Maximum Geek Vol. 2 Ep. 26

Alright, here it is, over a week after we recorded it. I’m really sorry but I fell into a depression the last part of last week and I was busy the first part. I’m maybe hopefully starting to pull out of it and maybe we’ll get a show up this week. Anyway, here’s what we cover.

• Google Chrome
• New CTIA devices
• New LOTRO stuffage
• SPORE, HUH, WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR?

The Spore portion of the show is a bit heated. Take a listen and as always feel free to tell us what you think. Of course if you’re wrong we’ll be more than willing to explain why ; )

 

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Maximum Geek Vol. 2 Ep. 25

Well, this is something of an odd ball episode. This is the first episode (out of the 94 episodes we’ve done between vol 1 and 2) that Jeff isn’t in. Jeff took a mental health day, he’s trying to ween himself off politics. So Rick Cartwright joins me. Rick has been a friend of ours for quite a while and he’s guested on at least one prior episode of Max Geek (back in our trying to do live shows stage). Rick was originally set to join us as the moderate conservative view for our political discussion (which he does at the end). We got kind of carried away with what was supposed to be 15 or 20 minutes of tech talk, well at least half the show ended up being about tech.

There is another milestone, this is the first to be continued Max Geek. Rick and I just ran out of time and we were just getting started on politics. Next week sometime Rick and I will do a mini Max Geek Political cast to wrap things up. Without further ado I bring you the Max Geek 25 show notes.

• Does Google Chrome shine?
• XBox 360 price cuts, does this mean the XBox is ready to be replaced?
• Spore, it’s coming and it’s going to rock
• Politics
  • National conventions, do we need them?
  • Attack ads
  • Palin, we start in on the discussion but have to stop halfway through.

So, stay tuned next week, we should have a regular episode and a mini episode on politics with me and Rick.

 

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Writerly Cast Ep. 3

Alright, it’s that time of the month again, this is the Writerly cast. Before I get down to the show notes though I wanted to mention (to those of you just following the podcast feed) that I’ve started doing a lot of actual blogging on Maximum Geek. I’m trying to cover a range of topics like we do on the podcast, so put the full feed http://www.maximumgeek.org/feed/ into your RSS reader and check it out. Now down to the show notes. This was a pretty simple cast.

Part 1: Where Jeff and I ad-lib trust me, it gets interesting once we get the silly out

Part 2: Jeff and I discuss marketability and what it’s place is in the writing process (hint: Jeff is wrong)

Along the way we also talk a bit about motivation and why Jeff isn’t writing any fiction lately. Good stuff, take a listen and give us some feedback, we actually are interested in what our listeners think, honest. And I know you’re out there, we use up plenty of bandwidth each month. So come on down and tell us what you think. Also spay or neuter your pets (a mention in next weeks podcast to the first person who can explain that last line email me).

 

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Maximum Geek Vol. 2 Ep. 24

Hey, we’re up early this week, woohoo. We cover a lot and in the end I lay the smack down on Jeff. Here’s what we cover.

• Intel Nehalem, 4 cores, 8 threads
• 6 core Xeon server processors
• AMD kicks some Atom ass link
• Toshiba upscaling DVD player, but is it really a surplus HD-DVD player with new firmware? link
• Hong Kong Lego User Group makes 300,000 brick Olympic complex link
• Vista gets no loving, as many as a third of PC still ship with XP link
• Mobile way more than a minute
  • Sprint Airave, The Good, The Bad and the WTF.
  • Sprint being a dumbass, part deux… Diamond $100 more than the iPhone link
  • HTC Dream approved by FCC, T-Mobile to carry first Android phone this fall link
  • Treo Pro leaked, redacted, leaked… link
  • Intel has something up its sleeve link
  • Game changing hardware link

 

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Maximum Geek Vol.2 Ep. 22

OK, so we recorded this last week, I meant to get it up last Friday (1 day after the Writerly cast) but I got crazy swamped last week. So here ya go. Here’s what we cover.

• Splashtop hacked
• Cloud computing, Midori is coming.
• Josh loves to touch his touch
• Mobile More Than a Minute
  • More 800w goodness
  • The second (or third or fourth) coming of Palm.
• Microsofts new approach.

Stay tuned, Thursday I’ll be posting a new cast full of techalicious goodness.

 

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Writerly Cast Ep. 2

No reviews this week. We decided that the last cast was a bit over laden with that kind of stuff. We have a couple interesting discussions in this one on storytelling. We discuss long form story telling (think serials, television and comics). We discuss what works and what doesn’t and a bit of why. Then we go on to discuss the Dark Knight. I did love the movie, but I had some serious problems with the storytelling (Jeff didn’t) the discussion is interesting but not too heated. Then we finish up with talking about what being a paid writer really means (hint, not much).

 

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Maximum Geek Vol. 2 Ep. 21

We\’re on a real roll here. It’s another episode of Max Geek and Jeff and I are a bit scattered, which is really nothing new. Someone should really be in charge of show notes and keeping on topic or something. Crap that’s supposed to be me. Next weeks Writerly cast will be a bit late since I’ll be in Colorado seeing The Police live. Should be awesometastic. Here’s what we cover.

• Charlie the Unicorn 2 Link
• Dr. Horrible Link
• Live Mesh
• Splashtop on the Envy 133. Someone buy me this laptop, because two laptops just isn’t enough. link
• Mobile Me and iPhone launch issues
• Treo 800w hotness
• E3 Topics
  • Guitar Hero World Tour impressions video
  • PS3 Price Drop, 80 Gig unit dropping to $399.
  • XBox 360 dashboard changes link

Tune in next week for more hilarity.

 

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Maximum Geek vol. 2 Ep. 20

Alright, I took a little while to post this one mostly because I was busy Thursday and Friday and my birthday was yesterday so I took the weekend for myself (well mostly). I was hardly at my computer, man was that weird. I had a pirate themed birthday, because what else is a 32 year old going to do right? The girls loved it. Anyway, onto the cast, where again mobile tech dominated the show. I lost my detailed notes in the process of putting Vista back on my mini-note. Turns out the video driver is not so much stable in XP. Whereas I never get crashes under Vista. Vista FTW. So it\’s mostly mobile tech talk, can you dig it?

 

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Maximum Geek Vol. 2 Ep. 19

Lots to cover this time around. First we spend way more time than we meant to talking about MMO’s, then on to mobile tech. Here’s what we cover.

• More deaths, Don S. Davis dies
• DC Universe Online, first screenshots and concept art revealed. DCUO
• Stargate Worlds
• Mobile Computing
  • HP Mini-Note – How useful is it?
  • Envy 133 – The Macbook Air done right?
  • ULCPC vs. Ultra Light PC’s

Catch us next week for more talk on mobile computing as Jeff and I discuss the future of both mobile and desktop operating systems.

 

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Writerly Cast Episode 1

Welcome to episode one of The Writerly Cast. We cover a lot of stuff in a hour and a half. We’re really happy with this. All the books we discuss are listed below with buy links to both paper and ebooks (ebooks where available). Enjoy and let us know what you think.

George Carlin the passing of a legend

• Napalm and Silly Putty by George Carlin Amazon   Fictionwise

Doctor Horrible’s Sing Along Blog

• Neil Patrick Harris, Joss Whedon, Nathan Fillion http://doctorhorrible.net/

The Price of Ebooks

• Stephen King and Jack Kerouac

Read

• Josh
  • Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs Amazon
  • Naked Pictures of Famous People by Jon Stewart Amazon
  • Nothing’s Sacred by Lewis Black Amazon   Fictionwise
  • Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman Amazon  Fictionwise
• Jeff
  • The Appeal by John Grisham Amazon
  • The Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama Amazon  eReader

Reading

• Jeff
  • When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? by George Carlin Amazon
  • Chasing Ghosts: A Soldier’s Fight for America from Baghdad to Washington by Paul Rieckhoff Amazon eReader
  • Destiny (Rogue Angel book 1) by Alex Archer Amazon eReader
  • Solomon’s Jar (Rogue Angel book 2) by Alex Archer Amazon eReader
• Josh
  • Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov Amazon  Fictionwise

Sitting on The Shelf

• Jeff (bought just before the podcast)
  • 8 Minute Meditation: Quiet your mind, change your life by Victor Davich Amazon  eReader
  • The Atlantis Prophecy by Thomas Greanias Amazon  eReader
  • The Last Oracle by James Rollins Amazon  eReader
  • It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff by Peter Walsh Amazon eReader
• Josh

  • The Last Dragonlord by Joanne Bertin Amazon

  • Anthem by Ayn Rand Amazon  Fictionwise

  • Small Gods by Terry Pratchett Amazon  Fictionwise

Writing

• Josh
  • Pantheons
  • Atlantis
  • Hollow Man
  • Poetry
• Jeff
  • Ghost Ronin
  • Catastrophe

 

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