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Grumpy Old Geeks

17: There is no spoon

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 July 2013

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

Philosophizing it up this week the guys talk Seneca and Stoics, creepy homeschooling, in praise of Microsoft (sorta), plagiarism, remixing, and downright thievery. Other topics also include some new and not so new apps, and a silly Facebook story. Subscribe to the Grumpy Old Geeks on iTunes and give us a five star rating. You know you want to! Shownotes: On the Shortness of Life by Seneca Letters from a Stoic by Seneca Goodbye Facebook, Hello Life There is no spoon Connections Academy Mikala's horrible life HomeSchool Reviews Awesome IE VM's for testing from Microsoft Surface RT losses sting in Microsoft's Q4 2013 NextDesk Air NextDesk Treadmill The new Grumpy Old Geeks Website Subscribe to The Weekly Grump Horror-film blogger Spiderbaby caught up in plagiarism row Article Spinning Everything is a Remix Joshua Rewasiewicz REMIX of "Come Together" and "Closer" Why San Francisco sucks part #138 VLC for iOS is Back! How lazy are you? a.k.a. Outbox Mail Earth Class Mail Prius Drivers Suck Facebook, the early years: handing out a master password like candy See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Oh, right!

0:08.1

Crapi old geeks, two old farts, like a microphone, and the internet, like you go wrong.

0:18.4

Hello Jason, how you doing?

0:20.1

It is balls hot here.

0:21.5

Uh yes, I hear you're having some really crappy weather actually and you may have to like

0:25.3

unplug from your computer in case the thunderstorms kick up.

0:29.2

Yeah, pretty much every day about this time, a giant line of thunderstorms comes rolling

0:34.8

through with massive lightning and winds and rain and hail.

0:38.3

That's for about an hour or two, but we lose power every day.

0:42.3

So I got to turn my iMac off if the lightning starts.

0:46.5

So I'm recording on my air, so this is the first time I've got this rig up.

0:50.6

Interesting.

0:51.6

Yeah, well, you know, it's 80 degrees in sunny here.

0:55.6

It's 90 degrees muggy and miserable here.

1:00.0

The bugs love it though.

1:01.0

I mean, it's, I got this big bay window that I'm looking out and these bugs are just trying

1:04.8

to get in all day long.

1:07.0

Nasty.

1:08.0

Nasty.

1:09.0

Yes, Steve.

1:10.0

I miss L.A. for that.

1:12.0

Oh.

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