You’ve got the latest episode of Binary Jazz! Your favorite Zoom meeting that you don’t have to personally attend! In this episode we talk about Zoom purgatory, going to concerts again, trapping a bishop, M*A*S*H and Stockholm syndrome.

* Episode 1010011: Coruscation (Binary Jazz)* ‘F-ck It, We Might as Well Make a Horror Movie’: Dave Grohl on New Rock & Roll Chiller ‘Studio 666’ (Rolling Stone)* Sous vide (Wikipedia)* Episode 1000000: En-passant (Binary Jazz)* Suet (Wikipedia)* Resident Alien (SYFY)* M*A*S*H (Wikipedia)* insouciance (Wiktionary)* Utah Governor Spencer Cox’s insouciance regarding COVID restrictions (SLTrib.com)* Stockholm syndrome (Wikipedia)

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This week, we eschew topics in favor of answering the important questions, like what our neighbors think about us, objects in space and Chris’ Kickstarted wallet. Also: becoming caricatures of ourselves and things that aren’t great for audio-only format.

* WebOps Wednesday AMA: Chris Reynolds – Ask me about WordPress, RPGs, podcasting, 3d printing, DJing or whatever you like! (Pantheon Community)* The Number One Reason White Men Give For Not Getting Involved With Diversity and Inclusion (Pocket)* Garfield minus Garfield * Red (Taylor’s Version) (Wikipedia)* Tom Waits – “What’s He Building?” (YouTube)

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In this episode, we talk about developer interview coding tests, the range of habitability in planets, the noble Johari people, the Luigi Window, how age affects pizza consumption, NASCAR and how many frames are in an episode of Binary Jazz.

* Fizz Buzz (Wikipedia)* Fibonacci Number (Wikipedia)* AeroGarden* Farm 24 (AeroGarden.com)* Harvest Elite Slim (AeroGarden.com)* Johari Window (Wikipedia)* Johari Window test (kevan.org)

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Welcome to Binary Jazz! In this episode we talk about Russian spam, making friends at work, prefixing things with “psycho-” and we let our day jobs show a bit by talking about WordPress.

* The Mitchells vs. the Machines (Wikipedia)* BoltsNBytes SE02 EP01: WordPress 5.9 Update + Pantheon Gift of Open Source 2021 Recap (YouTube)* WordPress 5.9: Full Site Editing Is Here (Pantheon.io)* Do you still need to create a Child Theme for WordPress 5.9 Twenty Twenty-Two? (Quora)* Psychopomp (Wikipedia)* Mythology: “Psychopomps, Border Crossers and Guiders of Souls”🌟 (La Audacia de Aquiles)

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We’re back again, did you miss us? In this episode, we discuss the wibbly-wobbly time of 2020/2021, unicode characters, catching mice, the difference between idioms and clichés, CompUSA, Gary buys an exorbitantly large TV and horrible kids YouTube.

* LingoJam (lingojam.com)* FancyTextGenerator (lingojam.com)* The Internet’s Best List of Clichés (prowritingaid.com)* What is a cliché (Google)* What is an idiom (Google)* Thought-Terminating Clichés (Wikipedia)* Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell (Harper-Collins)* How Cultish Language Shuts Down Conversation in DEIB (Alida Miranda-Wolff)

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Starting 2022 right with a topic that is familiar to at least 2 of the 3 hosts of Binary Jazz. Also, math, reviewing our review of The Sharper Image and vibrators and why we probably won’t be partaking of podcasting editing services anytime soon.

Podcaster’s note: We apologize for introducing this episode and season by saying Binary Jazz is “three years running.” This, like most things on this podcast, is incorrect. In fact, we have been recording for 4 years, since 2018, and 2022 will be our fifth year. Unfortunately, because 2020 took a toll on all of our brains, we failed to acknowledge what would otherwise have been the changeover from Season 3 to Season 4, making this Season 5. A lot of things went wrong in 2020 and many have felt like 2021 was just 2020 all over again, so I’m sure you’ll understand the mixup. Nevertheless, this vital piece of information was miscommunicated, and for this egregious error, we humbly ask forgiveness.

* Barefoot Running (binaryjazz.us)* Carnivàle (HBO)* Baskets (Wikipedia)* Kevin Can F*** Himself (Wikipedia)* Too Many Cooks (Wikipedia)* BinJazzConf 2021 (binaryjazz.us)

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Allison, unfortunately, had internet issues this week, but Gary and Chris plowed bravely forward without her, answering some questions she had submitted earlier in the year, and looking at The Sharper Image 2021 Holiday Gift Guide for all of your winter holiday gift exchange needs.

Thank you for joining us this season and year and we look forward to seeing you next year!

* BinJazzConf 2021 (binaryjazz.us)* Gary’s BinJazzConf talk (YouTube)* Wikipedia Wiki Game (Wikipedia)* My Brother, My Brother and Me (Maximum Fun)* List of All Final Yahoo Questions (My Brother, My Brother and Me Wiki)* Home Alone (IMDb)* 2004 Chrysler PT Cruiser: Regular Car Reviews (YouTube)* The Good Place (Wikipedia)* Sharper Image Personal Massager (The Sharper Image)* Lelo (lelo.com)* Heated Personal Massager (The Sharper Image)

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Our first ever (virtual) conference! OMGWTFBBQ!!! 😱

This episode is our first ever BinJazzConf to close out 2021. You can read more about BinJazzConf on our BinJazzConf page and talks are described on the schedule page. We had a great time sharing our thoughts about tarot, the space race, Dungeons & Dragons and had our first-ever guest to talk about Japanese knives!

* Robin Hamill – The beauty of Japanese knives, and other tools (YouTube)* Allison Tarr – The fool’s journey (YouTube)* Gary Kovar – Blame the space race: trumpism, school shootings, enron, global warming, the war on terror, and systemic racism (YouTube)* Chris Reynolds – Why you should care about Dungeons & Dragons (and play it too!) (YouTube)

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In this Thanksgiving special episode, we talk about our favorite Thanksgiving foods (or Thanksgiving foods that Chris missed out on), hypothesize that the topic of the week is a hardened outer shell and read some spam! Also, Gary muses on anti-capitalism and a Christmas parade in November and Chris describes his recent visit to Meow Wolf Las Vegas.

* Rhubarb (Wikipedia)* Michael Jackson ONE (Cirque du Soleil)* Area 15 (area15.com)* Meow Wolf (meowwolf.com)* Meow Wolf Las Vegas (Omega Mart) (meowwolf.com)* Meow Wolf Beer Available Now! (meowwolf.com)* Omega Mart (omegamart.com)* DramCorp (the fake company that owns Omega Mart) (dramcorp.com)* City Museum (citymuseum.org)* Glaucous (Wikipedia)* BinJazzConf (binaryjazz.us)* Submit your topic for BinJazzConf and become a speaker!

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Welcome back, binary jazzers. This time, we confront challenging topics like craft projects, Halloween costumes, things that are better when other people do them for you, enforced dates, sports fanbases and ignoring doctrine. Also, Chris brings the topic back to Dungeons & Dragons and Great Baking Shows.

* BinJazzConf 2021 (binaryjazz.us)* Michael’s (michaels.com)* Chris’ family Halloween costumes & carved pumpkins (Instagram)* Richard Petty (Wikipedia)* Phrontistery pronunciation (definitions.net)* Jason Mendoza (The Good Place Wiki) (fandom.com)* University of Redlands (redlands.edu)* Phylactery (Forgotten Realms Wiki) (fandom.com)* phrontistery (Merriam Webster)* The Great American Baking Show (Wikipedia)* The Great Canadian Baking Show (CBC.ca)* Noel Fielding (Wikipedia)

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