50,000 Monkeys at 50,000 Typewriters Can't Be Wrong
I think it’s time for a new episode of Radio Free Burrito, don’t you?
I had a super good time with episode eight, which was entirely Q&A, so how about this experiment: I’ll do another Q&A show, and focus it on a single topic, guided by whatever is on your mind: The topic is Geek. (Hey, you should go with what you know, right?)
Send your questions to ask at wilwheaton dot net, (with a descriptive subject line, please) and I’ll get a new show out by Friday.
I‘m working on WWdN today (about to stop and walk my dogs; the rain has broken, and it’s quite beautiful outside right now) and I thought I’d share a couple of links for any readers who found me in Exile, rather than following me over from WWdN.
The first is something I wrote a long, long time ago, when WWdN first started. I knew people would be coming to my site with lots of preconceptions, and I wanted to take a shot at challenging them. I also had a tragic-but-true story which started this whole blogging thing for me, and is one of the first narrative non-fiction things I ever wrote:
If this is your first time here, you should read this.
The second is a couple of links to a reading I did from Just a Geek and Dancing Barefoot at Gnomedex a couple of years ago. It’s not the best performance of all time, and I tossed in a couple of ad-libs that in retrospect don’t work (see if you can spot them!) but
You can now see or hear me read from my books Just A Geek and Dancing Barefoot! If you like what you hear, you may want to pick up a copy of Just A Geek: Teh Audiobook. Or not. Whatever. I’m not the boss of you.
Oh! And even though I’m putting my photos into flickr these days, I have an extensive gallery that’s filled with really great stuff, including a HAWESOME series from a road trip Anne and I took a few years ago. Man, I really love WWdN. Working on it brings back a flood of memories, and I can’t wait to get back home.
I’ve been working on a new episode of RFB most of this morning, and I’m incredibly sad to reach the conclusion that it’s just not going to happen.
I don’t have anything original or interesting to say, but I figured it wouldn’t be the biggest deal, because the bulk of the show would be audio from the Star Trek convention and my audition on Tuesday. The big problem is, that audio is just for shit. It’s so blown out that listening to it gave me a headache and actually made me feel a little sick to my stomach by the time I gave up trying to clean it up in garageband.
I’ve been using an iRiver 795; I’ve noticed that the last few times I’ve used it, the built-in mic is so sensitive, that with the encoder set at 44 kHz and 160Kbps, unless I’m speaking very quietly or there is absolutely no ambient noise, the audio is useless at best, and painful at worst. I’ve tried the line-in with a clip-on mic, but without some sort of pre-processing, the levels are too low.
So, can any of you experienced radio people or podcasters out there suggest an extremely portable, very affordable solution to my audio problem?
(Thanks to Matt D. for catching a picture of the official RFB truck in action!)
Today, it’s a brief political rant (you have been warned), then it’s all questions and answers, no stupid meta-talk about what I’m going to do, just getting down to it and having a good time.
A lot of people have asked if I can change the numbering of the episodes; I did that on this one. It’s called 008.RadioFreeBurrito. I hope that works for ya.
Show Notes:
Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy it.
Download 008RadioFreeBurrito.mp3
Update: Your friendly local .torrent creator, Brian shook his magic tree and look what fell out:
High (orig):
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Mirror for the Low..
http://www.badmonkies.com/rfb/008RadioFreeBurrito-low.mp3
This file is one of the biggest yet, so use the mirrors and seed the .torrent, if you can. Thanks, Brian!
Updated again to add: My Odeo Channel (odeo/0d0d9ccd150172dd) (So I can claim it. Ding!)
Well, here’s episode seven. I went over ten minutes, but I think that’s okay. This episode focuses on two things: how the ten minute challenge is going, and how the blog in general is going. Warning: I’m feeling really unhappy right now, and I talk about that, too.
Show Notes:
Here ya go:
Download radio_free_burrito_episode_seven.mp3
Update: Your friendly neighborhood torrent maker Brian has done his thing:
High (orig):
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(Thanks, Brian!)