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Atnevon - June.29.2008, 05:34PM -
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Yesterday afternoon we were happy to have Arron from Second Skin as our guest for the Podcast Interview Series at Second Shifters (
http://www.secondshifters.com ).
The interview helped us gain some new insight into the band, and features a brand new track called "Birthday Girl". If you like what you hear, you'll definitely want to pick up their new album when it debuts later this year, called "Illa Exuro In Silentium".
For those that missed out on the experience, you can download a copy of the podcast MP3 at:
http://www.secondshifters.com/interviews/S...n_Interview.mp3To get more details on the band, including videos and a link to their MySpace page, you can visit their artist profile here on our site at:
http://www.secondshifters.com/artist/Secon...n&view=detailedAnd, for more details on our series, head to:
http://www.secondshifters.com/pages/PodcastThanks for tuning in
Posted By:
SanctuaryRTBH - June.29.2008, 11:36AM -
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Any films you like - suggest a clip for me to find
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Atnevon - June.25.2008, 09:23PM -
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This is a thread spurred by one of Sanctuary's rules in her
eat list thread, requesting a list of 100 things to be thankful for. As she said, it's a great way to cheer up, and an exercise I think is well worth the time.
Here's my list of 100. Follow up with your own
1) My Mom
2) My Dad
3) My Sister
4) My extended family
5) Friends
6) Osiris
7) Minichrome
8) Bobette
9) Bob
10) Shelter
11) Food
12) A steady paycheck
13) Being able to work in a field I love
14) Computers
15) The internet
16) The greater good in the world - when it prevails
17) Having lost weight
18) Having extra energy
19) A pain free mouth
20) Not getting sick often
21) Having skin that doesn't burn easily (*hides*)
22) Living in a beatiful town
23) The International Peace Memorial at Put-In-Bay
24) The Moon
25) The sunset (not sure about the sun itself... it's kind of evil)
26) The view across the water
27) Math (Yes, yes, I am a weirdo)
28) Science
29) Multiple religious points of view to help guide and build beliefs from
30) Good writing
31) Good movies
32) Good music
33) Stories that make you think
34) Questions that help you find answers
35) Answers that help you ask deeper questions
36) My childhood
37) An open mind
38) Interesting people to talk to
39) The Mean Kitty Song
40) Happy tears
41) Knowing what it really means to smile
42) Having mysteries still left to uncover
43) Not knowing what the future holds
44) Iowa Basic Tests
45) Knowing that I had to work for what I have
46) The Humane Society
47) The Bill of Rights
48) Stars
49) Silence
50) The night
51) My interest in darker things
52) Knowing I'm not alone
53) People I can identify with
54) People I can admire
55) Pleasant surprises
56) Being able to deal with the unexpected
57) My ability to disconnect in stressful conditions
58) The insight I gained from my first really intense job
59) Being able to overcome my fears and speak in front of people
60) A canoe accident
61) Hope for the future
62) Seeing other people smile
63) Having someone smile because of something I did
64) Flowers
65) Flower Shops near someone special
66) Stones near the water
67) Cat toys
68) Catnip
69) Dogs
70) Pink dog toys
71) Fruit juices
72) Fruits (emphasis on strawberries)
73) Exercise equipment that doesn't break
74) Puzzles
75) Cheap phone service
76) Netflix
77) Heating
78) Air conditioning
77) Gentle breezes
79) Rain storms
80) Making breakfast for someone special
81) Deep sleep
82) A warm heart
83) Days I can wake up without an alarm clock
84) Moments of clarity
85) Lifted stresses
86) Living in this era
87) Bush leaving office soon
88) Finding a real connection with someone
89) Someone that can organize the chaos that I surround myself with
90) Poetry that fits meaning into pieces of my life
91) No longer being a 1 finger typist
92) Spell check
93) Window blinds I can close in the daytime
94) Having more life ahead of me than behind me
95) Cameras to take pictures with
96) Bands that work with us
97) Places I can feel at home in
98) Sharing some of those homes with someone else
99) Legends
100) The warmth that comes with knowing you've found someone truly special.
Posted By:
SanctuaryRTBH - June.22.2008, 02:10PM -
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Breaking these rules may get you eaten, tossed into the pit, beaten with my nerf bat, other or all of them!
Rule #1.
If you are a band - remember kindergarten when we were taught to "colour inside the lines" - well - music is no different - colour inside the lines damn it!!!!! Loud does not equal better!
Get this one down into your heads. Whatever freakin' genius thought that was a good idea to record "loud" and outside the lines - is a total and complete moron.
Failure to do so - gets you sent to my tummy or the pit. I will decide which based on the number of infractions to the rule, who you are and exactly how you plan on making it up to me. (and my ears and my sense of fun.)
Rule #2.
Any sacrilege to my song, in any way - gets you instantly placed in the pit.
There is no negotiation to this rule.
Rule #3.
Meanies. Meanies are instantly placed in the pit.
I will not eat meanies - they taste yucky - however ARK's may save you. ( ARK = Random Acts of Kindness.) A jury of your peers will decide your length of stay in the pit.
More to follow.
Posted By:
Atnevon - June.21.2008, 01:15PM -
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Okay, I'm a helpless addict to my Slashdot RSS feed, I'll admit it. But, when they linked to this article, I thought it was worth posting here as I think it might be worth some discussion.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg1982..._mg19826614.100Now, I do have to give my own little counter theory to this as well: I think that in a lot of cases, when studying things of this nature, you're going to get a lot more of the people with 'dark triad personality traits' that will both more easily admit to having sex where some may not and will often times exaggerate the numbers for the sake of ego.
However, given the broadness of the study and the number of people they used for a test pool, does my counter theory still hold up? What do you think the reality is of the situation, based on your own experiences in life?
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Atnevon - June.20.2008, 09:03PM -
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Coming to you next Saturday, Second Shifters (
http://www.secondshifters.com ) is pleased to be bringing you Second Skin in our chat and interview podcast series.
You'll be hearing new music from their upcoming album, which is due out later this year, and quite a few very interesting details behind the band. Make sure you tune in so you don't miss learning about some special inspirations behind the music that you simply will not want to miss out on.
For more info on Second Skin, you can visit their detailed artist profile on our site at:
http://www.secondshifters.com/artist/Secon...n&view=detailedOr, to get more info on our interview series:
http://www.secondshifters.com/pages/PodcastMore details are coming soon, including chat times, so be sure to stay listening and watching the site for further announcements on the celebration. After all, Sanctuary's tummy has been growling a lot lately, so you don't want to give her an excuse to have you for dinner as punishment for not staying connected
(P.S. For those who may have noticed a small change of pace for this interview: Have no fear; this was a minor one time adjustment that had to be made to best fit with schedules. We will be back in two weeks with another session as usual
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Atnevon - June.12.2008, 10:50PM -
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Earlier today we started working on expanding our presence online a bit, and we delved into the twisted world that is Facebook. Now, why do I say twisted world? Well, here's how Facebook can turn something that should be easy into a quest to escape the depths of hell:
We start our trek in the same stage as you would expect to encounter when you register your site for any social networking service out there - registration. Since there is no longer the requirement of a .edu email address for Facebook, it seemed to me like this would be fairly straight forward. How wrong I was. Here is what we entered for the profile to start with:
Full Name: Second Shifters
Your email: emailly@address.com
New Password: not_telling_you
Birthday: I used 2003 for the birth year, as that was the year the station launched.
Right off the bat, it had issues with the birth year and told me that Second Shifters wasn't qualified to join Facebook because of its age. Okay, not a big deal, we'll just change the birth year and fake it out. Oh, wait... why won't it let me try again? Hmm... let's refresh the page here... What? Why can't I try again? What if I was just someone that made a mistake and put in the wrong year purely by accident?
With that it was time to pull a trick or two out of the geek handbook to clear out the cookies and get a new IP so I could try registering us again. I finally got back to a registration screen, and this time put in 1903 for the year. Did Facebook decide to play nice and let us register this time? Nooooooo, of course not! What did Facebook say then? "Please use a *real* birthday!"
After a few unintelligible disgruntled sounds, another IP change, and another clearning of the browser cookies, I was finally back to another registration screen. This time I went with 1983, and once I hit register, everything looked on track to go through. A call came in on my phone though, so I left the tab for a minute to take care of some work.
And... when I came back to it... it told me that Facebook's AI system had determined that the name 'Second Shifters' wasn't a real name, and it wasn't going to let us register under that name.
Frustration ensued... and after trying and failing miserably with a few variations on 'Second Shifters', I gave up and decided to use my existing Facebook account to just create a group for the station instead of a whole new registration.
So... for those of you that wish to join us on Facebook, our group link is:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=16229437846And please please do join... because... well... this little battle with Facebook's much too intelligent for its own good AI needs to have been worth the effort, or else I may be forced to scream, lol.
Posted By:
SanctuaryRTBH - June.12.2008, 09:45PM -
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It's going to take quite a bit of time still to complete it in full- but we're slowly pulling it all together.
Keep in mind not everything we have on the station is up on the pages for artists - but it is quite the task getting it all together so please be patient with us.
In the meantime if you would like to see other features added for the artists - or even an artist you'd like to hear - feel free to suggest them :-) We're all about you!!
Posted By:
Syana - June.12.2008, 08:01PM -
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Guess who's back....back again.....*does the shifty eye thing*
yeah...life has been hectic...and stuff...and umm...I've been busy....keeping Nip busy...and...my brain is shattered *grins*
So...HAI!!!
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Atnevon - June.9.2008, 11:51PM -
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We were very pleased to be joined Saturday afternoon by Max Arnason
from the band Kooper Kain in our Live Chat and Podcast Interview
Session. The group has held a place on our playlist for quite some time
now, and it was very nice to have some time to get to know them a bit
better in our chat room and on air.
Those that enjoy the music as much as we did can find a link to buy
their latest album, Hydrogen Echo Girl, on iTunes (along with pictures, a bio, and links) at their detailed artist profile on our site:
http://www.secondshifters.com/artist/Koope...n&view=detailedThey are hard at work on their 4th album as well, so be sure to keep an eye out for its release in the not too distant future. It should be well worth picking up.
And now, for those downloads you've been waiting for:
Transcript -
http://www.secondshifters.com/transcripts/..._06-07-2008.txtPodcast -
http://www.secondshifters.com/interviews/K...n_Interview.mp3Sanctuary and I had a great time bringing them to you, and we strongly encourage you to drop them a line if you liked their work as much as we did
