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Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

61: The Bad Kind of Complexity

Brad & Will Made a Tech Pod.

Nice Segue, LLC

Technology, Tech, Android, Ios, Google, Society & Culture, Electric Car, Smart Phone, Apple, Microsoft, Videogame, Space, Phone, Techpod, Tesla, Science, Video Game, Smartphone, Tech Pod, Games, Amazon

4.8555 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2020

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

On this busy week we threw together a delightful potpourri of different topics, from gadget repair to drilling through PCBs, lust for 4k TVs (or not), making the lightest mouse in history, the huge potential of handheld lidar, and a quick glimpse at what's coming next in big-budget video game development. Support the show and join the Techpod Discord for as little as $2/month at https://patreon.com/techpod.

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0:00.0

I've always thought grandma's come in two flavors, potpourri and rosewater.

0:05.0

I'm just going to be honest.

0:05.9

We are picking, we are artificially resuming this conversation from before we started recording.

0:11.3

You can't tell him that.

0:12.5

You can't just say something like you just said out of context and just roll with it, man.

0:17.1

My grandmas were both Rosewater, grandmas.

0:19.0

We were talking about Jeopardy.

0:20.5

We were talking about the facts that Jeopardy had a common category called Popery.

0:24.5

And then you said you wouldn't know about popery without the Jeopardy category called Popery.

0:28.9

And I was like, wait, your grandma never put potpourri out or whatever?

0:32.3

And then that's when you said the infamous line.

0:35.5

Grandma's come in two flavors, rosewater and lab and popery.

0:38.2

What is rose water?

0:39.8

Rosewater is water that smells like roses.

0:41.5

Okay.

0:41.8

That's the truth in advertising.

0:45.2

I mean, I think there's probably also like a subgenre of grandma that's all it's a fork of

0:49.4

the potpoury branch that's like lavender like dried, because that's my English grandmother was a

0:54.9

dried lavender technically. She wasn't so much on the rosewater. Somebody swapped out rosewater.

0:59.0

Dot H and subbed in lavender.h. Yep. Yeah. Okay. Okay. My grandmother's house always was a little

1:07.5

musty smelling. Ooh, no, that's no good. Not like dirty musty, but just like old stuff musty.

1:12.6

Yeah, okay.

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