Scott Sigler’s Ancestor on Amazon

Ancestor, the newest book from Scott Sigler, is available now at Amazon.com. Go get it!

Podcasts with an Old School Feel

Yes, I’ve been known to go trawling on the podcast waves, looking for other scifi and fantasy related podcasts, and podcasts about old shows. Since I’m doing one for Babylon 5, I like to see what other older shows people out there are geeking about.

Here are some of the better ones that I’ve found:
Xena Cast (iTunes URL)
Adventures in the Sin Trade, about Xena: Warrior Princess (iTunes URL)
Undead America: Adventures in the Buffy Verse (iTunes URL)

I kinda wish I could find one about older British SF and Fantasy. Even if you don’t count Doctor Who (since there are already a dozen podcasts out there on the subject), there’s still much to choose from: The Prisoner, Sapphire and Steel, The Tomorrow People, Robin of Sherwood, and I’m sure there are many I’m missing.

Do you guys consider “The Avengers” with Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg to be SF/F or not?

Another Ninja guest spot

Yet another sighting.

Into the Dark, a podcast brought to us by H. R. Tucker and the Computer King, features Summer in the latest episode.

A discussion of Santa’s “inherent evil”, and a Computer King Arena smackdown with Summer Ninja vs The Reigning Shogun of Taiwan. Also, there were FarPoint Media casualties in his previous episode, Mur vs Michael.

Sit, Drink, then Fight.

Ninjas in Other Podcasts

Sheesh… I can’t believe I forgot to post this here.

Right after Thanksgiving, I chatted with The Lipstick Aliens, Show #13. They even stumped me with some trivia questions.

Check ‘em out!

Feedback Poll 1

First, I know that between June and September, our schedule wasn’t the most consistent it could have been. I’m hoping to fix that a little bit.

Based on our combined increase in workload, we’re going to change things up a little bit. Instead of Ninjas every other week (or as close to it as I can get), I’m going to change the show to twice monthly, on the 15th and 30th of the month.

That said, are there any changes in topic selection that you, the fans and listeners, might be interested in, or are we still good with those?

Personally, I like the 10 years thing… that gives a movie time to fall out of memory, or in some rare cases, a book time to fall back IN to print. The best time to be rediscovered.

Ninja go Boing

Dave Moldawer’s own podcast, The Morning Brew, has been subjected to the BoingBoing.

Yay Dave!

Go check it out, and go listen to the podcast as well.

iTunes links

Some people might have had a few issues last week with the iTunes subscription to KAMN. The store folks were fixing a slight problem that prevented KAMN from being added to the FarPoint Media store page. I was told that the link would be changed, but the iTunes ID seems to be the same.

If anyone is still having problems, here’s the iTunes link to use.

And yes, there really is an artist’s page out there where you can see much of what Farpoint Media has to offer on one big, bold page.

Knights of Arcadia

This week’s episode of Galacticast is just too good to pass up.

Ninjas have been Nominated

Wow.

“The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas” podcast has been nominated for a Parsec Award in the “Best Fan Podcast” category.

Sweet!

Now we just have to figure out which episode to submit for consideration…

update: Apparently, for the Fan Podcast category, we have to submit a clip that contains 5-minute segments from 3 different shows, so now I get to pick three shows and edit 5 minutes from each of them into a single file.

I’m open to taking suggestions on which 5 minute chunks to pull from the “Blue Thunder / Airwolf”, “Knight Rider” and “Dune” shows.

Link: Short List for Parsecs Announced!

Show #15 Delayed

Once again, technical difficulties have arisen to bite us, or rather me, in the ass.

Audacity sucks for use on a Mac, is all I can conclude. It works just fine when I record at 22050, but since many newer devices want 44100 I went to 44100, and I have yet to be able to record successfully at that rate.

You’d think it wouldn’t make a difference with enough RAM and free disk space, but so far, I haven’t been able to save anything over 30 minutes long in Audacity at the higher rate.

So, half of this week’s conversation about More Than Human (specifically, my half) is lost forever. We will either re-record the show, or I’ll figure out a way to make it a coherent discussion between just David and Joe.

In the mean time, I’m going to immerse myself in Garage Band to try to figure it out, and gleefully rip the piece of trash named Audacity off of my hard drives.

KAMN Recording Schedule

You all asked for it, and it’s being worked on.

I’m going to be putting up a calendar for Ninjas shows almost exactly like the Slice of SciFi calendar. It’s going to have our recording schedule (which is normally every other week), and it’ll have a breakdown of what topics we’ll be talking about when.

This will give everyone time to know what we’ll be talking about, and to go pick up said book or DVD beforehand. Hopefully, this will get us a lot more suggestions and questions in the Pre-show Discussion threads.

I will have to upgrade the version of WordPress that’s running on the website first, so don’t be alarmed if when you stop by later today things are out of order or just plain not working at all for a few minutes. Hopefully, it’ll just be flipped over, and no one will even notice… because that’s what ninjas do.

Show #12 Delayed

Sorry about this guys, but Show #12 about Logan’s Run will be delayed a few days due to unforeseen suckage, er, technical difficulties.

Meanwhile, may I direct your attention over here to this display of bright, shiny objects?

Feed updates

I’ve done a little housecleaning and updating, mostly just moving the MP3’s of the shows to a different LibSyn location.

While it shouldn’t affect anyone’s feeds, you might see new downloads for the existing shows.

As always, if anyone has any problems with it, let me know.

We have Links!

Looks like the awesome SFFAudio.com site mentioned the KAMN podcast back in November, and I’m only just now finding out.

I really have to check incoming links more often.

Shhhh….

One step closer to a podcast: we have a theme song.

I can’t tell y’all yet, because that would all sorts of spoil the surprise.