brainwagon

Where your host shows his geekiness by generating a new intro for his podcast while demonstrating a simple digital signal processing trick he coded up in 30 minutes of goofing off this evening. Apologies to the BBC and to my listeners, but it’s a very short podcast.

Where your host describes the fun he’s been having with his new cell phone and his travails in trying to get MythTV installed. Links for the show: The Motorola MPx220, my new Cingular cell phone Useful sites for MPx220 information: mpx200.org and pdaphonehome.com My ASCII television hack: over two years old, but still fun. Inspired […]

In episode 37, your intrepid host reports on his new cell phone, talks about his as yet unsuccessful efforts to get MythTV to work, plays a song from Comfort Stand, an online record label and then is hastened away to the Sponge Bob Squarepants movie. Anyone who wants to serve as my mentor on the […]

Where your host describes his upcoming special holiday treat, yammers about a couple of interesting bits of software, and plays some holiday music to prime the pump for the largest shopping weekend of the year. Links from today’s show: I’m going to be presenting podcast for the classic 1937 radio serial The Cinnamon Bear. You […]

Where your host rambles and meanders through the topics that seem appropriate on a Saturday. Links from the show: I use lots of command-line tools to process and convert video files. Some of the more important ones are mplayer, transcode and ffmpeg. All three are useful and powerful, but have steep learning curves. Still, for […]

Where your host describes a number of interesting gadgets and gizmos, and then plays some Halloween sounding music: Links from the show: The Aiptek DV4500, pictures, video and sound files coming soon. Grayson: a film trailer created by amateurs, telling the story of Dick Grayson, aka Robin Jeri Ellsworth designed the Commodore One, a clone […]

Where your host laments the problem with his SUV (bad alternator) and comment spammers, chats about the NPR program regarding political speech and the public domain, talks a bit about his microphone setup, plays some blues music, and recalls all the terrific Cajun food he had during his only trip to New Orleans. Links: Home […]

Where your host tries to give a meaningful introduction into digital audio by explaining the basics of digital audio. Topics covered include: What is sound? What does your computer do when it records a digital audio file? What does sample rate, sample size and bitrate mean? The sound settings that I use to record these […]

Where your host, refreshed by two ibuprofen and eight hours of sleep, replays his experience and impressions of Bloggercon. Closing music from garageband.com: Push: Don’t want to say goodbye Errata: I said “Michael Scoble” on the podcast, he is of course Robert Scoble. Why is it that my brain can remember thousands of Simpson’s quotes […]

Where your host records half of the program with his mike muted, then re-records an apology to his brother, spins two rockin’ blues tunes from garageband.com, and records some impressions of three independent film books he has begun reading. The songs: Company Graveyard by B.B. Chung and the Buddaheads I Won’t Go Back by Joe […]

Breaking with the tradition of geeky news, your host explains why he’s voting for the Kerry/Edwards ticket this year, and encourages everyone to go out and vote, no matter what your political affiliation. After tomorrow, it will be back to geekiness, I promise.

Well, it’s still a couple of days till Halloween, but I thought I would to this special halloween themed podcast so that you could still have time to use some of the ideas and downloads that I present here in whatever spooky proceedings you may have planned. Here are some of the links I mentioned: […]

Where your host plugs the worthy record label Magnatune and their gracious use of Creative Commons licensing, plays a bit of American Baroque’s rendition of Vivaldi’s Concerto No.1 in D Major RV, better known as the Spring Concerto among us people who don’t know much about music, and lauds the 6th Court of appeals decision […]

Ten years ago I had a job interview with SGI, and afterwards went on a first date with Carmen. I didn’t get the job, but I did get to meet a marvelous woman, and in 2000 I made her my wife. Her patience, kindness and humor all work to make me a better man, and […]

Where your host introduces you to his brother’s venture Webranger Nostalgia Broadcasting, reviews the Iogear MiniView 2-port KVM switch, gives his brief thoughts on the movie The Grudge starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, and tries installing three different Linux distributions in a weekend, only to end up back where he began. Other cool items mentioned: Roger […]