On this show, I play a song from Adrianne Lenker; I discuss losing weight rapidly; I talk about Heroescon 2025; I bought more original art at this show than ever before; I toned down my comic book related spazziness and self-criticism; I had a nice time meeting Mike and Laura Allred, Jose Marzan Jr and many others; I brought books for cancelled guests and none for some people that were actually there; I only spend cash on these things; I am not worrying about the autographs I did not get; I bought more original art than ever; The Awesome anthologies are a lot of fun to get signed; the Dollar Bin Podcast is publishing audio of some Heroescon panels; Islands in the Sky is the anthology for the Appalachia Comics Project and a fundraiser for creators affected by Hurricane Helene.

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On this show, I play a song from The Deadly Gallows; the college world series has a weird structure; go CCU; I am changing my Heroescon strategy slightly; I am using my comic book inventory database differently; I no longer care about the ashes nor the resting places of any of my loved ones; when I am maxed out on clothes storage why do I own t-shirts I don't care about? I don't consider the LURHQ/Secureworks infrastructure merger a happy time; Self-Hosted podcast is over; I set up NTFY for myself; I set up Paperless for myself; I turned off Nginx Proxy Manager because turns out the Synology NAS does all that if you know how to work it; I tried a Zooz Z-Wave long range motion sensor for the mailbox and so far it has been a bust.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, June 20 2025.

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On this show, I play a song from Jill Sobule; I tell a light bulb joke; Obsidian has a new database-like feature; CEOs don't like work/life balance because they want to monetize every second of every employee's time; I never bled the colors of any company; asking for "A-players" in your job listing is asking for white male frat boys; I listened to a Patti Smith audiobook; I am enjoying Murderbot on both TV and in book form; TV shows hire Scandinavians when they need a robotic actor; Four Seasons on Netflix is watchable but just; we don't vacation with other couples; I walk through the various programs in my backlog.

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On this show, I play a song from Jill Sobule who we say goodbye to and remember fondly; I saw Jill open for Warren Zevon; my child no longer has any living grandparents; bad driver school was surprisingly not terrible; hopefully $5 at the weird store will keep me from breaking my big monitor; the Deliberate Noise Network is being sunsetted; the kid and I went to see Kendrick Lamar and SZA in Charlotte; Tikka Shack in Charlotte is like a Chipotle of Indian food; Bank of America stadium has no roof; I preferred SZA's performance to Kendrick and I way preferred her merch to his; we like Pineville NC and that is the better Super G Mart; calling the kennel led to Jack Johnson hilarity; I finally figured out how to optimize my trash can; my footy gear has arrived; my beating of the system was really a loss to the system.

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On this show, I play a song from Valley Lodge; we stayed in the Washington Heights part of Charlotte; we fought the weather to white water raft; Player 1Up still lives in Rock Hill; a car charger at the VRBO changes things; Rust Desk helped the previous show get produced; I fried the blade controllers of my lawnmower; we shopped at a weird Amazon leftovers store; the Audi integration in Home Assistant now turns on my climate control; I am using Immich and Dawarich for self-hosting photos and location data respectively; I am using the Nginx Proxy Manger so I don't have to remember port numbers.

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On this show, I play a song from Last Stand; me and the kind went to Monster Jam; we saw a play about Atlantic Beach; the kid and I had a week on our own; the house always feel different when any being is subtracted; the batteries in my Ryobi lawnmower died; I am doing the LiFePO4 conversion; I am trying to not be scared by mechanical and electrical work; I got an old gas mower working again despite professional advice that it was impossible; I got a ticket and opted for the intervention program; inability to find my social security card led to changes in my life; organize by category not room.

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On this show, I play a song from SMALL; I discuss our trip to Devils Fork State Park; the old dog is in the endgame; the EV charging was the best experience so far on an road trip; we kayaked, hiked, saw waterfalls and generally experienced nature; we now own walking sticks; while waiting for a table at an unfamiliar restaurant, always look at the menu; I hate driving on mountain roads and that goes 10x for doing it at night; Walhalla SC is a surprisingly nice little town; the geology museum at Clemson is surprisingly cool; the Boox Note Air 4C got its first shakedown to positive results; don't Syncthing to an SD card on Boox devices; turns out I could Samba to my house from the woods via Tailscale.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, March 28 2025.

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On this show, I play a song from SMALL; I discuss my disappointing experience protesting; getting leftists on the same page is impossible; I walked out on Ralph Nader; I discuss the idea of moving money in and out of stocks in response to economic conditions; I poorly convey some of the ideas of Paul Merriman; your written investment plan is important; it is a very American idea that your value is tied to your productive capacity; we bought king cake during lent; I am using Hoarder App routinely to transmit and save any URL of value to me; while the kid was at prom, we saw the Yale Brothers; Chris Cornell's death seems even more sad than most rock and roll deaths; I'm not buying any more subsidized hardware.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, March 14 2025.

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On this show, I play a song from Blacklite District; the rest of the family went to see Blacklite District; I squandered a day alone; Maria Bamford is on to something with the early shows; instead of doing my list I watched Soundgarden videos; Backbeat Media has been loyal to me so I am loyal to them; I unsubscribed from Sound Opinions because I stopped caring about the podcast industry; going viral only makes me nervous; let's talk poop; I've started listening to Chris Gethard's Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People; I miss Piranha Press and especially the Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children comic; some of my issues were bought in New Jersey; I learned the hard way an insight about organization; the zine is moving again; I have realized that my family history isn't interesting to me.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, March 7 2025.

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On this show, I play a song from Robin Coomer and Phil Clevenger; I learned the hard way that there are garage-ready refrigerators and not garage-ready refrigerators; forced thawing led to an impromptu meat feast; a little math will tell me if a whole house battery backup will pay for itself; Meidas Touch is both rocketing in popularity and useless to me; I don't need comforting via lies; no more Sorkin for the love of god; I hopped off the Echo Frames train and onto the Razer Anzu train; any northeasterner could have handled the situation better than me; Shell Recharge sucks and they enshittified good Volta sites when they bought the company; I am free of Electrify America; I used a Tesla magic dock charger and it was fine.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, February 28 2025.

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