Episode 64: Holidays at Home (With Horrible Internet)

Bart and Norma discuss surviving the holiday, some Xmas stories and New Year's stuffs...

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_64.mp3

Show Notes:

• Feedback - traditions, church, and friends (or lack thereof)
• Xmas - girl burns her Flutterbye Fairy in the fireplace
• Someone bought their own gift
• Bart's dad got a gift that was equal parts sentimental and material
• Internet access in the hometown sucks
• We saw The Interview!
• Scotland has the Ebola
• Woman makes funny Xmas cards
• New Year's Resolutions
• Muppets! Bart loved watching Muppet Christmas Carol!
• Amazon has the Garbage Pail Kids movie
• Some foolballer played dirty - Ndamukung Suh
• Chipotle won't serve police?

Episode 63: North Korea!

Bart and Norma review feedback, discuss some of the lunacy that is North Korea, and mention some unpleasant cancer-related news.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_63.mp3

Show Notes:

• Feedback - Recycling
• Feedback - Elf on the Shelf
• Feedback - Sony hack
• Feedback - Family dinners
• Feedback - Xmas talk ideas
• North Korea - "20 Things I Learned While I Was in North Korea"
• North Korea - Threatens the US
• North Korea - But did they do it?
• Get checked out by your doctor
• Our son has a YouTube channel we don't talk about
• Old time stories

Episode 62: Podcasters on the Shelf

Bart and Norma discuss Xmas traditions, Elf on the Shelf and Sony!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_62.mp3

Show Notes:

• Let's recycle electronics!
• Donner is Donder
• Bride means "broth" (etymology fun!)
• Xmas traditions, childhood vs. now
• Ignorance and the holidays
• Elf on the Shelf
• Elf on the Shelf ideas
• Elf (the movie) is old
• Sony hack: what we know

Episode 61: Holiday Trifecta

Bart, Norma and Voretaq team up to discuss feedback, holidays, and cardboard wieners!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_61.mp3

Show Notes:

• Rear-mounted model rocket engines
• Feedback: More people, more fun
• Feedback: Rockefeller tree-lighting and Mariah Carey
• Feedback: The One Percent and money
• Feedback: A Christmas Story museum
• Feedback: Xmas and birthday were for fun stuff
• Waffles and Dingles! Best in Manhattan!
• Feedback: Being Worthy
• Pascal's Wager
• Rockefeller Tree and the Rockettes
• Hate the weather channel...
• Xmas Lights - Plantation, Florida
• Nintendo makes a profit this year?
• Saving gas doesn't mean increased holiday spending
• Grumpy Cat worth millions?
• Shipadick.com
• No cookies for Bart

Episode 60: Solo Flight

Bart flies solo this time; he goes over soem feedback and discusses Android tablet "Deals" and another political moron!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_60.mp3

Show Notes:

• Post Holiday Time
• Meandering thoughts of the season
• Feedback: Sugar
• Feedback: planes
• Feedback: Black Friday and holiday shopping
• A CHRISTMAS STORY
• Feedback: Barbie book
• Feedback: Chilling effect
• Feedback: Game consoles
• Android tablet malware
• Vox - Racism in law enforcement and controls in studies
• Cracked: 18 Common Foreign Practices That America Needs to Steal
• In my opinion, WI rep Glenn Grothman is a dirtbag

Episode 59: Kinda Sorta Thanksgiving!

Bart and Voretaq review feedback and have a Thanksgiving-themed set of conversations!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_59.mp3

Show Notes:

• Port Authority fun
• The One Percent documentary
• Wealthy hypocrites
• Feedback: Shirtgate
• Feedback: Manson Marriage
• Airlines in the "old days"
• Feedback: Shopping on Thanksgiving
• Stores opening on Thanksgiving
• Turkey frying
• We're getting old
• Costco is closed on Thanksgiving
• Ferguson
• Police abuse of power
• Black Friday
• Atari rape game

Episode 58: ShirtGate

Bart and Norma discuss feedback, shirtgate and some various stories on CNN!

Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_58.mp3

Show Notes:

• Feedback - Frein and government waste
• Feedback - changing how earmarked funds are earmarked
• Feedback - rat race
• Feedback - hazing
• Glen Larson passes away at age 77
• We landed on a fashion problem!
• "Feminist bullies"
• Aussie host conducts a sexism experiment in fashion
• Public school job security
• CVS shopping pain
• Manson marriage
• Ferguson again
• A billion dollar settlement...and it's not enough.

Episode 57: Too Much Politics

Bart and Voretaq7 discuss a bit of politics, some GamerGate, and some feedback!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_57.mp3

Show Notes:

• On leaving comments
• Fish tanks
• Feedback: 9/11 Museum
• Body scanners and charging admission
• Mac McClelland is hit on by TSA agent
• Senator Cruz hates Net Neutrality , but the Oatmeal tries to educate him
• Midterm elections
• Freebsdgirl and her gamergate block tool
• It's about ethics...for video game reviews...
• Nintendo vs. PC gaming
• Public figures get away with fun stuffs
• Education advisor in PA does nothing?
• Fun with sounds
• Lottery with John Oliver
• Lotteries funding programs
• Gerrymandering fun
• Voting fun
• Revisiting the school board fun

Episode 56: Blackface and the 9/11 Museum

Bart and Norma discuss blackface and social taboos as well as a visit to the 9/11 Memorial Museum.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_56.mp3

Show Notes:

• Feedback: Boycott American Women
• Feedback: Law enforcement mishandling the Frein manhunt
• Feedback: The NJ Ebola nurse
• "I am X so I can make fun of X" (and variants thereof)
• Blackface vs. masks
• Social taboo justification
• Thoughts on the 9/11 Memorial Museum

Episode 55: The Denver Trip

Bart and Voretaq7 discuss why Qmail is horrible and Bart's trip to Denver, among other things...

Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_55.mp3

Show Notes:

• Voretaq's Qmail server died
• Qmail is bad
• Feedback - free speech
• Jack Thompson disbarred over videogames and fucknuttery
• Feedback - school boards, teachers, and professionalism
• Buy Voretaq's vote!
• Outspending opponents: a winning strategy
• #NotYourShield - #GamerGate extension
• Felicia Day doxxed
• "Racism has no ethical implications"
• Twitter as a medium to exchange keyword-triggered scripts
• Bart went to Denver
• Phobic travel fun
• Brian Brushwood had police called on him for sitting (thanks, TSA!)
• Hotel AC fun
• Ebola has a 5 year old NYC victim...well, no
• Nurse quarantined in a tent?!
• Back to the Future...gold Delorean?
• Halloween!
• Trunk or treats
• The Holderness family is back!

Episode 54: Preppers, Ebola and Oil

Bart and Norma discuss a few spanning topics, but cut the podcast slightly short because of reasons we'll probably get into in the next episode.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_54.mp3

Show Notes:

• Still searching for the PA State Trooper shooter
• "Preppers"
• NSA spying on school kids now?
• Ebola!
• Medical system would collapse from an Ebola threat?
• Oil supplies and prices falling
• Russia shoots itself in the foot to make a point
• Sexist Russian tennis official is sexist
• Increase in ear repair surgeries
• Gas prices & US vehicle choices
• No fallout from Bart's blog post on the school district? (surprised...)
• Public thinks teachers can do more than they really can
• Mansfield University is closing their teaching programs

Episode 53: Happy Birthday GAD!

Bart and Norma discover this is the one-year anniversary of Geeking After Dark, then go over feedback. We talk about insurance, jobs and pay, Stephen Collins, and Bart's blog post about the Athens Area School District posting a press release in an inappropriate manner.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_53.mp3

Show Notes:

• Anniversary episode!
• Verbal tics
• Science in schools
• Pay and low-skill jobs (waitressing, fast food)
• Insurance - Obamacare/ACA
• Premiums are rising slower than in the past due to the ACA
• Bitter Pill health care article
• Stephen Collins allegation/confession?
• Ebola!
• TV Show: Scorpion
• Bullying in the workplace?
• Athens Area School District posts a press release in a way that made me upset
• Ayds diet food
• Blogsy!
• Woman steals prosthetic leg?

Episode 52: Education Income, Bank Hacks, Gamer Gate and More!

Voretaq returns for a long conversation with topics ranging from high pay for NYC public school staff to "Gamer Gate."

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_52.mp3

Show Notes:

• Voretaq is back
• Trying to improve speaking skills - because "um's" are bad
• TED talks podcasts...Bart couldn't stand the verbal tics
• Stupidity in college
• Janitors in NYC schools making 6 figures
• NYC public education
• Minimum wage info revisited, minimum wage job difficulty
• Insurance is fun!
• Chase Bank hack plus Worse News
• Simple.com - Banking endorsed by Voretaq
• Government relating to "fellow Americans"
• Gwyneth Paltrow doesn't relate to "reality"
• Internet Memestuffs revisited
• "Check Your Privilege"
• Gamer Gate!
• Celebrity privacy?
• Jessica Williams' Feminized Atmosphere
• Update: Jennifer Lawrence speaks about photo leaks!
• Boobsaur on Google? Oops.
• A cups cannot be in Aussie porn...sort of? Read the link for information.
• Painted woman in Times Square! Boobs!
• Windows 10 has a free keylogger. Yay!
• Ebola in the US

Episode 51: The Downer Episode

Bart and Norma review feedback, Sam Pepper sexually harassing women, Tracy Morgan being blamed by WalMart for his injuries, and the ethics of the wealthy

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_51.mp3

Show Notes:

• Feedback - Mike's voice was a hit
• Feedback - women join professions, and the average pay goes down
• Feedback - low paying jobs and they don't have retirement savings
• Interesting facts about the Forbes Top 400
• Feedback - gas workers (fracking) and their families on welfare?
• Feedback - NYC mask law
• California passes an explicit consent law
• Sam Pepper scandal
• Laci Green's open letter to Sam Pepper
• How common is assault like this?
• "Boys will be boys"
• Twitter harasshole sent to jail
• Study: Trolls are sociopaths
• Walmart blames Tracy Morgan for not wearing his seatbelt
• Wealthy vs. Middle Class ethics
• Millennials not using credit cards so much anymore
• ATM fees rising
• "Rule to Work"

Episode 50: A Wild Voretaq7 Appears!

This week Mike, AKA Voretaq7, co-hosts with Bart and we have what is possibly the longest reply-to-feedback episode ever! Topics were all over the chart...dino-sharks, cost of living, fracking, #FloodWallStreet and even Emma Watson!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_50.mp3

Show Notes:

• Voretaq7 emerges from ServerFault for a co-host session!
• Feedback: Dino-Sharks and Dinner Plates
• 9-Inch Diet
• We're getting old
• Feedback: Teachers teaching at the whim of the public
• "Parents are a customer in education"
• Base pay for everyone?
• Cost of living, comparing the country to the city
• When women join a profession, it becomes devalued
• Seattle and the $15 minimum wage
• -> What I was thinking of but not mentioned in the podcast: Moo Cluck Moo
• Gas company fracking
• Taxes on home...DEATH TAX
• Salem trials trivia revisited
• The Poor Door
• #FloodWallStreet Scroll down to find the Captain Planets
• NYC Mask Law (so Capt. America and Iron Man, together, are illegal, technically...)
• Child porn laws and unintended consequences
• Emma Watson threats?
• Not All Men!
• We don't speak for our employers...

Also mentioned: Don't microwave your iPhone, and MacOS Ken

Episode 49: Country Edition

Bart and Norma talk about schools, the state of technology in schools, dress codes and attrition rates and end up speculating about the degradation of their "home town."

Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_49.mp3

Show Notes:

• We're going back to basics, country style. You can tell from the cricket sounds.
• Pete got interviewed
• How do you pronounce "Megalodon?"
• Trials of ordering food in the country
• School dress codes
• State of tech in schools (Spoiler alert; not good)
• Practical vs. promised use of the Internet
• The country has bugs. So many bugs.
• Skills learned in schools
• Resume' writing 101
• Dressing strange and dress codes...so strange...
• Teacher attrition and how teachers are treated
• My home town will probably become an economic wasteland

Episode 48: Bart Was Wrong

Norma and Bart discuss feedback, trite memes regurgitated as a substitute for thinking, and Apples big security failure. Oh, and more naked people.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_48.mp3

Show Notes:

• Feedback review
• Pity poor rich people!
• Danielle Fishel book signing is skipped
• Regurgitating ideas through memes as a substitute for thinking actual thoughts
• Everything you do carries a risk
• Victim blaming paper/study
• Angry crotch cannon transformer!
• Unintended consequences of stupid laws and underage photos
• Apple 2-factor is totally inadequate
• Google checks your email contents
• Star Wars reference!
• Websites experiment on you. Big surprise
• OKCupid experiments on people

Episode 47: Naked People

Norma and Bart review feedback (rioters, teacher training, etc.) and review the celebrity nudes story along with a discussion about victim blaming.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_47.mp3

Show Notes:

• Damn it's hot...
• Norma proposes being a host instead of guest host
• Feedback: Sheets to help reduce A/C costs?
• Feedback: Rioters/looters were waiting for an excuse to loot?
• Feedback: Weight loss foods
• Feedback: Teacher training
• Feedback: Here's the opinion piece on teachering that was discussed
• Feedback: Vox unions article
• Celebrity nude photos released to the public
• "Victim blaming" versus "personal responsibility"
• Reporters can't seem to report properly to begin with
• 2-factor authorization. Use it.
• Deny it...but if you're lying, you're just going to Barbra Streisand it.

Episode 46: Feedback-A-Rama

Bart and Norma go over some feedback, and end up going over more feedback.

Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_46.mp3

Show Notes:

• Schools shift supply demands to parents. How annoying.
• Bubble gum; another reason I hate people
• "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life"
• Feedback: Robin Williams
• Rob Schneider is a dick
• Feedback: Teaching how to teach
• Japanese vs. American teaching
• Teaching as a craft
• Conferences are for learning?
• Feedback: Ferguson revisited
• Militarization of police...like it's a surprise
• John Oliver. Seriously. Watch him.
• Police beat unconscious suspect...and have no repercussions
• Ice bucket challenge and ground up babies
• Sean Hannity still won't take the ice waterboarding challenge
• Weight update

Episode 45: Hero Movies, Improve Your Life Situation, Ferguson, and Schmoylent!

Norma gives feedback on a previous episode and we give some commentary on how people can (or can't) improve their social mobility. We also discuss the situation in Ferguson and Bart's Schmoylent experiment is coming along.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_45.mp3

Show Notes:

• ConEd Rage
• Norma gives feedback - superhero movies
• Guardians of the Galaxy discussion
• Do superhero movies have social messages?
• Norma is right...don't shake Schmoylent cups because the mic is too sensitive...
• Norma discusses learned helplessness
• Can people just work harder to improve their economic status?
• Education advisor to the PA governor...a dream job?
• Bart wants to report stories like Fox News reports stories...
• Michael Brown autopsy
• Vox.com as a source of news
• Teargas is illegal in war, but used by domestic police
• John Oliver recap is the best...
• Podunk town with a big-ass tank?
• Schmoylent update

Episode 44: Don't Tell Pete

Norma steps in while Pete's on vacation; we talk about Robin Williams, class sizes in school, teacher evaluations and some news regarding a guy shot in Wal-Mart and another unarmed guy shot in Ferguson.

Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_44.mp3

Show Notes:

• Robin Williams died
• Class sizes in schools
• Teacher Evaluations
• What do schools do for all the money they steal from taxpayers?
• Remember latch-key kids?
• Work at McDonalds to provide for family, or stay with the kid in the park to be with the family?
• Dude shot in Wal-Mart for having an airgun
• Race and gun rights disparity
• Police reactions to minorities with guns (open carry for minorities vs. majorities)
• Let's go to the nunnery!

Episode 43: Ship Under the World Trade Center, Rolling Coal, Censorship, and Bad Liberals

Bart and Norma discuss episode 42 feedback before going all over the place with general topics ranging from identifying the remains of an old ship under the World Trade Center site to people who get really mad over weird "liberal" stuff and censorship of seemingly innocent stuff.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_43.mp3

Show Notes:

• Norma is back
• Feedback from Episode 42: Boob Men
• Feedback from Episode 42: Attractive People and Perks
• Feedback from Episode 42: Diets
• Feedback from Episode 42: Thor's Gender Change
• Part of a hull was found under the World Trade Center/Freedom Tower site
• Morons in Crime - he left his FaceBook account logged in?
• Morons in Crime - learn local lingo
• Utah English teacher fired for promoting homophones behavior
• Censorship in English (but the Bible is okay...)
• Rolling Coal
• Ray Rice comments and the Liberals who get outraged over this behavior
• Brady of the Brady Bill fame is dead
• Norma talks guns
• Guns and Mental Illness and the PR firm that spins it

Episode 42: Comic Movies, Soylent, and Professional Mobility

Bart and Pete discuss comic book movies, learned helplessness and how it relates to professional mobility, and Bart is tempted to tray a Soylent imitation...stay tuned to future podcasts to see if he manages to get the ingredients!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_42.mp3

Show Notes:

• A dude gets shuttle parts...accidentally...
• Comic movie discussion
• Transformers (the Bay ones) are BAD. 
• The new Wonder Woman has a new outfit? Is it better armor?
• Thor is a woman now
• Changing characters to change characters; is it lazy writing?
• Feedback: Bunghole Liquors
• Feedback on Episode 41
• Pete, Norma and Bart in one podcast?
• Learned helplessness and professional mobility
• Opportunity to improve must be presented, but our society prefers to punish and blame
• Attractive people get perks
• Soylent and Schmoylent
• So they reinvented the diet shake?
• Beaver ass in food

Episode 41:The Prodigal Host Returns

Pete returns and we end up getting sidetracked on double standards, but manage to revisit a story about Justin Lookadoo

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_41.mp3

Show Notes:

• Pete returns
• "Love your job but never fall in love with your company."
• Feedback - visiting NYC
• Living arrangements in the city (Pete really likes steam pipes)
• Roosevelt Island makes trash disappear through magic and pipes
• Men's Rights Activists
• Justin Lookadoo wants a drinky-poo

Episode 40: Vacation Wrap-up and Guthrie Pains

Norma and Bart wrap up their vacation and go over tribulations with prescription-faxing from Guthrie, plus Trump Plaza closes in Atlantic City and Norma never saw Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_40.mp3

Show Notes:

• Does Pete listen to these?
• Bunghole Liquors - hahahaha
• Recap of Salem Sights
• So many psychics!
• Reenactment of an actual witch trial
• Those trials were bullshit or people are utterly stupid. Maybe both.
• Dungeons! (No dragons)
• Walden Pond
• Tech companies scattered near Salem
• Guthrie...AAAAGH
• My child insists he's the worst
• Trump Plaza joins others in destroying Atlantic City
• Robin Hood: Men in Tights. She's never seen it. What's wrong with her?

Episode 39: Vacation Time

Norma and Bart are on an anniversary vacation trip! They talk about vacations in the USA work environment, storms in Salem, and discuss some Salem attractions we visited so far!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_39.mp3

Show Notes:

• Vacations in the USA work environment
• Salem thunderstorms
• Salem attractions we visited so far

Episode 38: Hobby Lobby, Rape Culture Revisited, and NYCC Tickets

Norma returns as cohost to review the Hobby Lobby ruling, she shares feedback about Rape Culture, and we discuss New York Comic Con ticket problems and we also have a guest appearance by the Little Dude.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_38.mp3

Show Notes:

• Hobby Lobby...corporations can find religion
• Data breach feedback
• "Solo podcasts are okay"
• Walmart benefits from poor pay and poor benefits
• You owe us vs. you owe them...guess when businesses are quick to act?
• Rent in Bradford County went nuts after the gas mini-boom
• Norma discusses the rape culture term
• Do people only pick up on keywords to be outraged about?
• Victim blaming - I Punch First
• Women getting free programming training is a bad thing?
• New York Comic Con ticket debacle.
• Little Dude crashes the recording session
• He has a YouTube channel

Episode 37: Moving Utilities, Scissors are for Stabbing, and Server Fault

Bart discusses some fun with getting utilities sorted after a move, a man who decides the best use of scissors is stabbing people, and does anyone have an opinion on the state of Server Fault?

Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_37.mp3

Show Notes:

• Homeless man goes all stabby
• Utilities make it harder when you move
• Rent increase vote in NYC...how did it go?
• I moved...now how about turning over keys to the old place?
• McJobs benefit from subsidized poor benefits
• What do you think is happening to Server Fault?

Episode 36: Commentpalooza, Moving, and Information Breaches

Bart goes over a couple of comments regarding previous shows, touches on his busy weekend spent moving and Dominoes and PF Chang's are in the news for reasons they'd rather not be...

 Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_36.mp3

Show Notes:

• Episode 34 feedback: Operation Choke Point
• Episode 35 feedback: Rape culture and staying safe in NYC
• Moving memories
• Time Warner fun
• PF Chang credit card breach reaction
• Domino's has a data breach
• Cleartext password storage

Episode 35: Solo Edition

Bart discusses Atlassian's anti-women presentation slide, rape culture confusion, a chatbot "passed" the Turing Test and the most awesome Transformers ever!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_35.mp3

Show Notes:

• Feedback from Episode 32
• Grants and future planning; administrators getting bumps in pay for saving money
• Atlassian developer got in a bit of trouble
• Rape culture confusion...Bart is more than a little confused by certain perspectives, anyone care to offer another perspective?
• Chatbot passed the Turing Test?
• Most awesome Transformer set EVER

Episode 34: Guns, X-Men, and Operation Choke Point

This marks week four of Pete's absence! A MONTH! Four weeks of Norma co-hosting with Bart! This time we discuss things like Operation Choke Point being used by the government to "discourage" legal but morally gray businesses...like porn...from being able to function by making it hard to do banking. Of course this will be abused by future administrations to prevent abortion clinics and such from functioning...

We also talk about guns brandished in public and X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Direct Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_34.mp3

Show Notes:

• Operation Choke Point: saving your soul from porn
• Taking guns makes most people mad?
• Chipotle strikes against open carry advocates brandishing weapons around unarmed customers
• Kid shoots father at a wedding (this wasn't in America!)
• Uncle shoots nephew in the forehead (this was in America!)
• Gun shop owner threatened...by gun advocates!
• X-Men movie and people sleeping in the damn theater
• Spoilers! I don't care!
• We talk a little about nice theaters
• Brief discussion about faith

Episode 33: Gay Cartoon Characters, News from the Web and Movie Talk

Norma joins Bart on this holiday edition of GAD to discuss animated gay movie characters, some movie reviews, and news around the web!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_33.mp3

Show Notes:

• How to Train Your Dragon 2 may have a GAY CHARACTER. Conservatives flip the hell out.
• How does a movie turn a kid gay? Or straight?
• Feedback: Know what you want to do before going to college
• Career choices sans degree
• Godzilla movie review
• News: White House outs a CIA agent. Whoops.
• My my my my...Corona.
• News: World's once-heaviest man died
• News: Idiot crashes car by holding breath and fainting in tunnel. Dumbass.
• News: Emma Watson has an English Literature degree now. What kind of job does she think she can get with that?
• News: Pat Sajak is a climate change denier. I'll solve the puzzle; "Dumbass."
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2: Roar of the Tacodile

Episode 32: Education and Other Reasons Not to be a Teacher

Norma reviews reasons she finds the education sector to be difficult in terms of career today

Direct download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_32.mp3

Show notes:

• We avoid discussing Bart's home search
• They are cutting more teaching positions at the school district, including one from Norma's department
• State testing fun
• Censoring words
• Computer availability in the classroom
• Happy birthday Dude!
• Happy birthday Norma!

Episode 31: Checking Out a New Neighborhood and Sibling Wars

Bart talks about his trip to the Far Rockaway neighborhood and Norma discusses her Mother's Day visit to her parents wherein her siblings cause mental anguish.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_31.mp3

Show Notes:

• Happy Mother's Day!
• Bart goes to the Far Rockaway area to check out the neighborhood for a possible move
• Rent increases suck
• Norma's sisters try to make her visit miserable
• Someone loses teeth during a family photo

Episode 30: Sony Botches Spider-Man, LOPSA conference, NYC life and Product Placement

Bart and Pete talk about Amazing Spider-Man 2, Pete's visit to the LOPSA conference, and Bart's visit to Artsfest and Free Comic Book Day, along with some discussion about some aspects of city life.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_30.mp3

Show Notes:

• Pete likes Costco
• Pete spent the weekend at a LOPSA conference
• Kanban use in organizations...like Trello and LeanKit
• White box switches...still not inexpensive compared to Cisco
• Touchscreen use
• Athens Artsfest
• Do you prefer the city or the country?
• We give a few semi-spoilers for Amazing Spider-Man 2
• Sony product placement annoyed the hell out of Bart
• Chuck at least made product placement campy
• Captain America 2 was a very good movie in comparison...
• Marvel movies kick ass compared to Sony's versions
• Orphan Black: Bart's new binge-view pick

Episode 29: College Debts, 3D Printing and Porn Star Bank Accounts

Bart and Norma speculate about life changes and the American Conservative platform, 3D Printing, and porn stars being denied bank accounts (wha?!)

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_29.mp3

Show Notes:

• Days are hard
• There was feedback on the Titanic and Eric Smith episode
• Just making a life change to achieve the American Dream isn't as simple as it sounds
• Paul Ryan is a jackass when it comes to poverty in Bart's opinion
• The American Conservative platform is built on the idea of making people miserable to promote change; then their ideas make sense
• College debt is fun
• 3D Printing may be interesting in the future
• Printing casts with 3D technology for faster healing?
• Porn stars are being denied bank accounts

Episode 28: The ESB is Mean, 2-Factor Auth and Managing Machines

Bart and Pete discuss some holiday activities then roll into an explanation of 2-factor authentication and our experiences with certain software packages meant to help manage large numbers of machines. We would love to hear what others have encountered trying to do that...

We had a candy holiday weekend and our brains were stuck in first gear. Hmm...candy...

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Show Notes:

• WTF is "DevOps" - Pete's brief introduction to his love for The Phoenix Project
• Social media sucks over the holidays
• The Empire State Building is not fun if you have a Leatherman...because pliers are dangerous, yo.
• 2-factor auth - with a horror/whoopsie story
• When 2-factor is not enough...
• What is 2-factor?
• Enable it; because phishing is getting sophisticated, and I'm too tired to pay attention
• Automating updates and configuration management on client computers - about as much fun as it sounds

Episode 27: DroneWatch 2014, Twitter Twits, Titanic Sinks and Eric Smith Still in Jail!

Norma and Bart discuss new drone laws in DroneWatch 2014, tweeting twits terrorize airlines and customers alike, and 102 years ago the Titanic sank. We also find that child murderer Eric Smith is once again denied parole. Lots of links in the show notes!

Direct link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_27.mp3

Show Notes:

• Taxes suck, and Bart found a partial reason they're so convolutedly insane
• DroneWatch 2014: Alaska banning drones from use by hunters and the UK fines someone for flying near a shipyard full of seekrit subs
• 14 year old moron tweeted a terrorist threat to American Airlines, immediately followed by blaming others and denying it was intentional
• US Airways decided they wanted some twitter love by tweeting a photo of a woman loving a plane to an angry customer
• 102 years ago on the 15th: Titanic sank on its maiden voyage to New York, causing Celine Dion to screech about hearts going on for the torture of millions of souls
• Titanic real-time Twitter feed is great to follow this time of year
• Titanic Facts website...interesting!
• Skeptics.stackexchange.com question regarding the "unsinkable" liner
• Eric Smith, murderer, is denied parole once again. Read here for the story. Read here to cringe.

Episode 26: Drones, Autism and Social Programs

Bart and Pete manage to go completely off script and discuss a comment from a previous episode regarding people taking advantage of social programs/assistance. But we did manage to talk a little about autism and a followup on the town that wanted to issue permits to shoot drones out of the sky.

There is a brief garble in the audio near the beginning...not much could be done about that...sorry!

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Show Notes:

• No more presidential selfies?
• Deer Trail, Colorado nixes drone hunting permits
• "We were just kidding, we swear!"
• Abuse of financial assistance programs
• Bart contends that corporations make more, unfairly, than welfare recipients
• Money comes with strings attached
• People will shop at evil Wal-Mart, even to their own detriment, if it means personally saving money in the short term
• Pete says you have to think global but act local
• Chili's cancels an autism fundraiser
• Vaccinations have nothing to do with autism
• ASD children in restaurants...it's a challenge

Episode 25: The Conspiracy Episode

Bart and Norma talk about getting snowed in and a little bit about researchers using "drones" (a remote control quadcopter) to collect info from wifi-enabled devices, but most of the time we talked about conspiracy theories.

Direct download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_25.mp3

Show Notes:

• Norma joins Bart as today's cohost
• Norma was stuck in a freak winter storm
• Didn't you know NY/PA gets snow?
• Housing in NYC is fun
• Little Italy is disappearing
• New apartments are being built near the Lincoln Tunnel?
• Reminds Bart of David Hewlett movie Nothing
• A drone in London
• Are you justified in shooting down a drone in your backyard?
• Was 9/11 a conspiracy?
• Empire State Building shooting
• Times Square disturbed individual shooting
• Theater texter shoots another texter for annoying him
• People like spying when it benefits them
• Companies won't stop the ability to spy because then they can't spy on you

Episode 24: Now With More Banter!

Pete and Bart have a long conversation. We talk a little about O'Reilly, discuss feedback, a state is trying to restrict EBT card use and Fred Phelps died!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_24.mp3

Show Notes:

• Pete's Back
• Interactions in person vs. online
• Bill O'Reilly is still an arse
• Night Court memories
• Episode 22 feedback...Life was simpler growing up
• People only delve into a topic if they're interested, otherwise rumor and hearsay works for them
• Episode 23 feedback...Learn something new every day
• People want to be in an echo chamber
• A bill is being proposed to limit what EBT cards can be used for, apparently it was Louisiana (whoops, sorry Alabama...)
• Poor people: budget as society says, or spend as they want?
• A base income for everyone?
• Jesus liked helping people, no strings attached
• Fred Phelps died. You can hear the stampede of irony
• Effects of diet and exercise with athletes

Episode 23: Fred Phelps and Society is Collapsing!

Norma joins Bart to discuss a report that society will be falling apart, Fred Phelps is dying and Norma takes issue with Pete and Bart's discussion on responsibility.

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Show notes:

• Feedback on the Bitcoin episode
• People have short memories and only care when it directly affects them
• Norma has feedback regarding the personal responsibility discussion
• She thinks Pete and Bart were both off
• Fred Phelps is dying (he was excommunicated from the Westboro Baptist Church?!)
• New study says society will collapse due to resource mismanagement and wealth inequality
• People don't comprehend the magnitude of wealth inequality
• Sbarro's and Quiznos are in Chapter 11 - are they the first of the low hanging fruit to get hit with ongoing inequality?
• Norma thinks this one was our most boring episode yet!

Episode 22: Google Update, Inherited Apple Devices and Experian Shares Your Identity

Bart and Pete revisit the story wherein Google was cracking passwords of zipped mail attachments, we discuss accessing your accounts when you die, and Experian manages to share out all the information necessary for stealing your identity to a foreign national running an identity theft business from his home. We also discuss a little bit about Bill O'Reilly's "Killing Jesus" book and Windows XP being end-of-lifed.

Direct download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_22.mp3

Show notes:

• WSUS is a PITA
• "Killing Jesus" is not our cup of tea. Although really O'Reilly isn't Bart's cup of tea
• Hannity, O'Reilly...Bart strongly dislikes them
• Hannity still hasn't lived up to his promise to be waterboarded for charity
• Shia LeBeouf - artist, idiot or nut?
• Google followup - it wasn't Google cracking the password, it was an antivirus engine
• Family has an inherited iPad, but Apple won't release the account to which it's tied
• Leave your passwords with your significant other
• Thank you Experian! I didn't really want my identity not stolen...
• Costco knows how to take care of its workers...
• You need an opportunity to move forward, not just "hard work."
• RIP XP

Episode 21: What's Bitcoin, Skype is being watched, Yahoo Video is Recorded

Bart and Pete discuss what Bitcoin (well, Cryptocurrency in general) is, Skype is watched by the NSA (thanks Edward Snowden!), British intelligence records Yahoo webcam videos, and Google apparently cracks certain password-protected email attachments.

Direct link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_21.mp3

Show notes:

• Sea stars and sea jellies and fishtanks...we like them
• Crypto currencies...what is Bitcoin, Dogecoin, etc.?
• Overview of Mt. Gox debacle
• We have confirmation that Skype is monitored by the government (link)
• Yahoo's video chats are being recorded by UK Intelligence (link)
• Oh, and Google is cracking zipfiles attached to email (link) (link)
• We trade privacy for convenience

Episode 20: Creationism, Cryptolocker, Bankers and Blame

Bart and Pete discuss some Creationism podcast episode feedback before veering into Billy Ray Cyrus's Achy Breaky 2 (complete with mostly naked alien twerking!), Cryptolocker malware and pondering where blame lies for people duped into poor decisions...

Direct link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_20.mp3

Show notes:

• Feedback - we were talking about creationists, not religion in general...
• Was there a Jesus?
• Creationism implies there are no rules to nature in the universe
• How does religion hurt people?
• Pascal's Wager
• Corning, Inc issues bonuses to employees to the tune of around $27.5 million
• I doubt we'll have Joel S. on for an interview for awhile...
• Billy Ray Cyrus abducted by aliens in Achy Breaky 2
• Cryptolocker malware
• KeepAV up to date and your backups stored offline!
• We need fewer morals to make more money
• Sylvia Brown. Enough said.
• Who deserves blame?

Episode 19: Company Apprenticeships and Gender Questions

Bart and Pete discuss encouraging in-company learning and soon veer in to the topic of gender in tech and gender questions in general.

Direct download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_19.mp3

Show notes:

• Does having the word "boobs" in the description or title boost our search score?
• Does a CS degree help with a job in IT?
• CS may help for programing, but not really so much in IT
• Programming can be self-taught
• Pete laments a lack of apprenticeships for programming
• Bart laments a lack of in-company mentorships
• Pete thinks it's not worth it without a measurable profit to the company
• Are free lunches for camaraderie, or a way to get more productivity?
• On a person-centric note, gender and technology
• Also, most awkward segue ever!
• Linux journal article referenced: Click Here
• Do girls do better in "girl classes" because they pretend to be stupid for boys?
• Pete is essentially accidentally offensive
• What is harassment?
• Loyalty for a company
• FaceBook added 50 options for gender

Episode 18: Malware, More Spying and Creationism

Today we talk about malware and some interesting uses of technology in spying on people...an ongoing theme from last week. Then we veer into the territory of religion when discussing the Bill Nye and Ken Ham debate.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_18.mp3

Show notes:

• Voretaq7 gives some feedback on last week's copyright on images discussion, regarding meme use
• Is being a (court) lawyer just theater+debate?
• Skeptics Guide to the Universe: should ISP's force customers to use antivirus software?
• Would antivirus stop malware?
• The AV software included in the OS's tend to suck (for political reasons)
• Malware mining bitcoins?
• ISP's injecting tracking code into your web browsing without your permission (news link)
• Spying on your computer using radio waves? (news link)
• Techniques for spying on people's computers and phones
• Being off-grid makes you an anomaly that attracts attention now
• Digital footprints and interview candidates
• Sochi reporter hacked! (nope)
• Viruses that spread using computer speakers?
• Bill Nye and Ken Ham debate (view the video here)
• We get into a bit of religion
• The ark could NOT have happened
• Pete says True Blood has T&A and Bart should watch it

Episode 17: NSA Spying and Beware of Using Google Images

Today Pete and Bart meander through the topic of domestic spying, corporate information tracking, and the potential for litigation if you use Google image search to find pretty pictures for your blog.

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_17.mp3

Show notes:

• Making a 180 degree GoPro head mount
• Coincidence: The Great Muppet Caper
• Pete hates that Amazon searches follow him
• Bart hates FaceBook because, in part, it's an echo chamber. It also kept screwing with settings
• Commies are bad, says patriotic 'Muricans
• Pete makes sure we know he's not a commie sympathizer
• We have a special guest, Casey! But only because she didn't know it at the time.
• NSA is spying on Americans
• Target knows when you're (probably) pregnant
• So much information about us is out there...
• Just because some paranoids were right doesn't mean all their ramblings are true
• Shop for random things to screw with spying algorithms
• Beware what images you use lest you are sued

Episode 16: Matt Sherman Interview and Scott Sigler Horror Novels

This time we feature our first INTERVIEW! And we found an absolutely wonderful first interview guest: Matt Sherman, co-founder and CTO of Alikewise and part of the programming team at Stack Overflow Careers (part of the Stack Exchange network.)

Also Bart talks about his love of Scott Sigler techno-thriller-horror novels. No, we're not sponsored. I wish we made money...but this is purely out of love for Scott's books! Check him out on his website!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_16.mp3

Show notes:

• Special guest: Matt Sherman!
• Scott Sigler's Pandemic released January 21st
• Bart totally geeks out on Sigler's books
• Interview with Matt Sherman!
• Co-founder and CTO of Alikewise, an online dating site that matches singles by their love of books
• Kindles are bad! (because we can't see what book you're reading)
• How will books...story consumption...change in the future?
• Matt discusses his work as a Stack Overflow Careers programmer
• How does SO Careers work? (Hint: credibility)
• Stack Exchange uses the MS stack
• Matt works heavily in .NET, C# in particular, with a long history of past technologies from the dot-com boom
• His background is in theoretical physics an philosophy!
• As the dot-com boomed, so did his interest in tech
• His programming background was self-taught
• We find out how programming is much like physics
• Today he is experimenting with projects written in Go
• "Every (computer) language...is a set of opinions." I really liked that quote.
• It's helpful to have a project you want to bring to life when learning to program
• Is there a link between programmers and literacy?
• What's a programmer's day like?
• How does Stack Exchange bring new programmers up to speed?
• There are Stack Exchange programmers that hadn't touched C# before working there!
• Asking questions is hard!

Check Matt out on his blog at clipperhouse.com and his online dating site at alikewise.com. His day job can be found at careers.stackoverflow.com and tweet him at @clipperhouse. His projects can be found on Github!

Episode 15: LinkedIn Not Hacked, Guns, and a Boob-Obsessed B-Movie Director

We're all over the place on this one. We're discussing such a wide variety of things...

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Show notes:

•  Pete is angling to become a Dogecoin Millionaire
• It's a holiday...how goes the day? (Not great for Bart...)
• Do what you love! (DWYL) - READ THE ARTICLE! https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/01/in-the-name-of-love/
• Does changing your viewpoint mean problems go away?
• Linked-In takes legal action!
• This confuses people, apparently...
• Is scraping "hacking?" (Hint: no.)
• They're not hacked! http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/cloud-essentials/cloud-security/3708/amazon-ec2-has-not-been-hacked-nor-has-linked-in
• In tech, truth matters less than wild ass ignorant conclusions
• IPv6 and too many damn devices need firewalls
• Signs things have changed: my washer needs rebooting
• ATMs are running a soon to be end of lifed Windows XP?
• Pete plays with a Disney ride's controls and NEARLY GETS ARRESTED BY DISNEY POLICE FOR HACKING. Not really.
• We talk movies, such as Popatopolis.
• It's a documentary about a prolific B-movie director with a love of boobs, babes and kitsch
• Oh, we have feedback. Norma thought the previous episode was a tad wee bit too repetitive. 
• Does access to so much information make us more self-centered?
• Florida had a shooting. Surprise! Don't text in theaters, kids!
• Guns guns guns guns MURICA!
• Ad hominem "Ghost Gun" attacks aren't a legitimate argument
• Cracked.com has an interesting article on things that both sides can agree on when it comes to guns. http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-things-gun-lovers-haters-can-agree-on/

Episode 14: Is Programming for Me?

This episode is part one of our discussion on the programming profession!

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Show notes:

• Previous episode was the 13th episode and we didn't realize it because nothing blew up
• We talk about Chromecast setup woes
• Bart still likes AppleTV, Pete loves Roku
• What is programming?
• What do you ask yourself to see "Is programming for me?"
• Do you need to be good at math to program?
• Programming is problem solving
• Is there an aspect of programming that lets you know it's definitely not for you?
• What are programmers like (programmer culture?)
• "Brogrammers" - is it a programmer thing or a company thing?
• Female programmers
• Programming isn't a profession where you must be certified to gain employment

Episode 13: Bart and Pete Ramble About Programming

This episode we talk about a programming project Bart used to dip his toes back into the pond of programming and see if he enjoys it.

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Show notes:

•  What should Pete and Norma argue about?
• Blue Snowball...do I sound better?
• Bart worked on a personal project ending on New Year's
• Are programmers intolerant of new programmers?
• Pete doesn't think that's a problem at the company
• There's a bias against certain languages
• Seems strange since .NET compiles down to CIL anyway
• Use the "right" language for the job
• Bart talks about his limited programming background
• Bart relives his capstone of PERL and VB
• If you have a need, that's a motivating factor to learn to program
• The fundamentals of programming can get boring
• Specs are a good idea, or at least thinking ahead about the program
• Visual Studio is intimidating
• Some things aren't intuitive (async timer, I'm looking at you...)
• MS's tools are great for programmers, but overwhelming
• How do you debug?
• There's a lot of magic that abstracts implementation from execution
• Experience gives you a larger body of questions to ask and figure out how your program fails
• Are there materials on how to debug programs?
• Can you get stuck learning a particular tool?
• We might end up doing a multi-part discussion on learning to program
• Pete was looking at coming up with a curriculum for teaching a family member how to program and work in IT