Talking About Stuff, with Mike and Christiana

Podcast #111, on the net! TAS 111 01-24-07

Here's what we talked about...

My snow story

Enjoying the outdoors, a course correction

Things do do outside

Mike's 2 cents: Work into it slowly

"The Great Outdoors" and my dad's love of the end credits

The software that automatically put youTube videos on a video iPod

DRM BS

If you outlaw digital media, then only outlaws will have digital media

Zune's "sharing" of songs, violate Creative Commons?

I should sue Microsoft

FBI warnings on VHS taps

A great bit on Family Guy - Recordings of professional sporting events

Laws that are not written to be enforced on the individual

Copyrighting public places

Children of Men... Dystopian scifi done well

I'm a "fan" of dystopian scifi?

Children of Men has a very unusual cinematic style

I, Robot - The Movie: Mike baits me and I rant for a long time.

I'm still ranting...

The Three Laws of Robotics

Armageddon - It had its moments

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110 is on the feed, or download it direct here: TAS 110

Here's what we talked about...

Been a while.

An extra while because I was playing WoW with Mur Lafferty and Jim VanVerth

Half the battle

We are disorganized and have no talking points

Miscellaneous personal news - I've started the sequel to Nina Kimberly the Merciless

My writing plan

We talk about the weather... no really!

What we did instead of recording when I was in Colorado

A half-assed review of 'From Russia with Love' for the PS2.

We look at the can of worms called "Violence in video games" but do not open it.

Tons o' snow!

The pyramid of life in America: Food, Gas, and Booze.

A longer day of skiing, brought to you by American Airlines

Avalanche on Berthoud Pass

Preventive versus preventative

Twister at Myrtle Beach

"This will be the death of the hobbits!"

Ski-lifts in Mordor

Does any one ever PLAN to crack their skull open? Trepanning?

"Did you get your Dark Territory passes?"

Legolas could totally pull an inverted trick on the big kickers.

Orlando Bloom on Extras

Does mispronouncing words mean you're smart?

Apparently I completely forgot to do shownotes for this.

Anyway, we DID do a show on the finale, it's been on the feed for a long time already. The finale was good, but right now I'm just not feeling the doing new shownotes. Sorry. Got to move forward and not look back and so on...

Anyway, the file is here: TAS 109

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