Nov 09 2004
Mudcasting Ned Devine
This is a 10-minute podcast Jenny and I recorded around 1:30am last night. We were feeling kind of punchy, and I thought recording a podcast of us reviewing the 1998 film, Waking Ned Devine, might be a fun way to wind down the day. It was foolish and futile, and possibly the lamest review of any movie we’ve ever done (this could become our trademark). Anyhow, we stuck the DVD of the movie into my PC and recorded while the movie was actually playing. Featured on the soundtrack (and our review) are “Fisherman’s Blues,” by the Waterboys and “The Parting Glass,” by Shaun Davey (a song I heard played by Stephen Fearing on Whole Wheat Radio a few days ago). We give the movie two thumbs up.
This is a completely unedited recording (I didn’t even check the levels). An edited, and probably better, 6-minute version is posted in the comments.
UPDATE: This podcast has been removed.
Here’s the shorter 6-minute version.
I won’t do that again (post unedited recordings). I’ll replace the original 10-minute version with the 6-minute version later. Or put more thought into them there podcast things.
That was great, Phillip and Jenny: your personalities come through, which makes it interesting to listen to, even if the subject is boring (though not in this case).
Screw it. I’m leaving the post the way it is. I’m headed to Jody’s place tomorrow to meet my new niece or nephew for when he or she comes along in a few days. I’ll have more important things on my mind than podcasts…
Also meeting penders! I remember you offered me a beers for making your life a living hell by introducing you to the wonderful world of modern-like puters!
That reminds me, Pender, I’ve got a heatsink with your name on it if you still want it.
If I installed that heatsink on my computer, it wouldn’t speed things up, would it? My computer takes about twice as long to do stuff compared to when I first got it. Pissing me off.
Sweet, I’ll take it! I have a 3rd puter that it would be perfect for, it’s having heat issues already (when I run seti it crashes the puter within about 10-20 mins).
I dunno why it would be slow. Is it slow when you say, load something up? Or is it slow while you’re doing stuff (like, the hard drive is going like mad for seemingly no reason)?
Every now and then the hard drive engages for no apparent reason, which scares me, so I just reboot and it goes away. But I notice how slow my computer is mostly when I’m editing WAV or video files. I can see it slowing down for video files, but WAV files shouldn’t slow it down. Pissing me off. Anyway, I’m at Jody’s now. He’ll bring the heatsink it to work tomorrow.
> He’ll bring the heatsink it to work tomorrow.
No he won’t: tomorrow’s a Canadian holiday; I won’t be going to work.
Oh well, whenever. Thanks for bringing it anyhow.
I’LL be at work tomorrow. If I’m the only one then I’m totally gonna leave early, but don’t tell boss j0dy!! Shhhhhhh.. Our little secret.
The hard drive thing is just a swap file cleaning up. After it does its chugging for a while your swap file would be cleaned out and your system fast again. While it’s chugging away though your puter will be real slow.. It’s just windows suckiness, happens to everyone.
If things are slowing down try defragging the hard drive. If you don’t have enough memory to do the things you are trying to do then it’s swapping memory to the hard drive, which is super slow. It’s even SLOWER when it can’t find contiguous space to use. I know editing stuff you probably write and delete files constantly, so you’re probably just fragged to hell. Give it a try anyhow, if you haven’t already.