Two Bit Geeks

A cherished franchise returns for one final chapter. But was it worth the wait?

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• Tom’s scribblings
• Fainting Betelgeuse (Sky & Telescope)
• Star Trek: Picard Episode 1
• The Good Place
• Moral desert
• Live a good life (Marcus Aurelius)
• The Mandalorian
• Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
• Knives Out
• r/prequelmemes

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It’s election season, and Ped has invested in maroon duct tape, Tom is withholding any endorsements, and they both discuss whether chess is a sport.

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• Hatha yoga
• Rāja yoga
• The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
• Downton Abbey
• Duct tape
• Ranked-choice voting
• The grandmaster diet
• The Brattle Theatre
• Citizen Kane
• Color grading
• Orange and Teal

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Ped & Tom continue their appreciation of nature with a discussion on the ethics of animal welfare and eating fish, observing wildlife through drawing, painting, and nature journaling, and a surprising foray onto Instagram.

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• The egg-laying turtle
• Hummingbird moths
• “Bee of the Bird of the Moth” (They Might Be Giants)
• Sandpipers
• American woodcock
• Library Extension
• What a Fish Knows by Jonathan Balcombe
• Do fish feel pain? One answer.
• Little Free Library
• Tom’s Instagram (Face spoilers)
• You Can Draw in 30 Days by Mark Kistler
• John Muir
• The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling by John Muir Laws
• “Rocky Mountain High” (John Denver)

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Ped & Tom take the meandering path through such subjects as dealing with hydrophobia, the automated safety features of modern cars, and a review of some favorite video and board games.

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• The Door in the Wall by H. G. Wells
• How To: Adjust Your Mirrors to Avoid Blind Spots (Car and Driver)
• Harry Tuttle, Heating Engineer (Brazil)
• Ask Ped & Tom
• Minesweeper
• Doom
• Slither.io
• Minecraft
• Portal
• Myst
• Pole Position
• Dragon’s Lair
• Ms. Pac-Man
• The Addams Family pinball
• KLASK
• Forbidden Island
• Settlers of Catan
• Power Grid
• Twilight Struggle
• Through the Ages
• Container
• Indonesia
• BoardGameGeek boardgame rankings

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Ped got a new cat toy, Tom has some animal stories. Also, pondering cultured meat, inoculation with a fake news vaccine, and more listener questions.

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• PEBKAC
• Lap of Love
• Erethizon dorsatum
• Manticore
• Lynx rufus
• Ursus americanus
• Chrysemys picta
• Laying an egg
• Library Extension
• Octal
• Hexadecimal
• Sexagesimal
• Moxie
• Jägermeister
• Barry’s Tea
• Guinness
• Alignment
• Cultured meat
• Monty Hall problem
• Episode 05: The Conveyor Belt of Slop
• GetBadNews.com
• Usenet

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Ped & Tom careen through a cavalcade of conversational categories, including competitions, carbon dioxide, Chernobyl, conservation, committee life, coaxial cable, communication constellations, and countless collections of warblers. Geek out!

This episode of the podcast is brought to you by Patreon supporter Alexander Nielsen. Thank you!

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• James Holzhauer
• 92nd Scripps National Spelling Bee
• Joe Biden Eating a Sandwich
• Who’s the Highest-Paid Public Employee in Every State?
• Atmospheric CO2 exceeds 415 ppm
• Keeling Curve
• Chernobyl
• TrashTag
• Game of Thrones season 8
• Newhart
• Ask Ped & Tom
• Starlink
• After SpaceX Starlink Launch, a Fear of Satellites That Outnumber All Visible Stars (New York Times)
• The Audubon Guide to Binoculars
• eBird
• Blackburnian Warbler
• Bald Eagle

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In this special episode, Ped & Tom are joined by the elusive Brother X, a triathlete and professional translator, who calls in from Yokohama, Japan. He shares some of the differences he sees in Japanese and American language and culture after having spent over two decades living in Japan.

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• International Triathlon Union
• ね
• Perry Expedition
• Asymptote
• Chutzpah

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In this episode, Tom has unwelcome visitors in the middle of the night, Ped has a new Star Wars theory, and they both geek out to the first image of a Black Hole before musing on the Ultimate Fate of the Universe.

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• Notre-Dame de Paris
• Our Nocturnal Visitors
• First trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
• The Mandalorian
• Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge
• Event Horizon Telescope
• Event horizon
• Accretion disk
• “How to take a picture of a black hole” (Katie Bouman Ted Talk)
• Very-long-baseline interferometry
• “How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole” (Veritasium)
• The M87 Black Hole as seen by the Chandra X-ray Observatory
• Ultimate fate of the universe
• Heat death of the universe

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The interminable New England Winter is almost over and it’s time for a Spring Clean for Ped & Tom as they start their Digital Declutter. With more time away from digital distractions, Tom finds a new hobby.

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• Sugar shack
• Tapping Maple Trees
• Episode 47: Our Fraught Relationship with Technology
• PBS
• The Deep Dish reviews of Digital Minimalism and Marie Kondo
• eBird
• Merlin Bird ID
• Black-capped Chickadee
• Tufted Titmouse
• Pileated Woodpecker
• Barred Owl

Black-capped Chickadee recorded by Jay McGowan/Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (ML94959121)

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Ped & Tom review the new book “Digital Minimalism” by Cal Newport and discuss the benefits of reducing your daily interactions with technology and social media.

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• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport
• Ped’s review of Deep Work in Episode 38
• Attention economy
• Freedom

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