On this show, I talk about my history with skiing, including the last week.

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On this show, I talk about WREK, the Indigo Girls and the oddity that is "Closer to Fine".

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On this show, I play a song from Florry; I say goodbye to Veronica Walters; we have a finite number of trip opportunities with the kid; we went to San Diego and back with the most travel troubles I've had in decades; it is less effort for me to travel alone; I play another round of Promo No Go; I heard some kids say the craziest stuff; I have been listening to the All British Comedy Explained podcast; I didn't respond to The Young Ones as well as I remembered but Monty Python, Fawlty Towers and the Good Life still light me up; Victoria Wood: As Seen On TV is great; I implemented the Human.json protocon on my website, attesting who actually authors their site without any LLM; I am experimenting with the Quick Bites format for this show.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, March 27 2026.

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On this show, I talk about the rise and fall of my idea for a local honey marketplace with a side journey into a disappointing talk about technology.

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On this show, I play a song from Gently Bruised; I am throwing myself an AI Tea Party; I deleted my Open AI account and disconnected everything; LLMs make everything a commodity; generative AI undermines objective truth and enables tyranny; it's easy to trick monopolists into a monopoly; AI tensions hit science fiction writers and electronics suppliers; having gotten Github Actions working, I am leaving Github for Forgejo; all my repositories are now self-hosted; Gen X gets to retire into a fascist nation; deep risks are happening; which of my possessions do I really need? I am considering getting rid of some comics; I'm not doing free labor to fill out your surveys; we aren't speaking Esperanto.

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On this show, I play a song from The Arts and Sciences; I spent one of my best nights out seeing The Arts and Sciences open for the Indigo Girls; I am currently taking a beekeeping certification course; I will be buying two nucs of bees plus lots of gear; I believe your garb should be politically neutral in unrelated public outreach; I made a Mastodon post that got an atypically large response and yet did not enjoy it; the anti-trans talking points of today were popularized by Jeffrey Epstein 15 years ago; I got Github Actions working to build and publish this here Eleventy site; I added search to this here Eleventy site; I enjoy the Vito X Dino podcast but had to protect myself from large episode dumps; is milk violence and is that a serious position? I was and am a fan of Harvey Pekar but my one chance to meet him I chickened out; I used to work rotating shifts in a chemical factory; XMas week was the best work week of the year; I read the Harvey Pekar story "Snow Day" at work in almost the identical situation Harvey was in for the story.

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On this show, I play a song from Doctor Deathray; as I was upgrading the capacity of my Synology NAS I discovered I didn't need it; don't enable the trash can on your Time Machine drives on a NAS; I am using my extra capacity to self-host Mastodon; running a one person Mastodon instance is easier than I predicted; I love NTFY for notifications; I hate Apprise for notifications; I bought a Trezor hardware wallet to hold all my weird pockets of crypto; the UX of using crypto for anything sucks; Obsidian starts slow on my Android phone; Quick Draft for Obsidian solves a big problem for me.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, January 30 2026.

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On this show, I play a song from Mdou Moctar; how has no one noticed I am not qualified to be an adult? the Xmas tree is the worst part of the holidays; I'm good for one thing a day; don't beat around the bush, ask what you want to ask; what good is a gas fireplace that won't light; a failure to wake up led to a positive change in my daily routine; I solved a problem with a cold call; people my age should have the skills to make a call even when you don't know exactly who to talk to; I need to worry about the small bites not the grand plans; where are my Grendel comics? the internal critic is strong in me; nothing is easier to solve than a problem you don't have to live with.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, January 23 2026.

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On this show, I play a song from Jill Sobule; the one time I met Jill she was as lovely as could be; I remain not that into Xmas; I had a recall performed on the Audi etron and my range increased; I got serious about my email hygiene; it is a challenge to only get the emails that matter; I am eliminating Substack from my life; I am eliminating Amazon from my life; my System76 Galago Pro is worse for wear; all Windows installs shit themselves over time; Linux Mint made an unusable Windows laptop usable again; trying upgrade and fix things created a self-loathing spiral of inefficiencies and mistakes; it took two years for me to address my Synology NAS cache issues; the RAM was coming from inside the house; upgrading the RAM in the old HP laptop was non-trivial; the band NVMe drive is causing a lot of chaos; one step forward and one step back on fixes and upgrades; I managed to break most of my Docker containers in 5 seconds; I can only record this show in the morning.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, December 23 2025.

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On this show, I play a song from Dub Inc; the TOFOP boys realized that they don't need a big production for their live episodes; I usually don't listen to your live episodes or your special episodes; my Reality Break episodes that were fun to produce I thought were the highest quality; Mozilla is to browsers as neo-liberals are to politics; social media scolds don't help; it's a fine line between avoiding supporting terrible companies while still living in the world; why are you asking all these questions when you should be solving the crime? I am recreating the NBC Mystery Movie wheel format in my life; I am partying like it's 1971; McCloud was a big influence on Justified; Macmillan and Wife is goofy but fun; The Gold was an interesting series; I lay out my money laundering plan; I am barely sticking with Down Cemetery Road; I am barely sticking with The Beast In Me; I don't like "close call" shows; I can't stand Celebrity Traitors or Love is Blind; making small talk with the douchebags in the house seems excruciating.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, November 26 2025.

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