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.

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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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I play a song by Dolly Varden; we recognize the passing of Mister Joe Klein; I don't know how to change the size of the system font on a Mac; Adam Savage really impressed me with his take on point of view; I once again rage against awards for creative work; Steven Hail on the MMT podcast had an interesting take on marketing; there is a transformative power in cheapness of an object; my IOT journey started cheapness based and is now switching to quality based; I am interested in an R36S handheld console; I added some Philips Hue bulbs to the sconces; figuring out what is good to buy feels like it is getting harder; the New York Times can go to hell; I need a review site I can trust.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, March 1 2024.

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I play a song by Valley Lodge; I admitted defeat and rented a storage space; I am working on one box at a time in organization; I am shipping family stuff away and losing some stuff due to destruction; moving to the bed and failing to sleep is infuriating; a dog chewed up my Android tablet; I am pleasantly surprised at this Onn tablet from Walmart; I am never buying another Kindle Fire; when did the social contract about speakerphones in public change? respect the commons, people; I almost always vote in the Republican primary; I don't like encore episodes and I don't like clip shows; the taco truck near my house is a game changer; who can stand to eat cold UberEats food?

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, February 24 2024.

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I play a song by Indoor Garden Party; I don't understand people who are treating Twitter as if things were normal; I watched the Superbowl; the ads are not worth watching and RFK Jr's ad was the worst; I made one good play in one year of playing football; I made my moment with Sigler's GFL books; I am going to try MyAFL for some footie; I need to uninstall Solitaire; I hire a handyman instead of screwing things up myself; True Detective season 3 exactly states the reason why I don't like true crime as a genre; I did like Lamar Waldron's book at the Kennedy assassination; I met Lamar back in the 1980s; I really enjoyed Stories from a Vegas Street Cop; if you do a podcast episode swap it is more likely I drop you than listen to the other show.

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

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I play a song by Glass Eye; Mastodon is fine for social media but social media is the right answer to the wrong question; going viral is supposed to be the goal but it makes me nervous; no social media is designed to make you happier; I may drop 60 Songs that Explain the 90s with only a few episodes left; I officially dropped The Lost Cause and will read Slow Horses instead; I bought a Silhouette Cameo 4 to make merch; tell me what merch you want.

Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, February 10 2024.

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I play a song by Brown Sabbath; one more grampa story; I enjoy Cartoonist Kayfabe as a program but they are just missing making themselves an essential resource; I made sure to get a HeroesCon VIP membership this year; that extra half-hour of early admission is very helpful; I need to unsubscribe from podcasts; I am considering dropping Ice Cream Social; I am going full Zigbee on my driveway lights;

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

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In this episode I play a song by The Gentle Readers; I am back on the Eat To Live plan after almost two years away; retirement also leads to engineering what the rest of your life looks like; using the older men in my life as positive and negative examples on how to age; I had a surprisingly rational conversation about assisted living; I have volunteered to help with Reloadio; the first listener who can identify the seam between the two chunks of the show will win a free t-shirt shipped anywhere in the world; I watched the Black Sabbath movie; the change in the social contract about phones in fascinating; capitalism and the short term focus drives me insane; layoffs make me insane; getting laid off changed my entire approach to work;

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

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In this episode I play a song by You Am I; buying some cameras seems be helping the dog pee situation; we took the first road trip in the electric Audi; the free credits with Electrify America aren't of much worse when they never work; I am playing lots of solitaire; I created a spreadsheet to help me make arbitrary choices; I wondered if I was being too hard on dogmatic punks until I heard Chris Shifflett make the same points as me on Turned Out A Punk; Chris Gethard on Death Sex and Money defends making art and having a day job; I migrated from Wilosophy to TOFOP via the Everyone Relax feed; the kid and I have decided to take up watching Australian Rules Football; I used to watch weird shit on ESPN in the 80s; I was knocked out by the Do You Need a Ride podcast merch store; Self-Hosted is on about the enshittification of Plex; I am not buying any more hardware from companies that want to sell me content; I don't love Jellyfin the way I should; I don't love Docker the way nerds think I should; I want a color Onyx Boox 10" but I do not want to pay $500.

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

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