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General Awesomness, News and Comics #12

September 4, 2008

A dozen episodes! How awesome! We steal 2 songs for our background music, but it’s all good.

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What we covered:

  • Comcast 250GB bandwidth cap — this is so bad….?
    • India/Austrailia have had this for a while — 100GB cap; unlimited for $100 a month
  • iPhone camera modded to take up-close pictures…
    • why doesn’t Apple allow this already (zoom, etc)
  • Apple Patent leaked
    • possible tablet coming with keyboard onscreen; iPhone but bigger.
  • Dual-Touch screen DS!?!? (probably) what could you do?
  • Your Zombie plan
  • Comics:
    • Last Week:
      • Kick-Ass #4
      • Immortal Iron Fist #18
      • Wolverine #68
      • Runaways v3 #1
      • Secret Invasion: Spider-Man Brand New Day
    • Next Week:
      • Punisher War Journal #23
      • Secret Invasion: Front Line #3
      • Dead of Night Featuring Devil Slayer #1
      • The Stand: Captain Trips #1
  • Pidgin NOT pidgn

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General Awesomeness, News and Comics #11

August 29, 2008

So, I (Mike) am an idiot and didn’t post this on Monday like I should have… nevertheless here you go:

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  • New Night and time!
  • 64GB Flash drive out now for $111. Would you buy it? Is it too big?  How far will they go? iPods as HDs
  • Would you use a subscription service for music? With/Without DRM? Comics?
  • iPod Rumors — fucking kevin rose.
  • Comics
    • This week:
      • Kick-Ass 4!
      • Runaways #1
      • Wolverine #68
      • X-Force #6
    • Last Week:
      • Uncanny X-Men #501
      • X-Factor: Layla Miller #1
      • Marvel 1985 #4
  • Linux…

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General Awesomeness, News and Comics #10

August 21, 2008

It’s the decisode! HOLY COW.

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This week we were all fired up for some awesomeness… with that said here’s our list of what we talked about:

  • 10 Podcasts!?! NO WAY!
  • PS3 160GB
    • wtf size?
  • Star Wars: Clone Wars
    • Nick says Movie was good; tv show could be good
    • Aliens don’t all speak english
    • George Lucas is awesome
  • Microsoft surface ships to Australia
    • THE FUTURE!
  • USB Gadgets
    • How insane is too fucked up?
  • Comics:
    • True Believers #2
    • Amazing Spider-Man #567
    • Captain Britain and MI: 13 #4 — the end of Secret Invasion Tie-Ins
    • Comic book Cry-Babies (CbCB)
      • Secret Invasion needs to be done
  • Josh reads comics!
  • Random tiredness and such

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No podcast this week, sorry guys!

August 20, 2008

Another cancelled show! Yes, I know… it’s a tragedy.

It’s just been a bad week for all of us, especially Josh who [was] majorly sick. Other than that, we’ll see you kids next week!!

–EDIT–

Let me take this back, we should be recording tonight. So see you kids tomorrow.

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General Awesomeness, News and Comics #9

August 13, 2008

Lots of stuff for you guys this week. We were all kinds of crazy, so take a listen!

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  • What are your twitter habits?
    • Tweetstats.com habits and trends
    • ASCII expressions & smileys
      • : )
      • : (
      • ; )
    • We go too far on the sarcasm smiley
      • :->
  • Apple Can Remotely Disable iPhone Apps
    • We discuss this idea and the activity of Apple spontaneously pulling applications from the app store
    • 8 people bought I Am Rich… idiots.
  • Nick plays with Mike’s iPhone and distracts everyone
  • uTorrent 1.8 is released, Mac version soon?!
  • Why are movies like The Mummy 3 and Journey to the Center Of the Earth still being made?
    • Bad movies galore
    • IMDb bottom 100
    • Nick has a huge, almost angry, opinion on movies ( :-> )
  • Comics:
    • Astonishing X-Men #26
    • Fantastic Four #559
    • Secret Invasion & Tie Ins
      • Mike’s Secret Invasion: Inhumans predictions
  • Josh is interested in comics… and it’s about time.

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General Awesomeness, News and Comics #8

August 7, 2008

This week’s podcast, though delayed is full of so much awesomeness!

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  • Vermont has the iPhone… finally!!
    • we rip the hell out of Vermont
  • Rich people = ass holes
    • Phone/iTouch application “I am Rich” costs $1000… does nothing
    • there are much better uses for $1000
      • Ejaculation, nickels, etc.
    • iTunes store discussion
  • URL Shorteners, what do you use? Why?
  • The new Facebook
    • Mike has it, as does Josh and both pretty much like it
    • we like…. but dislike the layout
    • applications suck
  • TweetStats.com
    • it’s getting screwed over by twitter and it sucks
    • Looking back at your first tweets… we were so young…
  • WeeWeeStats.com
    • track your poo and pee
    • GR Tweetup stuff
    • Josh has a hard time talking about poop
  • Comics
    • NYX: No Way Home #1
    • Cable #6
    • Fantastic Four: True Story
    • True Believers #1**
    • Newuniversal: 1959
    • lots of Secret Invasion stuff coming out next week… like wowzer.
    • …and a bunch more…
  • BREAKING WEATHER REPORT FROM JOSH WINDISCH
  • Group bitch: Cuddle Parties — What’s up with that?
  • Pluggers… ha!

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Podcast is… still on, but moved a day

August 6, 2008

So, if you were hoping for a new podcast today I am severely sorry… due to unforseen problems (aka Josh’s work schedule) we had to move the podcast recording today rather than yesterday.  So look for a podcast tomorrow morning sometime!

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General Awesomeness, News and Comics #7

July 30, 2008

So, we’ve had a week off and this week we bring you some fun stuff.

Make sure to check out the end of the podcast because we think we’re funny guys and some of the stuff we record before the podcast is too funny to just get rid of.

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On this week’s podcast we talked about:

  • XM & Sirius
    • it’s a monopoly
  • Virgin Galactic
    • “It’s like the Dreamcast coming out when the Atari was out.”
    • [name] is wasting his money
  • Solar Eclipse online
    • Another reason to not go outside
  • Cuil.com
    • New search engine from old Google workers
    • We conclude it sucks… a lot
    • We do random searches
    • Google rocks, then Yahoo!, then Ask.com
  • CalDAV on Google Calendar
    • It’s cool, but watch for the bugs
    • Josh sounds like a howling dog
  • iPhone 3G
    • Mike is getting one, Josh is JEALOUS
    • Lots of iPhones such
    • Golden tickets at the Apple Store
      • Extended hours at the Apple Store: 8AM-9PM
      • Golden ticket = pre-approval for iPhone when in line for iPhone
  • Josh hates Alltel & his LG Scoop
    • Josh has a story
    • Mike goes pee
    • Phone companies have bitch-listeners
  • Comics:
    • Comic-Con International/San Diego Comic-Con
      • We can’t remember what was AMAZING about Comic-Con
      • Neil Gaiman to write Batman
      • Josh is Batman
    • Newuniversal: 1959
    • Wolverine #67
    • Uncanny X-Men #500
    • Immortal Iron Fist #17
  • Ending randomness

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The podcast is down.

July 22, 2008

This week Nick and Mike were waaay behind on the news and comics and Josh ended up going to a concert and nothing really worked out.

We’ll have a new podcast with all sorts of fun stuff for you next week.

Sorry Guys.

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General Awesomeness, News and Comics #6

July 16, 2008

This week was straight up crazy and hilarious. No new intro because Mike was too lazy to record one. Nevertheless, hilariousness and awesomeness in this week’s podcast make up for the lack of a new intro.

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  • E3:
    • GTA DS
    • Wii Music/Sports Resort
    • Lower X-Box price (obvious)
    • Final Fantasy XIII
    • 80GB PS3
    • Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe
  • Google has to hand over IP addresses of people who have viewed illegal videos:

    • Gizmodo Article
    • viacom sucks, Hulu is awesome
    • “WHO THE FUCK IS LUKE PERRY IN THE 5TH ELEMENT!?”
  • iPhone/iPod Touch 2.0
    • Apps are cool but all the good games cost money.
  • Guitar Hero: Aerosmith
  • Comics:
    • Mark Millar, wtf is up?
    • Amazing Spider-Man -> Mike Likes it.
    • X-Factor & Marvel 1985….yesssss
    • Nick & his french comics
    • Last week was cool, but next week should be better
  • Mike Rapin’s… Question?
  • Why don’t some people reply to your @’s on Twitter?
  • End all craziness:
    • Steven Tyler looks like a monkey in Guitar Hero and in real life
    • We Google Steven Tyler and end up finding some weird stuff (NSFW).
    • We end with Mike finding a perfect end all to the podcast for Nick

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