Thursday, 9 August 2018
quote [ Before I arrived in Japan, I had already set an assumption about how my experience would go. I was traveling solo, don't speak the language, am socially introverted, and I had chosen to stay the first week at an AirBnB private room in a small town outside Tokyo. I imagined most of my trip would be spent alone. ]
For my regular listeners, sorry for the lack of a more digestible SE for your auditory enjoyment this post. Before my computer issues began, I had decided to take a short hiatus in order to retool the show to make it more interesting and expand it in some ways to help it (and hopefully SE in general!) grow more.
First and foremost, I'm going scale back to doing two episodes a month, shoot for a 1st and 15th of the month schedule. Every 10 days makes sense based on the metrics available on the admin page, but I also feel like I'm oversaturating the market in a way. SE is a small community and I only register 10-20 listens on average after 10 days (unfortunately I have no way of knowing amount of listens past that). Hoping the extra time in between episodes will give me a little more time to prepare for them, as well. Second, I am going to get more guests on the podcast. Tired of talking to myself all the time. I'm already trying to find people I know that seem interesting, or want to discuss a specific topic with me. Either in person or over the phone, I want to have more dialogue on this show. I will invite them to join me in discussing posts as I go through the "digest" part of the podcast, because that should really remain the core or foundation of the podcast, but if they decline the episode may be split into "digest" half and "interview" half. SE first, my silly BS second. And speaking of my silliness, I'll try to refrain from talking about personal life unless it's really interesting. I'm not famous enough for anyone to care about how I butter my toast... YET. And third, the reasoning behind these changes is I want to reach a larger audience. After 2 years of doing this I feel like I've got the hang of it, I'm not so bad at keeping a pace, and apparently my voice makes for good radio voice. So I'm gonna figure out how I can get the podcast listed on iTunes and other popular streaming sites and feeds that share podcasts. (You hear that Joe Rogan? I'm gunning for your spot at the top!) I'm gonna write some theme music, and even make (or hire someone to make) a decent logo. Gotta present myself if I'm gonna get those listeners. I may even (gasp!) consider advertising spots if I ever get popular enough. Then I could actually make a little scratch from talking into a microphone in my underwear. These are all mostly ideas still, and I still need to figure out how to do a lot of it. I'm back to being busy as shit and dealing with life per usual, but I really want to devote more time to this hobby/side project and make it the best it can be. Hope you'll join me for the ride. I am talking to a few people about doing interviews on the show, so hopefully now that I can post again I will have something for you by September 1st. Here's a little something something to keep you fed until I get the show back on the road. If you listened to my last episode, you heard me talk about a surprise meeting with a woman in Japan. That was kind of a rough draft of sorts, me sorting through my thoughts right after having the experience. This is a better organized second draft I read on stage a couple weeks ago. Enjoy. IN CASE YOU THOUGHT ROMANCE WAS DEAD
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rndmnmbr said @ 2:27pm GMT on 9th Aug
[Score:1 Yep ]
Yeah, I'm not a fan of Chrome. Mostly because Firefox 3 was the One Correct Browser UI, and not being able to put my tabs below the address bar is bad and wrong... but in a greater scope, I don't like Google dictating my preferences to me instead of the other way around. And mostly because I'm a stubborn old fuck who decided how I like things fifteen years ago and refuse to change.
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C18H27NO3 said @ 9:23pm GMT on 9th Aug
Fuck. Move over. You’re not alone.
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JWWargo said @ 10:10pm GMT on 9th Aug
I was Firefox through and through until a couple years ago when I began noticing poor performance and heavy resource usage on an older laptop. I switched to Chrome and found it a smoother experience. Apparently, Mozilla did a complete overhaul of their code and has fixed a lot of those issues. I'm happy to return to my favorite browser.
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rndmnmbr said[1] @ 11:51am GMT on 10th Aug
Firefox Quantum is good shit, but be advised, it deliberately broke addon compatibility, so if you're dependent on an old addon that's not popular enough to get a rewrite then you're just SOL. To put my tabs below the address bar, I had to do some userChrome.css modifications - two lines, real easy, but still.
Also, frankly, these days blame the website itself for poor performance and heavy resource usage. Web developers don't seem to think optimization is required anymore. e. That's not a dig at you, Steele. The site I had in mind was facebook. |
lilmookieesquire said @ 4:13am GMT on 10th Aug
Can someone explain to me when programs became apps and people collectively didn't tell me?
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rylex said @ 4:14am GMT on 10th Aug
Sometime around the mid 90s
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rndmnmbr said @ 11:55am GMT on 10th Aug
I noticed it around the time smartphones became a thing.
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Paracetamol said @ 7:28am GMT on 22nd Aug
[Score:1 Informative]
I'm going scale back to doing two episodes a month, shoot for a 1st and 15th of the month schedule. Every 10 days makes sense based on the metrics available on the admin page Sorry to pick this up so late, but you can insert any day range in the admin filter: Just pick a range and then change the day range in the browser address bar – works like a charm. |
JWWargo said @ 11:14am GMT on 28th Aug
HOLY SHIT! I've been asking how to do something like this since I started the podcast. Thank you for the illumination, this opens up a whole bunch of possibilities. I could do a monthly show now if I wanted, or a greatest hits episode!
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steele said @ 12:07pm GMT on 28th Aug
[Score:1 Underrated]
Just don't push too far back, it makes the database demons angry.
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JWWargo said @ 12:40pm GMT on 28th Aug
Is "Best of the Year" pushing it too far?
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steele said @ 2:06pm GMT on 28th Aug
Stick to a month or two maybe. ;)
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JWWargo said @ 8:40pm GMT on 28th Aug
Must you ruin all my fun!!
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steele said @ 11:15pm GMT on 28th Aug
That's the job. ;)
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JWWargo said @ 7:43am GMT on 9th Aug
TL;DR is better podcast coming, and here's some words I wrote.
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hellboy said @ 6:09am GMT on 11th Aug
That was a good story, man. And I'm someone who is quite sure that romance is dead. Hope you figure out what you need to move forward.
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JWWargo said @ 11:11am GMT on 12th Aug
Sorry to hear about your loss. If it's any consolation, I'm still communicating with Scarlett daily and we are going to move in the direction of applying to have her come to the States on a visitor visa so we can spend a few months together and see if a long term commitment is in our future.
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steele said @ 11:56am GMT on 9th Aug
Glad to see you up and going again, dude.
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norok said @ 2:34pm GMT on 9th Aug
A few months ago I was unable to use SE on the beta version of Chrome. It was also on a PC where retail version of Chrome would take 15 mins to finally load after executing. Wiping that box was the only solution. Glad to see you're back!
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C18H27NO3 said @ 9:24pm GMT on 9th Aug
A few months ago I was unable to use SE on the beta version of Chrome.
Damn. Sorry to hear you solved the problem. : ) |
norok said @ 10:34pm GMT on 9th Aug
:P
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JWWargo said[1] @ 10:38pm GMT on 9th Aug
Why so sad cb361?
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cb361 said @ 9:24am GMT on 10th Aug
I always cry at tragic love affairs.
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Finally! I felt like I was drowning not being able to interact with SE. You're my friends even if we've never met. I missed you.
I wanted to post this a while ago, but due to some weird glitch in the matrix, my ability to PM, comment, or post was causing a connection error using the Chrome browser. Installed Firefox and all seems well.
Please check out the extended for more info on the future of the SE Digest podcast and a new(ish) travel story I wrote.