On this show, I play a song from Bourgeois Tagg; I talk a little about the Ellen James Society and Mojo Nixon; are we a low functioning family? I had a day that was my Platonic ideal of a retired person's day; I hate my school day routine; I don't measure my retired life by my output but my family might; Kagi is the second worst choice for search engine, right after all the others; the left is dying to dock your score; I remember when I believed Google; Chick-Fil-A has pierced its own corporate veil; Bridgy Fed and Webmentions.io and all that are defeating me; do I rewrite old posts to eliminate broken links to dead projects or leave them as a time capsule? what is the deal with Calckey/Firefish? I unsubscribed from Death Sex and Money as well as Batteries Included; you can squander karma.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, May 17 2024.

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On this show, I play a song from Bobo Bojangles; grampa's funeral has happened; I had my first complete EV charging meltdown; we charged at a brand new Circle K charger in Goldsboro; less than one week after I posted my concerns about erratic Tesla behavior the Supercharger team was cut; I have a dream of making layoffs more painful to the company; I had an old school call with an old teammate about Eleventy; we watched some of the Eleventy conference; I am not excited about generative AI despite how every company wants me to be; AI today is like call centers in the 90s or news reporters in the 00s and 10s; I should be in Vegas.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, May 11 2024.

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On this show, I play a song from There I Ruined It; grampa is no longer with us; his last months were difficult for everyone in such an avoidable dumb way; don't mix your important documents with trash; grampa was a Glengarry lead; wtf is a "personal representative" letter? transactions with lots of phone calls are an enormous drag; death is sad but it also means we are free; retiring is still pretty fantastic; I had indefinitely borrowed grampa's string trimmer; Kobalt quick chargers are surprisingly fast; I made mostly good decisions on setting up my life for retirement.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, May 3 2024.

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On this show, I play a song from Incognation; I have heard of Theatre of Sheep; I discuss Kyle Clark and his blindness of why one might not want a Tesla; I think Tesla has no pushback on Musk whims; I have plenty of privilege but at least I examine it; Buc-ees in Florence now has Chargepoint chargers; critics of EVs hate any progress; Cracker Barrel needs Volta 50 kW chargers; I mulched my car; new strategies in using my notebooks; I am moving my daily writing from Obsidian to paper; get a label maker and label everything; the SSG website moves everything to Markdown; I got serious about getting transcripts into Obsidian; the TV show The Trust is unwatchable; I still hate shows of attrition but I enjoy the footy.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, April 26 2024.

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On this show I play a song by Love Tractor; I saw Love Tractor open for Husker Du; I switched from Wordpress to Eleventy; I want to return comments to my static web site; I have been gardening old posts and tags from the history of the website; I had forgotten that the WREK bootleg feeds have been around almost as long as podcasting; I added the jazz format to the WREK RSS feeds; staging my new website wiped out my TTRSS install; I got a little nostalgic for my big time of WREK productivity; the return of the inflatable pool and the inflatable kayaks; I'm looking for podcasts to unsubscribe from; I tried Handsome podcast and did not dig it.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, April 20 2024.

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On this show I play a song by Edith Frost and explain why; we vacationed in Puerto Vallarta; I needed 10% more Spanish; we zip-lined and drank the history of coffee drinks and chilled; I am rebuilding the Evil Genius Chronicles in Eleventy; give me feedback on the new static website; I loved the first Slow Horses book; Ed Piskor killed himself; I bought a luchadore mask.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, April 12 2024.

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On this show I play a new song by Valley Lodge; I am trying to understand the rules of Australian Rules Football and which teams to root for; why do AFL players kick into coverage most of the time? I need an Australian to mule some AFL gear to the USA for me; we play a new round of "Is This Asshole The Asshole"; Ed Piskor is in trouble; Taskmaster Season 17 starts this week! Roderick on the Line has been on a roll; I sold a drum kit; I don't know who Ben Shapiro is and I don't want to be told; the outrage industry needs an enemy.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, March 29 2024.

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On this show I play a song by The Dreadnoughts; is this asshole the asshole? we are limping this middle school experience to the finish line; parenting is made up of a series of stupid details that shouldn't be necessary; Buc-ees is madness; hating on big stores is a sport of the childless; I just can't hate on Costco; AFL round one! the Rube Goldberg machine that gets footy on my TV is ridiculous; Android has removed the ability to navigate app data folders; Australian syntax is really its own thing.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, March 22 2024.

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On this show I play a new song by Steve Conte; I understand my child's antipathy for a classmate; Death Sex and Money looking for a new organization is the same dynamic as searching for a sugar daddy; I don't understand what there is for all these people working on the pro podcasts to actually do; I really enjoyed the book Rebel Without a Crew; I popped for a month of the Watch AFL app; I started with Wilosophy and stuck around for much of the Everyone Relax feed; I am enjoying the 2 Guys 1 Cup podcast on footie; the fight in They Live is the weirdest 20 seconds of cinema; I am no longer that interested in cryptocurrency; moving assets from Kraken to Coinbase was a true drag; Kraken UX is kind of terrible; I have been trying to reconcile cryptocurrency and MMT since I learned about each; how exactly is it that we repay national debt;

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, March 15 2024.

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I play a song by The Jesus and Mary Chain; I talk a little about seeing The Jesus and Mary Chain in concert; the big dog is getting treated for heartworms; I'm staying in the developer relations slack for now; I am so glad I don't have to take jobs with AI firms seriously; I never used my real job title; Jason Scott eulogizes Cheshire Catalyst; things go from useful to junk to historically interesting; I am enjoying throwing decaying photo albums away; I am going to collage bullshit photographs; Jackie Kashian lost her patience with button pushers; I am no longer rounding up transactions for charity; I watched True Detective Seasons 3 and 4.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, March 9 2024.

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