Blind Cold Rage

Hello. Welcome to the day ish for, Tuesday, 02/02/2016. It's minus 11. Feels like minus 17 with the old wind chill. This is not a weather podcast.

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You can use promo code Daily(ish) during checkout to get 10% off your first year of hosting and analytics with FeedPress. My thanks to them for supporting dailyshangoodstuff.fm. Instead of, doing serious podcast prep as you do, as one does for a show as prestigious as this, I was instead just playing with a new audio utility app thing for Mac called Loopback from a company called Rogue Amoeba and, trying to figure out whether and why one might want to buy this, particularly, you know, if you're working audio stuff as I do, podcasting and and, screencasts and streaming audio to the Internet and all that kind of stuff. And I'm still not a 100% sold on it as a thing that I need, and it's it's not cheap. It's like a $75 US right now, which I think it's going up to a $100 US, when it's, you know, after their launch special or whatever.

So 75 US is like a 105 Canadian or 99 US is a 138 Canadian. And, they have a free trial version of it and stuff and you can try it. Try to also put a link in the shots, but, it's not insignificant anyways. It's not a $5, $10 app, obviously. But, basically, what it kinda allows you to do is having your all the different apps that you might be running, a game, some a YouTube video that could be playing in Safari, What else?

Skype. Sending audio to someone on Skype maybe and trying to figure out how to get all those things together. In in the old days of analog audio stuff, you just like hook cables and adapters and wire things the way you wanted them to go. And this is kinda like that except for your computer. So inside there, you can pretend like there's a bunch of audio cables you're disconnecting and reconnecting, just to get audio to go where you want it to go.

It's kind of the idea of how it would work. And so for folks who do things like what I do with podcasts and with screencast recording yourself playing video games and, you know, or whatever those kinds of things, it can be a really handy app. So they have that, and then they have another one called Audio Hijack that is, also does sort of similar stuff, but it's more of like a recording app, and it's actually cheaper. So I just kinda I I was trying to figure out why you'd want one versus the other, and I still don't quite know. But, anyways, that's what I was doing instead of preparing for this podcast.

And then finally, I just have to record it because otherwise, it's gonna be like supposed to be the first thing I do in the morning, and then by the time it's I actually get around to recording and answering after answering emails and catching up on Twitter and and client work and whatever stuff I'm supposed to be doing, I get distracted and forget to actually just record the podcast. And so what I had I was I was walking my kids to school this morning as I sometimes do. Sue and I kinda take turns sort of depending on the morning and what's up, taking kids to school and and things like that. But, man, it's it isn't really that cold. Like my body should be used to it.

You know, minus 17, if you're not used to that, it's very cold. But I think just the the the residue in my brain of remembering where I was a week ago at this time made me really frustrated, unreasonably frustrated walking through the snow, and and there's, like, ice on the sidewalk in a lot of places and and then the light covering of snow. It's really slippery and just feeling cold and just cold all the time. The basement office is cold because my stupid heater is broken. And, and so, just feeling cold all the time.

And I was, like, under my breath. I wasn't like, my kids weren't hearing it. But, but just, like, swearing and angry and mad at at winter and coming up with a big rant for maybe for the podcast or whatever, just bleep every second word or whatever of swearing at the snow and the cold and why the heck am I living here kind of feeling. And then on the way back, you know, you kind of, no pun intended, cool down a bit and, and see the fun that, our our three year old is having riding in a sled as I'm pulling her back to her house and and things like that. And and, you know, and realizing that, you know, my eight year old, five year old, three year old are all loving being outside and playing in the snow.

I I I can probably suck it up and, get over it. But, still, was just realizing how much, I I think I'm a warm climate type person. I just I I can handle nine days out of ten, I guess. I would choose warm climate over cold. I like the cold in in terms of, like, visiting a place that's cold, having the wood burning stove, you know, shoveling out from a deep storm and stuff.

That's fun for a weekend or a week or whatever. But, yeah, the other fifty one weeks of the year, I would I would choose warm climate over cold. Cold just kinda makes you feel like I associate, you know, kinda achy and chills with being sick. And so I just it just kind of always has this edge of, like, sickness. It feels like I don't know.

When we were in warm climate, like in Mexico, you kind of you feel, different kinds of, you know, things. Obviously, you could hot sweats from a fever or something, I guess, or something could happen, and maybe that's what I would associate with all the time there. And certainly, summer in Mexico, from what we hear Mazatlan, especially, I'm sure elsewhere, obviously, but summers are insanely hot, like 40 degrees Celsius kinda hot for days on end and air conditioners breaking all over the place because you can't keep up and things like that. So that I'm sure would not be fun. But, at any rate, I'm, I'm just saying all this to confess my, snow winter rage, cold rage, but that I've calmed down.

And so you won't get to hear the full effect of that cold rage. Alright. Well, time to go get, some more work done. Thanks for listening. Visit goodstuff.fm/dailyish to, see the links to this episode of the if they're not in your podcast player of choice.

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