Comments on: BostonGeek Podcast: Episode 36

By: vintage dress

vintage dress — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:34:06 +0000

With the 70s and 80s back in style, I just loving vintage clothing from the thrift shops. You can find designers like Chanel and Armani for cheap there. Ebay is great too!

By: Retro Fashion

Retro Fashion — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 22:42:22 +0000

All the old stuff I wore as a child is coming back. Kinda scary and makes you feel old, but it looks great most of the time.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:45:53 +0000

Except people besides you actually miss kozmo.

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:17:30 +0000

I am not entirely sure how week 36 becomes half a year… maybe on Mars.

I ordered like… a candy bar, a sammich, and a DVD from Kozmo once. Free delivery rocked.

Funny footnote to Kozmo. In 1999 (iirc), one of the better-known financial mags published an article on Kozmo, saying that the founder was the new DotCom Wunderkind.

A year later, of course, Kozmo joined Pets.com as poster children for failed DotCom business plan bufoonery.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 00:07:19 +0000

Again, filthy goddamned heathens. I’m going to have to get real Haribo Goldbaerchen sent to me to make sure you know what I’m talking about. No chemical crap in them. Don’t send her the gummi bears if she’s in switzerland…they probably won’t let them in the country.

http://www.haribo.com/planet/sprachauswahl.html

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:55:14 +0000

We do have peapod and like one or two others, don’t we?

Kozmo was not a grocery service. They did movie rentals and other random crap, including some food. God, I miss it, though. Seth and I had regular Saturday morning kozmo runs. We usually bought a dvd, got a half dozen au bon pain bagels and some cream cheese, and maybe some other piece of crap. I actually got both my and Emily’s GBA from kozmo.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:50:40 +0000

Living proof that you can, in fact, just shuffle around during the wedding dance.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 23:46:18 +0000

Catching up on the podcasts…listening to them on the T on the ROKR doesn’t really work. What was the whole “week 36 is half a year” nonsense?

By: Big Remy

Big Remy — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:42:49 +0000

Yeah, but there is a special level of Hell reserved for Hipsters.

REPENT!!!!!!

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:30:11 +0000

Fine, I give in. I am a Mac hipster. Who cares, it feels so good.

By: Big Remy

Big Remy — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 15:17:30 +0000

No. Hipster read BusinessWeek so they can attempt to sound smart when they have conversations about how unfair the world economic system.

Again, you lose.

Mac Hipster

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 14:58:54 +0000

So, since BusinessWeek suggests students buy a Mac, does it mean it is no longer a hipster computer?

By: Big Remy

Big Remy — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 01:26:13 +0000

No, because Drain Sth was fairly mainstream at one point. The album was reviewed in a skiing magazine and we all know hipsters are allergic to outdoor sports.

By: Colin

Colin — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 00:52:02 +0000

So, you are into underground, swedish metal bands? Sounds like a hipster to me.

By: Big Remy

Big Remy — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 23:20:13 +0000

Actually, there is a great Swedish metal band made of 4 women named Drain Sth. I have two of their albums, and they are actually really damn good.

But nice try at a come back there hipster boy. Go make love to your iPod’s cordaroy case.

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 16:21:07 +0000

Btw, there is this really great swedish metal band you should listen to. They are way underground. I mean, we are talking next to the earth’s liquid magma.

By: Big Remy

Big Remy — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:16:13 +0000

See?! See?! Hipster bastidwq

By: Colin

Colin — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 02:25:22 +0000

Oh, cords. Right, I will have to pick some up at the vintage clothing store on Newbury St.

By: Russtopher

Russtopher — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 20:33:38 +0000

“colin closet hipster” is, I think, an oxymoron

By: Big Remy

Big Remy — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 19:28:41 +0000

That because new age hipsters don’t like like to drive mass consumerism. It’s not hip enough for them. Maybe if the store advertised that all purchases were combined with an iPod loaded with the newest South Kreblakistan techno music then they would go for it. Hipsters like that stuff, right Colin?

Colin is a closet hipster

Oh and all the ones I’ve known don’t wear fancy jeans, it’s mostly corduroy.

By: Russtopher

Russtopher — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:19:56 +0000

re: Apple sweatshops – I agree wholeheartedly that you can’t look at the situation with US-colored lenses. Yes it seems like a harsh work environment/poor compensation model, especially considering the recent exposes on places like Wal Mart, BUT you can’t judge it based on the US economy and style of life. A lot of overseas factories are now very strictly regulated and monitored, but because Joe American makes more per month at Taco Bell, doesn’t mean that Apple (or their vendors) are running a sweatshop.

re: Apple flagship – I can’t wait for it to be in Boston, and I’m as far from a new age hipster wannabe as you can get. You’d think that with the sheer amount of artists/graphics designers/musicians in greater Boston who help drive a lot of Apple’s PC sales, that a flagship store would have been here years ago. Now, if they would only extend the old iBook warranty issue to replace my logic board

By: Big Remy

Big Remy — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:28:16 +0000

According to an exchange calculator, $50 US is equivalent to 400 Chinese Yuan. The government price of rice has been set at 1.4 yuan (16.8 cents) per kilogram. One figure I could find was that rice in the US was 20 cents/kilogram.