On this week’s show, Gary declares Amazon’s Android tablet the winner of holiday 2011, Norm explains how laser headlights work, and Will geeks out on Bull Mountain. All that, plus the latest on $300 Android tablets, Atari’s answer to the iCade, iPhone 5 rumors, a display expert weighs in on 3DTVs and another episode of fake outtakes.
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Good job on Gary Whitta Poopcast Episode 01 guys! I look forward to more!
Watched the live stream, most of it anyway. Ok Will I’m totally with you on the fork thing. As it was explained to me it was a US thing vs the rest of the world. Fork goes in the right hand in the US. There’s also the upside down left hand fork thing I see people do occasionally. I think that’s older British people. The one that gets me is the people who grab the fork with their fist palm down and shovel.
Oh and what was with the 20 minute sushi tangent?
Still love the show.
30 seconds in and we’re already talking about Will’s Christmas Tree emotional scarring. I love it.
You fuckers… Making me want sushi at this time of night. You sick bastards.
EDIT: My desktop is really fucking loud, and I usually have a stand up fan as well as a ceiling fan maxed out in my room. So it is extremely loud…..when I have nothing playing, but with my 5.1 I can’t hear anything when I am doing something. If I am on skype I use my headset. I rarely hear my fans.
Thanks guys now I want sushi.
I do what Will does and he’s totally right.
As an Asian, I’m tempted to revoke Norm’s Asian card. No tako, chicken feet, frogs legs, or shrimp heads? I am disappoint.
Whatever he’s eating, make it out of something from the list above.
Will defense force time!
I was also taught to eat steak and such the way Will described. I have since unlearned that habbit and now do it the way it should be done, which would be the way Gary described.
the eat your word food must be gross or very spicy. make it a challenge.
I’m totally with Will on the fork. I totally cut and feed with the right, and I never think twice about it.
To hell with either form of etiquette, I always have my fork in my right hand never switching to the left.
I’m also with Will on the fork and knife. I don’t think one is “correct” but I also learned eating a fork and knife the same way. My sister once told me about how a friend of hers made fun of her for eating like this because it looked like she was juggling her silverware.
Don’t worry Will. I eat that way too. Still, I don’t remember being told to eat like that, I just think everyone in my family does. When I heard in French class that people eat continental style, (right and left) the class and myself seemed surprised. That night I tried to eat that way and immediately gave up.
Come home.
See new podcast is up.
Life’s good.
I with with the fork thing. Not sure it’s proper but that’s how I grew up.
Neat – the brief discussion on tracking weight and personal data gives me an excuse to write about one of my obsessions.
I have been tracking various personal data for a few years, like sleep, weight and body fat, drug intake (alcohol, caffeine, pharmaceuticals, etc.), physical exercise, sex, finances (most people probably do that in some form), video games i have played, movies i have watched and books i have read.
Having this data can be very helpful and rewarding. It’s like a having a perfect digital memory. I can also now sometimes base decisions on hard data, instead of making guesses and trusting my selective memory. For example, i went from a terrible, unhealthy sleep schedule to a rock-solid one, something i wouldn’t have been able to do without the data.
Also it’s just cool to look at the charts. Here’s how much sleep i got in the last two weeks:
Wave shaped, son.
And here’s my body weight from September 2009 until yesterday:
Note, for example, the massive dip in June 2011. I had a throat infection and was nearly unable to eat for a week. I went from underweight to super-underweight, and right back up afterwards.
Like Norm said on the podcast, imagine being able to do this with really long term data, like 10, 20 or 30 years! If you’re interested, there are a bunch of websites about self-tracking, like Quantified Self and Flowing Data.
If you want to see more of my stuff, i wrote this blog post on Giant Bomb about my video game data.
+1
Halfway through the podcast so far, and thought i’d throw in my left vs right fork issue! Exciting i know!
Over here in the UK, I see place settings with the fork/s placed on the left of the plate, with knife/s and spoon/s on the right. Being a lefty, I had the issue with this as its more comfortable to have the fork in the left and stab the food, but apparently the correct way to hold cutlery is to have the knife in the dominant hand to cut the food and the less dominant for the stabbing. I guess for better knife control? Even then I’m guessing it depends on the restaurant, though my usual Nandos and Jamie Oliver restaurants are pretty casual.
Also, years ago, my local PC components shop charged me an extra £5 for a left-handed Logitech MX610. Discrimination in its lowest form, but I paid it!
Holy Shit!!! I could not stop laughing at the entire fork etiquette talk… absolutely hilarious…
cant get enough of norm constantly saying “wwwwhaaaattt???!!”
lol…
well done gents
I cut my steak just like Will, this is how I was taught.
The Nike MAGs, are limited run to 1500, and 150 a day on ebay till September 18th. I predicted a 500 dollar per pair, but the bids have soared to over 5,000 US a piece.
Fork and Knife discussion. Read here. Quote below.
American Style Knife in right hand, fork in left hand holding food. After a
few bite-sized pieces of food are cut, place knife on edge of plate with
blades facing in. Eat food by switching fork to right hand (unless you are
left handed). A left hand, arm or elbow on the
table is bad manners.
Continental/European Style:
Knife in right hand, fork in left hand. Eat food with fork still in
left hand. The
difference is that you don’t switch hands-you eat with your fork in your
left hand, with the prongs curving downward. Both utensils are kept in your hands with the tines pointed down
throughout the entire eating process. If you take a drink, you do not
just put your knife down, you put both utensils down into the resting
position: cross the fork over the knife.
The real question here is where the hell is Norm from?
Most Americans eat the way Will describes.
Oh America, always doing things…differently. I’ve had this exact same discussion dining with an American and Australia.
I’m down with Will’s eat the whole animal style. If it’s good enough to kill it’s good enough to eat! Although sucking the prawn heads does sound kinda scary.
Billy Mays, you say?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpJGZ9RHAvU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lftTkFacM3I
Yeah, I’m with Will… I switch too, and I’m English so I don’t know if it’s a national thing; it’s not cause of etiquette either it’s just what feels natural to me… as always great show.
When i have to cut my food, i tend to do it like will does as well. However I also tend to cut one or 3 pieces at a time, and according to norm i’m a child 🙁
Wow after hearing Will talk about how he eats I have come to the conclusion he is a crazy person.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the camera in the iPhone 5 is the exact same camera in the Sony Ericsson Arc but with improved video quality.
Holding both the fork AND the knife at the same time just makes the eating process flow better, having the extra step of putting the knife down just boggles the mind, it’s like seeing a toddler eat.
Oh god, don’t ever replace anyone at whiskey with someone from gizmodo.
I’m from Virginia and I do what Will does with the knife and fork.
I believe Will’s eating style had a part in the genesis of Fawlty Towers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1yKb_77Sf0&feature=fvwrel
It’s at about 1:30
Will is using the correct method to eat steak.
Eating: I’ve always thought other righties are crazy or feeble. Why would you use your dextrous hand for the sawing tool and leave the manipulator in your weak hand? Surely it makes sense to always hold the fork in the right hand and knife in the left, this is how I’ve always eaten despite neither parents doing so. Maybe that says a lot about me.
About electric toothbrushes not being good at reaching crannies. I still have my wisdom teeth, which means I have a good bit less free space in my mouth. So I was having problems cleaning the them. My dentist had me switch to an electric and the problem was mostly eliminated. I use an Oral B which has a pretty small brush.
Random fork comment: I’m a leftie, so I enjoy using the fork in my left hand, but if I’m cutting meat I switch hands and use the fork in my right hand, then switch back to my left to eat, so I’m essentially doing the same thing as Will, as a leftie. I grew up in Canada.
I have to agree with Will, that is how I eat, except i cut multiple pieces, maybe that’s because I’m just a kid at the age of 19
I think the agreeing and disagreeing with Will is missing the point. It’s how I eat too, but that doesn’t make it just or good. I think we can all agree it’s not as efficient or even as easy as dedicated handing. So the only question is, why keeping doing it? If adults can learn to use chopsticks, they could learn to eat left-handed with a fork.
Kinda funny to see all these people here saying they eat like Will. I mean, it must be an American thing or something because I have never seen anyone eat like that in my life.
The number of people that are OK with pre-cutting their food into little squares then switching hands to shovel it all into their mouth really has me at a loss. The whole process seems so convoluted and not only that it looks messier having little chunks of food sitting all over your plate.
I’d really like to know if this is a cultural thing because I have never in my life seen anyone eat this way and until reading the comments here I genuinely thought Will was completely insane.
I like how we’re gradually getting a window into the madness that is Will’s mind.
I agree that hand swapping slows down the overall eating rate, and that is a good thing. But wouldn’t it be better to just slow down and not hand swap?
Oh my god. What the hell buddy? That fork thing is just absurd! It had me laughing pretty good though
When you put it that way, what more needs to be said?
Fork in right hand, of course.