Podcasts about Busytown

Feeling like your week is lacking a dash of Did I Do That? You could add something—it's just a suggestion! Freelance brand and identity designer César Sierra joins Sean to talk about gamifying Jiffy Mix, getting lost with Matt, and Busytown careers. Will Sean get rabies before the season is over? There's only one way to find out!You can find César's work on their website, cesarsierra.net! If you're looking to hire César, connect with them on Linked in at linkedin.com/in/cesarvsierra!This episode was recorded Sunday, April 14, 2024, in the Rat's Nest. Though I (again) forgot to shout him out in the outro, this episode was edited by the great Orion Cortez! Thanks, Orion! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Don't let the episode title worry you, this homework doesn't suck.  Your only assignment this week is to listen to the mixtape and enjoy the fine selection of tracks from this free play!  "Building The House" from Richard Scarry's Busytown is a fun minimalist piece with snappy percussion.  "Injured" from Tecmo Super Bowl II: Special Edition makes great use of the Genesis' strengths

Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? I see a new Dork Matters ep with Ben and Lexi. We're dorking out about the best, most amazing, legendary children's book illustrator-authors! With a bit of conspiracy theorizing about the Sankebetsu brown bear incident. Grab a blanky, get comfy, and let us tell you a story.FURTHER DORKSCUSSION:Sankebetsu brown bear incidentLegendary illustratorsMaurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are, Chicken Soup with RiceDr Seuss (Theodore Geisel), The Grinch, Green Eggs & HamEric Carle - Brown Bear, The Very Hungry CaterpillarRichard Scarry - Best Ever/BusytownBeatrix potter - Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, Jeremy FisherClement Hurd - Goodnight Moon, The Runaway BunnyEH Shepard - The Wind in the Willows, Winni-the-PoohUl de Rico - THE RAINBOW GOBLINS!Ezra Jack Keats - The Snowy Day, Peter's ChairBONUS CONTENT:Ul de Rico concept art for The Neverending Story (1984)Sendak's In the Night Kitchen: Unusual History of Censorship by Laura CattrysseBeatrix Potter - The Dead AuthorsProdorkcer Jess Schmidt's picks:say what you will about Roald Dahl, but Quentin Blake is an iconic illustrator in my mindLudwig Bemelmans of the Madeline books was another fave of my childhoodShel Silverstein was my first introduction to poetry and again just iconicThe Velveteen Rabbit was a book that I asked for all the time, illustrated by William Nicholson"I remember that as a child, when I felt overwhelmed, my mother would reassure me by saying, ‘One piece at a time.' That's good advice for many things in life." -Eric Carle SOCIALS:Here's where you can find us!Lexi' Hunt's website and twitter and instagramBen Rankel's website and instagram and where to buy his book: Amazon.ca / Comixology / Ind!go / Renegade ArtsJess Schmidt's website, twitter and instagramDork Matter's website(WIP) and twitter and instagram and redditThis podcast is created on the traditional territories of the Blackfoot Nations, which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, and the Kainai. We also acknowledge the Stoney Nakota Nation, Tsuut'ina, and Metis Nation Region 3.Help your dorky pals spread the word: share us on social media or give Dork Matters a rating and review on Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your pods! Thank you for helping us to share our love of all things Dork!

This is a chaotic one, buckle UP! Erica gets the gang started late because of her slut shenanigans, we love Starbucks, McDonald's & Taylor Swift, OKAY?! Girl Scouts = picketers, Tom Dawson and the brown banana regime, we are against ketchup, Megan discovered mustard at 23! Erica's sleepover with her love interest, Erica is a rockstar now whatever, homemade margs are sexy, Madie doordashes a bread bowl, Megan & Erica catholic spiral, Megan goes to CRSSD and becomes a filmaker, Megan & Madie are avoidant yet self-aware, Erica's new single is OUT and Heidimarie is very excited about it, Erica's firefighter is back…? To be continued… Are worms in apples still a thing?! Shoutout to Busytown, does GenZ even know about worms in apples, is that still in elementary school culture? Let us know in the comments, SAVE THE WORMS merch, “Who let the dogs out? Madie! Madie! Madie!” , Erica's love interest thinks she's 25 and we lerv, the girlies never sleep at a boy sleepover, peeing is an intimate thing, Madie says to eat your greens dammit! Submit a story to be featured on the pod! Instagram: @30flirtyflailingpod Email: 30flirtyflailingpod@gmail.com ***Recorded 3/11/23

The fire fighters are good at helping people solve problems all over Busytown, and they are also good with fires. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/leilani-hargreaves/support

Froggy takes a trip to Busytown, and meets up with Mr. Frumble and Lowly worm for some fun times.

Join our convo with artist/organizer/environmentalist Scott Bluedorn. Among many other topics, we discuss growing up on the East End, his surreal, unique artwork, his community involvement, Richard Scarry's Busytown, making a living as an artist, and Greenport Harbor Brewing co.

Good morning, RVA! It’s 45 °F, and while today’s temperatures could hit 60 °F you should expect big rain this evening and into tomorrow morning. After that though, the weather looks pretty pleasant for a first weekend in December.Water coolerAs of this morning, the Virginia Department of Health reports 2,023↘️ new positive cases of the coronavirus in the Commonwealth and 34↘️ new deaths as a result of the virus. VDH reports 171↘️ new cases in and around Richmond (Chesterfield: 68, Henrico: 66, and Richmond: 37). Since this pandemic began, 477 people have died in the Richmond region. Here’s this week’s stacked graph of statewide new reported cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. While it looks like we’ve passed a peak of new cases and are headed back down the other side, I think I’ll wait until the middle of next week to see where we are. The long holiday weekend just screws with the data process so much that who knows what reality looks like at the moment. Do take a minute, though, and look at the troubling number of hospitalizations—we’re not too far off from where we were all the way back in April. Locally, we’re seeing a reflection of the same statewide trends in case counts: up, up, up, and then down a bit. I’d wait on declaring us past the peak until next week on these, too.Kate Masters at the Virginia Mercury has a good piece today about what’s driving the recent spread in COVID-19 and how the case investigation process works to help answer those questions. I’m fascinated by the work case investigators do. They’re literal detectives, like something you’d find in Busytown—but, I guess, some sort of bizarro, disease-ridden Busytown. Anyway, if you ever get a call from someone at the local health district investigating a coronacase, please pick up the call and do your best to be helpful!Oh no, this press release from the Mayor’s office is terrifying: “Acting Chief Administrative Officer Lenora Reid has been hospitalized after suffering a medical event earlier this week. She is currently recovering but unable to fulfill her duties at this time.” Having to deal with a medical emergency along with everything else going on in the world sounds absolutely horrible. Mayor Stoney will call Council together for a special meeting on Monday to consider a resolution appointing his Chief of Staff Lincoln Saunders as Acting CAO.In his email yesterday, RPS Superintendent Kamras said he’ll recommend that the district remain fully virtual for the second semester. Kamras lays out three reasons for this decision: 1) With case counts rising he’s concerned for the health and safety of students, staff, and families—while acknowledging that in-school transmission rates are low; 2) In a survey RPS sent out a while back, 80% of staff and 63% of families (70% of Black families) said they’d prefer to remain fully virtual; and 3) There are a bunch of logistical challenges to opening to in-person instruction while still providing services for families that choose to remain virtual. Kamras then points out some of the very real impacts this choice will have on RPS students and families over the next semester and beyond. This entire email is worth your time, and, as always, I’m incredibly envious of the empathetic way in which Kamras communicates these tough decisions.I continue to noodle on the City’s process to bring a resort casino to town. I think it’s helpful to clarify that before a potential November referendum, the City must select a preferred casino operator and location for said casino. This could be the Pamunkey Indian Tribe and the land they now own off Commerce Road or this could be an entirely new operator and new location—like Downtown where the Coliseum now sits. I don’t really want a resort casino anywhere and that includes using one as a replacement for the now-failed downtown arena project. I’m not the only one who thinks this way, either! A member of the Good Morning, RVA Slack (to which all patrons have access!), pointed out that the City has, as part of the Richmond 300 process, already asked a few folks about a downtown casino. Turns out, those folks were not stoked on the idea of plopping a casino down north of Broad Street (PDF, p. 12). Additionally, and kind of tangentially, compare and contrast the language used by Superintendent Kamras when talking about exploring year-round school to what the City uses on their Casino page. Here’s Kamras: “For example, we’re looking into whether a year-round calendar might be financially possible and whether that’s something our teachers and families would be interested in pursuing. Note that we won’t make any decisions on this until late winter or early spring, as we of course want to gather a great deal of feedback.” And here’s the City: “To begin the competitive selection process for the operator and site for this resort casino, the administration needs your input. CLICK HERE to take this survey to make sure the Request for Qualifications/Proposals reflects your goals for a new economic development initiative.” As @Kate_Howell_PHD said on Twitter, “Moving around small pieces in a decided plan isn’t community engagement.”Here’s this month’s unemployment insurance claims graph, the shape of which I still find fascinating. The total number of claims has dropped about 26% from the end of October to the end of November. However, at 80,911 total claims, we’re still seeing more than three times the number of weekly claims than we were back in March. 80,000 is a lot of folks.The Washington Post says President-elect Biden will tap Dr. Fauci as his chief medical advisor, which feels reassuring to me. Biden also says he’ll ask Americans to wear masks for the first 100 days he’s in office. I don’t know if he’s planing (or has the authority to implement) a national mask mandate, but, personally, I think we’ll be wearing masks a lot longer than just through the spring. Get yer COVID test! Get yer COVID test, here! Today from 1:00–3:00 PM at the Eastern Henrico Health Department (1400 N. Laburnum Avenue), the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts will host a free, drive-through COVID-19 testing event.This morning’s longreadVerdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and ImpermanenceI continue to love these color essays in The Paris Review. I guess I should just start reading that whole magazine?And Farrow & Ball names are very, very good. Some are whimsical and child-like (like Mole’s Breath or Mouse’s Back), some are charmingly old-fashioned (Lamp Room Gray or Wavet, an “old Dorset term for a spider’s web”); a few are winter vegetables (Cabbage White, Brassica, Broccoli Brown), a few are obviously fancy (Manor House Gray, Mahogany), and many are simply obscure (Incarnadine, Dutch Orange, and Verdigris). Reading through the list reminds me of when I was a child, browsing J. Crew catalogues for overpriced sweaters, wondering what kind of woman would wear a “harvest grape” cashmere shell or a “dusty cobblestone” merino turtleneck. It has the same preppy, old money allure. A person who would paint their bedroom Brinjal (“a sophisticated aubergine”) probably spent their childhood in a house with a drawing room, summering in some coastal region I’ve never heard of, and capering about in child-size loafers. They’re a competent sailor. They have never applied for Obamacare.If you’d like your longread to show up here, go chip in a couple bucks on the ol’ Patreon.

We're replaying some of our favorite car-themed episodes this week, like this one from November 2019, about a vehicle right out of Richard Scarry’s Busytown: the Big Banana Car, which is a 15 foot long banana with four seats on the frame of a Ford F-150. Plus: the Volkspod is a motor scooter made with upcycled parts from old-school Volkswagen Beetles! BigBananaCar.com Michigan trooper pulls over banana car, gives driver $20 (WTHR) Designer Transforms Vintage Volkswagen Beetles into Adorable Minibikes (My Modern Met) Roll on as a Cool Weird Awesome backer on Patreon! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message

Episode #162 of BGMania. This week on the podcast, Bryan is joined by special guest Kyle from The MediaFiles as they discuss and reminisce on early educational games. Enjoy the show! Please send all track requests for future episodes, feedback, comments, questions, and concerns to bgmania@leveldowngames.com The tracklist for today’s episode is as follows: Title Screen (The Oregon Trail) [1985] Ernie's Magic Shapes (Sesame Street: ABC & 123) [1990] Building the House (Richard Scarry's Busytown) [1994] Track 1 (Math Blaster: Episode 1) [1993] Awesome (Lemmings) [1992] Aqua Petzold (Frog Fractions) [2012] Mars (The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System) [1994] Main Theme (Mario Paint) [1992] Castle Theme 1 (Mario is Missing!) [1993] Philadelphia, 1776 A.D. (Mario's Time Machine) [1993] Title Theme (The Great Waldo Search) [1992] Dungeon Theme 1 (Reader Rabbit: Second Grade) [1998] Hall of Silk and Spice (Chill Manor) [1996] Title Theme (The Oregon Trail II) [1995]  CONTACT US   ◘ Website: http://leveldowngames.com/◘ Discord: https://discord.gg/cC73Heu◘ Twitter: https://twitter.com/OriginalLDG◘ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bryan.ldg/◘ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leveldowngaming◘ LDG Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/leveldowngames◘ Dan's Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/kraizd11 AFFILIATE LINKS   Please consider supporting Level Down Games and all of our content by using the following affiliate links. Thanks so much!   ◘ Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/?tag=levdowgam-20◘ Audible: https://amzn.to/2uGf6Rm◘ Green Man Gaming: http://bit.ly/2mwcnpd◘ Fanatical: http://bit.ly/2MGOFFF◘ ORIGIN PC: http://www.originpc.com/?aid=5118◘ RAZER: http://leveldowngames.com/razer  

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Good morning, RVA! It’s 59 °F, and we may see the sun later today! But, beware the wind! We’re under a wind advisory until 4:00 PM, and you should expect 15–25 mph winds with gusts up to 40 mph. After all that rain, some stuff may fall down, and your power could even go out! Saturday and Sunday look pretty rad though.Water coolerPolice are reporting that Leon T. Robinson, 27, was shot to death on the 1600 block of Mechanicsville Turnpike, near the 804 Market, on Wednesday night. This is the fifth murder of 2020.Elections matter, and every single dang day the New Democratic Majority has pushed for consequential laws that make the lives of Virginians better. It’s really been something to watch. Graham Moomaw at the Virginia Mercury says that the House and the Senate have both passed versions of HB 1663, the Virginia Values Act, which “not only adds sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes in housing, employment and public accommodations, it establishes a new framework for people who feel they’ve been discriminated against to take legal action against the offending party.” Those bills still need to do the crossover dance and get signed by the Governor and what not, but seem like they’re in a good place. Of course, there’s more work to be done! Side by Side, an excellent organization focused on creating supportive communities for Virginia’s LGBTQ+ youth, has a couple of ways for you to support HB 145 and SB 161, which direct the Virginia Department of Education to create policies regarding transgender students. You can read an open letter from Side by Side and a bunch of other local, youth-focused organizations about this legislation over on RVA Mag, which you should, because you’ll learn that “according to Side by Side’s November 2019 youth survey, 21% of transgender youth were ‘always’ afraid of getting hurt by someone at school and 72% had some level of fear attending schools in Virginia.” Finally, if you want to get involved in the work to push these bills across the finish line, you can attend an event at Diversity Richmond (Facebook) (1407 Sherwood Ave) this coming Monday, February 10th, from 6:00–7:00 PM.Labor law in Virginia is something I’m still learning about. Growing up in the Commonwealth, I’ve accumulated an insidious internal background noise that whispers bad things about unions. I’m working to get rid of that, and it’s nice to see progress on several pro-labor bills at this year’s General Assembly push my personal conversation, but also the public conversation, on labor forward. In fact, Mayor Stoney has a column in the Washington Post about HB 582 and SB 1022, bills lifting the ban on public-sector collective bargaining. And, like I off-handedly mentioned the other day, Del. Carter’s bill to repeal Right to Work made it out of committee. See previous point about how elections matter.Sarah Vogelsong at the Virginia Mercury has the details on the Virginia Clean Economy Act, which has emerged, fresh and mewling, from the Labor and Commerce Committee and on to the House floor. Again, elections matter! This is, of course, exciting, but I’d still like to see more aggressive transportaiton legislation and funding as it relates to climate change. Transportation is the single largest source of greenhouse gas emissions, and, while electrification is most certainly an important and critical piece of the puzzle, we’ve also got to work hard on policies that incentivize and make it easier (or even possible!) for folks to use their cars less. That’s just the facts, Jack!This Saturday, the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden will host a seed swap from 1:00–3:00 PM! Did you know that Lewis Ginter has a seed library? They totally do and, not to minimize the importance of this work, I think it’s such an awesome Busytown-type thing! The seed swap and seed library (which is in an actual card catalog library box thing) are free for members or included with admission.The Oscars are this coming Sunday, which, if you start right now you should still have enough time to finish The Irishman before showtime. Wikipedia has my preferred list of nominations and eventual winners.This morning’s patron longreadCalifornia, Mired in a Housing Crisis, Rejects an Effort to Ease ItSubmitted by Patron Lisa. California’s legislature once again failed to pass a bill that would allow for dense housing near good transit. The fascinating thing here is the alliance between classic NIMBY folks and the people (legitimately) worried about increased housing costs and getting pushed out beyond the reach of the transit system. In Richmond, of course we need to allow for more, denser housing near our best transit—but we also need to figure out ways to keep some of that housing affordable for a wide range of folks.For years, a determined state senator has pushed a singular vision: a bill challenging California’s devotion to both single-family housing and motor vehicles by stripping away limits on housing density near public transit. Now the state will have to look for other ways to relieve its relentless housing crisis. On Thursday, one day before the deadline for action on the hotly debated bill, it failed to muster majority support in a Senate vote. In the end, in a Legislature where consensus can be elusive despite a lopsided Democratic majority, the effort drew opposition from two key constituencies: suburbanites keen on preserving their lifestyle and less affluent city dwellers seeing a Trojan horse of gentrification. The failure marks the third time since 2018 that State Senator Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat and one of the country’s most outspoken advocates for reforming local zoning laws, has tried and failed to push through a major bill meant to stimulate housing production.If you’d like your longread to show up here, go chip in a couple bucks on the ol’ Patreon.

The busiest travel season of the year is getting underway, so here's a story about a vehicle right out of Richard Scarry’s Busytown: the Big Banana Car, which is a 15 foot long banana with four seats on the frame of a Ford F-150. Plus: the Volkspod is a motor scooter made with upcycled parts from old-school Volkswagen Beetles! BigBananaCar.com Michigan trooper pulls over banana car, gives driver $20 (WTHR) Designer Transforms Vintage Volkswagen Beetles into Adorable Minibikes (My Modern Met) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/coolweirdawesome/message

Do you remember your favorite book as a child? Goodnight Moon, Busytown, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Cat In The Hat... the list goes on and on! Introducing your child to reading brings so many advantages. But what's the best way to go about teaching your kids to read?SHOW NOTES:1:40 - Remembering when you first started reading to your child3:00 - Find something your child is passionate about and get books on that topic4:45 - Get books that are on your child's comprehension and readingn level5:20 - Hands on kids might enjoy reading to dogs!7:25 - Reading every night before bed is a good pattern to establish9:00 - Soon your kids will suprise you with how much they are reading10:50 - Hurdles you face encouraging and teaching your child to read are common to most parents13:15 - Rewards! BookIt and other programs are great motivators16:00 - Offer to help with their book reports and essays - don't do it all for them, but help18:00 - Continue to introduce new content, and expand their scope of what is available19:45 - Former President Harry S. Truman said, "not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers."20:15 - The Hosts give some of their best reading recommendations!24:30 - If you have little ones, one book you must get a copy of is...26:35 - TakeawaysFeedback, or Show Ideas? Send an email to podcast@887thebridge.comDownload The Bridge Mobile App to get the latest podcast episodes as soon as they are published!Please share The Bridge Podcast with a friend if you enjoyed this episode. Podcast Sponsored by Boardwalk Plaza Hotel and Victoria's Restaurant

Make sure you are seated in an upright position while listening to this episode. We travel way way down memory lane as we discuss the vital importance of Cheerios and the merits of clear packaging. After a quick return through Busytown, we do a skills quiz to determine if we are mature enough for these snacks. The answer may surprise you.

On the peninsula of a peninsula, in the northwest of the Northwest, there is a town whose citizens pride themselves on being masters of trade; and that trade is less commodity and more currency. Some call it Busytown, others refer to it as Lynchian; we called it home for a month, while Andrew renovated Vantasia.Today we head to Port Townsend, and tell stories of tazing deer, a boat race to Alaska, a family who dresses as superheroes, feasting on roadkill, and me slowly losing my mind in a cabin in the woods.Our Americana is hosted by Josh HallmarkSponsor Our Americana at www.patreon.com/ouramericana -or- www.our-americana.com/podcastThis week's guests: Erica Dirksen, Matthew Nienow, and Xep CampbellMusic by: Dave Depper, Will Bangs, Alex Fitch, Podington Bear, and DR

This week, we’re excited to talk to Katie Kirsch and Jenna Leonardo, co-founders of Girls Driving for a Difference. Jenna, Katie and their teammates Rachel Chung and Natalya Thakur are embarking on a journey to empower middle-school girls through design thinking workshops across the country this summer. Their passion is clear and we hope you’re as inspired by their mission as we are. We love their perspective on the age-old question: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Find out more about Girls Driving for a Difference on their Kickstarter page: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1066334211/girls-driving-for-a-difference-a-design-studio-on And follow them on Twitter: @girlsdrivingfor. Diego calls in from the TED conference in Vancouver, BC and gives us an insider view into what actually happens on the ground (hint: it looks just like Richard Scarry’s Busytown). Some of his highlights included: - June Cohen: https://twitter.com/junecohen - Elora Hardy: http://ibuku.com/ - Theaster Gates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theaster_Gates - But most of all, Moon Hooch! (Watch here: https://youtu.be/wwBhxBBa7tE) You’ll also get a sneak peek of next week’s HMW, as Diego and Joe dip their toes into Meerkat. Not this meerkat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meerkat). This Meerkat! (http://meerkatapp.co/) And, of course, a fresh dose of VDTBOM (venture design that blew our mind). Like what you've heard? Not so much? Either way, please follow us on Twitter, @ideofutures, to send us a tweet or shoot us an email at futures@ideo.com. And as always, the IDEO Futures podcast is available on iTunes. Please subscribe here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ideo-futures-king-ship/id938339249?mt=2 Thank you for listening!

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about surveillance on Main Street and China, reader mail about cutting costs in the DOD, and three new additions to the Security Doghouse. Candid photo of Sparky. Ohio is cold in the winter: Akron and Cuyahoga Falls close ice rinks because of cold weather D&G Hobby of the week: FPV Quadcopter Racing See also Cheerson CX10 Mini LED RC Quadcopter and cx10_redtx D&G This Week in Irony: Cops decry Waze traffic app as a “police stalker” DEA Cameras Tracking Hundreds of Millions of Car Journeys Across the US More details and pics here Meanwhile: Delaware eyes digital driver’s licenses Cop who stole nude pics off arrested women’s phones gets no jail time Everybody wants backdoors: China’s New Rules for Selling Tech to Banks Have US Companies Spooked Great Firewall of China, weaponized Camfrog DMCA’s themselves D&G Security Doghouse: Gogo issues fake HTTPS certificate to users visiting YouTube Meet KeySweeper, the $10 USB charger that steals MS keyboard strokes NFL app sends user names, passwords, & email addresses as clear text Marriott Testing In-Room Access To Netflix, Hulu, And Other Streaming Services Windows 10 free for all Windows 8.1 and 7 users for first year after release Apple anticipates Gunnar’s “consumption tools” worry. Crunchy and Red Hat on PostgreSQL on OpenShift Security Announcements Update on FIPS 140-2 plans GHOST: Get it? Reading David Wheeler has a new paper on container security Probably the best whitepaper you’ll ever read on Red Hat middleware General Justice, on the record Dave on containers and RHEL 7 To-Do Matt Micene is nominee for Opensource.com 2015 People’s Choice Awards Vote for us on iTunes, while you’re at it Dan Benjamin’s Podcast Method told us this is a good idea. OpenShift is InfoWorld technology of the year Purdue now has a “Red Hat Doctoral Researcher in Open Innovation Communities“ When the European Space Agency needs a cloud, the come to Red Hat Kim Kardashian’s Butt delivered by Gluster D&G Coincidence of the Week: There’s a real company called Cyberdyne who makes HAL [Hybrid Assistive Limb], the world‘s first cyborg-type robot, by which a wearer‘s bodily functions can be improved, supported and enhanced See also: The Open Prosthetics Project Nick Bostrom is a tremendous thinker, and is creating the antidote to Skynet Cutting Room Floor 10 Funnier Alternatives to Lorem Ipsum Marshmallow Farming.Too much rain ruins marshmallow crop in North Carolina Christmas Serial (ft. Amy Adams Golden Globe® 2015 Winner) – Saturday Night Live Moon: The star or planet debate 15 Unique Illnesses You Can Only Come Down With in German Slackbot Bot Turns A Roomba And A Tornado Siren Into A Wonky Little Robot That DJs And Gives High Fives BusinessTown: Richard Scarry’s Busytown for the Modern Age 10 Things You Won’t Be Able To Do Anymore If SkyMall Goes Away Let’s watch an SLR work at 10,000 frames per second. We Give Thanks Sparky for the mailbag letter!

Movie Meltdown - Episode 85.1  With this episode we kick off our new series GREEDO BLOODY GREEDO or "The Other Films of Maria de Aragon". So we begin with our geek activities, then into the movie news for the week, and round out the episode with our interview with Maria de Aragon herself. And somewhere amongst the tangents, we discuss... Waterworld, being up in arms about the Wendy’s girl, sensationalizing serial killers, Andrew Garfield??, Black Lightning, Dennis Hopper is freakin’ amazing, Lowly Worm is the f-ing man!, that scary little ginger kid, Dahmer, Adventuretime, don’t sully the fine name of Dushku, that movie about the seal, screaming tomatoes, the return of Pee Wee, babysitting movies, catching up on Dexter, being obsessed with Drake Bell, trying to cut your own finger off, someone stop Carrot Top, watching Harold and Kumar as you are bleeding, the NEW Spider-Man, Problem Child - cinematic masterpiece?, revitalizing the serial killer industry, I hate people with pinchy faces, Judd Apatow, Natural Born Killers, Busytown, Robots, watching the O.J. trial, encroaching upon my geek territory, twisted cartoons not necessarily for kids, If he can’t shoot webs out of his hand who gives a F what this loser is doing!, my hat is also my toilet, Rocko’s Modern Life warping my childhood, everybody pleases themselves, Danville girl, hot Sméagol action, ruining it for the rest of the ginger kids and a spoiler alert for Angus?? “Dr. Phil and Gollum scare me more than anything.”