Special Guest Garrin O’Brien!
Garrin created the theme for the Not A Thing! Podcast! and can be found at his soundcloud page.
We talked a bit about music production and the origins of auto-tune
Learned a thing or two about healthcare (link to Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare)
Discussed some conspiracy theories including xkcd’s take on the recent government shutdown.
Spoiler Alert:
Denmark has socialized medicine and fjords. Holland has weed and dams.
Special Guest Skylar de Witte!
Skylar designed the Not A Thing! Logo!
We had a great discussion about the intersection, mingling, and reimagining between nerd culture and bro culture.
Some things we talked about:
The movie Zero Charisma.
The Internet Movie Firearm DataBase.
A different movie database: Mr Skin. Google at own risk.
Game of Bros: Skylar’s remaking of a Game of Thrones drinking game where you exercise instead of drinking.
Spoiler Alert:
In Space Jamaican Fantasy Football, start Predators, sit Jar-Jar.
Special Guest Dr. Gabriel Young!
A wide number of topics were discussed. Among them:
The National Ignition Facility is still A Thing.
NASA Ames Bluegrass Club is A Thing (unfortunately the website appears to be part of the government shutdown)
Dune II was one of the first in the real time strategy genre.
Buzz Aldrin punching a moon landing denier.
Christian Bale sums up the set of Terminator Salvation.
A practical use for human waste on the mission to Mars.
Spoiler Alert:
He is the Kwisatz Haderach
We’re going strong, Congress let the government shut down. We think you can tell who’s cooler.
The amazingly disturbing truth behind lemming mass suicide.
A large earthquake creates a small island!
Bonus link about the satellites used to image the island.
Boeing (sorry, said Lockheed in the podcast) converts F-16s into dogfighting drones.
Bonus link about aircraft boneyards as seen from space.
Spoiler Alert:
Stay tuned, Brendan and Alan are launching F-Cast about fighter jets and F-ing. (not really)
Breaking Bad was probably the best show on TV.
We have Ferroequinologist Joe Muller on the show with us this week!
He mentions the Model RailRoad Podcast and Model Rail Magazine as interesting sources of information.
Some retro gaming goodness: the Kickstarter for Mighty No. 9
Some stuff about MAME
Spoiler Alert:
The vector Star Wars game is awesome.
Alan is a man in Florida, not to be confused with @_FloridaMan.
iPhone5s’s fingerprint reader and radically defeating biometric authentication.
Measuring animal reaction time.
Doing the math for winning the lottery
A controversial topic of profiling drug addicts.
Auto-brewery syndrome is A Thing!
Spoiler Alert:
Florida is hot and muggy.
A bill of rights for the Internet of Things by Limor Fried
UK Censorwall to block VPN traffic
The model for NSA command centers is the Enterprise?
Frameless Geodesic Dome living and the Tiny House movement.
More video proof Elon Musk is Tony Stark is Iron Man.
AMC + UCI = MOOC on The Walking Dead!
Spoiler Alert:
Kumare is and is not Kumare.
Loyalty cards are generally Not A Thing (although maybe not Safeway’s sandwiches)
Some heavy lifting concerning the NSA’s fitness in decrypting our data.
Counter to that, some recently released password cracking software moves blisteringly fast.
Unblisteringly slow snails in the garden.
Spoiler Alert:
Penny Arcade eXpo was last weekend, and Alan went!
Some video games they talked about:
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Not a game, but… The Oculus Rift
Sportsfriends, specifically Super Pole Riders.
A callback all the way to Episode 5 of the Podcast: Divekick is out on Steam and PSN.
OctoDad
Bonus: Stuff we didn’t talk about!
The PAX 10 – indie games – especially Ridiculous Fishing.
Jungle Speed
The Duke
Very rad Dice Rings.
Recorded LIVE in Colorado!
With special guests returning to the podcast Julie (@juliemeridian), Ted (@tedclifton), and Claire (@augustclaire)!
Julie has started a blog since her last appearance: Make It Legit
Some of the breweries Ted mentioned:
Great Storm Brewing
Red Leg Brewing
Kraft Beer
Rocky Mountain Brewery
Bonus breweries (visited on other days – may be updated)
Dry Dock Brewing
The severe weather info and training site Claire mentioned: Skywarn.
We all played a game of Fiasco
Spoiler Alert:
We made a timelapse video, too!