Devo Spice Update - 6/23/2009

Hey everyone,

Tomorrow (Wednesday) I'm performing in Rochester, NY along with Worm Quartet and Seth Faergolzia of Dufus. The show is at The Bug Jar. Doors open at 8:00. Hopefully I'll see a few of you there. It's always good to see my old Rochester buddies again.

In case you've missed my postings about it Manic Mondays now goes on live every Sunday nights via TalkShoe. I'm going to try to stick to the 10pm slot. (Last week I had to push it back to 11 due to Father's Day related activities.) You can join me in the chat room while the show is on, or just listen live to the stream.

The link for the show is:
http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/54323

Note that the link won't work until the show is actually on the air. So check that link at 10pm on Sundays. Follow me on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/devospice) or Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/tomrockwell) for up to the nanosecond updates with the status of the show and everything else.

Finally, Nerdapalooza is in just 3 weeks and I can't friggin' wait! This show is going to be epic! The "tentative" schedule has me going on Saturday at 3:00 right after Captain Dan and The Scurvy Crew. (Full schedule here:
http://www.nerdapaloozafest.com/?page_id=40)

As always check my web site http://www.devospice.com for all the gory details on these shows and the other ones I have (like AlFest!) coming up.

->Later.....Spice

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Manic Mondays Live

Join me shortly for a live recording of Manic Mondays. Join me in the chat or just listen to the stream live.

http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/54323

->Later.....Spice

Manic Mondays Episode 214

This week's episode of Manic Mondays was recorded live on TalkShoe! I'm considering doing this from now on, so please let me know if you like this or not. This week we hear some classic Worm Quartet, and some new music by some newly discovered acts like Norm Sherman and In The Loop.

I am planning to make the show more interactive and have people calling in, but I wanted to start simple. I'm also not sure how to record the other callers yet since I record locally.

The feed has been updated to point to the TalkShoe hosted files, however I can't actually test it until it goes live at midnight Mountain time, so if your podcatcher doesn't pick it up just sit tight and I'll fix it tomorrow. Additionally here's a direct link for the download:
http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-54323/TS-235206.mp3

Technology Is Not My Friend

The other day while I was out taking my mandatory day off without pay due to the crappy economy both our CD printer and CD tower burner decided to just stop working. Being human I don't have this luxury, and was forced to use our old CD printer and old tower burner which my co-worker hooked up while I was out.

The old tower burner is fine. It's just slower than the new one and can only burn 5 CDs at a time. The printer on the other hand presents some problems. First of all, it's a serial printer, and our file server doesn't have a serial port. We ran into this problem before and used our old project manager's laptop to get it running, so that's what we did again. Except this time I could not get that laptop on the network no matter what I did. In fact, come to think of it, I don't think I've ever managed to successfully network a Windows PC here. I don't know if it's this place or Windows or what, but it just doesn't happen.

So I exclaimed something to the effect of "Screw this. I'll burn a CD" and did just that. Then I found out the hard way that the laptop's optical drive is dead and wouldn't read the CD. OK, Plan C: USB key drives! I pulled out one of the many USB drives we have laying around the office, stuck it in my computer and... nothing. My PC would not read the drive. I tried another and another and finally decided that my PC just doesn't like USB key drives. So I put the file I needed to print on the network and went to my co-worker's machine, inserted the USB key in his computer, copied it to the drive, then brought it to the laptop and was thankfully, finally able to print the file.

That's how I've been printing CDs for the past 2 days. Oh, and did I mention the laptop's screen is shattered?


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Interview Tomorrow On NRRRadio.com

Tomorrow night (Wednesday) The Great Luke Ski and I will be guests on the premiere episode of The Geeks Come Out At Night, a new weekly show happening over at NRRRadio.com.

You may notice that the title of the show is the same as the song I released last year on The FuMP. That's because the host, Syrinx, is a fan of mine and asked me if he could use my song as his theme. And why the hell would I say no to that? It's also why he is planning to have Luke and I on as the show's first guests.

Tune in tomorrow starting at 8pm (Eastern time) for the live broadcast.



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