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Archive for October, 2011
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
RIM tries to fire up developers, Motorola tries scoop ice cream sandwich and Apple disappoints by setting records, and more.
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Running time: 42:02
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Three of the most important events in tech history that happened on October 19th.
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Continue Reading »We get sentimental and remember old East Meets West episodes, discuss what makes you happy and ponder the history and future of toilets.
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Continue Reading »Which game consoles are MOST lusted after this October? Tom Merrit and the folks at gdgt.com bring you the straight dish on what consumers really want the most.
Continue Reading »Hosts: Tom Merritt and Scott Johnson
We’ll archive our brains, defy gravity, and colonize planets with SimCity Arcologies.
Guests: Chris Luckhardt and Eric Portelance
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Continue Reading »Wherein Tom decides to spend $1,000 on an Alastair Reynolds book, Veronica decides to become an author, and we remember “that comedian”. It’s a chatty episode, a little longer than some have been, but we hope you find it chock full of goodness.
QUICK BURNS
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (3rd Edition) goes live
Agatha H and the Airship City: Girl Genius book is a cross between a comic and a prose novel
Cover art for BLUE REMEMBERED EARTH by Alastair Reynolds — Tom’s excited about this series
SF Authors Predict Computing’s Future
CALENDAR
Oct. 18 2011
Aloha from Hell, Richard Kadrey (Harper Voyager)
Zone One by Colson Whitehead
Oct. 20 2011
The Iron Jackal by Chris Wooding
Oct. 25 2011
1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
Oct. 27 2011
The Kingdom of Gods, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
Initiate’s Trial by Janny Wurts
Nov. 8 2011
The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel by Brandon Sanderson
Stands a Shadow by Col Buchanan
Endurance, Jay Lake (Tor)
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BARE YOUR SWORD
Siri brings nerd humor to iPhone
TV and Movies
Who watched The Walking Dead?
Giveaway Announcement
Write a pitch for a NaNoRiMo story, we’ll pick a winner randomly from this thread. You have until October 31st to post, and you could win a Kindle!
Tom and Veronica,
Every once in a while Tom mentions that he’s always looking for books. I’ve also come to the conclusion from a few subtle hints that have been dropped here and there that he’s a baseball fan. So I’d like to add the following to Tom’s reading/listening queue (as the Audible version of this is a fine performance: Summerland by Michael Chabon, winner of both a Hugo and a Pulitzer (not too shabby and a thoroughly uncommon combination). YA fantasy (though as a middle-aged geek, I enjoyed the heck out of it as well) about trans-dimensional travel, elves, dwarves, magic, good, evil, and baseball. Not just baseball, but baseball as a metaphor for life.
Who knows, it might even be an excellent selection for S&L.
Love the podcast, even though I can’t always keep up on the reading.
Yours in geekdom,
George Van Wagner, occasionally known as GVDub in various places on teh intarwebs.
NEW MEMBER HELLOS
Dave, David, Louise, Mike, Amir, Jason, Ben, Cappy, Rebecca, Gregory
ADDENDUMS
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Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Carriers will help you know your limits, BlackBerry’s apology gift basket, Samsung keeps losing to Apple, and more.
Guests: Leslie Horn
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Running time: 47:21
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Three of the most important events in tech history that happened on October 18th.
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Three of the most important events in tech history that happened on October 16th.
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Continue Reading »My friend Sarah Houghton from the San Rafael Public Library has talked me into doing a reading of my novel “United Moon Colonies“.
The event is Thursday November 3rd from 7 PM – 8:30 PM at Falkirk Mansion in San Rafael. Get all the details on the Facebook Events page.
I’ll read a bit from the book and answer any questions people have then likely have a stiff drink to calm my nerves. Sure, I do podcasting and speaking appearances, but reading my little self-published NaNoWriMo project to PEOPLE in PUBLIC is honestly a bit daunting. Free PDF? No problem! Read it to you in front of others? Knee-shaker.
So please, if you’re anywhere near San Rafael on that Thursday, considering stopping by, even if it’s just to pat me on the back and tell me it will be all right. There’s the added incentive of being near Sol Food which is some of the best damn food you’ll ever eat. NOW how can you pass this up? Huh?
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