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53:35 – Celebrating episode 300 with clips and cover art from episode 47, recorded exactly ten years ago! Topics include music at work, nostalgic Rubénerd Show history, lost shows, computers mixing dates, Cairns Highlands Coffee, family trips, being a digital hoarder, past editing paranoia, loud birds, a clip from Singapore’s defunct Channel i, remembering disappeared podcasts (Crap and Stuff, Whole Wheat Radio), a clip from Ammy and Daddy’s Real Life Stuff (a new show you should be listening to), and 2000s nostalgia. Introductory music by Who Ha.
Thanks for your listenership all these years, I’m humbled beyond belief. Here’s to the next 300!
Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released October 2015 on Rubénerd and The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding).
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56:17 – Hap a doo de doob dee doo, Australia’s latest heatwave, 100°F, dry versus humid heat, data centre trips, serial to RJ45 adaptors, Jaycar, Geez Louise, IT problems are like weeds, forgetting lanyards, VW Combis, a soup-free Campbells, 80s logos, couples on motorcycles, using dead people in advertising, leaving things after you go, common sense of purpose in public transport, introverts versus social awkwardness, coffee shops, jobs, pleasant water streams, leaving for the next generation, crazy house prices, the NBN, the Sydney Central Hungry Jacks/Burger King fire, media ignoring details, and stitching audio… stitching.
Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released October 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding).
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58:38 – Reviving old theme songs, having empathy for people (but it doesn’t always excuse stuff!), the Indonesian forest fire haze in Singapore and Malaysia, needing more nice people rather than successful people, self preservation, Stephen Colbert’s moving interview of Joe Biden, getting away from “left-right wing” labels, personas, children raising parents, power rendering people douchebags, hippies, remuneration irrespective of jobs, using cameraphones as cameras (iPhone 6s+, Nokia Lumia), traditional cameras (Nikon D60, FinePix S9600, X-T1, X-100s), podcast elitism, car bubbles, and impromptu birds.
Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released October 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding).
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01:03:29 – A late night train commute from Beecroft to Mascot, seeing the Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House, and various thoughts in between. These may include the first female Concorde pilot, The Mary Tyler Moore show, still chilly for a spring night, celebrating Sebastian’s birthday, the Anime@UTS club, Latvia, can’t escape plane sounds, idiots jumping onto train tracks, tabloid TV (A Current Affair, Today Tonight), embankments and cuttings as a geological fascination, epic road trips to northern New South Wales, Sydney Trains 160th anniversary, romance of travel, ocean liners, Malta, flag designs (stars, colour, Vexillology), the Nintendo 2DS, and getting back into Pokémon!
Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding).
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38:49 – A trip home to start a server, and a data centre trip to install a hard drive and buy crisps! Also coffee power indicators, the six of clubs, exploding computer monitor stands, taking the stairs, ipchicken.com, WiFi, data centres looking like Star Trek corridors, vending machines, Solo, loud fans, and free earplugs.
Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding).
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34:16 – An OfficeWorks trip, evolution of Apple headphones (earbuds, earpods) mismatched swimwear advertising, cabin fever, walking to improve mood (taking buses one stop, hikikomoris not wanting to), drivers who don’t indicate, getting back into The Who (Highlander TV series, CSI, Need For Speed Most Wanted, how older music can still sound contemporary), Cheveron Spaghetti, new logos (marketing departments, pixel art, Onsug, this show), Sydney Olympics in 2000, and beings communicating through a poorly formed virtual train carriage.
Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding). Also available on rubenerd.com.
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29:00 – The official park studios of the show, getting weird looks, insomnia, the Renaissance Podcaster obsession with “nuanceâ€, street lamps in parks, shadows on grass, Chinese vegetarian food (Chinatown in Sydney, Emperor’s Puffs, Kopitiam and hawker centres in Singapore), Australia has a new Prime Minister (the party spill motion, Turnbull, Abbott, Rudd, Gillard), the Westminster System, tiring of political cynicism, and the glorious placebo effect of pushing pedestrian-crossing buttons.
Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding). Also available on rubenerd.com.
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34:44 – It’s getting warmer, Australia Post Parcel Lockers, getting a copy of Onsug Guide, Debra Schade, finding the crunchiest leaves to step on, physical books versus ebooks, physical anchors to the virtual world, bands with multiple guys and one woman, less desirable anime tropes, SCSI, computer scanners and hard drives as personal microfiche, holodecks, and is physicality sufficient to be real?
Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding).
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51:34 – Feeling globally displaced, the Australian International School Singapore, the HSC and IB and Singapore A-Levels, loud planes (hush kits, airport curfews, restrictions), perfect is the enemy of good (Voltaire, podcast audio gear, Nespresso, the Renaissance Podcasters lamenting quality, hipsters, cameraphones), cruises to buy vinyl turntables, AKG reference headphones, office desk layouts (fight or flight, feng shui), and a far too long digression into making jaffles in a George Foreman grill.
Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding).
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27:30 – A quiet celebration of one fortnight as a vegetarian. A bit of the philosophy (but not too much), some amazing new food I found along the way, and a big thanks to everyone for your support. Let’s see how long this lasts!
Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.
Released September 2015 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts (this one notwithstanding).
