groggyjava

groggyjava show #27 playlist

2006-12-02T11:24:00.001-05:00

all songs downloaded from the fine artists at http://www.versionist.com/

Show Intro by groggyjava
Bless Na Curse by Fullness
Carry a Dub by Honolulu
Dijad Dub 2 by Hypnotix
Why Won't You Look Around? by Inna Crisis
Old Time by JEER
groggyyjava station id by PowerSteppers
I Mean You by The Regulator
Dahab Dub by El Bib
Alex Farewell by groggyjava
Track 03 by Lee Mac
Rockers Climb by Miles Rogers
This is a Raid by Root ID
Potentaint by groggyjava feat. Dan Bennett
Skank Steady by swinging relatives
Vanishing Dub by UMO Productions
Show Closing by groggyjava

groggyjava show #27 playlist

2006-12-02T11:24:00.000-05:00

groggyjava show #25

2006-07-29T01:49:00.000-04:00

Hi All,

I am very pleased to announce that i have posted episode number 25 to my server and that it is ready for your downloading and listening pleasure!

click here to download mp3
click here for podcast home page

go check it out -- jbudd said it was a good one.

PLAYLIST:
song	/	band
Roots Fi Cool	/	Burnin Babylon link
Two For All	/	Rowdee Black Giants link
Malawi Voodoo	/	Burnin Babylon link
Magic Dub	/	Molara link
My Spot	/	Colouring Lesson link
Sinkin In	/	Fairmount Girls link
The Kids Will Have No Say	/	The Kings Of Nuthin' link
Heavy Dread	/	Burnin Babylon link
I Mean You	/	The Regulators link
Haul & Pull Up	/	Super Monkey Collider link
Mix Fatty 02	/	Prince Fatty link

Sincerely,

groggyjava (aka ken ehrman)
groggyjava@gmail.com

Republican Logic

2006-05-18T10:14:00.000-04:00

What You Need To Believe To Be A Republican:

Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton

Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him, and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion.

Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is Communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony.

The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq.

A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multi-national corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.

The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches, while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.

If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.

A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our long-time allies, then demand their cooperation and money.

Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy, but providing health care to all Americans is socialism. HMOs and insurance companies have the best interests of the public at heart.

Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.

A president lying about an extramarital affair is a impeachable offense, but a president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is solid defense policy.

Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.

The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but George Bush's driving record is none of our business.

Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host. Then it's an illness and you need our prayers for your recovery.

Supporting "Executive Privilege" for every Republican ever born, who will be born or who might be born (in perpetuity.)

What Bill Clinton did in the 1960s is of vital national interest, but what Bush did in the '80s is irrelevant.

Support hunters who shoot their friends and blame them for wearing orange vests similar to those worn by the quail.

more fun in american politics

2006-05-15T15:51:00.000-04:00

conservatives can reconcile some pretty weird things, case in point -- people in the current administration let leak that valerie plame was cia agent and conservatives behave as though it was no big deal to out one of it's soldiers in war time.

but get this http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/
a secret source told the reporters over at abc news to "get new cell phones now" because the govn't is trying to find confidential sources.

so what is republican big guys? is it okay to leak confidential informaiton to the press or not? make up your mind, you're waffling worse than john kerry.

death and taxes on holiday

2006-05-15T11:52:00.000-04:00

in the freewheeling world wide web, a dose of reality is rarely as real as when the taxman comes to call.

several tourist destinations filed suit against the big boys of internet travel for their failure to pay hotel taxes.

we all know the travel sites negotiate a better deal on the rooms than we the consumer are pay at their sites, and that works well because it's almost always cheaper than buying direct.

however, what the suit alleges is that the big boys have only been paying tax based on the rate that they paid, and not on the rate that the sold at.

this will be an interesting issue to watch

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060512/ap_on_hi_te/hotel_tax_2

episode #24

2006-05-10T02:39:00.000-04:00

werd, 1/2 bottle of wine soaking a mix of dub stylee rock and reggae
http://www.groggyjava.tv/home/podcast/gj-024.mp3

High Road by dubScene
My Space
http://profile.myspace.com/dubscene
santa cruz, ca

Heavy Soothing by Like a Fox
http://www.likeafoxtheband.com/
May 13, 2006 @ North Star Bar on Poplar in Northern Liberties in Philly
$8 doors @ 9:00
jay sent me the disk

Heart of Dub by Molara w/ Powersteppers
http://www.versionist.com/artist/Molara/music

Stand Proud Rockers by Lee Mac
versionist.com
http://www.versionist.com/musicitem/10270
(no additional info provided by artist)

Dahab Dub by El Bib
http://www.versionist.com/artist/El%20Bib

Carry It On by Like a Fox

Superdrag by Very Large Array
http://magnatune.com/artists/vla

Mercurial Girl by five star fall
http://magnatune.com/artists/fivestarfall

8400 Molotov by 12m3 Sound System
http://www.versionist.com/artist/12M3%20SOUND%20SYSTEM/music

In My Mind by The Babylon Cowboys
http://www.thebabyloncowboys.com/

Cast Your Lines by Lenola
http://www.lenola.com/

No Time for Tea by The Suspects
http://www.garageband.com/artist/the_suspects_ska

Track 11 imara (don't take it personal)

You Don't Know by Monkey
GarageBand.com
http://www.garageband.com/artist/monkey
San Jose, California
Friday May 19 @ Blue Beat Lounge: Pacific Palms Grille
MIlipitas, CA
http://www.pacificpalmsgrill.com/

The Zoo by Prince Fatty
versionist
http://www.versionist.com/artist/princefatty/music
(no additional info provided by artist)

we should continue to pray for the sick regardless its efficacy

2006-03-31T10:57:00.000-05:00

the human consciousness includes a conscience that grows out of the fact that our preferred social structure (i.e. civilization) depends on humans acting, well, civil to one another. our survival instincts tell us that those who do harm to other individuals or to society as a whole, are doing harm to us, and we ascribe the labels good and bad to civil and uncivil behavior.

religion grows out of the fact that non-human things like plants, animals and natural phenomenon don't seem to share our desire to protect humans. to wit, bears don't mind eating people, and even though tornados do seem to target trailer parks, in general, nature is deaf to the pleas of humanity.

our pea brains have to come up with an explanation for why corn won't grow when you want it to.

enter god.

throughout human history we have prayed for rain, prayed for the rain to stop, etc. and whether or not it works, we still do it, because it gives us a sense of control over a world that is not so infatuated with humans as we are.

since nature doesn't care about us, and at times seems out to get us, and since there are humans that seem to act more like animals than humans, having a god that is more powerful than nature and humanity is very comforting indeed.

that being said, praying for some to be healed never hurt anyone, and it does make people feel good, so why would you discourage it?

that's just godless. hahahahahahahaha!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/03/30/prayer.study.ap/index.html

it just never stops, does it?

2006-03-28T12:23:00.000-05:00

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/nation/politics/14177032.htm

my thought:
every conservative i have ever spoken with at some point explains to me that the constitution is not a living document; that it is to be interpreted precisely in its words; and that judges who set precedents that conservatives don't like are 'activist judges'

odd, then that conservatives can so casually overlook this egregious disregard of the cornerstone of the republic.

my, how quickly the conservative congressmen and women roll over and play dead for the president, abdicating their role within our government, forever eroding the importance of elected representation of the american citizenry.

this behavior is both cynical and shameful, and if you don't feel like you've been slapped in the face, then you really need to re-read the constitution, and re-evaluate what it means to be an american.

if bill clinton had pulled this stunt, every conservative in amerca would be in the streets with pitchforks and torches, and to believe otherwise is flagrant equivocation.

happy place

2006-03-27T07:24:00.000-05:00

now if this just ain't the picture of pure bliss, then i'm beyond ignorant.

this is what it's going to take

2006-03-23T11:16:00.000-05:00

so many people talk so much smack about how shining the light of day on bad corporate behavior would be enough to stop bad corporate behavior.

hoo ha! if you want to cut down on white collar time, start sending these crooks to the same jails you send petty thieves, drug dealers and rapists. that'll straighten up some folks right quick.

that why i was very happy to see this article -- it's not hard time, and fines aren't steep enough, but laws with big teeth get people's attention. look at the success of DUI penalties.

good news about alt fuels

2006-03-21T13:14:00.000-05:00

i was reading this article (link) and thinking to myself how cool it will be when people start making good money on alternative energy services, because that's when it will really start to have traction. we've seen some promising start peter out, i'm really hoping this time it's for real.

any way check out the article -- has some really good points (link)

i guess stealing is okay if you are the studio

2006-03-21T08:37:00.000-05:00

it kills me about these guys. they are insatiably greedy -- they want to make the design of new computer equipment be under their control just to ensure they squeeze every last drop of money of every joe, they sue innocent people who simply pay them off to avoid the cost of the lawsuit.

they continually scream and whine that copying media files is thievery and yet, the creators of the artwork routinely have to sue these jackasses to get paid.

hateful, just hateful

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060321/ap_en_mo/movie_lawsuit

digital rights management schema

2006-03-20T15:36:00.000-05:00

your past successes in the marketplace in no way entitle you to success in the future. success in business can only be ensured by providing a product that people want and offering it at a fair price and digital rights management (drm) appears at first glance to be an innocuous means of ensuring that producers receive payment for their wares.

DRM itself is not evil. What is evil are media companies pushing legislation like the broadcast flag and watermarking as law. And that's not really even evil, as it is clearly their right. I just see three huge problems with it.

1.) these companies don't really pay the artists much so their overtures seem most disingenuous. in reality artists make their money mainly off merchandise and concerts. the labels keep the vast majortiy of all album sales

2.) these DRM regimes being pushed in legislatures worldwide squash the concept of "fair use" -- to wit: when i buy a CD i can make back up copies, put it on to my ipod, etc, serve them up from a central server in my house, etc. Many of the DRM regimes in the pipeline would make it illegal for me not to pay to listen to my music in each way i want to listen to my music

3.) DRM shemes developed in the free market like apple's itunes, windows media center, etc. that give consumers freedom to enjoy the music they paid for, will be accepted. Super-restrictive, expensive regimes forced onto consumers by law will always be circumvented -- in short the WIPO, RIAA, MPAA etc are setting themselves up for failure, even with their ability to distort the free market through legislation.

The main thrust of DRM is a last ditch effort on the part of huge media companies to remain relevant. Smaller labels and artists themselves are proving that smaller channels of distribution work very well without them -- for an analog look at the splintering of the cable television space.

If these special interest groups and the media companies who fund them had paid attention long ago, they could have avoided the predicament in which they find themselves now by participating in the new media revolution. But just like the airline industry, these crusty, old-school behomeths go running for corporate welfare from uncle sam.

microsoft makes good use of its money

2006-03-20T14:48:00.000-05:00

every now and again, bill does some philathropy that just warms my heart.
they can use their deep pockets and deep legal bench to put a hurt on the phishing scammers, that are after people like my parents. good on ya billy boy!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4825072.stm

Talk about tax and spend!

2006-03-20T14:34:00.000-05:00

Bush signs debt limit increase to $8.965 trillion
and here I thought it was the democrats who had a problem controlling their spending
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060320/pl_nm/economy_debt_bush_dc

telcos are staffed by stupid people

2006-03-20T12:21:00.000-05:00

"We just kind of assumed all along that this is something consumers would want and demand and pay for," Geppert said

well surprise, surprise, surprise, people DON'T want to pay any more money for cellular servive, regardless of what bells and whistles might be included.

i have been saying my whole professional career that if the only reason you do something is to make money at it, you're going to do it poorly. this is just more evidence that i am right.

DUH!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060320/tc_nm/telecoms_mobileservices_dc

we're fat and lazy again

2006-03-20T12:17:00.000-05:00

our nation is collectively too damned lazy to study the hard subjects like math and science.
and then people who majored in political science wanna cry about outsourcing.
too rich.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060320/tc_nm/india_dell_dc

now you're talking -- uk bioethanol

2006-03-17T15:29:00.000-05:00

It's gotta start somewhere! Glad to here it!
UK's first bioethanol pump opens
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4808244.stm

hasn't this been proposed and shot down a million times?

2006-03-17T14:50:00.000-05:00

US senators propose 'XXX' domain for porn websites
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060317/tc_afp/usinternetpornography_060317141716

how's it feel steve?

2006-03-17T14:20:00.000-05:00

looks like apple might have to open up and say ah, then turn it's head and cough
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060317/ap_on_hi_te/france_ipods

have i just entered a parallel universe?

2006-03-17T14:16:00.000-05:00

is fatah truly contemplating returning control over the palestinian territories back to israel?.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060317/wl_nm/mideast_palestinians_dc

right-wing americans are sissies

2006-03-17T10:48:00.000-05:00

right-wingers apparently are extraordinarily lazy, kinda stupid, and a gang of sissies

right wingers are too stupid to figure out that if they just got off their lazy
ass and changed the channel, they wouldn't have to work so hard to get
censorship laws passed.

right-wingers are too stupid to find the many channels devoted just to
religious and educational matter and children's programming where there is
no adult content

they might actually protect their kids if weren't too lazy to read the
manual on the v-chip thing or too stupid to understand it

they clearly are too lazy to turn the tv off and interact with their
children instead

since right-wingers are so easily offended by stuff on tv and radio, one would think they especially would understand how hard it can be for american parents to protect their children from being slapped in the face by ugly stereotypes and epithets in the media
but no, every single right-wing pundit repeatedly belittles american citizens for feeling offended by rude, nasty and disrespectful comments and stereotypes directly targetted at them
and yet, those same right wing pundits cry like little babies whenever someone talks about grown-up stuff like sex on the air.

stupid, lazy and weak -- and they want to run a war?

--

new groggyjava episode #22

2006-03-09T03:25:00.000-05:00

Today’s show was mainly about the music. This is the first episode with my new Alesis Multimixer 8 USB mixing board, and it is suh-weeet!!!!

Today I have prepared a Supersized pop, punk, ska and dub stylee explosion. I even kept quiet for the most part. Also using Ots Audio turntables Silver version. Way preferable to CastBlaster.

But mainly, it’s about the tunes, and here they are:

Chicken Butt Burritos / Sanchez Sistas
Intro / groggyjava
The Kids Will have No Say / Kings of Nuthin link
Was Ist Hart / JAMMIN INC podshow link main site
Right The Alarm / Stick Figure link
Teenage Man / The Shut Ups link
Tension / Sub City Dwellers link
*Sofa King / DANGERDOOM link
Don’t Take It Personal / imara link
Groggyjava ident / Powersteppers link
Superdrag / Very Large Array link
Wicked Rebel / Slightly Stoopid link
Freedom / Chunk link
Reflection / Babylon Cowboys link
Haul & Pull Up / Super Monkey Collider link
Stay Clear / THESSS link
Jah Jah Voice / Brother Marcus link
Serpico / The Moon Fails link
Outro / groggyjava

the free market could fail us very soon

2006-01-19T14:17:00.000-05:00

the freemarket dictates that companies do whatever they can to make a larger profit
this leads to perfectly legal acts that not all people like, like clearcutting forests, etc. (we liberals like hardwood floors too ya know!)
but anyway, here is an example of how one network provider could forever wreck one of the most important underpinnings of the world wide web :: network neutrality

the value of the internet as computing resource is very tightly bound to the concept that any node should be able to reach any other node without restriction.

some internet provider want to charge companies whose traffic crosses their network (example i use comcast, and i want to access web site XYZ.COM that resides on an at&t server, but the traffic between me and the web site spends time crossing over a bellsouth network -- bellsouth says it wants
it's perfectly legal, too

i'll be the first to point out that the telco's do pay to keep up the network, and that they should be able to charge whatever they want and operate however they want.
the fact that the internet is the most important technology in our nation's economy and that fucking it up could cause a major disruption to our nation as a whole does not enter into the equation.
outlawing this behavior might be the first step in turning the nations telecom infrastructure back into a quasi-utility, and that would be very very bad.
what do you think?
i think that instead of outlawing it, they should be forced to open their networks to competition.
right now i can only get comcast cable. if they want to be allowed to slow my access to web sites that they don't get paid to host, then i should be allowed to get time warner cable or something else. otherwise they have me over a barrel.

what do you think?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060119/tc_pcworld/124403

Introducing Spencer

2006-01-01T22:15:00.000-05:00

Each one teach one

2005-12-20T17:36:00.000-05:00

I have met a lot of people who are very clammed up about the technology they use or the techniques they use. I think that this is silly and here’s why:

Most people’s “secret recipe” is usually just a variation on a trick found in a publicly available book or web tutorial; relatively few people are actually pioneering uses of off-the-shelf technology.
Pioneering use of off-the-shelf technology is scarcely ground-breaking compared with the R&D that went into making your clever trick possible in the first place.
Things like javascript and dhtml represent a small problem domain and even the most clever of tricks produces trivial results (rollovers and pop ups and resizing yaaaaaay!)
Not discussing technique with other people narrows your focus to only those problems you encounter yourself and you limit your ability to see how your ideas might work in other environments

I find that whenever I share my knowledge with others by helping them solve a problem or discussing a clever trick I’ve uncovered, or even invented, that I am rewarded in the following ways:

I gain the respect of my peers for having a deep knowledge of the technology; their professional references include phrases like “he really knows his stuff”
I gain the gratitude of my peers for having helped them. That comes in handy when you need their expertise!
I gain from a deeper understanding of what I’m talking about by fielding unexpected questions, and translating concepts into another person’s contextual reference. You teach yourself when teach others.

Also, the fact that you know a particular thing well enough to explain it to someone should show you that you’ve already got a head start on whomever you’re showing and they can become a resource for you when you have moved on to the next thing.

I think people who guard their techniques have this crazy idea that you can be a one-trick pony in this world. Those days over, baby! I’ve lived through the desktop publishing upheaval and the web boom and bust, what I’ve learned is that if you don’t feel like you’re drinking from a fire hose, you’ve gotten lazy and are going to be passed by.

GJ-019 Show Notes

2005-12-15T04:45:00.000-05:00

DUB EXPLOSION!!!!!!!!

I finally got a new episode out the freakin' door!!! I've been so swamped working on the nursery and working at work, that I have fallen behind. My apologies! This episode has some seriously phat tracks. I really enjoyed myself making this. I was laying in bed and couldn't sleep. It was nagging at me "Ken, make a new podcast!" So I nuked some java, fired up the studio and I was off to the races! I hope you dig it. Download here

03:00 Stay Clear / THESSS link
06:20 Wicked Rebel / Slightly Stoopid
10:00 Rise Up / Scaterd Few link
14:38 Right The Alarm / Stick Figure link
17:30 8400 Molotov (HORSEMAN STEPPERS) / 12m3 Sound System link
21:12 Mr. Businessman / Babylon Cowboys link
26:05 Chat :: Worked at home today
28:10 Toad's Mystic Talk Dub / KoCha link
31:39 Station Identification
32:15 Chat :: Good friends Power Steppers, I sound like over night DJ, Behind in queuing up music, listening BBC
35:12 Elka Rockers in Dub / Prince Fatty link
39:00 Know Your Dub / Power Steppers link
43:20 Into Twilight / Burning Babylon link
47:00 Chat, Polar Bear Cook Out, Sign Off

Monday Nov 28, 2005

2005-11-28T06:49:00.000-05:00

Welcome back to the world.

I just dropped my parents off at the airport, it was a lovely visit.

I had hoped to get a podcast out over the weekend – but I found my time filled with activity even when that activity was to sit on the couches in the living room

Txgivng day went off with only one hitch – we took the turkey that we deep-fried out of the deep fryer too soon and wound up cooking it in the oven, which dried it out in my opinion. It's all good though -- my wife cooked one in the normal fashion and it was really good.

on saturday my wife had her baby shower. it was a really sweet affair put together by her mother. all the usual suspect from the family were there: her sister, sister-in-law, cousins, aunts, mom-mom, and a fantastic cadre of her girlfriends from school. i was a bit jealous because i hadn't seen a lot of these girls in a long time, and they're my friends too: raluca, cathy & monica, tiffany, marion, dileymis,kim, donna, marcelle, god i hope i'm not forgetting anybody.

while the ladies were handling that, i was helping my dad learn some more tricks in photoshop that was a really fun time. he took to it very very well.

yesterday my dad and i started a nice campfire in the back yard and sat around it drinking beers, doing as he likes to call it "solving all the problems of the world" it was quality dad time.

i tell you what though, now that the baby is only weeks away and my wife is going to be leaving work soon, i have to make a huge push on finishing the boy's nursery. so i'm going to take off work friday this week.

today's musical playlist

Rise Up / Scaterd Few link
Sofa King / DANGERDOOM link
Mr. Businessman / Babylon Cowboys link
Propaganda / JAMMIN INC link
Coma Girl / Joey Strummer & the Mescaleros link
Know Your Dub / Power Steppers link

groggyjava show 016 show notes

2005-11-23T09:47:00.000-05:00

today's show is kinda short, groggyjava@gmail.com

Music Tracks:

Sofa King / DANGERDOOM link

If You Got the Money / Merle Haggard link

Know Your Dub / Power Steppers link

Coma Girl / Joey Strummer & the Mescaleros link

Don’t Know Why / The Shut Ups link

groggyjava show 010 show notes

2005-11-04T09:06:00.000-05:00

links from today's how -- will and more later

In My Mind, by the Babylon Cowboys

http://www.thebabyloncowboys.com/

http://www.BandWebLogs.com

http://music.podshow.com/music/producers/producerLibrary/artistdetails.php?BandHash=01b73e78d63a89941fb1c38eb1673365

Bart’s Tea thingy

november 2, 2005 groggyjava shownotes

2005-11-02T09:29:00.000-05:00

During the week it’s gonna be “morning coffee with groggyjava”

Shorter, more to the point while my head clears

Longer shows on the weekend

Morning brew is DECAF AND IT”S WEAK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh!

MUSIC
Looking for Windows DJ software
Helping my dad learn Photoshop
64 Second Film Contest at http://www.64seconds.com/

Got Premiere Installed
QuickTime Pro key

New Outtro (wee haw)
Funny news

Miserable Failure
Popular Science – 3^rd worst job in science: Biology Teacher in Kansas

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html

music links:

http://www.shutups.com/

Babylon Cowboys

Jammin-INC

007 Show Notes

2005-10-27T01:06:00.000-04:00

Hey all,

Today's show was really fun to put together. Nothing like a couple glasses of wine to just get ya in the mood to podcast!!!

Edgar Whitegrass didn't talk much today, we'll see if we can't get him chattering on the next show. His eyes are bad send him e-mail through me groggyjava@gmail.com

I can't decide if my artsy-fartsy music thingy is any good. I think i should have made it more self-conscious and mocked it in the end. What do you think? (link)

Today's Music

Babylon Cowboys -- In My Mind
Jammin, Inc. -- System Overload

Today's Links:

Marc Steel -- and excellent and talented web developer
http:/www.marcsteel.us/

DirCaster
dirCaster is a php script that allows one to very easily start Podcasting mp3 files from their web host. link

Well anyway, hope you're doing well.

//ken

in san francisco

2005-10-21T10:00:00.000-04:00

this is about a block from my hotel. i'll write more later, just wanted to get a few pix up.

in san francisco

2005-10-21T09:57:00.000-04:00

that's me in the hotel, over a copy of the san francisco chronicle. i'm actually recording right now. dude can't think about the the implications of asynchronicty this early in the morning -- i've only had two cups of coffee.

We Got Airplay!!!!!

2005-10-18T09:17:00.000-04:00

Yep, you heard right. Adam Curry of the Daily Source Code played my mashup "Bono Versus Bonham." on his show Friday October 14, 2005. Wahoo!

I am so totally stoked you have no idea! I am making myself late to work right now by typing this. I have to make up a promo thanking dude.

This is nuts. The groggyjava show website hasn't even been indexed by google yet!

hopefully it means I am doing something right!

Ken, always inquisitive and investigative put together a mashup of Led Zeppelin's Whole Lotta Love and U2's Bullet the Blue Sky.

After hours of work he got the two songs to work together so well that Adam Curry played it on his genre defining podcast.

-marc steel

ken ehrman, you are evil and will convert millions. That rules you mad psyco killer.
-jbudd

you can find friday's show at
http://mp3.dailysourcecode.podshow.com/DSC-260-2005-10-14.mp3

main page for adam's show:
http://www.dailysourcecode.podshow.com/

you can find a link to my mashup and the xml feed to my podcast here:
http://www.groggyjava.tv/home/podcast/

I'm so very happy.

the groggyjava show :: show notes :: sunday oct 16, 2004

2005-10-17T02:55:00.000-04:00

Show Notes GJ-003

Sign On

Postcasting from the east side of Philadelphia this is the groggyjava show. My name is Ken Ehrman and I am groggyjava. Welcome to my show.

Sunday Evening Musical Podcast
A beautiful autumn day here on the eastern shore of the mighty Delaware, the sky is clear the moon is bright and full.

We our first listener! My man Josh, and says "not too bad"

I think we need more music so I dug into the podsafe music network and rounded us up some alternative and some reggae from their ample stacks

1.) More Music

2.) Studio Upgrades !! (new toys)

3.) Where I'm at with Nursery Progress

4.) Recanting First Backyard Campfire

5.) Listed in Yahoo!

6.) Podcasts i've been digging

Majek Fashek with "I Am Not Afraid" from the podsafe music network.

My own mashup that I call “Bono Versus Bonham”

Nursury/Studio Upgrades

Electrical in room is finished.

I found what the ghostly noise was the other night.

Had to tear out the previous conduit and start over.

Crimper at Radio Shack

Mixer at Radio Shack

Shut Ups Teenage Man

Dub Session podcast – DJ Chill Will RULES!!!!

I burned cd of show and played on the boom box in the back yard at the first fall backyard camp fire! Hot chocolate & roastin’ marshmallows!

Here is German reggae. These guys are really good!

Jammin’ Inc. – Propaganda

Jammin’ Inc. – System Overload

Sign Off

Time Zone

2005-10-11T09:13:00.000-04:00

I just noticed that the time stamp on these posts had been the default of PST. Going forward the time stamps will be correct. Add three hours to past posts.

As if anyone cares, right?

gj-002 show notes

2005-10-11T04:23:00.000-04:00

yeah, yeah, yeah, i'm still up. i just finished the second groggyjava show and now is the time to do up the show notes.

0:00 :: introduction

1:05 :: thanks for coming back
1:35 :: table of contents
2:00 :: Work on the Nursery: put down a mess of conduit
3:10 :: Felt the baby kick for the first time
4:00 :: Vacuum/close the pool (get out flocced gunk)
6:00 :: can't get mic to record in stereo
6:56 :: Obsidion "Stomp Highway" (link)
9:40 :: link here
10:00 :: new microphone (link)
11:45 :: domain name (groggyjava.net, .com, .net, .info)
12:45 :: flickr going to remain relatively private for now lost in hard drive
14:30 :: Teenage Man (link)
17:40 :: Tom's house Congrats (link)
18:00 :: Ghost in the house
19:20 :: Scott's (link) is waaaay too loud
20:00 :: don't wake up the wife, everything's going great.
21:05 :: Need new theme song (link)
21:35 :: Hotair News jumped the moderator gun
23:50 :: Beginning of sign-off
24:35 :: Woke up the wife! (oops!)
25:08 :: Liz Primeaux "Livin in Primo" (link)
27:25 :: Sign off
27:55 :: x

I go sleepy-sleep now!

up way too late again

2005-10-11T03:26:00.000-04:00

i'm starting to wonder if i'm going to become an insomniac. i lay there and just could not sleep. i was racked by crazy dreams involving whatever happened to be on the radio and i kept waking up. so i decided to come upstairs to the studio and make some of my own radio. i'm going to hit record here in a minute and record the show, then see if i can then get to sleep.

Up way too late

2005-10-09T04:55:00.000-04:00

Dude, it's like 5 in the morning. I couldn't sleep because of all the coffee I drank while working on the nursery. All I have left to do is:

make two splices
run one 10" piece of conduit
run the romex in the basement to the breaker box
have my father-in-law or brother-in-law put in the new breakers!

Wee hooo. I need to start posting pictures of this thing don't I?

I need to update update my web site. Both the groggyjava and digitalbridgeway domains point to the same hosting account; I need to do something more sophisticated than what I have up there.

Well this is just turning into a to-do list isn't it? Oh well.

I saw my buddy Tom's Ficker photo stream and he's got some of his (what i assume is new) art on there. It's pretty good stuff. Good to see he's still at it. I need to build out a gallery of my work, oh and start producing work again! (lol)

Dude I better lay down and at least get a nap, or I am really going to hate myself alllll day. Catherine wants to go to baby's r us to pick out the dresser while we still have a 15%-off coupon.

1st real podcast up and running

2005-10-07T01:20:00.000-04:00

got the first episode of the podcast up, online and on the air. the full podcast has an odd echo on some of the vocals, but i decided if i waited to re-record or even re-mix it, i'd run the risk of not ever getting this thing started, so i ran with it.

i'm still having problems with the microphone i bought -- i've never really used a mic to do real recording on windows. i used to use my mac waaaaay back in the day (sys 7.x) and made custom audio cds (had clear off nearly everything from the 2gb hd in my powercenter pro in the days before mp3 hahahahahahahahaha man that sucked.)

any way before i start sounding like an even older fart than i am, i should forget the past and see how i can get this mic sounding better. or maybe i jsut need a beter mic.

it's a condenser mic, and it's powered, but the signal is sooooo thin. oh well, i'll just take it back and try another one.

i listened to the podcast at work, but it seemed to me to have a pretty slow download. maybe my isp throttles the line, i don't know. hopefuly i'll get some traffic and i'll find out for sure.

i bought the domain names and marked their DNS entries to point to my CQHost account and put up a php script that performs the redirect away from the digital bridgeway web site, which needs a total reworking. i think what i'm going to have to do is push the digital bridgeway account into a subdirectory and promote groggyjava to the root. i think that will be easier for linking back and forth between flickr, blogger, etc. i have no idea if i'm going to get any traffic or not on this site. digital bridgeway hardly gets any.

dude, i better hit the sack it's 1:30 in the morning. talk to ya later.

tiring debate

2005-10-06T23:41:00.000-04:00

i work in a microsoft shop and tonight i got drawn into this huge micosoft versus open-source debate and because i'm the only one who works with open-source software and has any faith in the open-source thing, i got it from both barrels from everyone there. what a crock of shit. i don't even freakin' care about the debate. i'm a professional software developer, whatever language, whatever platform, i'll make the thing do what you want. i'm not out to change the world; i'm not that clever.

and yet i found myself feeling all defensive. it was really, really draining

if i had a dog, i'd have come home and kicked it.

oh well, whatever

//ken

March 29, 2005

2005-03-29T10:26:00.000-05:00

News in brief

played party poker for a half hour this morning, won about $12, kinda boring
cat played her account up over $500 last -- she's funny she played till 3 am
finished the survey for lunch box. nice to work with php again, it was seriously rudimentary, not even a database, more like a guestbook-type app, but for the size of their audience, it should work just fine.
i was up till 3 am building the survey for these people who were all freaked out about having it done by 9am today and they haven't even looked at it. typical.
josh and tom are both looking for work, tom's looking to move to portland, josh is heading to nyc. josh got laid off and is loving it, tom is still working and hates. i helped them both with their resumes and neither has gotten much response yet. i must suck! ahahahahahahahaha!
marc's gone solo and now i really don't hear much from him. he likes being busy. i'm happy for him. i know he was feeling unsatisfied and his last job.
i still have to finish my squirrel hunter videos. i have 3 more episodes to go. i need to either shit or get off the pot.
i'm dying to get my office finished. i've decided to use hanging shelves instead of building them.
first i gotta get the electric working up there.

oh yeah, lunch time people!
i'm eating a big ol' ham sandwich from downstairs at the cheesy deli YUM
kinda stupid since i have a huge pile of leftover easter ham at the house.

tonight i'm heading over to my brother-in-law's house to help him get ready for the drywaller to come in and finish up his basement. i've been trying to help out as much as i can, which usually works out to as much as i can remember when he's working.

cool links for today
http://www.sofake.com/
article about my dad's company
funny funny link
http://jesusoftheweek.com/ (thanks josh)

it's about 4:30 and i am at a good breaking point here at gigamoto, i want to bail, but steve hinted that i should be working a full 4 hours -- i've been averaging 35.

i think i'll go kill myself. er, have a cigarette, i mean, yeah...

conshy's fire dept was heading out while i was out there -- freakin LOUD