Monthly Archives: August 2007

Rubenerd Show 226 - 2007.08.17

The Elke and Ruben discussing stupid news episode!

Rubenerd sister Elke joins us to discuss ridiculous news articles, stalker arguing social networking page was misleading, debating seedy MySpace profiles, gyrating at nightclubs, wasting time on Facebook and Friendster, Ruben’s and Elke’s Twitter pages, giving away personal details, Aussie PM John Howard trying to filter the internet, easy to stumble on sleaze online, Ted Steven’s series of tubes, is there blame-shifting going on, oxymoronic fuel efficient SUVs, combatting efficient Japanese cars, hugging trees, good publicity without substance, Elke’s mass communication studies course thing, actually learning nothing useful, chemistry and economics, high school friend Boyd Anderson’s site is mysteriously down, friggen mouse pointers, Blackle is my new favourite search engine, lesbians in The Sims, dark background on light text, energy efficiency tips, Freddo Frogs, comparing American to British, Aussie and Belgian chocolate, Hershey’s Kisses are icky, New Zealand accents, Russell Crowe on South Park and throwing phones, no breast implants in space, voting Green not Libertarian, Ruben’s heterosexuality, hacker webmasters, reading Twitterrific posts from Felix and Frank Nora live, furnaces in the tropics, Japanese and Aussie expats in Singapore, friggen ang mohs, caucasian guys like being special, Elke’s immaturity and unpleasantness, mysterious Champs-Élysées song discovered by surrealist, faulty Nokia phone batteries, URL redundancies, random women forcing themselves on you, Frank’s QuarkXPress woes, The Sunscreen Song and John Howard’s contorted facial expressions.

Download MP3 to listen ↓ 51:00 minutes, 23.40MiB

Rubenerd Show 225 - 2007.08.15

The random music and iLife rant at 0200 episode!

Insomnia is a bitch, I’m related to Kevin Rudd, Jamiroquai’s virtual insanity, recording a podcast at 0200, great welcome back forum posts, thanking y’all, viagra, TedPod passes 100 episodes, alphabetical order sucks, jetlag, evil sleeping cycles, shocking people, really disappointing iLife 2008 release, dumbing down iMovie, subtle Final Cut Express persuasion speculation, stealing bread and shirts, British Apple advertisements, MacBreak Weekly ratholes, wiping operating systems, big arse apple juicers, self consciousness and why I can’t do video, age and cynicism, online newspapers, genealogy and family trees, convicts going to Australia, Mary Wade to us, living in Singapore, maddening mysterious Champs-Élysées song, Avril Lavigne tries to sing Japanese, slurred stress importance, sitting in a Singaporean coffee shop and making the ultimate kickarse juice!

Download MP3 to listen ↓ 42:00 minutes, 19.20MiB

Rubenerd Show 224 - 2007.08.12

Lazy Sunday Afternoon in the Singapore CBDThe beautiful Singapore Sunday afternoon episode!

Son of a diddley, long times and whatnot, moving back to Singapore, Murphey’s law, unpacking stuff, loving living in the tropics, Yakult, a heart attack inducing Singaporean taxi adventure, my two guility signs of insanity, loud apartment security boom gates, going to Changi Airport at 0630 on a Sunday, the Commodore 64 Family Pack, borderline Twitter addiction, Twitting Felix Tanjono and Frank Nora, shoehorning Symbian, 3G wireless in Singapore, using m.twitter.com on a handphone, Keeping Up Appearances, Hyacinth Bucket, hand painted periwinkles, ratholes, review of Twitterrific and TwitWin, Chocolate Rain, awesome internet memes, time zones, some sort of Apple handphone, listening to podcasts and whatnot, neighbourhood insurance rates, Gold 90.5FM, Paul McCartney versus John Lennon, disowning, Starbucks, Dance Tonight on Memory Almost Full music review, singing for sheets, my Beatles realisation from Larry King Live, fortune telling on YouTube, having a brief booming voice, madams on a phone, voting for podcasts, J.D. Lasica and being a multitasking jaywalker.

There’s a bit of voice distortion in parts of this show. I’m obviously out of practice, the next one will be much better!

Download MP3 to listen ↓ 47:00 minutes, 21.60MiB