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Season 21 Ep 04: Shivering and Grumping, Venereal Stimulant, Life Plan

Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:30:32 -0500

Croncast - 2009-01-21.mp3
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Length: 24:07
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Of those last week and yore
Kris, I've noticed that you've gotten chilly today
My body is cuddling itself trying to keep warm
I turned off the heat to try to force you out of the house
The cold isn't bothering me
So this was part of your master plan
A cocoon of The North Face goodness
All this little spoiled babies
Kids why don't you go see your dad
Shivering and grumping
I eat like I'm a seal
Get out, see some people
Skinny folks listen up
The chubby friend gets to make the salad jokes, Not you
The fat jokes are for me
Fattitudes about the chunky
Of course they're going to order the fries
When I lost weight I felt like a spy
Listening to people talk about the people
It's not blubber, it's a 42 in waist
The size I come is thick
I'm like a cylinder
You could benefit from some manternity clothes
My tummy isn't that protrusive
With the beard I wouldn't be a venereal stimulate any longer
Your mom probably called you that
I caught from my Buick
Someone was eating donuts in my car again
It's a medical term
Life Plan '09
Credit cards are all paid off

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need a part?

Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:42:16 -0400

a collection of auto part goodness.

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Kosso and Phreadz get some 1938 Media love

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:06:35 -0400

For our non-nerd audience you might not have ever heard of Kosso, general purveyor and developer of internet goodness, this video will help.

His new project is phreadz.com. Think of it as a swiss army knife for social video.

Best of luck, my English phrend.

Tags: Kosso Loren Feldman 1938 Media Phreadz.com

Saturday code goodness means flickr, flafoo and twitter

Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:31:21 -0400

So far I've got a new flickr + twitter script done and need to move on to flafoo while I have some daylight to burn.

The flickr + twitter code is why all of the pics have been showing up as posts and why all the people following me on twitter got blasted with 20 messages at once . . . sorry for that. I promptly setup a twitter account to test with.

For the last two months I have been sending photos from my phone to flickr and having them inserted as blog posts. Which has been pretty awesome and a ton of fun. But what I was missing was the twitter connection. Not anymore.

Now, thanks to this post from Dave Winer and code that I had already written for @tweetair (coming very soon, I swear), flafoo and Croncast, it took about ten minutes to get it up and running.

Dave's post was important because it turned the light for me. The "Ahaa" moment was when I realized I was already parsing my flickr feed every two minutes anyway looking for photos that I had marked to be blog posts. All I needed to do was differentiate what was to be a blog post from that of a twitter update.

It took about two seconds.

I make blog posts from flickr by starting a description of a photo with an asterisk, like so "*", and adding my content after that. For twitter I use "^" to tell the script to send a tweet. If I use them together "*^" then I get both.

Dave's setup with TwitterGram is much cleaner, using only the tag portion to note that a flickr upload is meant to be a tweet, simple and clean. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to tweet their flickr photos with ease. My code is custom and considerably more messy for a guy that wants to have control over blog posts, blog posts and tweets or just tweets by uploading photos to flickr.

API's + the RSS 2.0 + curl + simplexml_load_file = ridiculously low threshold for a mediocre coder to join the integration party.

Speaking of API's, I will be updating flafoo today and possibly tomorrow with new categories that will henceforth be known as "flafoogeries" and the ability for anyone to add a "flafoogery" from the site.

Tags: TwitterGram Dave Winer twitter flickr flafoo

Saturday code goodness means Flickr comments

Sat, 22 Sep 2007 13:30:04 -0400

Quick bit of coding this morning to insert flickr comments into the site. I know . . . you are so stoked, right?

Now when I set a photo from flickr to be inserted into the blog, any comments that are left in flickr for that photo will also be added to the blog.

I thought it might be a nice way to centralize comments around the photos for those people that don't use flickr and miss out on some of the funny stuff that people leave as comments.

Tags: flickr to blog flickr comments croncast flickr feeds

Some more new site stuff today

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:27:52 -0400

Okay, new goodness for you the Croncast subscriber or the newbie who wants to hear some of the old stuff - added "shows archive" as the third link in navigation. This magic link takes you to what used to be a partially hidden page that has RSS feeds and links to download every show that we have ever put out.

Some of you might have noticed sometimes the banner for the "support" section wouldn't load and the page top was white, no more. I added some new random image code and voila, fixed (pronounced f-i-xed).

Removed the section for "what is rss" and added it the main "rss feeds" page.

Tags: keyword rss random image php Kris Smith Croncast text link ads rss

Today's show will be up later today

Mon, 28 May 2007 07:26:16 -0400

Been a while since I posted one of these, but today's show, like the title says, is going to be late. The pic above is but a small portion of the Croncast goodness to come.

We're going to be late not because of the holiday but more so that Betsy and I found time for a much needed conversation last night about our current state of affairs. Like most things in life it happened at the same time we were supposed to be doing something else . . . like the show.

Most of the discussion focused on how it sucks and feels almost like we are not coming clean because for some topics that are really big in our lives we have to be cryptic about for the show. And, like the show, I am being so here, sorry.

To figure out what I am talking about pull out your cryptic topic code breaker and spin the dial a bit to left and then back to the right for television show references. The decoder says, "Fred and Barney drove to this every day." Hmmm . . . Flinstones reference no good . . . must twist dial again. The decoder says, "Ricky Gervais import starring characters Dwight Schrute and Michael Scott." The cryptic topic code breaker says that is the best it can do.

Tags: The Flinstones memorial day 2007 Ricky Gervais Dwight Shrute late show

Croncast - Betsy and her husband Kris 129

Fri, 30 Sep 2005 05:24:44 -0400

Croncast - 2005-09-30.mp3

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Length: 28:01
Format: mp3
Bit rate: 64 kbs
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Croncast - Betsy and her husband Kris 129

Show Notes

The contest ends on October 7th
Winner chosen Monday the 10th after the first apprentice gets booted
Betsy's new reality show Mac truck vs. VW Beatle
Human perspective, moose size of shetland pony with antlers
Additional Alaskan goodness
Breaking Bonaduce, dude is a mess
Whitney has something on this cat
50 year old homeless men
The ghosts of the 80's with Members Only jackets with Larry Hagman Dallas style briefcases
Door to door knife salesmen
Rich dad poor dad bullshit makes me laugh
Betsy brings out the Land of Nod
An investment
The verb shabbed
Leaving rice in Kris's goatee
Booger out of Betsy's nose
Send in your story to Betsy

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Croncast - Betsy and her husband Kris Ep. 26

Mon, 24 Jan 2005 08:46:46 -0500

Croncast - 2005-01-24.mp3

Show: #59
Length: 17:28
Format: mp3
Bit rate: 64 kbs
Size: 8.0 mb

Croncast - Betsy and her husband Kris Ep. 26

The first basement show!! I've moved from the studio (baby's room) to the only level of the house that will keep my equipment safe.

Sorry for such a short show today but it's jammed packed full of Kris and Betsy goodness. Betsy and I are getting used to a new schedule but the longer shows will be back soon.

Today's Show

Show notes soon.

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