Here it is everyone.  George’s new album ‘Trebuchet’ is now officially out, and he was nice enough to send us a copy of the entire album to put on the feed for you.  If you like what you hear, consider buying a copy from iTunes, or using the link below to order a physical copy from CDBaby.

TREBUCHET

With special appearances by Phil Plait, Peter Gregson,
Slau, and The Skeptical Shoe Horns.

1. God is Not Great
2. Everything Alive Will Die Someday
3. Ms.Information
4. Fifty Stories
5. FAR
6. Remora
7. Sviatoslav Lobster
8. When I Was Your Age
9. Trebuchet
10. Atlanta
11. Death From The Skies
12. Never Knew
13. Hai Yookito ‘Ya
14. Where Have You Been?
15. One Hypnopompic Jerk
16. Small Comfort
17. Happy Birthday Baby

All songs ©2010 Geologic Records/You Call That Music

Trebuchet is available at CD Baby and their
digital distribution partners including iTunes.

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Over a week and no Geek Bytes. For that I must apologize and offer a bit of an explanation for the past week.

I run a software development shop for a marketing company. We got dropped a very short deadline that has tied up almost all of my attention for the past few weeks. Then I got sick. Then I got better. Then I got tired from not sleeping properly.

Now to top it off my desktop computer has decided to emulate a caffeinated hyperactive two-year-old in a permanent tantrum. The MacBook Pro I use to research and record the podcasts got conscripted into serving as a development environment for testing web services.

So I’m sitting here on Sunday with a borrowed computer that doesn’t have my web links, rss feeds, or audio tools. And, of course, time. It takes a surprisingly long time to research, write up, record, edit and post 10 minutes of audio, even if most of it is just me droning on. Geek Bytes is both a hobby and test for me, to see if I could keep up with a twice a week short cast to summarize news and new releases now that The Geek Life weekly is devoted to fewer stories in more depth. Clearly, I failed the test.

Today I’m working on recovering my data from my backup discs, in preparation for a replacement for the desktop computer that should arrive sometime this coming week. I also have a deadline at the end of the week that may take up most of my time.

I don’t want to give up Geek Bytes or The Geek Life, but I don’t want to do a half-a**ed job of it either. Would the material of Geek Bytes work better in blog postings? I don’t know, but I’m willing to try it.

What I’d really like to hear is what you think. Please write to us at talkback@thegeeklife.tv or comment here. What could we do to make this more interesting or useful to you?

In the mean time, thanks for listening, and we’ll record again on Tuesday.

Okay Peeps, I just wanted to give you a quick heads-up that you’re about to see Episode 46 hit the feed.

No, you didn’t miscount.

No, we didn’t miscount.

Truth be told, there was an issue with the recording, which resulted in Richard’s audio not getting picked up.  And by the time I found out, he was already on a plane to parts Northeast.

However, all is not lost.  We have a plan to reconstruct the episode using the pieces we have available, and we’re diligently working to get it together so we can put it up on the feed.

So yeah, there will be one episode out of order, but if all goes as it should, it will be worth it.

Mike

We just wrapped recording episode 44, and in it we have a new new geek who is leet with the movies. Welcome, Melissa, to our usual gang of geeks!

Okay Peeps, let’s help out a New Media Author kick some ass today.

Today is the release of J.C. Hutchins book, 7th Son: Descent from St. Martin’s Press.  Let’s show Hutch some love, and help him prove how this New Media stuff works.  Head on over and take part during the Amazon blitz, going on today, and let’s help him reach the top of the Amazon charts!

Don’t want to take my word for it?  Fine. Take a look at the first ten chapters, then order the book for yourself

In episode 33 I mistakenly said the 17″ MacBook Pro has a screen resolution of 1440×900. That is actually the 15″ model. The 17″ model I talked about has a screen resolution of 1920×1200, which makes getting a 40-50 fps frame rate in Dalaran playing World of Warcraft a bit more impressive.

I’m still amazed that you can’t see any evidence on this thing that it had been dropped, except for a small ding you have look for to see.

Happy listening!

Okay Peeps, here’s the scoop:

So, we’ve been getting a bunch of comments lately from spammers.  Due to this, I have turned on the “Users must be registered and logged in” setting for comments to help curb this for now.  I would love to be able to have something like Captcha enabled for comments, but there doesn’t seem to be an option for it (and I’m at work, so I’m not going to have the time to really research it right now).   Sorry it had to come to this.

Mike

In this week’s episode, I mentioned the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast.

Here is the video to accompany the theme song from the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast, written and performed by George Hrab.

From Geo: “It features me, a number of silly hats, and the city of Bethlehem. No Geos were harmed during the making of this film. They were however made to feel really dizzy. Enjoy!”
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Check out: 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast
The Geologic Podcast

Here’s the video

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I know, you were waiting patiently for it, but there is no episode this week.  What with Rich and myself being under the weather, and rumors of Paul ending up with his foot stuck in a twelve-string guitar, there was just no way we could work in a recording session that didn’t have tons of coughing or nasty guitar sounds throughout.  We’ll be back next week though, with more news and views with The Geek Life crew (Yeah, I know, it almost rhymed.  And I was trying so hard…)

From all of us here at The Geek Life, may the coming year bring good fortune to you and yours.