from all socioeconomic sectors in the United States remarked “I’m sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming.”

I wish the administration had payed more attention to Powell’s nightmares instead of Bush’s consultations with a higher father.

This weekend, as I have for nearly a decade, my friends and I went to Warren Miller’s latest ski and snowboard movie, Impact. My friends I and go every year. It gets us excited for the upcoming ski season. Actually, I am a snow boarder, but I skied for 15 years and it is tough to not call it a ski season.

Anyway, Warren is smart guy with a profound sense of how to live a life of joy and excitement. And how to make a living at it.

So I would like to relay some words from the sage ski bum. “Memory can be your drug of choice. If you let it.”

Thinking back on my life I realized the memories are worth as much, if not more, that the experiences. Mostly because you can relive them over and over again, but the time you went to a 3d porno with Adam Curry. You only get to experience that once, but you can retell it and laugh about it for the rest of your life. Maybe even make a career of it.

Now Warren has a bit of advantage on the average podcaster. He has put out a ski movie every year for 51 years. 51 years of memories.

In an attempt to catch up I set up a personal blog for my girlfriend and I to save a few memories and photos. She loves it. It could very well be a love note that lasts a lifetime.

Watching Around the World with Orson Wells I heard an interesting observation. It is probably dated and not very PC but it got me thinking.

Orson Wells:

Forgive me, I don’t think the Basques are totally civilized in the pure sense of that word because civilization implies city culture by definition.

None of the dictionaries I use listed a definition demanding or even relating to city living. But the wikipedia entry for civilization describes it as a “complex society in which many of the people live in cities.”

Now I grew up in the Republic of Boulder in Colorado. Boulder is definitely a city, but not in the same sense as New York or Tokyo. So I wonder if I am less civilized than people who have grown up in one of those large cities.

I was in Tokyo in August and they might be more civilized then me, but I have been to New York on many occasions and the word civilized isn’t one of the first words that comes to mind.