BrainWyrms

Chasing the Bard: Chapter One
Chasing the Bard: Chapter Two
Chasing the Bard: Chapter Three
Der Geek 8.5: Not the real show
PC Gamer Podcast 134: Hotness
Grailwolf’s Geek Life 005: Listerner Appreciation Special #1
Buzz Out Loud 735: Ind_na Jo_es

I’m not going to be listening to 1Up Yours! this week. It has been one of my absolute favorite podcasts since I started listening to podcasts. I usually listen to each episode two or three times, just to make sure I didn’t miss any of the goodness. But it seriously hasn’t been the same since Luke Smith left 1Up to go work for Bungie. And since this weeks podcast is a rebroadcast of an old edition with the full crew - it just makes me sad to listen to it. These days it just isn’t the same. Still good, just not GREAT!!

[said in Tony the Tiger's voice]

East Meets West 119
I Should Be Writing 91
Grailwolf’s Geek Life 4
Pulp Gamer: The Game Kennel 012: Toledo
Buzz Out Loud 734: Rev3 gets P2P poisoned
Common Sense with Dan Carlin 126: The Way You Play the Game
Game Theory 52: What is Best in Life?
The Voice of Free Planet X 132: Panda’s Big News
Legendary Thread 05/29/2008

Tale Chasing 4: Prep vs. Procastination
Tale Chasing 4.5: Pre DragonCon Update
Tale Chasing 5: DragonCon 2007
Volcanicast 2008/05/16
Google Developer Podcast 15: Google App Engine
The Sword and Laser 007: Elfpunk FTW
The Sword and Laser 008: Elf Noir? Seriously?
This Week in Geek: Chris Roe Special Interview
Truth Seekers Podcast 50: Reload
Grammar Girl 108: Whose Joke Was That?
The Voice of Free Planet X 131: Feedback to Front
Buzz Out Loud 733: Flying Poop Factory
The Totally Rad Show: Eisenheart

I unsubscribed from the Volcanicast. It seems to have an interesting conceit… if I knew who the hosts were (are?). Otherwise, why should I care about the top searches? Nothing against the show, just not very interesting to me.

The Adventures of Indiana Jim: Promo #1
The Bear’s Grove Podcast: The Square One Podcast Episode 0!
12 Volt Theater: Down the road - part 4: Cold Knife
12 Volt Theater: Down the road - part 5: Severance
12 Volt Theater: Down the road - part 5: Severance (concluded)
Random Signal 74: Awesome words for your sexy ears
Better Late Than Never 30: The Many Incarnations of I am Legend
CBC Radio: Quirks & Quarks 2008-05-24
CBC Radio: The Best of Ideas: Blue Metropolis
Buzz Out Loud 732: Make family, not phone
The Dragon Page Cover to Cover 307A: Jim Butcher
The Dragon Page Cover to Cover 307B: How Much Do You Read
The Dragon Page Cover to Cover 308A: Tracy Hickman
Comics Radar 042: May Previews for Comics in July
PCMag Radio May 27, 2008: Windows 7 Will Go All Multi-Touch
GFW Radio 05/22/2008

So I dropped my comics subscription the other day.

And then I found out that the second season of the New Universal comic by Warren Ellis just started up again.

Waaaaaah!  I want my comics.  [pouts]

I’m not sure where I left off, so if I didn’t mention something: I’m sorry.

So the ‘91 Nissan Maxima failed the emissions inspection.  And it failed the safety inspection.  On further digging, it turns out that the main source of the emissions failure was one of the cylinders.  I think it was #3?  Anyhow, the cylinder was loosing compression.  The autoshop recommended replacing the engine.  Or the vehicle.  Heh.

In this state, there is a Lemon Aid (haha, get it!?) law that protects used car buyers.  Basically, if the cost to repair a vehicle to pass inspection is more than 10% of the vehicle cost - I’m allowed to cancel the sale.  Within the first 7 days.

The problem with that is the seller managed to hold title for, surprise, 7 days after the sale.  So I didn’t get the inspection done until roughly 9 days after the sale.  I got the title, I got the insurance form (RMV-3), I registered the car and then I got the inspection.

And then… someone stole my license plates.  Both of ‘em.  Front and Back.  !?!  It took almost two hours to figure out what the correct number to call the police was.  The phone book lists 5 numbers for the local cops.  The 911 emergency number, the backup emergency number, two business phone numbers, and a “special investigations” number.  I finally found the “non-emergency” number listed on off the state government web page for the local city.  (The city web page was horrible.)  The “non-emergency” number is the “special investigations” number.

So I called the cops, filed a report (making the stolen plates useless to me), went the insurance company and got more forms.  Then I had to wait… for the holiday weekend to get over.

On Memorial Day, Jade and I went to look at some cars.  We spent some time walking around the Nissan Versa, checking out the feel of it.  Then we went to take a look at a (any) used Jeep Liberty.  But we got hooked by a shitty car salesman - so we walked out without seeing anything.  Then we stopped by to look at the Scion xD.  I ended up signing papers for the xD.

Now I am just waiting for the title papers to come in, for the insurance money to come in… and to find out what the frick I did with the gap insurance papers for the xA.

I am so very very very tired of all this nonsense.  I want to have free time to myself again.  Dammit.

The Crave Podcast 86: Microsoft offers free money!
Der Geek 8: Unsporting Conduct
The Adventures of Indiana Jim TALU 012 January 5, 2008
This Week in Tech 144: The FBI vs. The Internet

Subscribed: The Big Bang
Buzz Out Loud 731: Last rites for DRM
Stabbing Contest 13
Another Here 50: Welcome to the end times

That was the worst BOL I have ever heard, in terms of audio quality. I vote that they stop screwing around with the video and stick to the highly superior audio only format.

And this is looking like it will be the very last Another Here podcast. I can understand why, but that doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t prefer that he keep putting the ‘casts out.

Slice of SciFi 161
Slice of SciFi 161 Voicemail Show
Slice of SciFi 162
The Sword and Laser #006: Childhood’s End (the end!)

Just realized, duh, that I had missed Dragon Page Cover 2 Cover when rebuilding my list of podcasts. I’m only about 8 episodes behind, so I’ll be caught up again by then end of this coming week.

1Up Yours! 05/23/2008