CranialMeltdown

In which Doug and I have another fireside chat, this time about Echo Arena virtual weightless robot ultimate frisbee, multiplayer game coding, and some good and bad experiences with banking in Germany.

In which Jon prattles on about a Biology class that had a really positive impact on both his academic and social careers.

In a very... umm... diverse?... episode, we again convene on the rooftop while Doug participates in an ham radio group check-in. While he set ups, we chat about our academic performance, helicopters arriving at the UNC hospital rooftop, and mentors that we've had in our lives.

William goes on to share more historical expertise while Jon gets up to go fix some siding that is drooping on the side of his house. Good thing it's Dry January, because he thought it was a good idea to get up on a ladder and do it after dark.

William tells us what very much more than a little he knows about wine, and I manage to cram a Transformers reference in there somehow.

Doug and I invited William to join us once again for what kind of accidentally became a three-parter. In this first segment, I introduce them to a mocktail concoction that I've named after an obscure DC comics reference.

Wrapping up a chat about safe places in horror, we move on to a lighter topic: dad jokes.

Doug and I chat a little about safe places in horror, and how they can only protect you for so long.

It's dry January, so Doug and I enjoyed - respectively - some Upside Dawn non-alcoholic beer and Ritual Zero Proof Gin. On a run earlier in the day, the topic of 9/11 came up, and I realized that Doug would have been living in New York at the time, and so I wanted to ask him about that day from his perspective, watching the chaos unfold from the top of his high-rise apartment located about halfway between the park and the financial district.

Doug sets up his radio while Jon drones on in the chattering cold about Rocky 1 and fast and slow twitch muscle fitness.

In which I continue to talk Dougs face off, this time telling a fun little diddy about the professor at Indiana University who carved a fake runestone as a joke in grad school and had to deal with the fallout around the turn of the century when it was "discovered" and researched as "proof" of another probably-fake runestone out in Minnesota.

I talk Doug's ears off while he sets up his radio on the roof of the Carr Mill Mall Annex to participate in his weekly Monday evening callouts. I Also manage to get tripped up under one of the wires at some point. Bonus: wind and a runny nose.