From what I gathered from my Twitter feed over the weekend, everybody seems to be talking about the ACTA and how everybody seems pissed off by it. It would also seem that for once I got on the band wagon early because my cohosts and I discussed this in the middle of last week while we were recording the snow. There were a few other things we talked about but it seems that this is the one that people are the most concerned about, it makes me think that the segment concerning the ACTA should have been bumped up a couple of slots to the feature instead of the WTF of the week. I could use this space to discuss the ACTA at further length, but I feel there is nothing more I can say on the matter that hasn’t already been said. That and today has me feeling a bit tired.

I may or may not make this whole matter next weeks feature to shed some more light on it if people are still talking about it next week when I record. I agree, it is an important matter, but I won’t give said matter any more coverage if the short attention span of the average internet user and podcast listener has found something else to be concerned about.

I could also use this space to talk about NaNoWriMo, but after the first week I’m sure those of you who aren’t participating are tired of hearing about it. So if you care to see how I’m faring I encourage you to visit my writer blog

I hope you enjoy this weeks show, we’ll see you next week.

0:00 Intro
2:30 Front End Banter
9:00 NaNoWriMo and Brains
15:00 Break: Free Will
17:20 The PodCaster Triple Threat
18:15 One of the Funniest Youtube Videos Ever (according to Ben)
20:10 NVidia chip sets wont support USB 3.0 until 2011
27:35 The Movie Industry is still butt hurt about Piracy
39:40 A Study shows that chronically ill patients are happier if they give up hope
47:00 BorderLands and Other Games
52:10 Fail Of The Week: Blockbuster employee stabs self to skip work
59:00 Maine Says Yes to Pot No to Gay Marriage
1:08:10 Break: London Moon Thing (You’ll have to listen to the promo for this one, I forgot where it came from or what it is)
1:09:15 WTF of the Week: ACTA
1:32:05 Outro
1:36:54 End of Show

Here we go ladies and gentlemen. Would have had this promo A LOT sooner but it took a while to get Kyle’s line.

Take this promo send it to everyone you know, send it to your favorite podcast. Alternatively if you have your own podcast you’re more than welcome to put this on your show, I’ll play your promo in exchange.

This week we covered some interesting topics, but what I’d like to focus on is our feature. I talked with Scott Roche about NaNoWriMo at length and we discussed some of the main pitfalls that writers face from a domestic standpoint, as well as some problems you’ll face as a novice writer, as well as distractions posed by the internet. We then offer ways that each of these problems can be solved. Keep your eyes on the feed over the next week for the promo for the show as well as something a little extra.

0:00 Intro
5:15 Front End Banter
11:40 Why we havent been doing our jobs
18:25 We are in a parallel universe
23:30 iTtunes LP
32:05 Break 7th Son
35:10 Piracy and the MPAA
39:15 Games Mass Effect 2 Release date
44:50 Fail of the Week cop pulls gun on haunted house worker
48:20 NaNoWriMo with guest speaker Scott Roche
1:15:35 Break V&A Shipping
1:16:45 WTF of the week Starcraft Stabbing
1:30:00 Outro
1:34:55 End of Show

This is the audio part to the essay that I posted on Drawing a Blank. This is also a preemptive apology. You see, Ben, has had tomorrows episode since last night and he chose to go to bed early today instead of doing the show notes. There’s really nothing I can do if he won’t be responsible. I don’t think beating him will work. Either way here is the audio recording of the essay. I hope you enjoy it. Feel free to call in and leave feedback. The Show will be posted in a few hours.

Having some issues with the computer, will be reformatting and restoring and such over the next couple of days.

No show this week.

EDIT: Turns out it was just a fried video card. That is a relief, but I wish I’d figured this out before I spent a whole day backing up my files. And when I say, “whole day” I literally mean that. I had about 400GB and some change that I needed to back up.

Any-who, with the problem solved there will be a show posted next week and you’re more than likely to hear me bitch all about it.

Sorry it’s late. You can blame my Nemesis

That’s right boys and girls, Kyle came back after the month like I said we would. This one is a bit long, but stay tuned, silliness ensues.

0:00 Intro
6:20 Front End Banter
13:45 Break: Erotica a la carte promo
14:55 Apple Tablet
20:25 NSF Porn Problem
25:45 Technology is Scary, It knows who you are.
29:40 2012 Doomsday prophecy, Reality or Imagination
34:20 Film Maker Openly Endorses Piracy
43:40 Gaming Segment
1:19:40 Fail Of The Week: Lily Allen Piracy Fail
1:25:15 Zombies
1:29:00 Zombie Land
1:38:50 Rising
2:00:00 Break: Inner Demons Promo
2:01:15 WTF Of The Week Self-made moyle sees jail time
2:06:10 Outro
2:11:02 End Of Show

Righty-O! Here I am with the next episode for your listening pleasure. We created a new segment as well as had a guest host. I really hope you enjoy the show and I’ll see you next week.

[Ben thinks it's fun to make me look bad. So instead of doing the show notes today he went off to Terre Haute to buy porn. Show notes should be up sometime Tuesday.]

If you check my writer blog you’ll begin to notice in the last couple of posts that I’ve made all of the plates that I currently have spinning. What with NaNoWriMo just around the corner, this month’s Great Hites prompt, and the essay that I’m writing I’m going to be very busy for October and November. Working on three different writing projects and researching NASA funding, third world countries, nano-tech, bio-tech, military tactics, military training, and working on the show I’m not going to have a great amount of time to restore the archives like I planned on doing. So unless I can manage to teach Ben how to take two season’s worth of audio and upload it to the file host and then link it to the blog, which I think is an impossible feat, I probably won’t get around to restoring the archives until sometime in November when I’ve made a good amount of progress on my writing project for NaNoWriMo.

So yes, I made a promise that I was unable to deliver on, but I’m just thankful that I’ve got two great hosts who can pull their own weight for this show so that I get each episode out on time. And as long as the podcast is out on time I’m not concerned about anything else. Hopefully I’ll get ahead of my workload, or I can shirk the archives responsibility off onto one of my cohorts and the archives will be restored sooner rather than later. But I wouldn’t expect to see them back up until mid to late November.

Some of you may not think that being unable to make good on the promise of restoring past episodes isn’t that big of a deal, but it is to me. Way back at the beginning of this year I made promises and I made announcements that this show would be back on March ninth. And a combination of procrastination, an actual job, getting stoned, and technical difficulties all combined into a huge snowball effect that made me unable to release the first episodes of the podcast until just now. So having to come back to you again and say, “Hey, remember how I said this was going to happen? Turns out I lied.” disappoints me. I like to keep true to what I say, and if I say I’m going to do something I usually end up doing it. Not that you’d be able to tell that the fact that the first episode of this podcast didn’t hit your feeds until just last month, and that you don’t have the archives up for those of you who actually want to listen to past episodes.

I feel that I’ve rambled on for long enough, there’s your update. If you’re curious about what I’m up to between recording and uploading the shows, check out my writer blog or the contact page for various ways to keep tab on what I’m doing via facebook and twitter.

So unless I have anything else important to announce I’ll see you when the episode posts on Monday. And until then this is Eldon KR signing off saying, “I don’t have cancer, so I’m not stopping.”

Alright. Here’s Episode 4. On time again. I think I’m starting to get the hang of this again. And so is Ben. It used to take forever to get him to find time to record, and then having him transcribe the shownotes was always like pulling teeth. It’s good that we have an actual schedule now. I’ll keep this news post short. I’m starting to go into a food coma. As the episode title suggests. It was a slow news week. I didn’t really have much to talk about but I wanted to put an episode out. I still think the show turned out good anyway. Hopefully something interesting will happen next week so that I have something I can bitch about.

Also, November is right around the corner. That means it’s almost time for NaNoWriMo. I’ll be participating in it again this year. You can check out my Writer Blog for any updates regarding NaNo that I make. Enjoy the show and let me know what you think about this weeks episode by leaving some feedback. If you still don’t know how to leave feedback for the show be sure to listen to the outro at the end of the show for that information. I’ll see you next week.

Timeline:

0:00 Intro
2:25 Slap Chop Remix
5:45 Front End Banter
9:00 Gamer DNA
15:05 Break: The GearHeart
16:35 Hugh Laurie Suffers Because of House Role
19:55 Lilly Allen is a hypocrite
23:20 Best Buy Setup Scam
29:15 Walmart Food Bank Problem
32:40 Scribblenauts
42:30 Ben Gets A Facebook Profile
59:00 Break: Weatherchild
59:55 WTF Of The Week: Self Image Issues
1:07:25 Outtro
1:12:20 End Of Show