32:45 – Show four of six documenting my last days before turning 30! Chatting about data centre noise, keycard silliness, submerging computers, running across streets, family religion, increasingly scared about turning 30, a drag-racing Kia and Maserati, Candanavian [sic] and Irish weather and landscapes, Frank Nora pointing out difference between holidays and vacations, and alienating people with poorly-imitated accents.

23:59 – The third in a short show series documenting my last week as a 20-something! Chatting about rattling Sydney tin can trains, the previous triple digit episode (Rubenerd Show 222 nine years ago), and the oddly specific power board cafe culture in Malaysia, Singapore and Australia. Was almost 24:00!

33:13 – The second in a short show series documenting my last week as a 20-something! Chatting about warping lift shafts, colourful language for falling, an international Onsug, blocking websites, scripting away podcast chores, Akiyama Mio’s infamous K-On! scene, mail servers, Netflix, dead file sharing service nostalgia (aka Napster), and paying someone to do it for you!

22:41 – The first in a short show series documenting my last week as a 20-something! Chatting about fire escapes, what you’re supposed to do for your 30th, a win for shins and legal bicycle parkers everywhere, well intentioned ads that are probably not effective, a world without humans, and a really amazing rainbow.

40:15 – Autumn cicadas, casual clothing, annual leave, urge to go back to Ubud, hometowns, Paul Simon’s One Trick Pony album (1980), figuring out how not to sweat the big stuff, 2016 hipster terms (thesis, nuance), horrifying long haul flights, IKEA makes awesome cereal now, listener feedback (Jimbo, Shambles), and the world’s worst apartment lift design!

42:00 – A previously-unreleased episode from a late January 2016 night. Topics include science, microwaves, air, Australia Day, sandpits and dirt, rectangular rubbish receptacles, the lamp shade iMac, superfluous design, poorly placed park benches, Paul Simon, light pollution, and identifying sounds under my feet.

40:11 – Toilet paper rolls, Sydney’s worst intersection, startup culture, building a data centre, stupid English words, cars in Singapore, ugly new cars with plastic fronts, generic names and slogans, an advertising rant, Mascot construction, listener feedback (Jimbo, Shambles), introversion in children, and the joys of working in coffee shops.

58:04 – Quiet neighbourhoods near Mardi Gras, a heart scare, work-life balance, answering Jimbo’s synchronicity questions, placebo beverages, acquired tastes, acquired skills, American comics, tea, nostalgia for American restaurants in Singapore (A&W, Applebees, Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, Carl’s Jr, Kenny Rogers Roasters) and the world’s most epic muffins!

40:03 – The only other Rubenerd material posted on this weird day, spam as art for computers, having your own email address, towers of AOL trial CDs, fragility of memory, 1990s IT magazine nostalgia, work fatigue, why ISO dates are so damn good, time speeding up as we age, school holidays, introversion, events that only happen every four years, knowing someone born on the 29th of February, the Lunar New Year, and a proposal for a global public holiday.

10:55 – I found my first attempt at rebooting the Rubenerd Show from January 2013! Topics included time stamp counters, audible tangents, tea, being back in Sydney, and torched coffee shops. Two years later, the show restarted for good with an episode that didn’t abruptly end with a door opening.