Escape Artists
The Lounge at the End of the Universe => Gallimaufry => Topic started by: eytanz on October 08, 2010, 05:08:43 PM
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So, I just got back from a great 3-week holiday in which I did not take my laptop. My podcast backlog is over 40 hours long (6.5 of which are EA podcasts). And that doesn't include my television-watching backlog.
The main reason I'm posting this is because I want to keep track of how long it takes me to catch up, and now I have a nice timestamp to attach to when I start working on it...
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right on!
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It's been two months and I'm still not caught up - though almost all the podcasts that were on my ipod at the time have now been listened to. But I'm still definitely behind, with about 9 hours remaining - and quite a lot of that being Escape Artists podcasts, because I try to listen to the topical stuff first.
I hope that the upcoming holiday gives me time to catch up fully...
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I'm still trying to catch up after the trip we took to England. Three years ago. :o
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It's been over 2 years, and I've done it. Today, for the first time since the summer of 2010, I am caught up with escape artists (and other) podcasts!
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I think I might have to wipe my entire StarShipSofa backlog and start from the next episode. I'm over 30 behind. I don't think I'll ever catch up. It's hard enough for me to keep up with EA, Rob Paulsen, Dunesteef, Drabblecast, and the occasional other 'cast that I might appear on as a voice or writer.
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It's been over 2 years, and I've done it. Today, for the first time since the summer of 2010, I am caught up with escape artists (and other) podcasts!
I had a backlog of around 170 podcasts, from EP, PP, and others. (mostly EP and PP) With my current... "job" of delivering food, I suddenly had ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD to listen to all 170. This was completed just a few weeks ago. I'll probably start downloading all of the PC episodes now too. I gave up PC a few years ago when my backlog was getting even more ridiculous. Now that I have really nice listening time again, I'm going to restart all of PC. :)
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I'm looking forward to having a commute again. The only podcast I'm remotely "caught up" with is Pseudopod, in that I'm only two weeks behind. :-P
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I've learned to dissociate backlog from being caught up. If the end-of-year voting ends and I haven't listened/read a story, I drop it into the maybe-someday pile. That said, since 2010 not a single EA cast has fallen into that pile.
And I'm posting because I'm extra proud of myself this year: by forcing myself to catch up with each 3-month period as they come along (instead of 100-podcast-December), I'm up to date through October on EVERYTHING. (Clarkesworld, Drabblecast, Pseudopod, Podcastle, Escape Pod, Tales To Terrify, Lightspeed, Beneath Ceasless Skies, The Bugle).
I gave up on Starship Sofa a few years ago because they are so damn bloated and I have too many other podcasts, but I've been doing well with Tales To Terrify, so maybe I could handle the format better now.
I'm about 2 hours from being caught up on all the stories for this year on EA, now I just have to comment on them...
And read six months worth of F&SF and Asimov's...
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I moved back in January to the WEST SIIIIIIIIIDE! and now my daily commute is about 1:20 in the morning and 1:40 in the evening.
I've cut way back on my podcasts; I'm only regularly subscribed to six now, and two are on sporadic release schedules (Dan Carlin's).
But one of them releases three episodes per week, so that's just about all I can keep up with. I don't want to build up a backlog.