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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Just Seven Things

This week Sam talks about:

  • Sick Cheese
  • Monday Show and OCD
  • Parental Controls Again
  • Shaking Brakes
  • Lots of Ad Money
  • Moving the Primaries
  • Censoring Opus

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Curmudgeon’s Corner: It is all Just a Confidence Game

Another week another podcast. This week Ivan and I talk about:

* Recent Economic Events
* Economic Confidence
* Presidential Debates
* Obama and Debates
* The Appeal of Hillary
* Hurricane Dean
* Oil Prices Dropping

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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Who do you Trust?

Another week, another Curmudgeon’s Corner. We’re up to 11. Woo. In any case, this week’s topics:

  • Political Discussions with Friends
  • Knowing the Facts
  • Trends in News
  • Venezuela
  • How your sources Influence you
  • Importance of contrary views
  • Oprah Effect
  • Trivia Answer

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Curmudgeon’s Corner: That’s Why There are Traffic Laws

This is the tenth show of the year. Woo! We haven’t done all too bad with this so far. And judging by the history of the first nine weeks, we’ve been averaging about 7 listeners a week. Well, downloads actually… so some of those folks may not actually be listening, but at least they are downloading it.

OK, seven isn’t a huge number. But it is more than I expected when I started to be honest. So, thank you to all of our many listeners. If you are enjoying it, please feel free to tell your friends about it. And we do like comments and feedback, so comment here or send me email if you have anything to say!

Anyway, this week Ivan and I talk about:

  • Number Ten
  • Revision to FISA law
  • Congressional Breaks
  • Self Inflicted Damage
  • Israeli Airline Security
  • Bad Risk Estimation
  • Last Week’s Stock Market
  • Mortgage and Real Estate Markets
  • Trivia Question

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Curmudgeon’s Corner: You do not Exist while I Warble

A few minutes ago I released the 9th Curmudgeon’s Corner of the year. Once again Ivan bailed (some vacation or something) and I had to improvise. You will, as usual, get insightful and exciting commentary on the most pressing items facing the world today. Uh, and other things. In any case this weeks topics:

  • LinkedIn
  • Magazines
  • Solipsism
  • Isolationism
  • Non-Sensical Warble

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Curmudgeon’s Corner: Planes and Politics

I’m going to start using the Episode title in the blog post title rather than the date. In any case, this is our 8th Curmudgeon’s Corner of 2007. This time we did much better from a technical perspective, and you won’t hurt your ears listening.

One quick note: Ivan gave me a heads up that he will be out of town and unavailable next weekend, so if anybody wants to volunteer to co-host, let me know. I record Sundays at 16 UTC (That’s Noon Eastern, 9 AM Pacific) although the time can be a bit flexible. All that is required (I believe) is an AIM compatible IM client that can do audio chat and a willingness to spend half an hour or so talking about current news or tech related issues. If you are interested, please let me know. If not, next week will be another Sam monologue.

Anyway, this week Ivan and Sam talk about:

  • Garage Band
  • The Plane Crash in Brazil
  • Sam’s Breathing
  • The Subpoena Fight
  • The Bar for Impeachment
  • Ron Paul
  • Ivan’s Candidate

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Curmudgeon’s Corner 2007-07-15

OK, this is the 7th Curmudgeon’s Corner of the year. Fair warning though… it sucks. It sucks pretty badly. We had a lot of technical difficulties this time, with parts or all of the recording getting zapped a total of three times. The last time, we were actually recording it simultaneously in two different ways, and when one crashed we still had the other. But the other was extremely low quality, with my voice way too loud, and Ivan’s way too soft, and recorded all on one track so I couldn’t just correct both volumes once and be done with it. Instead I had to boost the volume when Ivan was talking, and pull it way down when I was talking. This is somewhat sloppy. I did my best, but it still sucks and is pretty hard to listen to.

There are several effects of all this, but the MOST noticeable is what is responsible for the name of this episode. This episode is entitled: “Darth Sam Breathes on Ivan”.

This week Sam and Ivan discuss:

  • iPhone (but you can’t hear it)
  • Sam’s magic touch with tech (but you can’t hear it)
  • Windows Vista
  • Office 2007
  • Republicans in Revolt
  • John McCain
  • NeoCon Delusions
  • Protests in Iran
  • Exploding Recordings

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Curmudgeon’s Corner 2007-07-08

The sixth CC of the year, released late yesterday, is entitled “Law, Law and the Law”. Ivan had technical difficulties this week, so this week Greg Haverkamp joined me, and we spent the first half or so of the show discussing his response to last week’s podcast. Then we moved on to another legal issue Greg has been researching recently.

So this week Sam and Greg discuss:

  • The Apostrophe in the Title
  • First Amendment Incorporation
  • 14th Amendment Due Process Clause
  • Literalism in the Law and in Life
  • 4th Amendment Protections on Email

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Curmudgeon’s Corner 2007-07-01

Yesterday the fifth Curmudgeon’s Corner of 2007 was released. This episode is entitled “The Long Made Short”.

This time Ivan and I talk about:

  • The UK Bombings
  • The Great Erasure
  • iPhone
  • Supreme Court
  • Ron Paul

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Curmudgeon’s Corner 2007-06-24

Yesterday the 4th Curmudgeon’s Corner of 2007 was released. This time the title is “Politics, Politics, Politics… and Beeps”. Ivan once again joins me and we blab about a variety of things for the longest CC so far of the new era, clocking in at just over 26 minutes. As the title would indicate, this time the topics were almost all politics related. Next week I’m thinking we’ll go for a more tech theme. But this week… politics.

Sam and Ivan talk about:
* Rogue Cheney
* The Beeping Thing
* Executive/Legislative Balance
* Erosion of Civil Liberties
* Conservative Reaction to W
* Ron Paul
* Declarations of War
* Bloomberg
* Overreactions to Terrorism

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