The technology is failing us! We get William into the episode by the skin of our teeth. But to compensate, we have a VERY special guest. Also, we’re periodically haunted by Ezzie, which you can see if you watch it on YouTube. Otherwise, just take my word for it. Enjoy!
QUESTIONS:
Have you ever tried vaping? Would you? –Craig
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Of the choices on that box office, I think I’d see Death Race again
From what I understand from the research, vaping is better for you than smoking if the frequency of consumption is the same. However, vaping is much worse for you than not vaping. I think it’s like drinking soda – smoking is regular soda and vaping is diet soda. Neither is great for you, but one is better than the other in the same quantities. But, one regular soda is probably better for you than a case of diet soda.
Also, I think there is a small bit of evidence that second-hand vape can be a problem. Again, much better than second hand smoke, but not completely safe.
The frequency is an interesting point – I knew somebody that switched when vapes first came out and he reckoned that his overall usage went up relative to cigarettes because he couldn’t tell how much he’d had and taking a regular puff had become a habit whereas before he could easily see how many cigarettes were left in a packet.
This is how Beth breaks it to us that she’s gotten WAY into vaping…
Well I was thinking about it, but then they got rid of all the dessert sounding flavors, so I’m just settling for eating real food for dessert instead 🙂
William’s Dead Laptop: Replacing a hard drive isn’t too bad. Though reinstalling Windows can be problematic. Dear god can it be problematic… My PC recently crashed hard enough to require a reinstall and I fought it for a week before I got it up & running again. ARGH!
William’s Sound Quality: To me it mostly sounds the same but there are occasional audio glitches, but that might have been the recording or something with your video chat.
Hello Producer!
William as Eliza: Hehehehehehehe
The Albatross of the Podcast: Are you sure that’s not me?
Podcasting from the Bedroom: Err… I didn’t think this was that type of podcast…
If people are only just joining the podcast at this point; they might deserve to be confused.
My company started having us work from home back in March with hopes to be back in the office around July. It’s now October and the current estimate is maybe sometime next year. Technically, there’s a very limited number of people allowed into the office currently; but that’s basically limited to one person per floor of the building.
Westworld: I’ve only seen the old movie, none of the tv show.
His Dark Materials: Read the first book, liked the concept, hated the book. Got talked into watching the movie, was not impressed. Nobody’s tried to convince me to watch the show.
Vaping: Like the Producer, my answers are both no. Also, Science.com has an article saying that second-hand vapor isn’t as a bad as second-hand smoke, but it’s still not good.
William Wright: the only human ever to fail the Turing Test.
“OK, now y’all aren’t even trying.” — Turing tester to AI researchers after interacting remotely with William for two minutes and grading him “Dr. Who Season 4 Cyberman”. This was a higher score than William expected.