Rubénerd!

If you've been hanging out for Rubenerd Show #69, it is coming, don't worry! I'm not sure whether it's the Servage FTP timing out or whether it's our [hopefully temporarily] unreliable ADSL connection, but I get within 88% of uploading the latest show and it times out.

Here's an offer to the Liberal Party, Labor Party, The Greens, The Democrats, Family First, Nick Xenophon, if you can promise me reliable internet in the South Australian elections next month, I'll vote for you.

Okay, maybe not the Liberals because they're right wing bastards. And scrap Family First too, the name is designed to hide their dangerous conservative agenda.

Another update from the infamous Israel Brown who's in Japan:

I've been to Tokyo again and am going a third time tomorrow. On this next trip, however, I will mostly be using the station as a way to get to Ueno and then I'll be taking the train to Yokohama where I will spend the rest of my day.

As for Karaoke, I won't be doing that. My first reason is that it is too expensive! The second reason is the fact that I'm completely alone and would have only myself to listen to. Finn is working every day until I go home, and I can't speak Japanese at all, so I haven't made any friends. In fact, I've been feeling rather hated lately with all the weird looks I've been getting.

The Internet connection here has been spotty and I've been busy, so I have a bunch of pictures that I never got around to posting:

He's really outdone himself with all his photos, but as usual I don't want to rip him off, so you can visit the Overnightscape forum post here.

© Israel Brown

Another update from Israel in Japan:

I went to Tôkyô yesterday (Saturday) and became very lost. I think I achieved my objectives, but I don't have any pictures (for various reasons) to prove it to myself or others.

I enjoyed the time I spent wandering the streets around Shibuya. I accidentally found (I think) Hikawa Jinja when I had given up and decided to try to find my way back to the train station and then I got lost trying to do that.

I'm going again tomorrow because I am very tired today.

He's posted some images from his train journey and an audio clip; check out The Overnightscape forum for details...

Image © Israel J. Brown.

The Rubenerd Show has reached new highs: it has been mentioned on the greatest blog on the internet!

http://makeitgreat.typepad.com/makeitgreat/2006/02/featured_on_the.html

I was reviewing my stats today, and I noticed I got a bit of traffic from the RubenerdShow, a fun podcast that I've listened to from time to time. Ruben Schade is the host, and he does quite the variety show. So I went over to his website (it was being re-done last time I peeked in), and lo and behold, I see a link to Make It Great! on his main page. Wow! I was quite flattered.

Then I looked at his most recent podcast and I see Make It Great! - 400 posts. I quickly downloaded his podcast, and about 25 or so minutes in, I hear a mention of my 400 posts...Very cool! Thank you for noticing Ruben, and for all the kind words you said about my blog and my writing. I really appreciate.

If you're in the market for a variety podcast, I encourage you to subscribe to the Rubenerd Show today! Who knows, you might even hear me on a show one day with Ruben, which would give me 2 fun podcast partners!?!

Make it a great day!
Phil

My day is great now Phil thanks to your kind words :D.

Just finished Israel's latest posts on The Overnightscape forums, he's now on his Japanese holiday. I'm so green with envy I could walk through particularly lush foliage and be completely camouflaged.

He's got some interesting shots of the landscape around the apartment he's in, and they look surprisingly like Singapore (sans-powerlines). I won't post them here because he's moving them to his ImageBucket account at a later date, but if you want to see them for yourself, head over to the thread.

Israel Brown is the guy who does the Crap & Stuff podcast by the way: the 'sponsor' of the latest Rubenerd Show for the 26th Feb 2006! ;).

For those who have arrived at my website through this blog and want to download all the previous episodes of The Rubenerd Show:
The Rubenerd Show Episode Archives