20:47 — The Into Your Head show is returning! I also returned to the Exit Ramp for an episode! Join Ruben as he discusses these, along with brewing coffee, a recovered audio clip from 2008, bad accents, and adventures with audio levels.

30:40 — Join Ruben on a muggy, cold Sydney evening talking about James from James’ Coffee Blog starting his own podcast, why I’m allergic to Melbourne, and meeting my favourite ever vtuber Pavolia Reine from Hololive Indonesia!

25:15 — This episode is dedicated to the memory of Jim Kloss, whom I interviewed on the show in 2016. Jim was one of my dearest friends, a mentor in life, and a wonderful human being. Recorded late one evening wandering around a park in Sydney.

21:44 — Join me on a brief wander through Namba Parks, then onto the Osaka Metro to Daikokujo! Talking about being back in Japan, why Clara and I love the Kansai region even more than Tokyo, topping up Suica and ICOCA cards, the growing number of bikes here, and almost walking into someone. *Sumimasen!*

33:53 — We’re overseas again for the first time in three years! Recorded at the busy Kudanshita Tokyo Subway station (complete with jingles!), then wandering around near the Imperial Palace one night. It’s a bit all over the place, but that was my mental state at the time. Part two coming soon, thanks for listening.

28:23 — Hey, I remember when I recorded stuff! Making coffee, talking about the state of the world, some personal notes, putting the kettle on, not being fancy with tea, a letter from strata, and thoughts about travel. I’ll be back to doing these regularly again when I feel up to it, thanks for listening :).

21:50 — The risk of ordering clothes online, Simon Whistler, AviationTag memorabilia from the A380 and B757, humans needing physical contact, appreciating technological and medical progress, and giving people permission to have new year resolutions!

36:36 — Join your host as he finally gets around to uploading some festive cheer and other rambling nonsense. Talking about Xmas lights, the programming VCR meme, Travan tapes, health fun, couch potato-ism, coffee chains in Asia, trying a seasonal brew, and the infamous “much more!” Happy new year from us to you ♡.

53:50 — Join your host as he enjoys some milder Sydney weather! Talking about monsoons in Singapore and Hong Kong, wanting to live in the latter after it blew me away (metaphorically, not in a monsoon), slim Japanese clothing, water-retaining socks, always feeling the need to be productive, embarrassing nerd magazines on the train, old-school MP3 players, downtime, meditation, a rant about music streaming platforms, and collecting music again.

27:47 — Join Ruben as he pours one out for airline pilots, Australia being European in Asia, travelling with Clara, nostalgia for Singapore and working remote from there, The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf in Bishan, introverts and Third Places, saying goodbye to a friend, Robin Williams, and mismatched tiles. Warning, I might even get half-serious at certain points this time!

27:47 — Why am I out here under a shelter while there’s a storm outside? Talking about the HoloCouncil, why am I out here, missing travel, it’s a bit windy out here, where I’d live if I had a spare billion dollars between the proverbial couch cushions, and why am I out here?

32:51 — Join Ruben as he takes an evening lockdown socially-distancing stroll as he discusses UniSA campus nostalgia in Adelaide, adventures with side effects, a freezing family holiday to Germany in the early 2010s, and an extended discussion on the merits and flaws of contemporary electronic microwave oven appliance design affordances (I think Dire Straits did a song about that, though in significantly fewer words. Custom kitchen deliveries, and all that).

55:49 — In part one, your sophisticated host attempts to make an Aeropress coffee live on air, namedrops his friend, mentions some Minecraft LEGO adventures, and discusses some listener mail from Oskar Sharipov regarding audio recording, OGG files, and independent production. Then we timeskip a week to when your aforementioned host walks around an abandoned Chatswood street late at night to find which coffee shops are open during the Sydney lockdowns. Mmm, coffee.

14:00 — A discussion about how my fervour for independent writing hasn’t translated into improving podcast imposter syndrome! Also RSS, distribution, how social networks have convinced people to only write for them, and related ruminations. Thanks for your patience while I produced this one :).

13:57 — Jim Kloss returned to the Whole Wheat Radio airwaves again for a chat! I was not prepared, and even started typing over it towards the end when work pinged me, but I couldn’t let this moment of Internet audio history go unrecorded.

47:35 — An impromptu discussion on everyone’s favourite comestible beverage conveyance, among several other unrelated topics. Recorded July 2020, only getting around to producing... gulp! Hey, that’s the sound someone drinking from a mug makes.

28:45 — A discussion about feline creatures liking me despite having never owned one… turned into a rant about desktop software quality, remembering Wintel and desktop Java, running OpenZFS on FreeBSD and NetBSD with cgd, BSD on an iBook back in the day, being burned by btrfs, BSDCan comments about home labs now being production, and wandering outside in beautifully-mild winter weather.

25:23 — Not knowing a place till you leave it, the fascinating triangular windows of the old Belle Vue in Singapore, faded knock-off Lego blocks, Albert Einstein’s travels, finding new coffee shops, apothecary tables, government posters, a 1990s-era glass foyer, and a borderline rant on my butterfly Apple keyboard. Recorded early May 2020.

29:37 — Join Ruben for a late-night wander around the abandoned Sydney suburb of Chatswood during these lockdown adventures. Topics include 100 days of COVID-19, stairwall-derived exercise, Australia and New Zealand’s potential new travel bubble, finding coffee shops, spooky silhouettes in the night, a Liverpool FC barber, JoAnne Hook paintings, active voice, saying “you too!” to retail staff, and the uncanny valley as it pertains to… sheep‽ Recorded Monday 4th May 2020.

39:20 — Wandering around a deserted Chatswood late at night, peeking into the empty stores, and watching the regular stream of empty commuter and metro trains roll by. Discussing working from home, trying to reconnect with music, critiquing streaming services, and a rose tinted view of audio tape.

25:32 — What started as a discussion regarding an ugly new concept car turned into pontifications about design, and anti-patterns in cars and websites. If overenginering is to make something intentionally more complicated for no benefit other than to ship product, why are we so compelled to do it? Or did I just answer my own question?

31:52 — Wait, didn’t we only just get Rubenerd Show 405?! Discussing the production of chip-based comestibles, submerged data centres, etymology behind radio buttons, being tired of Boomer and Millennial labels, and when meeting your hero perhaps wasn’t such a good idea.

34:32 — Making a caffeinated beverage LIVE on the show like I used to, remembering Murni’s Warung in Ubud, the joys of envelope budgeting, John Walkenbach from Whole Wheat Radio helping me through his Excel books all these years later, and why it’s still so difficult for people without IT backgrounds to export data from shut down sites.

44:51 — The second Rubenerd Show to be released on the 29th of February, HTTP 404 status codes, a new griddle, SARS, Phua Chu Kang, bushfire update, why you shouldn’t need a reason not to be a dick, and a nostalgic snack review from Singapore. Recorded early Febuary 2020.