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Alex and Dani discuss their international presence, and try to inspire a bit of friendly competition between Sweden and Norway. Dani follows up on studying Japanese using the AJATT method, and Alex looks forward to beginning his study of Swedish. Alex introduces Dani to the beauty of table tennis.

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.

• Myrath
  • Their cheesy music video
• Mount Doom
• Elizabeth Báthory
• All Japanese All The Time
• Table Tennis
• Jan-Ove Waldner
• Table Tennis Grips
  • Chinese penhold grip (video)
• Station 13 subreddit

Dani attempts to explain to Alex the appeal of black metal, which naturally leads to a conversation about jazz fusion and highly technical music in general. They make their first attempt at talking about language learning, but inevitably get distracted by the notion of innate vs. learned talent.

Contact us on twitter! Alex is @ATYPE808, Dani is @danielpwright, or you can get podcast updates @Station13FM.

• Alex’s Capisco Puls
• Kneeling Chair
• Gary Willis
• Cradle of Filth
• Nymphetamine Fix: An arrangement for classical/fingerstyle guitar
• Nymphetamine
• Bitter Suites to Succubi
• Nymphetamine Fix tablature
• Nymphetamine Fix piano arrangement
• Christine Palethorpe’s YouTube channel
• Lilypond
• Corpse paint
• Progressive metal
• Turisas
• Amon Amarth
• Folk Metal
• Bathory
• Cruelty and the Beast
• Elizabeth Báthory
• Neoclassical metal
• Math metal
• Jazz fusion
• Al Di Meola
• Pantera
• Dream Theater
• Darkane
• Armageddon
• Delain
• Oriental Metal
• Nu-metal
• Japanese Language Proficiency Test
• All Japanese All The Time
• “Hand” (手) + “Bag” (袋)
• James Heisig’s “Remembering the Kanji”
• Lisp

Alex is looking for a new office chair now that he’s found a place to live in Sweden. Dani saw the Great American Eclipse (partially), and talks about his visit to one of Amazon’s new physical bookstores.

Contact us on twitter! Alex is @ATYPE808, Dani is @danielpwright, or you can get podcast updates @Station13FM.

• Steelcase Gesture review on the Wirecutter
• The Sweet Home
• Herman Miller Aeron
• HÅG Capisco Puls
• Herman Miller Setu
• UK Number Plates
• .WAD file format
• Warwick Castle trebuchet
  • Trebuchet sets a building on fire
• PCalc
• James Thomson
• Vert
• XE Currency
• Great American Eclipse
• Eclipse path of totality
• Google Maps traffic overlay during the eclipse
• @swiftonsecurity on mobile cell tower deployment
• Smarter Every Day
• Amazon Books
• Ἅρειος Ποτῆρ καὶ ἡ τοῦ φιλοσόφου λίθος

Dani completes a multi-wedding tour of England. Alex gets his flight upgraded on the way to Sweden. Both of them remain awed by the majesty of space, and repulsed by the infamous KIX-SFO morning sandwich.

Contact us on twitter! Alex is @ATYPE808, Dani is @danielpwright, or you can get podcast updates @Station13FM.

• Clickspring clock video
• Hello Internet
• Miguel’s rain video
• Warwick Castle
• Trebuchet
• Jousting at Warwick Castle
• Footlights
• Rowan Atkinson
• Stephen Fry
• Hugh Laurie
• French & Saunders
• Pink Floyd
• Ali G
• Punting
• Cambridge Botanical Gardens
• King’s College Chapel
• Liddell & Scott Greek Lexicon
• Ely
• I spy with my little eye
• Animal, vegetable or mineral / twenty questions
• IFF (Interchange File Format)
• Emirates
• Rogue One
• Ghost in the Shell (Live Action)
• Ghost in the Shell (Anime)
• Standalone Complex
• Beat Takeshi
• Nerdwriter: How not to adapt a movie
• Melatonin

Alex triggers a brief metaphysical digression on the nature of time and space, and Dani clarifies some of the points made last episode about internet security. Alex’s watch needs a new strap, which prompts a discussion about the pleasure to be gained by owning a mechanical watch. Alex talks about his two years working in industrial design, and how that experience has informed his approach to design in other fields, such as video games.

Contact us on twitter! Alex is @ATYPE808, Dani is @danielpwright, or you can get podcast updates @Station13FM.

• Kerckhoffs’ principle
• Rules for adjective order in English
• 1Password Security Design
• LastPass Technical Whitepaper
• iOS Security (iOS 10)
• Defakto Watches
• Diving Watch
• Archimede Watches
• Ickler Factory
• Automatic watch
• Defakto Akkord
  • Review on Worn & Wound (this is the Akkord Modular, which is a different model from Alex's but similar)
• Stowa Marine Original
  • Review on Worn & Wound
• ToxicNATOs
• Worn & Wound
• HODINKEE
• Morita Aluminum Industry
• Rogue
• Nethack
• Dwarf Fortress

Dani and Alex talk about games they used to play as children, Dani’s recent Skype hack and how you, dear listener, can avoid the same fate, and the merits of open source software.

Contact us on twitter! Alex is @ATYPE808, Dani is @danielpwright, or you can get podcast updates @Station13FM.

• British Bulldog
• Conkers
• Marbles
• Sagrada Família
• Have I Been Pwned?
• @troyhunt on Twitter
• 1Password
• LastPass
• KeePass
• KeePassXC (Mac)
• Side-channel attack
• Caesar cipher
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Open source
• Free Software
• The Free Software Foundation
• The GNU Public License (GPL)
• Viral license
• The (2-Clause) BSD License
• The MIT License
• The Apache License (v2.0)
• The zlib license
• xkcd
• Information entropy

Travel tips from Station 13! Alex shares advice he learnt during his honeymoon in Greece and Germany, and Dani talks about the best places to have a sit down and a think in Kyoto. Alex watches a video of sumo-wrestling robots, which naturally leads to a conversation about vacuum cleaners. And lastly, they discuss standing desks, and the advantages and disadvantages of open-plan offices.

Contact us on twitter! Alex is @ATYPE808, Dani is @danielpwright, or you can get podcast updates @Station13FM.

• Elephant skull
• Sounion
• The Parthenon
• Ryōan-ji
• The Oracle of Delphi
• Munich
• Jizō-in (Dani’s favourite thinking spot)
• ROBOT SUMO!
• Robot Wars
• AlphaGo
• Roomba
• Jarvis Bamboo (Dani’s desk)
• Aeron chairs

Alex and Dani talk briefly about frogs in Japan before embarking on a beautiful journey through E3, superhero comics, MacGyver, the Silmarillion, and Greek mythology.

Contact us on twitter!  Alex is @ATYPE808, Dani is @danielpwright, or you can get podcast updates @Station13FM.

• E3
• GDC
• The new Spider-Man game
• X-Men
• What if Peter Parker had to destroy Spider-Man?
• Asterix the Gaul
• MacGyver
• Mission: Impossible
• The Silmarillion
• Robert Fagles’ translations of Homer
  • The Iliad
  • The Odyssey
• JRR Tolkien book Beren and Lúthien published after 100 years
• Beren and Lúthien
• C.G.P. Grey’s Middle Earth videos
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• Japanese Self-Defence Force Kibasen

Dani and Alex go over the results of Dani’s recent driving test.  They talk about the fifth incarnation of the Japanese indie games festival, BitSummit, where Alex’s studio won an award! Finally, Alex waxes lyrical about the ancient Japanese art of “kibasen”.

Contact us on twitter!  Alex is @ATYPE808, Dani is @danielpwright, or you can get podcast updates @Station13FM.

• FastMail limits
• BitSummit
• Tokyo Game Show
• A 5th of BitSummit
• Dōjin
• Paper Garden, by Vitei Backroom
  • Reveal trailer
• Stifled, by Gattai Games
• Kibasen (騎馬戦)
  • One-on-one
  • Free-for-all battle

Alex and Dani discuss Dani’s upcoming driving test, automatic vs. manual transmission, and driving in California.  Alex introduces the podcast, and Dani talks about switching his email provider from Google to FastMail.

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• Engine Braking
• California stop
• Jūsō station
• Blue Yeti Microphone
• G Suite (formerly Google Apps)
• unroll.me controversy
  • The article which broke the story
  • Follow-up on unroll.me specifically
• Lyft
• Have I been pwned?
• Fastmail (the following referral links will get you 10% off for your first year and give one of us credit to our account)
  • I ❤︎ Alex
  • Dani's the best!
• SquirrelMail
• RoundCube