A show about what's on our minds each week. Hosted by Potatowire, Bob VanderClay, Mark VanderClay, and Erik Hess..
Potatowire, Bob VanderClay, Mark VanderClay, and Erik Hess
From The Seashore Book E. Boyd Smith, 1912. Brydge Keyboard Logitech Base Tile Mate Matryoshka doll GoRuck Field Pockets GoRuck Kit Bag GoRuck GR2 Peak Design Everyday Backpack 20L GoRuck GR1 Patagonia Black Hole Mini Messenger Midori Brass Pencil Case Mead Half-Size Index Cards Edward Field Phone Wallet Beats X Ship of Theseus iFixit Essential Electronics Toolkit
The Literary Digest, 1890. Bacon Reader Astropad Duet Display Procreate Wacom Cintiq Pro ForeFlight Electronic Kneeboard Article Lofree tonymacx86 InsanelyMac Dell P2418HT Touch-Base
Sunset silhouette of Flying Fortress, Langley Field, VA, 1942. Library of Congress The Wire Casablanca Lost Babylon 5 Battlestar Galactica The Plan The X-Files Dexter Independence Day The Independence Day PC Game that Time Forgot MCAS El Toro Wing Commander II Tux Racer Gopher VAX pine Doom Harpoon X-Wing Cherry MX Blue F-4 Phantom II Windows CEMENT DHMO Aluminum PowerBook G4 Power Mac G5 Microsoft Flight Simulator 1.0 Rainbow Six Rogue Spear Chuck Yeager’s Advanced Flight Trainer Gato Jet Red Baron Falcon 3 Falcon 4 Duke Nukem 3D Doom II Simpsons Mod VIC-20 Oregon Trail Zenith Z-89 CP/M Commodore PET Red Storm Rising Time Chapter 00:00 It’s Dawn Somewhere 00:43 Desert Island Show 04:13 We Don’t Talk About The Plan 10:22 Hack the Alien Ship 16:23 Paper Towel Power Button 23:43 CEMENT 28:47 The Stormtrooper 36:32 Wargaming Nerd 44:32 Shoot the Paradactyl 56:34 Maximum Impact Point 57:51 Support Dawn Patrol
State Library of New South Wales The guys pretend they have an electronic apocalypse and get $2,000 to buy devices, services, and accessories to start over from scratch and build a new web app. Here are their choices: Erik’s Selections Devices Toshiba Chromebook 2 with Haswell-era Celeron Moto G with 16GB Services T-mobile Unlimited - 7GB tethering Digital Ocean - $5/mo Accessories Phone SD - SanDisk 32GB Laptop SD - SanDisk 128GB Mouse - Logitech M557 Mark’s Selections Devices Refurbished 13” MacBook Air 2013 Nexus 7 Services Charter Cable Internet T-mobile 1GB plan Digital Ocean $10/mo Bob’s Selections Devices Refurbished 11” MacBook Air 2015 Moto X Services Amazon Web Services Starter Plan Bitbucket
Internet Archive Maxpedition Testudo GORUCK GR0 2014 Osprey Comet 28L
U.S. National Archives A Little Known, Seldom Used, Reserve Activation Clause
It wasn’t a Glock Nationaal Archief Hello Kitty Darth Vader Massdrop ErgoDox Penumbra Solarized Das Keyboard 4 Professional Tenkeyless Keyboard 75% Keyboard 60% Keyboard SmallFry KB 40% Keyboard Happy Hacking Keyboard NovaTouch TKL Infinity 60% Keyboard Kit Cherry MX Topre Switch Cherry G80-1800 ClamCase Pro
In which I attempt to be David Malki Snake People Snake People Chrome Extension
Internet Archive Also discussed: How much we still like the Logitech MX Anywhere Mentally remapping Caps Lock away from Control and back to Caps Lock
Missouri State Archives Also discussed: Bob’s new MacBook and how much we like the keyboard Some things we’re still hoping get improved in iOS Jailbreaking vs. Android Some of Bob’s favorite Jailbreak apps We tried out using Bob’s new Zoom Q8 to get high quality video for YouTube, but it quit recording halfway through for some reason. Maybe it was trying to tell us something. We’ll try the Q8 again next week, but until then here’s the dump from Periscope, with better audio and cropped to landscape.
Florida Memory Also discussed: MacBooks may (according to an Apple Store Employee) not be available for same-day purchase in the Apple Store for a long time, if ever From listener @queuebit: What purchase makes the most sense - Apple Watch, MacBook, or Tesla Model S Whether Apple’s new approach to online-first sales will leave Apple Stores filled with gawkers and people with broken Apple products waiting for service Follow up on the Charge HR and wearing it too tightly The Garmin Fenix 3 The Withings fitness and sleep tracking ecosystem We’re testing out a few things with our broadcasting setup, and we’re really excited about how it’s going so far. We tried out Periscope for live video streaming last episode and while experienced had some bumps, it went great. The best thing we added this week was producer Mark Vanderclay to handle the chatroom and live listener questions. We’re also starting a YouTube channel for episode video. This week it’s in ugly (Periscope generated) portrait orientation with terrible audio, but we plan to fix that with true landscape video and high-quality audio next week. If that’s not enough to turn you off, the first video episode is embedded below.
National Library of Medicine Also discussed: The state of HiDPI support on Linux Production devices vs. toys Using the ExoLens to get wide-angle portrait video for Periscope streaming The proper font for Bob’s 1997 ASCII Stormtrooper art Here is @takitapart ascii stromtrooper :http://t.co/4nAXSVRFzO Check out the high90cast. @_high90— djtaco (@djtaco) March 27, 2015
Not Actual Size Library of Congress The topic follows their articles this week on high90: What’s in the Middle There is No Middle Along the way, they talk about laptops, tablets, and why Bob bought so many Microsoft Surfaces. They also briefly discuss Bob’s experiences with the Force Touch trackpad.
The Kronoform Aside from the Apple Watch, what’s the current landscape like? Why do we even want smartwatches? Is there still a place for dedicated fitness trackers? Will Bob continue to purchase all of them? The world wonders.
Nationaal Archief Truth in Advertising Fussy coffee. Exemplar The move from crack to fine coffee roasting The inevitable slide towards coffee mediocrity Tonx Blue Bottle K-cups Coffee with DRM HP Ink coffee synergy Did someone ask for an avenging angel to be added to Boards of Directors? Board of Average People Drunk Modes Temper tantrums overhead Shell inception sudo Dagerous commands Gmail Goggles Breathalyzers Legally drunk PSA (with bonus callback) Hazel needs a drunk mode Python Guy College nicknames Pythonista Reasons to use Python Good science support Whitespace matters AppleScript is a dumb language Node.js and learning through problem solving Ruby why or why the lucky stiff (not unknown anymore) Nothing really disappears from the internet why’s (poignant) Guide to Ruby “Some jerk researched him”; Lots more Sad hipster Related, anonymous people on the internet are weird Seriously, Back to Python Resizing and cropping images for fun and profit Macdrifter Editorial workflow for images Workflow distorts images The fiddler Breaking iOS within the Rules Ruin your life with Pythonista Doxing oneself Peak scripting “Exhaustive” app research instead of scripting Kids ruin Daddy’s concentration Actually creating script on iOS “It’s all Ole”, i.e. genius Tasker as Android’s uglier utilty tool Scripting: The Nerd’s Song Inability to read documentation indicates a lack of seriousness “Big-boned phone” Forcing Apple Evolution Constraints foster creativity Android’s freedom and iOS’s artisanal app market CyanogenMod Android text editors are nothing special, however, ssh plus Vim is wonderous iOS-only as clickbait Quitting the internet as clickbait The misjudged Federico article Peak iPad Thumb-typing Rumors! 12” MacBook Air We want a small device with a built-in keyboard 13” MBPr vs. MBA Airline seats are getting smaller “And Leon is getting larger” iPad apps that should be on OS X Editorial Pinswift Mr. Reader Drafts Rosetta Android apps on Chrome OS Some officially The rest unofficially Webapps are fine (or awesome) Fastmail Feedbin Trello Slack Pocket Casts Styluses…Stylii?…Digital-Marker-thingies FiftyThree Wacom Bob’s Surface Pro 3 replacement Finger-painting The software is better even if the hardware isn’t Spider bites and Farewells Blizzards in Boston Tauntaun survival Trains in the snow One-handed keyboards
Florida Memory The Taxman Cometh Accountants Scary Letters Leaving money on the table The Man 1040EZs TurboTax Flat Tax Navel Gazing Asynchronous podcasting Recording under a bowling alley Sound booths and moving blanket igloos Podcast business models Amazon Prime Delivering to USPS Shipping deals Uber for packages Add-on items Sharpies and beer Digital services Netflix Movies and Kid Shows Thee-act structure Personal time management Other rental options Lucy Guardians of the Galaxy Wrong opinions Avatar Tumble Leaf Wolf Children Lego Legoing above one’s age Step one Step two Step three LEGOLAND Discovery Center Lego Friends What if your daughter likes pink, purple, fairies, and princesses? “Expectations” on Invisibilia Turns out
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San Diego Air and Space Museum Along the way, they try to figure out if Elon Musk knows how many submarine cars he may (or may not) own, and discuss getting buzzed by a quadcopter in a kayak, podstalkers, TV dramas and their understanding of the inner workings of the Air Traffic Control system, Gabe’s wife stealing his iPhone 6 Plus, where to draw the line between a tablet and a phone, accidentally deleting your iTunes library, and most importantly whether Potatowire is a hipster.
San Diego Air and Space Museum The guys start with some follow-up on the iPhone 6 vs 6 Plus, then charge ahead into the challenges of iCloud Family Sharing, avoiding phone-killing updates, fun with quadcopters, and privacy. Along the way they discuss yeti hands, the dangers of cleverness, transcending iOS, and hybrid toast-cat perpetual motion generators.
Center for Jewish History While sorting out Erik’s Skype issues, the guys ponder the possibilities and challenges of microphone helmets, idea guys, the King Fire, the microphone show redux, Potato Hacks, what potatoes drive, and the frightening dangers of irresponsible anthropomorphization. Then they get down to business, discussing Gabe’s first foray into mobile macrotelephony, Potatowire, Bob, and Erik’s experiences in the world of Android, whether many of the greatest iOS apps would ever have been developed on Android in the first place, and whether the new phones and iOS 8 are cool enough to make any of them want to switch back.
Smithsonian Institution After helping Potatowire learn how to add friends to Skype, the guys discuss how much they want a Dr. Drang bobblehead, catching up on Roderick on the Line, Heretics, the mirror universe, the definition of “in the can”, the TD fall schedule, self-muting, peerage within the Potato Kingdom, the Watch, the roots of fanboiism, and lock-in.
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