Rubénerd!

The Andy Kaufman, the self professed living comedian who supposedly faked his death sometime between 1912 and 2041 has a series of questions on his website, surprisingly titled AndyKaufmanLives.com.

It took me less than 5 minutes to finish it with what I 110% guarantee are all the SUPERIOR as well as CORRECT answers that were all figured out after months of laborious research. Now it's just a matter of claiming my prize. Prize is spelt with a "z" right? To help me explain the salience in my answers (salience?), I'm going to employ some folks from Code Geass. The people from Clannad were getting fed up with my ramblings.

ASIDE:I believe it’s related to Santa Clause, Christ and grilled cheese sandwiches as part of a mission to expose covered briefcases that walk away from 70s era bubble walls. Slovakia is on the damned moon people, wake up from your coffee and smell the astroturf! It’s not hard to glance, pretend, expose or sauté mushrooms, all you need is a beginning, a middle and an end-faced bromide concentrate that doesn’t exist, but wishes it did. Damn it wishes it did. Like Baked Alberta. Wait, that was the wrong state.

I could be wrong though, I mean, there’s a first time for everything right?

Man on the Moon

1. WE WANT THE TRUTH, BAG THE TRUTH MY FATHER SAID, LOADED
2. He’s very creative, yes I am the babish bagman team oarswomen
3. Do impressions maybe some bean macaroni
4. He plans these things he takes over and helps absorb
5. Mr. Kaufman gets his own naughty Sabbath

Andy Kaufman Revealed

1. THE DEPTH OF THE CONSPIRACY WAS WITH WAG MACE
2. I said I was going to look for a walker but ran oat to the bowls
3. To Andy everything was theater and this was just more rock posture
4. It was Wednesday May 16 1984 and I had grey hose
5. Work them up get them angry stomping their feet ablaze, less faceless

Abel Raises Cain

1. SHORTLY AFTER HAM MADNESS, MY FABRIC DIED OF A HEART ATTACK
2. Taste it and say that’s Kapsiki not babka
3. Because this idea was so absurd at the time it sparked an Icelandic Ianthina
4. At this time I think we shoold talk about cannabis-resin
5. Traffic had come to a halt because a bull and a cow with heptic sap

The Book of Illusions

1. SUCH A BRILLIANT BOOK MR. ZIMMER YOU HAVE THE ROBOT TO KISS THE RAIL SMILE
2. Oh martin Claire says don’t be Calippic
3. I woold like to meet Hector Mann but how can I be sure he is alive to the baba
4. After those first hectic minutes there was a sabayon of cake
5. There is an irrefutable logic to Claire’s statement: Maglip kills his falafel

Bubba Ho-Tep

1. MR. KENNEDY ASK NOT WHAT YOUR ROAD HACK CAN DO FAN
2. It’s time for that laelia toast abbey
3. Big damn bugs alright the size of my fist the size of a peanut butter and banana sandwich man what do I care?
4. Well well well if it isn’t my favorite pachisi hat, and you!
5. What kind of life he had you know his kids his gaddingly hip losers

Lost in the Funhouse

1. WITH THE HELP OF MARTY KLEIN AND THE TALE OF OATEN ABACUS
2. George Shapiro and Howard West had sold him to the aberrant baked-potato cabaret
3. George quickly started selling Foreign Man with nagging sausage
4. Tony Clifton was his name although nobody in New York km/h or hPa
5. The movie was shot at Sambo’s and there was no Saigon

Eddie and the Cruisers

1. WHAT WOULD YOU DO IF YOU HAD THE TAPES DOC TWO MA JAWS TWO MA
2. I want something great I want something nobody’s else does bakery
3. In the morning they told me Eddie was gone they hadn’t found his ball
4. When you’re hot you’re hot where you been hiding yourself with Moe
5. Can I help you guys yeah tell Tony Eddie and the cruisers ass hats

The Rampler #23 through #30

1. (FROM #23) WHO’S ANDY KAUFMAN A LOT OF TRIP WIRES JUST HAVE NO IDEA
2. (FROM #24) So you don’t think we’re in some kind of a tabour shoe
3. (FROM #25) What is this thing called I always see this stupid thing in tacky shells patterns
4. (FROM #26) The chance that it’s the real andy kaufman is pachinko kool or law
5. (FROM #27) People just naturally walk at different speeds so they are not like really next to Y2K

Thank you everyone. Questions, comments and suggestions are welcome and will be answered in the reverse order received, so make sure you collate your questions, comments and suggestions in advance so you all know who should post in what order.

The airport scare iPhone episode!

I caved and bought an iPhone; the reasons why I was disappointed with Google Android; sophisticated text messages from my sister; the LG Secret mobile phone; snapping Australian Medicare cards; New Zealand Australia Centrelink migrations; Gordon Brown's Labour speech in the UK; palindromic numbers; distrusting spell checkers with gibberish; fancy new embedded Rubenerd Show cover art; compressed graphics looking crap; antihistamines; the term podcast; my take on the Andy Kaufman situation on The Overnightscape; my dad setting off security at Adelaide Airport; the iPhone keyboard; the TwitterFon iPhone Twitter client; I love the Objective-C programming language; fond memories of the Palm Tungsten W and Palm OS; basing your opinion of devices just from spec sheets; practical use for GPS and Safari; and hallucinogenic throat lozenges!

Music for this episode performed by Chris Juergensen from Magnatune.com.

Download MP3 to listen ↓ 33:00 15.2MiB

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The unplugged Mawson Lakes scare episode!

From Adelaide: Finally some beautiful weather in Adelaide, river walking paths late at night, the Mawson Lakes suburb, Rubenerd Unplugged inspired by The Overnightscape Rampler, a new use for my Ourmedia account, advice from Jerry Novak and a scary almost lethal close encounter!

Music for this episode performed by Chris Juergensen from Magnatune.com.

Download MP3 to listen ↓ 30:56 14.3MiB

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My dad and I at Brotzeit at Vivo city for my 22nd!

I've turned the big Two Two
Just don't expect me to wear one!

Hey come on, it's the only time in my life when I'll be able to say that!
- Ruben Schade to his father, Singapore 2008

Thank you to all the fabulous people who have emailed me and Twittered birthday wishes!

I also want to wish Frank Edward Nora's baby The Overnightscape a happy birthday too, which happens to fall on this exact same day... synchronicity! If you didn't read about it, he overhauled its logo recently too in celebration!

I just got a tweet on Twitterrific from Frank Nora that today (11th August) is the last day to vote for your favourite podcasts on PodCastAwards.com, so don't forget to click on your favourite shows. If you're in my part of the world you have until late Sunday morning (12th August).

I've voted for The Overnightscape (obviously!) every time under General and alternated between MacBreak Weekly and Security Now (GRC link) under Computing. I couldn't decide between the two so I figured I'd vote for both.

I was disappointed Cranky Geeks wasn't nominated in the Video category, and neither On the Economy with Tom Keene nor Alan Kohler's Eureka Report were nominated under Business. Ah well, can't win them all.

The crazy huge moth episode!

Giant scary tropical flying moths, listener feedback (birthday and departing wishes on Rubenerd Forum by Manny the Mailman, Mr Bunny, Surrealist and Felix) moving back to Singapore (parallel universes, loud removalist packer peoples), birthday celebrations (your host, host's sister Elke, Ruben's crappy April fools joke, the Overnightscape show, Dave Winer's Scripting News), cheap decorating on a MacBook Pro and MacBook (tickets and whatnot), a Jazz club in Singapore, signs you read too many weblogs, Dave Winer's phonebook of developments, never deleting old podcasts since 2004 and Douglas Adams on things that happen because they happen.

Download MP3 ↓ 30:00 minutes, 13.8MiB

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