On this show, I play a song from Ortega; we attempted a vacation and abandoned it due to a tropical storm; we rafted in man-made rapids; the Great Wolf Lodge did not soak us; delivery drivers love to give us wet packages; I opted to not jerry-rig a whole house generator; we bought actual hard kayaks from a guy who seems to not want to sell me more; I bought a Ratgdo garage opener that inexplicably works; Chamberlain and MyQ can go to hell; I decided to roll the dice on some Zigbee stuff from AliExpress; 20th podcast anniversary next week.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 16 2024.

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On this show, I play a song from Lawrence Rothman; grampa's house is sold; the Taskmaster watch continues forward; Mike Wozniak is my favorite contestant; we are watching the Mae Martin show Feel Good; I am planning for a 20th anniversary livestream; am I going to do it on Peertube? I am surprised by feeling hopeful about the presidential campaign; I am all in on Zigbee and turning the other stuff off.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 5 2024.

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On this show, I play a song from Pharoah Sanders; I have really been enjoying several local venues; selling grampa's house is getting real; we play a new round of terrible podcast promos; I do a bit of a retirement check-in; we traded one crappy pool for a less crappy one; a refrigerator fridge is changing my life; I have collectibles to liquidate; string lights and Home Assistant improved my back yard; more stuff goes away; Patreon fixed their weird bug and all patrons in exile are back!

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, July 21 2024.

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On this show, I play a song from The New Marines; grampa's house is under contract; the family went to Carowinds and we went to Heroescon; my con strategy was different this time; less bin diving, less autograph seeking, more print and collection buying; I am now using poster protectors; we went to the NASCAR Hall of Fame; I did not like Sweet Tooth Season 3; I did like The Bear Season 3; I haven't bothered to watch House of the Dragon Season 2; I am immune to the charms of James Acaster.

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

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On this show, I play a song from Agitprop; middle school is finished; I could skate through K-12 and I could not skate through Georgia Tech; I never signed the kid in late for middle school; I was petty cleaning out a classroom; we play "Is This Asshole The Asshole?"; the Discord title polls have revitalized my podcast production; we are going to Heroescon; this year I will be more art focused than comic focused; there is less of an agenda for Heroescon this year so maybe I will be more relaxed; keep the hotel an extra day; it's all inner monologues with me; I am learning to appreciate stillness.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, June 14 2024.

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On this show, I play a song from the Beths; I had to spike a show for audio reasons; I am in danger of getting my Podcast HOF Trophy repossessed; we are limping to the finish line of middle school; my family stayed in grampa's house; the cleaning standards discrepancy is a huge friction point; I don't have many local friends anymore; I set up some more WREK RSS feeds; Stonehenge is subscribable from podcatchers now; I don't much like Bob Dylan, the Beach Boys, Paul Simon, the Everly Brothers or the Supremes; I had a hard time deciding whether to root for the Carlton Blues or the Collingwood Magpies; I saw a Cybertruck in the wild and it was ridiculous; the Turned Out a Punk episode with Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo was terrific as was the Kathleen Hanna episode; punk is good for not having gatekeepers but if Tim Yohannon or Ian Mackaye didn't like you then you were fucked; punks are from Emory, metal heads are from Georgia Tech.

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

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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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