Monthly Archives: April 2008

Rubenerd Show 240 - 2008.04.25

2008.04.25 – 16.01

Sitting at Starbucks with a certain brand of computer!The fast food and Starbucks episode!

ACT ONE: On hobgoblins and small minds (courtesy of Cranky Geeks 113!), where we are in Singapore, diamond shaped thingys.

ACT TWO: Pontificating on the reason why McDonald’s started printing nutritional information on place mats, a McChicken burger surprise!

ACT THREE: Discussing the question: would you prefer to study in a Starbucks or in McDonalds? Reading comments by Neil from IntoYourHead, GeekMommy and Sharon in Singapore!

ACT FOUR: Singapore housing boom, ridiculously tall buildings, weird designs that just don’t look stable!

Download MP3 to listen ↓ 33:10, 15.2MiB

By Ruben Schade | Posted in Audio Episodes, From Singapore | Comments (2)

Rubenerd Show 239 - 2008.04.23

2008.04.23 – 23.25

The Crash Test Dummies!The Crash Test Dummies and silly people episode!

ACT ONE: Twitter is back, and so is the spam! Frustration with my Nokia e61i’s speed, awesome Canadians in Singapore, university and high school have much in common, Elke’s polytechnic adventures, The Levels becomes Mawson Lakes (WTF?).

ACT TWO: Silly university entrance requirements and an Elke and Ruben combined teachers and students rant!

ACT THREE: Even more dang Twitter spam messages, the lead singer from the Crash Test Dummies rocks!

Download MP3 to listen ↓ 37:20, 17.1MiB

By Ruben Schade | Posted in Audio Episodes, From Singapore | Comments (0)

Rubenerd Show 238 - 2008.04.17

2008.04.18 – 00.38

Do I look like I'm thinking?The why I am an atheist episode.

A bit more serious: discussing the reasons why I became an atheist from experiences in my early childhood to the present, including most recently my beautiful mummy’s struggle with cancer and passing on.

Also briefly refuting some of the misconceptions about atheists including intolerance, arrogance, spirituality, materialism, wishful thinking, heaven, the celestial dictatorship, and why statements like this are completely untrue.

BONUS: A very quick, foolproof test you can use to see if someone who trashes evolution has actually studied it.

DISCLAIMER: This episode was not recorded to insult people, it’s just an explanation for why personally I’m atheist. If you are religious you may be offended, but please know that in my heart that it was not my intention.

You may say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one.

Download MP3 to listen ↓ 1:08:56, 31.6MiB

The OUT Campaign

By Ruben Schade | Posted in Audio Episodes, From Singapore | Comments (5)

Rubenerd Show 237 - 2008.04.15

2008.04.15 – 20.34

The Renovators!The Whole Wheat Renovators episode!

ACT ONE: Elke in Malaysia, different sized pond thingys, scared of copyright law, making more money from concerts than recordings!

ACT TWO: Answers to my philosophical Twitter question, why I’m confusing even myself!

ACT THREE: Reviewing songs from The Renovators album Rhythm & Blueprints including Rip Up the House, It’s Been Done, Blue Reggae, I Don’t Ski.

ACT FOUR: Audio from a Whole Wheat Radio Audio Magazine including an American NBC anchor in the 1970s, the I Could Be Wrong song, and why I also can’t stand Dr. Phil!

STRONG LANGUAGE WARNING!

Download MP3 to listen ↓ 39:45, 18.2MiB

By Ruben Schade | Posted in Audio Episodes, From Singapore | Comments (1)

Rubenerd Show 236 - 2008.04.12

2008.04.12 – 02.05

Fun with a label printer!The ridiculous fun with a label printer episode!

ACT ONE: Roel247’s comments on electronic voting, compulsory voting in Australia, Senator Bob Brown of the Greens meeting the Dalai Lama.

ACT TWO: My label printing obsession! The Brother PT-80, labeling CDs, boxes, magazine holders and everything in my father’s home office, there’s no need to write anything anymore!

ACT THREE: The growing complexity of CMSs and why I’m moving over to home brew again using Ruby and SQlite, WordPress 2.5, loudly dropping aerosol cans, Elke’s gigantic honey sandwich.

ACT FOUR: Converting metric to imperial in Google, Russian mail order brides, Ruben’s idea for a standardised New World Order (patent pending), seeding torrent files, too many tabs in web browsers!

ACT FIVE: Why South Park is actually a great show to watch, being able to laugh at yourself, not taking life too seriously!

Download MP3 to listen ↓ 48:01, 22.0MiB

By Ruben Schade | Posted in Audio Episodes | Comments (0)

Rubenerd Show 235 - 2008.04.10

2008.04.10 – 07.01

Elke's Sims 2 family at the time of recoding the show!The Elke Sims 2 bombardment episode!

ACT ONE: The Simpsons Bombardment, Elke’s first live morning Whole Wheat Radio show, Elke on The Sims 2.

ACT TWO: Slow Singapore internet today, Microsoft gets new open source chief, Ruben rants about "shared source" nonsense, CalgaryGuru on Flickr’s new video uploading service, is Yahoo’s brand failing?

ACT THREE: Elke on different social networks across the world, suss people on Bebo, verbose MySpace video profiles.

ACT FOUR: Rant on people intentionally misspelling names, Ruben versus Reuben, Miss Cook adventures in primary school in Melbourne, Web 2.0 buyout baiting, Jerry Yang’s haircut, Wikipedia as a drug, Yahoo Mash.

ACT FIVE: Facebook discussion including remembering 30 passwords, Elise Hopkins, The Schade Clan group, rant on how useless nationalities and patriotism are becoming, origin of the word expat, Mr Slave.

ACT SIX: Ridiculously long lists of Facebook requests, fun in my own introversion, testy-pops, 2005 was a very good year, "Liberal" meaning different things in the US and Australia, Lotus SmartSuite, Microsoft Plus 95, my OBSESSION with screeshots!

ACT SEVEN: Ruben’s dad Rainer debunks mind-controlling chemtrails, huge ships near the Port of Singapore, illuminati controlling my mind as a sheeple, why it’s hard to find words that rhyme with sheeple.

Download MP3 to listen ↓ 1:07:00, 30.7MiB

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