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Why I would rather vote for Tina Fey...

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on October 5, 2008 at 5:54pm

yawn...paranoid theory 10000001 (pardon the colorful language)

up late.

can't sleep.

lovely.

so, i started listening to adam curry...yes that adam curry, a short while ago and i was totally surprised by what this former veejay was talking about. he's very much geopolitical in an x-files sort of way and while i feel like he reaches at some things, it's not as much as you might think...at least in my opinion. frightening, i know. i never thought i was a nut-job but apparently when i wasn't looking, i've gone completely over the conspiracy edge.

it just ma… Continue

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on August 15, 2008 at 2:32am

blast from the past

so it looks like the summer of 2008 is the summer that everyone from my past shows up.

ok, not everyone but a bunch of people i knew way back when in high school seem to have found me on the interwebs. mind you it's not that hard since i'm an internet whore to be perfectly honest but still. ex-girlfriends, old acquainted stranger and photos of this kid that i kind of look like but really have no memory of all started to show up online. weird.

and boy do i feel old. all these people i knew back… Continue

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on August 12, 2008 at 6:30pm — 1 Comment

what's up kids?

been a while, i know.

sorry about that. i've just been really tired with the whole two jobs thing and new product launches and tax free weekends at the fruit stand.

that being said...i've still been kind of busy.

decided to give OTPC a rest or a few weeks and have been releasing podcasts of my tunes. to the best of my knowledge there's one more left unless i can find something else to put up.

i still have to edit my interview with mike bennett which was great by the way.

i also managed to g… Continue

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on August 10, 2008 at 10:08pm

This is just me bitching...be warned

(and no, i didn't reread it before i posted it so if there's a bunch of errors, which i'm sure there are...i'm sorry)

So I’m really beginning to question my theory of cosmic justice. You know the one where everybody gets what they deserve in the end and that there is some level of fairness in the world. I’ve come to believe as of late that the whole concept is total bullshit. It’s not just the big things either. You go to work, make a pot of coffee and before you can get any it’s gone…and n… Continue

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on July 29, 2008 at 9:29am — 1 Comment

fruity phone 2.0

so the whole fruity phone 2.0 software update that came out today kicks ass!

if you have one of said phones of the eye, go get it. there are tons of free apps in the application store place in the tunes of the eye store of the music.

lots of really fun stuff that seems like it will still be functional after the fun wears off.

nicely done sirs...except for the part where i deleted my contacts, but that was totally my fault. (do the backup like it says).

once i get that fruity site of the me o… Continue

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on July 11, 2008 at 12:13am

some days there is nothing to do but suck the balls life puts in front of you

its amazing how things can start good then continue to slide down the slippery poop shoot until you're sitting there looking at a huge pair of balls hurtling towards your face. case in point:

wake up (first mistake)

go to job 1.0 (need i say it?)

things go ok

realize you forgot towel for gym

go home for lunch, so as to not spend money and possibly get towel

make pretty good mango smoothie

break blender making pretty good mango smoothie

go back to work

realize you forgot towel again

be… Continue

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on July 9, 2008 at 10:00pm

Hey, remember me?

so it's been a while...ok, more than a while really but still.

anyway, i'm in the process of copying pix from my camera to this computer and running off to 9hrs @ job 2.0 on a sunday and because i'm easily distracted i thought i'd write a blog post too. i would not call this multitasking so much as it being scatterbrained.

our friends tom and yvonne got married last night and it was great. very cool thing. outside. at home. very very sweet and it couldn't happen to two better people. they trul… Continue

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on June 29, 2008 at 9:32am

The Tribe Is One for the month of June

So this month I moved www.thetribeisone.org to fellow tribe member Cactus Nic's JOGLE for The Alzheimer's Society site.

The original site URL is http://jogleforalzheimers.blogspot.com/

If you don't know what Nic is up to, here's a quote from the blogspot page:

"Starting 20th June 2008 Dave and Nick, two psychiatric nurses and corrupt manager Steve aim to cycle John O'Groats to Lands End, unsupported in 9 Days. They will be joined by Dr Steve for most of Scotland. The reason for this madness i… Continue

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on June 5, 2008 at 3:44pm

THE WORST WEEK EVER...

...yeah, this isn't that blog post, but it's coming. i just wanted to drop in and say hey. i did have the worst week ever, but had job 2.0 today and the inlaws moved to town today so just left them. i'm kind of shot. it's coming though, i promise.

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on May 31, 2008 at 9:56pm

Pear, reps & coincidences with a guy from home..

So you know that game where you try to link people to Kevin Bacon in six steps? Did you ever play it for other people? Yeah me too, I do it all the time. Well last night I got a whole lot closer step-wise to someone I totally dig. Weird thing was I met this guy in the context of his job and realized who he was almost at once, much to the disbelief of pretty much everyone. Turns out he was, in fact, who I though he was and he came to show the good folks at Pear the cool stuff his company does.

T… Continue

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on May 26, 2008 at 11:26am

Cool-aid and the Democrats

I've totally swallowed the "Pear" flavored Cool-aid. I talked with the wife tonight over dinner and my though was that I really could have gone either way. She on the other hand knew I'd end up on which ever side of the force I've ended up on. I'm such a fanboy, but in a good way...really, I swear.

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We also talked about US politics and who should be on the ticket assuming that Obama, or Hilary for that matter, gets the nomination. Gina had said that she wouldn't be amazed to see a shared… Continue

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on May 25, 2008 at 1:03am

Stupidly Cool Interview!

So I have one one of the most stupidly cool interviews lined up for this Monday. It will be on Onthepodcast, maybe even in this weeks episode if I decide to wait that long. It should be amazingly cool provided Skype holds up for me this time :)

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on May 24, 2008 at 8:46am

How and why I play the promos I play on Onthepodcast.

You know, it occurs to me that I play a LOT of promos on Onthepodcast and that from the viewpoint of the listener it may seem that I’m just playing anything. I wanted to be sure that I let you all know that this is not the case.

There are only two reasons I’ll play a promo on Onthepodcast.

1 – If I actually listen to, or have listened to, the podcast in question.

2 – If I’m familiar with the author/creator of the podcast, know their previous work and have every intention of listening to it in… Continue

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on May 23, 2008 at 9:37am

H2's, Road Trips & New Music

Hey kids,

Had a pretty awesome, any yet tiring weekend. Gina and I went up to Raleigh on Saturday to check out the panel that Mur Lafferty and PG Holyfield were on and it was great. There's video coming and I actually recorded the whole thing so will be putting it out this week in the OTPC feed.

That's the other part; I picked up a Zoom H2, the "Handy Recorder". Awesome! I used it Saturday and the signal was strong and clean. I just need to boost the levels a bit and it's ready to go.

I got t… Continue

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on May 19, 2008 at 8:46am

CHIP INTO HELP OUT A FELLOW MEMBER OF THE "TRIBE" Recently C.A. Sizemore's wife Kelly passed away.…

CHIP INTO HELP OUT A FELLOW MEMBER OF THE "TRIBE"

Recently C.A. Sizemore's wife Kelly passed away.

The Tribe is coming together to do something

nice for him in remembrance of Kelly.

Please donate what you can.

… Continue

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on May 12, 2008 at 1:45pm

voting and stuff...

I registered as an independent when I moved to NC so I can't vote today. Still it looks like it will be an interesting day politically in NC.

One of my favorite authors, and I’m not just saying that because he joined acquainted strangers, Mike Bennett has revamped his web site over at http://www.mikebennettpodcast and it came out pretty sweet. Go check it out, sign up, post.

I have yet to do a new episode of Onthepodcast this week. Other than just be… Continue

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on May 6, 2008 at 8:30am

birthday

bleec...i'm old.

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on May 5, 2008 at 8:20am

More Pear Please...and other news

More Pear Please…

So I’m beginning to think that working for Pear is changing me to a certain extent. Now without trying to sound like I’ve swallowed the Kool-Aid too much, after I work there I’m much nicer to people than after my day job…which is odd since you would think that working with the public would have the opposite effect on a person. The people I work with at Pear like their jobs and it shows as opposed to the day job where just driving into the parking lot seems to suck the w… Continue

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on May 2, 2008 at 10:00am

in other, non-hole related news...

...i managed to finish up work on my little joint project for jc hutchins' obsidian project. between kimi from talechasing.com and myself we managed to write a six minute piece and we conned the podcast junky, zen and ivy into playing along as voice actors. i think i came out pretty well, but we'll have to wait and see what mr. hutchins things.

my story so far that i recorded for chasing the bard went live in episode 5 of her podcast. so that adds another piece of audio to my growing list that… Continue

Posted by Joe Mieczkowski on April 29, 2008 at 12:27pm

The Latest from Onthepod.net

The Future....

So you may have noticed that we've been kind of "off line" in the recent, and not so recent, past. Add to that the demise-ish-ness of the Onthepodcast host site over at Podango and things got a bit more complicated. Fear not though...I'm cooking something up that will a little more loose and hopefully a lot more fun. I'll have more info up soon.

Thanks for keeping coming back!

Joe

Hey!

So, it's been a while. You may have noticed that the Onthepod/Onthepodcast Summer Vacation has been a bit longer than anticipated. Sorry about that. The last few months here at OTP have been rather interesting and have included a layoff, a job switch and a move to a new home base. Well we just finished the moving stuff out part yesterday and once I get things up and running here, there will be some new content popping up Onthepod. I have a couple of musicians lined up to come Onthepodcast and am toying with the idea of a new format, so we'll see what happens.

Talk to you soon...

Joe

Onthepodcast: Summer Vacation - Episode 1

Welcome to the first episode of Onthepodcast's Summer Vacation. This show contains my album, The Sogno Suite, in it's entirety. I wrote it as a soundtrack for a fashion show a few years back. Hope you like it.

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Onthepodcast: Episode 026 - JC Hutchins (pt. 3) and TWiG

Onthepodcast: Episode 026 - JC Hutchins (pt. 3) and TWiG

Intro to Onthepodcast: Episode 026

JC Hutchins' 7th Son: Obsidian Promo
http://jchutchins.net/site/category/obsidian/
http://www.jchutchins.net

The Onthepodcast JC Hutchins Interview - Part 3
http://jchutchins.net/site/category/obsidian/
http://www.jchutchins.net

Philippa Ballantine & Tee Morris' Double Trouble Promo:

Philippa Ballantine's Digital Magic
http://www.chasingthebard.com/
http://www.pjballantine.net/

Tee Morris' Billibub Baddings and The Case of the Pitcher's Pendant
http://www.teemorris.com/
http://www.teemorris.com/billipodcast/

http://dragonmoonpress.com/

TWiG and his song 7th Son Project - Alpha
http://www.ilike.com/artist/TWiG+%28the+original%29
http://apps.facebook.com/ilike/artist/TWiG+(the+original)

Mur Laffety's The Takeover Promo
http://www.zombinc.net/

End of Onthepodcast: Episode 025

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Onthepodcast: Episode 025 - JC Hutchins (pt. 2)

Onthepodcast: Episode 025 - The JC Hutchins Interview (Part 2)

Intro to Onthepodcast: Episode 025

The Onthepodcast JC Hutchins Interview (Part 2)
http://jchutchins.net/site/category/obsidian/
http://www.jchutchins.net

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