Evil Genius Chronicles

In this episode, I play a song by Skeleton McKee; Pipewire is continuing to make my recording day harder; softball is eating our June and I’m happy with that; It’s A Pixies Podcast is back; I am trying to improve my Obsidian daily notes game; Ms. Marvel on DIsney+ is fantastic; I continue to struggle with my task management; maintaining things I have been told is a challenge; As The Money Burns is a new favorite podcast; Headspace makes me think about what I clench; I have active grimace face; is Headspace giving me a longer fuse? having a Bojangles open beside a Bojangles is big stuff in our life; you need a sense of proportion.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, June 20 2022.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Skeleton McKee
• Buy the Skeleton McKee Edinburgh Underground at Amazon
• Pipewire Linux audio
• qpwgraph
• Join the EGC Discord
• It’s a Pixies Podcast
• Leah Ferguson’s session at the Linking your Thinking conference on daily notes
• Obsidian
• Erasable podcast
• As The Money Burns podcast
• My Keybase account
• Subscribe to the shared RSS from my own TTRSS install
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

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In this episode, I play a song by IDK How; upgrading my Pop!_OS completely changed my audio configuration; there is now a wide open EGC discord available to all listeners; I had to migrate my server boxes because of spammers and malware scumbags; I am trying to figure out how to use fail2ban; it has been rough to be an adult around these parts; I continue to struggle with self-loathing and low self esteem; I screwed up joining the work-provided Headspace account; I am more down on myself than anyone else; yard work is quiet contemplation time now; most of our decisions don’t matter; Howard Chaykin on the Wit’s End podcats; I hate science fiction that isn’t that different; the Foundation TV show is both extra weird and not that weird; I got my Zine Zone podcast care package; I came around to laptop stickers late in life;

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, May 19 2022.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• IKD How
• Buy the IDK How CD Razzmatazz at Amazon
• Pipewire Linux audio
• qpwgraph
• Join the EGC Discord
• fail2ban
• Howard Chaykin on the Wit’s End podcast
• Zine Zone podcast
• My Keybase account
• Subscribe to the shared RSS from my own TTRSS install
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don’t forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

In this episode, I play a song by Steve Dawson; a house update; there is a difference between daily tired and monthly tired; live by the principle of least regrets; you can’t prevent me from saving an image on my computer; Eric Peterson and Nutty Nuchtchas have feedback on dealing with stuff; I fail to hit the button too much; all of my digital media needs to flow to the few canonical repositories – Plex, Calibre and ComicCat in Dropbox; label your stuff;

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, November 19 2021.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• New users get $10 free worth of Bitcon at Coinbase with code EGC! Move fast while they are handing out free money!
• Steve Dawson’s main site
• Buy Steve Dawson’s album At the Bottom of a Canyon in the Branches of a Tree at Bandcamp
• Performance Anxiety podcast
• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
• The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
• Our Opinions are Correct podcast
• Calibre ebook manager
• My Keybase account
• Subscribe to the shared RSS from my own TTRSS install
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don’t forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

In this episode, I play a song by JD Pinkus; this WordPress site is kind of a Mastodon instance; is using Mastodon restarting bad habits?; Apple announced AI audiobooks and Mastodon got fussy; I don’t like acccents in audiobooks; back in the day there were stores of audiobooks on cassettes; the innovator’s dilemma is working on industries and people when jobs change; the MMT job guarantee could reduce anxiety about industry disruption; I had the wrong feed for Rudy Rucker’s podcast; I am now all in on Zigbee; Sonoff Zigbee stuff is cheap and pretty good; Wiz light bulbs get confused by mesh wifi; having lots of Zigbee devices is better than one or two; I did not get my wish list of to-do items done over a very long holiday break; make the hard decisions on what to do with your items before you die so others don’t have to.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, January 12 2023.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• The JD Pinkus official site
• Buy the album Fungus Shui at Amazon
• Buy the song “Gittin’ It” by JD Pinkus at Amazon
• ActivityPub plugin for WordPress
• Innovator’s Dilemma at Amazon
• Rudy Rucker’s website
• Zigbee
• Sonoff Zigbee Dongle
• Sonoff Zigbee Motion Sensor
• Home Assistant SkyConnect Zigbee Dongle
• Dying Kindness podcast
• Follow this website on Mastodon at @dave@evilgeniuschroniclesorg
• Join the EGC Discord
• Follow me on Mastodon
• My Keybase account
• Subscribe to the shared RSS from my own TTRSS install
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don’t forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.

In this episode, I play a song by The Gartloney Rats; I went to Podcast Movement; Grant did a great induction speech and mine was good too; I joked about a podcast forefather to great effect but not the one I predicted; I have a long list of newly subscribed shows that I run through; I am watching Moon Knight and not loving it; I am watching Slow Horses and really loving it.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, April 28 2022.

Links mentioned in this episode:

• Support this show on Patreon
• Gartloney Rats on Facebook
• Buy the Gartloney Rats album Some Drunken Nights at Amazon
• Irish and Celtic Music Podcast
• Talkin‘ Politics & Religion Without Killin‘ Each Other podcast
• As The Money Burns podcast
• Dying Kindness podcast
• Story Worthy podcast
• Oz 9 podcast
• Old Gods of Appalachia podcast
• Ron Burgundy podcast
• Mental Health Comedy podcat
• Thinking Poker podcast
• xxwhy podcast
• Don’t Ask Tig podcast
• Moon Knight TV show
• Slow Horses TV show
• The novel Slow Horses in the Kindle store
• My Keybase account
• Subscribe to the shared RSS from my own TTRSS install
• Auphonic podcast production tool is so good!
• Theme song provided by the Gentle Readers

You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don’t forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative Commons licensed Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Unported. Bandwidth for this episode is provided by Cachefly.