Operation: Have a Conversation

In a world of sails, wooden ships, and ridiculous acronyms, Jack and Mikhail attempt to navigate the text-based world formed from the poetic descriptions of Mark, the heartless command parser. With a little help from well-timed sound effects and a bit of imagination, join the classic crew as they play through the game, Sail Away!

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Practical Salinity Unit

Bowe Bergdhal did not join the Taliban

SouljaGame

Twitch.tv

Rocket League

Mikhail’s Map

Game PDF with Mark’s Notes

Modern society: A curse? A blessing? Both? It’s definitely both. But why though? Join Jack, Mark, and Mikhail as they discuss war, peacecraft, and what early hominids lost while becoming modern humans besides a decent amount of body hair.

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Mikhail’s call from “Switzerland”.

Stop the presses! Or, on second thought, don’t. Those things generally take several hours to restart. What a hassle. Anyway, on this episode, Jack, Mark, and Mikhail tackle the issue of news media, satire, and political disparity while only being interrupted by a fire alarm less than five times. What a day.

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Streetlight Manifesto

Cortex Sub-Reddit Music Suggestions

Ubuntu 18

Taboo (game)

Google Apps Scripts

Mio Energy – Iced Mocha Java

Comical Start – Shameless Plug

OHAC – Now on Google Play!

OHAC – Now on Spotify

Chicago Amusement Tax

Book Club – Tribe by Sebastian Junger

Tribe by Sebastian Junger on Audible

Sebastian Junger on Joe Rogan’s Podcast – first – second

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Hello Internet – A Discussion of the News

Ben Shapiro’s Podcast

Flat Earth News by Nick Davies

Straw Man vs. Steel Man

How to Think by Alan Jacobs

Joe Rogan’s New Stand Up Special

A Present for the Listener – You’re Welcome

Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

StarTalk Radio – Stephen Colbert

12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson

The Impression That I Get – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones

They may have moved to three separate, fully-disclosed parts of the continent, but that doesn’t stop Jack, Mark, and Mikhail from growing ever closer through the magical – nay, mystic – power of friendship and conversation. Jack can’t find parking, Mark is where the beer is, and Mikhail fails to adequately describe a table. What more could you ask for?

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Zapier

IFTTT

“iPad X”

Auto-adjust mic level in Skype settings

MathJax – A valiant attempt at on websites.

Example from Mark’s Blog

Terry Tao’s Blog

The Loonie

The Toonie

The Ferromagnetic Metal that Confused Me

Mikhail’s Table

Garage door table – open

Garage door table – closed

Drake on the CN Tower

CN Tower is 553 m (1815 ft) tall

Space Needle is 184 m (605 ft) tall

Adventure Zone podcast

Human Fall Flat

In a rare return, Mark finds himself attempting to write the show-notes in an entirely different style at great expense and at the last minute. Jack is busy, so in this first of an uncertainly-recurring 3-hour segment, Mark and Mikhail discuss productivity, values, personal-style guides, and of course their electronic devices.

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[EDITED] After significant effort, a well-funded cyber-archaeology expedition, and a Grande Unsweetened Iced Black Tea Lemonade from Starbucks, Mark was able to obtain the following lost screenshots.

Mikhail’s Phone

Mark’s Home Screen

Mark’s Second Screen

Mark’s App Launcher

Look! Up in the waveforms! It’s a burp! It’s a phone ringing! No! It’s a special guest! Grant joins the classic crew to discuss technology, coyote genitals, and Escapology: the puzzle room in which everyone definitely made equal contributions towards solving. Don’t worry, Grant is totally introduced right away and not at 12 minutes and 40 seconds into the episode.

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Joe Rogan’s Kale Shake

FAT32

Wacom Tablet

Pixar Animators using tablets

Vi vs. Vim

Coyotes make weird noises

Directional Lock

Einstein’s logic puzzle

Brava Light Oven

Aftershokz bone conduction headphones

Relay FM – Get on Down to Dongle Town

Guess who’s back, back again. Jack, Mark, and Mikhail are back, tell a friend. Under the direction of the new fearless editor in chief, the gang makes a beautiful segue from grumbling like crotchety old men about technology to discussing the true value of college and the finer points of friendship. I mean really, like wow. The transition is seamless.

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Oh what beautiful new iconography

Mikhail’s favorite rain sounds video

iPod Shuffle 2nd Generation

Combining pdfs online

OSX Preview does it better

Linux can do it too, I guess

Comical Start (a.k.a. Mark’s side hustle)

Ubuntu installation (proceed at your own risk)

Smosh Short 2: Stranded

ARM (not ARCH) vs. x86

Quiet book

Bananaworld

In this episode, we discuss the finer points of humanity’s relationship with the impending embrace of death. Is growing old and dying a natural part of life? Or a tragic fate to which our race has developed an acute case of Stockholm Syndrome?

To cap it all off, we give our best 1-2 minutes on each of an eclectic collection of topics in our newest section of the show: HOT TAKES.

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The Tragic Death of Flash

The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant by Nick Bostrom

The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant – video rework by CGP Grey

Antarctica Conspiracy

In this episode, we play the analog text adventure Action Castle. We also talk more generally about what constitutes a game, what we each like to play, as well as the finer points of documenting the beauty of nature.

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Action Castle

Relay FM Special Episode — Six Gun Showdown

Riskopoly

X-wing

Doom

Republic Commandos

Edge of the Empire

Dungeons and Dragons

Ben Ben Blue

Three Things (improv game)

The Empire Did Nothing Wrong

Ralph Nader

Unicorn and Rainbows Party (Minneapolis Mayoral Election)

Universal Paperclips

Unblock Me

Lines (Android game)

Cribbage

Photosynthesis

Tokyo Subway Fungus

Planet Earth II