No More Suspense

I've decided to end the suspense. I'm going to admit something. The Bustopia podcast was started as a joke. The conversation went like this:
Noobulous: "Bustopia should do more stuff."
TERRANCE: "What should we do?"
Noobulous: "We could start a podcast."
Qalar: "Bustopia DOES need a podcast!"
Noobulous: "Lets do it!"

Like every joke on Bustopia, we took it way to far. As in, we actually produced a podcast. But, like most jokes on Bustopia, it got old. For a while I was forcing it along anyway, hoping it could be a regular tradition and maybe we were just tired for a while. But no, it had, in fact, gotten old. I can't find time to edit it anymore, the people of Bustopia are happy to go back to unstructured conversation, and I no longer have any recording devices left (besides the crappy laptop). Plus, the year is drawing to a close so the teachers are pwning us with the homework. So sorry, we pretty muched failed you. If there's an outcry of people who miss the show, maybe I will consider putting effort into it, but I seriously doubt that will happen.

Episode 6 is fully recorded, and the audio has been waiting to be edited for a month now. I'm thinking I'll probably just do that and release it this summer, so you have something to remember us by. But I might not, it's all a matter of willpower.

Anyway, stay tuned for Dormtopia next year, from the UT honors dorms. Maybe.

No Ep6 Yet

Well, it's been a week since I should have released Episode 6, so I suppose I owe you some sort of apology.

Sorry, I've been busy.

That's your apology. Given how little anybody cares, it should be enough.

Ep5 delayed

I started the upload last night, and in the morning I found that it had failed. I copied the file and resumed the upload from my desktop PC. It gave an ETA of 45 minutes, and the Busride was 1 hour. When I got to school, I checked in the file and it did not seem to exist. So the upload failed. The facist school firewall blocks FTP, so I can't reupload. I should have interim-hosted it on my own webserver, but I didn't. So you will get it later today.

More reasons not to trust Noobulous

...I promised Episode 5 yesterday, didn't I?
It's not ready.

Yesterday Qalar and TERRANCE were not on the Bus, and Ferris refused to podcast without them, so it would have been just me and Sqiblet, and Squiblet's boring.

And since there's no school for a week, you don't get anything until the following Monday, if then.

In the meantime, listen to The Original, or listen to a good podcast (which I already know I will get a lot of flak for linking to).

Scott Adams Dilbert

Scott Adams just wrote on The Dilbert Blog about Google Alerts, which sends him an email anytime somebody mentions his keywords in a blog. So that's what I'm doing. His keywords are "Scott Adams Dilbert." Most likely before you read this, one of the coolest people in the world has read this, and there is a nonzero chance that he will listen to the Bustopia podcast. Too frickin' cool.

By the way, I love the comic.

Episode 4 should be out soon, we have all the audio but the editing's not done. I had a campout last weekend so I need to find time during the week.

No podcast this (last) weekend

I went on a campout, so I never came home on Friday. Had I been not stupid, I would have made this post on Thursday.

We do not have enough audio to release a show, so expect one next weekend.

Technology Failure

The official recording device of Bustopia, the Noobulous' MP3 Player, has died today due to shoddy manufacturing. This prevented recording from taking place today, although not much would have happened anyway, because few members were present. I'm bringing two alternative recording devices tomorrow: a cassette recorder and another digital recorder. Hopefully this won't be a major setback, and we can probably still release an episode this weekend. We hope we Don't Stop.

Episode 3 delayed due to laziness

I should have released episode 3 yesterday, but I was too busy doing homework. And by "doing homework," I mean "neglecting homework and watching MacGyver." Anyway, just now I edited most of it, but not all of it, and I'm going to bed now. So expect the release tomorrow morning. Good night and Girlstart. Keep that molasses-ey torrent of listener feedback coming.

Say hello to irregular release cycle

The original plan called for this podcast being weekly. However, since the other members of Bustopia are reluctant to participate in recording sessions regularly because they don't give a damn, it's probably going to be less-than-weekly. I had the audio for Episode 2 last weekend, but I never had time to edit it, so I plan to release Episode 2 this weekend. I probably won't have enough content for Episode 3 this weekend, because of various content-reducing troubles, so that will probably be released during next week or the following weekend.
Girlstart.