This week, Will, Norm, and the Internet’s Dave Snider discuss Valentine’s Day, damming the Thames, playing flappy birds while flying, and Microsoft’s first Android phone. All that, plus what we’ve been testing and your questions answered. Enjoy!
One Day Builds
Adam embarks on one of his most ambitious builds yet: fulfil…
Show And Tell
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Making
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Adam and Norm assemble a beautifully machined replica prop k…
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One of the ways Adam has been getting through lockdown has b…
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Adam unboxes and performs a quick test of this novel new hel…
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When Adam visited Weta Workshop early last year, he stopped …
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Adam tackles a shop shelf build that he's been putting off f…
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Time for a model kit build! This steampunk-inspired mechanic…
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Adam reveals his surprise Christmas present for his wife--a …
Happy Birthday MOM!!!!!!!!!
The Federal govt. should build their own fiber infrastructure and broadband internet service should become a utility. There…I said it.
Coming the next 24 weeks, This is Only a Test 199 C-Z. Haha how long can you possibly keep putting off episode 200?
Since I know you guys live to be corrected in the comments, Khan did not wear a prosthetic plastic chest piece. Ricardo Montalbán was just a very fit 62 year old man.
episode 200 is oktoberkast 2014
but I’ll take Dave over Gary on the show any week
Vaio – The Vaio logo is apparently supposed to signify analogue and digital – the V and A form an analogue wave, and the I and O and a 1 and a 0. Still a crappy logo, though.
Thames Barrier – it’s about 30 years old, so a little surprised to hear it talked about as if it’s new, but it’s still a pretty cool bit of engineering.
Dave – awesome podcast guest, but did I miss something? Has he joined Berman Braun, or are Webhook squatting in the Tested offices? A couple of times now he’s referred their offices (and toilet) as ‘ours’.
Really enjoying Dave as a podcast guest. Injects a sense of humor I appreciate.
is dave working in the same office?
Dave is a great guest…:-)
*A Very true, but the conservatives will never let that happen.
I have to say, Norm’s misinformation about Telco pissed me off so much. He needs to say before every statement “this is only my opinion…”. He states things as if they are fact. Here’s a fact: AT&T refused to switch to digital switching until regulations forced them. Had they switched sooner, broadband would have been available years sooner. Regulations didn’t hold back broadband. The lack of regulation does.
If I am paying an ISP for an X Mbps connection, I should be able to use if for ANY FU*KING THING I WANT.
Happy Birthday to Will’s Mom!
Also the Video is a little out of focus today
Dave Snider > Lack of Dave Snider
Wow….My Moms birthday too…..Happy Birthday Moms!!!!
the flappy bird analysis was rather bad.. from what i can tell the guy didn’t buy the marketing. it was a viral effect of kids on twitter tyring to trump each other writing the most over the top reviews.
also here is a comment i found on a ars technica article about the game from another dev to maybe put into perspective what made the guy take down the game:
Not the first thing I bought on Amazon, but the first thing I bought, with the earliest account I can still remember the password for:
Mechanics of Flight by A.C. Kermode in November 2000
I was looking at Amazon.com via hotbot in 1996 at college trying to find anything they would ship to the UK.
I am glad that I wasn’t the only person who noticed that..
I totally agree with Dave, the internet is softer these days but the people are worse. You could get into some dark stuff on those weird early p2p networks, I’ve seen a man eat a baby.
I have the real plunge router attachment for my dremel, it is totally passable as a cheap router, and way better than the small included thingy, but compared to a real metal router it’s kinda flimsy. The stuff Dremel makes is nice for small jobs, but since everything is plastic, don’t expect precision. It’s part number 335-01
Maybe it was this artpiece/hoax? http://www.snopes.com/horrors/cannibal/fetus.asp
I have to agree, there was some bad shit on p2p and on IRC channels back in the day. It seems like easier, faster access to most of the internet has made it a lot less likely that you’ll stumble onto the really bad shit. I’ve done a decent job avoiding gruesome stuff, and getting rick-rolled onto dead babies has become a lot rarer since actual rick-rolling became a thing.
I wish! It was completely fucked.
Yeah, I guess that is the good thing about the internet becoming mainstream, if you are looking for terrible shit you have to go looking, whereas before you kind of just stumbled into that stuff trying to pirate your favorite Metallica song, hah.
Threes is a piece of crap that won’t run on a 4th gen iPod Touch. It’s a slidey tile puzzle game, it should run on a TI-82 with no trouble. Is it mining bitcoins in the background or something? And yes I’m mad because I paid two bucks for it and it doesn’t work.
*A They spent enough money to literally do this, they gave it to the providers…still no fiber.
The VAIO decision was sold to JIP or something. They’re going to distribute mainly in Japan.
Nokia’s Android phone is low end. It’s only coming out because not releasing it would bring an antitrust shitstorm down on them and Microsoft.
We’re squatting for a bit while we build Webhook. I’m paying rent in the form of podcast appearances apparently.
I don’t know when you recorded this, but just an update:
The chinese rover is alive again: Jade Rabbit comes back from the dead
BTW, There may be more rovers on the moon than you think. Sure the american lunar rovers are the most well known, since they were driven by astronauts. But the russians actually managed to cover more of the surface with their unmanned rovers than NASA on their manned flights.
That’s that trickle down economics hard at work.
re: wiring a house: do Home Run wiring – run the cabling all back to a central location so you can put a big patch panel in there. To avoid having to label each jack on the wall, instead draw a floorplan of the house and put numbers where each jack is, and then number the jacks. Keep said floorplan near the central patch panel.
The “Doge” (doej or doezh) meme has been around for a while, and in more common usage late 2012/early 2013, but something caused it to explode starting a couple months ago.
My first purchase on Amazon was a LaCie 500gb external hard disk back in October 2008. It ran as my time machine backup up until 4 months ago when the drive crapped out. I replaced the drive inside with one my brother gave me and that only lasted less than 2 months. On recommendation from Wirecutter I purchased the Buffalo 2TB Drivestation to replace and so far so good.
Disappointing to hear the utter lack of interest in the Thames Barrier. It’s a seriously cool bit of kit. It’s thirty years old this month and it still looks like something from the future.
If you only need a few ports, there are enough differently colored jacks to have everything color coded. I just look at the jack and say, “oh, I need to connect the yellow/blue/gray…etc”.
Dave Snider IS the common mans man, love it!