However the mp3 file is a 0 size file.

They’ve stuck Ed where the sun doesn’t shine.

I have the dreaded “Nasel Click” this morning. Any other podcasters here ever suffer from that? It’s the oddest thing … and infuriating to boot!

So far the snow is at three about 8cm (approx 3inches) and still falling!

http://65.104.36.247/default.asp?display=cams&area=calgary&TextOnly=

http://www.cbc.ca/calgary/webcam/cgy_roofcam.jpg

And probably the last Podango upload too.

Thats weird though, Itunes is detecting the episode. And it plays on Podango. Itunes just won’t download it.

I actually don’t think this is a Podango problem. This looks more like the Farpoint Server problem I experienced a week ago… Supposedly there is a setting in Podpress where you set the URL for media files, and mine is always set for Farpointrecap.com even though Podango integration is on and it always detects the episodes when I upload them. Summer said this was supposed to be routed through Podango, but Jarsto said their address was bunk because they changed something (which I see they’ve done again) and that stopped working, which he was under the impression everyone had stopped using the service.

So I dunno… I think this might be more of a temporary problem that we’ve been seeing across the FPM board that has more to do with bandwidth than anything else. But I’m sure I’m wrong.

Damn it Jim I’m a Lindsey Lohan, not a podcaster.

Wish me luck!

Jack, good insight and good essay. Best of luck with the life stuff.

FWIW - I uploaded a CCU episode yesterday afternoon with no problem and it was downloading back to me through iTunes within minutes.
I would say that when it gets to that part of the process I have been holding my breath a LOT lately.

And, using my love of shoe-gazing music, I thought I’d post a semi-appropriate song. It’s from the fan perspective

—-

Just because they seem to understand the way you feel
It doesn’t mean they’ll feel the same way too
Just because they seem to hold a mirror to your life
It doesn’t follow that they’ll be just like you

Take no heroes,
Its no good
They don’t stand up to you
Just take the bit you think they can use

I remember when I was younger
I thought the answers were locked in people
So I admired the ones whose lives were a source of envy to people like me

But do you really want to meet
The ones who write your dreams
Believe me, it’s a fantasy
You won’t like the reality

If you want heroes keep them safe
They don’t stand up to life
So lock them in your soul and lose the key

(I love you, I don’t want to meet you)

When I see you it makes me feel
There’s someone else out there like me
You touch my soul with what you do
It all makes sense when I hear you

You understand the way I feel
I know exactly what you mean
It’s like I’ve known you all my life
I think of you I feel alright

But in the flesh how would it be
If you could really see
The weaknesses you never knew
Alive and staring back at you

If you want to heroes keep them safe
They don’t stand up to life
So lock them in your soul and lose the key

Lush — Heavenly Nobodies

Ｉｔ’ｓ　ｎｏｔ　ｏｎｌｙ　ｔｈｅ　ｃａｋｅ　ｔｈａｔ　ｉｓ　ａ　ｌｉｅ．

an hour long trip ended up taking over two hours.

Stupid snow.

OK, I’ll look into it.

Shoulda tinyurl’ed it, huh?

Reminds me of Kate Bush.

Rhett, I thought you were referencing “Lost”.

But ditto got it. It’s from “Hounds of Love.”

I’d like to apologize to you for the comments Dub made, since he can’t.

I apologize to Dub for that joke.

What else could I write? I don’t have the right.

http://carlzimmer.typepad.com/

I should say this onpod, and I might - but here goes, right here.

Don’t believe a single poll you read this year. The newsmedia have figured out that closes races get people reading/viewing/listening/etc.
If McCain looks to be pulling ahead, they’ll poll 18-24 year olds in Newark, NJ and tout Obama’s comeback. If Obama (or Clinton) pulls ahead, they’ll poll the Old Heh Guy Diner at 5am in Dallas, TX. and the headlines will show McCain’s miracle comeback. Expect the newsmedia to sell us a dead heat going into November.

Imagining very surprised looking melon farmers…maybe they could make it a race

On the other hand, thank God we’ve got the Polygamists taking up the airwaves for the most part this week. I mean not that its a good situation, but at least on Anderson Cooper they were doing a good job of exposing the sort of cult programming thats involved in these sorts of communities. I was a victim of a similar situation over a decade ago and some of this stuff is pretty hard to hear, but people need to hear it.

They got him elected Governor anyway. They were VERY good at what they were hired to do.

Is it any wonder I am as cynical as I am?

I want to scan a picture but my scanner is an old SCSI model.
The SCSI card on my work station is kaput.
So I thought I’d dig out my old “Performa” and use that …only I get no video out of it. So I dug out me even OLDER MAC 2Si.
It worked … at least long enough for me to start trying to figure out how I was going to network to it … then it could no longer see it’s hard drive.
*sigh*
I can boot it off of the “Disk Tools” but I can’t get it t see the hard drive or either of the other two I have just tried.

ALl I wanted was to scan some photos and now my desk is littered with partially dissasembled Macs and monitors and hard drives and various cables … and I’m no closer to getting these photos scanned then when I first decided to do so.

*SIGH*

ANy idea how to make a computer “see” a hard drive?

Somehow this doesn’t equate.

If you just want to grab a few photos, it’s a bit fiddly but you can use a DC to take a photo of a photo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kYE1JD-OoY

Bought a CD and got it signed by KR, but my unbroken record of not being able to say anything meaningful to someone I’m a fan of continues.

(I’ve never met Carmen Miranda)

Can’t really check out the video at work - but hey, cool about the autographed CD! Is she folky?

KP (and not KR..groan) is folky.

I’m going back to my medical doctor on Tuesday. We were going to do that test, but I guess there is too much else going on for me to be able to take that test and get any sort of results. So I’m just going to see him and update whats going on and we can come up with more theories. Which I’m kind of tired of, but what I’m even more tired of is living my life in a box. I want to go back to school damn it and I can’t do it like this.

I find my brain full of disjointed pop-culture references. There’s probably something more useful I could have filled it with. LOL

woaaa!

http://stardestroyerproject.com/48incher.aspx

Oh,give me a home where the buffalo roam,
Where the deer and the antelope play;
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Oh, give me a land where the bright diamond sand
Flows leisurely down the stream;
Where the graceful white swan goes gliding along
Like a maid in a heavenly dream.

Home, home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play;
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

How often at night when the heavens are bright
With the light of the glittering stars,
Have I stood here amazed and asked as I gazed
If their glory exceeds that of ours.

Home, home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play;
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Oh, I love these wild flowers in this dear land of ours;
The curlew I love to hear scream;
And I love the white rocks and the antelope flocks
That graze on the mountain-tops green.

Home, home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play;
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

The red man was pressed from this part of the West,
He’s likely no more to return
To the banks of Red River where seldom if ever
Their flickering campfires burn.

Home, home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play;
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free,
The breezes so balmy and light,
That I would not exchange my home on the range
For all the cities so bright.

Home, home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play;
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Oh, I would not exchange my home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play;
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Home, home on the range,
Where the deer and the antelope play;
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
And the skies are not cloudy all day.

There used to be a factory that converted coal to coke in my local area. For years the local rag ran stories about residents complaining about damage to their health and houses from pollution from the plant.

When the factory was finally closed down, the same rag headline was how terrible the loss of 89 jobs was to the local area.

Ho Hum.

Man, that’s way too cynical for a Friday morning.

BOOBS!

Full disclosure: I like talking smack with Jack, because he knows I got his back! Mark Forman 2.0 is the way…2 bbluesman, yeahhhhhhh!

You know, I must just be listening to the wrong podcasts, as I’ve not come across what’s sounded like abusive condescension of fans from any of the shows I listen to. I’ll count myself fortunate in that regard.

Though, admittedly, I’ve not gotten deep into any community aspects of anybody else’s podcasts, either. So, perhaps I’ve been listening to douche-casters w/o knowing. And that’s the way I’d like to keep it.

Our record breaking snowfall of yesterday (22cm.) is starting to melt, very quickly.

It’s quite fun actually.
In that “Wow! I want to turn away but I just can’t!” sort of way.

DAMN. I just made an “ass” out of “me”!
Jack warned us about that.

… again, I may have that a bit off.

According to the paper, yesterday’s snow was pretty much restricted to Calgary.

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2008/04/11/5255881-sun.html

So I wonder who here pissed off Mother Nature?

“Welcome to the last Friday of your life….”

Bwa ha ha ha

Just logged in here at the evil empire. Can’t wait to see what’s in store today. Maybe today’s the day for the frikkin’ laser beams.

JAKARTA - A bid by a local government in Indonesia’s East Java province to curb prostitution by asking masseuses to wear a padlock on their pants was an insult, a newspaper quoted the minister for women’s empowerment as saying.
the recently implemented policy in the tourist area of Batu was misguided, State Minister for Women’s Empowerment Meuthia Hatta told the Jakarta Post.
“”It is not the right way to prevent promiscuity. It insults women as if they are the ones in teh wrong,” Hatta said.
The paper showed a masseuse with a padlock on the waist band of their trousers and said the local administration’s move was aimed at curbing prostitution.

Calgary Sun

Chasity belts? Really?

Does anyone else think that TEB’s article was in response to Van’s request for a gag for a cat?

You’re not the first one I’ve heard mention this type of stuff, Jack. It was brought up in another conversation I had that, as the population in the podcasting community grows, like everything else, so does the bad that goes with a larger population.

It’s one of those very unfortunate facts that seems to go along with life.

http://io9.com/376979/we-have-a-winner-in-the-fake-star-trek-footage-contest?autoplay=true

http://www.hemmy.net/2008/04/03/minas-tirith-matchstick-model/

World’s Least Disappointing Podcaster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iczqb3sF4Hs

http://tinyurl.com/5ewn4z

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlNyCHlLt1Y

Fourth Least Artificial Podcaster.

1. Evo Terra
2. Jack Mangan
3. Adam Curry
4. Indiana Jim

Mark Forman is here? It’s 2006 all over again!

EssBee: Logged in? Have you found new employment within the Evil Industries?

Cat gag? Can Iz hav a hot dogg?

Indiana Jim: Feeling Minnesota?

Enough said!

Though even without specifics, I can think of a couple of podcasters who fit right in with this. One actually that I wish would crawl back under his rock and the others I just find amusing. If you didn’t have the bad you couldn’t appreciate the good as much.

I miss seeing you Jack.

Lurve, Debbie

Debbie - how’s your backache now?

Ditto - FPL very bad! And EW!

You guys are kinda awesome.

JB: I appreciate the thought, but — it’s cool. I’m not going to tell anyone who or what to listen to.

Still I feel the swift passage of time when I look at an empty strip of tablets.

Which makes a little bit more sense.

I’m not a stranger! More like a wallflower here. Y’all have this whole clique thing going on and I can’t keep up. I’ll just stand over here in the corner and clear my throat every once in a while.

Actually I’ve always thought of the Deadpan comments board as the place where former Wingin’ It contributers go to retire.

(and I was really tempted to say “where they go to die” but thats just so untrue its barely even funny)

Perhaps we should get together and SLAP the FLAP

cough

helps in such situations.

That is the pointless question I’m considering tonight.

Van: I Mandriva-ed, wished I would have Fedora-ed.

Negligence? most likely. Cruel and unusual punishment? uh uh.

http://eeesite.net/2008/03/mandriva-20081-will-be-eee-friendly.html