The Overnightscape Underground

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01:00:00 – Join me on a train trip to Sydney to have a coffee, then the train trip back! Random topics include office space, NABERS (?), venture capitalists, spring hay fever, cubicles, Perl, introversion, what could have been, space and perceptions, commutes, squeaky carriages, not travelling between doors, grade separation, New York schist and Sydney sandstone, junk food for vegetarians, chicken salt, Brands Essence of Chicken, apple flavoured Yakult, Starbucks, light rail, Americanos and long blacks, train platforms, losing wallets or phones, Tiles, micro-obsession with Canned Heat, and how to irritate hipsters.

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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2:19:55 – Thoughts on recording from Frank Edward Nora, Clara Tse, Jimbo, Doc Sleaze, and Rubenerd!!  PQ Ribber exhorts you to join the fun, follow up, participate and listen to the awe and wonder that is ONSUG!!

Next:  Time and Aging

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55:27 – Cicadas, overhead planes, show 300 feedback, powers of two, the Airbus A380, Wings, unusual clouds, light patterns, abandoned tennis courts with floodlights, Dave Chappelle as Rick James, couldn’t care less about celebrities, Dôme coffee chain in Perth and Singapore, childhood lessons about trusting the media, Chinese whispers, multimedia encyclopaedia CD-ROMs, citing Wikipedia, Apple IIc, squirrels, 1980s GUIs, nonsense about why Windows 9 was skipped, Mac OS 8.6, and my decade-long adventure with a “dead” PowerMac G3!

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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2:38:31 – The Central takes on ‘Villains’!!  Chad!!  Doc!!  Clara!!  Ruben!!  Frank!!  Another Instant Classic from the Central!!  PQ hosts and pours on some Drivelene, reviews the ONSUG Week, and tells you how you can be part of the next transmission, (which you should oughta)!!

Next: Why We Record

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Overall attribution by PQ Ribber , all other hosts appear courtesy of themselves.

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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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2:44:29 – Clara, Jimbo, Chad, Doc, Ruben, and Frank share their ideas in this look at Imagination!!  PQ is your presenter and also reviews the past week’s doings on The Onsug and tells you how to join in on the rampling!!

Next:  Villains

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Overall attribution by PQ Ribber , all other hosts appear courtesy of themselves.

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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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2:14:36 – A fabulous, international look at the Morning Meal and Cereal, too!!  Jimbo, Rubenerd, Chad, Clara, Frank, and more!!  PQ hosts and yaks it up, as well as reviewing the past week’s doings on ONSUG and telling you how to be part of the fun!!

Next:  Imagination

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Overall attribution by PQ Ribber , all other hosts appear courtesy of themselves.

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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).