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Today, the iPhone 12 Pro Max is available for preorder. Like many new shiny Apple things, I’m intrigued by this device. I’m not gonna rush on the preorder; it seems more practical to try the new phone out first. I asked Apple when that’d be possible and they said the Pro Max wouldn’t be in stores until a week from now (November 13th). Being interested in the new iPhone is just the beginning of my latest round of GAS (Gear Acquisition Syndrome). I’m also very interested in getting a new iPad Pro. My current iPad Pro works fine but it is five years old. Thanks to general clumsiness/inability to function as a human, there are a couple large cracks across the iPad’s screen. Those cracks aren’t impacting the iPad’s usability (yet).As always, the biggest problem with any case of GAS is coming up with the money to take care of it. First world problems, I guess. Recorded with iPhone XS Max built-in microphone. Edited/mastered with Reaper.

Before we moved into our home in 2006, we had decorative concrete flooring installed. We had to move in a bit faster than we’d initially expected, so we definitely cut some corners on the pre-move details. While the concrete floors looked great (and still do), we didn’t have the floors sealed, which has made their rough concrete surface difficult to clean. We’ve tried many different methods for cleaning these floors over the years. Most of them weren’t very effective. None of them were very efficient.I got an Oreck commercial-grade floor cleaner towards the end of 2018. In order to clean our floors with the Oreck, we need to use a cleaning solution made by Simple Green. It’s a good cleaner but its lingering chemical aroma leaves me a bit dazed and fumed. Recorded with iPhone XS Max built-in microphone. Edited/mastered with Reaper.

I’ve heard NaPodPoMo is a good time for podcast experiments. I’m taking that idea to heart. Earlier this week, I fired up my RØDECaster Pro for the first time in ages to upgrade its firmware. I also wiped all of its settings to the factory defaults. That means starting over from scratch. For years, I’ve used microphones on boom arms but decided last year to try something simpler. I bought a ModMic 5 and attached it to my trusty AKG headphones, hoping the ModMic could be my regular-use microphone. I figured I’d give it another go with the upgraded RØDECaster Pro firmware, assuming I could access the new granular audio controls I thought were supposed to be there?Warning: The audio contained in this episode is definitely raw in some places. Listen at your own peril! Recorded with Antlion ModMic 5 thru RØDECaster Pro. Edited/mastered in Reaper.

Halfway thru Election Day 2020. I’ve been monitoring the social medias as much as I can stand to. While I have as many hot takes as everyone else, I’m holding back. People are stressed out enough as it is. Adding to that just doesn’t seem like a very productive thing to do. Sure, I have my thoughts and opinions, and I will likely share them in time. Today, however, I’m saving the snark.This is the seventh presidential election I’ve voted in. It seems like the current has been ratcheted up with each successive election. Not sure if elections have always been this way, or if social media has flipped the switch into the red. Peoples’ reactions to politics feels a lot more like sports these days, and that’s not necessarily good. Recorded with built-in iMac mic. Edited/mastered in Reaper. Transcription to follow.

Jen joins me for NaPodPoMo day two. Jen is very empathic, Force sensitive (still honing her Force-wielding skills), allegedly not a Betazoid (yes, I said “Betazed” in the recording; I will never live it down), and is feeling the country’s anxiety the night before Election Day 2020. I asked Jen a series of mostly random … + Read More

After not producing much of anything for… months, it seemed like a good idea to give NaPodPoMo a try. In an attempt to squash the overthinking part of my brain, I decided to record this one as simply as possible. Yes, the sound quality probably isn’t great. But, is it ever? The quality of the … + Read More

Originally recorded on April 3rd, when this whole pandemic thing was still somewhat new (but definitely no less surreal). Anxiety is not new to me but I can usually pin its cause on something. It’s certainly easy enough to blame any sense of uneasiness on the current state of the world, but I’ve still been … + Read More

Mike joined me for a discussion about his experience being furloughed as a result of novel coronavirus COVID-19. This audio was recorded two days ago. Mike lives in the CornRona Belt, better known as Indiana. He’s been working for a number of years at a food court-corporate concept-travel plaza. As the new COVID-19 reality came … + Read More

Jen joined me to have a conversation about novel coronavirus COVID-19. The audio was recorded two days ago, during our first full day of shelter-at-home, as ordered by the state of California. We shared what we know about where COVID-19 might’ve come from. (Virus reservoirs!) We covered the current shelter-at-home order and why that’s important. … + Read More

This month marks my 15th anniversary in podcasting. It’s not a terribly exciting story but one that I think is worth recounting. Summer 2004 I’d created my first “real” website with a domain name. I had this idea to record “radio shows” and post them on that site. Maybe people would find them? I had … + Read More