TIC TEK TOE

This is TIC TEK TOE episode 017.  In today's show, Marcel drags Evan into the rabbit hole he's been exploring for the last couple of weeks. After fighting to get his Roblox on under Windows, not to mention Unity 3D development work for world development on the Oculus Quest, Marcel decides to stop fighting and give in to the dark side, setting up a Windows machine and plugging his nose. All is not lost however, as Marcel tries to make his Windows system look and behave more like a Linux system. Is this the end of the world? Will lightning strike our heroes? Has Hell frozen over? Listen and find out.

This is TIC TEK TOE, episode 016. Today, Marcel finally gets Evan to watch UPLOAD and grills him on the show. The guys discuss the increasingly rapid development cycles on the Oculus Quest, including VR games as well as business offerings. AltspaceVR tries to rush ahead of the long-delayed Facebook Horizons. Marcel and Evan share their experience with ImmersedVR, talk about the brewing legal battle between Slack and Microsoft, and consider the differences in video chat apps. Oh, and Marcel gets a new avatar. 

Links from the show

Show Links

Facebook Horizons teaser : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is8eXZco46Q

This is TIC TEK TOE, episode 015. Today, Marcel and Evan visit the afterlife in VR, consider the world's loudest 21 seconds of silence, consider some Microsoft and Open Source conspiracy theories, wonder at the beauty of chroma key and Zoom backgrounds, mourn over the graves of many failed products, ask the tough questions about when good news becomes bad news, and generally chat about how we never cover the topics we think we're going to cover. 

Links to topics covered 

Everyone on the GNOME board of directors works for Microsoft (Dr. Roy)

Trudeau and his 21 seconds of silence : https://youtu.be/SeaDi-0Nz8w  

Malcolm Gladwell and his "Revisionist History", specifically the LSAT episode.

Link to the Google product graveyard (Killed by Google)

Pocket is a Mozilla project now

Bad Internet (IMDB entry)

Some Good News sells out

UPLOAD, by Amazon (IMDB entry)

Lawnmower Man, https://youtu.be/zzwPuJklv4w

My Google Home, thank you, video 

This is TIC TEK TOE, episode 014.  Today's episode, which was recorded last week but Marcel didn't edit until today, covers the ongoing COVID-19 isolation, pandemic bread and tourist food, famous chefs and food porn, an apology to Jitsi from Marcel, a happy ending for dot ORG, Universal Basic Income, Ayn Rand, buying wine during the lockdown, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and a push from Evan for Some Good News.

Links From The Show

Twoflower, the Discworld's first tourist

That all fondue restaurant in Geneva, Hotel Edelweiss 

Jamie Oliver's YouTube Channel

Gordon Ramsay's YouTube Channel (one of them, anyhow)

Heston Bluementhal's YouTube Channel

A story about dot ORG, ICANN, and the California Attorney General

Reif Estates Winery, Jackson Triggs, and Hillebrand (Peller) Winery

Gunpowder Tea 

Revisiting Jitsi for video conferencing

Universal Basic Income (something Marcel wrote last year)

CBC Radio, Ideas: Why Ayn Rand Still Matters (part 1 and part 2)

John Oliver on Ayn Rand (How is she still a thing?)

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on IMDB

Some Good News channel on YouTube

This is TIC TEK TOE, episode 013, from deep inside the heart of self-isolation. In this episode, Marcel and Evan discuss the strange world we all find ourselves living in, the climate of fear, the hazards of grocery shopping, Zoom going zoom and its security concerns, virtual reality headsets, virtual reality social environments, toilet paper, bidets, and why it's not so different for some people out there. 

Links From The Show

Litany against fear, from DUNE, by Frank Herbert

     I must not fear.

"So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is...fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Bill Maher, recording in his backyard, with laugh track and old recording of a "studio audience"

Klaatu, Everybody Took A Holiday

Jitsi, an open source messaging and video-conferencing client

ALtspaceVR vs VRChat VS Rec Room vs NEOS vs Hubs by Mozilla

Facebook Oculus commercial offering (Oculus For Business), including price and terms of use. 

Creating VR Worlds and Teaching Class with Mozilla Hubs, by Marcel Gagné on YouTube

The Washlet

TIC TEK TOE, episode 012. Welcome to a bold experiment into the future of something or other. Let's be honest. It's hard to tell. Is it a podcast? Is it a virtual reality (VR) show? Is it just two guys mucking about in AltspaceVR and trying to see if it's possible to tie your shoes when there's only one controller? Marcel has been playing with VR for a long time, but Evan is a relative newcomer and Marcel, being that kind of guy, wanted to see how Evan would handle himself in this strange new world. This show is unusual in that it's both a podcast, and a YouTube video.

In this episode (if it's an episode), we discuss doing things in VR, the EU adopting Signal for instant messaging, and "Shitt's Creek", a comedy on Netflix and CBC that is mandatory viewing for all Canadians and non-Canadians alike.  And, if you want to follow along with the video portion of this show, check it out here, on YouTube. https://youtu.be/sM_H0nxilJo

TIK TEK TOE, Episode 011. In this episode, Evan finally returns from a bout with a virus, but not that Virus, even though three weeks before, he was in China, in that part of China. We also talk about how to track said virus, restaurant ambiance, stupid government laws regarding privacy and copyright, social media alternatives, the new Star Trek series, "Picard," being guilty until proven innocent, wrestling, bad science, and alcohol consumption. 

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Links for today's show

TIK TEK TOE, episode 010.  It's 2020 and time for episode 010 of the show. In a rare event, Marcel and Evan meet at a fast food restaurant following one of the most embarrassing events of Marcel's life wherein his car was both stolen and not stolen. The guys discuss other forms of embarrassment including Ricky Gervais at the recent Golden Globes, new takes on old monsters, The Order, Buffy, simulation theory, turning mundane events into video games, and some really questionable history. 

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Additonal Notes & Links from the Show

- Ricky Gervais monologue on the 2019 Golden Globes

TIK TEK TOE, episode 009.  In this final episode of the decade, or at least, this year, Marcel and Evan riff on Christmas gifts, VR games, Jumanji, Open Hardware vs closed borders, The Witcher, and several other diversions. Somewhere in there, they reminisce over the last decade of free software, a free and open Internet (the Overnet), and lots of other things you really don't want to miss. Oh, and Marcel learns about Gwen Stacy, or is it Gaven and Stacey?

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Additonal Notes & Links from the Show

Pearls and Swine for the New Year

Oh, and Gavin and Stacey's Christmas special.

TIK TEK TOE, episode 008.  Marcel and Evan discuss Dora the Explorer, the Magic School Bus, how Adam ruins everything, Open Source in the Phillipines, the value of old hardware, consumer vs creator devices, licences (again) and .org (again). Cloud gaming makes another appearance and Marcel totally geeks out on the concept of human chimeras and how this might impact DNA evidence and even, wait for it, conciousness. 

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Additonal Notes & Links from the Show

Dora and the Lost City of Gold (trailer) : https://youtu.be/gUTtJjV852c