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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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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 23 2023 – The Skull Doesn’t Need Help

In this episode, I play a song by Eleventh Dream Day; I am really enjoying RAW Impressions podcast from Lou and Adelle Barlow; I unsubscribed from Penn’s Sunday School and Everything Everywhere Daily; why am I left so cold by social proof? I am cooling off on Mastodon; I have been scolded enough for my many faults; I am taking a lesson from Nancy Drew and keeping a bag backed in my trunk; I am making a “life go bag” for my ordinary life; I do a ten minute cleaning sprint on my workdays now; I want to go into every movie cold now; Joe Stapleton spoiled the ending of Barry for me;

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for June 16 2023 – Chicken Biscuit

In this episode, I play a song by Badpiper; my life is on life support systems only; I tell a couple of grampa stories; Dollar General and Walmart are the stores that may be predatory but do actually serve country people; I bought myself an electronic coffee mug; we are not playing all-star softball this year; we are now around to see the district games happening at our neighborhood ballpark; I have watched True Detective seasons 1 and 2; I’ve been very slowly watching Treme; Scoble’s post Katrina vlogs rubbed me the wrong way; I moved my email infrastructure to Proton Mail.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 31 2023 – That’s When It Really Hurts

In this episode, I play a song by SILENCAEON; the audio issues on my stack are really dragging me down; an episode of Eating the Fantastic made me nostalgic for cyberpunk; I like Pat Cadigan on Mastodon; the Shipherds can work a timeshare pitch; no money leaves my pocket if you call me; downtown Conway is a foodie little area; I walked away from all my stuff at softball practice triggering a lot of self-loathing; I worry I will throw away or give away the only thing in my mom’s junk that is worth any money; I am mad about this OpenLibrary lawsuit and at the big four publishers; my first Mastodon blocks of individuals were around OpenLibrary; Obsidian plus whisper trancripts is helping show prep; I has taken me 2.5 years to watch season one of Danger Man; I like the mundanity of the spy craft; I am a newish subscriber to the 2000 AD Thrillcast.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 10 23 – Fight Like Hell

In this episode, I play a song by Doctor Deathray; for once I had time to do the show and no mojo to do one; I always predicted that my golden years would be on fire; talking to people seems harder than it used to; we went to a murder mystery dinner; grampa is making life so much harder than it needs to be; it sure seems like publishers are bad at business including publishing; Nathan Lowell’s podcast is back; Nate only reads indie published books; can we agree that Bean Dad was the most harmless internet flareup?; I don’t care about the McElroys or Maximum Fun; the American left is great at policing the people who aren’t lefting the way they like; Warren Ellis seems to have crafted a second act.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for February 17 2023 – Under the Bus

In this episode, I play a song by the Axis of Awesome;
my random choice of mastodon.lol had consequences; I sympathize with having one Really Bad Day on your project; trans people just want to live their boring lives; I marched with the trans group in Myrtle Beach on MLK weekend; I am now in the orbit of the Ellijay Makerspace; Darusha Wehm and Andrew Roach sent the lifeboat to me; what if I had multiple personas for Mastodon?; I have a shitload of Fediverse accounts; makerspace silk-screening opens up a lot of possibilities; Cory Doctorow and Scott Edelman discussing Judith Merrill made me think about the one spark plug in a scene; I enjoyed Maverix and Lunatix; I missed a window in buying underground comics; I like scrappy Democrats; don’t criticize people by throwing rural people under bus.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 27 2023 – More Money In The Weepy Stuff

In this episode, I play a song by the Dolly Varden; “You Make Loving Fun” has a weird structure; whisper is making me organize myself; I realized that Linode machines can do my transcribing; as many television shows we have access to, we can’t find shows to watch; I hate reality shows for the formula of it; Love It or List It is being endured in this house; the only thing I like about the show is figuring out what city they are in; Slow Horses, Reservation Dogs and Dark Winds are the best shows I have watched in the last year; the movie “Dog” with Channing Tatum is bleh but we love troubled dog redemption stories; pipewire continues winning the war; big tech companies laying off workers is exactly what I have been talking about in the world of work; human misery is a bad tool for policy; Mastodon and the Fediverse can’t fix the giant hole in me that seeks approval; I am finally learning how to handle third parties on social media; there is a pointlessness to the umbrage filled replies.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 20 2023 – Heaven Has More Slow Deaths

In this episode, I play a song by the Crane Wives; I am using Whisper as part of my podcast production pipeline; Mastodon experiments continue; I am now on Bookwyrm; the problems I have with social media occur even without a company’s algorithm shoving it down my throat; being the semi-benevolent dictator of decisions sucks; use the hash tag for nerds in our region; identifying bottlenecks in stalled projects is hard but necessary; I have stopped procrastinating on long procrastinated projects; I’m not sure I believe “Mastodon So White”; look at the hashtag for “BlackMastodon”; Dying Kindness podcast is useful; there are multiple approaches to the end of your life; the late life conversion topic really loses me.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 12 2023 – I Was the Dormancy

In this episode, I play a song by JD Pinkus; this WordPress site is kind of a Mastodon instance; is using Mastodon restarting bad habits?; Apple announced AI audiobooks and Mastodon got fussy; I don’t like acccents in audiobooks; back in the day there were stores of audiobooks on cassettes; the innovator’s dilemma is working on industries and people when jobs change; the MMT job guarantee could reduce anxiety about industry disruption; I had the wrong feed for Rudy Rucker’s podcast; I am now all in on Zigbee; Sonoff Zigbee stuff is cheap and pretty good; Wiz light bulbs get confused by mesh wifi; having lots of Zigbee devices is better than one or two; I did not get my wish list of to-do items done over a very long holiday break; make the hard decisions on what to do with your items before you die so others don’t have to.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for January 1 2023 – Quiet Quitting

In this episode, I play a song by Nick Miller; I am still fighting the pipewire transition; I have joined Mastodon; the day zero experience kind of sucks; I have no idea how important the choice of a Mastodon instance is; I miss Usenet and GEnie SFRT; my NetNewsWatcher filters were finely tuned; rec.arts.sf.written was great and also where I learned to hate gatekeepers; quiet quitting is another way to refer to healthy work-life balance; not needing your job makes it much more fun; spare me your think pieces on the nature of work; I watched The Keep and Cafe Express for the Video Archives podcast.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for December 24, 2022 – Declining City Gentleman

In this episode, I play the other of our traditional holiday songs by American Heartbreak; truncated due to illness I tell an anecdote and wish everyone the best.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for Dec 18 2022 – The Rube Goldberg Machine of my Life

In this episode, I play one of our traditional holiday songs by Jill Sobule; Feedback episode! Many missives from Reed Knight with some from Jeff Dangel, Darren Griffith, Metal Dan, Nutty Nuchtchas and others; we discuss redaction, journaling, music ad lots of cool stuff.

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for December 8 2022 – I Hate His Fat Voice

In this episode, I play a song by Domenico + 2; I just realized the Garrison Keillor influence on this very podcast; the sandwich generation is wearing on us; I have no interest in true crime anything; have I completely lost the taste for cringey comedy?; I did send letters to voters via Vote Forward; am I individually on the hook for taking free and legal options?; I hearken back to Allan Havey’s Night after Night; I don’t know who Ben Shapiro is or what the Podcast Movement controversy; I have a narrow window of acceptable self-regard; there was something in the air in the mid-2000s maker culture; decluttering is full of overwhelming decisions; Scoble melted down over a timetable;

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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for December 3 2022 – This Light is my Lassie

In this episode, I play a song by Corb Lund; I am becoming a 1/3 assed woodworker; I have built peg boards and shelves; my Braves junk from the 1990s is staring me in the face; my mom had a decoupage phase; I am purging old family stuff; I am completely over most of the fall/winter holidays; cheap WiZ brand iot light bulbs from Walmart helped me out; I am dumping Wemo switches and all off the wall brands; my media lockdown continues; I’m done with the political parties available to me; does my withdrawal from politics grant a win to my enemies?; all hail the speed square.

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