We’re back from CES! Norm gives Jeremy and Kishore the scoop on everything we saw there, including new virtual reality gear, a competitive laser cutter, and a home beer making machine. Plus, we discuss AT&T’s latest price hikes, pinball news, and a moment of science that gets Kishore pissed off.
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It is 4:30 here on the east coast, and I still can’t sleep. It is nice to see a video pop up when I am both tired and also super awake.
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You cannot compare Sherlock to Elementary. It is apples to oranges.
You are totally right, Elementary is a formulaic CBS cop show. and Sherlock is generally a well thought out modernization. It is way more fair to compare the Robert Downey Jr. movies to Sherlock, as they probably have similar budgets.
Let’s see… $800. For what amounts to a large bread machine that instead makes beer. $800. Add to that the Keurig-style vendor lock-in for the supplies.
At first glace, this seems like a textbook example of the adage, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” Or, maybe it’s for the 1%-ers that feel adventurous. I dunno, but it’s not for me.
I was right to be offended, right? Still willing to test it though.
Thanks for the podcast, did you see any electric skateboards at CES?
Elementary is still a great show though. None of the three are really accurate to the books, but all are great in their own way. I love the different takes on Watson that each provide too.
I brew my own and this would really does not interest me at all. Takes the fun out of making and playing with your own recipes.
In relation to the Star Trek fan film stuff, Paramount is extremely touchy about their IPs. For example, while WB, Fox, and Disney seem to shrug and look the other way when fans make alternate cuts of movies or trailers and then put them on Youtube, Paramount will immediately have Youtube shut down any fan re-cut of their properties.
I had this happen to me personally (which is fine. I did a silent-movie recut of Interstellar merely for my own satisfaction and to get practice editing).
Summing up my earlier thoughts on the $800 beermaker, succinctly:
In the 1980’s there was a saying, “Cocaine is nature’s way of telling you you have too much money.” It appears that in the age of Trump, an 800 dollar beermaker is nature’s way of telling you you have too much money.
Norm, do you know what that convertible gun/pistol was called or who made it? That’s one of the ones that looked the most interesting.
can i see this? i promise i wont pay you anything for it.
also i promise it will not damage the marketability of interstellar to me, since i have already possession of the coffee table book, the novelization, the ‘science of interstellar’ book, the DVD blu ray exclusive that contained a cell from the imax film, the unlimited AMC ticket, the AMC exclusive poster, the Carhartt coat that Murph wears, a copy of Wheeler Thorne and Misners’ “Gravitation” (the black book in the conference room when Murph and Coop first walk into Nasa) etc etc
Haha, yeah, that’s not a problem.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwAR90L40PZVYkxJbDN0LWZkS0U
(the music is from Man of Steel, which I felt greatly out-shined the movie it was in)
Elementary is very much of a standard CBS procedural, which makes it unremarkable. It’s still better than Sherlock. Sherlock, especially Season 3, was straight up terrible.
haven’t watched the new MB, and have no intention to watch, hate game shows. and that’s clearly what it is.
And white rabbit kinda sucked. that first ‘experiment’ was well beyond lame.
mind reading, mind control?
GTFOH
transcutanious nerve stimulation. crushingly disappointing to have such a sensationalist presentation of… well nothing special.
FAKE SCIENCE!
i think i’ll stick to actual mythbuster re-runs
Hey Norm the Glowforge does have both air assist and liquid cooling. They are just built into the main unit.
If you’re looking for a farcical and light-hearted take on the Sherlock mythos, I recommend “Without a Clue” with Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley. Lots of fun.
With regard to the Streep speech, politics aside, I think most average folks are really sick and tired of being lectured at by movie stars. I’m not sure what moral authority they seem to imagine they have, but all the YouTube videos of movie stars telling folks what to do, demanding (their words) Congress obstruct the incoming administration, pleading for electors to vote against the candidate their state chose, pre-emptively railing against presumed hate and racism and yada yada yada . . . . really, it’s enough already. The average person only has so much appetite for being morally preened at. We hit that limit quite some time ago. Just because someone is very good at pretending in front of a camera doesn’t give that person some sort of mystical knowledge that us non-Hollywood schlubs can never hope to achieve.
If you want to know why there’s such a radical backlash against “Elites” – I think Streep’s speech is a good place to start looking. Behind every moral lecture is the assumption that those who don’t agree with your way of thinking must be wrong. It is, implicitly, insulting.
The new Mythbusters show wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. It’s the first reality show that I’ve ever watched – never seen one of these “voted off the island” things before. Having the original narrator, clips from the show, and locations and supporting cast from the original show make it feel a little more “real.” Dunno if I want to watch a reboot with any of these people, though.
I was really disappointed in White Rabbit Project after the first episode, but thought it got better as it went along (and also maybe I got more used to the format). Some of the later builds were fun (like the electric car and the “hoverboard”), and some of the random video segments (like the DB Cooper thing) were enjoyable. The “ranking” gimmick seemed pretty pointless, though.
AKA “the grey hoodie show”
tfw you try to delete a comment and realize tested has no delete comment function
White Rabbit Project could drop 90% of its format and still be the same builds and a much better show IMO. Pick a theme, choose something related to briefly investigate, build it, done. No need for the ranking or all the discussion filler, there is more than enough build for a full episode without it. That said, I enjoyed the episodes I’ve seen so far, the chemistry between that team is still there and that was always the key to their popularity.
I can’t help but think these shows have somewhat run their course though, if you want builds you don’t need a Mythbusters, you can simply come to Tested or one of the dozens of youtube channels with good personalities building things for anywhere between a couple of minutes to several hours.
Also, Grant has done a few Facebook live streams of builds recently, I hope he shows up on Tested sometime, I believe he now lives in LA and with Joey moving down there it seems like a no-brainer 🙂
PS. that brewing machine gets me just as offended as Kishore. There are temperature controlled units that provide all the supposed benefits of this device but is not a closed ecosystem of recipes and ingredients.
Also, I agree with Kishore on his Moment of Science rage, although I doubt the appointment will have that much of an impact. It’s not like the majority of doctors will suddenly stop giving vaccines or the majority of parents will suddenly stop vaccinating their children.
The autism-vaccine link is beyond bunk, but the pro-vaccine side hasn’t done a great job at conveying the message. The “you’re an evil person that should go to jail” tactic or flat out name-calling isn’t effective, especially when you’re dealing with folks who have autistic children and will take those insults very personally. While they’re wrong, most anti-vaccine folks “think” they’re being very rational and reasonable. They look at a lot of charts and numbers and buy the incorrect conclusions that the anti-vaccine lobby pushes (and some of those folks can be very persuasive – watch a Dr. Tenpenny talk if you don’t believe me). It doesn’t help that there are a handful of legitimately sketchy vaccine practices that lend credibility to the anti-vax suspicions (like trying to mandate HPV through the school systems or infants receiving the Hep-B vaccine).
The pro-vaccine lobby really needs to get its act together and make a more persuasive case. Hopefully this appointment will give them the opportunity to better package their message and not double-down on the brow-beating.
thanks… that was amazing.
essential viewing for the Interstellar completionist.