"Back 2 Square 1" New Episode 015

Back 2 Square 1 has a new episode: 015 Islamic Influence

Saturday 22 August 2009 Show Notes:

We're back & with a reduced crew again; just Osyris Diamond (who has flu-like symptoms... though I doubt it's a cool as "Swine Flu" or known as "Mexican Flu" for international listeners. He'll be blowing his nose throughout the show), Johnny-B, & the Kitty Kat! PKP is back in the house for our background music & starts off where we last left off with their track "Northbound". Joining us in the studio this evening is my new Bengal kitten, Lexus Ton-Ton (pronounced Tän-Tän) a.k.a. Crouton. Check out some more videos here: Lexus Ton-Ton a.k.a. Crouton. We discuss some of the (not-so) highlights of having her since Tuesday before Johnny-B goes into a mini-rant on "rabbit pooh" constipation. Osyris is "hating life" for lack of sleep & sanity but has yet to regret getting his $200.00 kitten (inflated to at least $500.00 with cat stuff & the first round of vet appointments). We give a shout-out to our missing comrades (Wild-Reto, Dark-Lilith, Dutchie Dutchmen, Glacier Wulf) before explaining how sick Osyris really was & how it relates to the B.S. at Iron Mountain, whose management can't properly assign replacement employees for open shifts. He explains his revelation of why he's all too often sick during the school season then the work ethics of his male family predecessors. We then talk about the other cat in-residence Taximus Maximus Meridius Kittius & his origins.

Johnny-B then segways into his co-worker from France who is dealing with an identity-crisis between being French & Algerian & Muslim. He goes on about some misconceptions of Islam & the Koran before Osyris relates this conversation to the proposed revamping of Paris: "Greater Paris" (see link above) & how it relates to dealing with the issues facing the city regarding its upper-class center and lower-class suburbs. He notes the 1995 movie "la Haine" (which is French for "Hate", though Osyris cannot recall the movie by name during the recording) as a reference for this tension (see links above). He also relates it back to the issues with Israel & Palestine discussed last week's show & relating it to the origins of "ethnic nationalism" as a consequence of European colonialism & western interference in the 19-20th century. Johnny-B brings it back to the Islam integration issue (globally) & discusses its role as the dominant social, economical, political, cultural, artistic, scientific, mathematic, & spiritual leader several centuries ago. Osyris brings up the 2005 movie "Kingdom of Heaven" (though once again he failed to remember it's name while recording) and its ending sequence in relation to this historical topic (see links above). From Wikipedia, "Privately, Saladin picks up a cross that was thrown off and puts it back on the table as well as refusing to step on the stones carved with crucifixes." We also touch on the US/USSR cold war effects on the Middle Eastern region & the rest of the world for that matter (with hints of capitalism). We then end the long rant with a little poking of the western educational system.

Changing topics, Johnny-B updates us on the home-brew (based on Alaskan Amber Ale) before pimping a new place call "The Beer Essentials" store down in Lakewood, Wa. Check out their website & visit their locale if you're in the area (see link above). He then updates us on the software he's working on for home-brewing (embedded system-based)! Osyris then updates everyone on the spikes in downloads for episodes 014 & 013, thanking Glacier Wulf for pimping the show to new people while on the job!). Welcome all new listeners! (New start e-mailing us, damn it! ...email is below.) We then talk about the changing nature of the podcast (B2S1) & where is might and should go in the future (your help, listener, is always appreciated and encouraged).

Then Osyris does something obscene before we get around to bugging our pseudo-co-host Kitty-Kat about what her point in life (let alone the podcast) is. This leads into (and was in-part a product of) a discussion of some background issues brought up by (currently) nameless co-hosts & the role of insults, touchy topics, & apologies (or the lack thereof). (We then remember to pimp PKP on the show.) We then plot to get Telefon Tel Aviv (see links above) as the background music (& maybe on the podcast itself) before ragging on Kitty Kat again in an attempt to get her talking. (It should be noted at the time of the recording of this podcast, we were unaware of the passing of Cooper. RIP) Osyris & Johnny-B sing Happy Birthday to Kitty Kat! We then rag on Iron Mountain again. We round out the show by visiting Failblog.org & Dvorak Uncensored with a great (old) Daily Show report on spamming. Osyris then sings us out... before failing & then we pimp the email before signing off.

Send your replies, rebukes, retorts, and/or rebuttals to: radioosyris@gmail.com

Lexus Ton-Ton a.k.a. Crouton

Below are some videos of my baby Bengal, whom some of you met in a previous entry. Now she is home with me and adjusting (rather well) to her new environment. All video thus taken (including the aforementioned video) were shot with a Sony DSC-S650 digital camera. She now has a full name: Lexus Ton-Ton (pronounced Tän-Tän). Her nickname will be "Crouton". I figured Lexus was a classy name for a kitten with lots of spunk and vigor. Crouton was taken from an incident where a crouton was dropped on the floor and she attacked it like no tomorrow. Unable to eat the crouton, her playfully gnawed on it in a most cute way. This is where Ton-Ton is derived. She is, of course, a pure-bred Bengal hybrid a couple generations removed from the original crossing. She cost $200.00 and was born 27 June 2009, making her 8 weeks old this Saturday. She weighs 1.4lbs and is in the process of getting her shots and the like in order. She loves to play and gives the vet all shorts of hell, even to which they can't take her temperature. She's a feisty one, alright. That's mah girl kittah! =3

Back 2 Square 1 Episode 012 posted!

Back 2 Square 1, a podcast I host, has just posted its latest episode: 012 Lamentations. Check it out!

Show Notes:
So, this is by far the second or third longest episode to date. Osyris, Johnny-B, Dutchie, Kat, and Glacier Wulf bitch a lot in this one about everything from bad bosses and scripting languages to getting older and Adam Curry. We have entertaining moments with “The Matrix Runs On Windows XP” and we get to hear a preview of my new Bengal kitten! Huzzah! =3 Technetium provides the killer trance tunes in the background while the beer keeps flowing! The Mega Doom Dice is still MIA but the new and improving Doom List is back in action this episode! Many links above to check out and there is a contest for the first listener who correct guesses the color scheme of our lava lamp: base & cap, liquid, and the lava itself.

Send your guesses, along with your replies, rebukes, retorts, and/or rebuttals, to: radioosyris@gmail.com

New Bengal Kitten

Here she is! I know this has nothing to do with the usual content of this blog, but she was too cute not to show to the few who read this blog. She is a Bengal Breed. I won't have her home for another month or so but by then she'll be litter box trained and eating solid food. She is a month old right now and still getting use to this world. I saw her and her three siblings (two males, another female). The female is the only one not officially taken. If you want to inquire about her, let me know and I'll get your message to the seller. I have some photos of them at a week old on my deviant page: Osyris' Gallery. Not sure which one's are which in these. I will likely be posted more of them that I shot about a week before. Still can't really tell her from the others, though I am getting better at it. Not sure when the new pics will be up but hopefully soon. When she gets home, or just before, I'll have her into the vet for shots and the like. Once she is a little older, I'll get her fixed. This seems a bit out of character for me since I am one who wants to adopt cats, but this will be my one kitten I'll buy and it allows me to have a "pure breed". Won't know what to name her for a while more but she's my little darling. More info about Bengals, you can check out these websites: Bengal cats & kittens - The International Bengal Cat Society (TIBCS), Marechal Bengal Cats, Bengal Cats of Adventure Beach, The International Bengal Cat Connection - Bengals Illustrated Magazine.