Sweet mother of pearl i'm tired

I'm oh so tired.  I'm going to sleep early tonight.

My podcast picks of the night: check out me, radio free calamity, RevTim, and ClusterFlux Anomaly.

/rizzn

Music on the Turntables Currently: - Fette's Vette - MC Chris

Additions to the Older Entries

I've updated some of the ancient 2000 entries.  It’s a pain in the ass to copy and paste from diaryland to blogger, so I basically only do a month at a time when I have not the energy to do anything constructive, but too much energy to sleep or something.  If you want to read about the breakup of myself and my ex Traci, go back to February and March of 2000.

I’m going to head on back to the house now.  Got some stuff planned to podcast to you peoples tonight.

/rizzn

Rizzn vs. 1209 - the viability of commercial podcasting

I had a very interesting time-shifted conversation with "1209" - the leader of the anti-podcasting movement.  I could type up both of my 20 minute podcasts, but I'll refer you instead to the URLs:

Part 1 (Includes 1209's original message)

Part 2

/rizzn

P.S. Brock Samson?  What is that? Never trust a man with two first names, that's what I always say.

FUN SCROTAL SCIENCE PROJECT

On a hot day, disrobe and slip your body (groin and all) into a cold shower. Notice how your testicles tell your scrotum to contract and thus, bring them closer to the warmth of your body's bulk. Examine the prune like puckering your scrotum produces to accomplish this amazing feat of strength and engineering. Write about your experience in your journal.

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Weird Dream this Morning

People that know me know that my dreams tend toward the bizarre.  I know a few of you actually understand dreams, and I put you to the test on this one.

The setting was this fictional corridor in North Texas that my dreams are often set in. I know that it’s North Texas (and I mean North of the DFW Metroplex by this) because in the dream I know that my elder family is from this area.  Instead of traveling the roads in this dream, for whatever reason there’s a train now that goes the distance – and I’m on it.

On the train I’ve been noticing a love triangle forming between myself, a girl and this guy who was a journalist, I think (or maybe I was the journalist). Someone suggested that a menage-a-four was in order, and we all more or less readily agreed, but the problem was we couldn’t find this other dude’s girlfriend. 

We had already hit the end of the line going North on this train, so we were heading back South East, and we stopped off in Denton (or Dennison) and we were looking around.

Then my alarm goes off. I went back to the dream after the snooze button had been properly slammed.

When I awoke back up in the dream, I was passing the time flirting with my girlfriend and working on a math problem (this is where it gets real kooky).  There’s a certain math problem called Pascal’s Triangle.

At the tip of Pascal's Triangle is the number 1, which makes up the zeroth row. The first row (1 & 1) contains two 1's, both formed by adding the two numbers above them to the left and the right, in this case 1 and 0 (all numbers outside the Triangle are 0's). Do the same to create the 2nd row: 0+1=1; 1+1=2; 1+0=1. And the third: 0+1=1; 1+2=3; 2+1=3; 1+0=1. In this way, the rows of the triangle go on infinitly. A number in the triangle can also be found by nCr (n Choose r) where n is the number of the row and r is the element in that row. For example, in row 3, 1 is the zeroth element, 3 is element number 1, the next three is the 2nd element, and the last 1 is the 3rd element. The formula for nCr is: n! -------- r!(n-r)!

! means factorial, or the preceeding number multiplied by all the positive integers that are smaller than the number. 5! = 5 × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 = 120. At any rate, in my dream, I was performing this math problem by hand, and substituting the numbers with HTML tags.  I had just realized that I was using HTML tags instead of numbers and was going to figure out what I meant by all of this, when I solved the problem and woke up. I’m a strange cookie, yes I know. /rizzn

I Love the Attention, Don't Get Me Wrong...

Apparently, I'm being paid attention to!  Who would have thunk it, but my users over at Rizzn.Net actually read my words!  Amazing. Nobody pays attention to me, guys, just so you know.  I mean, I appreciate that you do, but no one really pays attention to me.

I've got two question for you r.podcasters who use iPodder to podcatch. Question one: Can you come up with a cogent question with more words with pod in them than the first one in this paragraph? Question two: Do you have problems downloading podcasts from rizzn.net using iPodder?

I've been getting back in the swing of things in listening to my users podcasts, and I was actually going to use a podcatcher to accomplish this, and I subscribed to heygemgem's feed, and iPodder keeps timing out before the download starts (however, it doesn't time out on my feed or feeds from other servers).  Just curious.

In other news, I think that rizzn.net might actually have a higher percentage of female users as compared to the rest of the podcasting world (or maybe I only selectively remember my female users - could be either one).  I haven't done any demographics on this, but I believe I remember MyUrbanEyes mentioning a statistic (or was it Radio Free Calamity?) about a really low number of girls podcasting.

By the numbers, we've probably got average statistics, but by active users, I know it's right around 59% male/39% female/2% undecided (always hafta have 2% undecided in any statistical quote).  We have Violet Blue (open source sex), Radio Free Calamity (which has one female host), My Urban Eyes, HeyGemGem (an interesting podcast from the boonies of Taiwan), and probably many many others that I've missed.

And for you guys out there, all of these ladies are hot hot hot stuff.* Subscribe today.

/rizzn

* This of course does not count the ones that are underage, since that would be sick and twisted of me to promote the sex icon status of underage users. Besides, I was talking about hot hot hot as in going like hotcakes.  Get your mind out of the gutter.

More Deep Thoughts from the Spam Handey

A physician can sometimes parry the scythe of death, but has no power over the sand in the hourglass.

The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

The ship of state is the only known vessel that leaks from the top. A line will take us hours maybe Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.

Thought is born of failure.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power. Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult. There is no such thing as chance and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

'Tis not what man does which exalts him, but what man Would do!

Tell me thy company, and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

Without moral and intellectual independence, there is no anchor for national independence.
Give a man health and a course to steer and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.