Episode 240: CDC Vs. The Poppyseed Muffin

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss the leaky administration, AirBnB renting while not white, and PGP and S/MIME problems, and Bart's new hobby! (Today's bonus: the CDC is sort of but not really sorry about ruining poppyseed muffins...)

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Show Notes:

• We establish that Voretaq's hardware is hopelessly out of date and slow
• Fire alarm? Barricade in the rooms!
• Feedback
• Epic software in the news?
• Norma's birthday
• McCain commenter...no, not fired
• Why is this administration so "leaky?"
• Update on teen who died in back of van
• "AirBnB Renting while Not White"
• CDC vs. Poppyseed Muffins
• PGP and S/MIME bug found
• Trump's embassy move triggers murders
• White vs. Black Hats...offensive?
• Offensive anecdote
• Bart's new hobby: reading stories from Trump voters negatively affected by Trump
• Voted for Trump, losing their businesses!

Episode 239: Toilets Rebooting Servers, and Servers Out off their Clocks

Bart, Norma and Voretaq discuss server clock problems, weather in NYC, Twitter's password whoopsie, and healthcare being the new boom-bust "thing" (bonus: Uranus confirmed to smell like farts!)

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_239.mp3

Show Notes:

• Yes, this episode was released later than usual, I was busy busy busy...will try to do better with the next episode
• Did Voretaq fix his clock problem?
• NY temperatures
• Toilet-related reboots
• Story
• Twitter screwed up, saved your passwords in cleartext
• Why MS dropped Pinball from Vista
• Feedback
• Horse talk
• Amazon vs. the homeless tax
• Healthcare economic boom
• Startup types
• Glucose sensor for the skin
• Black man moving into apartment questioned for "moving while black"
• NYPD police union attacks group that reminds citizens they have a 4th amendment right
• Trump still wants a "space force"
• Uranus smells like farts
• Teen died in van

Episode 238: Bicycles, The Wolf of White House, and Prom Dresses

Bart discusses his weight update while waiting for Norma to join; then we talk about the correspondent dinner, Bezos and his work/life "circle", and prom dresses of appropriation!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_238.mp3

Show Notes:

• Weight update
• Vegetables: not a fan
• DeskCycle pedal exerciser
• Bicycle Man recumbent bike shop
• Feedback
• Macron vs. Trumpy
• Norma joins late, claims a "concussion" made her tired
• Reporter asks about Trump comment, Buhari is "Presidential"
• Michelle Wolf transcript from correspondent dinner
• Bezos: don't go for work/life balance, it's all a "circle"
• Fun discussion about this...part of Bart's attempt at the point
• Girl vs. lucky rubber band
• Obesity vs. fabric on the skin...
• The prom dress of appropriation!
• Book: So You've Been Publicly Shamed

Episode 237: Sean Penn Wrote a Novel

Bart, Norma and Voretaq talk about people who can't hang up their phones and sue people for eavesdropping, the FCC is officially killing net neutrality, Sean Penn wrote...something...and Google scans your email for personal results!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_237.mp3

Show Notes:

• Monkey selfie case decided
• Trump sues Maher over orangutan joke
• Hannity uses HUD to create landlord empire using shell companies
• Dead men tell no (phone) tales
• Why didn't it work?
• Feedback
• Man sues after boss eavesdrops
• Milo whines about snowflakes, melts at a bar
• Florida judge may have contributed to death
• Youtuber tries to kill homeless person?
• FCC, run by an irresponsible corporate shill, officially killed Net Neutrality
• Google does interesting gleaning from your Gmail
• ...such as your credit card information
• Trump lied his way to Forbes list of wealth
• Sean Penn wrote a novel
• Does it fart?
• Think of the flight attendants
• Celebrating traitors
• Cincinnati racists

Episode 236: Zuckerberg (Kind Of) Testifies

Voretaq returns and discusses Zuckerberg's Congressional softball session, Hannity acknowledges the real reason he's been cuckoo for Cohen, Harry Anderson goes to the magic top hat in the sky, and Universal Basic Income as an interesting idea...

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_236.mp3

Show Notes:

• Cohen/Hannity disclosure
• Alex Jones loses his #$% over Trump bombs
• Harry Anderson, RIP
• Voretaq has a new laptop, but don't ask how
• Feedback
• Cannabis oils/creams/lubes
• Hungry for Change
• Zuckerberg testifies
• Didn't really answer questions
• FaceBook hired one of the people who "stole" data
• Zuckerberg stole login credentials to steal email (many moons ago...)
• FaceBook accidentally reveals a now-soon-to-be-feature of "unsend" after being caught using it for execs
• The people questioning Zuckerberg have nicely lined financial pockets
• Universal Basic Income
• Finland's experiment
• Wiki has a short list with overviews of similar projects
• Native American basic income-type "experiment"
• Casino pay dispersal
• "Trump's rich because God loves him" type thinking
• Ivanka wishes there were some way government promotes healthy living for kids...uh...
• Is it wrong to eat a PB&J in public?
• Binghamton U. stabbing
• Starbucks and Racial Bias Training (story linked to what we talked about...)

Episode 235: Recumbent Trike Fun!

Bart and Norma discuss the latest Trumpy trouble, recumbent bikes, a Winky-Eyed Jesus, and a quiet movie!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_235.mp3

Show Notes:

• Michael Cohen may be in trouble...YAY!
• Trump's Tower murders one, injures others, Trump calls it "well built building"
• Norma gets an OS X update
• A Quiet Place
• Norma and Bart have a recumbent trike discussion - Bicycle Man!
• ALA list of top 10 banned books
• Feedback
• NRA grant rejected by school
• "NRA isn't racist"-type defense...yeah, right
• Condom snorting challenge
• White supremacist podcast host/teacher (alleged) resigns
• Metabolisms can't really be easily "sped up"
• Woman embalmed alive
• First Senator to give birth while holding office
• Fox accidentally admits they aren't trusted...whoops
• "Did you pack the explosives?"
• Download your Facebook account data
• Winky-Eyed Jesus and Other Undescribables: An elite, feral recumbent cyclo-tourist wages human-powered jihad against the force of gravity and the awesome span of the North American continent
• Tour de Shunk

Episode 234: Welfare Music to Shame By

Bart and Norma discuss taxpayer-funded music, GOP group admits they hate poor people, and teachers in PA are armed with rocks to fight gun toting rampagers!

Direct Download: http://traffic.libsyn.com/geekingafterdark/Geeking_After_Dark_Episode_234.mp3

Show Notes:

• Welfare to Work taxpayer-funded music
• This was funded by taxpayers for a public government department...
• Lead vocal: Lavern Scott
• Background vocals: Wilny Audain, Regina Clayton, Christopher Gray, Carol Rogers
• Lyrics: DPSS Income Maintenance Staff, Keith Rogers
• Music composed, performed, arranged, and produced by Keith Rogers
• 99% Invisible podcast episode about the taxpayer-funded music and the magic bureaucrat
• Apologies for the keyboard clatter; Bart had after-hours work related work to do...
• Colorado Alamosa GOP group admits they hate poor people; apologizes
• Feedback
• Kyle Kashuv wasn't invited to speak at March for our Lives rallies...
• ...complains he's ignored by "mainstream media"...in the media...
• ...but if true, there might be a reason...
• Arm teachers with rocks! (Original link gone; instead linked to Daily Show)
• Student shot in school shooting gets detention for protesting school shootings
• Frank Stallone apologizes for saying what he thinks and discovering people think his opinion is reprehensible
• Hybrid car shutoff is #$% stupid
• McJob employee stats
• Panera Bread customer data leak...and they try to hide it?
• They didn't respond to the person who reported it...so he went public
• Trump taxes revisit...
• "Fake Weed" deaths
• Protein powder may not be just protein...