{"id":223,"date":"2008-10-26T19:48:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T02:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=223"},"modified":"2009-07-27T21:40:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T04:40:55","slug":"i-was-going-to-call-it-oxygen-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"I was going to call it &#8220;Oxygen Sucks&#8221;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned I&#8217;ve been &#8220;working&#8221; (playing) with recording audio during my commute to and from work, in hopes of turning the audio into a regular podcast.  I was originally going to call it &#8220;Oxygen Sucks&#8221;, which is why today&#8217;s attached\/enclosed audio (only about 7 minutes long) refers to itself as such&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Officially, though, I think &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/catb.org\/jargon\/html\/S\/stir-fried-random.html\">Stir-Fried Random<\/a>&#8221; is a better name, so I&#8217;ll go with that henceforth.  The first real episode is under way already, so I <em>could<\/em> put it up as early as the next few days.  Today&#8217;s episode is in mp3 format, though starting next episode I&#8217;d like to offer both mp3 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorbis.com\">Ogg Vorbis<\/a>, at least, the latter format having better audio quality at the same bitrate (and being Legally Free for use).  As a bonus, I gather <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wikimedia.org\/2008\/07\/31\/firefox-31-to-support-open-video-and-audio\/\">Firefox 3.1<\/a> should offer native playback support for it, too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d appreciate commentary on the content (even if you don&#8217;t listen but merely want to comment on the show notes) and audio quality.  No login needed, anonymous comments allowed.<\/p>\n<p>Show notes may be found below <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/audio\/Ep01Beta.mp3\">This Direct-Download link for the audio<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>00:28 (announcement)<\/li>\n<li>00:33 Bigfoot and Elvis<\/li>\n<li>01:09 Why &#8220;Oxygen Sucks&#8221;? (Because it sucks almost as hard as Fluorine)<\/li>\n<li>01:36 Why am I making this show?<\/li>\n<li>01:58 Empirical Observation of the Week, regarding deliquescence and Formisidaean dietary preferences<\/li>\n<li>03:01 They&#8217;re spying on me&#8230;all of them! SPYING!<\/li>\n<li>03:30 The &#8220;Giant&#8217;s Shoulder&#8217;s&#8221; blog carnival, and my contribution this month on the triple-helix of DNA&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>04:40 (Google &#8220;Linus Pauling&#8221; and &#8220;Vitamin C&#8221;&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>04:42 Coors Lite(tm) marketers are friggin&#8217; morons, or think their customers are&#8230;.<\/li>\n<li>06:08 That&#8217;s enough for the test episode &#8211; how do I sound?<\/li>\n<li>06:50 (Exit Music&#8230;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;d also like to stick &#8220;Easter Eggs&#8221; and useful content into subsequent audio files&#8217; metadata (embedded show notes, geotagging marks, pictures), suggestions are welcome in this regard, too.<\/p>\n<p>(Let me know if this even works&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mentioned I&#8217;ve been &#8220;working&#8221; (playing) with recording audio during my commute to and from work, in hopes of turning the audio into a regular podcast. I was originally going to call it &#8220;Oxygen Sucks&#8221;, which is why today&#8217;s attached\/enclosed audio (only about 7 minutes long) refers to itself as such&#8230; Officially, though, I think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/?p=223\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I was going to call it &#8220;Oxygen Sucks&#8221;&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4,13,12,29],"tags":[277,287,288,582,292,293,289,291,283,276,290,294,286,275,584,133],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-nerdity","category-feedback-solicitation","category-me-me-me","category-meta-blogging","category-netcasts","tag-audio","tag-beer-marketing","tag-bigfoot","tag-biochemistry","tag-cia","tag-classic-science-paper","tag-elvis","tag-fbi","tag-linus-pauling","tag-netcast","tag-nsa","tag-on-the-shoulders-of-giants","tag-oxygen-sucks","tag-podcast","tag-stir-fried-stochasticity","tag-usda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigroom.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}