The last couple days have been interesting. Yesterday I went to Gramma's house and she made some gross keish thing. Needless to say I did not like it. Mom and I basically sat around with her and my aunt and talked smack about my uncle's bitch of a first wife. It was great fun. Before Gram's mom and I went shopping. She bought me one thing: a candle. I didn't really want anything, so shopping isnt fun when you don't buy stuff.
Today I made Snickerdoodles. They are a type of sugar cookie that's rolled in cinnamon and sugar. They are amazing. Drew specifically requested them so I have some to bring back to school on Sunday. I finally finished my Java homework today. I still need to work on that business plan, but I dunno if that will happen tonight. On a random note, I spoke to Carla today. She is cool. I think I missed Ben, it's late in London now. I'll catch him tomorrow.
Let me just say long distance relationships are lonely. Especially when you get one phone call a day at 10pm when you are already tired and he is tired because he doesn't relax over break. I swear the Explorer he has been fixing up is more trouble than it's worth. I'd be willing to bet he's dropped at least $700 into that thing in the last week. I'm concerned about it because something is wrong with the clutch (do not ask me what, I don't understand cars) and I want to be sure that thing will make it to school okay with him in one piece. I really can't wait for Sunday. I've been pretty strong through this cause it's been weird not seeing him at all for over a week. We haven't made any official plans for Sunday but he needs to decide what time he is leaving so I know when he should be at school. Aside from Drew's car problems, we've had a pretty okay break. Tara (his ex-girlfriend) has only called once that I know of and it was to bitch about me. I found it hilarious that she is like, spying on him still and trying to get dirt about me. I'm going to tell him just to start feeding her bullshit lines to piss her off.
Oh Carla and I are planning more of the podcast. We really need to get a three-way chat with Ben one of these days. This is gonna be such a crazy adventure. I love that I am friends with a bunch of podcasting people, so if I ever need help, I know exactaly where to go. If anyone has any podcasting advice for me, write me a comment!
Friday, March 21, 2008
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Ohh it's what you do to me
I should write here more often. Since my Talkshoe rant is over, I figured I should actually write about what I have been up to lately. Well, okay, so I told Ben that I would write here more. Speaking of Ben, we are announcing plans for a podcast with his partner from Letters From Across The Pond, Carla. The discussion about bringing aboard Carla just started today, so we will see where it goes from there.
So now I'll get to the title of this post. There is a new guy in my life. His name is Andrew and he is slightly more than amazing. He is majoring in Automotive at school, is from MA and is 19 years old. Aside from being the sweetest guy on campus, he sings. Now I sing like it's my job: in choir, in plays, in the shower and in the car. I did not know he could sing until he told me one day and decided to sing for me. The first song he sang was I'm Already There by Lonestar. Youtube is now our best friend because he will look up a video and sing the song to me. He also has sung: I'll Be by Edwin McCain, Your Song by Elton John and Angel by Sarah McLachlan. My favorite thing is when we sing together. Incase you have been living under a rock, the lyrics in the title are from Hey There Delilah by the Plain White Ts. It was one of the first songs we sang together and it's sort of become our song. It was a strange song to choose because Delilah was written about the 'other woman' but whatever. We like it especially because of the bridge:
Since he lives in MA and I live in NY, we are about 300 miles apart during this break from school. Summer is going to be hard on us, but if it's meant to be then we will survive. Anyway we've been dating since March 4th and so far everything is going well.
I have to run now, Mom is home and she needs me to help her make dinner.
So now I'll get to the title of this post. There is a new guy in my life. His name is Andrew and he is slightly more than amazing. He is majoring in Automotive at school, is from MA and is 19 years old. Aside from being the sweetest guy on campus, he sings. Now I sing like it's my job: in choir, in plays, in the shower and in the car. I did not know he could sing until he told me one day and decided to sing for me. The first song he sang was I'm Already There by Lonestar. Youtube is now our best friend because he will look up a video and sing the song to me. He also has sung: I'll Be by Edwin McCain, Your Song by Elton John and Angel by Sarah McLachlan. My favorite thing is when we sing together. Incase you have been living under a rock, the lyrics in the title are from Hey There Delilah by the Plain White Ts. It was one of the first songs we sang together and it's sort of become our song. It was a strange song to choose because Delilah was written about the 'other woman' but whatever. We like it especially because of the bridge:
A thousand miles seems pretty far
But they've got planes and trains and cars
I'd walk to you if I had no other way.
Since he lives in MA and I live in NY, we are about 300 miles apart during this break from school. Summer is going to be hard on us, but if it's meant to be then we will survive. Anyway we've been dating since March 4th and so far everything is going well.
I have to run now, Mom is home and she needs me to help her make dinner.
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
A little goes a long way
It was confirmed today that Talkshoe decided to make a donation to Jay and Jack's collection for Autisim. They thanked Jay and Jack for using their service to hold the event, and donated 100 dollars. Hopefully this whole ordeal is settled now and everyone is happy. I think everyone who wrote in or made a blog made a difference.
Monday, March 17, 2008
A podcast for charity
Over the weekend I participated in a huge event for the Jay and Jack community. A 25 hour podcast occurred from 3:41pm Saturday March 15th until about 3:00pm Sunday March 16. I said 25 hours and that was just under 24, do you see a problem? Let's talk about the good news first. The guys were doing this show to raise money for a charity called Autism Speaks. In the time the podcast occurred over 2,500 dollars was raised. More money is being sent by snail mail and the online account is still accepting donations through paypal. The guys had a spew of guest hosts from Dale of the Married Man Podcast, Clif from the Jamcast and Lost Podcast Vidcast, Ryan and Jen from The Transmission, Ralph from The Dharmalars and several other podcasters that I can't remember because the event was just so big.
One of the guests that brought the most attention was Jorge Garcia, also known by his character name Hurley on ABC's show LOST. Jorge stayed with the guys for over three hours and answered fan questions (mine included!). It was probably one of the coolest experiences of my life to speak with someone who I have watched on television for the last four years. The guys were also planning to have Daniel Day Kim, or Jin from LOST on the show at 4pm Sunday. This did not occur. Unfortunately at around 3pm on Sunday Talkshoe, the client that had supported the show for over 23 hours, decided to crash and burn.
Basically the concept of Talkshoe is a piece of software that will hold a conference call with many users and it has it's own chat room. This was a perfect fit for the podcast since the admin can allow different guests to speak, many people can listen, and non-speakers can interact with each other and the hosts via the chat room. Jay attempted extensive testing by hosting a few Ramblecasts and a special live edition of The Lost Podcast on Talkshoe. It was a little sketchy for each edition of the show, but it held up quite well. We all knew going in that it was gonna be rough with talkshoe. It was realized that we could not hold a show recording for more than 3 hours because the chat client would freeze and users would start losing audio. This caused a lot of stress for Jay and Jack. They just wanted the show to run smoothly. Everytime we had to make a switch Jay had to set up a new show and all the listeners had to move. While this resolved the solution for a while, the process was still repeated at least 5 or 6 times for the entire marathon.
So the last couple hours of the marathon roll around and all of a sudden the phone number, shoephone and audio stop working. Talkshoe reported a 'coding issue' to Jay and that it would be fixed in 30-60 minutes. Well about 120 minutes go by and no fix was found. The guys then decided to call it quits cutting the segment with John and Colleen of Metrobuzz and eliminating the chance for fans to speak with Daniel Day Kim. While everyone was pleased with the 2500 dollars in donations we all know that Daniel would have brought more listeners and the opportunity for more people to donate. Also I was highly looking forward to the Metrobuzz segment and many fans were let down when it had to be cut because of 'coding issues'.
Here is our proposal. Anyone who particiapated in Jay and Jack's live marathon podcast or is a suporter of Autism Speaks needs to help us do the following. We are starting a campaign to get Talkshoe to fix their mistake by donating money to Autism Speaks. We feel that this will make up for the lost time and donations that resulted by the crash of their software. So go write in your blogs, send an email to Talkshoe at support@talkshoe.com. Every effort we can make to get Talkshoe to hear us will count. They really let us down when the show had been going so well. So get out your keyboard and write to them; urge them to make a donation to help the charity.
If you'd like to make a donation to Autism Speaks, you can do it through PayPal, by sending it to LPDonate@gmail.com OR you can send checks made out to Autism Speaks to the following address:
P.O. Box 40716
Raleigh NC. 27629
Thank you so much for reading, please go out there and make an effort by writing your post or making a donation. Every little bit helps.
One of the guests that brought the most attention was Jorge Garcia, also known by his character name Hurley on ABC's show LOST. Jorge stayed with the guys for over three hours and answered fan questions (mine included!). It was probably one of the coolest experiences of my life to speak with someone who I have watched on television for the last four years. The guys were also planning to have Daniel Day Kim, or Jin from LOST on the show at 4pm Sunday. This did not occur. Unfortunately at around 3pm on Sunday Talkshoe, the client that had supported the show for over 23 hours, decided to crash and burn.
Basically the concept of Talkshoe is a piece of software that will hold a conference call with many users and it has it's own chat room. This was a perfect fit for the podcast since the admin can allow different guests to speak, many people can listen, and non-speakers can interact with each other and the hosts via the chat room. Jay attempted extensive testing by hosting a few Ramblecasts and a special live edition of The Lost Podcast on Talkshoe. It was a little sketchy for each edition of the show, but it held up quite well. We all knew going in that it was gonna be rough with talkshoe. It was realized that we could not hold a show recording for more than 3 hours because the chat client would freeze and users would start losing audio. This caused a lot of stress for Jay and Jack. They just wanted the show to run smoothly. Everytime we had to make a switch Jay had to set up a new show and all the listeners had to move. While this resolved the solution for a while, the process was still repeated at least 5 or 6 times for the entire marathon.
So the last couple hours of the marathon roll around and all of a sudden the phone number, shoephone and audio stop working. Talkshoe reported a 'coding issue' to Jay and that it would be fixed in 30-60 minutes. Well about 120 minutes go by and no fix was found. The guys then decided to call it quits cutting the segment with John and Colleen of Metrobuzz and eliminating the chance for fans to speak with Daniel Day Kim. While everyone was pleased with the 2500 dollars in donations we all know that Daniel would have brought more listeners and the opportunity for more people to donate. Also I was highly looking forward to the Metrobuzz segment and many fans were let down when it had to be cut because of 'coding issues'.
Here is our proposal. Anyone who particiapated in Jay and Jack's live marathon podcast or is a suporter of Autism Speaks needs to help us do the following. We are starting a campaign to get Talkshoe to fix their mistake by donating money to Autism Speaks. We feel that this will make up for the lost time and donations that resulted by the crash of their software. So go write in your blogs, send an email to Talkshoe at support@talkshoe.com. Every effort we can make to get Talkshoe to hear us will count. They really let us down when the show had been going so well. So get out your keyboard and write to them; urge them to make a donation to help the charity.
If you'd like to make a donation to Autism Speaks, you can do it through PayPal, by sending it to LPDonate@gmail.com OR you can send checks made out to Autism Speaks to the following address:
P.O. Box 40716
Raleigh NC. 27629
Thank you so much for reading, please go out there and make an effort by writing your post or making a donation. Every little bit helps.
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