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At Least You're Trying, 63: Internet of Eels
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Summary:
It's been a while! The boys meet in a local establishment to discuss Jody's only topic idea in a long time...'scale'; How do you scale as a human?
Recording in public made Jody self-conscious, but Matt still talks a bunch about the education system.
Jody had to scale immediately to 2 children
- ...he's still struggling with that.
Matt scales his knowledge to N-students-per-day
- Matt might be able to adjust value of N to be inspiring or depressing how depressing this number might be.
- Jody was impressed with Matt's handling of Net Neutrality for his students
- Matt answers with direct call to action to vote...nice way to scale that message :)
- take opportunity to discuss NN since it went well at the Indy over the holidays
A bit of SpaceX talk led into recommendations:
- Elon tried to catch the Falcon Heavy fairing with a boat named Mr. Steven
- Matt says the boat's name is a reference to a sci-fi book series, but couldn't come up with the title at the time...
- It's the "Culture Series" by Iain M. Banks
- Other SpaceX boat names come from these books (like "Of Course I Still Love You" and "Just Read the Instructions"), but the origin of the good-ship Mr. Steven is unclear
- It's the "Culture Series" by Iain M. Banks
- Matt had never heard of Ray Kurzweil
- You might recognize the name as a brand of music synthesizer from the 1980s (same guy)
- Or you might also be hoping that The Singularity Is Near and that you'll soon be able to live forever once you upload your mind into...well, something other than your body
- One of Jody's top sci-fi pics is Altered Carbon
- Which now has new life as a heavily-promoted Netflix series
- Jody watched immediately and recommends, even if it goes to far with the ultra-violence
Matt's new/expensive hobby...Airsoft Army LARP-ing!
- Matt's foam sword gun:
- Dr. Katz...you know what the music means
Podcast picks:
- Jody:
- This Week in Virology (the kind that make you sick)
- Can be super-technical when they review virology papers, but stick around for science-communication, funding, or public health discussions
- This interview w/Dr. Julius Youngner was a great episode
- Malicious.life
- This one happened to be top of Jody's feed when Matt asked for picks
- Dig the host's great accent!
- The 3-episode arc covering Stuxnet is a good jump-off point (Stuxnet Part 1, Stuxnet Part 2, Stuxnet Part 3)
- Story Pirates...for the kids
- Command Line Heroes
- Omnibus, Jody & Matt's podcasting/music hero John Roderick w/everyone's Jeopardy hero Ken Jennings...what's not to like?
- (other than the annoying house-ads)
- Friendly Fire (another John Roderick vehicle)
- MBMBaM (My Brother, My Brother and Me)
- Oh No Ross & Carrie
- I Only listen to the Mountain Goats
- Still Processing
- Slow Burn (a Slate.com show about Watergate)
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