April 27th, 2005 by POMP

Two or Three of you may be wondering where the hell the Anti-Podcast is. Of course, judging from the lack of comments, it could be even less than that. I don’t understand how a site can average nearly 200 hits a day, and receive little to no feedback. But fuck it. I figure I owe at least a few of you an explanation.

Anyway, yesterday we got pretty fucking drunk. I started things off with 3 shots of Jack Daniels, and then I switched to Budweiser. At around 7 PM Eastern, Exit, RaYzor, and myself started recording our first official Anti-Podcast.

The show didn’t go as well as I had hoped, but we managed to record nearly two hours of material. This could have easily been edited down to an entertaining half an hour or so. As promised, we had an interesting tech debate, followed by our usual inane banter, and some chatter about movies, music, pr0n, etc…

The show wrapped up around 9 o’clock. And when I went to save the .ELP file in HotRecorder, my server promptly crashed and shut down. Needless to say, that show is gone forever. I’ve been having a lot of problems with that system lately. The clock is always several minutes off, and when I do anything remotely CPU intensive, the BIOS alarm sounds and it shuts down.

This computer has about nine fans in it and it’s dust free, so it can’t possibly be an overheating issue. But I RMA’ed the motherboard, and ordered a new CPU. So hopefully this problem will be resolved within the next couple of days.

RaYzor and I tried to record a second show, which lasted about an hour. This time using my laptop, and as soon as I went to save the .ELP file in HotRecorder, the program fucking crashed on me; resulting in the permanent loss of our second show.

If my server is not fully functional in time for our next Anti-Podcast, I’m going to install a Sound Blaster Live card in my work server, and use that for now.

The only good thing to come from this fucking disaster, was that we recorded what we thought were going to be two official podcasts, for use on this site, and neither one of them were as good as we were hoping for. So they ended up being very good practice, for what will hopefully be a better show next time.