random incoherence and infantile meanderings

Today, I did what I should have done earlier. I gutted my podcast subs. I ripped out… oh… so much. It hurts. And the sad thing is that I’m still carrying several gig of current talky podcasts and about 8 gig of podiobook/story podcasts that are waiting on me.  I have to gut more.

1. Joss’d Episode #027 – Kim and Tabz Ramble On
2. New Media Gear: Podcasting and Internet Broadcasting – Gear for the Job
3. TASCF-063-Hello 2009!
4. WhatTheCast Episode 55: WhatTheDictions for 2009 (Part 1)
5. Babylon Podcast: Show #141
6. What They Play 005: The one that’s nearly all feedback from listeners
7. Geek Radio Daily January 28th 2009
8. Buzz Out Loud 898: Fail whale tale
9. Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts #294 – Notes
10. The Eclectic Review Show #140 – Los Gatos
11. Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History Show 25 – The Dyer Outlook
12. Talksplode #8 with Duane Swierczynski of Immortal Iron Fist, Cable, and Werewolf by Night – Great. Now I want to start picking up Cable. Again.
13. StarShipSofa Aural Delights No 60 Gene Wolfe mp3
14. TCLP 2009-01-21 Hacking 101: Build Tools
15. Dragon Page Cover to Cover #345A: Entertainment Options
16. Dead Robot Society Episode 67 – Characters
17. Movie Mantras Episode 54

The other day I finally opened the bottle of Kimchi I had picked up at the grocery store last week. This is my first time with Kimchi and I don’t know what makes a good Kimchi or what a typical way to eat Kimchi is.
The bottle warned that overflow was possible due to the fermentation, so I wasn’t sure what to expect when I popped the cap off… over the sink. There was some fizzing and bubbling and the general mass of cabbage came closer to the top of the bottle, but nothing quite as drastic as I had been fearing. The smell was sweet, though I didn’t stick my nose into it.
So I took a fork and pulled out some chunks of the Kimchi and plopped it onto a plate. It looks like limp white, green, and red cabbage with some random other vegetables tossed in for good measure. In other words, it looked like a normal vegetarian meal to me!
I’m not sure how to describe the flavor experience. The Kimchi has a slightly delayed hot and spicy flavor that doesn’t quite match up to any pepper I’ve ever tasted. Nice, but then it got a little too warm for my weak tongue … and then it felt like the Kimchi was fizzing on my tongue like some Pop Rocks or a really spoiled food. It was disturbing. Overall, the Kimchi was too hot and too fizzy for me to eat by itself.
So I piled it onto some wheat bread with some swiss cheese and Morningstar Breakfast Strips. That was weird and good and … weird.
I need to find out what Kimchi is good to eat with since I really don’t think I’m going to get used to the way it feels to eat it by itself.

1. Quirks & Quarks 2009-01-17
2. Darkly Fey Episode 24 – Applying Knowledge With Wisdom
3. #015 – The S&L Podcast: We disagree!!
4. In Game Chat: The Maw Episode
5. MobileTechRoundup 159
6. Wapcaplets Episode 35: Privateer Press Core Techniques DVD
7. The Podge Cast Episode 026: We Don’t Meet Your Expectations
8. The Psych Files Episode 84: How To Make Learning Fun Again Part 1 – Piaget
9. PGIT 064: John Ward of GAMA
10. Cover to Cover #344B: Alternative Content Options
11. Buzz Out Loud 896: Watch your asymptote
12. Cato Daily: Obama, Entitlements and Private Accounts
13. Geek Radio Daily January 23rd 2009
14. Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts #288 – Chaos
15. Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts #289 – White
16. Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts #290 – Buffet
17. Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts #291 – Sneeze Part 2

1. (Encaf1′s Wandering Out Loud) WOL002: top -n 10 -o cpu -l 1
2. TWS114: Chemical Romance
3. Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts #287 – Snow
4. IOT: Thoreau and the American Idyll
5. Crypto-Gram 15 Dec 2008
6. Dragons Landing Episode D 99
7. TCLP 2009-01-14 Inner Chapter: Effecting Change
8. In-Game Chat: The Ad Nauseam Episode

And 90% of Rebel FM 2.

1. BC42.78 – Jeri Smith-Ready Author Reading From Wicked Game
2. D:20 Unreal Diabloville
3. Movie Mantras Episode 53
4. Giant Bombcast 01-13-2009- “Drank” sounds like a fun time… or something. I think I’ll give the Bombcast one more listen before removing it from my active subscriptions list. My sense of humor doesn’t align with Gerstman and company.
5. Your Moment of Kim – 008 – Yes Virginia, Holidays Suck
6. Fractured Horizon- Ep 22