So, yeah, it was awesome.  More later, now sleep.

iTunes get get's it's feed from this page, which is where TalkShoe would dump the recordings after the show.  Since the quality was usually meh, they would (usually) record via Audacity, and post that high-rez version later on the site.

But I'm sure you knew that.

As for the Crystal Skull commentary not being on iTunes, that's simply because it wasn't recorded in the chat room, but rather like we do DIF now, pre-recorded.  Since it never went through TalkShoe, it couldn't be part of the feed that iTunes checks for new episodes.

So that's that, now...

I've gone through and found what high quality episodes I had and uploaded them, including a few that aren't on iTunes such as, Crystal Skull, Episode 36, and a few of what came to be know as "Preekza!"s, pre-show recordings from early episodes.  I've also put up a few that are still available through iTunes, but are favorites, such as VFX and You!, and the RvD2 premier.

In terms of integrating the high-rez episodes seamlessly into your iTunes library, here's my method:

1. Download all the episodes through iTunes.

2. Select all the episodes, right click, Get info.

3. Under the Options tab, change Media Kind to Music (you can also optionally select Remember Playback Position and Skip When Shuffling at this point, or you can do it later).

4. Don't panic! The episodes will disappear from the Podcast section of your library, and Geekza will appear as an Artist under Music.

5. Download a high-rez episode from the DIF Geekza! page, and drop it into iTunes, it should show up under Artist/ Geekza.

6. At this point you should have two copies of said episode, so delete the crappy version, and rename the high-rez using whatever naming/ sorting convention works for you. 

The files I've uploaded follow a convention that works for me, keeping in mind that there are 3 seasons and  59 episodes (there is no episode 56 that I am aware of) covering 64 files.  Most are labeled as Podcast, but commentaries are labeled, well, Commentary.  For the most part I've kept whatever title the show was given in iTunes.

When syncing your device, "Check" the episodes you want synced, and under your device, under Sync Artist, select Geekza. 

I actually do the same thing with DIF.  Placing podcasts into Music allows you to rename them, reorganize them, change artwork, whatever, without screwing up the podcast.  I'm also a bit lazy when it comes to listening to certain podcasts, and they tend to stack up -- what I hate about listening to a podcast in iTunes is that when you finish an episode, it doesn't automatically play the next one; you have to go back into iTunes and select the next one to play it.  Changing the files to Music allows iTunes to play the next episode automatically like any other album.

There's all kinds of fun you can have playing around with the ID3 tag, which is really all you're doing with Get info.

Anyway, Geekza!, enjoy!

The Downward Spiral was my "gateway" album, and it still holds the number 3 position, proceeded by The Slip (love all but the instrumentals) and Year Zero (counting R3MIX3D).  The track that got me hooked was Dead Souls from The Crow.

In a way I own my appreciation of modern music in general to NIN.  Before NIN I sort of lumped all of hard rock and heavy metal into just obnoxious noise.  Dead Souls hooked me, then The Downward Spiral came out and I actually took the time to listen to it.

Actually now that I think about it, that was the beginning of my ability to critique;  giving NIN a shot, and finding I liked it taught me not to judge before I'd given a reasonable chance.

I guess that's the lesson then; don't be to quick to judge, you might find you like it.

Exactly.

Nah, the spray on stuff is way more genital, that is gentle, than the lotion stuff, though it does smell the same, that is, bad.

Or so I've heard.

It is, isn't it?

Link?

Sorry for the delay everybody.

Pick up Avatar at the Down in Front store

Avatar on IMDB

As you know...

Depth of field

Character arc

Save the cat

AVTR

Fire in zero g

Thundercats fan trailer

Laz Alonso, Tsu'tey was at the Arclight with us opening night

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Neptune

Happy (belated) Birthday Shadow!

On the topic of backing up: I currently have a small box that I carry around labeled "Time Machine," that contains an internal 3.5 inch hard drive and a lot of packing peanuts.

Let me back up (heh, heh...) a bit.  In August '07 I bought my first (and only...so far) Mac, a Macbook Pro with a 160GB drive (an MA896LL/A if you really want to know).  Some time later OS 10.5 came out with a new feature called Time Machine, essentially a backup utility.  I upgraded, and decided to go with an external 320 GB drive for backup.  I connected it via USB, using one of these.  If you don't have one, it's well worth it to have in your kit; their dead useful, and at the time I was thinking I'd upgrade the internal as well, and would need a way to clone the drive.  Anyway...

At the time I was working for the now all but gone Ritz Camera, and I would usually bring my Mac with me (can you see where this is going?).  So one fateful day in May last year I hit the "Backup Now" button, packed up my Mac, and went to work.  That night it was stolen as I was helping a customer.  If you've ever had a computer stolen (actually that was my second stolen computer now I think of it ), or even lost a wallet, phone, or hard drive (thankfully I've never lost any of those), then you know that sinking feeling you get (I know at least one member of these forums this has also happened to).

Fortunately I have a backup image of my old Mac in the form of that drive in that box, but until now (and for the immediate future) I can't afford what it would cost to replace it.

What is great, is that when that fateful day comes, I can restore my new machine to the same state as my old machine in a matter of hours.

Until then, I'll continue to cart around my little "Time Machine" in the hopes that one day I can bring my old machine back to life.

So, anyone got an old MacBook Pro lying around they want to donate to a good cause?

I did.  I'm looking forward to a proper video release though; if any movie was made for a special features disc (or two) it would be this one, and hopefully we'll get a director commentary as well.

Jeff: Well, if it's any consolation, I'm basically thinking of what I would do in such an event.  It's an interesting psychological exercise. 

Sure I'd miss friends and family, and maybe that's the way I would take the ending somehow, but I'm pretty sure I'd be OK for a while.  The tricky part is in trying to objectively extrapolate what I would do, and how I would feel after the initial "party" is over, and the lights start going out.

The ending would have to be a self-revelation.  I guess the over-arching premise can be boiled down to be careful what you wish for, though I would not explicitly state it.

The idea is appealing to me as a story because I have a feeling it's one of those things that everyone thinks about, but doesn't really talk about.  The political response would be to admit that "man, I'd go crazy all by myself," and I'm sure there are a good deal of people for whom that would be accurate.  But by saying "yeah, I'd probably be alright," you're risking the stigma of a "crazy person."  What sane person would want that for themselves? 

Maybe want is too strong a word, but suffice to say that, particularly in this day and age, there are those that would welcome relief from the day to day stress imposed by needing to find work, pay bills, "am I going to be able to afford to eat this week," etc., all things made easier by a lack of other people.  No boss, no bill collectors, no one to answer to; who wouldn't want that?

I guess the problem with eliminating all people, is that you also eliminate society.  As much as we hate paying the electric bill, without the people (who your bill helps pay) keeping that power plant going, pretty soon you won't have electricity at all.  Now expand that analogy to include everything that society maintains, on which we as individuals rely everyday.  There's your ending, somewhere.