brainwagon

Where your host apologizes for his haste in deserting the Red Sox and congratulate them on a terrific ALCS victory in game 7 over the hapless New York Yankees. Links: The Baseball Archive — a downloadable database of baseball games from 1871-2003 The MySQL Cookbook has many examples which use the database above. Retrosheet has […]

Wherein your host is once again proven wrong and the Sox go on to fight another day. Other items of interest: Curt Schilling — hero of the game. Ob. trivia: I believe that Schilling is the current major league player with the most at-bats without getting his first career home run. Stellarium — a realistic […]

Where your host rants about the Red Sox’s second come-from-behind win in a row, discusses the nostalgia of the The Old Terminal Room which Rob Pike mentioned in his recent Slashdot interview and talks about the history of photography.

Where your disgruntled host lauds Jon Stewart’s appearance on Crossfire, including a short clip and further rants about the commercialization of the “podcast platform”.

Wherein your movie going host gives a brief update on his experiments with Asterisk, and reviews the mediocre new movie release Team America. Sorry folks, it just wasn’t very funny.

Wherein your host has an exhausting Saturday filled with a charity walk, general networking problems of great mystery, and ends the day in a tuxedo for The Incredibles wrap party. Other links of interest from the show: Ben Gross sent me a nice email. The Linux Link Tech Show is a great show, and they’ve […]

Wherein your host talks once again about the nascent field of podcasting, gives his impressions of tonight’s debate, and describes a busy weekend. I also mentioned the short story Report on the Barnhouse Effect by Kurt Vonnegut, which is part of the book Welcome to the Monkey House.

Wherein your host describes his future plans for drawing up some useful information for other podcasters, configures BitTorrent, plays far too much with Stair Dismount, plays some unusual music tracks by Stark Effect, and talks about the gaff by Dick Cheney during the debates yesterday.

Where your ascerbic host tears tears Steve Ballmer a new one over DRM, reports on his attempt to make AB’s Beefy Broth, and also mentions the terrific thttpd, a throttling http server by Jef Poskanzer.

Wherein your host bores potential listeners with late night reviews of Doom3 and Halo, points out the silliness of copyrights on sound effects CDs, and puts his copyright music where his mouth is by playing music from archive.org.

Where IT downsizing claims another victim, the Angels victimize the A’s, and your host anticipates the creation of a new machinima series called The Strangerhood. Oh, and for Dan Lyke here is an ogg encoded version of my program.

Wherein your skeptical Democratic host rambles for 25+ minutes on the outcome of last night’s (for lack of a better word) “debate”. Warning: fans of the President may be offended. Actually, there are better words. Perhaps “farce” or “camera op”.

Wherein your host is stirred (but barely shaken) by an earthquake and then goes on to ponder baseball, copyrights and other miscellaneous topics o’ the day. Addendum: It appears the earthquake did relatively little damage.

Wherein your host experiments with a remote on-the-street feed, thanks his patient and benevolent listeners for their comments, and reviews the British zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead. Download the MP3 for the complete review, but the summary is: it’s a terrific zombie movie and a terrific comedy welded together to make a really great […]

Wherein your host apologizes for his inept speech habits, reviews the Star Wars trilogy DVD collection, yaps a bit about graphics hardware and Moore’s law, and looks forward to Shaun of the Dead.