Jawgrind

Episode 14: Space Matlock

Recorded Thursday, January 19, 2012

Runtime 2:02:17

With @calem, @philbarbato, @ploafmaster, @super_structure, @trey

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• The Artist
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
  • Siracusa’s reviews
    • Part 1
    • Part 2
• Apple and E-(or i)Books
  • Apple Textbook/iBooks Author Event
  • Apple in Education video
  • iBooks Author
  • Push Pop Press
    • Mike Matas’s remark
  • Dan Wineman
  • Transformer Prime
• Picks (inspired by Slate’s Culture Gabfest’s “endorsements”)
  • Trey: Tower - $59
    • PeepCode - Advanced Git (command line)
    • GitHub for Mac (too magic)
  • Jason: SVG
  • Cale: Star Wars: The Old Republic
  • Phil: New Peel
  • Daniel: join.me Screen Sharing

Star Trek

• Tomorrow Is Yesterday
  • Ratings
    • Trey: 1
    • Phil: 2
    • Cale: 4
    • Daniel: 2
    • Jason: 2
• Court Martial
  • Ratings
    • Trey: 3
    • Phil: 3
    • Cale: 5
    • Daniel: 2
    • Jason: 3
• Cale’s Catchup:
  • The Squire of Gothos: 4
  • The Arena: 4

Episode 13: Coffee with the Gorn

Recorded Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Runtime 1:48:25.

With @philbarbato, @ploafmaster, @super_structure, and @trey.

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• Microphones and push to talk cell phones
• TextMate 2
  • Post-TextMate ecosystem
  • Things You Should Never Do, Part I by Joel Spolsky
  • E Text Editor (TextMate clone for Windows)
  • Build and Analyze #39
  • Hypercritical #29
  • Allan Odgaard’s HTML tutorial
  • TextMate Goodies
• Front-end fancy pants
  • Sass
  • LiveReload
  • LESS
  • CoffeeScript is for Closers
  • Bootstrap, from Twitter (not Blueprint)
• I Have A Few, by Coudal Partners
• Responsive Web Design
  • Trey’s review of the book
• Hanker for a Hunk o’ Cheese

Star Trek

• The Squire of Gothos
  • Clarke’s Three Laws
    • 3rd law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
  • Ratings
    • Trey: 3
    • Jason: 3
    • Phil: 3
    • Daniel: 2
• Arena
  • Vasquez Rocks
  • Ratings
    • Trey: 2
    • Phil: 2
    • Jason: 2
    • Daniel: 2

Episode 12: Yeoman Backrub

Recorded Thursday, December 8, 2011

With @calem, @philbarbato, @ploafmaster, @super_structure, and @trey.

☞ Download MP3 43.1 MB / Runtime 1:29:42

Miscellany

• New New Twitter
• Instapaper
• Stack Exchange Podcast’s interview with Chris Poole, creator of 4chan
• Shatner’s Captains
• Shatner’s Raw Nerve

Shore Leave

• Phil: 3
• Trey: 2
• Cale: 2
• Daniel: 3
• Jason: 2

The Galileo Seven

• Trey: 3
• Phil: 4
• Cale: 3
• Daniel: 3
• Jason: 3

Episode 11: The Shat

Recorded Thursday, December 1, 2011

With @calem, @philbarbato, @ploafmaster, @super_structure, and @trey.

☞ Download MP3 46.6 MB / Runtime 1:36:59

The Menagerie

• Previously
• Ratings
  • Phil: 3
  • Cale: 2
  • Daniel: 2
  • Jason: 4
  • Trey: 2

The Conscience of the King

• Ratings
  • Trey: 1
  • Phil: 2
  • Daniel: 2
  • Jason: 2
  • Cale: 3

Balance of Terror

• Ratings
  • Daniel: 4
  • Phil: 4
  • Trey: 4
  • Jason: 5
  • Cale: 5

Followup

• George Dickel Saurian Brandy Bottle also
• Forno Bravo Pizza Dough Recipe

Miscellany

• G.I. Joe PSAs
• Standby: Lights, Camera, Action!
  • Hosted by Leonard Nimoy; on Nickelodeon from ’82 to ’86. IMDb
  • Intro Sequence
• The Captains

Episode 10: Brown Butter Delivery

or The Pimento Loafers

Recorded Thursday, November 17, 2011

Runtime 1 hour 32 minutes and 45 seconds.

This week’s hosts (in alphabetical order):

• @calem
• @ploafmaster
• @super_structure
• @trey
• @wyattdanger

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• Stephen has a blog.
• Stephen went to Build Conf.
  • Linotype the film
  • Jeremy Keith on Responsive Enhancement
  • Wilson Miner’s presentation was cinematic - Guinness and touching and otherwise amazing.
• Top 10 Programming Fonts

Cooking

• Pizza
  • Some amazing recipe
  • Pizza Oven Tonight
• Noodle Kugel
• Brown Butter
• Grow your own mushrooms
  • Mushroom Supplies

Star Trek

• Episodes 11 & 12: The Menagerie
  • Origin of the Vulcan Salute:
    • Some video of Leonard Nimoy explaining
    • An explanation of the significance of the Jewish ceremony
  • Star Ratings (out of 5)
    • Trey: 2
    • Jason C: 4
      • The Corbomite Maneuver: 5
    • Daniel: 2 (tentative)
  • Star Trek vs. 2001
    • 2001 the film & book
    • Hard SF
      • Moon
      • Blade Runner
      • THX 1138
      • Star Wars (Episode 4)
      • Soylent Green
      • The Planet Of The Apes
      • The Omega Man

Episode 9: Adjacent Jasons

Recorded Thursday, November 3, 2011

Runtime 1 hour 53 minutes and 5 seconds.

This week’s hosts (in alphabetical order):

• @calem
• @philbarbato
• @postpostmodern
• @super_structure
• @trey

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• Jason moved a site from Heroku to Engine Yard at 4am. That’s just how he rolls.
• Jason’s pumpkin party
• Oink
• Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man #1
  • Featuring a New Spider-Man
• Feed Readers
  • Google Reader
  • Reeder
  • Bloglines
  • Netvibes
  • Fever by Shaun Inman
  • NetNewsWire
  • NewsFire
• Cale moved from WordPress to Octopress.
• Mou
  • Byword
  • Marked
• Whiskerino is still over

Cooking

• Phil made a Moist Fuckin’ Meatloaf
• Meatloaf de Trey
• EggAndToast is a functional prototype.
  • Trey
  • Phil
  • Cale
  • Jason C.
  • Stephen
  • Jason T. J.

Star Trek

• Stardates are essentially arbitrary. Sort of, not really.
• @TNG_S8
• Fashion it so: Happy 45Th Birthday Star Trek
• Everyone loves Barclay AKA “Howling Mad” Murdock
• Episode 9: Dagger of the Mind
  • Star Ratings (out of 5)
    • Phil: 3
    • Trey: 3
    • Jason C.: 2
    • Cale: 4
  • Bureau of Penology (hehe)
  • the first appearance of the Vulcan mind meld
  • Kirk met Dr. Helen Noel at a Christmas party. Really.
• Episode 10: The Corbomite Maneuver
  • We like the remastering (mostly).
  • Clint Howard is creepy.
  • Some trivia
    • Including that the voice of the ailen puppet was done Ted Cassidy AKA Lurch AKA Ruk
  • Star Ratings
    • Trey: 4
    • Phil: 4
    • Cale: 5
    • Jason C.: ?

Episode 8: Hell Hath No Fury Like A Smokin’-Hot Android Sex-Slave Scorned

Recorded Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Runtime 1 hour 15 minutes and 22 seconds.

This week’s hosts (in alphabetical order):

• @calem
• @philbarbato
• @trey

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• The Incomparable discusses DC’s #1s
• Nest
  • Mike Matas
  • Delicious Library
  • Push Pop Press

Cooking

• Jacques Pépin makes it look so easy: FRENCH OMELET!
• Mark Bittman is awesome and so is The Minimalist.
• Belmont Butchery
• Phil belongs to a Beer CSA. Yeah, that exists.

Star Trek

• Episode 7: What Are Little Girls Made Of?
  • Hell hath no fury like a smokin’-hot android sex-slave scorned
  • Kirk Nards
  • Christine Chapel - Majel Barrett
• Episode 8: Miri
  • Kim Darby
  • Michael J. Pollard

Episode 7: Lieutenant Don Knotts

Recorded Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Runtime 1 hour 38 minutes and 47 seconds.

This week’s hosts (in alphabetical order):

• @calem
• @philbarbato
• @super_structure
• @thepharmone
• @trey
• @wyattdanger

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• Jingle it, Phil.
• Stephen’s Dog
• Sketchbook Project
  • 642 Things to Draw
• 10K Apart Winners
  • 10KWX
  • Nom Roulette
• Phil really likes bears.
• Shatner sings
• The Nerdist
• Phil at the NY Comic Con
  • Andy Ihnatko at NYCC
• Dart
  • More Java and C++. I can’t see why this won’t take off. RME
• TextMate tricks
  • GetBundles
• Git tricks
  • Set it up.
  • PeepCode
  • Everyone follow Phil on GitHub
  • Trey’s Site Template
• pushState and pjax
  • The hashbang is bad.
• Cale is obsessed with the death of Flash.
• Canvas
  • Rally Interactive (they also use pushState in their navigation)
• Adobe is doing something or other.

Cooking

• The 5 Mother Sauces
• You should make …
  • … mayonnaise
  • … chicken broth
• Quinoa Burgers with Tzatziki sauce

Star Trek

• Followup
  • Star Trek Comic
    • Is indeed a retelling of “Where No Man Has Gone Before” in the context of the new movie continuum. Not bad.
• Episode 5: The Enemy Within
  • Jason C. on the Space Dog
  • Evil Kirk loves carrots
• Episode 6: Mudd’s Women
  • Spock would hit that
  • Mudd didn’t pick the right spot to stop shaving.

Episode 6: Dysentery. Ha ha.

Recorded Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Runtime 1 hour 47 minutes and 37 seconds.

This week’s hosts:

• @philbarbato
• @super_structure
• @trey

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• Phil Barbato
  • Phil is going to be on a panel at the New York Comic Con on Friday, October 14 titled Indie Toymaker Roundtable: Turning Characters Into Toys
    • He will be dressed as an annoying anime character.
  • Phil’s awesome plush creations
  • 365 Bears Drawn on My Phone / @365bears
    • He draws his bears with Sketchbook Mobile
• ifttt
• Pinboard
  • Slash Fiction on Pinboard
• iOS 5
• The State of the Browser
  • Chrome > Safari
  • 10K Apart
  • Chris Anderson’s Free
  • Amazon Silk on the Kindle Fire
    • Amazon hasn’t broken our hearts (yet).
• Steve Jobs
  • What everyone is too polite to say about Steve Jobs
  • Steve Jobs Was Always Kind To Me (Or, Regrets of An Asshole)
  • John Siracusa’s “a personal remembrance”
• Digital Music
  • iTunes Match
  • Rdio
    • Trey is a shill for Rdio, apparently.
      • (But is still sore about their use of “secure” iframes)
    • Wilson Miner
• Netflix
  • Y R U so wishy washy
  • Stop Bitching
• Comics
  • James Kochalka
  • comiXology
  • T. Hunt’s Goblins
  • PvP
  • Penny Arcade
  • Hijinx Ensues
  • XKCD
    • Please check the alternate text.
  • Dinosaur Comics
    • Also please check the alternate text.
  • Trey’s pick: Batwoman
    • Art by J.H. Williams III
  • Jim Lee
    • Justice League

Star Trek

• Followup
  • Moon landing was after the original series went off the air
    • Episode 79 – “Turnabout Intruder” – June 3, 1969
    • Moon Landing – July 20, 1969
• Comic Book
• Episode 3: Where No Man Has Gone Before
  • Lt. Commander Gary Mitchell was played by Gary Lockwood who also played Frank Poole in 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • TNG S3:E20: Tin Man
  • (I’ll just put this here: Trey had never seen any Dr. Who at the time of this recording)
  • Star dates: what is up with those?
• Episode 4: The Naked Time
  • TNG S1:E3: The Naked Now
  • Majel Barrett was the nurse in this episode and the thread that tied all of the Star Trek universe together.

Episode 5: The Girl with the Wicker Basket Hair

Recorded: October 4, 2011

Runtime: 1 hour 6 minutes and 17 seconds.

This week’s hosts:

• @super_structure
• @calem
• @trey

☞ Download this episode 31.8 MB

We had some problems with Trey’s automatic gain control in Skype. We had some problems with Jason’s audio. This thing is getting slowly better, folks. Thank you for your patience.

This week’s topics

• iPhone announcement
  • 5by5
  • Tim Cook is from Alabama and we welcome him as a fellow southerner.
• Adobe buys TypeKit and PhoneGap its parent company Nitobe
• Richard Feynman on beauty
• Computer Programming course from 1985
• Comics
  • Feynman graphic novel
  • comiXology
  • DC’s New 52
  • Dark Horse
  • IDW
  • American Vampire
  • Neil Gaiman wrote an episode of Dr. Who
  • Joss Whedon wrote a run of Astonishing X-Men
• Audio Books
  • AudioBook Builder
  • The process of downloading audiobooks from your local library

Star Trek

• “Remastered”
• List of episodes
• Valles Marineris
• Episode 1: The Man Trap
  • John Kricfalusi
  • The Girl with the Wicker Basket Hair - Yeoman Janice Rand
  • Was the salt monster a reused Morlock?
• Episode 2: Charlie X
  • This is not Dennis Hopper
  • Twilight Zone: The Movie — “It’s a Good Life” — Anthony is a sadistic kid.
  • The cloud monster in TNG was Nagilum TNG S2:E2