How many podcasters does it take to screw…
Eh, you’ve heard that one already. On this week’s podcast, Karl “Cap’n” Kornfeld joins us again. We express clinginess to get him to stay on permanently… then we tell him we will not be ignored. Meanwhile, on the Geek Top Three we discuss another giant company (TJX) getting hacked, and much personal data being compromised. We also discuss the long-term failure rate of vasectomies and how they relate to chimps, as well as some poor dumb girl who was just dying for a Wii.
On Boston in Brief, we discuss Vericon VII and a beerfest that’s TOTALLY EXTREME!!!
Any comments or suggestions?
Email: colin@bostongeek.com, carl@bostongeek.com
Skype: bostongeek
Voice: 1.617.209.4200
All music composed and recorded by Karl Kornfeld.
My loins and I thank you for the congratulations
Except for the first one I went to, I have never been a fan of the Beer Fests held by Beer Advocate. The first one I went to was a German Beer Fest where it was $15 to get in, and that gave you 4 pints of beer and you could buy tokens to get more. Anything above 6% ABV was a half pint.
Since then, they’ve gone to the $30 format but all the tastings are 4oz, which is just a waste of time in my opinion. You really can’t get into a beer with only 4oz. at a time.
The majority of vasectomies performed nowadays involve a multi-step procedure to sever the vas deferens, a section of it is also cut out to increase the distance between the cuts to discourage re-growth, and the cut ends are also cauterized and sealed off with metal clips. This has helped to greatly decrease the percentage of “naturally reversed” procedures. Would this all be done on an animal? Not sure, that may have just been the “snip and see ya later” procedure. Don’t ask why I know all this, you can figure it out on your own
The multi-step procedure also pretty much assures you that the situation CANNOT be reversed.
My comments about the ‘cast:
-How about nicknaming Karl “Korny”?
-Colin, you should have known. Anything mixed with Yoohoo sucks. Yoohoo mixed with Yoohoo sucks.
-When we bought our cats, we almost named them Chiana and D’Argo. Can’t do it for a human being though. Although we did consider the name “Arya”, a character from George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire books.
-I’ve actually done the run-around-and-get-hit-in-the-head-with-foam-swords thing. Now that’s some freaking exercise. Nothing beats the sensation of sneaking around in the woods on a moonless night and jumping out and scaring a guy so bad that he falls over.
I too have done the LARP Greg, so you are not alone.
A couple comments about this week’s GameGeek Challenge:
-”ishdishion” - yeah, I don’t even know how to spell it. It’s kind of an homage to Gamespot’s Hotspot podcast, where they used to say every week “Welcome to another ishdishion of The Hotspot”. I thought maybe game-loving listeners might get the obscure reference.
-”Ear-scratchingly” - this is a reference to the GeeksOn podcast, which someone once called “Ear-scratchingly gay”. The Geeks discussed and laughed about this at length.
-”Frelling” - how dare you defame Farscape? Best frelling SciFi show ever. I mean, I love Battlestar, I love Heroes, and I frelling love The 4400, but Farscape is the best of all of them. Firefly on the other hand, I wasn’t a big fan of. Let the flamewars begin.
Speaking of the Beer Fest, next time I’m up there or I’ll see if I can make a trip without wife and child, there will have to be a BostonGeek Beer Fest.
Firefly > BSG
Firefly > Farscape
No flamewar needed.
My view, using Colin’s mathy stuff
Firefly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BSG (I wasn’t sure how to express infinitely greater than properly.)
Firefly greater or equal to Farscape.
Firefly Trek TNG
4400 > BSG
4400
Aack! It interpreted my greater and lesser signs as HTML tags and cut them out!
That’s because it knows your arguments are groundless.
Seriously, we’re still discussing the merits of BSG after the fucking shambles of the second half of the second season and the first half of the third? Did everyone but me miss the boxing episode? The “hostages in a bar” episode?
IMO, Firefly > Farscape > Heroes is really the only things we need to be arguing about at this point. And to be fair, I don’t know for sure that the Whedon could have sustained that level on Firefly for several seasons.
bugger
a > b, maybe?
yeah, that’s the stuff…forgot my semicolons.
Firefly > Farscape > Heroes
Yes, groundless arguments shall have their < > characters banished to purgatory.
And, being a hopeful person, I watched BSG, despite the 2nd half of the 2nd season being 99% crap, all the up way until about 5 minutes into the boxing episode. At which point I removed the recording from my ReplayTV.
Not that I don’t love the intros, but it’s nearly three minutes before you guys start with the actual podcast.
Nah, if this was Caligula-world, we’d just put the DJs in the head-mowing yard.
Yeah I tend to fast forward now until I hear spoken words since I’m too impatient to sit through the 3 minute long intro.
I was actually going to suggest Kaylee as a name when Em and I were talking about it, but her uncle’s girlfriend has a Kailee (not sure how she spells it).
Strange thing - I let Linda listen to the podcast last night, and when you suggested Enara, Linda mentioned that when we’d watched Serenity, she’d really liked that name.
Think it’s spelled Inara, fwiw.
Oh, and there’s a Q&A up on boston.com asking the actual relevant questions about what TJX stores, and what people need to do if they’re concerned their information may have been stolen.
Great sequence of questions to start if off, btw.
So, in other words, you’re a fucking idiot. You just said that any company you buy something with a debit/credit card from has to keep that information for a number of different reasons. What difference, then, does being able to take advantage of that fact to avoid reentering your credit info make, exactly?
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