Hey everybody, I just wanted to give an explanation and apology as to why it is I haven't been on the air lately with Polymatheism. It's been a tough 9 days since I last posted a podcast, and the last two have been the worst. First of all, I started off having trouble getting on air because I couldn't get a guest/co-host. Skyler has apparently been so busy with work and things in his life that we haven't even been able to talk in more than a week. Which is, in itself, pretty unusual for us.
I've also tried talking to some of my other friends, but some have had major hardships in their lives, and others are just plain swamped with their work and personal lives. Which I totally understand. But it makes it hard on me, because I don't want to have a one sided podcast, with just me and only my points of view. I like to have a well-rounded podcast, and I'd like to think that Polymatheism and Polymathy both represent well-roundedness whole-heartedly.
However, due to this difficulty in lining up a guest, I also put off making a podcast so long that I shot myself in the foot. Two days ago, while I started working on changing my computer systems up some, I had two Catastrophic failures almost simultaneously (which is pretty weird if you think about it.) Both my Laptop DVD drive, and a RAM stick in my desktop failed at almost the same time. While I was trying to reinstall the OS on the laptop, I was having trouble getting it to boot from the disc. At about the same time, I was restarting my desktop and it began to hang immediately on the BIOS screen.
This was weird, and I thought it may have been due to one of the DVD's in the disc drives, so I removed them, nope. Then I thought it might be RAM, I swapped out all of my RAM to reseat them, and tried again. No dice. Then, I tried just pulling out a couple of the sticks, then it was able to boot. So I figured out that it was one of those two, it's simple trial and error to get the one right.
Then, after I was done dealing with that, I began to try getting the laptop to boot from USB. So I built a USB boot drive, and loaded it up, and it said that it couldn't find a boot file. But when I'd load the same USB on the desktop, it'd load just fine. So I was starting to get frustrated here, when I figured it out, that the computer must be having some catastrophic failure in components. I realized this further and more evidently when after some more time; upon boot, after the BIOS screen, it would just hang on a flashing cursor.
That's it folks, dunzo as my friends would say. Finito. My laptop is no more, and it was going to be my HacBook Pro. Shit, now I have to buy a real Apple. Oh darn...
Anyway, I'm almost back up and running, and I look forward to bringing you guys my first Solo Full-Length podcast.
Stay tuned, because it will be released today at some point, and it will be immediately available on iTunes, Stitcher and feedburner (feeds.feedburner.com/polymatheism-podcast)
Thanks,
Frank
I've also tried talking to some of my other friends, but some have had major hardships in their lives, and others are just plain swamped with their work and personal lives. Which I totally understand. But it makes it hard on me, because I don't want to have a one sided podcast, with just me and only my points of view. I like to have a well-rounded podcast, and I'd like to think that Polymatheism and Polymathy both represent well-roundedness whole-heartedly.
However, due to this difficulty in lining up a guest, I also put off making a podcast so long that I shot myself in the foot. Two days ago, while I started working on changing my computer systems up some, I had two Catastrophic failures almost simultaneously (which is pretty weird if you think about it.) Both my Laptop DVD drive, and a RAM stick in my desktop failed at almost the same time. While I was trying to reinstall the OS on the laptop, I was having trouble getting it to boot from the disc. At about the same time, I was restarting my desktop and it began to hang immediately on the BIOS screen.
This was weird, and I thought it may have been due to one of the DVD's in the disc drives, so I removed them, nope. Then I thought it might be RAM, I swapped out all of my RAM to reseat them, and tried again. No dice. Then, I tried just pulling out a couple of the sticks, then it was able to boot. So I figured out that it was one of those two, it's simple trial and error to get the one right.
Then, after I was done dealing with that, I began to try getting the laptop to boot from USB. So I built a USB boot drive, and loaded it up, and it said that it couldn't find a boot file. But when I'd load the same USB on the desktop, it'd load just fine. So I was starting to get frustrated here, when I figured it out, that the computer must be having some catastrophic failure in components. I realized this further and more evidently when after some more time; upon boot, after the BIOS screen, it would just hang on a flashing cursor.
That's it folks, dunzo as my friends would say. Finito. My laptop is no more, and it was going to be my HacBook Pro. Shit, now I have to buy a real Apple. Oh darn...
Anyway, I'm almost back up and running, and I look forward to bringing you guys my first Solo Full-Length podcast.
Stay tuned, because it will be released today at some point, and it will be immediately available on iTunes, Stitcher and feedburner (feeds.feedburner.com/polymatheism-podcast)
Thanks,
Frank
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