N3RDCast, Take Two – Justin “Kaigon” Parks
Posted by Kwip on December 26th, 2005 2 Comments 
I apologize for the delay in today’s post. Something was screwy with the server all day today. Hopefully it’s all straightened out, and now you can enjoy this in all it’s audio goodness.
For today’s N3RDCast, I interviewed Justin “Kaigon” Parks, who some of you might have possibly heard of…
Yes, he’s obviously a friend, but the interview format is the way I’ve decided to go with the N3RDCasts. I’m not famous in the MOG world, not a shaker nor a mover (unless you’re talking about when I fall down…), but I DO know a lot of people – really interesting people – in the MOG world. And most of them are really fun to talk to, and (hopefully) I can share some of the pleasure I get talking to these people with you. And if we happen to talk about a current or future MOG they’re working on – hey, all the better!
They’re not all going to be cartoonist friends of mine, of course. Kaigon made a good ‘test subject’ because: A) He’s a funny guy, and I love his comic (as you should too, suckah!), and B) he knows what an idiot I am so he’s more than willing to put up with my struggles as I attempt to figure out how to work that there computery thingy.
It was neat, too, just to be able to talk to him about his work. I really do love his comics and just the way he can draw. There’s tons more I could’ve bugged him to explain, but I’ll save that for another day when I offend a future guest and they cancel at the last minute…
I’m also fiddling with the file sampling to get it down to a MUCH smaller size (which you’ll notice with this one). I’ll take 9 megs over 29 megs any day, thanks.
I’ve also got an intro & outro ‘soundtrack’ for us. I’m not sure if I’m going to stick with that – it was made by my little brother, and he gave it to me for free, so I certainly can’t complain! But I think I’m going to pick one of his royalty-free tunes and actually PAY for one. I’d like to have a CUSTOM theme song (a la Blank Label Podcast – which is THE best podcast you can hear on the web, in my opinion).
I’m still considering hosting options. I don’t know how our sever’s going to hold up with a lot of large files being downloaded, but I’ll see how it looks, and I’m still sniffing around for other hosting hoptions.
So there you have it. Take a listen, let me know what you think. I am, of course, open to suggestions about who you’d like to hear me interview. I have a number of developers lined up to interview, but I’m always on the lookout for more cool froods to sass.
Oh – and in case you failed to notice, the archives are stocked. The archive page doesn’t work for shit, though. I’m still working on that, but you can page (and page and page and page) back through the calendar navigation to get all the way back to 2000 (dear Gord, can you believe I’ve been writing that long? Sheesh!). If you happen to know of a GOOD archive (and I’m talking one that’s all purty-like, like the one at PvP) that works with WordPress, I swear to Gord I will… I don’t know, send you some Lancaster Beef Jerky or something.
December 27th, 2005 at 9:28 am
Yay Kaigon!!!!!! You rock, Dude!!
December 29th, 2005 at 11:59 am
Good job, the volume level was much better this time!