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Grumpy Old Geeks

66: German Potato Salad

Grumpy Old Geeks

Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner

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4.86.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2014

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Some TMI follow-up from last weeks episode. We touch on the obligatory potato salad story. Brian doesn’t even gloat about the Germany win. We dish on some books and software. A little disruption sneaks in too. Listen or subscribe in iTunes If you like the show please click here and give us a rating or review in iTunes. It helps us out and lets us know people want more episodes! If you’d like to donate to the show please check out our page on TugBoat Hosted by Libsyn Use the coupon code “gog” while signing up & receive up to 2 months free! Show Notes Potato Salad Leftshitz piece Study Shows that 10,000 Hours of Practice Isn’t the Magic Number Original source LeBron James Website is the HTML Apocalypse LeBron hasn’t got shit on Jim Carrey. Google’s Larry Page: “I Think the Government’s Likely to Collapse Under Its Own Weight.” Homestar Runner Is Coming Back! Brazil Thought Magical Thinking Would Win Them the World Cup. They Were Wrong. Google Maps can now tell you the exact distance between two points LAPD Exposes Login To Data Harvesting Software During Interview With CNN Crypto weakness in smart LED lightbulbs exposes Wi-Fi passwords “Weaponized” exploit can steal sensitive user data on eBay, Tumblr, et al. Security company says your data can easily be recovered from ‘wiped’ Android phones Big Data should not be a faith-based initiative NSA trove shows 9:1 ratio of innocents to suspicious people in “targeted surveillance” Robogenesis: A Novel Amped Why The Music Industry’s Next Big Disruption Is In The Recording Studio DiskMaker Why Did Starfleet Allow Families Aboard the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Generation? Bill Murray’s Unreleased 1984 Sci-Fi Comedy Is Now Online Transcendence Gracepoint The Killing 35 Genius Travel Tips That Will Change Your Life Forever The First Text Message Ever Was Sent 21 Years Ago Today RocketSkates let you zip along the sidewalk at a top speed of 12MPH Reid’s Chocolates SAVE OUR PODCASTS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND Music by Amungus See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Grumpy old geeks, a weekly talk show hosted by Brian and Jason, discussing the finer points

0:09.9

of what went wrong on the internet and who's for blame.

0:13.3

Let's get started.

0:15.3

Hey Brian, how are you?

0:18.1

How are you up there in Toronto with your Germans and stuff?

0:23.0

It's been a very good trip so far.

0:24.4

It's been a lot of fun.

0:25.9

There's a lot of Germans around here and people are well into the world cup here, as opposed

0:29.7

to LA.

0:30.7

The last couple days has been a blast.

0:34.0

Well, seven to one, Jesus.

0:37.7

We try to be a little bit humble about that because there's one more game to play here.

0:42.2

Okay, don't want to jinx it.

0:45.4

So last week, we talked about some interesting things at the beginning of the show.

0:50.6

I want to just say if you're listening to this show and you haven't heard last week's

0:54.0

show, I encourage you to go back and grab it.

0:56.4

It was a holiday weekend here in the States and people were doing other stuff elsewhere.

1:01.6

So, a lot of people didn't hear our last episode compared to all the other ones.

1:05.9

So, check it out because this story directly impacts, it is directly a follow up from last

1:12.0

week's episode.

1:14.7

Now I've talked about the crazy domains I have on this show before and one of my

1:19.4

have is called twatbot.com.

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