PMOGgin’

Heads up, peeps – episode six of the Tubenauts podcast (“2Shoats1Crate”) is up and ready for your listening pleasure. I host, we talk about benefactoring and shoats, we interview Trustee Marc Adams. As usual, it is full of win! Listen here.

We also got blogged by community liason Joe “burdenday” Wagner!

Podcasting FTLR

When Alex and Eli call, I can’t help but answer.

Alex Tweeted a recent NYT article about the Antikythera Device, asking if anyone would be interested in making a guest podcast about it.

Heck yes, I would be!

I’m a big fan of Eli Hunt’s podcast series and I’m love a challenge…and an antique mechanical analog computer struck me as pretty challenging. But after a bit (okay, a lot) of reading and research, I thought I’d be able to form an interesting narrative of its history, discovery and purpose – as well as its connection to our agonothetai.

Give it a listen here. How did I do?

Alex did a nice writeup to let people know about it, including some of my supplemental links and Eli’s comments.

I’ve included the full text of the podcast under the cut, should you be interested in reading it.

Tubenauts, parts three and four

While preparing for this week’s podcast recording, I realized I didn’t post about last week’s! D’oh. The shame is on me.

Last week’s discussion was a review of The Week of Order, a comparatively calm stretch of donating crates and donning armor as people burned through the mines left behind in the aftermath of Chaos Week. It’s just like the moments after the last, huge blast of Fourth of July fireworks have gone off, and the wind changes, bringing the scent of burnt powder and smoldering paper remnants, which drift down to where you sit cringing on the grass, hoping they don’t land on your blanket and leave burn marks.

This week we talked about missions – specifically, “what’s their deal?” There were some hilarious moments, including a movie announcer intro and a Miss Teen South Carolina acceptance speech, and, uh, the Iraq, everywhere like such as.

Give it a listen.

Funny funtimes with PMOG

Greetings, gentle reader,

I have visited distant lands, and while the challenges of surviving the journey have prevented me from posting here, I have much to share.

Last Tuesday I recorded a PMOG podcast, as a member of the Tubenauts, and it is about 20 minutes of pure game-related hilarity. Check it out here, and listen to the June 18 posting. It’s had over a hundred downloads so far…not too shabby!