Rubenerd Show

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 14:22 – Bit of a weirder one today; talking about the time last week when the trolls won! But I got some amazing feedback and some help, so maybe there are lessons here I can pass on. Have you heard of this thing called the block button? I should do that! Thanks again, will be a more normal episode next time. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released February 2025 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive. Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2025-02-21.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 41:19 – A few things today, but mostly a discussion of our beloved Amelia Watson wrapping up her regular English vtuber activities with Hololive, and the adventures of buying our first home! When one thing ends, another thing starts. ♡ Microwave ovens. Custom kitchen delivery. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released October 2024 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive. Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2024-10-03.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 28:16 – Sitting outside on this blustery winter morning talking about Mike Karels, Gordon Bell, Dave Ross, and Jim Kloss, with some trademark digressions and a hot mug of coffee. Recorded early June 2024. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released June 2024 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive. Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2024-06-20.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 20:47 – The Into Your Head show is returning! I also returned to the Exit Ramp for an episode! Join Ruben as he discusses these, along with brewing coffee, a recovered audio clip from 2008, bad accents, and adventures with audio levels. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released October 2023 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive. Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2023-10-05.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 30:40 – Join Ruben on a muggy, cold Sydney evening talking about James from James' Coffee Blog starting his own podcast, why I'm allergic to Melbourne, and meeting my favourite ever vtuber Pavolia Reine from Hololive Indonesia! Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released July 2023 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive. Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2023-07-08.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 25:15 – This episode is dedicated to the memory of Jim Kloss, whom I interviewed on the show in 2016. Jim was one of my dearest friends, a mentor in life, and a wonderful human being. Recorded late one evening wandering around a park in Sydney. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released May 2023 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive. Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2023-05-22.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 21:44 – Join me on a brief wander through Namba Parks, then onto the Osaka Metro to Daikokujo! Talking about being back in Japan, why Clara and I love the Kansai region even more than Tokyo, topping up Suica and ICOCA cards, the growing number of bikes here, and almost walking into someone. *Sumimasen!* Recorded in Osaka, Japan. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released April 2023 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive. Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client. By Ruben Schade in Osaka, 2023-04-18.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 33:53 – We're overseas again for the first time in three years! Recorded at the busy Kudanshita Tokyo Subway station (complete with jingles!), then wandering around near the Imperial Palace one night. It's a bit all over the place, but that was my mental state at the time. Part two coming soon, thanks for listening. Recorded in Tokyo, Japan. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released December 2022 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive. Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client. By Ruben Schade in Tokyo, 2022-12-22.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 28:23 – Hey, I remember when I recorded stuff! Making coffee, talking about the state of the world, some personal notes, putting the kettle on, not being fancy with tea, a letter from strata, and thoughts about travel. I'll be back to doing these regularly again when I feel up to it, thanks for listening :). Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released July 2022 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive. Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2022-07-19.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 21:50 – The risk of ordering clothes online, Simon Whistler, AviationTag memorabilia from the A380 and B757, humans needing physical contact, appreciating technological and medical progress, and giving people permission to have new year resolutions! Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released January 2022 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive. Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2022-01-20.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 36:36 – Join your host as he finally gets around to uploading some festive cheer and other rambling nonsense. Talking about Xmas lights, the programming VCR meme, Travan tapes, health fun, couch potato-ism, coffee chains in Asia, trying a seasonal brew, and the infamous “much more!” Happy new year from us to you ♡. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released December 2021 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive. Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2022-01-01.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 53:50 – Join your host as he enjoys some milder Sydney weather! Talking about monsoons in Singapore and Hong Kong, wanting to live in the latter after it blew me away (metaphorically, not in a monsoon), slim Japanese clothing, water-retaining socks, always feeling the need to be productive, embarrassing nerd magazines on the train, old-school MP3 players, downtime, meditation, a rant about music streaming platforms, and collecting music again. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released September 2021 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive. Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2021-09-24.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 27:47 – Join Ruben as he pours one out for airline pilots, Australia being European in Asia, travelling with Clara, nostalgia for Singapore and working remote from there, The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in Bishan, introverts and Third Places, saying goodbye to a friend, Robin Williams, and mismatched tiles. Warning, I might even get half-serious at certain points this time! Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released September 2021 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive. Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2021-09-19.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 27:47 – Why am I out here under a shelter while there's a storm outside? Talking about the HoloCouncil, why am I out here, missing travel, it's a bit windy out here, where I'd live if I had a spare billion dollars between the proverbial couch cushions, and why am I out here? Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released August 2021 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive. Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2021-08-28.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 32:51 – Join Ruben as he takes an evening lockdown socially-distancing stroll as he discusses UniSA campus nostalgia in Adelaide, adventures with side effects, a freezing family holiday to Germany in the early 2010s, and an extended discussion on the merits and flaws of contemporary electronic microwave oven appliance design affordances (I think Dire Straits did a song about that, though in significantly fewer words. Custom kitchen deliveries, and all that). Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released August 2021 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive. Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2021-08-18.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download 55:49 – In part one, your sophisticated host attempts to make an Aeropress coffee live on air, namedrops his friend, mentions some Minecraft LEGO adventures, and discusses some listener mail from Oskar Sharipov regarding audio recording, OGG files, and independent production. Then we timeskip a week to when your aforementioned host walks around an abandoned Chatswood street late at night to find which coffee shops are open during the Sydney lockdowns. Mmm, coffee. Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade. Released July 2021 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive. Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client. By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2021-07-02.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download14:00 – A discussion about how my fervour for independent writing hasn’t translated into improving podcast imposter syndrome! Also RSS, distribution, how social networks have convinced people to only write for them, and related ruminations. Thanks for your patience while I produced this one :).Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.Released May 2021 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding. Hosted graciously by the Internet Archive.Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client.By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2021-05-12.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download13:57 – Jim Kloss returned to the Whole Wheat Radio airwaves again for a chat! I was not prepared, and even started typing over it towards the end when work pinged me, but I couldn’t let this moment of Internet audio history go unrecorded.Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.Released January 2021 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding.Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client.By Ruben Schade in Sydney, 2021-01-20.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download47:35 – An impromptu discussion on everyone’s favourite comestible beverage conveyance, among several other unrelated topics. Recorded July 2020, only getting around to producing... gulp! Hey, that’s the sound someone drinking from a mug makes.Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.Released August 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding.Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client.This post originally appeared on Rubenerd.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download28:45 – A discussion about feline creatures liking me despite having never owned one… turned into a rant about desktop software quality, remembering Wintel and desktop Java, running OpenZFS on FreeBSD and NetBSD with cgd, BSD on an iBook back in the day, being burned by btrfs, BSDCan comments about home labs now being production, and wandering outside in beautifully-mild winter weather.Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.Released June 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding.Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client.This post originally appeared on Rubenerd.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download25:23 – Not knowing a place till you leave it, the fascinating triangular windows of the old Belle Vue in Singapore, faded knock-off Lego blocks, Albert Einstein’s travels, finding new coffee shops, apothecary tables, government posters, a 1990s-era glass foyer, and a borderline rant on my butterfly Apple keyboard. Recorded early May 2020.Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.Released May 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding.Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client.This post originally appeared on Rubenerd.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download29:37 – Join Ruben for a late-night wander around the abandoned Sydney suburb of Chatswood during these lockdown adventures. Topics include 100 days of COVID-19, stairwall-derived exercise, Australia and New Zealand’s potential new travel bubble, finding coffee shops, spooky silhouettes in the night, a Liverpool FC barber, JoAnne Hook paintings, active voice, saying “you too!” to retail staff, and the uncanny valley as it pertains to… sheep‽ Recorded Monday 4th May 2020.Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.Released May 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding.Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client.This post originally appeared on Rubenerd.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download39:20 – Wandering around a deserted Chatswood late at night, peeking into the empty stores, and watching the regular stream of empty commuter and metro trains roll by. Discussing working from home, trying to reconnect with music, critiquing streaming services, and a rose tinted view of audio tape.Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.Released April 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding.Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client.This post originally appeared on Rubenerd.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download25:32 – What started as a discussion regarding an ugly new concept car turned into pontifications about design, and anti-patterns in cars and websites. If overenginering is to make something intentionally more complicated for no benefit other than to ship product, why are we so compelled to do it? Or did I just answer my own question?Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.Released March 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding.Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client.This post originally appeared on Rubenerd.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download31:52 – Wait, didn’t we only just get Rubenerd Show 405?! Discussing the production of chip-based comestibles, submerged data centres, etymology behind radio buttons, being tired of Boomer and Millennial labels, and when meeting your hero perhaps wasn’t such a good idea.Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.Released March 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding.Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client.This post originally appeared on Rubenerd.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download34:32 – Making a caffeinated beverage LIVE on the show like I used to, remembering Murni’s Warung in Ubud, the joys of envelope budgeting, John Walkenbach from Whole Wheat Radio helping me through his Excel books all these years later, and why it’s still so difficult for people without IT backgrounds to export data from shut down sites.Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.Released March 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding.Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client.This post originally appeared on Rubenerd.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download44:51 – The second Rubenerd Show to be released on the 29th of February, HTTP 404 status codes, a new griddle, SARS, Phua Chu Kang, bushfire update, why you shouldn’t need a reason not to be a dick, and a nostalgic snack review from Singapore. Recorded early Febuary 2020.Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.Released February 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding.Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client.This post originally appeared on Rubenerd.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download52:15 – Forbidden 403 HTML status codes, unhelpful profiling, Australian bushfire updates (looters, conspiracy theories, hot takes), unexpected Adelaide nostalgia and early breakfasts, unintentional philosophical ramblings on the character and motivations of certain people, and an ongoing good natured but otherwise inexplicable retail saga. With thanks to Phil Collins.Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.Released January 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding.Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client.This post originally appeared on Rubenerd.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download24:25 – Thanking people for Australian bushfire feedback, Malcolm Turnbull’d internet, pronouncing abbreviations as acronyms (PPPoE... pehpehpehooee?), the Ricoh GR III camera, finding a stream and an old key in a forest near Cammeray, the plight of inefficient portable air conditioners, wooden shelving, and various challenges when selling incomplete anime figures.Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.Released January 2020 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding.Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client.This post originally appeared on Rubenerd.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download20:56 – I intended this episode to be about something completely different, but now that every state in Australia is on fire, and my dad has evacuated his house, suddenly my other interests and topics seem less pressing. Thanks, and please consider donating to the NSW RFS.Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.Released December 2019 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding.Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client.This post originally appeared on Rubenerd.

Podcast: Play in new window | Download01:06:42 – It’s the four hundredth episode of my sporadic podcast! In lieu of formal celebrations, I discuss the surreal circumstances within which we find ourselves, along with various other ruminations about the holidays, significant figures, keyboard memories, ranting about fires, LPs, and more. Thank you so much for listening to my silly audible emissions, here’s to the next 400. ♡Recorded in Sydney, Australia. Licence for this track: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0. Attribution: Ruben Schade.Released December 2019 on The Overnightscape Underground, an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts; this one notwithstanding.Subscribe with iTunes, Pocket Casts, Overcast or add this feed to your podcast client.This post originally appeared on Rubenerd.