Due to me being sick last week and general busyness, episode 17 of the podcast is going to be a little late. Sorry for the delay, we'll have it up as soon as possible!
It's been forever since we've released a podcast. Believe you me, if it feels long to you, it feels much longer to us. The last time we sat down to record was prior to my trip to England and vacation in France, and that was the beginning of June. It feels like it's been forever.
The reasons are various—constant construction in my apartment building the last two months, getting rid of my G5 in favor of a MacBook Pro, vacation, lots of work, summer, my great aunt falling and breaking her hip (I swear, I didn't make that up), the list goes on—but I think both Shawn and I are really dying to get back to doing it. The truth is, it's a hell of a lot of work, and creating a podcast on a bi-weekly basis is quite an undertaking.
But fear not! I am currently (well, I was a minute ago and will continue shortly after finishing this post) writing again, and Shawn is too, and we're recording this week. I know that sounds like an empty promise, based on the fact that the podcast website has said we're recording this week for about four weeks now, but it's the honest truth.
We're very excited to start the show back up again, and we hope you can forgive the lengthy hiatus.
Update: I also just noticed we're back up to five stars at the iTunes Music Store. Awesome!
One of the reasons I wasn't posting a lot of entries on the site before this new RoR version was that the CMS I built wasn't working. Adding a new post required using phpMyAdmin and manually creating tag associations as well as creating a Markdown version of the content as well. It was a pain. I used to have a fully-functional CMS, but it broke when we moved to PHP5 at Segpub and I never bothered to fix it. So for the last year or so, I've been entering posts via the database itself, basically. And it was cumbersome.
Another issue was always having to think of titles. I hate thinking of titles. I don't want to do it anymore. The new site doesn't have them (technically, it does, you just never see them because they're for my reference only—this entry is called "Pooping Out Bananas") and I love it. No pressure. This goes hand-in-hand with the whole one-entry-on-the-index thing I started with the last design, which nearly immediately killed the site. Having only one entry on your index page at any given time is ballsy—it requires that you actually have good content that can last for several days, something that's, well, nearly impossible in this medium. I would find myself looking at an post 20 minutes after I published it and already being pissed off at the stale feeling it gave me. It's one thing for a long piece of fiction, but when it's just some nonsense about nonsense then, well, it's annoying.
And then there's the lack of comments. I must say, I fucking love it. I don't have to worry about saying something so fantastic that you'll feel obligated to respond, and I don't have to worry when you don't. Clearly, you're here—I still get plenty of hits a day—and if you want to say something you can send me an email (there's a link in the info section) and I'll respond.
This new format feels freeing and suddenly I'm writing without worry or responsibility. Stripping away everything but the most basic of content has given me an internet boner for this site which, effectively, is the same thing as a real-world boner except that it's really shiny and keeps beeping. See, no responsibility at all.
Things are a bit messy now, after the move. I've got lots of little things to fix and tweak so for a few days things will be in disarray. Such is life. Truth be told, I'm actually sort of enjoying having no content on the site. It feels like a huge weight as been lifted from my shoulders.
The main feed is working but it's Atom 1.0, so some feed readers probably aren't showing it correctly. You should upgrade, not just for me but because Atom 1.0 is now the standard and it's good to have the latest thing, blah, blah, why am I trying to convince you? I'm not sure.
My replacement 5g iPod shipped today, as soon as I get it we'll make iPod video formats of our short films for everyone.
Hold tight, pal.