User:Rubenerd
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Ruben Schade here from sunny Singapore or Adelaide, South Australia depending on the time of year. I'm an early 20's computer science/economics university student with a taste for coffee, jazz and anything related to computers, except for cleaning computers. I hate cleaning computers.
I've been listening to Whole Wheat Radio since November 2004 through the audio feed and the audio magazines. When I got my first job with Veritas (in a cubicle) after finishing my final year of high school, when I started my first year of university in Adelaide and when I'm walking down the street with free WiFi in Singapore Whole Wheat has kept my company. Through better and worse you could say.
I listen to Whole Wheat Radio on the go with my iBook G3 with Audion and a MacBook Pro with iTunes, but mostly I listen through amaroK on my FreeBSD desktop (offically called the Rubenerd WheatTuner!).
Most of my wheaty goodness can be grabbed over in the Rubenerd's stuff category.
I defy the trend of most teenagers/young-adults (apparently); despite the fact I can't dance my way out of a paper bag (no matter how cheap the fibres) my favourite styles of music are ballads, jazz (acid, smooth, soulful, fusion), blues, soul and folk.
You can take a look at the music I'm exploring at my generously offered Whole Wheat music to explore category, and a list of my current (and evolving!) favourite artists, albums and songs on my details page.
Whole Wheat releated
- My first live Whole Wheat Radio morning rant tune in was on Wednesday 03rd May 2006 at 04:30AM Adelaide time (Late Tuesday morning Alaskan Time). It was a spiritual experience.
- Sometimes I turn the aircon up to Arctic levels and set my desktop background as a picture of the Wheat Palace while I listen to morning shows with Jim.
Other random stuff
- I had lived in 5 cities before I was 18. I refer to my "home" as this beautiful orb we called Earth, but I can't be more specific than that :(
- I really, really like salmon sashimi. Mmm, mercury
- I still forget which ones are elbows and which ones are shoulders
- I really like watching Japanese Anime, primarily because most of the stories revolve around the introverted nerdy guy who gets the sweet, smart, pretty girl in the end. I can dream right? :-)
- I really love British comedy
- I have 2 passports, one for a country I've only ever spent 2 weeks in
- I'm a hopeless mumma's boy who doesn't have a mum. Go figure
- I love doing stand up comedy. Just wish I was good at it
- If there's a more perfect drink than a hot cup of freshly roasted arabica black coffee, don't tell me
- I still think Microsoft Bob was their greatest application
- Most people I talk to think Singapore is in either China or Japan. One guy said Hong Kong.
- I secretly like Barry White music. But I don't tell anyone
- I like watching black and white and original technicolor Audrey Hepburn movies :)
- I spend too much time posting useless trivia sections on internet profiles
While I appreciate a wide variety of music, alas unless a computer keyboard somehow counts I can't play a musical instrument. Therefore the best I can do here is to help improve artist articles and add some more information to the technical documentation. I'm sure I'm not the only Linux user on Whole Wheat Radio, but I'm probably the only FreeBSD user... nevertheless I'm determined to add relevant information for these systems in the small hope that perhaps someone in the future will find it useful. Plus it's a very nice distraction :).
I'm also a proud song tagger and spend way too much time creating logos!
I was also the creator of the Audio Magazine page on Wikipedia, which was taken offline because Podcast was in public knowledge instead. Alas, I couldn't convince them otherwise and the article has been permanently deleted. I tried my best Jim.
Non-musical articles I've started or have fleshed out:
- amaroK
- Audacious
- Audion
- Choosing a media player
- Exaile
- FreeBSD
- How far away are you?
- iTunes
- Kaffeine
- Kloss Bad Music Detector
- Linux
- Noatun
- Open source
- Web and print layouts compared
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7 TAGS = Blues / Electric guitar / Piano / Way slow / Solo vocalist / Electric / Organ |
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Dedication: Gotta' love the Blues (Blue's Piano) #1 of 7 in a 31 mins set. |
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In dedication and memory of Debra Anne Schade who passed away the day before Christmas Eve 2007 after her cruel 12 year battle with cancer. She taught me how to appreciate music, how to be resilient in the harshest and most painful circumstaces, and shaped my ridiculous sense of humour.
I love you mummy, you were my best friend and you were taken away from me far too soon. You will always be in my thoughts.
Because I spend a lot of time at coffee shops and on various university campuses, I'll probably have lots of IP addresses here. maxonline.com.sg is my home broadband connection in Singapore which I use the most to tune in.
The information below this line is from the Whole Wheat Radio databases and cannot be changed by editing this page. But you can add to or edit everything above this line!
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| # | Song | Artist | Image | Album | Length | Played count | Last Played | Overall | You | Tags | Single Request |
| 1 | Crested Hens - Little Fair Child - Pipe On The Hob - Growling Old Man, Growling Old Woman | Celtibillies |  |
Greenwoodside | 5:41 | 2 | Mar 28th, 2008 |  6 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | 2 | Return To Sender | The Co-Dependents |  |
Live At The Mecca Cafe | 3:15 | 7 | Apr 1st, 2008 |  6 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | 3 | Cooperstown | Terry Cashman |  |
Cooperstown | 3:36 | 13 | Mar 5th, 2008 | 5 votes |
You have to login to give your opinion about songs. | Singer-songwriter / Baseball / Sports |
| Total Time | 12:32 |
The current music queue contains 6 songs that will take 20 mins, 46 secs to play.
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