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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for September 23 2021 - An Antidote for Stuff
In this episode, I play a song by Black 47; I had a key insight about why we acquire stuff; my daughter can drop some ping pong balls in an arcade game; getting the junk is more exciting than owning or using the junk; I passed on Precursor, the open source phone; I passed on Clockwork Pi terminal...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for March 11 2021 - That's How You Pith Them Off
In this episode, I play a song by Tamar Aphek; we have a puppy; I am using my DIY Bookscanner mechanisms with OpenLibrary; young me no longer gets to decide how I spend my bookreading life; the bar for acquiring even digital things to read is raising every higher; Kris Rusch makes me look at coded...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 4 2018 - Flooded with Work
In this episode, I play a new song from John Howie Jr.; I talk about the flooding in my area and watching a functioning municipality break down; I discuss how my day job has trained me to be panicky and how to fight that; the first time you see something work is the best part of computer...
read articleMy Build of the TIFLIC DIY Bookscanner
Note: What I am discussing here is in no way my original work. This design was created by user Mohib on the DIY Bookscanner Forum. His original plans are here. These are my notes based on my experience building his design. In addition, his software recommendations are for iOS and Windows and I have...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for September 4 2018 - Aching to 14
In this episode, I play a song from the Joe Perry Project; I discuss my 14th anniversary as a podcaster, why podcasting was inevitable and why most of history is accidental; I talk about why your 40th is the last realistic birthday to be a big deal and the aches of getting older; I discuss the...
read articleDIY Bookscanner Progress
I still have a lot of work to do on the DIY Bookscanner but my plexiglass arrived and the handle does hook up to it. Platen is almost there! Next stop this...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August 3 2018 - Projecting
In this episode, I play an oldie from the history of this show; why I am not doing the Dog Days of Podcasting this year; I discuss purging items from your life and building DIY projects and getting into Raspberry Pi. Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 3...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for August, 15 2014 - "DDOP Day 16: Grab Bag"
In this episode, Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, August 15, 2014 You can subscribe to this podcast feed via RSS. To sponsor the show, contact BackBeat Media. Don't forget, you can fly your EGC flag by buying the stuff package. This show as a whole is Creative...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 21, 2013 - "The Moral Argument"
Here is the direct MP3 download for the Evil Genius Chronicles podcast, October 21, 2013. I talk about losing a weekend to a swingset; I mention how talking to yourself with a cellphone is socially acceptable but a microphone is not; I talk about how it took me two years to read a single novel and...
read articleDigital Vs. Physical Goods
Not long ago, I posted about how paper books are now the deprecated choice in my household. Recently, as my daughter began crawling and pulling up, she wreaked havoc on our CD rack, throwing disks all over the place. Cleaning them up and moving them to somewhere safe, I was struck with how many of...
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