Comments on: Dragon Page Wingin’ It #20: Things Geeks Love

By: Therunningwolves

Therunningwolves — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 15:19:37 +0000

When does Michael get his own cult? I think he should read more!

It’s too bad that the past show CDs will take so long!

By: Jack Mangan

Jack Mangan — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 05:05:03 +0000

What can I say. . . I’m half-Vulcan. I’ll try to contact Stephen Wright to do the reading for the Duel of the Fates finals.

By: Sevens

Sevens — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 04:17:50 +0000

I agree….Mike, you have a great radio voice, but has anyone ever told you that your luagh sometimes sounds like Scooby Doo? :p

By: Snipes

Snipes — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:43:54 +0000

I like Mike’s voice. Jack Mangan’s voice though… I can’t even listen to Duel of the Fates… Get some emotions man!

By: Joe Murphy

Joe Murphy — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 01:50:01 +0000

It’s explicit for ninjas to kick mystic ass?

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:28:12 +0000

Glad you’re enjoying DotF, Evo!

Now the Kick Mystic Ass Ninjas podcast – that would need to be labeled ‘EXPLICIT’.

By: Evo

Evo — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:59:21 +0000

It has been alleged that iTunes was removing feeds which did not label “explicit” when they were dealing with “adult” topics. And since I’ve said “shit” more than one time on the show, I figured the safest bet is to stick it with “explicit”.

Don’t get me started on this whole lable thing, as I tend to have a different opinion than most. I’m of the mind that… nope. I said I’m not getting into this.

By: Sevens

Sevens — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:45:27 +0000

hmmm, I don’t think I have ever heard Mike or Evo drop an F-bomb…oh well, whatever

By: Magess

Magess — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:34:06 +0000

You know, I don’t know why, but now the website doesn’t even reload after I’ve posted a comment. It appears to just time out and give up, leaving the comment page exactly like it was before I hit Post. Apparently the data goes through, though. I dunno if that’s better or worse than the error it was giving before that caused folks to post 4 times.

By: Magess

Magess — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:23:00 +0000

It’s because they might curse. I think for the other shows they decidedly don’t curse, but Wingin’ It is more… laid back. F-bombs may apply.

Michael: I usually don’t use bt just because it’s a hassle. Finding the .torrent to find the seeds to find the file to find the.. feh. There are easier ways.

By: Scott Hunter

Scott Hunter — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:18:05 +0000

Re: BitTorrent. As I understand it, the rate at which you can download data is directly related to the rate at which you are uploading data, so that the more that the system can use you as a server the better performance you get as a client (so as to encourage more machines to act as servers).

By: Sevens

Sevens — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:45:27 +0000

I’ve got a question…on iTunes, Wingin It is described as “Explicit” and has a warning label….ummm, why? Wingin It isn’t explicit, is it? I’ve never thought it was…

By: Sevens

Sevens — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 15:35:26 +0000

I’ve got a question…on iTunes, Wingin It is described as “Explicit” and has a warning label….ummm, why? Wingin It isn’t explicit, is it? I’ve never thought it was…

By: J.R. Murdock

J.R. Murdock — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:27:33 +0000

NO NO NO! you’ve got it all wrong! FORCE MIKE TO READ! He should read everything! I can’t tell you how many laughs I get from hearing him mess stuff up every time he reads. I think he should read more. Give him difficult ones, give him easy ones, we’re always assured of a great mispronunciation or garbled word.

In fact, I say you start giving him some tongue twisters to read. That’ll be good for a ton of tongue twisting titters.

By: Michael Mennenga

Michael Mennenga — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:01:08 +0000

I used BT once and never bothered with it again. Even if the process worked the way it is suppose to, the negative connotations from all the illegal content gives me enough pause to look for better ways to get content.

By: Magess

Magess — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 02:41:01 +0000

bittorrent is only useful if you a) want a popular file, b) have everything port forwarded properly, and c) really don’t have any other way to get the file you’re looking for.

In my experience, there’s no reason to use p2p if you have a direct download option available. It probably won’t be faster. Podcasts via p2p? Why? I mean, I understand why YOU would want it, but if I can still get the files from your site directly, there’s no reason for me to find a secondary route. What would be interesting, perhaps, is a podcast aggregator that was also a podcast p2p. It could get parts from any of the sources, including the direct download source and spread out the work.