Barely Domesticated

In our final episode of 2013 Adam is back for another visit. This week he and Jack discuss more about gender issues in comics and Paul Dini’s recent comments. Plus music, race relations, a tiny bit about that Duck Dynasty mess, and more.

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This week Nick returns to join Jack in a discussion about the youtube content ID fiasco. Then they unveil the first news about their upcoming H. P. Lovecraft inspired ebook/yoga project. … Yes. H.P. Lovecraft inspired yoga, you do not need to make a san check. You read that correctly.

This week, due to a problem with the recording of the episode that was scheduled to happen with Adam, Jack is forced to fly solo and try and do an episode entirely by himself. He procedes to rant about Alan Moore and comic books.

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This week: continuing the conversation with Dave from last week:

Proof of the real reason for the joy of the season.

Solar windows on the Swisstech Convention Center

3D printed Casts

Balmer’s Goodbye Speech

Soylent

Cleaning a coffee pot

… look folks, no one ever said this show was going to stay on topic. It’s called Barely Domesticated for a reason.

So this episode (featuring Dave for the first time) is a little all over the place. And that’s the way (uh-huh, uh-huh) we like it. So here’s links to many of the things we talk about this week:

Jack’s favorite bread recipe

Magnetic finger implants (warning: contains video of what I can only assume is a total badass performing the surgery on himself … ON HIMSELF!) via IO9

Peachy Printer (see video below)

And more!

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Happy Turkey day! (gobble gobble)

This week Troythulu joins Jack to geek out and celebrate the upcoming 50th Anniversary Doctor Who Special.

Links of goodness:

The Night of the Doctor Minisode:

Random aside …. has anyone noticed that in the first episode of the reboot the Doctor was at the Kennedy assassination, and we know from Quantum Leap that so was Sam Beckett … so maybe the Doctor was just evaluating him to see if he was ready to fly the Enterprise? Just a thought.

This week we continue with Rusty and Jack’s talk about makers and maker culture.  We also kind of start to touch on some foodie issues which are bound to come up again in future shows and we’ll likely devote a whole episode to it sooner or later.

Also, as promised Rusty was able to get pics of the antique pinball collection we were talking about in episode 6. So here’s some serious old-timey nerd eye-candy for y’all.

No links this week. Next week: Geeking out ahead of the Dr. Who 50th anniversary special with one of my favorite fellow fanboys, and fractal maker extrodanare the mighty Troythulu from My Horrific Elegance and The Call of Troythulu. So be sure and come back for that.

Pics below, click on the thumbnails to see the full images:

This week Rusty is back with Jack to talk about maker culture and the wonders of do-it-yourself.

Shownote Links:

Books of note in the discussion: 507 Mechanical Movements

Pocket Ref

Gingery Publishing

Make Magazine

(For those who are interested, yes. Rusty is working on getting pictures of the pinball machines he talked about, so keep an eye out for updates to the show notes, or if it takes that long, check out next week’s. He’s pretty sure he’ll have them to me by then. – Jack)

Adam and Jack go a little off the rails talking scary movies in our first halloween episode.

Link to the cracked video Jack mentions: http://www.cracked.com/video_18436_after-hours-camping-5Bplaceholder5D.html

The commercial that made Jack think the Snuggle Bear should be a horror movie character: http://youtu.be/21enL05x0_U?t=26s

In a lot of ways this episode is a long time in the making. I’ve known Rusty for well over a decade and long rambling speculative conversations about technology have always been a hallmark of our friendship. We dormed together at college and one of the things we would often do was record those talks, though with our college budgets and late 90’s equipment it wasn’t on computers, over wi-fi signals, on opposite ends of the country. We would sit on the floor of a 10’x14′ dorm room and record everything on a micro-cassette recorder. Two actually, we each had one. I believe those tapes are still tucked somewhere in a box at the bottom of a closet.

Even though this is episode 4 of Barely Domesticated and in the intervening time we’ve graduated, moved across the country (or didn’t), gotten married (or didn’t), had other podcasts (or didn’t), and built careers having Rusty on feels more like a return to form. Though no one ever heard those episodes besides us (and I assure you, that’s probably for the best).

Also, somewhere in the second-half Rusty throws out a joking challenge to our listeners … having known him as long as I have there is no doubt in my mind that if someone actually takes him up on it that he will honor it, for whatever that’s worth. It’s rather silly. But silly is good.

Alright panted primates, enough sentimentalizing let’s get to it. next week Adam is back for the Halloween show so be sure and come back for that. Enjoy the show and thanks for listening.