Station 13

Alex and Dani compare American and Japanese gyms (or at least their amenities), Alex gives us a band update, including a discourse on the Swedish singing voice, and Dani embarks on his latest linguistic adventure.

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• Gigout — Toccata in B Minor
• Onsen
• Abba — One of us
• Clannad — Now is here
  • Theme from “Robin of Sherlock”
  • Theme from “Last of the Mohicans”
• Bee Gees — How Deep is your Love
• OWLs and NEWTs
• Anki
• Diccionario de la lengua española
• Dani’s under-appreciated tweet
• Patrick Rothfuss
  • The Name of the Wind
  • El Nombre del Viento
• italki

Dani has a new computer, Alex has a new band, and together they embark on a discussion of musicianship in Sweden and Japan, DuckDuckGo’s new privacy plugin, and ad blockers in general.

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• iMac Pro
• MacBook “Adorable”
• ShaderToy
• Unity
• Unreal Engine
• Renoise
• Call Recorder for FaceTime
• Nori
• Katsuobushi
• “Freedom” by George Michael
• “Space Oddity” by David Bowie
• Eddie Izzard - Christian Singing
• DuckDuckGo: “Privacy, simplified”
• Terms of Service; Didn’t Read
• Opera
• Daring Fireball
• Pro Tools
• Adobe Creative Cloud
• Bitwig

Alex and Dani compare Christmas and New Year in English-speaking countries and Japan, which leads to a long tangent about Japanese trains, drinking, and business culture, before finally returning to New Year and telling each other their respective resolutions for the year ahead.

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• Japanese New Year
• Hatsumōde
• O-zōni
• Yasaka-jinja
• チカン｜アカン
• Japan Railways (JR)
• Japanese railway conductors pointing at things
• Hankyu Railways
• Moneydance

Dani and Alex talk about Boxing Day and similar festivities, and briefly discuss colour schemes for text editors, before getting to the real meat of the show: their thoughts on the latest Star Wars movie, The Last Jedi.

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• Boxing Day
• Bonfire Night
• Australia Day
• Simple Radio
• Vinyl FM
• Classic FM
• Man in the Mirror
• Hovver Bovver
• Castle of the Winds
• Why old computers are beige
• Bill Moggridge
• GRiD Compass
  • Telephone model
• Renoise
• Amstrad PCW
• Leisure Suit Larry
• Monokai
• Solarized
• Gruvbox
• PragmataPro
• Night Shift

Alex and Dani finally talk about videogames! In this episode, they each recount the computers of their youth and the games they played on them: Dani had a ZX Spectrum and Alex went from the Apple II through the Commodore 64 and finally onto the Commodore Amiga.

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• ZX Spectrum
• ZX80
• ZX Spectrum Vega
• Manic Miner
• Jet Set Willy
• Monty on the Run
• Auf Wiedersehen Monty
• Horace series
• Hover Bovver
• Dizzy series
• Technician Ted
• Bruce Lee
• Elite
• Elite: Dangerous
• Karateka
• Prince of Persia
• Game & Watch
• Apple II
• Autoduel
• Zenith Z-89
• Zork
• Dungeon
• Roguelike
• Brogue
• Captain Goodnight
• Commodore 64
• SID chip
• Commodore Amiga
• Double Dragon II: The Revenge
• Music tracker
• Demoscene
• KVR Audio One Synth Challenge
• Shadertoy
• Bitcoin’s energy consumption, explained
• Starglider 2
• Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe

Dani and Alex discuss the effects of Wikipedia and the internet in general on the whiling away of time, before paying tribute to Malcolm Young. Alex is still searching for a band in Sweden. They end by taking a deep dive into various task management strategies and to-do list apps.

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• Sam Neill
• Screenshot of the vandalised version
• Encyclopædia Britannica
• BBC Radio 4
• Flight of the Conchords
• The Archers
• Chérie FM
• Malcolm Young
• AC/DC
  • Back in Black
  • You shook me all night long
  • Thunderstruck
  • Highway to Hell
• Iron Maiden
• Queen
• The Police
• “Mutt” Lange
• Sannomiya
• Counter-Strike
• Clear
• Things
• Omnifocus
• EpicWin
• TaskPaper
• Org-mode
• Bullet Journal
• Spaced Repetition
• Wunderlist
• Todoist
• Trello
• Getting Things Done by David Allen
• FreeMind
• MindNode
• iThoughts

Alex and Dani talk about comedy across different cultures, the inexorable creeping darkness of the coming Swedish winter, Twitter’s move to increase tweet lengths to 280 characters (so long as you’re speaking the right language), Reddit chat, and social media in general.

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• The Office U.S.
• Dubstep
• The Simpsons
• Manzai
• Rakugo
• 饅頭怖い
• Manjū Kowai (performed in English)
• The Fast Show
  • Jesse’s Diets
• Harry Enfield and Chums
  • Self Righteous Brothers
  • Kevin becomes a teenager
• Fast Forward
• Club Buggery
• Clarke and Dawe
  • The front fell off
• The Castle
• The Dish
• Tiger & Dragon
• Trick
• Ikebukuro West Gate Park
• Twitter expands to 280 characters
• Reddit beta testing chat
• WhatsApp
• Ello
• Dani’s single instagram photo
• Pinterest
• Kansai Functional Dōjō on Doorkeeper
• Myspace
• Soundcloud
• Bandcamp
• DreamHost

Dani and Alex discuss the quirks of daylight saving time and international timezones in general, which for one week only has brought them an hour closer together. Alex grounds his cables and fixes the resultant buzzing, while Dani introduces two new companions into the household! They end with a nostalgia trip over the tabletop roleplaying games of their youth, how Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition compares, and how you can get started if you haven’t played before.

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• KRACK overview from Kudelski Security
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Greeks?
• Timezone map
• Timezones in Antarctica
• Balanced audio
• Natsu and Fuyu
• This episode’s special guest editor
• Wizards of the Coast
• Dungeons & Dragons
• Dani’s support correspondence
• Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition in Japanese
• GURPS
• Autoduel (Computer Game)
• Autoduel (GURPS)
• World of Darkness
• Robotech
• Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game
• Palladium Fantasy Role-Playing Game
• Shadowrun
• Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set
• d20 Calculator

Alex and Dani serve up a platter of little topics, including: Alex’s new microphone, the reputation of different countries for their food, more on Facebook’s business model, the recent WPA2 KRACK exploit, movies and science fiction, last week’s neutron star collision, and the repercussions of astronomical events through history.

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• Blue Yeti Microphone
• Heil PR 30 B
• McVitie’s biscuits in France
• McVitie’s TV advert in France
• Vegemite
• Marmite
• Bovril
• Ovaltine
• Charlie’s reddit comment about tracking in shops
• KRACK Attacks: Breaking WPA2
• Ars Technica on the WPA2 flaw
• The Guardian’s bad article about WhatsApp
• The Guardian’s article about how that other article was bad
• Terminator 2 anniversary
• Blade Runner: 2049
• Loving Vincent
• 2001: A Space Odyssey
• 2001 floating pen scene
• Interstellar
• The Martian
• Neutron star collision
• SN 185 supernova

Dani and Alex catch up on Sweden vs. Norway, before Alex reviews his new chair, which has finally arrived! They talk about typeface design and the changing face of the font industry, switching from Google to DuckDuckGo, and whether or not there is any truth to the adage, “if you aren’t paying for it, you are not the customer, you are the product”.

Discuss this episode on reddit at /r/Station13, or contact us on twitter! Alex is @ATYPE808, Dani is @danielpwright, or you can get podcast updates @Station13FM.

• Ischial Tuberosities
• Rebuild
• Alex’s Capisco Puls
• Skolar
• Macron
• New Athena Unicode
• Google Fonts
• DuckDuckGo
• Opera
• Gearslutz
• KVR
• A-Town