Welcome to our special holiday episode! We discuss our holiday plans, but still have plenty of time for questions.
Also, a TMTH first! We have a special guest! This guest is probably well-known to most of you, and is (I think) the only person who can claim Buffy, Firefly, Doctor Horrible, *and* Castle… on their list of shows they’ve watched with Tony, in the living room of their house.
Happy Holidays, and enjoy!
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The Producer posted this a week ago, and it disappeared. I just found it in the Spam folder for some reason. Here it is, a week later. Enjoy!
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Some links for the listener:
US Naval Observatory Astronomical Applications Department
Inquire Within
Long Hair Enhances Perception – don’t know if this is the exact article William read, but it seems to cover the same content
The Artist is Present – the art I was talking about where the artist (Marina Abramović) just sat
I have no idea what specifically I was reading about chicken sexing, and it wasn’t this, but there is an article in existence called “The Art of Chicken Sexing” – HA!
Have a Blessed Solstice, everyone!
EDITOR’S NOT SUPPLEMENTAL: Okay, so The Producer’s comment is dated 12/22… which is correct. So it’s a week late, but dated a week back. That is all. Continue about your business.
Re: Bringing up something obscure when meeting a star of film and/or screen – Something I always wanted to do was to have Peter Davidson (the 5th guy to play The Doctor on Doctor Who) walk up and for me to go… “Hey! It’s Campion!”
And he did actually walk up to a group of people I was standing with at a Doctor Who convention last year, and I almost did it. But it turns out that Campion isn’t very obscure when you’re at a Doctor Who convention and the magic was lost. I tried to think of something else obscure, but I didn’t feel like telling him I was actually interested in parts of his liver because that might have been TOO obscure and I was thinking it would have come across as creepy.
“The Stork’s Vagina” – Is the name of the band that opens for the live version of TMTH (which is much better then the podcast).
I have 5 of the “It Came Out Of Nowhere” shirt from shirt.woot
(http://shirt.woot.com/friends.aspx?k=8901)
4 of them were gifts. I’m okay with that.
I still think the woman won money at horse shows or something.
Oo, yeah… good one…
And by “Dear Mr. Hat” I mean “here’s a question, could you please transcribe this onto card such that it can be summoned thus by Tony, William or, indeed, The Producer.”
Anyway, woo, another Welsh0r week 🙂
So yeah, I’ve forgotten 99% of the stuff I was going to say because I listened in bed last night. On my smartphone, having pulled the episode down automatically via RSS feed. That’s right, baby – embracing the smartphone era.
It’s funny, I was never big into phones. I’ve always had them (my first was an ancient thing which predated the ability to send text messages), just because I like gadgets, but I always have the cheapest tariff possible as I never use them. My smartphone? Oh hell yeah. It’s basically a fairly powerful computer with a 4.3″ screen that just happens to also make phone calls. That’s how I define smartphones, anyway.
If you’re not really into phones (I follow this guff religiously), Google Android, which is probably mostly attributed to Verizon’s “Droid” brand, is basically Linux, with a phone-friendly user interface glued to the top. If you root your phone, which gives you the sort of control over your phone that the manufacturers don’t want you to have, you can actually call up a command line (think the black and white DOS screen) and type actual Linux commands. So yeah, essentially, they’re computers which happen to have phone functionality built in. iPhones, Blackberrys and so on are much the same, although based on other underlying software.
I mean, to put this into some perspective, if you’re avoiding smartphones because you “don’t need a phone”, which is entirely valid, my typical monthly use is a few minutes, a few texts and about 1gig of data. I think I probably do most of my browsing via my phone these days, too. It’s not ideal, but damn it’s convenient. I suspect I’ll be getting a tablet at some point, possibly a Samsung Galaxy, which will all but replace my desktop browsing.
And on a completely unrelated note, I think William just popped up in my suggested friends on Facebook, with Tony and my Aikido sensei as a mutual friend. I didn’t send an invite in case it wasn’t The William, plus we don’t want to infect some unsuspecting person with welsh.
You do Aikido? Aikido will get you ties to William, and ties to Dan & Lisa… who don’t listen, but whom you will definitely know, eventually.
If the FB avatar was something dorky, then it was probably “the” William.
How long have you been with Kojokan, Stu? We haven’t been involved with it for… um… maybe five years, now? But the kids used to go all the time and we’re still friends of the Coglans.
Ah, was the correct William! I started at Kojokan almost as soon as I moved to the US, in the Summer of 08 (just after the floods, the dirty water line was still visible along Coralville strip). Myself, my wife and my eldest all used to go and we all did our first grading. Sadly, we had to knock it on the head when I started at my current employer, as they weren’t (then) flexible about work hours. It’s a bit better these days, so we’re hoping to start again this spring, at least with the kids.
Dan Coglan was actually a witness at my wedding. What a small world we live in.
And, just in case the world is even smaller than we imagine, my Welsh ancestors are Owens from somewhere in Caernarvonshire. May have some Jones ancestors from Wales, too, but not certain. We also have Bevans in the tree, but we don’t know where from (in Europe, that is… here in the states they lived in Maryland and Delaware).
A small world indeed. 🙂
Still catching up on the podcast, hope everybody had a happy Christmas.
Tony: Smooth move avoiding that topic about what the Producer is. Though moving on to talk about old people having sex was perhaps not too smooth….
William: What is wrong with Tony? I don’t think you could possibly record a podcast to cover all that is wrong with him.
Producer: We don’t have a filter that removes Tony from the podcast, but we do have a filter that mutes him a bit.
Isn’t the William/TMTH App really just a play off of the Arthur Dent brain-replacement app (which says only 3 things: “What?”, “I don’t understand” and “Where’s the tea?”).
Tony: You do realize when you tell William not to be ridiculous; you’re totally the pot calling the kettle black.
Brian Blessed does commentary on Flash Gordon DVD? Dude, I totally need to get that disc now. Oh wait, according to Amazon, the US release of that disc doesn’t have that commentary (only the European silver anniversary disc does). *sigh*
William: Bastard.
Producer: Hire an IT person? What kind of salary/benefits are you offering? 😀
Tony: Bastard. Also back when you first asked for a new intro, I did make one and sent it to you, but you liked one of the other submissions better. Besides I’m better at visuals than audio.
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