Breadcrumbs

Breadcrumbs

By Elias Lanz & Sean LunsfordSociety & Culture
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Breadcrumbs episodes

  • 28: I Love Some Clever Lawyers

    Elias and Sean take on the topic of security versus privacy, from the Apple-FBI showdown to Snowden's email and national security letters – how much access the government should be given to their citizens' lives, and what it means when they go too far.

    Links and Show Notes

    • Elias Lanz on Twitter: "A new calendar in my home office https://t.co/eUDyUA1rxN"
    • FBI--Apple encryption dispute - Wikipedia
    • Should all locks have keys? Phones, Castles, Encryption, and You. - YouTube
    • Footnote *: I, Phone - YouTube
    • Rahm's Rule: 'Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste' | PERC -- The Property and Environment Research Center
    • Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists - Wikipedia
    • 60 Words - Radiolab
    • The Incomparable | All About Evey (Episode 338)
    • Privacy International - Wikipedia
    • Lavabit
    • National security letter - Wikipedia
    • Daring Fireball: Reddit's Warrant Canary Just Died
    • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm Sean - @splunsford Elias - @muffinworks

      Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

      1 hr 9 min
    • 28: I Love Some Clever Lawyers
      Elias and Sean take on the topic of security versus privacy, from the Apple-FBI showdown to Snowden's email and national security letters – how much access the government should be given to their citizens' lives, and what it means when they go too far.
      1 hr 9 min
    • 27: Some Funky Drone Show

      Elias and Sean talk about the Super Bowl—from American football to Lady Gaga to Budweiser—and then talk a bit about following sports in general.

      Links and Show Notes

      • H.I. #77: Woah, Dude -- Hello Internet -- Limericks at 1:31:27
      • The One About Pens -- Rands in Repose
      • The Pen Addict #240: A Mythical Colorful Bird - Relay FM
      • uni-ball 207 Retractable Gel Pens, Ultra Micro Point (0.38mm), Black, 12 Count: Office Products - Amazon.com
      • Pilot Metropolitan Collection Fountain Pen, Black Barrel, Classic Design, Fine Nib, Black Ink (91111): Office Products - Amazon.com
      • Kaweco Sport Skyline Fountainpen grey EF (extra fine) : Office Products - Amazon.com
      • Brady Haran on Twitter: "Guess I can go to bed then. https://t.co/ExfcJVW0bk"
      • Left Shark - Wikipedia
      • Budweiser 2017 Super Bowl Commercial | "Born The Hard Way" - YouTube
      • Journey 84 | 84 Lumber Super Bowl Commercial
      • Stranger Things 2 | Super Bowl 2017 Ad | Netflix - YouTube
      • Microsoft Outlook - email and calendar
      • IFTTT
      • Launch Center Pro - Shortcut launcher & workflows
      • Workflow: Powerful Automation Made Simple
      • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm Sean - @splunsford Elias - @muffinworks

        Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

        1 hr 28 min
      • 26: The Long-Windestest Ever

        Elias and Sean talk about books—ebooks versus paper, Kindle versus iBooks, highlights and marginalia, and audiobooks. Plus an aside on podcasts in which Elias may have been talked into switching podcast apps.

        Links and Show Notes

        • Knights and Merchants: The Shattered Kingdom - Wikipedia
        • Breadcrumbs T-shirts
        • Three Investigators - Wikipedia
        • Sony Reader - Wikipedia
        • Kobo eReaders (nope, not Sony)
        • Amazon.com: Kindle E-readers: Kindle Store
        • H.I. #26: Brady Had Dinner With Darth Vader -- Hello Internet -- Overcast -- Grey hates the Kindle Voyage (57:45)
        • H.I. #39: Getting Things Done
        • Dieter Rams: As Little Design as Possible by Sophie Lovell & Jonathan Ive on iBooks
        • The Making of Star Wars (Enhanced Edition) by J.W. Rinzler & Peter Jackson on iBooks
        • The Making of The Empire Strikes Back (Enhanced Edition) by J.W. Rinzler & Ridley Scott on iBooks
        • The Making of Return of the Jedi (Enhanced Edition) by J.W. Rinzler & Brad Bird on iBooks
        • Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Deluxe (Enhanced Edition) by Betty Edwards on iBooks
        • Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words: Randall Munroe: Amazon.com: Books
        • The Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens: Phil Szostak, Lucas Film Ltd.: Amazon.com: Books
        • The Art of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story: LucasFilm Ltd, Josh Kushins: Amazon.com: Books
        • Star Wars: The Force Awakens The Visual Dictionary: Pablo Hidalgo: Amazon.com: Books
        • Star Wars: The Force Awakens Incredible Cross-Sections: Jason Fry, Kemp Remillard: Amazon.com: Books
        • Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide: Pablo Hidalgo: Amazon.com: Books
        • Star Wars: Complete Locations: Amazon.com: Books
        • The Design of Everyday Things (iBooks/Kindle)
        • PDF Expert
        • The Focus Course
        • Books To Base Your Life on (The Reading List) - RyanHoliday.net
        • Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator (iBooks/Kindle)
        • An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth (Audible/Kindle)
        • Creativity, Inc. (Audible/Kindle)
        • Overcast
        • Castro
        • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm Sean - @splunsford Elias - @muffinworks

          Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

          1 hr 41 min
        • 25: The Guy We Went to for Worms

          This week, Elias and Sean talk about video games on a variety of console/computer/handheld systems—starting with games they grew up with, and then talking about what they're playing now.

          Links and Show Notes

          • Jason's Podcasting Setup + Skype Recording -- MuffinWorks
          • The Most Important Checklist in My Life -- MuffinWorks
          • Jordan's Mini Metro end game
          • Reconcilable Differences #8: Devouring Essence - Relay FM -- Destiny discussion begins at 42:22 (Overcast link)
          • The Incomparable | Journey: Then We Touched, Then We Sang (Episode 108)
          • Games mentioned (in order of appearance):
            • Day of the Tentacle
            • Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis
            • Legend of Sherwood
            • I SPY: Treasure Hunt
            • Minesweeper
            • Solitaire
            • Spider Solitaire
            • Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?
            • Sim City
            • Theme Hospital
            • Age of Empires
            • Age of Mythology
            • Knights and Merchants
            • Stronghold
            • Warfare Incorporated (App Store)
            • Red Alert
            • Need for Speed
            • Splashdown
            • Star Wars: Battlefront
            • Lord of the Rings:
              • The Two Towers/The Return of the King
              • The Third Age
              • Battle for Middle-Earth
              • Jedi Power Battles
              • Madden NFL
              • FIFA
              • TrackMania Nations
              • Worms
              • Battle for Wesnoth
              • Frozen Bubble
              • Kobo
              • Jetpack
              • Microsoft Flight Simulator
              • X-Plane (App Store)
              • Portal/Portal 2
              • Dota 2
              • Sid Meier's Civilization
              • Heroes of Might and Magic
              • Tarzan
              • Batman Begins
              • Splinter Cell
              • Aladdin
              • Sonic the Hedgehog
              • Bomberman
              • Battletoads
              • Diggers
              • Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine
              • Flappy Bird
              • Kingdom Rush
              • Rush Hour
              • Threes!
              • Monument Valley
              • Alto's Adventure
              • Human Resource Machine
              • Letterpress
              • Mini Metro
              • Infinity Blade
              • Infinity Blade II
              • Infinity Blade III
              • Warhammer Quest
              • Destiny
              • Journey
              • Tomb Raider
              • Rise of the Tomb Raider
              • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm Sean - @splunsford Elias - @muffinworks

                Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

                1 hr 33 min
              • 24: Hamster Buying

                Elias quizzes Sean about cultural norms in the US and compares them to sometimes similar but often very different expectations in German culture.

                Links and Show Notes

                • Dutch Blitz: Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                • Apples to Apples Party in a Box Game: Mattel: Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                • Bose QuietComfort 25 Acoustic Noise Cancelling Headphones for Apple Devices, Triple Black: Home Audio & Theater - Amazon.com
                • Windy ~ Sleep Relax Meditate & white noise sounds
                • Slow Fast Slow - Control the Speed of Your Videos
                • Upgrade 123: Sheer Gadget Magnetism -- Upgrade -- Overcast -- Elias's post discussed (8:25)
                • Ludo (board game) - Wikipedia
                • Third culture kid - Wikipedia
                • Rumor: Apple to release iOS 10.3 beta with 'Theater mode' in January
                • 119: The Old Codgers Show -- The Rebound -- Overcast -- iOS theater mode (38:37)
                • Connected 54: Tim is the New Cook -- Connected -- Overcast -- the Connected guys discover BlaBlaCar (59:24)
                • Connected 62: Siri Like the Butler -- Connected -- Overcast -- …and then they discover the creepy BlaBlaCar mascot (11:46)
                • The Grand Tour Season 1 - Amazon.com (The episode referenced is episode 9.)
                • Iridium-1 Hosted Webcast - YouTube -- SpaceX mission video
                • Photos: Falcon 9 returns to flight with weekend launch from California -- Spaceflight Now
                • Falcon Heavy - Wikipedia
                • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm Sean - @splunsford Elias - @muffinworks

                  Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

                  1 hr 57 min
                • 23: It's a Lot More Effective to Be Mean

                  Elias gets his AirPods, while Sean's been testing them for about a week now. They briefly look back at the announcement of the original iPhone ten years ago, and then they settle in for a discussion of board and card games. Elias goes on an adventure.

                  Links and Show Notes

                  • [HD] Steve Jobs - iPhone Introduction in 2007 (Complete) - YouTube
                  • Phil Schiller on iPhone's Launch, How It Changed Apple, and Why It Will Keep Going for 50 Years
                  • BBC The Genius Of Design 1 of 5 Ghosts In The Machine 2010 - YouTube
                  • The Incomparable | Genius Edition (Episode 184)
                  • Top Four #6: Board Games - Relay FM
                  • Games:
                    • Catan 5th Edition: Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                    • Catan HD - App Store
                    • Stratego Board Game: Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                    • Stratego Star Wars Glactic Battlefield Strategy Game: Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                    • Scholar's mate - Wikipedia -- also known as Blitzkrieg (it's not mentioned in the article, but it is on the disambiguation page)
                    • Doppelkopf - Wikipedia
                    • Euchre - Wikipedia
                    • Ravensburger 26588 - Elfer raus! - Das Brettspiel: Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                    • Ludo (board game) - Wikipedia
                    • Sorry Game (Amazon Exclusive): Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                    • Dominion: 2nd Edition Board Game: Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                    • 7 Wonders: Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                    • 7 Wonders Duel Board Game: Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                    • Hanabi Card Game: Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                    • Pandemic Legacy Red Board Game: Toys & Games - Amazon.com (The red and blue versions are apparently identical--so you can have two separate campaigns and keep them straight.)
                    • Risk Legacy Game: Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                    • SeaFall: A Legacy Game: Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                    • Power Grid: Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                    • Puerto Rico Game: Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                    • Puerto Rico HD - App Store
                    • Istanbul Board Game: Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                    • Uno Attack Game: Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                    • Werewolves of Millers Hollow: Toys & Games - Amazon.com
                    • Unjustly Maligned | "Monopoly" with Cory Casoni (Episode 24)
                    • Adventure 52 -- MuffinWorks
                    • Adventure 52 -- Rules of the Game -- MuffinWorks
                    • Adventure 01 -- Basel Paper Museum -- MuffinWorks
                    • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm Sean - @splunsford Elias - @muffinworks

                      Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

                      1 hr 49 min
                    • 22: A Guy Who Needs a Lot of Crutches

                      Sean gets home from traveling and gets a package, Elias publishes a thing, and they talk about New Year's resolutions – as a concept, and some of their own hopes and ambitions going into the new year.

                      Links and Show Notes

                      • Georgia 🖇 on Twitter: "Theft proof your Apple Airpods https://t.co/FW495FdevL"
                      • The Swift Programming Language (Swift 3.0.1) by Apple Inc. on iBooks
                      • My iPad Podcasting Setup (Podcasting Series 1/3) -- MuffinWorks
                      • Recording a podcast locally on iOS without a Mac - Six Colors
                      • Tesla software predicts someone else's accident - Six Colors
                      • The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion - Kindle edition - Amazon.com
                      • The Anti New Years Resolutions - DESK of Tobias van Schneider
                      • The Focus Course
                      • The Focus Course: Camp
                      • Mint
                      • My Must-Have iOS Apps & Web Services, 2016 Edition -- MacStories
                      • iFinance 4
                      • Simple
                      • Adventure 52 -- MuffinWorks
                      • Developers Read 1-Star Reviews - YouTube
                      • Elias's desk
                      • Elias's inviting desk from the door
                      • Sean's desk
                      • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm Sean - @splunsford Elias - @muffinworks

                        Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

                        1 hr 24 min
                      • 21: Five Candles and a Color Scheme

                        Sean and Elias talk about Christmas traditions growing up, getting strangely fixated on advent wreaths and potato salad. In the aftershow, they talk about time management systems.

                        Links and Show Notes

                        • Cambridge Analytica
                        • Saint Lucy's Day - Wikipedia
                        • Upgrade #118: Missed That by 100% - Relay FM
                        • CARROT Weather
                        • Fantastical 2
                        • Analog(ue) #95: Sign of a Problem - Relay FM
                        • Free Agents #2: Booked Up With Myself - Relay FM
                        • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm Sean - @splunsford Elias - @muffinworks

                          Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

                          1 hr 34 min
                        • 20: Programming-Adjacent Language

                          In perhaps the quintessential Breadcrumbs episode, Sean and Elias talk about where they've come from and where they hope to go with a creative-yet-technical topic, in this case programming. Recorded in September.

                          Links and Show Notes

                          • Human Resource Machine
                          • Analog(ue) 18: Good at Being a Moron -- Overcast
                          • On 30 Days of Drawing -- MuffinWorks
                          • On Why I Switched to WordPress -- MuffinWorks
                          • Programming Paradigms
                          • Amazon.com: Dominion: 2nd Edition Board Game: Toys & Games
                          • The Complete iOS8 and Swift Course: Learn by Building 15 Real World Apps | Udemy
                          • Marco's in-app purchase tweet
                          • inessential: Love
                          • Just Simple Tic Tac Toe
                          • Workflow
                          • Ghost - The Professional Publishing Platform
                          • Breadcrumbs - @breadcrumbsfm Sean - @splunsford Elias - @muffinworks

                            Jingles excerpted from "Halo-centric Hang/Halo improvisation" by Aaron Ximm. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

                            1 hr 38 min

                          About Breadcrumbs

                          From the publisher's feed

                          Elias and Sean grew up together overseas before studying engineering in Germany and the US respectively. Breadcrumbs is their weekly chat about things past, present, and future.