In which I present the case for my cats being the best of cats

Soon I'm going to have to stop using "I moved long-distance" as an excuse, but that time has not yet arrived, so apologies for missing July, but I was moving! Moooooviiiiiiing, which sucks. Anyway. I'm joined today by Yasmine Evjen, one of the fabulous co-hosts of the Material Podcast, which covers the Googleverse over on Relay. Yasmine and I are basically the same person when it comes to interpersonal relations, so you know she has some good stories!

Stuff (and people, oooh gossip) we talked about:

Bob was at my wedding. Yes I am wearing a tiara. I like tiaras.

My friend Bob joins me to tell some of his crazy stories. Bob is an old-school IT guy, and not entirely free of Bastard Operator from Hell tendencies. Bob's appetite for mayhem makes mine look positively tame, so enjoy some of his "yes I really did do that" stories!

Stuff we talked about:

• That Dilbert strip
• UC Riverside
• Mr. Taco
• Those jerks who wanted to shut down UCR and UC Merced

FUTURE!

Have we reached peak introvert? Quite possibly! Your intrepid host tells you about her adventures abusing Amazon Prime and Prime Now and the introvert-optimized Panera app. Plus ordering burritos from the toilet with the Chipotle app!

"But I'm so cute!" No, spider; no you are not.

Friends Joe Macirowski and his awesome wife Lia join me for an episode all about creepy crawlies, both real and imaginary.

Discussed in this show:

• Ruffled Feathers, a podcast about things that ruffle our feathers
• Everyone knows you die instantly
•  One of my favorite hats
• The boardwalks of New Jersey
• Very few spiders are actually harmful to humans
• Cane spiders
• A beginner's guide to tarantula care
• Big ol' Hawaii cockroaches
• Lemon-scented Raid and lemon-scented Pledge: not interchangeable
• Centipedes of Hawaii

So this happened.

Thomas Brand, Joe Macirowski, and I take a trip down memory lane, right through the heart of One Infinite Loop. We talk about our favorite old Macs and some of our not-so-favorite Mac memories.

Stuff we talk about:

And finally:

Moisés (Our Dear Leader) thinks it's awesome that my two older cats are named after literary/historical figures, so here's the epic (not) tale of how that came to be.

Links:

• Eloisa to Abelard, by Alexander Pope
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*
• The Penguin Joke

*Yep, that's an Amazon affiliate link!

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore

Some stuff I talk about:

• Prosopagnosia, aka face blindness
• DragonCon
• James Marsters
• And you have stupid hair
• Cary Elwes
• As You Wish (you bet that’s an affiliate link!)

No, see, this makes sense because the in-person audition was in Washington, DC.

Video: recording myself taking the Jeopardy online test

Audio: go buy I Lost on Jeopardy on iTunes or on Amazon or by some other means (though if you click that Amazon link I get a trivial amount of money!)