 or Lupin, it's like, bro, this could be a list comprehension and it would take one line. Oh my, here's the list comprehension. Holy shit. Here's how to read it. All right, I'm just gonna start the show. Boodoo, doo, doo, doo, doo. Stream looks good. Everything looks good. Bow, bow, bow, bow, bow, oops. It's Monday, November 12th, 2018. I'm rim. I'm Scott. And this is Geeknize tonight. Why aren't there any good Monday shows for us to do? Do you always show me that orange bar or whatever? We're gonna ignore it. Work fine last time. Switch to Twitch. I love how it shows me the bar. You're new neighbors. But does not actually at any point say there's a problem with the stream. Does the stream end up turning out right in the end? Please check your video resolution. The current resolution is 1920 by 1080, which is not optional. Maybe maybe they're trying to encourage 720p streaming. I don't know. Fuck that. I got banned with I got banned. I can send you maybe something else is off about it. Maybe it's like 98 1920 by 10 81. Yeah, the thing is nothing's changed. So I'm not going to change anything yet. I'll say I'll watch the stream again. If there's no problem with it, I'm just going to leave it. OK, that much. Plus, the listener will complain if there's a problem. Hmm. All right. We both have opening bits. I'll start with mine, I guess. So this weekend for the second time in a row of two years, because when it was a thing, Emily and I run races, like 5Ks or whatever. It's kind of like a thing that's really easy to do and really easy to organize. But the Rangers do one that's like the super charity thing where it's expensive because all the money goes to like the charity. So we run it every year and this year like Pionk was there and he high-fived us at the high-five. I'm surprised anyone was there because they were in Columbus the night before. They were in Columbus playing a night game. Back-to-back games. The game's over at like 10 Columbus time. Then they're in New York the next day at the Crack-Assadon. Running a 5K with a bunch of just schlubs like me. But like he was there a whole bunch of like legacy, like old Rangers were there. And it's always like this fun thing. It's expensive. It's like 50 bucks, but all the money goes to garden. Only 50 bucks? That's cheap. Dude, a normal charity bike races. They want you to bring thousands. Dude, normal 5K is like a regular race. I run in the city. Like if you book it in advance, we're talking like 15 to 20 bucks. Like charity bike races. They want you to bring thousands of dollars. Yeah, foot races. It's partly because there's a couple of organizations that have the equipment. I guess for running, you don't really need. Well, you need the chips. Yeah, you don't need bicycle shit. All that. But the running stuff is reusable, right? Yeah. But you know, so you need the electronic things in the bibs. Yeah. Those are disposable. Right. And then you need the chip tracking stuff for the splits and the start and the finish. But that's pretty much it. Like you bring it and set it up for a bike thing. First, someone has to lay out the course. Yeah. And the course has to be a lot more tight because on a running race, like the course could just be like pretty much any street anywhere in the city. Yeah. The course has to be long, 100 miles plus. Yeah. Our courses are like a market. Our courses are 5K, 10K, 13 miles. Full of food. We don't need any rest stops. You've got one table with water. The ride takes almost all day. Not, you know, that's what you could do in the morning and then go home. Yeah. 5K takes 20 minutes. Yeah. It takes all fucking day. So maybe it's the same dollar per minute ratio. So what's interesting is I'm getting older and my like short race times are getting worse because like I keep saying on the show, 35 ain't 25 and I ain't even 35. But my long distance times are getting better. So I tried to push myself. I tried to like, despite the fact that I'm getting older, I actually tried to do well in this race. I trained for it. And I ran hard to end again. I did vomit at the end. Great. Because the problem is actually I got almost the exact same time as last year. 20 minutes, 11 seconds. I was number four overall in my age group and I was 16 overall among everybody. Did numbers one, two and three in your age group also vomit? I saw another person vomit right over the finish line just like me. It wasn't just me. But the trouble I have is that these short races to push myself at the end. My body is just like, Ram, Ram, Ram, Ram, Ram, slow down. Jesus, Ram. God damn. But because there's like a sprint at the end, but in a long race, you just run like the race is so long that running faster in the last hundred yards doesn't mean shit. It saves you a fraction of the time. Yeah. But running faster in the last hundred yards is the difference between fourth place and third place. So yeah, it was super fun. And I got the exact same time as last year, meaning I am at best slightly staving off the right reduce of age. That's what I got. Okay. It's a good race though. So someone tweeted that Joe Hisaishi, if you don't know who that is, this is the guy who composed. Oh yeah. I didn't buy tickets to that concert. All the music for Studio Ghibli movies. His stuff is real good. He was putting on a concert at Carnegie Hall. And I'm like, Hey, I've been past Carnegie Hall like a thousand times. I know exactly where that is. It's a famous place. I've never been in there. Really? When have you been in there? I saw some concerts in there. What did you see in there? Like 10, 11 years ago, I saw a piano concert. It was this famous guy. I don't remember his name. And he did a rock mountain off. He did another thing. Anyway. So I'm like, Oh, and I look and the tickets were hella cheap. So I just bought them. So apparently I found out after buying the tickets that apparently last week he was performed. They were conducting. They had like the orchestra symphony or whatever. And they were doing Studio Ghibli music. And I was like, Oh, shit. This one isn't that. Cause the weebs always sell those out. So that one is in the. So Carnegie Hall is the building. It has three different, I guess. Theaters in it. Halls, three different music halls in Carnegie Hall. Right. Which is the building. There's I forget. There's the big one, which is what you think of as Carnegie Hall. I forget what it's called. It's a recital hall, which I guess is for recitals and very small things. Like maybe one person singing or maybe, maybe a quartet, maybe, I don't know. And then we were in Zankel Hall, which is like the medium sized one. And it had like a chamber orchestra in there. Right. And he was performing that he was conducting. What is it? Like he recomposed a Philip Glass piece from the sixties. And then I gather that's kind of his thing. Like every year he'll make like a set of new pieces. Yeah. It was like very modern music, right? This, this land guy composed two other things, even though his side, she was conducting all of it. And then like after the intermission, this really good singing singer came out and this weird looking, but still good at playing cellist came out and was like sitting on a platform separate from everyone. Anyway, so that was good. But the thing I want to talk about is that before the show we were sitting around eating some rice, right? Like you do. And I go, you know, and the ticket was a PDF on my phone. Cause like you do, it's 2018. So I'm like, huh, you know, it's like six, 20 in the shows at seven, 30. And I'm like, when should we go over there? Let me refer to the ticket. Let me refer to the ticket to see when we should go over there. I'm in the boat you're in. Maybe it has some info on it. I look at the ticket and I start reading it. And I'm reading all the fine print on the ticket. And eventually I get to some fine print. And it says, yo, you have to print this out on paper, even though it's. And I was like, what the fuck? Are you fucking kidding me? It's 2018. This is a famous venue. I can go to Madison Square Garden with a bar code on with a QR code on my watch. Yep. I went to the World Series with the ticket on my phone. I can go to the game devs of color with a bar code from event right on my phone. Right. This is fucking Carnegie Hall. A world famous musical venue that people are like famous jokes about. And you need a piece of fucking paper. What kind of like they should be fucking embarrassed. Right. So the story I want to talk about is I'm in Manhattan. How the hell did this out? Yep. There was this brief era in a distant past where there were a lot of facilities. It's a good thing that I checked because more of the fine print also said, yeah, we're not going to print this out for you. So I went and I'm like, where can I print something? I know where you can print something. Staples. Yep. So I searched for staples. No, it's closed at 6 30 on Sunday. Right Sunday. So I searched for Kinko's, which is now FedEx office. So I searched for FedEx office and I go there and there was one open just a few blocks away. I actually known I had known of this location previously. I could have just gone to my police of employment. That's not that far away. Yeah. So I go to this FedEx office and I'm like, all right. I have a PDF in the email. How do I print it? And then I look it around and I see this some copy, a big fancy copy machine and next to it is as a little terminal and a sign and the sign is like, yo, forward your attachment to email address at FedEx.com. Then we're going to email you a number and I'm like, hi. So I do it and I wait. Worst case scenario, some employee of FedEx goes and sees Joe Hisaishi very and they can get to Carnegie Hall in an hour with that more power to it. I'm waiting and I'm waiting and nothing happens. So I start poking. I emailed. I forwarded the email. Nothing happens. I'm poking the terminal and the terminal is like, all right. You can get a USB stick. I'm like, yeah, no, that's not happening. They're like, you can log into your Google Drive on this terminal. Oh, hell no. I'm like, I really don't want to do that. I really do not want to log into my Google Drive. That is, that is the terminal. That's the equivalent of here is a hole somewhere. It's like, I'm going to type in my Google email and password on the shady FedEx office terminal. And then is it even going to bring up my 2FA prompt? My good sir. Is it even going to bring it up? My good sir, please present an appendage of your choice into this mysterious hole. So I'm like, I go to the attachment and I push the button that saves the attachment to Google Drive. And I'm like, I really don't want to do this. I really would not like this option. They also had a Dropbox option and some other options. I'd be more like inclined to make a Dropbox account right then and there. I thought of that as well. But luckily, as I'm waiting there, it just took some for like, it took like almost five plus minutes. I get an email that's like, here's your fucking code. I'm like, oh, thank God. So I go to the terminal. I type the code in. I dip my credit card in the in the slot and two pieces of paper come out. And that's how that works. You know, it's funny because in the course of my life, I've gone through their own like FedEx cloud where the attachment was located. The file on the little terminal. But if I think about like printing adventures. Yeah, I said they sent me an email today that's like, how was the show? And I'm like, the show is fantastic. You should be fucking embarrassed that I have to bring a digital ticket that I can't bring a digital ticket to your show as a disgrace. Fix that shit. I mean, I went from as a child using a Rizograph because the school couldn't afford an actual copy machine. My school always had a copy. Yep. To going to Kinko's and trying to Xerox pages from my Dungeons and Dragons Cyclopedia and them stopping being saying I can't violate the copyrights by doing so. It says on the character sheet page, specifically you can copy this one. And they didn't they didn't want nothing to do with it. They turned me away and we're real shitty about it. Public library never actually bothered. You just go nuts. Yeah. Usually we went for copies to that brief era where there were multiple retail places. You could go to print shit and copy shit to the era where who prints anything anymore. Like if I print something at work people don't realize most bodegas in New York still will do like fax machine stuff and print out a thing for you. Well partly because a lot of poorer and more disadvantaged people really need to be able to fax shit. The other places in New York. I don't know if people have these and not and not. I haven't seen them in suburbs a lot. But you know that I've seen same day cash checking places. Yeah. Payday loan places which are usually shady. But there's a place that's actually way useful which is the get international credit phone card wire money places. Yeah. Those places very often will do fax machine copying printing all that kind of stuff as well. And those are good places. Thankfully I think I think some of them are also payday loan places then they're bad. The last time I had to do a fax was when I tried to buy that house in Beacon and I had to fax a bunch of documents around and I want to fax to you by emailing an attachment to phone number at something.com. Yeah. Then I'm not faxing. So I faxed from a bodega in Yonkers. This is just a warning to you. If you buy tickets to a venue you haven't been to before. Double check that it's modern. Yeah even though it's fucking 2018 and I haven't had a paper ticket for anything since maybe 2013 or even earlier. Well here's the same same deal right. So we fly a lot right. So yeah I can use I can use a digital ticket to get in a Jersey transit fucking bus. So I can buy a ticket on my phone for that bus while I'm waiting for the bus and I can't go to Carnegie Hall a world-class musical institution. And I had to have a bring a piece of paper. So you know I fly a lot and one thing I've learned is that the consistency with which e-tickets are accepted at airports if you're not flying to or from New York City is so low that you're pretty much got to print shit out. No I you I've not had a problem. You have not flown nearly as much as I have. But what I did have a problem with which is partially just because I didn't fully understand it was I had the passport card that I got way back. I didn't use that flying. I got that when I got my I got that way back when I bought passport card in America basically means this is useless and 99% of all cases where you would want to use. I got it back when I got my passport because I just picked the max option just like I picked the max option for my new driver's license right. So the new so the passport card said you can use this to go to Canada, Mexico and Caribbean Island. Fine print not on a plane. I didn't see that. Not a moron but I was like I can't use this one. They're like no that's for like on a cruise ship or something. Yep. But yeah the passport card is only for boats and land and the they said oh you can use your driver's license or reentry into the US. It's like on boats or land just like come on what's the fucking point. There's no point it's all just garbage. Let me use the passport card for everything. How about just we got to get back to those days somehow. If you vote for Scott for president I will improve relations with Canada so that we don't need that anymore. So once they find out that the big hockey fan is president they'll be all good. So in some news so another problem of flying around the world a lot is that basically everywhere civilized except the United States when you have a credit card it's you can have a chip and pin meaning there's a chip. People in the US have to pin and when you want to use your credit card you have to input the pin math happens to determine it's two-factor authentication essentially. You put in your credit card in the slot which you did learn in the US recently. But then you actually type in a number just like you do with your ATM card. Otherwise it won't fucking works. If someone steals your credit card they can't go around buying it. But this does not work the same way. So it actually provides real security. So many of you younger people won't know because I learned recently that most people who are younger than us have never even heard of the idea of a cash advance because they're largely disappearing. But basically you only use that in an extreme emergency. Yeah, because their interest rate is like 40%. It's a bad idea. But basically remember they used to send you checks, fake checks well not fake checks but like checks. Real checks that you could just write to people that would just do what people could do that if they wanted to. And the way it would work is your credit card whether you know it or not has a pin. And if you have to put that pin in and it basically acts like a debit card. The point I'm making here is that America relatively recently started forcing everyone to use chips instead of the magstripes. But this was ostensibly for security but they didn't actually implement the pin part of that. They're basically just using the chip instead of the magnet strip. Yes. It's not actually in any way more secure. And in fact credit card fraud appears to have not dropped at all. Nope. And even funnier a lot of Americans who don't travel like in Europe as much as I do will go to Europe and try to use their credit card. And guess what your American credit card even though it has a chip won't fucking work in almost any point of sale system that doesn't have a human there. Like most things the government does that are anti it's usually because someone is paying the representatives to go against common sense and it's like a lot of the times it's just plain old visible like oh yeah that oil company is paying them to deny climate change obviously right. But in this case it's criminals so that's the ones that they don't make so obvious but I'm pretty sure I'll be willing to bet that credit card fraud profiteers are definitely paying to make sure the U.S. does not implement chip end pin. I don't know who's paying to me. But you know I was crazy than actual crazy conspiracies that crazy people believe you know I'd suspect more all the companies that issue credit cards in the U.S. don't want to have to update their systems because you have to they already just updated them. Yeah and have to place I go in New York still use the mag swipe so only the only place I actually saw the mag swipe even though I was just talking good about them for letting me use my Apple if you want to buy no if you want to buy anything or something you got to use the swipe. Yeah. Like it's like a 19 whatever. So not only the ships basically do nothing and they're not actually the chip and pin that the rest of the world uses. The article I'm linking to here talks about how 60 million U.S. credit cards were compromised in the last year and 93% of those were chip enabled merchants are basically just continuing to use the mag stripes because they don't give a shit. Nobody seems to know what happened was they changed the law so that if you were a merchant and you didn't update your system that you would now be liable for any you know fraudulent like charge backs and stuff whereas otherwise you know Visa MasterCard the bank or whoever would be liable and that would encourage you to update your shit because otherwise if anything happens in those transactions you're in big duty. Yeah. And I'm not actually sure what the status of all credit cards are getting stolen. I didn't know where I heard it from but the main way credit cards are getting stolen is actually really sad and it's simply just malware on the point of sale systems that are all basically running windows right. It's like you go swipe your credit card into a Windows machine like oh that terminal thing at the FedEx because it's very someone put some spyware cards and I have a set of credit cards that are only ever used online and are never used in person and I have another set of credit cards that are only ever used in person and never used online. I only have one credit card used for everything. Yeah. Well I won. I kept my old credit card because having that ancient line of credit I have two ancient credit cards with zero that I just never use but they're not I keep them from expiring them ever because you're not buying from any shady ass websites you're only buying from places with nice green locks in the corner and you know it's the right domain and you know you're not. Meanwhile my in person credit card has been compromised like six times and I'm pretty sure every one of those times was the result of a shitty hotel. I go into hotels in my credit card and having a problem. Yeah. Well it was funny even in a US credit card I was actually concerned about that on the tropical. Yeah basically mean nothing but I check my statement every balance every month and nothing shady so you got any news what was my news the ridiculous foldable right. So so this is something where the core idea is a good idea and that is a phone that folds we've had phones that folded my first phone the Motorola StarTac great phone yeah flip phones which is great because you can fit it in your pocket but then when you need to be bigger you unfold it and now you have a large device that's easy to use but then when you want to put it away and not use it it magically becomes smaller the last phone I had that did that was the Palm Free where you can flip out the iPhone like the new iPhone X I forget if the S or R is the bigger one but the biggest iPhone the newest but it's too damn big but you know what if that sucker folded in half I'd buy that right away maybe even for like $800 not $1000 but $800 right because like damn that would fit in my pocket if it folded in half and the main reason why unfold it it's great the main reason why I don't want a big phone is that I can't fit it in my pocket that's right that's the reason number one so folding solves all these problems so because you can fold every part of the computer we have laptops that fold the problem is if you have a phone the part that can't fold is the screen and that's the only part that needs to be big for most people that are the battery right so I mean we can make a folding phone where the screen's on half of it like a laptop like a blackberry with a hinge in the middle fuck that garbage right we need to make the screen itself somehow fold we don't want to have like a DS with these two screens with a blank space in the middle the screen itself folds they've been working on this technology for a long time and Samsung has apparently succeeded they want to make this phone and this phone looks like fucking even worse than iPhone 1 it is way thick and chunky way janky the most telling phone the rumor is that they want to charge $1,700 for this someone zoomed in on how thick it is like he's holding it in his hand when it's folded it's so thick that defeats the purpose it's like a ham sandwich I have eaten sandwiches that were thinner than this fucking phone based on this picture at least it's smaller than a de vele sandwich I really want a de vele sandwich right now oh my god I'm hungry already maybe I'll pick up a bread and some stuff you said those words anyway like a primal part of my I'm salivating now same okay so the point is that's the one thing I can't get to New York I'm rich and I live in New York and I can't get a goddamn de vele sandwich I could go to that other place in a story of people talking anyway it's garbage no one's paying $700 for this but I cannot one I cannot wait if my current phone could fold over forward and turn into a tiny square that's one thing this is like if my phone were just twice as big yeah I'm hoping though and the square aspect ratio what the hell the fact that they have succeeded at this though means I'm really hoping that in five-ish plus years right when Apple makes folding phone that I have an awesome thin as hell folding phone and I'll buy the second generation of folding phone and it'll be sweet as hell here's my problem I know what's going to happen the folding phones are going to be in their folded state still too big because the market for this is people who want phones that are way too big if I wait for the second generation of folding Apple phone it will not be too big but then it'll get too big in the later versions and I'll keep that one so we'll see I'll stick with the iPhone F7 look at this screen like who needs a screen that's just wider like that the thing okay so if this thing wasn't thick if it was nice and thin that would be okay then it would actually be okay because you wouldn't have a tablet it would be your phone and your tablet true but most people this thing and that's it most people who want a big phone seem to want it so that they can watch movies on it even at $1,700 it's cheaper than a phone and a tablet what I don't see here is what the actual resolution is of this screen not good enough because I mean it doesn't say you gotta have to obviously not okay so it is a oh good God okay Samsung Fold is a tiny four point display with a 19 blah blah blah the unfolded mode is a 7.3 inch 21 52 by 15 36 that's okay that's alright that's okay yeah yeah I'm actually surprised that they're going with this instead of waiting one more generation I think they have to push it out to make it there's always that first right remember before the iPhone there was that Motorola iTunes phone yeah people don't remember that thing right at all right so there's always has to be the one janky piece of crap before the first real thing so I'm not going to link to this article from my last news cause it's on Forbes and if you don't know the deal with Forbes there's a reason why Forbes used to be a magazine that was a real magazine even though the guy who runs it is like a piece of shit the guy named Forbes is a piece of shit but Forbes now use a website like a real magazine but now basically anyone can write a Forbes article almost and then whoever writes the article will go around trying to post it everywhere on the internet cause they get paid and they get more clicks and stuff and so just cause something's on Forbes it sort of lends it this credibility of being in a real magazine mostly cause and I run into a lot of people who don't realize Forbes change their business it may as well just be a fucking blog if it's on Forbes it might as well be a company that does delivery services within cities but the point it makes and like the data it talks about is pretty interesting if true if it's not just cherry pig data to support that company's business model yeah but the point it makes is that in most major cities transit is where the like bicycles are literally the fastest and most reliable way to get around almost any major city that is true which is 100% true in my experience like if I'm going it's obviously faster than walking you cannot walk faster than a bike it is faster than taking the subway even if I'm going like way out into Brooklyn from here depending on the distance right so it's like an ultra long distance no it's not faster but it also depends on where you're going cause sometimes if I go into somewhere like if I go to Brooklyn the subway to Brooklyn is either like three transfers and a G and then versus a straight shot it's like I can basically take a super shortcut with the bicycle and have to go way fast to go into Manhattan and come back and or even like far rock away it takes about the same amount of time to bike there as it does to take the subway there well the subway to get to there is very far take the A train it's not close rock away it's far rock away it's named that because it's farther than regular rock away yep it's not named that for any other reason it's actually talking about the distance it's far but it's something just think about that stat cause a lot of people if you have to rank the ways to get around the city in terms of how efficient and fast they actually are well everyone knows I mean it's proven a long time ago that a bicycle is the most efficient form of transportation period ever conceived in terms of energy per going again until you get too long like very long distances or like use cases and all this nonsense if there was friction in space then you could use a bicycle but there is some economic evidence of this too like a secondary set of evidence in the sense that I'm not again I won't say the name of the company in this article but pretty much all the deliveries in New York City like even deliveries of kind of big stuff like anything that isn't UPS FedEx is coming via bike like bike messengers have exploded again to the point that like there's a million of these bikes around the city both electric and not electric and I think the only reason UPS FedEx doesn't use say cargo bikes to deploy like all the packages small enough to go on a cargo bike is because they would need so many riders they could use money even though each individual package would be delivered more energy efficiently it's more speedily so there's something to think about there's a reason why people move to the city there are places where they do use bikes though like UPS and whatnot plus now that New York like the city bikes in New York have been such a big success that they are like they are such an important part of the transit system in the daily commute now that like a city bike outage is almost as bad as certain kinds of subway outages oh there's like 15 people watching alright go away oh I didn't talk about the sand I'll save that for another time that's fine you'll forget I won't forget because it's so there's a good picture on that article I'll remember just water hitting a rock no it's a dead guy in sand oh that's not good because yeah people are dying because of this there's a sand mafia okay oh that's what yeah I've encountered actually I encountered a little bit of this last time I was in India there was a thing I'll save it for the show people were poaching sand people were poaching rocks and sand and it was a fascinating thing I encountered first the ivory then the copper then the sand first you get the ivory well then you get the copper and then anyway so it happens when you use all the resources on earth yeah stop fucking shit up but anyway things of the day so I'd bigclive.com is a pretty great YouTube channel I've linked to occasionally where he'll basically buy like dodgy ass Chinese bootleg electronics on eBay and take it apart and explain why it's so dangerous and terrifying but his channel's great and he goes into all this stuff but this one is pretty unique because I had never conceived that such an item existed and apparently these are commonly used outside of the United States and essentially this device even if it works as intended is terrifyingly dangerous it is a USB flash burning pen for ladies and what it is used for is to use high voltage burning for people to burn moles off of themselves oh I could use that or burn skin tags off basically I have a mole yeah so you could buy this you could buy this thing on eBay and even that expensive charging with USB and burn the shit out of yourself wouldn't that fucking hurt yes I'm not gonna do it then and this video is great because he just he burns himself with it can I use the burn a mole off of you uh no so just the fact that this is a consumer item then I get all the fun of mole removal without the pain part yeah it even comes with dire warnings about not to use it on like areas of skin larger than a certain amount and the area that they mention as being the line between safe and not safe is in my personal opinion way too big of an area to burn yourself on purpose mm-hmm so and the funniest part is the thing doesn't even actually work and it keeps crashing crashing because it's just it's a Chinese like bootleg piece of shit and even if it works it's intended to burn you with an electrified needle couldn't you just use a wood burning laser or something uh no this burns a different way like a laser cutter the video is like 15 minutes you didn't see all the detail but warning he uses it to burn a callus off of his hand because do you want to see how it works why don't you use it to just burn piece of wood uh I could do that too I knew that thing so what do you got so uh here's a twitter account story board art b o r e d like your board but it's all one word oh cute it's some animator of some kind I don't think you even I don't know who this person is because someone retweeted them if they're a bad person which it doesn't they don't appear to be a bad person yeah I've occasionally retweeted something and later found out oh cute Nintendo comic oh a Nazi made that's the exact one I was thinking of that fucking Nintendo comic but anyway this person doesn't appear to be a bad person and they're an animator artist of some kind and here is the tweet art thread my 10 year old brother wrote a kids book and I drew the pictures for it it's like an X cop story right it turned out so funny that we're actually gonna get it made into physical books for us and some friends so not for you listeners it's how many posts is this one two three four five six seven there are seven tweets in a thread and each one has four pictures except for the last one which only has two pictures and you just go through the pictures one by one and that's the whole children's story book that is very well illustrated and it appears to be colored in by someone who's using crayon but is also really good at crayon or making a Photoshop brush that looks exactly like a crayon and it's an excellent children's book it's not on the level of I want my hat back but it is excellent and entertaining for all ages even if you are 90 or 9 pretty cute in a minute moment the book club book is Space Odyssey 2001 the book we'll read it soon we're also gonna be live I noticed the other day that you know because that the film struck websites going down but it's not down yet it's here till later in the month and 2010 was on there so I was at your book because I follow instructions yeah it's like the one rule also we will be live a packs and plug doing learning win Puerto Rico I just mostly finish the slides for that and all I will say is the production values are off the charts and it's gonna be a great panel you did not do the strategy section no I didn't I also made some edits in your rule out of a thing because I was in a hurry I also I think some other things also yeah I also I found a rules clarification that we had we never knew about this rule what rule is I'll share it later and we've never followed it but I'm confident it never came up okay so it's one of those situations but this will be a good panel and then also the 40 tabletop games you must play the advanced version for the tabletop con we can assume it is so this will be a good time also PAX South is coming up PAX East is coming up I wonder if the PAX East badges are sold out yet that's a good question because Saturday's sold the fuck out yeah they've already went on sale and no only Saturday's sold out all other days are very available for PAX East hotels might not be available but if you want to go to PAX East and on any day but Saturday you can just go and you can maybe get a Saturday badge in the secondary market or something and enforcer are live so if you didn't know East is the con that like me and Scott enforce we're there enforce a night shift every year enforcing it East kind of makes East way shittier yep East I mean East is great but it is the worst PAX by far I'm saying you know I often talk about things being like the least smelly poop and that's when everything sucks but this thing sucks a little less East is like a scratched up piece of platinum it's like it's like okay it's not it's just oh no it's like I got a platinum piece a gold piece and then East is like the electron piece like that's still worth something yeah that's still great that's still great it's just it's slightly imperfect compared to the other greats especially because oh no I only got a Donatello piece of artwork and not a van go I mean honestly the only problems with PAX East are one Boston yeah like Boston doesn't have enough building the building is a big rectangle actually literally every problem with PAX East is the direct fault of the city of Boston and not PAX yeah like 100% so but it's still fun and we'll be there it's gonna be awesome do do do so yeah we were trying to come up with the Monday shows we do and I realize we almost just did a show on printing I feel like we might be able to do something on that maybe one is that we're not really learning technologies it's not like to do a show it's like we could just read Wikipedia to you but that's stupid yeah we need to know something so that we can talk about it for 20, 30 whatever minutes well another like minor problem but we don't learn new technologies that much and there aren't new ones to learn that work I'm doing like for example there's new there's a couple of new routing protocols I'm gonna say new I mean from like 2012, 2013 yeah you're not working in routing though yeah I don't configure routers anymore so while I know what those routing protocols do on a high level I could it's not like OSPF where I can start drawing the details right now for you and if I tell you what I know about these new routing protocols that you will learn less than like there's even there's even a new non-routable range in IPv4 for a specific kind of net right and things some things I do learn are so incredibly specific and narrow that they're not really appropriate for a podcast for the audience that's you know not someone like I could talk about like a specific function in a specific library and it's like anyone who's not using that library doesn't give any shits it's not something to talk about right I can't move from the code my own engineers right that I work on a very high business oriented level now which is one not interesting most of you and two I can't talk about what I'm doing like I can't just talk about it the second reason it's hard to come with Monday episodes is because even though technological change is moving at a more rapid pace than at any point in history right in terms of actual computers consumer electronics developments have that are that are significant and meaningful and episode worthy have decreased significantly in recent history well there's a few caveats to that though like number one a lot of the things we would previously have talked about on a Monday show around technology in the modern era much more appropriately fit in like a Thursday show because it's more about the society around the use of the technology and we've started to make that distinction more often than we used to but one of it is that a lot of the advances in technology while they are transformative to like cell phones like battery technology and all that and while they are moving pretty quick the gains from those are being basically eaten by other evolving aspects of technology like batteries got bigger but also we're doing more with the devices so batteries don't actually last longer right and it's like a lot of the improvements to something it's like okay something was made faster it's like okay like there's a new set of letters now they are simplifying it they're gonna be like Wi-Fi v6 Dude! 802.11 g is like literally fast enough for everything I do in my house right but the point is I don't know what the differences between them are only that they're faster it's still Wi-Fi you don't notice any difference as a user there are there are some differences around how the signals interact such that you're gonna have more density of access points and signals like in a connection center How can you possibly get a GeekNines episode a new enough device and somehow they link up. Well here's it. But it's way it's faster than your internet connection is. You won't notice. Well that's it. The impact of a lot of the fast moving technology impacts like like it's multiple steps removed from the consumer use case like ISPs will benefit from some of these changes. But you using your phone connecting to a Wi-Fi at home there is literally no meaningful difference to you for the foreseeable future because look live streaming six megabit up. That's all I need to live stream to YouTube. They wouldn't even take more than that. At least for what I'm doing. Also even you know they used to be this thing more is law where they were like OK every two years transistor density will double. Right. And it's like well actually we're sort of slower than that. It's more like three years at this point. And we're not seeing even even things getting faster are not getting faster as fast as they were five six seven years ago Intel specifically who's like his number one in terms of consumer chip still kind of they've been working on this 10 nanometer process which means that transistors are 10 nanometers in size supposedly and they sort of have fucked that up repeatedly and have missed all the deadlines and it was supposed to be out this year and this year is almost over. Now they're saying next year there's a rumor that they're just going to cancel the whole fucking thing and Intel's like no no no. And this is why they're in trouble right now. Well that's why you see things like Apple and Nvidia really gaining on them. Apple making its own chips for a lot of its machines and devices and video maybe making a CPU. They haven't officially announced that but well of course there's a common. There's another sort of subtle thing going on there is that when we were talking a lot about computers one like buying a lot more consumer like computer shit and building computers more often. But two the metrics of performance were much more straightforward and 800 megahertz chip versus a gigahertz chip. The actual impact on your use of a computer for even simple things was noticeable to a human. You can sit at the two different computers running the same software otherwise configured identically and one of them would be obviously faster. You would double click on an application. It would appear sooner. Right. You would run a game. You would get one of them would run smoothly and one of them have lag and not have enough FPS. Yep. But now it is like my current computer is running at 4.5 gigahertz. It's got four cores for most games. Even if you crank the settings up pretty high. It's like unless you got like a four or five case screen and really crank it up. You won't you'll get the full 60 frames whether you got a 10 60 or a 10 80 or an 11 80. Right. So for gaming just regular PC usage. If not for the fact that I edit 4K video. There is literally no performance difference between my current crazy powerful computer and the one I replaced it with that was like five years old. Yep. Like literally no difference. The only thing that's ever used all this computing capability of this modern computer I have is doing complex effects that can't be done in the GPU on 4K video. Like that is the only thing that uses the CPU. Right. And even like cell phones it's even worse. Like I don't think I have noticed a performance difference in any cell phone I've bought in like six years. I literally don't even care what chip is in my cell phone. No it used to be that like the first few iPhones I had 3G 4 right noticeably kind of slow compared to the newer phones. But once we got to six seven it's like oh actually this is just perfectly fine. And the new phone if I went to the Apple store the new phone doesn't feel any faster than iPhone 7. Yep. It's the last phone I had that felt slow was my what that like LG something for. It was so long ago it's ancient history. Right. So it's not just speed. Right. Is that meaningful. Other kinds of advancements haven't really been happening recently in like the past couple two or three years. Right. It's like all right. We had like we were talking about this earlier. We got phones with a full screen on the front. And today we still have phones with a full screen on the front. We went from not having any tablets to like here are tablets. They're all screen. Right. It's like what meaningful you know big developments that are in terms of like the actual features and capabilities of devices. Consumer electronics and computers are meaningfully different from how they were a few years ago. Well meaningful is complicated because that could be very contextual based on like what I'm saying. I would say I'd use a different word. I think transformative. Right. Where are the changes where as like everyone who uses the technology or a wide body of those people fundamentally change the way they interact with that technology. The clothes I could find is like a folding phone. That's the closest thing I could find. It's not it's not going to be good for us. If it's ever good in this in the span of like our lives. What were the transformative technology moments like going well when computers suddenly had a hard drive in them instead of always needing a floppy disk to be stopped in a penny. I'm like the pennies compared to the 486 color screen on the computer. Well having a mouse that went. The difference between a 386 and a 486 like literally changed the world for me going from a modem to a modem that actually was fast enough to load a web page. Not a dial up modem. Yep. Oh computers that don't actually have good sound to a sound card that you can just buy. Wi-Fi is now a thing and you don't have to always have some sort of wire USB. USB fucking changed everything. I remember when is that even support USB. You have a battery. You have a laptop. You can take the computer with you somewhere that's not a desk. Digital fucking camera. Yeah. We seen a lot when I was in high school. We had a digital camera. The entire school shared cameras. You put a floppy disk in the digital camera was not the thing until like it's actually shockingly recent. Like even early 2000s it was still film camera even though digital camera was a thing. Yeah. It was the kind where you put like a CDRW or a floppy disk into the camera until like you know two thousand three four or five maybe. Yeah. You start they had a real digital camera with compact flash card. Right. That came later. But now like Internet access like broadband at least like forget access because there are parts of the world and especially because we're talking about like just sort of our experiences in America where people don't have broadband. But broadband getting faster doesn't benefit the vast majority of users of broadband. They're going to use it the same way they use it today. But it drastically affects people who don't have broadband who suddenly need it. I read an article recently about I read that same article. Yeah. Basic kids who live in rural places where there's no broadband at all can't do homework and they go to the near the school because the school has Internet and they sit in like the parking lot using the school's Wi-Fi to do their homework. Yeah. Let's try to step back. What was the last technology improvement that was transformative in our lives because I'm hard pressed to think of anything other than like the complete sweet modern live streaming technology. I've had I've had the same sort of device loadout for like a significant period of time. I'm still using the same laptop from 2009 and it plays six. Right. It's like I had upgrades to devices but like what transformative change was there between my iPad Pro and my mini iPad other than it's bigger and faster. Yeah. Nothing. Right. It has a has a stylist. Styles ain't new. Like I bought a fancy camcorder to use for Gignite stuff like recently. That camcorder is you know a thing but 4K video is already like four years old. Maybe four or five years old. So the fancy camcorder I bought is just cheaper because of like improvements in process and technology. It's not better than camcorders I could have gotten previously. It's just cheaper and smaller but I'm going to use it the exact same way. I would use one of those other ones if I could have afforded it. Yeah. Let's see. The GH4 which I had not the GH5 was like basically the first prosumer camera that had like meaningful 4K recording. Yeah. Right. Video recording and it came out in we've been using that to record Gignite panels for a while. Yeah. Long time. 2014. Yes. I was right. Like yeah. Four or five years. Right. Wow. 2014. It's only 28 May 2014. Yeah. It's 2018. Here's one. Remember. A video is four years old already. But digital video cameras that just work and encode things in reasonable formats. Like we tried to record some Gignite panels with that flip camera and those videos were encoded badly to the point that you could not sink them like go pros are a thing now but you know the GoPro has basically been perfect since like the GoPro four ish. Yeah. I think I have the five is the seven out now. Yeah. A new GoPro came. I'm thinking about not really. I think those 4K 60 instead of 30 maybe. I don't know. I'm thinking about getting a last gen GoPro because I have a GoPro like G2 that I think I gave away. Yeah. I think the one I have if you have that one you're good. You don't need a newer one. Yeah. And we only need one because I need that top down view if we're doing like panel streaming and stuff like it's like there's been advancements in the drone department but that's not something we can use. Well it's still hobbyist. It's not transformative. It's been a lot of drone coupled with camera has been transformative for video and audio and like low budget film like video professionals. A drone is like now standard equipment. Yeah. Look at it. Look at a helicopter tracking shot. Look at how many YouTube videos now have aerial shots overhead shots. Yeah. That is transformative drone camera drones. I will give that is a transformative technology. Look how many things you watch now have like some drone footage. I basically like that drone chasing the poor baby bear. Usually it's like you know scenery like to sort of set a scene. Yeah. But seriously look at a tracking shot from a helicopter from the like late 80s compared to like a drone I could buy with the cash in my desk right now. Like seriously. I just not allowed to fly it anywhere near here. If I lived in the woods and I would use a drone more I would get one. Yeah when we went to the only reason I not droning is because I'm in a city and it's illegal to use it everywhere. If you do it anyway do the right. I'm not going to mess around. I showed up to the Rangers 5K. Do you know how many signs there are all over Flush and Corona Meadows Park that just says do not fucking fly our drones here. We will arrest you. There's one place that you can fly them because next to the Meadow pond there's a little area where you're allowed to fly like model helicopter. You can fly your drone right there in that spot because it's no different than a model plan your helicopter. Yep. I think the only other thing I can say that's been transformative is like in relative recent history we hit these sizes of solid state drives to where you can have just solid state drives and be fine. The iPad that the only reason I'm upgrading this perfectly good iPad Pro is because this one has a hundred and twenty eight gigs of storage and even though Apple overcharges the fuck for storage because they're fucking assholes. The new iPad Pro has an option for one terabyte of storage which I think is enough. I mean I have a one terabyte SSD like PCIX SD cards that I put into my camera are hundred and twenty eight gig SD cards. I can't have a one edit those on a one hundred and twenty eight gig iPad. I need especially when a panel fills up the card. But if I had the one terabyte iPad I can now record video put it on the iPad upload and edit which I did on this iPad. It was just very difficult so the new one will now make that a possibility. No but not much. Oh you know what something's gotten worse. Cloud storage solutions for consumers are more expensive and less and more encumbered than they used to be. Well because the economy of well because yeah that will also because the business model there was a loss leader and that doesn't scale. It's because people don't back up. If you will backed up as much as they should then it would work. The other thing is that people are now the instead of paying for like what was that one. The backup solution that was really popular carbon. I was that was the one that had a flat fee for like unlimited backup carbonite right. People now don't need carbonite because they just pay Apple like five bucks a month or Google Drive. That's where the money's going. Yeah. For the and that's your automatic automatic back especially if you don't have a desktop computer or like a for real laptop. You're just living in an Apple world. Even if you do you could they both have desktop backup solution. Yeah. Because not everyone's weird like me or I need like a 40 terabyte NAS up there for people. Most people are not backing up a huge bunch of video they record. Yeah. They're just backing up their photos in their contacts and their few documents. I think any any one and any at any one pack. If I did not have video to back up or many many years of raw photos. Yeah. I could get away with just Google Drive or just I could do the raw wave Geek Nights archive would fit on like a USB stick. Yeah. Like I could just back. I could just put that in like 20 USB sticks and just scatter them around the earth as my backup anyway. Now there are some sort of in terms of soft driving cars I think will be the next like really transformative even that we've already discussed in the death and also the only news would be they're finally being sold. Well I think there's more to discuss. They finally writing laws about them. This is what they say. Let's discuss their finer points. Well also the technology isn't actually there yet. It's getting it's getting. But yeah we've you know I think another problem is that if you look at like software right. We've sort of figured out all the algorithms we've figured out all the methodologies. There hasn't been a lot of movement there. Right. There is movement and machine learning and some transformative things are happening there. But these are not things that are being harnessed directly by you. Yeah. Well some of you a lot of you are doing this for your job. There's a lot of movement in complete bullshit like blockchain nonsense. Yeah. Right. God I can't wait for those coins to just die. That's right. So it's like great. It's like what are we going to do Geek Nights episode about some fucking bullshit. Yeah. It's like how many bullshit technologies that I know we need real technologies to be invented for us to talk about them. Some stuff is getting close like the next gen of VR that Oculus Go is a big step toward mass market compatibility VR. The current gen of VR is like already been so many years. It's like it's like none of this is what's new in 2018. Oculus Go. No. I'm saying specifically like anything was new in 2018. Right. Oculus Go. That's actually a pretty what's it called. Let's go. Oh that's the one where it's with the battery in it. Yeah. It's it doesn't need a computer. It's got tethered and it doesn't need sensors. I remember that. That should have been a news when it was. I was. Yeah. We should talk about it. It's it's like we should have talked about it when it was how come that's actually interesting because I remember seeing that news and being like I think I had a bunch of travel and a bunch of shit got in our way. But then like no one else talked about it. I know it like it was a news and then it's like I haven't heard from it since because it's like I feel like that hype train should have gone because basically that honestly as someone who hates all the VR and is poo poo it. That has everything going for it. It's the first one that's usable by normal people without doing a bunch of bullshit in your house. It's still too damn big on your face but everything else about it was like whoa great job. Yeah. Like this is the kind of VR I would just buy for my mom or dad and they will not buy it until it's smaller on my face. Yeah. Otherwise it's like whoa that is a great advancement. Great great idea. Good job. Yeah. That is actually huge and makes it way better. The only reason I'm not going to get it is because I have the legit Oculus which is better still. I'm just waiting for it to be small enough on my face. So they make Oculus go that doesn't stick out for my face so much. See I don't know about sticking out from the face. AR technology is not anywhere near there. Well it's AR technology is getting very advanced. A lot of people are investing in it. But it's only getting very advanced in showrooms and controlled situations. It's like but it's not that useful and it's like the cases where it would be useful. It's not perfect enough to be voice control. I would argue has not been transformative at all but all the investors are desperately trying to make it transformative. I think there are certain situations where people buy the Alexa or the Google Home or the Apple iHome whatever the fuck which one they have usually I think the Amazon was the most popular. Yeah. People have those in their house and that's their thing. They use it and it works right and it's good. But I'm just most people I think are not in the scenario where that's a thing. It's like I have a stereo. You know it's like if I had like a room in a house that was far away from all computers or something I might need one or so I don't know. Well I mean I I would use one in the kitchen but what I found is that in my kitchen if I had a kitchen that was a separate room that was far away from all of the rooms. But I found in practice even like trying to use all these different voice things that don't quite. They're not intuitive enough to do the thing I actually need and it is faster to just pull out my phone and look something up. The other thing is that I just really despite and maybe it's because I'm old but even if no one's around I'm self-conscious about talking to a computer and if you're like computer please do X and it just happens. If anyone is around I'm not talking to a computer but I think if the computer was so intelligent like a person that then well for example if right now I was like I wouldn't feel bad about it. Computer said preheat the oven to 425 like while I'm sitting here but in the current state of things I don't trust any Internet of things to have any ability to set the temperature on anything in my apartment. If I say computer set preheat the oven to 425 and it said now preheating oven to 425 I would have to go look at the oven to make sure. Yeah I wouldn't trust it. I also I don't want to be slain in the middle of the night and suddenly here off in the distance is preheating oven to 550 because someone hacked into my apartment is trying to kill me. So yeah that killed an episode I think. Right but we need ideas for the next Monday episode. Tell us what we should do the Monday show on. Please invent something new or find something that actually have a reason to learn that is a significant item that I could talk about for the forum thread for this episode. Tell us what we should do a Monday show on. We're going to pick the best of those ideas even if it's shitty and we'll do the show on it. Great. So put some good stuff in there.