On this week’s show, Will makes some adjustments, Gary goes virtual, and Norm steals a drink. All that, plus the latest on Black Friday sales, the morality of autonomous cars, the tough-to-buy Nexus 4, tea bagging, and a tepid edition of fake outtakes.
One Day Builds
Adam embarks on one of his most ambitious builds yet: fulfil…
Show And Tell
Adam recently completed a build of the royal St. Edwards cro…
Making
Viewers often ask to see Adam working in real-time, so this …
One Day Builds
Adam and Norm assemble a beautifully machined replica prop k…
One Day Builds
One of the ways Adam has been getting through lockdown has b…
Making
Adam unboxes and performs a quick test of this novel new hel…
Making
When Adam visited Weta Workshop early last year, he stopped …
One Day Builds
Adam tackles a shop shelf build that he's been putting off f…
Show And Tell
Time for a model kit build! This steampunk-inspired mechanic…
One Day Builds
Adam reveals his surprise Christmas present for his wife--a …
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You continue to be the best.
It’s still weird that the RSS produces an mp3 file yet the site hasn’t made a place for it on the page.
Ben Frankilin plays a really tiny role in AC3. You’ve basically seen all you’re gonna see of him already.
I found that link Chris Remo tweeted about Xcom: It’s a “learn from my mistakes” post.
Did I miss news about Tested.com getting an update or is that just for the audio player? Either way, no complaints here if that’s about to be implemented.
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I forgot to add a comment mentioning that the whole situation with the tablet market is sad right now. For the first time in many years I felt like Microsoft was trying to pull the market instead of letting the market pull them, but the Surface leaves a lot to be desired. I also don’t think Apple should have let people go over the maps situation. Unless they didn’t own up to their mistakes (or decided to resign) they should be given another chance to help fix the problem.
SMS in space you say?
Voices of a Distant Star illustrates quite poignantly how crappy being limited to light speed communications across interstellar distances would be. This was apparently inspired by a time in the lives of the creator and his wife where they communicated by texts in their spare moments being too busy to see each other in person.
Watching it??
OK, in case that’s too hard to manage.
A couple is separated by war, taking one of them progressively farther out into interstellar space. As such the time between their communications (limited to just texts) goes from hours in near space to days out on the edge of the solar systems, to years in the Sirius system. So a 15 year old mecha pilot (its anime after all) sends a simple message, “I’m here” that will be received a decade later. And of course, for the one waiting back on Earth what getting that message so much later on ultimately means…took me a while after watching to get that bit of fridge logic.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voices_of_a_Distant_Star
Virtual Gary definitely needs a better mic. Still enjoyed listening, but quality was a little jarring this ep.