After a long period of neglect, Mikhail, Jack, and Mark finally get around to responding to the backlog of listener feedback. Climb on in to hear yet another discussion of various popular Linux audio back ends, the efficacy of foldable backpacks, hypothetical numpties who peaked in high school, and the possible ramifications of scorpion-kicking a pedestrian with your car.
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SHOW NOTES
OHAC 15: Magnum, 067, and Slots: A “Star Wars” Story
OHAC 12: Magnetic Resonance Enchiladas
Ardour – The digital audio workstation
Jack audio interface for Linux
Generic qjackctl map (screenshot)
ALSA vs Pulse Audio
Mikhail bricked his ThinkPad: /dev/sda5: clean, 392649/15237120 files, 57879723/60918016 blocks
PyInstaller library for Python
Tkinter – GUI Programming for Python
PySimpleGUI – Python GUIs for Humans
Mark’s GUI code block
def main():
sg.theme('Reddit')
layout = [[sg.Text('', font=('Times', 12), key='timer')],
[sg.Text('Input Audio', size=(10,1),font='Times 14'),\
sg.InputText(key="audioIN",size=(50,1)),\
sg.FileBrowse(initial_folder="/home",target="audioIN")],
[sg.Text('Input Data', size=(10,1),font='Times 14'),\
sg.InputText(key="dataIN",size=(50,1)), sg.FileBrowse(\
initial_folder="/home",target="dataIN")],
[sg.Text('To Encode', size=(10,1),font='Times 14'),\
sg.InputText(key="audioOUT",size=(50,1)),\
sg.FolderBrowse(initial_folder="/home",target="audioOUT")],
[sg.Submit('Encode',size=(10,1)), sg.Cancel('Quit',size=(10,1))]]
window = sg.Window('mrmp3',layout)Screenshot of Mark’s PySimpleGUI application
Mike Rowe’s Completely Transparent, Totally Honest, Eagle Scout Congratulatory Form Letter
Dirty Jobs – TV show on Discovery
Stowaway Packable Daypack from Eddie Bauer
Operation: Have a Conversation 
