On Friday night I was interviewed by the lovely Julia Sherred from Party934.com, and she’s put it up on her site as a podcast. It was a fun interview, with talk about Hubble, NASA, vaccinations, homeopathy, and more. I think it started off a little slow — I decided to talk more slowly and articulate more than usual — but of course I quickly left that all behind and started bubbling over like usual. I really need to settle down during these things, but it’s just too much fun to talk about them… or at least too easy to get inflamed and passionate, like when I get angry at antivaxxers.
Anyway, give it a listen… and you can follow Julia on Twitter to find out who she’ll have on next. Oh– on that same page as the interview she has links to an interview she did with some other blogger too, some guy who still dabbles in writing and I think did some obscure TV show back in the 1990s. Might be worth a listen too.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Phil Plait:
You’re an emotional guy, aren’t you, Phil?
June 7th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Never settle down. Its always more fun when one is excited and passionate. At least for me it is.
June 7th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
The Odeo player doesn’t seem to like Firefox, Safari or maybe it’s just Macs.
June 7th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
The player works, I use FF.
However, the server that is hosting the audio file has just gone down temporarily. Figures *sigh*
Hopefully it will be corrected soon.
June 7th, 2009 at 2:53 pm
Glad to see it’s a podcast. I was listening to you live, but it was getting late here, and I fell asleep.
Nothing personal, mind you. It was going on 2am here, and I’d been up since 7am. After a full day of working in the yard, then astronomy club meeting, then observing, I was a little tired.
June 7th, 2009 at 3:41 pm
I second Pareidolius @ #3. The audio file won’t load for me, too. I tried it in FF & IE.
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Jules (Julia) @ #s 2 & 4: Okay, I’ll wait for the server to be up again. Thanks.
June 7th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
We have contacted our server provider and they are currently trying to resolve this issue as soon as possible.
I don’t know if I want to laugh or cry over this especially after the tech failures that occurred yesterday during editing LOL
I just want to say a preemptive Thank you for your patience. I will post here as soon as the server is up again.
June 7th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Phil- I don’t know if you saw but on yahoo.com the main story is currently “Oprah on the hot seat.”
http://tv.yahoo.com/collections/4304
June 7th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
“… some other blogger too, some guy who still dabbles in writing and I think did some obscure TV show back in the 1990s.”
What’s so hard about typing ‘Wil Wheaton’ – it takes up much less space.
June 7th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
UPDATE:
Finally heard back from our server host. Someone hacked into another server in the data center, so as a precaution, they shut down all servers.
So that means the station could be down for at least 48 hours until they fix this issue and check each server 1 by 1 to see who was penetrated.
In the meantime, I am currently uploading Phil’s interview to a free temp online storage site thing and later on tonight I will do the same for the “other blogger’s” interview for those that may be interested.
My first priority is getting Phil’s listen ready once more as many of you are being so wonderfully patient and I thank you for this.
As soon as I have the file hosted again and have changed the relevant links, I will update once more and hopefully this tech failure (I am so going to over-exaggerate here cause I am so frustrated) #1 billion will be the last one.
Will update again hopefully shortly.
June 7th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
HOPEFULLY FINAL UPDATE:
Please recheck my blog. I have a temporary link that you can listen to the show at until our main servers are back online.
Thank you all.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Party on, Garth.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
I feel like such a spammer today. Yet another update. It appears our server is back up. However, due to these multiple tech failures over the weekend, I am going to keep the new link up over night just in case the server gets all hinky again.
If you notice the extra link is gone, no worries, you can listen the tradition way. This also means that the “other blogger” interview is also available once again.
*edit* and just as quickly it goes back down. I think I am going to stop with the updates because it is really looking pointless.
So frustrating as this is completely out of my hands at the moment.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Downloading now…
As it’s 90MB (!), I’m assuming it’s either encoded at 320k, or the interview is 5 hours long.
June 7th, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Assumption incorrect. It’s encoded at 128k and is 98m:23s long (and loud).
FWIW, 64-96k encoding works fine for voice interviews and will really chop down the file size; and tools like MP3Gain are useful for knocking down (or jacking up) the volume.
Thanks, Jules, for the goods, nonetheless. I’m off to give it a listen…
June 7th, 2009 at 10:14 pm
@bonez_brigade I have no control over encoding (well I do and I don’t) 128 is what our online feed streams at.
As I said in my blog, after over 12 hours of editing and a ton of other issues (let me tell you technology has not been my friend this weekend) I wasn’t going to change the rate or volume levels.
And you are most welcome