This week, Norm confronts his Internet anxiety, Gary lauds Google for making tough decisions, and Will discusses the downsides of spicy food. All that, plus Google retaking control of Android, a tetherless jailbreak for iOS 4.3.1, fake outtakes, and a whole lot more.
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EARLY Podcast :0 YAYYYYYY! My week is awesome now.
woooooo
Everyone loves an early podcast.
I know how I’m spending my evening now 🙂
Recording on a Wednesday? If I had known that I would have sent in my audio question… although I am sure you guys already have quite a few of those.
I know exactly what they mean regarding the iOS browser. I’m partial to the Perfect Browser, which does everything I need a tablet browser to do. Check it out!
Today is only Wednesday: AND YET! A podcast, for my perusement.
Greatest podcast on the internet keeps being amazingly great. Who’d a figured?
It’s BIRTHDAY PLANNING Will!!!
This is like an early Podcast!
I loved Norm’s comment about taking the gun off for comfort when you sit down. I carry a gun all day, and the only time I take mine out of my pocket, I’m either at home relaxing with another one within reach, or it’s in my desk at work.
Pleasant, surprise is pleasant.
I have been disconnected form the internet for 16 days when camping. It isn’t hard.
Back in 8th grade, I went on a mission to stay awake until my eyes bled (what the hell was I thinking?!). I stayed awake for 15 days with about 20 minutes of sleep a day. This was summer so I would have a friend with me everywhere keeping me awake.
Weird I didn’t realize only sleeping 4 hours made me some sort of oddity.
I have plenty of days where I just get away from the internet. It’s nice and I feel more productive. Most of those day I would just play some video games (offline obviously) or watch some dvds I bought. On very special occasions I’ll sit down with a book or just write for a few hours. It’s nice to be away from the world for a while.
Ooohh, the part about electric vs. manual shaving was interesting. I use an electric shaver, but like Will said, i have to do a lot of passes on the neck area around the adam’s apple to get all the hair, which often leads to nasty red spots.
Yeah I had an experience like that back at university. My friend and I were flipping through the channels late one Friday and happened to catch the beginning of a The Jeffersons marathon on a three day weekend. We’d never seen the show before and our minds were blown at how well it stood up and how funny it was. We ended up buying a ton of energy drinks and staying up the entire weekend watching.
I AM SO CONFUSED!
Do I save the Tested podcast for Thursday afternoon or do I listen to it now!? Why would you do this to me? It’s tempting now, but then I won’t have anything to listen to this afternoon. So sad and confused…
Suggesting a fake outtakes topic for the future: lucid dreaming. Have you ever tried it, thoughts about it, what would you do if you could do anything in a dream, etc. Would be a fascinating insight into the psyche of the Tested crew!
On shaving there is also this,
Just unplug your ps3 from the internet, and you can use it as a blu-ray player in the no-internet contest.
The “no internet” challenge is one which Norm could never win, thus making it a challenge that Norm must now undertake to prove us wrong. Take that, Chan!
Definitely need an official Tested beard trimmer shootout. I’ve been looking for a new one and can’t decide.
The sleep discussion was interesting to me, since I moved to the silicon valley to perform research on the neurobiology of sleep. I can answer some questions that came up in the podcast:
1. There is such a thing as sleep debt, where you can build up an effect of not getting enough sleep a period of time. The sleep debt can be erased by sleeping more at a later date, though the exact mechanisms are still being argued. The effect is though to last two weeks, only because such studies do not go longer than two weeks.
2. I haven’t heard about the cohort of people who only need 4 hours of sleep a day, but I do know that constant sleep deprivation has been linked with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and Alzheimer’s disease.
3. Most sleep drugs nowadays are developed to solve sleep-related disorders, such as insomnia and narcolepsy, and not reducing the amount of sleep a person needs.
Thanks for the podcast, it helps me get through work.
You can see the difference for yourself. Run the sunspider benchmark on Atomic Web and again on Safari.
Super fun podcast this week.
“Nature finds a way!” lmao
I think Will would do well to work on not saying “right?” after every couple of sentences (usually when he’s describing an example or situation). So many broadcasters/podcasters do it, and I think it’s really annoying. He’s not nearly as bad as some, but the more he keeps saying it, the more of a habit it may become.
great episode!
the outtakes got me wondering though , a brain backup would be just that , a backup copy , and not the original thing.
if you die , your backup would be applied to a new piece of flesh , and it would probably do everything you would have done , since its has all your memories and experiences , but you would still be dead.
unless they invent some kind of “soul” trapping device, so that they can then insert you back , into a new body , along with a brain preloaded with all your memories ( guessing it would be like a memory loss , if you just put the “soul” in a fresh body )
thats why i used the ” “‘s
it would be the same thing as taking your dna and cloning you , while you are still alive , then inserting all your experiences and memories into the clone .
you would not get to control the clone ( see though its eyes ) , you would still be in your body , the same thing would happen if you died and they initiated one of your backup clones , it would start living , and you would still be dead.
your relatives would probably not notice anything , as long as the clone had experiences and memories from the every last second you lived.
but for you to actually move from your old body to the new , something other than brain backup and a new piece of flesh would be needed.
unless im forgetting something here.
I’m not sure why everyone keeps calling the original Moto Droid users “the first wave of Android adopters.” I guess that was when it became really mainstream, but there’s a lot of us out here that got the G1 right when it came out, and it sucks to see all those first phones get neglected. Google already knows whether or not people are going to get newer android phones when they renew their contract because we already did. That G2 that people thought so highly of was a hugely popular phone with those of us that started out on the G1. I’m not saying that the Droid didn’t cause Android to become the juggernaut that it is today. I’m just saying that tech sites should show some love for those of us that have stuck it out with Android from day 1.