Geek Out! with Mainframe

The Parsec Award finalists have been posted at www.parsecawards.com/2011-parsec-awards/finalists/

I am honored for the "Geek Out! with Mainframe" podcast to be a Parsec Award finalist in the category of Best Speculative Fiction Fan or News Podcast (General). Sincere congrats to the other finalists! You folks put out some truly excellent content.

Big thanks to the Parsec Committee for listening to a LOT of audio submissions. :)

To the honorable judges for the Parsecs this year, I apologize in advance ... (at least my guests are awesome) ;)

To the other podcast finalists in my category, don't worry about my little podcast ... it's the rest of the field you have to worry about.

To my guests, thanks ever so much for being on the show. :) ... I wish I could have included a clip from all of you in my submission.

Finally to my listeners, you are what the show is about, I hope you are enjoying the ride. :)

I'm looking forward to going to DragonCon and talking to some of the great podcasters there :)

You guys rock!

Download: GOWM_027.mp3

Episode 27 is the second half of my interview with Odin1Eye. Odin is the blogger and podcaster of "View From Valhalla" - the place to go for the best reviews of podcast novels. If you want to know what Odin listens to besides the podiobooks he's already reviewed, you'll want to catch this episode.

And what does Podiobooks.com need more of? Listen to find out! (Even Evo Terra agrees in a recent interview on PodioRacket #50). So when you write one of those and put it up on Podiobooks, let Odin and I know ... We WILL listen.

If you missed part 1 of the interview, you can find it here.

You can find all things Odin1Eye at:
Web site - www.viewfromvalhalla.com/
Twitter - @Odin1Eye
Email - odin1eye@viewfromvalhalla.com
Voice mail - 956-307-ODIN (6346)
Every Photo Tells stories - everyphototells.com/tag/odin1eye/

Mentioned:
Mac Geek Gab - itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mac-observers-mac-geek/id73330785
International Spy Museum - www.spymuseum.org/
SpyCast - www.spymuseum.org/spycast
Wander Radio - www.wanderradio.com/
PodioMedia Chat - www.podiomediachat.com/
Podcast Teardown - johnmierau.wordpress.com/category/podcast-teardown/
Enemy Lines - johnmierau.wordpress.com/enemy-lines/
The Starter - www.scottsigler.com/gfl & podiobooks.com/title/the-starter
Title Fight - www.scottsigler.com/titlefight
Qua-ack-ack-ack-ack - everyphototells.com/2011/01/episode-29-qu-ack-ack-ack-ack/
Galaxy Billies - www.michellplested.com/galaxybillies/
Michael Plested - www.michellplested.com/
J R Murdock - jrmurdock.com/
The Gearheart - www.thegearheart.com/
Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences - www.ministryofpeculiaroccurrences.com/
Spectyr - www.booksoftheorder.com/
Nathan Lowell - solarclipper.com/
Ravenwood - www.podiobooks.com/title/ravenwood/
Wiener Blut - wiener-blut.com/
Botar's Old Time Radio - www.botar.us/feeds.html
The Six Shooter - www.botar.us/sixshooter.xml
Decoder Ring Theatre - www.decoderringtheatre.com/
Watchers #1 - gowmainframe.blogspot.com/2011/04/watchers-episode-1-owners-share.html
Nathan Lowel's Talking on my Morning Walk podcast - www.nathanlowell.org/tommw/

Bumper:
'dillo in Berlin

Promos:
The Hidden Institute - www.hiddeninstitute.com/

Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences - www.ministryofpeculiaroccurrences.com/


I can be found and contacted at:

Web Site: gowmainframe.com/ or geekoutwithmainframe.com/

Twitter: @mainframe (or @gowmainframe for tweets just about the podcast)

Email: gowmainframe at gmail dot com

Voice Mail: 206-350-0528

Songs used are "Space Ride" & "Around", from the album "Around" by Oursvince at www.oursvince.com

The podcast is distributed via Libsyn.com & Feedburner

Thanks for listening!
Download: GOWM_027.mp3

Download: GOWM_026.mp3

Episode 26 is the first part of my interview with Odin1Eye. Odin is the blogger and podcaster of "View From Valhalla" - the place to go for the best reviews of podcast novels. I enjoy FREE podcast audio novels, but if you are new to the podcast community there is no better place to start your search for ones you will enjoy. Odin's reviews are balanced and focused on letting you know why you would want to listen or pass on the podcast novels he reviews. Even for people like me who listened to the very first ones, visiting the site every Monday to find new podiobooks or being able to share your opinions about ones you've already listened to is a real service. He's even started podcasting his reviews, both recent and older ones, so please subscribe on his site.

On top of all that Odin is a REALLY nice person, great human being, and fellow "Watcher". I consider him one of my best Internet buddies. So what are you waiting for? Go listen already ... and check out his blog.

And if you comment on this or any other episode, please email me and enter yourself in the contest that is going on until May 18, 2011 - gowmainframe.blogspot.com/2011/04/geek-out-contest-1st-year-celebration.html

You can find all things Odin1Eye at:
Web site - www.viewfromvalhalla.com/
Twitter - @Odin1Eye
Email - odin1eye@viewfromvalhalla.com
Voice mail - 956-307-ODIN (6346)
Every Photo Tells stories - everyphototells.com/tag/odin1eye/

Mentioned:
Brand Gamblin - brandg.com/
Brand's Kickstarter - kck.st/mgWI98
Hoad’s Grim by Jack Kincaid - www.jack-kincaid.com/enterthegrim/
Clear Heart by Joe Cottonwood - www.podiobooks.com/title/clear-heart
Scott Sigler - www.scottsigler.com/
Philippa Ballantine - www.pjballantine.com/
Tee Morris - teemorris.com/
The Dreamer's Thread by Starla Huchton - www.thedreamersthreadnovel.com/
Dreaming of Deliverance by Renee Chambliss - www.rechambliss.com/
Zard - jrmerl.in/
Kat Maimer - www.maimer.net/
Mick Bordet - mickbordet.com/

Bumper:
Doc Coleman - www.scaleslea.net
www.niftytechblog.com/
theshrinkingmanproject.com/

Promos:
Thomas Reed's Bitstrips - www.bitstrips.com/user/1222/
thomasjreed.blogspot.com/

Spiral Tattoo by Michael J Parry - michaeljparry.com/
www.podiobooks.com/title/the-spiral-tattoo

I can be found and contacted at:

Web Site: gowmainframe.com/ or geekoutwithmainframe.com/

Twitter: @mainframe (or @gowmainframe for tweets just about the podcast)

Email: gowmainframe at gmail dot com

Voice Mail: 206-350-0528

Songs used are "Space Ride" & "Around", from the album "Around" by Oursvince at www.oursvince.com

The podcast is distributed via Libsyn.com & Feedburner

Thanks for listening!
Download: GOWM_026.mp3

The "Geek Out! with Mainframe" podcast has been nominated for the Parsec Awards in the following categories: (See www.parsecawards.com/2011-parsec-awards/category-descriptions/ )

Best Speculative Fiction Fan or News Podcast (General)
News and commentary podcasts created by and for the fans of speculative fiction. (e.g. Anime, Gaming, General Spec Fic)

Best Podcast about Speculative Fiction Content Creation
Podcasts about the creative process and/or the technical aspects of speculative fiction podcast creation.

Best New Speculative Fiction Podcaster/Team
This person or team is new to podcasting in the past Parsec eligibility year, becoming a significant voice that has contributed to the community as a whole.

I'm working on finding audio segments from the show to submit to the Parsec Awards Steering Committee. If you'd like to help, please let me know some of your favorite parts from the past year (from May 1, 2010 to April 30, 2011).

I need to provide 10 minutes from the show, with up to 3 segments. If you think the podcast is ineligible in any of the 3 above categories, please let me know. Also if you could let me know where some of your favorite segments from the show are (episode number and starting time mark), that would help.

Emails/comments regarding this are eligible for the GOWM Comment contest - gowmainframe.blogspot.com/2011/04/geek-out-contest-1st-year-celebration.html

You can find a list of the Parsec Award nominees at www.parsecawards.com/2011-parsec-awards/nominees/

If a podcast you think is worthy of consideration isn't listed in a the category (categories) you think it is eligible for, please nominate that podcast at www.parsecawards.com/2011-parsec-awards/nominate-a-podcast/

And as always, thanks for listening :)

Download: GOWM_025.mp3

In episode 25; my brother, Ted, and I discuss digital comics. We are both long time comic book fans and we take a bit of time to talk about our thoughts on digital comics and how we think it may impact the comic book industry.

This isn't an interview, like most of my previous episodes. Also the audio quality isn't as good as I'd like. But I'm interested in finding out if you'd like more of these kinds of discussions on the show in general, and if you'd like Ted back in specific. So please comment on the episode and make your preferences known.

And if you comment on this or any other episode, please email me and enter yourself in the contest that is going on until May 18, 2011 - gowmainframe.blogspot.com/2011/04/geek-out-contest-1st-year-celebration.html

Bumper:
Arlene Radasky - www.radasky.com/

Promos:
The Weird Show - theweirdshow.com/

How To Grow Your Geek - www.howtogrowyourgeek.net/

I can be found and contacted at:

Web Site: gowmainframe.com/ or geekoutwithmainframe.com/

Twitter: @mainframe (or @gowmainframe for tweets just about the podcast)

Email: gowmainframe at gmail dot com

Voice Mail: 206-350-0528

Songs used are "Space Ride" & "Around", from the album "Around" by Oursvince at www.oursvince.com

The podcast is distributed via Libsyn.com & Feedburner

Thanks for listening!
Download: GOWM_025.mp3

Download: GOWM_024.mp3

Episode 24 is the second half of my interview with Paulette Jaxton. I love this book so much that we spent both halves of the interview talking about the book and the delightful podcast version. I am looking at my paperbook right now and the epub version is on my e-reader. Yes, it is nice :)

Part 1 of the interview can be found here.

You can find an audio promo for "The Empress Sword" at empresssword.com/wp-content/audio/TES-promo-90-01.mp3 .

The large version of the cover image is at paulettejaxton.com/wp-content/images/EmpressSwordBookCover_large.jpg


You can find all things Paulette Jaxton at:

Web site: paulettejaxton.com/
Twitter: @PauletteJaxton

Web site for her book at:
"The Empress Sword" - empr