This Week in Geek

Things are gearing up at Snowball Central. Tests are being conducted, Scientists are scooping Snowballs from Mars, and the BBQ's are heating up. Today is a day for updates, this is update 4 of 4 for June 16th 2008.

Watch the video for details on our trip to Dallas Texas for the Iron Man of Gaming Tournament at http://ironmanogfaming.com

Here is the details for the whole trip:

Dates: June 19-22
Hotel: Super 8 Hotel in Dallas/Fort Worth
Grapevine, TX
http://tinyurl.com/3q7xzm

Events:
On Location with Cali Lewis
Thurs June 19th 8pm *Dallas Time
http://calilive.tv

Iron Man of Gaming 2008
Thurs June 19th - 22nd
Grapevine Convention Center
Grapevine, TX
http://ironmanofgaming.com

Dallas Meets Canada - Twitter Meetup
Sat June 21st 1:00pm to 3:30pm
Spring Creek Barbeque
315 State Highway 114W
Grapevine, Texas 76051
(Google Maps)

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/780600/?ps=2

Twitter Updates:
http://twitter.com/stevesaylor
http://twitter.com/birdmandodd

So that's all I could think of at any rate. Follow along with us as we go on this trip. Follow our Twitter accounts, keep an eye on our blogs http://thisweekingeek.net as well as http://stevesaylor.net and http://birdmanofsteel.com for video and blog updates from the road!

See ya'll in Dallas!

Yee-Haw!

As always I remain obediently yours.

Steve "Snowball" Saylor

For those who have been following me on Twitter(and if you're not why aren't you?!), you may have noticed I was doing the snoopy dance last week. Reason why was because I had gotten word from my co-host Mike that he was able to arrange an interview with Wil Wheaton!

Problem was though, for him, he was up north and couldn't do the interview, and if I wanted to, I could do it. So I immediately jumped at the chance, because for those who know me, know that I have been insipired by Wil for a long time. You ever have one of those people in your life that you would love to meet someday and you have been following what they do for several years? Well for me one of those people is Wil.

So last week I went over to the TWiG Studios and sat down for almost an hour long chat with Wil. To be honest, I sounded a lot more nervous than I was. Oh don't get me wrong, I was really nervous, but when I got into the interview, I thought I was perfectly fine. It wasn't until I hear it now that I realize how nervous I actually sounded.

Either way, the interview is now live at http://thisweekingeek.net/node/131 So if you want to check it out and see how nervous I was as Wil and I talked geek, then by all means give it a download. Let me know what you think in the comments too, and please, be gentle.

Oh, here's a link directly to the mp3 if you can't be bothered to go to the link directly.

http://thisweekingeek.net/media/audio/TWiG-WilWheaton.mp3

As always, I remain, obediently yours.

Steve "Snowball" Saylor

I am blogging this from my iPod Touch, however I thought I would at least try to live blog the award ceremony at Niagara College. Today will determine whether This Week in Geek is a two year running award winner.

1:10pm - Waiting for us to be able to go into the auditorium. Right now I'm not feeling really nervous, however the pressure is definitely there. Personally I hope we win, but I won't be too disappointed if we don't. We are up against our best friend and TWiG producer Pierce, but also Erich who if he wins we would be surprised, however all power to him.

Here is a video of a behind the scenes look at today's last show on 90.1 FM of This Week in Geek.

(Oh and there is a post-roll ad, just to let you know)

For those who tuned in this morning, thank you!

Hope you enjoy!

As always, I remain, obediently yours.

Steve "Snowball" Saylor

Well, it was bound to happen eventually. Today April 18th at 9:30am EST, my co-host Mike Dodd and I are going to be broadcasting our last radio broadcast on 90.1 FM The Heat.

However, this will not be our last podcast episode, we are still going to be podcasting for a few more months, and more great content will be released at http://thisweekingeek.net, however this post is talk about our journey on 90.1 FM.

The station is of course run by Niagara College Broadcasting Students. As being a broadcasting student, I was excited to hear about the ability to create a Specialty Show to feature on the station for extra credit in our Radio Production Class. At first, I wanted to do a Tech oriented show. Similar to Leo's The Tech Guy Radio Show. I also wanted to do it with a co-host.

I've learned from my podcasting experience, that a person to bounce ideas off of each other and having a conversation about the topics at hand is beneficial to making a great show. However, the friend I had in mind as a co-host did not work out. Mainly due to schedules. I had to make a decision on Air Time in a very short notice of 3 days.

So, the pressure was on, not only to come up with a good format for the show, but for a co-host. Well, I decided to focus in the world of geekdom, and the first person I could think of outside of my normal friend circle was Mike Dodd. He had heard that I wanted to do a show about geekdom and he offered his services as a guest expert on Comic Books. To be honest, he was the only one who offered to help out with the show. So, being that I knew Mike was interested, I asked him if he wanted to be a co-host. He said yes right away.

Mind you, you have to remember, this was all decided 3 days before our first On-Air Show!

Mike and I barely knew each other, and we were going to be co-hosts? Doesn't make sense right? It doesn't, but in a way it does.

On Jan 31, 2007, Mike and I went on air for the first time. We had talked before hand about the show, only briefly, but as soon as the mics turned on, and the On Air Sign turned the colour of red as Mike's Hair, and My Superman T-Shirt, we instantly became not co-hosts, but friends.

Even after our first show, we received an email from a friend that told us that it seemed as if Mike and I were best friends for years! We just had that great of a chemistry.

With that said, the chemistry continued on, and showed in our episodes as we continued to broadcast out of what we call the "fishbowl". This Week in geek later on that April earned us our first Niagara College GRAFITI award for "Best Specialty Show on 90.1 FM" going up against experienced 2nd and 3rd year Broadcasting Students.

When we came back on the air in September, we were pumped and ready to bring our success to the next level. We did not stop, and 33 Radio Broadcasts under our belt, we are not only ending our run on 90.1 FM, we are again nominated for our second GRAFITI award for "Best Specialty Show on 90.1 FM" this Saturday April 19th. Of course Mike and I hope we win, but still the fact that we were nominated again, means that our little show was not just a fluke. We worked hard, and I thank God everyday that this experience changed my life forever. Not only gaining friends, but a career focus, and a once in a life time experience, that I will never forget.

So 90.1 FM, we hardly knew ye, but we always know that you gave us our start.

Tune in live tomorrow if you can by clicking here

As always, I remain, obediently yours.

Steve "Snowball" Saylor

(Photo of myself and Pierce "The Punk" Derks taken on February 22nd at Comfort Suites in Toronto Ontario)

So we finally made it to Toronto! I am really excited for this weekend as you could tell from my previous post.

(Above photo taken at C'est What at the Podcamp Toronto 2007 Meetup where Mike Dodd and myself emceed the event) 

I have a question for everyone who frequents this blog.  I being a consumer of DVD's love the special features.  My family only buying the standard editions of any movie, which makes me upset, means that I have to purchase my own copy of the same movie with the special edition discs.  One of my favourite features is the DVD Commentaries.  You get to hear the filmmakers, the writers, the producers, and sometimes even the actors themselves get to talk about the process of making the movie which to me is like Movie Trivia Gold.

Here it is folks.  Here is Part One of Mike and Snowball's Road Trip up north to emcee the Canadian Cancer Society's Relay for Life in Cape Croker Ontario