Archive for March, 2006

My podcast promo was played on Adam Curry’s Daily Source Code today (#364)

Woot!

00:00 Intro (new!)
00:57 Welcome to the double digit spectacular
01:27 New podcast software, CastBlaster
03:17 The 22nd Amendment and Strange Brood crossover
05:54 Michael Schaivo and the murder of his wife
13:15 Piratey Podcast Promo (kind of hard to hear, sorry)
14:17 CastBlaster mixmaster trouble
15:25 My new renaissance faire garb
18:17 Sliders and Hillary Clinton (overdriven audio warning!)
23:50 New web site features and new hotline: 206-3dubya3
26:24 My un-updated podcast has more listeners than Ramblings. WTH?
27:35 tag and thanks

http://www.ruttersramblings.com/media/ruttersramblings010.mp3

So Ive been combing the web trying to find a PC equivalent to the Mac’s GarageBand3., thanks to Allen’s in-person demonstration on how it works, making me very, very jealous… After much looking, I finally came upon CastBlaster, that appears to somehow be tied (even if its just a picture) to The Podfather himself. I downloaded the software and ran the installer and it said something about upgrading to Windows Media Player 10 to provide MP3 support. Well, I already have WMP10 and MP3s play fine, so I was a little confused. But, I went to Microsoft’s site and downloaded the reinstalled for WMP10 and began to unpack/install it.

It finished with the usual reboot now message, but when Windows started up – no opening fanfare. Nothing. So I went back into CastBlaster where it told me “no wave out devices found” – I went into my control panel and sure enough my sound card now had a yellow exclamation mark next to it.

Great.

For those un-PC saavy, that means basically my computer is mute. No sound comes forth onto thine speakers, and more importantly, no podcast can be recorded either.

I tried to reinstall the sound card drivers a few times to no avail. They kept saying “this device could not be started.” Over and over and over. So I removed the device from the control panel and instead of reinstalling it, rebooted.

Windows started up, without the startup sound, and I was about to go crazy. But then I booted up an audio app and everything was working. So I booted up Cast Blaster and began playing around. It is a pretty good program, it puts a lot of sound effects and loops at your fingertips. However, it doesn’t do multi-track, it just kind of mixes everything on the fly. Which means if you make a mistake, you have to redo all of it.

The trial version is limited to 10 minutes, which is probaly a good thing as I will probably do my double digit special in chunks rather than all at once. Still, until GarageBand is ported to the PC (yeah right) CastBlaster is a very good alternative.

He was introduced to the world by the LA Times, and now all the Marlboro Man wants is a nice wedding. Many of us saw the image below, placing a uniquely personal face to the masses of soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. Miller was married in June 2005, a simple wedding, fast and private.

All he wants now is to give his wife the wedding of her dreams. And that’s where you can help.

The Jerry Doyle show has been helping to establish a fund for Blake Miller and his wife Jessica, and below is the address you can send donations to. $5, $10, $10,000 – whatever you can spare.

Blake and Jessica Miller
P.O. Box 113
Virgie, KY 41572

Even just a card of support for Blake and Jessica would be appreciated. Some would say he is “just a solider.” Both Jerry and myself say almost the same thing. “He was a soldier. Let’s give back.”

For more information on Blake Miller, please Click Here

00:00 Intro
00:34 Welcome to show 009
01:20 Marc Gunn from The Brobdingnagian Bards promo
01:30 The Brobdingnagian Bards present The Jedi Drinking Song
05:45 Where to find The Brobdingnagian Bards – Celtic, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings songs and more!
06:32 Call-in: Doug from The Strange Brood
08:00 Call the Rambling hotline at 206-337-1507
08:15 Tin Whistle Mayhem – Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
08:50 Oregon family found alive – so much for shortcuts
09:40 Debra LaFave… are women sex offenders “getting off” easy?
19:42 ShoutOut: Des Moines Cast
20:08 Call-in: Allen from Des Moines and Amy Jo Ayers
20:45 Response … innocent or charges dropped
25:24 George Bush vs. the Media. Can the media be trusted?
35:32 Tag and thanks

(Why do my dashes not work on this thing?)

http://www.ruttersramblings.com/media/ruttersramblings009.mp3

00:00 Intro
00:30 Greeting Land Lubbers! Oh wait, Im not a pirate!
01:45 Web site plug, frappr map and hotline info
02:25 Google Pagerank of 4
02:45 My Renaissance Faire Experience and introducing the pennywhistle
04:15 The first-ever pennywhistle podcast
05:00 The Des Moines Renaissance Festival gets a new Sheriff
11:09 Donald Wheres Your Trouser by The Brobdingnagian Bards from renaissancefestivalmusic.com
15:50 United States v. Zacarias Moussaoui
22:20 Saddam Hussein disrupting court proceedings
23:30 Amazing Grace by by David Spack
28:00 Listener Mail
30:30 Of course its crisp – its raw

http://www.ruttersramblings.com/media/ruttersramblings008.mp3

For your amusement… the promo shot of Teddy from Arsenic & Old Lace. The moustache was only the beginning, wait until you see my NEXT blog entry…

What a miserable day. I am still feeling pretty bad, even though Ive been to work the last couple of days. My nose is bright red from a consant drip that has lasted all day. The sore throat is a little better, but ugh.

Tomorrow isnt going to help as I have plans almost all day. Plus I need to clean tonight since they are showing my apartment at 10am.

I really hope I survive this weekend.

My whistle came today. woot!

Have to try and start learning tonight, hopefully it will be a better night than last night.

LIST OF THINGS TO DO

Except for a stuffy nose, all is good. I think my trouble last night was my “acid reflux” coming back to haunt me. I went and got KFC at around 8pm (ugh) and I had been having problems waking up with reflux the last couple of nights. I think its time to lay off of soda and eating after 6 for a few nights.

Other than the stuffy nose, I feel fine.