The game is addictive. I’ve played it for hours and that’s saying something for Mr. A.D.D. Usually I put iPhone games down after a short time. But not Circuits. Give it a try, I’m sure you’ll love it.

A free book? There’s no such thing as a free book! What’s the catch?

No catch. It’s free. But, Mur asks that if you like it you purchase it from Amazon.com on August 25. She’s making a run on Amazon and really needs us all to pitch in and help her get noticed. She, like so many others, has a book contract now. But podcasting novels are still a new medium for delivery and we need to show the publishing industry that this makes a difference. 

Martha and I have read the PDF version multiple time. We help Mur by making the PDFs and doing layout and formatting. We also did a little editing. All of this was to help Mur make the best product possible. We bought the first version of Playing for Keeps when it was self-published on Lulu.com. And now we’re joining her for her run on Amazon and we’ll be buying multiple copies of Playing for Keeps as published by Swarm Press.

Mur has delivered countless hours of enjoyment and encouragement to the pod-o-sphere. She has also inspired and rallied people including me. It is not an exaggeration to say that if Mur wasn’t here I wouldn’t be either. I wonder how many other people to whom you listen, read, and watch are here because they were inspired by Mur Lafferty. I’m guessing the number is larger than you think.

So be ready to place your order from Amazon.com for Playing for Keeps on Monday August 25. Be there! Aloha.

• Dogfish Head 90-minute IPA for Paul
• Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout for Jim
• Ravenswood Cabernet for Mur
• Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications, Second Edition: A Programmer’s Guide at Amazon.com
• It was funnier the first time
• Mur’s first fiction novel is coming out from Swarm Press on 8/25
• Playing for Keeps at Amazon.com
• This week we experiment with asking questions from our followers on Twitter
• PROMO: Astral Audio Experience
• Jim’s Essential Math website
• Favorite TV Shows: for Mur, The Office and for Jim The Closer. Together: Heroes or Battlestar Galactica
• Heroes, feh
• Favorite books from childhood
• Dr. Horrible vs Playing for Keeps
• The News from Poughkeepsie
• The Piddler
• The games Jim would bring back from obscurity if he could: Liubo, Shuanglu, and Magic Realm
• MUSIC: Playing for Keeps by The Beatnik Turtle
• PROMO: Playing For Keeps experience. Join us on 8/25 to help Mur make her run on Amazon.com

Tee Morris is the author of the novels Morevi: The Chronicles of Raif and Askana and The Case of the Singing Sword: A Billibub Baddings Mystery. He is also the co-author of the non-fiction works Podcasting for Dummies and Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies. He has podcasts for the above mention fiction as well as a companion podcast for the Dummies books.

Philippa Ballantine is the author of the novels Weaver’s Web and Chasing the Bard. These novels are also available as podcasts. Her free PDF novel is Digital Magic, the follow up to Chasing the Bard.

Tee’s free PDF novel is The Case of the Pitcher’s Pendant: A Billibub Baddings Mystery. If you couldn’t tell by the title this is the second in his Billi Baddings series.

Both authors say that these books can be read and enjoyed without having read the earlier novels. We hope you enjoy them too.

Please join Tee and Philippa as they make their run on the Amazon.com charts on Aug 8, 2008. If you enjoy Pitcher’s Pendant and Digital Magic, please support the authors by buying their books from Amazon.com on 8/8/08. They need your help to show the publishing world that podcast listeners matter. This is your chance to show the world what we can do.

• Cat vs Wookie
• Kraken’s Quest
• Le Canard for snails
• Norm’s Beer
• PROMO: Double Share by Nathan Lowell
• PROMO: Pieces podcast anthology
• Catching up on older podcast fiction
• The review of 7th Son Obsidian
• Unicorns
• PROMO: Murder at Avadon Hill by PG Holyfield
• Review of the story’s released as of the date of this recording
• The opening up of an author’s universe to become a shared universe
• New voicemail line is 1-206-666-2843
• The Morevi anthology?
• Soccergirl’s Obsidian video was awesome
• The easter egg we did for Mur Lafferty’s Playing for Keeps based on a real story
• Hating on weathermen
• Aug 25, 2008 Playing for Keeps is being released by Swarm Press
• Aug 8, 2008 Digital Magic by Philippa Ballantine and The Case of the Pitcher’s Pendant by Tee Morris will be released by Dragon Moon Press
• MUSIC: Playing for Keeps by The Beatnick Turtle

All Books available from Amazon.com

Lazy show notes:

John Cmar

Sci-Fi Laura

Commandline

Andrea

Heather Welliver

Marcus Grailwolf Bailey

Greg Wright

Martha Holloway

Paul Fischer

We talk about Balticon, public safety, wireless broadband, attention deficit disorder, and much more.

Recorded at RavenCon.

Today: Voices from the Future

Guests include Tee Morris, Marc “Grailwolf” Bailey, Heather Welliver, Brand Gamblin and his girlfriend Allison

• Plug galore – It’s so annoying I’m not giving anyone links, so there!
•  I Will Swallow Your Soul
• A little review of Farpoint Convention
• Erin Gray
• Sonic Boom thinks the studio has a revolving door
• Marc’s convenience store sickness
• Burger King chip
• PROMO: Stranger Things
• PROMO: Aliens You Will Meet
• Scott Sigler needs antibiotics: help him with his Infection
• Pimpage/Bell abuse
• More questions for Cthulhu
• Thank you for your service to your country
• Live Calls for Cthulhu at Balticon
• Would you want to see a live Hey! Want To Watch A Movie?
• Stop The Noise!
• Morevi spoiler alert
• Be on the lookout for J.C. Hutchin’s Obsidian

MUSIC: Shoot Him Down by Babylon Bombs

Lazy Show Notes

Music: Shoot Him Down by Jenny Beck (@Music.Podshow.com)

Spoiler free and Spoiler laden reviews.

PROMO: Fear the Froot

Xmas wrapup

Jared Axelrod’s Avante-Garde Dinner

Slice of Soup

Cocktail of Pot Roast with Cranberry sauce

Recovering from the cookie disaster

Marc and Heather’s Xmas

PROMO: Nocturnal by Scott Sigler

PROMO: Better Late Than Never

We spent several hours with MAinPA over Xmas

MAinPA and Leann Mabry will be doing a panel called, “Don’t be that guy” at Balticon

How to not be creepy, with the hot women of podcasting

What women want from men, by Heather. The 2 minute version.

I will suck the love out of you!

Heroes Season One: Major Spoilers

Sylar should have died at least 3 times

Paul doesn’t buy the cheap way they let him live

They work so hard to make all the situations work, except when people leave the bad guy alive

The writers didn’t put enough effort into leaving Sylar alive when the characters in the scene should have killed him

Sylar’s regeneration powers haven’t been completely defined

We think the writers paid too much attention to the fans. Sylar was kept alive because the fans on the ‘net wanted it.

Better ways to handle Sylar’s survival

We’re passionate about wanting to fix it because it’s so good and we love it so much

How Neil Gaiman handled a similar situation in Anansi Boys. Anansi Boys audio book was written for and read by British comedian Lenny Henry.

Sylar needs to die

MUSIC: Coed Naked Drunk Christmas Shopping by Beatnik Turtle

This is Awesome! Thanks Amanda for choosing our photo!

-Paul & Martha

First pass through Tokyo. No sign of Godzilla. He must be sleeping. I hope he shows up for the interview or I’m going to be really pissed. I didn’t come all this way not to get 5 minutes with the big man himself.

Got to the Intercontinental Grand Yokohama this afternoon. Wicked cool place. Massive. I think the restaurants are all 5 star gourmet or something. $100/person for a meal. We went a la cart to save a little money. I don’t mind paying for a good meal, but I couldn’t enjoy it as tired as I am.

Mur Lafferty’s ears are burning.

Had dinner in the Italian place. They were very accommodating to the fact that I can barely digest anything anymore. Great roast pork and veggies. Martha had a pizza. Great food, but very expensive. Thankfully snacks and drinks aren’t that outrageous.

Got Martha settled in the Newsletter staff room with Matsushita-san. Met some of the staff. Sean, who we met last year, is here and he’s translating again. He’s a life saver. I actually managed to translate some japanese into english for someone contributing to the news letters. But then there was nothing else to do, so I abandoned Martha and Matsushita-san in favor of a chat with Nobilis and sleep.

Need to hunt up some public domain footage and audio of Godzilla and the signing of the documents that ended WWII. Need background material for my interview with Big-G.

The Beast is being held captive by Japanese Customs. They want money. Hopefully I can get a translator to help me in the morning. I really need The Beast back on my shoulder.

• The Gift
• Man vs. Child 2: The Birthday Party
• Calling out George Hrab
• Paul’s week sucked, but it was nothing compared to Tee’s week
• Michelle Malone is coming to Jammin’ Java in Vienna, VA
• SONG: Avalon by Michelle Malone. From the album Home Grown
• PROMO: Give Us A Minute, the Joe Murphy Memorial Fund Podcast
• PROMO: Parsec Awards
• Memories of Farpoint Convention and Balticon
• Memories of the Harve Bennett interview
• Kirk vs Piccard in the movies, or rather Shatner vs Stewart
• Spiderman 3: It doesn’t suck
• Paul’s love of Spiderman 1 & 2
• Martha’s take on Spiderman 3
• PROMO: Crescent
• PROMO: Tag in the Seam
• We’re so unprofessional
• Tee plays with the cart software
• This Week in Drama
• Paul is angry. Personal attacks are dead wrong
• Ask the Magic 8 Ball
• More memories of Balticon 41
• Tee Morris can jump
• Color Paul dumb and dumber
• Carry and the twins
• August Trometer’s interview on Typical Mac User
• Beth Wojiski is awesome
• The coffee war
• Michelle Malone is playing at Jammin Java in Vienna on July 11 – Buy Tickets Here!

• 2 years on the pod
• Just what is sorghum anyway? Library paste?
• Heather has a job interview while Paul talks about his beer
• Phil is sharing a bed with Tee Morris and Jack Mangan at Balticon
• The Balticon Graphic Novel Project based on Comic Life
• PROMO: Ziggurat Con
• More about Ravencon
• Show restart?
• Phil drops hint one about Crescent: Music
• Concervation of Original Thought: The theory from Dave Weinstein (not to be confused with Dave Winer)
• Dave Winer backed out of PodcasterCon 2006 for bizarre reasons
• PROMO: Aliens You Will Meet
• Music for Serve It Cold will likely be from Michelle Malone
• The belly wave
• PROMO: Crescent
• Drive killed after 2 episodes, Nathan Fillion humped again by Fox
• Heather has a man crush on Nathan Fillion
• 3 beers and Phil shamelessly promotes
• Phil: The amazing 5 minute love machine
• 4 beers and Phil…

A tribute to Joe hosted by Michael, Evo, Mur, Charlie the Beer Guy, Chris the Wingin’ It Chef, Debbie from East Mesa, Brian, Tim, Sheila, and Lorrie, featuring clips from “Wingin’ It” episodes gone by.

Raise a root beer in memory of Randy Innuendo.

Song: “Mason Rocket” by Beatnik Turtle

Joe was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois. He was practically weaned on science fiction, watching reruns of the original Star Trek and Lost in Space with his mother.

After high school, Joe went to college and jumped around from studying computer science, to education for the hearing impaired, to finally landing on a Bachelor’s degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology at Illinois State University. Three years later, he earned with his Master’s in Audiology from Western Illinois University.

Science fiction and (especially) fantasy have always been a part of Joe’s life, whether in movies, TV, or books. After writing a review of Lisa Lee’s and Tee Morris’s Morevi on the original Dragon Page forum, Michael and Evo made Joe the “official” book reviewer for The Dragon Page Radio Talk Show. Later, after moving to Arizona, he became a frequent contributor to Cover to Cover, Wingin’ It, Slice of SciFi and co-host of Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas.

He will be missed.

If you’d like to help increase awareness about this cancer, an aggressive strain that’s also resistant to both radiation and chemo treatments, please visit The Joe Murphy Memorial Fund, a non-profit charity dedicated to help in the fight against Leiomyosarcoma.

image by Cheyenne Wright

• Back at Tee Morris’s Place
• Get the firewire mixer
• Back to the beer. I didn’t have problems with Kirin. Tee’s drinking Brooklyn Brewery’s Black Chocolate Stout. Martha is sick, so she’s being quite. No beer for the sick.
• Tea is from Teavana (We love Teavana)
• Tee’s trip out to Phoenix to visit Joe Murphy. Joe was having a good run, but this morning’s news from AZ says he’s only got a little time left. Tee was Joe’s cancer bitch.
• Donate to Joe Murphy, please. Even if all you can give is $1.
• Promo: Balticon and the Balticon Podcast
• Promo: Podiobook, Tee Morris’s Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword
• Shameless plugs for our spoof video, Man vs. Child
• Hosted at Lulu TV
• It all begins with You Spoof Discovery
• Tee did most of the post production
• This is a spoof of Man vs Wild and the awesome host Bear Grylls
• The secrets to making a great spoof video: the dirty diaper
• We grossed out Scott Sigler
• We’re being featured on the Lulu TV video cast for our work on Man vs. Child
• We want the Discovery Channel to pay attention to it
• Video still isn’t a one-button technology
• The Enormous Penis comes out
• Paul is the Podcasting Diva
• The Abbot and Costello joke
• Someone please take the mic away from Tee!
• Exactly what is my tag line again?

Most certainly, it’s 100% true.

Podiobook author, and friend of the show, Scott Sigler is giving away his print novel Ancestor. It is free to download now. Just click on the picture below. We’ve all thrilled to Scott’s podiobook novels, Earthcore, Ancestor, Infection, and The Rookie. Now you get to have this one for free.

All Scott asks, is that if you like the book, you buy it. He’s taking a cue from author and free culture advocate Cory Doctorow and hoping when more people read the book more people will buy it.

Ancestor is going on sale April 1. Scott wants everyone to jump on Amazon.com at Noon Pacific time and order their copy. He’s hoping to make it to Amazon’s #1 book, if everyone buys at once.

Click on the picture below and read Ancestor at home.

• Heather Welliver and Marc “Grailwolf” Bailey
• It’s Marc’s birthday and Superbowl Sunday
• Wine: Drinking German wine today – Dr. M. Brun riesling
• No possum in the wine today
• Drunk animals
• Grailwolf is either a lazy bastard or a busy bastard, either way he’s still a bastard.
• NoVAPod! – The Northern Virginia Podcasters Meetup Group
• Promo Party at Paul and Martha’s!
• You look like the piss boy…
• Our NoVAPod.org site. The Meetup.com site for NoVAPod.
• Why are podcaster’s always showing their oats?
  
• PSMN, PiSMaN, or Pod Safe Music Network
• The Shillas available on The PMN
• Sound Scientist by bill
• Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut (1961). A story where everyone is given handicaps to make them equal.
• Local radio sucks, but local music rocks. We have Jammin’ Java.
• PROMO: Balticon Podcast
• PROMO: Singularity – Book – Podiobook
• PROMO: Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword – Book – Podiobook
• Jonathan Coulton is coming back to Jammin’ Java on March 11! With Paul and Storm, a.k.a. The Creepy Dolls
• Re-Wine: Eisswein from Keffir in Munich Germany, sweet like honey and amber
• Ice Wine – real vs. manufactured. Costs. This is what mead should be.
• Bargetto’s dessert wines – Raspberry wine, Mead, Raspberry Mead Combo
• Duckboy Bottomfeeder on the rise
• Saving money vs. the effort to make. A.k.a. the journey vs. the destination.
• L.E.D. replacements for incandescent light bulbs
• PSA: Tequila
• What does that finger mean?
• The math on making your own L.E.D. light bulbs
• Ass load vs. Butt load vs. Metric Butt load
• Secret Project Alert
• Geek Widow Podcast – Heather and Martha or Heather and Paul. Who is the geek Widow?
• Must avoid the whiney aspects of it.
• How to get your geek off the computer.
• SONG: Faithfull by The Shillas (Heather sings lead)

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Segment 1
• from Raleigh, NC Friday morning
• Pressing breasts against Paul’s head
• Dinner with Mur, Jim, and Fiona Wed night
• Norovirus attack Thursday morning
• Martha is flying down Friday night
• The folks in NC are really excellent
• Joe Murphy is in surgery as I’m recording
• Call Joe and wish him well. The number is 206-202-5179. It will only take you a few minutes.
  
• PROMO: TD-0013 MS Walk
• PROMO: Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing SwordSegment 2
• Interview with author J.R. Blackwell (The naughty bits)
• Press your breasts against my face
• Geek women kick ass, they already have the costumes
• REJOINER: Mark Forman
• PROMO: Spherical TomiSegment 3
• from NYC 1/30/07
• Paul’s bad rendition of Hall and Oats, Adult Education
• Essay: Friends, Changing, and Time
• Arkham Horror
• Podcasting’s Rich Sigfrit
• Christiana Ellis
• Jason and Ren
• Why are Paul’s private parts part of every gaming event?
• Paul’s bad imitation of the Queen
• Mur and Jim’s neurotic dog
• I bet the Navy wishes they had dinosaurs on their aircraft carriers
• I was supposed to see Jonathan Coulton with Jack Mangan
• The Norovirus rant – wash your damn hands! CDC Link 1. CDC Link 2.
• End Music by George Hrab, Brains Body Both

Check out the video of what Tee really did with that beer bottle here.

No notes today. No time.

This is a must listen.

It’s Mac OS X only. You need Automator and iTunes.

It sets many common ID3 tags in your MP3 files automatically.

It’s Free. Enjoy it.

ID3 Tagger by Paul Fischer