Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 15 2024 – Punch His Facade in the Facade

On this show I play a new song by Steve Conte; I understand my child’s antipathy for a classmate; Death Sex and Money looking for a new organization is the same dynamic as searching for a sugar daddy; I don’t understand what there is for all these people working on the pro podcasts to actually do; I really enjoyed the book Rebel Without a Crew; I popped for a month of the Watch AFL app; I started with Wilosophy and stuck around for much of the Everyone Relax feed; I am enjoying the 2 Guys 1 Cup podcast on footie; the fight in They Live is the weirdest 20 seconds of cinema; I am no longer that interested in cryptocurrency; moving assets from Kraken to Coinbase was a true drag; Kraken UX is kind of terrible; I have been trying to reconcile cryptocurrency and MMT since I learned about each; how exactly is it that we repay national debt;

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 9 2024 – Asymmetrical Conversational Warfare

I play a song by The Jesus and Mary Chain; I talk a little about seeing The Jesus and Mary Chain in concert; the big dog is getting treated for heartworms; I’m staying in the developer relations slack for now; I am so glad I don’t have to take jobs with AI firms seriously; I never used my real job title; Jason Scott eulogizes Cheshire Catalyst; things go from useful to junk to historically interesting; I am enjoying throwing decaying photo albums away; I am going to collage bullshit photographs; Jackie Kashian lost her patience with button pushers; I am no longer rounding up transactions for charity; I watched True Detective Seasons 3 and 4.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 1 2024 – KPIs for Your Douchebaggery

I play a song by Dolly Varden; we recognize the passing of Mister Joe Klein; I don’t know how to change the size of the system font on a Mac; Adam Savage really impressed me with his take on point of view; I once again rage against awards for creative work; Steven Hail on the MMT podcast had an interesting take on marketing; there is a transformative power in cheapness of an object; my IOT journey started cheapness based and is now switching to quality based; I am interested in an R36S handheld console; I added some Philips Hue bulbs to the sconces; figuring out what is good to buy feels like it is getting harder; the New York Times can go to hell; I need a review site I can trust.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 24 2024 – Mandolin Slicer for your Fingerprints

I play a song by Valley Lodge; I admitted defeat and rented a storage space; I am working on one box at a time in organization; I am shipping family stuff away and losing some stuff due to destruction; moving to the bed and failing to sleep is infuriating; a dog chewed up my Android tablet; I am pleasantly surprised at this Onn tablet from Walmart; I am never buying another Kindle Fire; when did the social contract about speakerphones in public change? respect the commons, people; I almost always vote in the Republican primary; I don’t like encore episodes and I don’t like clip shows; the taco truck near my house is a game changer; who can stand to eat cold UberEats food?

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 16 2024 – Most Points are my Weak Point

I play a song by Indoor Garden Party; I don’t understand people who are treating Twitter as if things were normal; I watched the Superbowl; the ads are not worth watching and RFK Jr’s ad was the worst; I made one good play in one year of playing football; I made my moment with Sigler’s GFL books; I am going to try MyAFL for some footie; I need to uninstall Solitaire; I hire a handyman instead of screwing things up myself; True Detective season 3 exactly states the reason why I don’t like true crime as a genre; I did like Lamar Waldron’s book at the Kennedy assassination; I met Lamar back in the 1980s; I really enjoyed Stories from a Vegas Street Cop; if you do a podcast episode swap it is more likely I drop you than listen to the other show.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 10 2024 – Be the Merch You Want to See In The World

I play a song by Glass Eye; Mastodon is fine for social media but social media is the right answer to the wrong question; going viral is supposed to be the goal but it makes me nervous; no social media is designed to make you happier; I may drop 60 Songs that Explain the 90s with only a few episodes left; I officially dropped The Lost Cause and will read Slow Horses instead; I bought a Silhouette Cameo 4 to make merch; tell me what merch you want.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 26 2024 – Clangy Clangy Phone Rings

In this episode I play a song by The Gentle Readers; I am back on the Eat To Live plan after almost two years away; retirement also leads to engineering what the rest of your life looks like; using the older men in my life as positive and negative examples on how to age; I had a surprisingly rational conversation about assisted living; I have volunteered to help with Reloadio; the first listener who can identify the seam between the two chunks of the show will win a free t-shirt shipped anywhere in the world; I watched the Black Sabbath movie; the change in the social contract about phones in fascinating; capitalism and the short term focus drives me insane; layoffs make me insane; getting laid off changed my entire approach to work;

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 12 2024 – Not Much of an Issue, Not Much of a Solution

In this episode I play a song by You Am I; buying some cameras seems be helping the dog pee situation; we took the first road trip in the electric Audi; the free credits with Electrify America aren’t of much worse when they never work; I am playing lots of solitaire; I created a spreadsheet to help me make arbitrary choices; I wondered if I was being too hard on dogmatic punks until I heard Chris Shifflett make the same points as me on Turned Out A Punk; Chris Gethard on Death Sex and Money defends making art and having a day job; I migrated from Wilosophy to TOFOP via the Everyone Relax feed; the kid and I have decided to take up watching Australian Rules Football; I used to watch weird shit on ESPN in the 80s; I was knocked out by the Do You Need a Ride podcast merch store; Self-Hosted is on about the enshittification of Plex; I am not buying any more hardware from companies that want to sell me content; I don’t love Jellyfin the way I should; I don’t love Docker the way nerds think I should; I want a color Onyx Boox 10″ but I do not want to pay $500.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 8 2024 – Sheer Virtuosity High

In this episode I play a song by the Gentle Readers; we adopted an old, sick dog; we loved Slow Horses Season 3; the last season of The Crown sucked; We are watching Endeavour; I am considering abandoning the most recent Cory Doctorow book; I don’t understand if Tupperware can still possibly be a thing; the hardline of punks and Generation X excluding people and hating success loses me; If you get angry it should be about something and not nothing.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for December 22 2023 – I Want No Hassle For Xmas

In this episode I play our traditional holiday song by the Flexapleasers; my former coworker Darin recalls the office building flood; grampa will eat at Arby’s; we used to get paid to eat Arby’s; I tell stories of delivering ice at Georgia Tech and a few anecdotes about a guy we called “Bullethead”; the rugby guys brought an insanity to life; a storm led to a remote school day; filling and moving a big propane tank up my whole day; fittings are my weakness and the main reason I make multiple trips to the hardware store; no Xmas tradition is worth people stressing out on my behalf. .

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for December 15 2023 – I Used To Love Your Show

In this episode I play a song by Slaid Cleaves; I’m buying production stuff but it isn’t all showing up; I want a Stream Deck plugin for Audio Hijack; the American Pencil Collector Society actually did send me a welcome packet that I buried under a pile; I have started a daily carry notebook; integrating the physical and digital information is always tricky; Rocketbook is a somewhat acceptable compromise; I realized what a lock-in the Proton Mail “hide my address” function is; I finally had enough of the Cortex podcast; I unsubscribed from a pair of Tig Notaro podcasts; “I used to love your show”; I like the Lou Barlow backing track system; I am enjoying my Danger Man watch project; I don’t want a documentary to include the documentarian.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for December 8 2023 – Weird Wads of Money

In this episode I play a song by The Gentle Readers; I want Lee Cuthbert to be my best friend; I retired without a lot of ceremony from the day job; I don’t have a lot of retirement advice other than start young; grampa accidentally bought me a PS 5; Cyberpunk 2077 patch updates kind of sold me the PS 5; I got a nice retirement gift from an old friend; the kid and I went ham on a jigsaw puzzle; there is a pleasure in being out and about on weekdays; I am open to contract jobs but not in the winter holidays nor the summer; my comic shop moved much close to my house and I’m good with that.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for November 24 2023 – Cinnuminium

In this episode I play a song by The Palace; I tell a story of bumping up against serious poli sci people in college; we return to the Brazilian steak house; I have mixed feeling on the Beatles “Now and Then” song; getting old shrinks the radius of what you can’t remember; my retirement post on LinkedIn is the most social media traction ever for me; zero to full Taskmaster for me; I am going rogue on viewing in this house; paralysis of choice is hitting me now; rejecting effective solutions because the tech isn’t sexy really sets me off.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for November 3 2023 – Fully Committed to the Pencil World

In this episode I play a song by Chrissy Zebby Tembo; I am retiring from my day job; getting laid off in the “dot-bomb bust” put me on this path; the new podcasting machine is still getting the toolchain set up; I am moving from Dropbox to Syncthing; my digital and physical lives are about throwing things in boxes and never looking again; I gave in and bought an Ember mug; I am fighting that voice in my head that resists me doing anything; grampa continues to drive me crazy; I joined the American Pencil Collector Society and now I have octogenarian pen pals; let’s go to the pencil convention in 2025!
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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 28 2023 – Why Not a .Org?

In this short test episode I play a song by Saint Hughs; I have been listening to Wilosphy with Will Anderson; I bought a cheap ass Mac Mini (several really); this is not the first recording of this very show; I think I have identified (some of) The Resistance in my life.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for September 9 2023 – Always Be Charging

In this episode I play a song by INU; postpunk has a lot of bass; I don’t like a lot of Police songs; I once again forgot the podcast’s 19th anniversary; I bought an Audi etron and had lots of adventures; I did not appreciate the slowness of 120V charging; the modern features of this car are really blowing my mind; route planning and charging math make me think a lot; my life is full of batteries that need charging.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 18 2023 – Boxes in the Alley Arguments

In this episode, I play a song by Ockhams Razor; I have been in radio since age 15 yet I can’t work a mike; summer continues to be good; driving across the state twice back to back is a mistake; bring tarps camping; bring can openers camping; bring channel locks for your inflatable kayak; I need to get better at camping; the kid wants to be an entrepreneur; I fired up the Ender 3 Pro for the first time in this house; it has been fun to revive the 3D printer; I love having robots do stacks of work for me; don’t be scared of the machine; electric cars are not more expensive to run than gasoline; I am coining the term “boxes in the alley argument”; I discuss how I am planning my decumulation strategies

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for July 14 2023 – Your Job Doesn’t Love You

In this episode, I play a song by Doctor Israel; I am having a surprisingly good summer; shooting off fireworks was so much fun; our stupid inflatable pool is actually kind of great; not playing all-star softball changes your summer; the older big names in comic books can charge quite a lot for autographs; Michael Golden autographs gave me buyer’s remorse; I am camping by myself this summer; I was tempted by the boat-in camping spots; I traveled for work and never really cared; the idea that you must travel internationally to be well-rounded is classist; sacrificing personal life for your job will never be rewarded in proportion to what you give up; build yourself a healthy savings cushion so you don’t have to suffer with jobs you hate.

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