Flexapleasers
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...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for December 16 2021 - A Life Full of Boondoggle
In this episode, I play a song by the Flexapleasers; our modern lives are full of calls to action and it is fatiguing me; getting the message to the right audience is the whole problem; segmenting my email into humans and robots was a great decision; I don't want email to send me signals; everyone...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for Dec 13 2020 - Fighting Fiddliness
In this episode, I play a song for the season that is a tradition on this show - the Flexapleasers Xmas song; I ruined the previous show and this is a redo; I am getting fiddliness fatigue with the various gizmos in my life; we are slowly adopting the Alexa ecosystem; I am grudgingly accepting a...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for December 15 2019 - Single Density Floppy Disks
In this episode, I play an Xmas song by Michael Butler; I only like a few pop Xmas songs; as I change my line of work slightly, I think about how developer relations people romanticize the wrong things; I love automation but not social media automated sentiment; cleaning out old electronics sent me...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for December 28 2016 - Unsatisfied
In this show, we start off with the Flexapleasers Xmas song; moving from the Fitbit to the Garmin Vivosmart HR+ has issues; 2016 was a weird year but is just the beginning; being a skeptic can make you a buzzkill; resolutions are a horrible way to create new habits; I still struggle with my weight...
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