Well, I haven’t been updating much, wanna know why? Too bad. I’ve had free time. I’ve been very busy listening though. You guys should prolly take a page from my book there. To be clear, by “guy” I’m not excluding females.
What I’ve been listening too are podcasts. For those of you who don’t and can’t figure it out, podcasts are basically just audio files made by people and groups of people and hosted on the internet for the purpose of being downloaded and listened to, commonly on iPods. With the addition of RSS feeds and an increase in popularity they’ve been grouping together and being indexed. iTunes now has a section of their page devoted to them and you can simply click subscribe and you will automatically download any updates and you can listen to them. Some are cool. I’ve been going around and listening from the beginning to the current of certain one. I started with NPR Science Friday, and a Canadian science news radio station thing (Quirks and Quarks) similar. I moved from that to Skepticality. Skepticality is a show put on by two people who have a lot of free time and are total nerds. They actually reference Firefly and Serenity early on which kinda scored tome points with me. Anyway, they talk about being skeptical and whatever they want. Pretty serious, but I like it. They get interviews from important people in my world. Also, they’re very connected in the podcast world and led me to other people to listen too.
I’ve listened to virtually everything done by QuickHitts, Slacker Astronomy, and 5 Questions so far. QuickHitts is just fairly quick and insulting opinions of a guy. Pretty funny, and I kinda agree with him on a lot of things so that’s cool. Slacker Astronomy is a bunch of astronomy stuff, and I’m a huge nerd so I think it’s cool. Good stuff. 5 Questions is a show where he asks 5 questions a week and then reads the answers he likes and gives away prizes and has interviews. I’m still listening, and I’ll probably mention the news ones in a later post. I have also heard of a thing called Soccer Girl Inc. which some might be interested in. There are female nipples on her site, so you have search yourself, and I haven’t actually listened to it because I have a suspicion it will just be a girl talking about sex and trying to get listeners that way. I did hear her interviewed though and she’s smarter than the average person, or at least can pretend for half an hour. So if you want to listen to the “first naked podcaster” google her. Also, there is apparently a podcast that casts bible verses translated into Klingon. Yeah.
Listen to some stuff if you want and then you can be a cool podcast listener like me. Plus you can maybe recommend something to me so I don’t have to listen to the 1000’s of casters all by myself.
In news not related to amateur internet radio I’m going to go walk out in a field in a few minutes and kill weeds. Much like posts long ago. Currently here in lovely Kennewick, Washington there is a drought and a heat wave so we only expect 90 degree whether if we get out there by 7:15 am. 😛 Pat’s coming if he can find some suitable footwear.
As for me being awake. It’s a weird story. See… all summer I’ve been staying awake until I was tired and then going to sleep. So this caused me to sleep at like 3ish on average and wake up around noon. Well, a couple days ago I forced myself to go to sleep at around 2 when I wasn’t really tired and I didn’t wake up until 4 pm. Since then I’ve been totally messed up and I dun get tired until I pass out and wake up at a random time. I blame 8. She should be getting online and providing me an incentive to adhere to a semi-normal schedule.
Also, we’re almost up to 530 posts on this blog. So… book next?