Not A Thing!

Episode 110
We commiserate a little over the A’s losing their Wild Card playoff game and the inherent “Midwest Bias”

We talk a little about the X-Wing miniatures game. Bonus: a live playthrough from TableTop.

Microsoft announces Windows 10. They skipped 9… we suspect they are using the Star Trek logic.

There’s a kickstarter for a low-cost augmented reality rig.

Reddit is considering a new cryptocurrency to reinvest capital into its users.

Spoiler Alert:
Min-Maxing (whether in baseball or X-Wing) is Not A Thing.

Episode 109
Comcast VP shows the phrase “virtually all” means anything at all. Please visit that link for possibly one of the most inexplicable pictures ever.

Bonus VP story: Alan’s tangent about Kids in the Hall.

We’re a little closer to fighting with swords. Schola St. George meets not too far from here!

In other Historical European Martial Arts News, a man defends himself with a spear. Successfully!

Noodles have a little something extra from a restaurant in China. The first one’s free, kid.

How to tell if handwritten notes were written with robot hands!

The podcast dodges a bullet… the cutest little 8-armed swimming robot.

Spoiler Alert:
Someone went further than we did in pointing out the “good” Star Trek movies are even-numbered.

(Because of a renaming snafu some folks did not download this week’s episode, but last week’s episode twice. Because updating it on the website did not fix it, we are re-releasing this week’s episode now. Sorry for any duplications. #FlatEarth)

Episode 108
NASA is partnering with companies to return America to manned spaceflight!

Microsoft buys Minecraft maker Mojang for 2500 Million (had to do that to use another M word)

Downvoting is not just for bad topics, it’s bad!

Burger King announces an all black burger in (wait for it) Japan.

Goldfish brain tumor surgery is A Thing.

Longsword fencing as a competitive sport is A Thing (you had us at Longsword).

Alan has joined San Jose Taiko‘s Adult Recreation Classes.

Spoiler Alert:
Ramjet is one of our favorite words.

Episode 108
NASA is partnering with companies to return America to manned spaceflight!

Microsoft buys Minecraft maker Mojang for 2500 Million (had to do that to use another M word)

Downvoting is not just for bad topics, it’s bad!

Burger King announces an all black burger in (wait for it) Japan.

Goldfish brain tumor surgery is A Thing.

Longsword fencing as a competitive sport is A Thing (you had us at Longsword).

Alan has joined San Jose Taiko‘s Adult Recreation Classes.

Spoiler Alert:
Ramjet is one of our favorite words.

Episode 106

This weekend was the Penny Arcade eXpo.

Spoiler Alert:
We talked about games a lot

Episode 105

You’ll never guess what happens next as Facebook takes some action against clickbait.

What people do when they’re not paying attention in conference calls.

Eye tracking explored by psychologists in conjunction with filmmakers.

TwitchTV announces they are being acquired by Amazon.

Bonus: blindfolded Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out as part of the “Games Done Quick” marathon event.

The Chinese are reportedly working on a submarine that flies through the air underwater.

Spoiler Alert:
At 4:25 #AlansGrammarCorner briefly makes an appearance distinguishing imply and infer.

Episode 104

#AlansGrammarCorner takes on adjective order.

#Ferguson for better or worse is A Thing.

See (or rather hear) us talk about the militarization of police just three months ago on episode 94.

Of all the implications of #Ferguson, did you consider Net Neutrality?

Speaking of Net Neutrality, NPR had a nice visualization of the comments thus far.

Also along with that is a histogram of common words in the FCC Net Neutrality comments.

Adam Carolla settles his patent troll case around podcasting.

A solar power plant in California is causing “streamers“. That word just gained a new definition.

Spoiler Alert:
John Oliver’s segment on #Ferguson is yet another must-watch video.