Ok… things have been really quiet on my blog the past 7 days or so because of some very big developments in my personal life.

I put in my official 2 week notice at my current place of employment so that I can persue an exciting new job opportunity in San Antonio.

There’s lots of little details I’ll blog about at a later date. I have muncho to talk about. In the meantime. I’m still in the middle of moving my domain from one server farm to an other… that should be up and rocking by next week.

hugz,
.Alamo City Rollie.

Posts this week are going to be very slow because of server migration….

Stay tuned for a wrap up in a couple of days.

.rCr.

After a great deal of collaborative work by James, Ted and I, the first Ekobase Podcast is officially up at Ekobase.net.

There’s a number of ways to subscribe to it. You can go to the site and download it directly or subscribe to the podcast by hooking it up through the options we have at the Ekobase website. (note: We should be “searchable” from the iTunes music store in a day or so)

We’ve received some good reactions from friends who’ve taken the time to listen to the first show. Highly recommend to anyone who digs the show LOST or is a closet Star Wars nut.

- rollie -

After spending a good chunk of the day celebrating father’s day with my family, I checked out Nacho Libre at the theater. The film was pretty good… but I wouldn’t go out of my way to recommend it to anyone who may be developing a short fuse for Jack Black.

I grew up watching an abnormal amount of Lucha Libre as a kid so the film brought back a lot of warm memories of my days in Mexico City.

Highly doubt anyone cares… but the Edmonton Oilers have roared back from a 3 games to 1 deficit to force a Game 7 tomorrow night on NBC.

Go Oilers

So… while watching the first episode of Entourage on OnDemand the other day. It occurred to me that Adrian Grenier needs to seriously pursue the role of Perseus in a Clash of the Titans remake.

Just something to think about.

Very ecstatic to report this morning that my beloved Argentina dropped a 6-0 cock imprint on Serbia-Montenegro this morning.

Admittedly, I missed a good bit of this game because of work duties at the newsroom, but look incredibly forward to catching the replay at some point this afternoon.

Our next mach will be against a very talented Netherlands team… I’ve yet to catch them play, but home to watch some of their match during my lunch break.

Mexico squares off against Angola this afternoon so I think the office will be a buzz… more World Cup nonsense throughout the weekend.

Viva Maradona!

Just wrapped up with my first night of Podcast tests…

My responsibilities were minimal. I was pretty much asked to talk over Skype while our producer (in Detroit) got all the mic’s and levels figured out… Jaime (our producer) was kind enough to cut two beta podcasts tonight, both of which were very interesting to.

voice over IP is a very strange medium because when you hear the playbacks, the pauses between conversation seem longer than they should be but thats mainly because I we have to wait for the feed to come through.

Tomorrow Ted is scheduled to be at Jaime’s place for the recording. I should be the only person working remotely so I think it’s going to go over a lot better.

My set up here is very minimal. I’m using a Logitech USB headset/microphone to do all of my recording. I’m going to cross my fingers and hope for minimal distractions at Chez Agado’s but I highly doubt that will happen.

Anyhoo… we’ll be going live next week.

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Beta Test 1 – Ted sounds like shit on this recording but we figured out why. In this instance he was also Skyped in but we called into his telephone line to see what it would sound like.
A New Hope
Beta Test 2 – there’s a strange stereo sound thing going on with this recording… we figured it out and it should be gone for the 1st Podcast. (fingers crossed)
Empire Strikes Back

Baseball: We may only be 65 or so games into the 2006 season, but my New York Mets are on a 8 game winning streak, with a commanding 9.5 game lead over the Phillies (whom we swept in Philly today) and more importantly a 12.5 game lead over the defending AL EAST champs (14 consecutive years), Atlanta Braves.

I think it’s about time to seriously consider this Mets team a serious World Series contender!

I’d feel better if we could snag one more arm before the trading deadline… but it may be hard to swing with a lot of teams opting to not make any deals with us…

Stanley Cup: Almost missed the dramatic win by the Oilers last night after spending 5 mintues trying to find OLN on my cable box… once I found OLN, I remembered that they were on NBC. Tuned in as the 17:00 mark passed in the 1st Overtime. Little did I know that I would only watch a few more seconds before Fernando Pisani got one in, top shelf. Go Oilers.
World Cup: World Cup fever hit the newsroom this week… much to my surprise people sneak peeks at games regardless of whom is playing. I’ve caught a few games during lunchtime, but I’ve pretty much stayed away from the tourney unless Argentina, Mexico or the USA is playing.

Both Mexico and my beloved Argentina are doing well at the moment. Mexico’s head coach, Ricardo Lavolpe, was highlighted on Pardon the Interruption yesterday for his awkward coaching attire (sports coat, tie & jeans) and his chain smoking on the sidelines.

If all goes well… Argentina will advance from the first group tomorrow with a win.

With Fathers day around the corner… I’ve begun to worry a little bit about what I should reward my 72 year old daddy this Sunday. At 72, my Father goes about life with very few requests… He mentioned a need for a new lawn mower over the winter, but opted to talk down the need for one in April when his birthday rolled around.

If I had to guess what he’d really like for Fathers Day, I think he’d ask that my Sister and Mom around the house so that the four of us could do lunch or dinner… I think he’d also like to have Tiger Woods in the hunt for the US Open on Sunday so that he and I could watch together at home.

I wish I could be celebrated on Sunday… a few items I’d throw out there.
Vibram’s Five Fingers Sandals – I don’t know what it is about these
sandal/shoes… but I’d love to slip these on so that I could walk the dog in the morning. Its really scary to walk anywhere these days barefoot, but these san-dals would allow me to have my cake and eat it too.

Gnome-Be-Gone – for about as long as I can remember… I’ve always wanted to have a Gnome in my garden. I’ve resisted any attempts to purchase one because I think it would be more appropriate to liberate one from someone’s yard. This product seems ideal to purchase because the Gnome is being whisked away by metal monsters.

Record Bowl / Coasters – if there’s one thing I totally go bananas for it’s anything record/rock-n-roll related. I’m an unapologetic creature of habit and one thing I’ve never been able to grow out of is designating favorite glasses to drink out of, plates to eat out of, forks & spoons to eat with… Ran across these bowls & casters today that I think I need to get immediately.