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Anybody’s Guess #40: Elektrik Karnival and Other Home Recordings (11-11-11) (1:27:55)
The micro-cassette recorder (JeffW-Htos1, Public Domain, 1982), Start the Show (Nerd’s Curve, Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States, 2001), Elektrik Karnival (Xenophobe, Attribution-Share Alike 3.0, Mid 1990s), Initial Tape Deck Test (Don Campau, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States, 1981), Saturday Nite – Me and my Better Half 1945 (artist unknown, Attribution 3.0, 1945), Ooh La La (A Tiny Window, Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0, 2009), dreams perhaps too beautiful (Viscera, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0, 1984), Shawn Michael the 7 Year Old Radio DJ (Shawn Michael, Public Domain, 1980), Sky Falls (Dreams of Reason, Attribution 3.0 United States, 1987), Walk Like An Egyptian (Otis Reem, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0, 1993), Train Story (Kymberly Drake, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada, date unknown), Spiro Agnew Dance (Don Campau, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States, 1981), Amazing Grace (Ben Ellenburg’s relatives, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike, 1987), The Engineer (Aaron and Ben DeVries, Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada, date unknown), Birthday 1977 (Frank Edward Nora, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0, 1977), Good Enough For Now (A Tiny Window, Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0, 2009), I Like Cheese (The Cheese Band, Public Domain, date unknown), To Jake – Letter No1_Aug_18_1945 (artist unknown, Attribution 3.0, 1945), You’re Sixteen (Charles Rice Goff III, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0, 1973), Grey (Russ Stedman, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States, 1987), Dandruff (The Cat Band, Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States, ca. 1995), Shorelines Always Mirror (Leemonster, Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0, 2011), The Stainless Steel Rat (Joseph Zitt, Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States, ca 1986-1989), We’re at the End of the Tape (Kymberly Drake, Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 Canada, date unknown).

Been hanging out with a few WordPress.org hackers — Scott, Nacin, and Otto — the last few days in a BBQ-fueled haze of hacking to make plugin directory better. There are over 19,000 plugins listed and they’re really the heart and soul of WordPress for many people, so they deserve a little tender loving care. Here’s a quick before and after snapshot you can zoom in on to see a visual overview of some of the changes:

Our first focus was around improving the discussion and support around plugins.

You’ll now notice that threads about a plugin are pulled directly into a “support” tab on the plugin page — each plugin has its own forum. We’ve made authors much more prominent and with bigger Gravatars and better placement, so you can get a sense of who made the plugin you’re using. And finally to show how active and well-supported a plugin is, you can see  ”16 of 75 support threads in the last two weeks have been resolved.” Finally, if you’re logged in you get access to the new “favorites” feature that lets you mark the plugins you use the most so you can share them on your profile page and find them quickly later. We soft-launched favorites a few days ago and there have already been 2,000 saved!

If you’re a plugin author, we’ve started with a short threshold (2 weeks) for the resolved stats so it’s easy to catch up and stay on top of it. (It’ll eventually go to two months.) You also now have the ability to set stickies on your plugin forum to put FAQs or important information at the top, and of course any person you put as a committer on the plugin will have moderation access. People on the forum tag will see your custom header and links to the other resources attached to your plugin.

We’ve tightened up the styling a bit on the forums and plugin pages, though still some cleanups to do there. Some older improvements you might have missed, but are still useful for users and developers alike:

• “Plugin headers” or those cool graphics you see at the top of plugin pages have really taken off, there are over 1,600 active now.
• You can now subscribe to get an email whenever a commit is made to a plugin repository even if it isn’t yours. There is no better way to follow the development of your favorite plugins. There’s nothing like the smell of fresh changesets in the morning.
• Behind the scenes, we’ve dramatically ramped up proactive scanning of the entire repository to help authors fix security and other problems they might not even know about yet. The quality level of the repo has gone way, way up.

All of this will continue to evolve as we get feedback and see usage, but we’re happy to have been able to make some key improvements in just a few days while hanging out in Memphis. (This is why WordCamps usually have BBQ — it imparts magical coding powers.)

1:12:40 – Brian & Kay returned to Legends Diner in Secaucus, NJ… but ended up meeting Jen, Alicia, Matt & Melissa at Tick Tock Diner in Clifton, NJ. Apparently Brian wanted to manifest a salad bar, Alicia wanted to manifest an alcoholic beverage, and the universe responded in kind!

In this episode, we discuss what to do when negativity shows up in your life and how to change negative thoughts into positive thoughts.

WE ARE CREATING A CHILDREN’S TELEVISION SHOW! Using our talents for acting, music, and film/video production, and combined with passion for all things positive as well as puppetry, we have been planning a “secret” project designed to teach positive thinking, visualization, and other Law of Attraction techniques to kids! Perhaps as a pilot to pitch to a television network, or as a stand-alone DVD… we’re not quite sure yet, but we are planning this now! YOU CAN HELP MAKE THIS HAPPEN! Brian’s company Dragon Rider Productions has been entered into Chase’s Mission: Small Business program for a chance to win a $250K grant which will help fund this new project, as well as Brian’s film The Miracle Man! If you are a Facebook user, you can go to http://missionsmallbusiness.com, log in with Facebook, and in the Business Name box enter Dragon Rider Productions! Help manifest a positive future by helping us, and please pass it on! THANK YOU!!!

Plug of the Week: Matt suggests you watch the film The Adustment Bureau, and think about how the universe always makes sure you’re right on time, all the time!

Come see Kay in Stephen Sondheim’s “Assassins” at The Barn Theatre in Montville, NJ. May 18, 26, June 1, 2, 8, 9 at 8pm
May 19, 20, 27, June 3 at 2pm

Do you have a restaurant or establishment that you’d like us to promote? Contact us!

Want us to help meditate on your goals & dreams? Leave a comment below, or e-mail us at manifestingmastermind@gmail.com!
Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ManifestingMM
“Like” us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Manifesting-Mastermind/152916034831504 (permanent link forthcoming)

Thanks to http://www.purple-planet.com for supplying our theme music!

1:37:36 – My cousin’s wedding (bits of the field recording are interspersed throughout this episode), busy lately, Overnightscape Central: Funny, The Dean’s List by Jon Hassler, Larry David stepping in dog crap, just started reading Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis, biographies, job security, what’s the significance of May 16th?, distractions keeping me from listening to Onsug shows, Bob and Tom, a bus going to Disneyworld, the power’s out, Jackie’s imaginary field trip, TV Tropes, rocks, Uncle Fletcher impression, can’t cook with the power off, Band-Aid, the power’s back on, late night drive, China Cat Sunflower makes me happy, gas prices, silly college students, fishing, quirky, the Cloudcuckoolander trope, some guy yelling, Arsenic and Old Lace, getting into the groove of recording, Constitution Trail Adventure, McDonald’s Coke, sirens, privacy, I missed my last shrink appointment, Peanuts comic strips, Charlie Brown in the spelling bee, Charles Schulz and Matt Schultz, Tom on Parks and Recreation. Theme song: Simple Pleasures (Henry Homesweet, Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 England & Wales).

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Released May 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

3:37:57 – Join host Frank Edward Nora on a pleasantly insane ramble on the streets of NYC. Frank explores a multitude of topics… pop culture, food, technology, the occult, and a whole lot more. F1826

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1:19:32 – The Magic Island continues to Boggle your imagination!!  Stephen Jules Rubin Rantz on Texas Killing Fields, The Last Jean Shepherd Show, Rare PQ Ribber Singin’ Stuff, Comics, Politics, Little Rascals, and MORE!!

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Released May 2012, on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and often clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and recombinant productions, thereof.

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53:30 – Remember in my first episode when I said that success is a journey that we have been on since the beginning? In today’s episode, my very special guest Anthony Hamilton talks about how our thoughts connect us to our past, our present and our future. It’s all in his book, Mind, Time and Power! Using your mind’s inner time machine to heal your past, transform your present and create your future. Listen as Anthony discusses prophetic dreams, using your thoughts to influence your past, present and future, the work of Albert Einstein, intuition and more!

For more information on Anthony Hamilton, visit http://path2success.org – Sign up for his free course!
Friend Anthony on Facebook at http://facebook.com/AnthonyHamilton.author
Follow Anthony on Twitter at @anthonyhamilton

Follow this and other great podcasts on the Inspirational Internet Radio Network!
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Released May 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.

56:31 - Special Bug Out Fun and, doubtless, Entertainium at its best!  Jules Stephen Rubin Rantz about Wackness, Magic Island Hi-Jinx, Lady Esther and Orson amuse you, F Le Mur Meets the Rifleman, PQ on some flicks and stuff, and MORE!

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Released May 2012, on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and often clever hosts presenting unique programs, historic archival material, and recombinant

Each year, the WordPress core development team meets in person for a week to work together and discuss the vision for WordPress in the coming year. As annual events go, it’s easily my favorite. Don’t get me wrong, I love attending WordCamps and local WordPress meetups (which are awesome and you should try to attend if you are able), but at the core team meetup, the focus on working together and getting things done is unique, as is the experience of every person in the room being so highly qualified. This year, instead of just planning a core team meetup, I’m aiming a little higher and shooting for a full-on contributor/community summit.

Core code isn’t the only way to contribute to the WordPress project. We have an active theme review team, support forum volunteers, people writing documentation, plugin managers, community event organizers, translators, and more. The teams have been siloed for too long, so we’ve recently begun the process of bringing them together by having teams elect representatives to facilitate more communication between the contributor groups. These reps will form the nucleus of the contributor summit now being planned for a long weekend at the end of October in Tybee Island, GA. This is completely different from a WordCamp. It will be a combination of co-working, unconference, and discussions among the project leaders, and participation will be by invitation.

In addition to bringing together the active contributor team reps to work together, I think it’s important to include community members who don’t fall into that category (at least not yet!). Successful WordPress-based business, authors of popular plugins and themes, and people using WordPress in unexpected but intriguing ways should have a place at the table, too. That said, part of the magic of the core team meetup is the small size; it allows every voice not only to be heard, but to engage. Since this is my first attempt at bringing together so many groups and points of view, I want to try and keep it small enough to retain that personal atmosphere while at the same time ensuring that the best possible mix of people and businesses in the WordPress ecosystem is represented. This is where you come in!

Taking a cue from events with limited availability like AdaCamp (attendance) and the jQuery conference (speaker roster), I want you to nominate people and/or WordPress-based businesses to participate in the summit. Yes, you can nominate yourself.* You can nominate up to 10 additional people — be prepared to provide URLs and the reason you think they should participate. You can also nominate up to 10 WordPress-based businesses without naming individual people, so if there’s a theme or hosting company (for example) that you think should be there, you don’t need to go looking for employee names. This nomination process will hopefully ensure that we don’t overlook someone who is making a difference in our community when it comes time to issue invitations.

Nominations will be open for a week, after which the survey will be closed and the process of analyzing the results** will begin. The nominations process will lead to invitations in June, confirmations in July, planning in August and September, and the summit itself in October. Hopefully we can stream and/or record some of the activity to share online at WordPress.tv. Additional invitations may be extended up until the event if there are people/businesses that become more active in the community. If you’re thinking to yourself that maybe now’s the perfect time to start contributing time to the WordPress project, good thinking! In the meantime, if you want to weigh in, fill in the community summit nomination form. Thanks, and wish us luck!

* Nominating yourself: Do nominate yourself if you fall into one of the categories described in the post above, or if you believe that you have a unique point of view. Please do not nominate yourself if you just think it would be cool to hang out with this group. This is a working event, and everyone is expected to bring something special to the table.

** I (and/or a helpful community volunteer) will sift through the nominations and compile a shortlist of the most-nominated people/businesses and the most intriguing underdogs. This list will be reviewed by the summit planning committee (made up of team reps) to create the invitation list.

24:58 – Join Bob LeMent (from Static Radio) rambling on his morning commute into St. Louis, Missouri…

“American” – Yawns, Pawns and Fawns on this truly Patriotic Morning Commute.

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Released May 2012 on The Overnightscape Underground (onsug.com), an Internet talk radio channel focusing on a freeform monologue style, with diverse and fascinating hosts.