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Emory’s stuff

• X100S is a dope camera and you want one (probably)

• misadventures in:

  • ZFS

  • Lawn Mowers

• baby’s first birfday

• my underwear mis-hap

Alan’s stuff

• how to get a leg up on a car dealership

• got a new wallet

  • Bellroy Hide and Seek in Java

  • http://bellroy.com/wallets/hide-and-seek-wallet

    • Emory got his wife a new wallet too, but very different: the Ridge

      • http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/124039987/the-bridge-front-pocket-wallet

• LETTERPRESS UPDATE

  • I am now losing, but not to Emory

Guest Review: Goodwill Boutique

• John Duksta, Goodwill Expert

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/jccd/sets/72157633649473878/with/8718010902/

Yahoo! in ur Flickr, also in ur Tumblr

• Big changes to Flickr

  • no more Pro plans (but grandfathers are OK)

• Tumblr acquisition

  • massive influx of new Yahoo! users

  • 1.1B cash deal

  • arguably as important as Twitter and Facebook

XBone

• it’s a thing

Check out the show notes after the break…

Emory’s stuff

• muuuuuuh!

• my daughter’s first birthday

• the inscrutable puzzle of the Keekaroo

• x100s shipping next week, after Shavuot of course

• kvet.ch is back on the wordpress machine

Alan’s stuff

• apartment hunting part deux

  • Craigslist

  • IFTTT

  • Zillow

  • Padmapper

  • pretty much everything

  • it’s like applying for college

• reviewed: Little Caesar’s Pizza

• allergies and Zyrtec

• EVE Online

• I’m still kicking Emory’s ass at Letterpress and he refuses to lose gracefully

  • I’m sparring intensely at Letterpress with listener Adam

Computing

• Samsung’s copyright (and EXIF) #fail

  • http://petapixel.com/2013/05/08/samsung-sorry-for-using-photographers-nikon-photo-in-advertisement/

• Adobe’s Creative Cloud

  • new software-as-a-service model

  • monthly subscription

    • http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/buying-guide.html

  • EVERYBODY PANIC!111

• MSFT going after nook?

  • http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/05/microsoft-looks-to-get-nook-all-to-itself-for-1-billion/

  • B&N shares jump 20%

• A new-new Windows?

  • Windows Blue

  • http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/may/07/microsoft-redesign-windows-8

Entertainment

• Storage Wars: Yuuuuup-less

• Games

  • Mass Effect 3, after playing Mass Effect and Mass Effect 2

  • EA getting Star Wars

• Diablo 3 gold rush

  • http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/05/diablo-iii-auctions-remain-closed-as-blizzard-conducts-thorough-audit/

miss you, grampa

• http://kvet.ch/post/remembering-grampa/

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Emory’s stuff

• my glorious Kitten-face Tee

• adventures in Find my iPhone

• Camera Purchased: Fujifilm X100s

• The terrible ordeal of the backorder

• a missing SD card and Amazon’s amazing customer service

• finally, something other than black market narcotics with BitCoins!

• Someone is wrong on the Internet: Facebook and gun control

Alan’s stuff

• iPhone 5

• Passbook is glorious

• Downcast is the best podcast app, probably

• T-Mobile is rocking it

• unlimited 4G, no contract, awesome salesperson

• MLB TV / MLB At Bat on iOS over 4G is the future of baseball

• I’m still kicking Emory’s ass at Letterpress and he refuses to lose gracefully

Computing

• Ubuntu 13.04

• Some interesting tuning to the Unity desktop environment

• Better window snap

• Faster interface behavior

• Online Accounts dashboard (similar to the Mail Contacts & Calendars preference pane in OS X)

• Social accounts and lenses

• http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/tag/raring-ringtail

• and in general, why http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/ is great

• Wunderlist Pro

• Finally, a business model for the best free tasks & projects tool

• http://www.tuaw.com/2013/04/25/6wunderkinder-brings-new-pro-features-to-its-wunderlist-task-man/

• speaking of, emory finally got into the OmniFocus test group!

Entertainment

• TV

• Netflix is bigger than HBO

• http://mashable.com/2013/04/23/netflix-hbo-brief/

• new family plans for 4 streams

• Game of Thrones

• Games

• Mass Effect 2 on PSN

• LOL China

• Apple fined for copyright infringement. IN CHINA.

• http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/04/apple-faces-118000-fine-in-china-for-e-book-copyright-infringement/

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Emory’s stuff

• Shut up, North Korea

• Homescreens

  • http://www.homescreen.me/explore

  • (emory’s photostream: http://cl.ly/3E1c2d34070W)

• Entertaining air travel tips

  • http://brettterpstra.com/2013/03/10/8-tips-for-flying-comfortably-in-economy-seating/

  • somewhat anti-social but that doesn’t concern me in the least

• My so-far failing garage project

• my Flavours disaster that almost made me cry

• With so many social networks, why am I still in the dark about people I care about?

  • also, why I am mad at Facebook today

Alan’s stuff

• StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm

• trampoline

  • http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0030E6O30/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

• Goodwill adventures

Windows 8: is it really that bad?

• Sales slump for PC makers

  • http://bigstory.ap.org/article/research-firm-pc-sales-plunge-windows-8-flops

Car Hacks

• Automatic

  • ODB2 for regular people

Fridge Hacks

• Your disgusting left-overs are going to kill you

• Just freeze it!

Entertainment

• TV

  • Game of Thrones

  • Aereo is still alive and kicking

    • http://blog.aereo.com/2013/04/aereo-prevails-part-ii/

• Games

  • Mass Effect on PSN

  • LucasArts is closed

    • http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/3/4179386/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-plans-to-license-star-wars-brand-to-others

• Iran

  • Time machine!

  • http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/9985757/Iranian-scientist-claims-to-have-invented-time-machine.html

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Emory’s stuff

• Florida is nice

• My pile of things to do and read on vacation

  • Library ++

• Liz’s new cards from Moo

• Paperless and a scan-a-polooza

  • https://github.com/joeworkman/paperless

Alan’s stuff

• Fiasco review

  • http://www.bullypulpitgames.com/games/fiasco/

Travel

Emory’s Florida and all the ways it was an inconvenience.

• Before you leave

  • I’d like to travel lighter

    • Leave the laptop, take the iPad #godfather

  • Luggage scales

    

  • Media connection kits for in-room TV

• The flight out

  • The people on my flight

• Shoplifting against my will

• ICFA

• Orlando Airport Marriott

  • LodgeNet sucks

  • Attitude Café

  • Diet Mountain Dew is very rare

  • AT&T WiFi

    • lick it, AT&T

  • The tornado lady

  • Allegiant can also please lick it

Entertainment

• TV: Enlightened

• TV: Game of Thrones

  • Winter is coming

• Games

  • Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance for PS3

  • Infamous 2: the only reason to own a Playstation Move

• where we’re finding our Missed Connections

• http://incumbent.org/post/looking-for-love-in-the-worst-possible-places

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Emory’s stuff

• Massive grats, Dennis and Wednesday!
• Testing Office365’s Email service
• Google Reader we hardly knew ye
  • http://feedafever.com
• Domain/website re-org redux, episode 18
  • emory.kvet.ch: the tumblr
  • incumbent.org: the homepage
    • TBD: what am I going to do with kvet.ch and yeol.de
• autobahn going lights-out at the end of the month
• the case of the swollen MacBook Air

Alan’s stuff

• SimCity
• Onkyo TX-NR616
• Diet A&W

Ermagerd, Hackerz

• China out of New York Times
• RATting
  • malware and “remote access” tools
  • … and the pervs that love them.  http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/rat-breeders-meet-the-men-who-spy-on-women-through-their-webcams/
• disable Java if you want to live
  • If you need to run Java desktop software, keep your JVM, but if you don’t know what a JVM is you can remove it.
  • If you must have a JVM, disable the Java browser extensions if your browser hasn’t done it for you.  It’s as dangerous as Adobe Flash. (zomg)

• backdoored networking gear
  • http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/01/backdoors-found-in-barracuda-networks-gear/

Entertainment

• The ePad Femme!
  • http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/03/finally-a-tablet-simple-enough-for-a-woman-to-use-sarcasm/
• TiVo Mini and TiVo Stream
  • http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/technology/personaltech/pogue-tivo-mini-stream-review.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

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Emory’s stuff

• Sometimes being household tech support is interesting!
• Office365 looks good enough for human consumption
• a very trying couple of weeks, but nbd I got this
• Han Solo is coming back
  • http://laughingsquid.com/harrison-ford-returning-to-star-wars-as-han-solo/
• House of Cards

Alan’s stuff

• iPad mini
• World of Warcraft (Cataclysm and Mists of Pandaria)
• Letterpress

Shopping for a Bed

• Everything is on sale
  • http://mattressscam.com/
• The names of the mattresses change but the product is the same
• Nervous about stepping down to a Queen

PlayStation 4

• it’s a thing

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Emory’s stuff

• I have a cold. A-GAIN.
• the Fujifilm Fever
• OmniFocus 2 is coming
  • other coolness: OmniPrescence

Alan’s stuff

• http://tiltingatpixels.com
• Fire Emblem: Awakening for 3DS
• House of Cards

gaming news

• Valve sacked some people
  • http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/13/valve-gabe-newell-layoffs-statement
  • http://www.examiner.com/article/valve-fires-self-taught-engineer-jeri-ellsworth
• new alternate console platforms
  • http://www.ouya.tv
  • http://www.xi3.com/news.php?id=829

evasi0n jailbreak

• http://evasi0n.com
• favorite iOS jailbreak apps and tweaks
  • carla theme: http://macthemes.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16812436)
  • f.lux: http://stereopsis.com/flux/
  • bytafont
  • activator, to call up Launch with a swipe up

Sleep Studies

• Emory’s so tired
  • American medicine is nothing special.
• Had a sleep study
  • Getting glue in your hair
  • worst. sleep. ever.
• How to track sleep
  • Sleep Cycle for iOS
  • FitBit One
    • Not as reliable in Emory’s opinion

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Emory’s stuff

• I’ve been playing FTL (Thanks, Alan!)
  • … and Homeworld 2 via VMware
  • … and a trial account of Eve Online
• migration of media from nas01 to nas02 on freenas is complete
• I’m learning the ukulele

Alan’s stuff

• I have rediscovered eBay
  • Dreamcast has been purchased
• Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch
• J.R. Watkins hand soap
  • http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002XDQIVC/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B002XDQIVC&linkCode=as2&tag=hellyeahshow-20
• Safety Not Guaranteed

Shut up about Unlocking Phones being Illegal

• How to avoid the issue entirely (and why you probably won’t)
• Bigger issue is the use of the DMCA, but the Library of Congress still says you can jailbreak your handsets
• Who made the Library of Congress in charge anyway

BlackBerry 10

• This is probably the worst product launch I’ve ever seen /emory
• Focus on media and software
• two devices?  have they not heard of BYOD?
• The importance of presentation skills
• All comes down to execution
  • they’re right that
  • Alicia fucking keys, ladies and gentlemen
    • Business phone and Play phone? wat.
  • REALL Y DRAMATIC VIDEO FOOTAGE OF FAMOUS PEOPLE
  • “KEEP MOVING PROJECT”

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Emory’s stuff

• Flu Shots are weak sauce
• Built a FreeNAS fileserver
• Arq (by Haystack Software http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/) saved the day for Liz
• Waiting for Californication and Shameless to start on Sunday
• Storage Wars: New York

Alan’s stuff

• new bag: David King & Co Large Distressed Leather Laptop Messenger
  • http://www.amazon.com/David-King-Distressed-Leather-Messenger/dp/B002NGD4P2
• installed Windows 8 on my desktop PC
• bought a whole lot of games in the Steam sale
• the McRib

Christmas Movies We’ve Known and Loved

• Home Alone
• Die Hard
• The Ref
• The Santa Clause
• White Christmas

Alan’s Games of the Year 2012

• Game of the Year: Crusader Kings II
• http://www.giantbomb.com/profile/thisisalan/goty-2012/46-80932/

Photography News

• Nik Software Bundle for Aperture (and Lightroom) is boss
• Fuji’s new cameras look great, but will they work with computers
• Emory’s RAW rage