Overview

Some name dropping going on today – Weird Al and Armin Shimerman specifically.

But before that, we discuss getting a new car and what the options are. Plus, we don’t get the big RV’s and why people get them.

The Weird Al concert was awesome if you like Weird Al. There weren’t too many of the big hits, but for Al fans, its awesome.

Recommndations

Armin – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armin_Shimerman

Weird Al – https://news.yahoo.com/weird-al-yankovic-postpones-detroit-192554435.html

http://www.emophilips.com/

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Transcript

How’s that? You’ve got the California background and the,

[00:00:07] Alan: this is my parents’ kitchen where I’ve set up the sky net mobile node. It’s funny. I might’ve talked about this a little bit, maybe a month. It’s I have a laptop, a Mac book air that I bring with me everywhere I go. And I was discovering that it just wasn’t going to be sufficient to the task of handling my parents’ bills or staying fully connected, checking into things that doesn’t matter.

But I’ve discovered that by buying like a nice 24 inch HP monitor and are better mouse and a backup drive, I could for just a little bit of money. 250 $300. Duplicate most of what I wanted, which was free real estate, which was know, it didn’t make my process or any faster. And I still have some limitations, but I was much.

And of course you’re going to have to go, okay, do [00:01:00] I have all the adapters that I need to be able to go from the Mac video out to an HTMI port and that kind of stuff. But. My getting capable out here in California was such an interesting exercise of, okay. So I got this working. Let’s see. I don’t really like their cable TV because it’s largely with commercials.

If I bring my own Roku box or my own Chromecast. Yeah. We’ll be able to have that boat that late night not be a terrible exercise and trying to find a movie that’s not been butchered by comedy central by loading it with commercials and whatever else it might be. It’s cool to be able to in my laptop bag that’s the, I have everything I need to set up a pretty full Al’s virtual environment for just a little bit of money.

This being in the tech field, it’s just a wonderful thing. Things become more capable and for less money and that isn’t the case with so much of the rest of the world. We’re getting so much inflation now in all kinds of mechanical thing. [00:02:00] Good Lord. I just saw an ad on TV and they actually showed the.

On TV, $91,000 for some kind of SUV wagon near some kind of to go anywhere. And aren’t you

[00:02:14] Stephen: ashamed?

[00:02:15] Alan: That’s not like a Porsche or a Lamborghini. I’m sure that those things are long past a hundred thousand dollars, but a regular car that you would advertise to regular folks is $91,000.