X-Collegiates

Fixed

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Vieira, John Connolly, Andrew Stine) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:10:00 -0500

Huzza! I've figured out a workaround to the problems that were making it impossible to play the podcast in-browser. The next one has been recorded, (of course) and should be up sometime tomorrow.

How to Censor the Internet

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Vieira, John Connolly, Andrew Stine) — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:12:00 -0500

Heres the latest:

On Foreign Tongues and other Hate Crimes

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Vieira, John Connolly, Andrew Stine) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:33:00 -0500

Finally, the ~~third~~ second Episode after a long wait and many technical hurdles is here. It's not as fun as previous ones, but the voices are still in order and it should be less confusing, which is always a plus. As usual, the minutes will be posted at a later date.

Enjoy.

New Episode On The Way

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Vieira, John Connolly, Andrew Stine) — Sun, 9 Nov 2008 12:35:00 -0500

Sorry for the delay, to anybody who might still frequent this project. After the initial software fiasco from episode 1, we decided to find something more suitable for recording purposes. Having found it, we've now got the recording set and should have an update within the week.

Episode 1

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Vieira, John Connolly, Andrew Stine) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:32:00 -0400

After long delay, here is our first full episode:

You will notice that Sean's voice is out of sync through large segments of the recording. We apologize for this, but they were due to technical difficulties with some of our recording software and we don't have the time to painstakingly remove them. (It's been long enough already.) Armed with the knowledge that we have now, however, we should be able to avoid this kind of problem in the future.

Enjoy.

Part I: Fluff and Chatter

0:00 - Intro & Preview

1:40 - XCollegiates on recording software, "Pamela"

2:30 - Awful domain names?

3:30 - Freudian websites, like www.com

5:40 - Marlonbrandolookalikes.com

6:30 - Sean's recording lag becomes painfully apparent

7:00 - Moving toward a topic for the day.

8:00 - Sidetracked by www.quantz.com and alternate movie titles.

11:00 - Cheetos Cheetah.

12:30 - Back to the topic at hand (laying blame).

14:30 - Philosophy is suggested.

Part II: Onto the "meat" of the conversation.

15:00 - Philosophy is all words, all semantics?

18:00 - Is Philosophy set against the practical?

20:00 - John argues that Philosophy thinks itself too important.

24:00 - Sean argues against pragmatism in John's argument (with lag, of course).

27:00 - Talking about knowledge.

29:00 - Truth and worthiness, (some garbled microphones).

Websites referenced in this show:

http://www.paradoxplaza.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=395&Itemid=228

http://images.forbes.com/media/2005/12/brands_7.jpg

htp://www.justice.com

http://www.com

http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF103-Nice_Shirt.gif

http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html

http://www.qwantz.com/archive/001127.html

We're going to be a little late...

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Vieira, John Connolly, Andrew Stine) — Sun, 7 Sep 2008 23:08:00 -0400

...Not that we have any deadlines of any sort

It seems that the recording software that Sean chose to record this failed abysmally. We have a hell of an editing job fixing it. Hopefully we can avoid put it up all fugly. No guarantees however. It'll get better over time, we promise.

First Episode Done

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Vieira, John Connolly, Andrew Stine) — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:52:00 -0400

The first episode is done, and we talked about pragmatism in philosophy. It should be up when it's cut by Sean and Andrew. Just thought you readers (and listeners) might want to know. Keep up the bated breath!

Next Episode

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Vieira, John Connolly, Andrew Stine) — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:10:00 -0400

Okay, time for some real planning now. When is our next recording session? And who will "chair" the session, for lack of a better term? I've got a couple of ideas, but nothing spectacular. We really need someone like Matt Rose to loosen things up. To talk about things like the ninja/pirates debate, the awesomeness of 1980's over the 1990's, and the intellectual prowess of Calvin and Hobbes.

I think I'll have to acquire some alcohol before recording he next session, too. At this point, booze can't but help.

I vote for Andrew as our "poke the sleeping bear with a stick" type person for the next episode. All in favor, say 'aye!'

And the Launch.

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Vieira, John Connolly, Andrew Stine) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 22:07:00 -0400

Here is the much anticipated 'pilot' for everyone's enjoyment. Hopefully this time next week we will have a full show for everyone. In the meantime:

Pilot

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Vieira, John Connolly, Andrew Stine) — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:47:00 -0400

Seeing as our pilot venture was a horribly elongated and uninteresting block of pontification, we've decided to forgo it's publication. This is not a problem as we will shortly record another with the aforementioned defect removed. (ie. we won't sound as much like assholes.)

That said, using the magic of sound-bytes taken out of context, we did go ahead and remix the pilot into something far more interesting, which should make it's appearance here shortly. Check back this evening.

Suggestions?

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Vieira, John Connolly, Andrew Stine) — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:43:00 -0400

So the first podcast is recorded. But we're going to have to keep things lighter later on. We need more spontaneity, more freewheeling. Maybe a way to achieve this is by appointing one of the three of us to dictate the topics of the podcast and the other two come in cold? Also, we should stay away from anything too mainstream, I think. Get odd news stories, or delve into little-known philosophies.

What do we think? Discuss.

An emerging threat

noreply@blogger.com (Sean Vieira, John Connolly, Andrew Stine) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:07:00 -0400

We just recorded our first podcast. It will probably be posted sometime next week. In other news, blogger has marked us as a spam site. We are working on getting this mix-up resolved. More later.