Posts from — November 2005

Jed the intern did not join us in the studio this week, but we had a ball!

Listen as your geniuses discuss:

Their favorite reality shows.

Will it Whistle?

Stealing Creativity.

Favorite Christmas Shows.

The History of Snowglobes – a filmstrip from the archives.

Questions or Comments? Call 206-NOODLE-6 and leave a message, or e-mail roundtable @ bionicgenius.com. Maybe we will answer your questions on the Roundtable. Yes – that phone number is real.

We’ve reached deep into the Bionic Genius AV closet to bring you the audio from the presentation, Snow Globes and You: Why You Should Care.

This audio presentation was played live on Episode 0000004. If you haven’t heard this episode, you owe it to yourself to listen.

This vintage cassette has been restored to the original pristine condition, and we’re offering it to you now for download! It’s also in the AV Closet.

Wherein three bionic geniuses wax profoundly poetic on all subjects creative. Seriously, we talk about music, books, art, movies, TV, the creative process and more–plus you may even hear a comedy sketch from time to time.Listen to us online, directly from the Bionic Genius website.

Call us at 206-NOODLE-6, or e-mail roundtable@bionicgenius.com.
Maybe we’ll answer your question on the Roundtable!

the Bionic Genius Roundtable’s Live Thanksgiving Show!
In this episode, the geniuses broadcast in full Pilgrim dress, out in the woods of Plymouth {Indiana}, complete with blunderbusses.

the Bionic Genius Roundtable’s Live Thanksgiving Show!
In this episode, the geniuses broadcast in full Pilgrim dress, out in the woods of Plymouth {Indiana}, complete with blunderbusses. Jed joins us this week as our intern. Listen as the geniuses hope to shoot and eat a turkey before the show ends.

So far, Jed is our favorite intern. Jed showed me the following links, and taught me a great way to search using Google. I’m not sure how he learned about the information superhighway, but I digress:

Amish Etiquette Dos and Don’ts
Amish Recipes & Cooking

How the Amish Celebrate the Holidays
Clipped:

…loyalty to tradition is never more obvious than at holiday time. In their observance of Thanksgiving and Christmas, the Amish remain faithful to the original purpose of the season, and center their celebration around family, church and friends.

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Enjoy this Coffey family tradition for getting rid of that post-Thanksgiving indigestion, and also leftovers. As heard on the Bionic Genius Roundtable Thanksgiving Special.
Ingredients
-handful of leftover turkey (white meat)
-1 cup cranberry sauce
-two candied yam halves
-half slice pumpkin pie (quarter slice of pecan pie can be substituted)
-half cup mashed potatoes
-quarter cup corn
-half cup green bean casserole
-2 cups apple cider
-6 tums tablets (fruit flavored)

Mix ingredients in blender until the consistency of melted ice cream. Pour into tall glasses and chill in refrigerator for 30 minutes. Remove from refrigerator. Pour down drain, wash glass, fill glass with water, add two alka seltzer tablets and drink.

Short-N-Snappy are provided by Roy Smith & Terry Coffey.

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A Podcast is a prerecorded audio program, a lot like a radio program that you listen to on your computer. Because it’s prerecorded, you can listen to it any time you want. Although everyone calls it “Pod”casting, you don’t need an Apple iPod to listen to it… any computer that can play an MP3 music file can play a podcast! (Of course, if you do have an iPod or any other MP3 player, you can listen to it on that, too.)

So, what software do I need?
You can just download the podcast like any music MP3 file, and play it using whatever program you like, but the really cool feature comes if you use a Podcatcher or Aggregator. This lets you subscribe to the podcast, and be told automatically when a new episode has been published.

More information on subscribing to podcasts…

Our favorite podcatching software is Apple iTunes. It works great on both Windows and Macintosh OS machines, and you don’t need an iPod; it works great all by itself. Be sure you have at least version 4.9; that’s the version with podcasting support in it.

Other software programs for podcast aggregation are iPodderX and iPodder.

Creative Component consults other companies on the art of podcasting. If you’re interested in learning more about this, the future of web publishing, then please contact them!

How do I subscribe to the Bionic Genius Roundtable’s podcasts?
Each different podcast aggregator has its own way to subscribe to a podcast, but you always need the “feed URL.” The feed URL for the Bionic Genius Roundtable’s podcast is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheBionicGeniusRoundtable

In iTunes or Yahoo, you can search for “Bionic Genius” and you’ll find us there.

Or, just copy and paste the above URL into the appropriate place in your podcatcher, and you’re all set! In iTunes, for example, select “Subscribe to Podcast” from the “Advanced” menu, and type or copy-and-paste the URL above into that box.

Does it cost anything?
Never! the Bionic Genius Roundtable’s podcasts are always free. Most podcatching software is free, too.

Does “subscribing” mean I’ll get spam?
No! Although they call it “subscribing,” it’s really just “downloading.” It’s completely anonymous. We won’t even know you’ve subscribed.

I still don’t want to subscribe. It sounds scary.
If you’d like to download each episode separately, without subscribing, you can use the direct download link in the episode description. You’ll get the MP3 file downloaded directly to your computer.

Is it work-safe?
Yes. All of our content is great for all ages.

I can’t make it work!
For more technical information about podcasting and podcatchers, check out Podcast Alley and iPodder.org.

While we can’t provide technical support for every possible computer and podcatcher, we’ll help if we can! Drop us a note at podcast@creativecomponent.com.

Enjoy!

MORE THAN YOU WANTED TO KNOW…

Podcasting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Podcasting enables independent producers to create self-published, syndicated “radio shows,” and gives broadcast radio or television programs a new distribution method.

In the podcasting model, the publisher publishes a list of programs in a special format, known as a “feed”, on the web. A user who wants to see or hear the podcast subscribes to the feed in special “podcatching” software (a type of aggregator), which periodically checks the feed and automatically downloads new programs as they become available. Typically, the podcatching software also transfers the program to a desktop or portable media player.

Most podcatching software facilitates copying podcasts to portable music players. Any digital audio player or computer with audio-playing software can play podcasts. From the earliest RSS-enclosure tests in 2000-2001, feeds have been used to deliver video files as well as audio. By 2005 some aggregators and mobile devices could receive and play video, but the “podcast” name remained most associated with audio.

“Podcasting” is a portmanteau that combines the words “broadcasting” and “iPod.” The term can be misleading since neither podcasting nor listening to podcasts requires an iPod or any portable player, and no broadcasting is required.

Aware of that misleading association from the beginning, some writers have suggested alternative names or reinterpretations of the letters “p-o-d”. One alternative is “blogcasting”, which implies content based on, or similar in format to, blogs. Another is “audioblogging.” Yet another is “rsscasting”.

{submitted by Alahondro the Intern in lieu of Mr. Houser} The Bionic Geniuses have published their second successful podcast. Mr. Houser tells me that the measure of success is determined by the warm fuzzies that one gets from hearing his own voice.

The Geniuses cover some great topics in this episode, and I was happy to be a part of it.

I find that Mr. Coffey anchors the show nicely, guiding the other two losers along. It reminds me of the experience I had at Scout camp last summer. Mr. Pimberton, our troop leader took us kids into a cave near Brazil, Indiana. Long story short, we nearly died. Olaf Ginkles, Mr. Pimberton’s Nephew, who carried with him a box of Moon Pies, which we all ate until morning, saved our lives by the eating that we did.

Oh yah. You can listen to Episode 0000002 over here: Dipping the Bionic Toe in the Water Issue.

On behalf of Mr. Houser,

I think I’m being monitored. Goodbye.

SADLY, THE AUDIO HAS BEEN STOLEN FROM THE ARCHIVES. WHOEVER STOLE THIS EPISODE CAN KEEP IT.

Topics include:

The first ever “Will it whistle?” Tune in to hear first hand if a Mini Moon Pie can whistle.

What movies should be made from cartoons?

Where are they now?

Genius situation comedy discussion.

This was Alahondro the Intern’s last day — to apply for an internship with the Bionic Genius Roundtable, send an email to internship at binicgenius.com.

Mission after mission successfully sent men first into orbit, then onto the surface of the moon.

Despite the successes, there were some failures, as well-most notably the launch pad fire that killed astronaut Gus Grissom. There was, however, another failure-a catastrophic one-which was never brought before the attention of the public. It is within the scope of this failure that we find the beginnings of the Bionic Geniuses.

May 1, 1972 was a bright, crisp spring day. On the launch pad at Cape Kennedy a rocket steamed away, ready for takeoff. It wasn’t one of the well-known Apollo missions, however; it was part of a series of top-secret missions in which American astronauts explored space beyond Earth’s moon-indeed, beyond our solar system. On this day, three of NASA’s best-Alan Houser, Roy Smith and Terry Coffey-were scheduled to travel to a distant galaxy as part of a trade mission. Something went horribly wrong, and just beyond the reaches of our solar system their ship passed through a strange belt of radiation and they crash-landed on an unknown planet inhabited by a race of scientifically-superior beings. The intrepid astronauts’ bodies were intact, but their brains had been destroyed by the radiation. Fortunately, the planet’s inhabitants were able to rebuild their brains as mechanical devices. Newly equipped with their new bionic brains, Alan, Roy and Terry returned to Earth. They used their superior bionic brains to help America win the Cold War, before retiring in the early 1990s.

Now working as secret interstellar contractors for NASA, and periodically putting their bionic brains into new bodies, Alan, Roy and Terry are sharing their bionic genius with the world via a podcast, the Bionic Genius Rountable.

You can listen to the Bionic Genius Rountable right here at the Bionic Genius web site. You’ll see links to grab MP3 files within each issue. If you already have accounts at iTunes or Yahoo, you can easily search for us there and subscribe. Here’s a show list: Podcast Index

The Bionic Geniuses wax profoundly poetic on all subjects creative. Seriously, we talk about music, books, art, movies, TV, the creative process and more–plus you may even hear a comedy sketch from time to time.

What’s a podcast?

THE AUDIO HAS BEEN STOLEN FROM THIS EPISODE AS WELL. WE BLAME A PAST AMISH INTERN. COINCIDENTALY, THERE WAS AN EBAY AUCTION CONTAINING THE AUDIO FROM THIS EPISODE, SOLD BY “BuggyBoy99″. WE’RE NOT AT LIBERTY TO DIVULGE MORE INFORMATION AT THIS TIME.

This is the meet & greet. The grip & grin.
The Introduction to the Bionic Genius Roundtable!

{this is a photo reenactment; no original photos remain after the fire of 2001}
Alan and Roy are depicted here entertaining at the Unfoina, South Dakota train depot. The Doppelgangers had a great gig. They used to play just as the trains were arriving. While this was very entertaining for the folks standing at the depot, The Doppelgangers, as they were called then, performed for exclusively the train passengers.
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