Scruffy Thinking

Grendel Prime

Kanen — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:52:01 +0000

This episode of Scruffy Thinking features a conversation with Michael C Poole, who is creating a Grendel Fan Film, from Matt Wagner's fantastic comic book series. We also have the ever interesting Paul del Vecchio on the show.

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John Duza as Argent

Alternate Show Titles

Grendel Prime!
IMDB yanked my movie!
Naked Indian Werewolf guy.
Magic Lantern!

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Kanen Flowers

Kanen is the troublemaker behind Scruffy Thinking. He writes a blog, writes code and creates visual and textual content, sometimes together. You can follow him on twitter or check out his company at Scruffy.TV.

Michael C Poole

Michael is an indie filmmaker, living in San Diego, who has worked on several sci-fi films and is currently finishing a Grendel Fan Film, from Matt Wagner's series; Grendel: Devil by the Deed.

Paul del Vecchio

Paul is an Award Winning Director from NY, has a short film on George Romero’s Diary of the Dead DVD. His last feature film, FOREVER, won Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the Long Island Big Fish Film Festival.

Musical Accompaniment

Various artists. Contact us for information.

Show Notes

Grendel on Wikipedia is a great place to start.

The "other" Grendel Fan Film in development.

The Watchmen II Prequels.

Terms of Azimuth on IMDB.

Indie GoGo fundraising part II for the Grendel Fan Film

An uncorrected still from the film.

ComiXology has some Grendel for iPad or other platforms. And, Comic Zeal allows you to use CBR and CBZ files from other sources.

Why I hate Saturn.

CBR and CBZ files are interesting.

How the hell had I never heard of the Magic Lantern Firmware hack for the Canon 5D Mark II?

Grendel

Kanen — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 05:01:55 +0000

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Alternate Show Titles

Grendel Khan!
I played No Name in Shawshank
Apocolypse of teh Weenie People!
Thursday the 12th!

Sponsorship

Kanen Flowers

Michael C Poole

Michael is an indie filmmaker, living in San Diego, who has worked on several sci-fi films and is currently finishing a Grendel Fan Film, from Matt Wagner's series; Grendel: Devil by the Deed.

Paul del Vecchio

Musical Accompaniment

Various artists. Contact us for information.

Show Notes

Grendel on Wikipedia is a great place to start.

The "other" Grendel Fan Film in development.

The Watchmen II Prequels.

Buy some Grendel Perfumes and support comic creators.

ATTACK OF THE MANN

Kanen — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:51:30 +0000

This episode of Scruffy Thinking continues our conversation with Merlin Mann and Mike J Nichols. We talk about Wizards, the Internet, technological prowess and of course, Star Wars edits.

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Alternate Show Titles

Fakey Wizard
The John Siracusa Principle
Lunch with our pal Stu
Just like Bergman would have done

Hosts

Kanen Flowers

Merlin Mann

Better known as @hotdogsladies, Merlin is the co-host of Roderick on the Line with John Roderick of the Long Winters, the co-host of Back To Work with Dan Benjamin and part of the ensemble comedy troupe, You Look Nice Today which was once featured on Quotidian Public Radio.

Mike J Nichols

Mike is creator of 2 Guys Drinking At a Bar starring Kevin Farley and Paul Preston, the producer and editor of the television series Punk Payback starring Bas Rutten, airs on FOX’s FUELtv network. Mike is also the man responsible for The Phantom Edit - an unauthorized re-edit of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace.

Show Notes

The Phantom Edit on Wikipedia and Attack of the Phantom -- both might be available as a giant-ass torrent. The smaller one, with the audio track is also available.

David Mamet wrote a letter to the team at THE UNIT (Tv Show).

I worked on 77, about the day Star Wars came out. Merlin did some Razzle Dazzle for The Attack of the Phantom, referencing You Look Nice Today.

Class of 88 - Permian High School, I'm listed as "John Flowers".

The Phantom Merlin

Kanen — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 03:56:43 +0000

This episode of Scruffy Thinking features a conversation with Merlin Mann and Mike J Nichols. We talk about San Francisco, music, getting a job and... of course, Star Wars: The Phantom Edit.

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Alternate Show Titles

Hippie Furniture
Midget Prostitute
Yelp for Handjobs
That Phantom Editor...

Hosts

Kanen Flowers

Merlin Mann

Mike J Nichols

Show Notes

Laraley standing in front of the living room pool mentioned early in the show.

The Tenderloin in San Francisco, with all the Midget Prostitutes.

You should be running Cloak on a free public Wifi network.

The story of the professor who slipped the fake Magna Carta paper onto the Internet is pretty funny.

The Wiki entry on Rovi Corp -- aka Macrovision and their copy protection scheme on VHS tapes.

I worked on 77, about the day Star Wars came out.

David Mamet wrote a letter to the team at THE UNIT (Tv Show).

Merlin did some Razzle Dazzle for The Attack of the Phantom, referencing You Look Nice Today.

Tangent Café

Kanen — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:35:17 +0000

This episode of Scruffy Thinking features a candid conversation with Christopher M Harrington, better known as @octothorpe on Twitter and the Interwebs. We continue our discussion from the previous show.

This episode doesn't go through Levelator, because @frankjonen thinks it lame. You tell me if the audio is better or worse by contacting me.

If you like the new intro song and want to record one of your own, send one to us! We'd love to feature your intro song on the show.

Alternate Show Titles

T for Two
Sparrow!
Awesome if you're Jason Fried
4 Hour Catchphrase
Some stimulants may be required
Big Ups

Sponsorship

Kanen Flowers

Kanen is the troublemaker behind Scruffy Thinking. He writes a blog, writes code and generates too much content for one sane person. You can follow him on twitter or check out his company at Scruffy.TV.

Christopher Harrington

Better known as @octothorpe on Twitter, Christopher Harrington (or CM as he prefers) is a highly opinionated senior information architect and user experience designer. He builds stuff, takes pictures, drinks beer, and occasionally gives people a hard time. He's from Korea, but sounds like he's from Cambridge... and not the one near Harvard.

Musical Accompaniment

Various artists. Contact us for information.

Show Notes

Kevin MacLeod offers free to use music for all kinds of things, including podcasts. He's the awesome.

Cursing in Mandarin on the show Firefly.

The hot girl from Burn Notice who blows shit up.

John Foster is awesome.

Matt Wagner's Grendel was originally Hunter Rose, which can be found at my uses this or The Setup "interview."

Star Trek: The Next Generation remastered trailer. With a side-by-side comparison.

Ruining it for everyone is a freaking awesome podcast.

We Supply The Crowbar

Kanen — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 02:30:56 +0000

This episode of Scruffy Thinking features a candid conversation with Christopher M Harrington, better known as @octothorpe on Twitter and the Interwebs. We discuss having things stolen, co-working, Adobe, editing, audio and more co-working.

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Alternate Show Titles

Robbered @WeWork
How to case a joint
Liberal Fascism
Passive Aggressive
You bumped into me
Some Measure of Alacrity
In the 90s
Trabajo para neuvo something
You I Go Store!
Adobe problems
T for Two

Because of Awesome

Kanen Flowers

Christopher Harrington

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Song Lyrics

Hosted by Kanen (kay-nin)...   We've talked about... pistol sluts, comics, travel and macs, final cut and other stuff like that. Stargate, lisp, movies and macs, it's a big brain, great guest attack. He drives a lotus and she writes code, listen every other week to stay in the know.

We are sponsored by Final Draft...  and sometimes ByWordApp.

Scruffy Thinking... til the end.

Musical Accompaniment

The original That Post Show Rap was performed by Tyler Influence Life or on Facebook with lyrics by Kanen.

The 2012 intro song by Will_Rap using HDFlatBeats music.

Show Notes

Cursing in Mandarinon the show Firefly.

The hot girl from Burn Notice who blows shit up.

John Foster is awesome.

Coulton and Roderick sing on the tube.

What is an Ion from answers or the source of all truth.

Matt Wagner's Grendel was originally Hunter Rose, which can be found at my uses this or The Setup "interview."

Ruining it for everyone is a freaking awesome podcast.

The Big Movie Show

Kanen — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 20:03:56 +0000

This dual episode of Scruffy Thinking and That Post Show features Maggie McFee and Kenn Bell. We talk about movies released over the holiday season, movies in general, television, comic books, Christopher Nolan films, superheroes, Daredevil and Frank Miller, reliving your childhood and (maybe in the aftershow) men being raised by women and Robert Bly.

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Alternate Show Titles

Wolves are awesome!
DJ Iron Man
Monster down the street
Film my friends instead!
Dances with Aliens
Evoking Emotions with Oil
Christopher Nolan Firmware v10
Men Raised by Women
He was a terrible Obi-wan, but a great Alec Guinness

Because of Awesome

Kanen Flowers

Maggie McFee

Maggie is Tankgrrl on twitter. She's a go'damned mad scientist! Video nerd, geek, data wrangler webcomicer and some other words. Also, she's a Boston Skeptic organizer / videographer. She does a podcast called Ruining it for Everyone.

Kenn Bell

Kenn is the creator of The Dog Files, one of the first (and still one of the best) video podcasts on the internets.

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The host records on a Blue Yeti mic.

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Song Lyrics

Hosted by Kanen (kay-nin)...   We've talked about... pistol sluts, comics, travel and macs, final cut and other stuff like that.

Topics like... Stargate, lisp, movies and macs, it's a big brain, great guest attack, he drives a lotus and she writes code, listen every other week to stay in the know, yo.

We are sponsored by Final Draft...  and sometimes ByWordApp.

Scruffy (thinking)... til the end.

Musical Accompaniment

The original That Post Show Rap was performed by Tyler Influence Life or on Facebook with lyrics by Kanen.

The 2012 intro song by I_Will_Rap using HDFlatBeats music.

Show Notes

We talk about Sherlock Holmes, Mission Impossible, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Hugo, War Horse and a lot more (including Star Wars, Batman and everything in-between).

The Seven Percent Solution and The Beekeeper's Apprentice by the talented Laurie R. King are great versions of Sherlock Holmes. As is the BBC Sherlock television show.

The xkcd Christmas chart mentioned on the show.

We mention the Back to Work - the Star Wars Episode with Gruber and Merlin.

And Neil deGrasse Tyson helped James Cameron with the cast of Titanic.

Maggie does a podcast called Ruining it for everyone with Christopher Harrington and they discussed 3D recently.

Stellan Scarsgård was in Breaking the Waves!

Daredevil Born Again is a masterpiece. As is everything by Frank Miller.

Horses in World War I

A generation of men raised by women slightly explained and deconstructed, mentioning Fight Club and Iron John (Robert Bly).

An Odder Podcast

Kanen — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:41:24 +0000

This episode of Scruffy Thinking features Ryan Summers, of Oddernod, and we talk about everything from movies, to Adobe products, to Apple products, to the RED Camera to editing to Hollywood.

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Alternate Show Titles

17,000 Twelve Year Olds
I like you, but you're a dick
Don't give a f about RIAA Young
Crazy Rabid Audience
Stumping for work
Hey, Home Slice...
Red Rocket
Alex who?
That's just Apple
I'm a PC Guy

Because of Awesome

Kanen Flowers

Ryan Summers

Known as Oddernod, Ryan works on The Talking Dead and is a talented artist, compositor and all around interesting guy.

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The host records on a Blue Yeti mic. Although, recently, I am recording on the amazing Samson Meteor Mic, which I cannot say enough great things about.

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Song Lyrics

Opinionated and inspired -- we debate, we talk, we think... are you neat or are you scruffy? Hosted by Kanen (kay-nen)... he's worked on some films --  he started scruffy dot TV... and colored some zombies.

people like...  Justin Nolan, the stargate man  John Foster, knowtech can  Stu Maschwitz (Mash-witz), redgiant plan  Adam Lisagor (liss-a-gore), the sandwich man  Merlin Mann, THE merlin man  Don McCallister (Mc all-ister), screencasts he can  Ron Brinkmann...

We are sponsored by Final Draft (and sometimes ByWordApp). And, if you like films and effects, check out... That Post Show it's on iTunes too.

Musical Accompaniment

Cool intro song by Laserlife, yeah!

Outro Music: Industrial Revolution by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Notes

Idris Elba is in Luther is amazing.

My kid could use Animoog at 4 months.

Pen Moto on Kickstarter and we talk about the Wacom Cintiq 21UX and After Effects Roto Paint. Then we devolve into Jeff Han's Touch Demo at TED.

LilyHammer on Netflix looks interesting.

Owen Williams lives in Boston and talked with me about Android apps.

Start watching The Talking Dead, AMC's great podcast about The Walking Dead.

Skype was started by a "young guy" -- here's the actual history.

The Red Rocket announcement was strange to me, for obvious reasons. We even mention South Park which is NSFW.

Jim Jannard goes off on everyone.

Stu at Prolost asks what Adobe should do with Premiere.

Ryan uses Big Van Vader as his Twitter avatar.

In the aftershow, we talk about Andy Serkis and the Hollywood Reporter article about his views on awards. We also talk about The Orphanage shutting down and how sad it was.

We gush endlessly about fxPHD in the aftershow.

Read This Podcast

Kanen — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:49:30 +0000

This episode of Scruffy Thinking features John Foster, Michael Critz and Owen Williams. We start with the statement, "Reading in 2011."

Note: This show was recorded around August of 2011.

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Douglas at the coffee shop, dropping some wisdom.

Alternate Show Titles

Bumping the mic
Injecting something
Different For News
Reading is DEAD
Daring Gatekeeper
The Conversation Previously in Progress
Live under a rock
Douglas
San Francisco Way About Him
The Hugo Award
That's Hardly Fair

Because of Awesome

Kanen Flowers

John Foster

John is the creator of Knowtech and has appeared on a number of podcasts, since the beginning of (podcast) time. Also, he is awesome.

Michael Critz

Mike writes at MichaelCritz dot com and has a demo reel there. He's a very talented designer (and designed the Scruffy Thinking logo!). He is sometimes referred to by his preferred nom de plume, Michael Critical.

Owen Williams

Owen is an online editor, a colorist, an occassional free software hacker and a pretty good DJ. He can be found on twitter as @ywwg.

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The host records on a Blue Yeti mic.

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Song Lyrics

We are sponsored by Final Draft (and sometimes ByWordApp). And, if you like films and effects, check out... That Post Show it's on iTunes too.

Musical Accompaniment

Cool intro song by Laserlife, yeah!

Outro Music: Industrial Revolution by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Notes

Owen bumps his mic constantly (or something causes his mic to bump). I've done my best to make it not annoying, but -- you know, it's a mic that bumps, so... I think the show is still fun and worth it for the content.

Also, this show was recorded around August, 2011. So, it happened befor Louis CK released his $5 album, which is why we didn't discuss it in the show.

Archipelago

There are no other show notes. It's meta. Plus, it's an older show and I decided to just edit the damn thing and not spend another hour writing show notes. ;P

Scruffy McFee

Kanen — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:33:35 +0000

This episode of Scruffy Thinking features Maggie McFee, the tankgrrl in the flesh. Our guest this episode is Maggie McFee. We talk about Glee, San Francisco, Liberals, Portland and robots.

( We also talk about Final Cut Pro X a little... so, there's that. )

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Alternate Show Titles

Offending everyone!
Gleetards
I love candy bars
Tim Gunn is my mortal enemy
Surface Liberal
Liberal Fascists
The rest of California
Farmer Values
Portland's more hippie, San Francisco's more gay
Building robots
Rude-o-matic

Because of Awesome

Kanen Flowers

Maggie McFee

Maggie is Tankgrrl on twitter. She's a go'damned mad scientist! Video nerd, geek, data wrangler webcomicer and some other words. Also, she's a Boston Skeptic organizer / videographer.

Interesting Things

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Song Lyrics

people like...  Justin Nolan, the stargate man  John Foster, knowtech can  Stu Maschwitz (Mash-witz), redgiant plan  Adam Lisagor (liss-a-gore), the sandwich man  Merlin Mann, the merlin mann  Don McCallister (Mc all-ister), screencasts he can  Ron Brinkmann...

We are sponsored by Final Draft (and sometimes ByWordApp). And, if you like films and effects, check out... That Post Show it's on iTunes too.

Musical Accompaniment

Cool intro song by Laserlife, yeah!

Outro Music: Industrial Revolution by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Notes

Uses This "The Setup" is literally the best.

The RED Footage contest was called "OpenCut".

That Media Show on Blip.tv, which had Darren Criss -- who is now on Glee.

Tim Gunn from project runway led us into a San Francisco discussion of Prop 8.

We watch Portlandia and talk about American Movie and how my my Director of Photography watched it every day for a year.

Maggie goes mental and talks about building a robot. The genesi motherboard - which is an "open", ARM-based, low-power system. It uses a Dagu platform from RobotShop. We also mention QBO, an open source project for recognizing things which runs on the open source ROS platform from Willow Garage.

Out of Control by Kevin Kelly is quite good, but dated.

Peter Norvig edit distance solution, along with my crazy github version in newLisp.

Maggie talks about Mad Art Lab and then we discuss the Makerbot Thing-o-Matic in great detail as part of the robot conversation. We discuss the Thingiverse and the Mendel 3D printer and people seem to be using Google Sketchup and use ReplicatorG to print.

Dr. Kiki needs to be on my show someday!

The Scruffy Slut

Kanen — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:36:54 +0000

This episode of Scruffy Thinking features Mary Rose Cook, the mastermind behind Pistol Slut. She talks about falling in love, fakery, text editing and making music.

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Alternate Show Titles

Slut Windows
Rubbing my hands together
U2 and Cure covers?
Emacs as a lover
Frustrating and weird
Smash your teacup (and your favorite glasses)
Love letter to BBEdit
Kinetic Slut

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Kanen Flowers

Mary Rose Cook

Mary Rose Cook is the mastermind behind Pistol Slut, a very retro 2D platform shooter written in some form of JavaScript. She is also a hacker, a musician and a person who lives in London. She works for Pusher.

Interesting Things

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Music

Outro Music: Industrial Revolution by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Notes

Mary Rose Cook on Uses This (the Setup) as well as her impressive Music and the JSConf presentation on blip.tv.

Make a custom t-shirt at Neighborhoodies and sport some LISP or Ruby love (but, mostly LISP).

I totally use newLisp and BBEdit for editing, along with AutoPairs on the Mac (to keep me from going insane when using parenthesis).

Metal Machine Music is Lou Reed's experimental album.

Mary learned about Behavior Trees for her game and wrote machine.js for others to use in their games. It has a JSON backend for the logic.

The Incident, a fast-paced, retro arcade-ish game for iPhone and iPad.

Canabalt on the internet, as a Flash-based game (boo) and Canabalt on the iPhone or iPad (yay!).

The amazing Pistol Slut, which should only be opened in Google Chrome.

The Editor War explains vi against Emacs. We verge into a discussion of Sublime Text and then into TextMate, before talking again about BBEdit.

That game Mary couldn't think of is called Space Miner, by the way...

The RSA Tax

Kanen — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 06:19:28 +0000

This episode of Scruffy Thinking features Jack Daniel, from Uncommon Sense Security and Tenable Security. This show was recorded before September of 2011.

Alternate Show Titles

Hack Daniel
Look at me, I'm fucking cool.
As I get older...
Daddy's Got To Eat
Separating The Art from the Artist
Weapons Grade A-hole
It's ok to be an a-hole
Surrounded by Actual Musicians
Magnetically Attracting Controversy
Sycophant Free Zone

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Kanen Flowers

Jack Daniel

Information Security Curmudgeon, Security BSides Co-Founder, Reluctant CISSP, MS MVP for Enterprise Security, BoD of NAISG, Product Manager at Tenable Network Security.

The Other Stuff

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Music

Outro Music: Industrial Revolution by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Notes

Security B-Sides Conference

There are no other show notes. It's meta.

Waiting for Peter

Kanen — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 03:19:45 +0000

This episode of Scruffy Thinking features Don McCallister and Peter Wells (eventually). We talk about Macs, screencasts and being on time. This show was recorded on August 30, 2011.

If you like the new intro song and want to record one of your own, send one to us! We'd love to feature your intro song on the show. You could win a 1TB USB 2.0 Western Digital Drive!

Alternate Show Titles

Am I late?
Proper English
This Week in Bagels

Sponsor Stuff

Kanen Flowers

Peter Wells

Peter Wells is the new media fucktard behind FullTimeCasual. He also contributes to MacTalk Australia by using his mouth to make sounds. He apparently doesn't own a watch.

Don McAllister

Don McAllister is a super nice guy, even though he speaks "proper English". Don crushes software with his Jedi Mind and then screencasts for an hour before breakfast. He has appeared on This Week in Cooking Bagels and other such shows.

The Other Stuff

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Music

Intro music by Arcon1.

Music: Industrial Revolution by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Notes

There are no notes. It's meta.

Scruffy Sandwich

Kanen — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 03:16:57 +0000

On this episode of Scruffy Thinking, we discuss the life and times of Adam Lisagor, also known as @lonelysandwich. There is a decently long aftershow, if you can stand even more of us slow-talking to each other...

Alternate Show Titles

Bristeled spit and unkepmt hair
A thousand megabytes
Keanu as Jesus
The Young Ones
Talented Family
Adam Ligature
Punch a dog
Never Go Full Retard
It's a Little Hook
Adam Kutcher
I crushed it with RedGiant
Twisted Zombie Mouth
Subtext and Shit

Adam loves Can\'t Hardly Wait and so do I. I think this makes us Best Friends Forever!

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Kanen Flowers

Adam Lisagor

Adam is best-known as @lonelysandwich and part of the ensemble comedy troupe, You Look Nice Today -- which may or may not have disbanded in 2011. Adam also produces videos at Sandwich Video -- which may be sponsored by the hit FOX Series - The New Girl. He knows how to pronounce Zooey Deschanel.

The Other Stuff

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Music

Music: Industrial Revolution by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Notes

Kim Lisagor at American Drink

Kentucky Fried Movie has the faux trailer for Catholic High School Girls in Trouble.

Fast Company Article

Adam Lisagor Uses This

RecruiterBox - Bob Avaj Video we talk about a little bit at the end of the show, which has We Blog The World logo on a cup.

Scruffy Sigler

Kanen — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:48:01 +0000

On this marathon episode of Scruffy Thinking, our guests are: Scott Sigler and John Foster. We discuss big monsters, podiobooks and galactic football.

Alternate Show Titles

Galactic Sigler
An unfortunate 30 minutes of giant blue penis
The last hour sucked
Get out! My 2 hours!
Totally whiffed on it...
The shwarmi sound
The empty set tattoo
Dark Overlord Media!

Sponsor Stuff

Kanen Flowers

John Foster

John is the creator of Knowtech and has appeared on a number of podcasts, since the beginning of (podcast) time.

Scott Sigler

Scott knows about big monsters and galactic football. He's a New York Times bestselling author and a reasonable human being. He also does podiobooks.

The Other Stuff

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Music

Music: Industrial Revolution by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Notes

Search -- Ancestor Trailer or Where is Sarah on Google.

Feyman Graphic Novel

College Humor LOST!

Scruffy Jalkut

Kanen — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 01:18:42 +0000

On the next Scruffy Thinking, Scott Sigler!

Alternate Titles

32 bit clean
I will not identify my sarcasm
Fuck You I'm Kanen
Embracing your 1%
Talk about Merlin for 20 minutes, damn...
Sabotaging your Twitter account
Stats!

On this Episode of Scruffy Thinking, our guests are: Daniel Jalkut and John Foster. The conversation is pretty geeky. We talk a lot about Twitter and sarcasm and tweeting (toward the end).

Important Stuff

Kanen Flowers

Kanen is the troublemaker behind Scruffy Thinking. He writes a blog, writes code and generates too much content for one sane person. You can follow him on twitter or check out his other business at Scruffy.TV.

John Foster

John is the creator of Knowtech and has appeared on a number of podcasts, since the beginning of (podcast) time.

Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut is the creative mind behind Red Sweater Software, creators of MarsEdit. He also co-hosts Core Intuition with Manton Reece

The Good Stuff

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Music

Music: Industrial Revolution by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Notes

There are no show notes. It's meta.

A Letter to Steve

Kanen — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 21:58:56 +0000

Future

On the next Scruffy Thinking, we have Daniel Jalkut.

Kanen Flowers

Kanen is the madman behind Scruffy Thinking. He writes a blog, writes code and generates too much content for one sane person. You can follow him on twitter or check out his other business at Scruffy.TV.

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Music

Music: Wizardtorium by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Notes

Hello, this is Kanen and I wanted to take a moment out of my normal podcasting routine to let you know that new shows are being released next week, but I am taking a few days more before releasing them out of respect for what happened this week.

Steve Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011.

I, like many people, felt a strong connection to Steve, not just because I admire him -- although that is certainly the case -- and not just because he changed my life with the tools he helped create -- although, that too happened -- but also because I had the amazing fortune to meet the man on three different occasions.

The first time, I was in my early twenties and was using NeXT computers and software. The second, I was at the opening of one of the first Apple Stores. The third time was during a pitch to Apple for them to acquire a technology I had created for Apple (which, by the way, they did not acquire).

The memory I have of Steve, the one that really sticks, is from the Apple Store in 2001. He was standing like a proud father, completely inconspiciously, against a display of Macintosh systems, at the side of the store. If you didn't know he was Steve, you'd never have known to say hello.

I walked up to him. He reached out and shook my hand. "Hi, I'm Steve."

I said, "Glad to see you again."

He seemed to search his memory and vaguely remember me from before... I saw a glint of recognition.

I said, "I know a lot of people tell you this, but ... I've admired your work, your taste, your dedication. I've used your computers since I was a kid and, when I left Microsoft in 1995, I never used Windows again, nor do I plan to do so in the future."

He smiled.

I said, "I hold you up among some of the greatest influences in my life and I'm glad to have you and the late Richard Feynman in my lifetime. I feel fortunate and I feel inspired by both of you."

He looked at me, serious as anyone ever has and said, "I am deeply happy to be in such good company."

I shook his hand again and said "thank you," and moved on, to let others say hello to Steve.

Everyone has a memory of Steve. Some of us were fortunate enough to look into his eyes and see the bright, shining light of hope and determination.

My thoughts go out to his friends, his family and the millions of people whose lives were touched by Steve. None of us will ever be the same because of the things Steve helped create and -- for me personally -- not a day will go by that I don't think of Steve and the wonderful future he has given me and everyone I care about.

Thank you, Steve.

Wrapped in Vegan

Kanen — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 21:58:10 +0000

On this Episode of Scruffy Thinking, our guests are: Colin Barrett, Wil Shipley and John Foster. This episode was recorded in studio, with mics provided by John Foster (thanks!). We discuss development, moving to San Francisco and World of Warcraft. Follow @ScruffyThinking on Twitter!

This show was recorded live, in a conference room, during an unexpectedly large gathering outside, which you can hear in the background. Also, Wil sometimes mumbles... so, there's that. But, I promise, the show is fun, hopefully interesting, and certainly worth dealing with the background noise.

Also, the show is largely unedited, which is pretty cool.

Alternate Show Titles

A layer of onion
Wrapped in Bacon
Adobe Frustrator
Plippity Plow
Pulling 450 watts
Giant Metal Behemoth
80,000 fans
Moves like a Roomba
I play a girl in WoW
Barbarian Rage
Failed a geography test
Looting our corpses
Your DM was a Dick
You had a mean DM
You get +3 ratting!
A +3 were-rat
Everyone in Seattle plays Ultimate Frisbee
The Frisbee Infection

Important Stuff

Scruffy.TV is a viral video and content creation company. You have a startup, technology company or existing company or product and you want to make a video and -- with luck -- have people watch it. We have created dozens of viral videos for dozens of companies. You've seen our work, it's even been mentioned on Conan O'Brian. If you are tired of slogging your way through the old, outdated ways of getting noticed, head over to Scruffy.TV and see how we can put your company in the hearts and minds of thousands or even millions of people.

Kanen Flowers

Wil Shipley

Wil is the founder of Delicious Monster -- the creator of Delicious Library -- and a founding member of Omni Group.

Colin Barrett

Colin is the mad genius behind Springs and Struts, is one of the few developers of the Adium chat client, has a full-size Buffy The Vampire Slayer poster in his living room and was recently mentioned twice by another guest of this show.

John Foster

John is the creator of Knowtech and has appeared on a number of podcasts, since the beginning of (podcast) time.

The Good Stuff

Be sure to RATE THE SHOW in iTunes. It helps us with sponsors, helps attract listeners and lets us know how we are doing. You can also win some amazingly cool stuff!

Follow Scruffy Thinking on Twitter.

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Music

Music: Industrial Revolution by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Notes

Two awesome places to eat in San Francisco, Delfina or Coco 500 (which has a delicious $14 burger). Both serve DaVero Olive Oil.

We discuss Adobe, the NeXT Cube, the Ricochet Modem and about a million other nostalgic things. Wil boots into Windows so he can play Deus Ex.

We discuss TED and Hint Mint.

We discuss Dungeons and Dragons and wererats.

Lastly, we bust some info about Sandbox Suites and Coffee and Power.

Chasing Wildebeests

Kanen — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:25:48 +0000

1 hr 45 minutes -- A Scruffy Thinking Double Feature!

On this Episode of Scruffy Thinking, our guests are: Stu Maschwitz and Merlin Mann. We discuss living in San Francisco, Star Wars, finding and doing what you love, trusting your grandmother's advice, being unemployed after having lunch with Stu and a lot more.

Note to language nerds: the plural of wildebeest does not require an additional s at the end. Wildebai is also acceptable.

Alternate Show Titles

Doing what you love
Never Trust the N
Stepping on Jaba's Tail
Dominate your Density
CGI Rocks & R2D2
Dicking around on the Internet
Masterbate and play video games
Scar Tissue
Respect to the Grandma
Making fun of that conference
The Pied Piper of Unemployment
Coffee is for Closers

This Episode

We give away Final Draft, BBEdit and ByWord. Tweet us, e-mail us or -- better yet -- write a review of the show in iTunes and you are automatically entered to win a free copy Final Draft, BBEdit or Byword.

Mark Spano wins a copy of Final Draft! Mark, contact us at www.ScruffyThinking.com/contact and we will send you your copy of Final Draft.

Kanen Flowers

Kanen Flowers is the creator of That Post Show and of Scruffy Thinking. He also writes a blog. Kanen is currently trying to raise finishing funds for his own feature film, JAKE FORGOTTEN. There are less than 20 days left to donate. Help a fellow filmmaker by donating a few dollars. The money goes toward final editing and submitting the film into festivals for 2012. There's even a trailer online. Go to jakeforgotten.com for more information or to make a donation.

Stu Maschwitz

Stu is a filmmaker and accidental technologist. He runs a blog at ProLost.com. He wrote the DV Rebel's Guide. Stu is also the Creative Director for Red Giant Software's Magic Bullet product suite.

Merlin Mann

Better known as @hotdogsladies, Merlin is the creator of Inbox Zero -- which doesn't mean what you think, trust me on this -- the co-host of Back To Work with Dan Benjamin and part of the ensemble comedy troupe, You Look Nice Today which was once featured on Quotidian Public Radio.

The Good Stuff

Be sure to RATE THE SHOW in iTunes. It helps us with sponsors, helps attract listeners and lets us know how we are doing.

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The host records on a Blue Yeti mic.

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Music

Music: Industrial Revolution by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Notes

We talk about Star Wars (a lot) and Detention - the film. We discuss my grandma and doing what you love. I briefly mention Permanent Midnight -- the book and the movie.

I go to this conference called TED and spoke briefly with Richard Branson.

Stu is called "the pied piper of unemployment."

We talk about skating and The Bones Brigade and how I destroyed my knees as a kid.

We also have a long, fairly insane after show.

Atypical Mac Podcast

Kanen — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:34:47 +0000

On this Episode of Scruffy Thinking, it is Atypical Mac Podcast -- our guests are: John Foster and Victor Cajiao. We discuss podcasting, RSS feeds, recording shows, audio gear, drinking (or not drinking) and much, much more.

Despite everything, I probably mispronounce Victor's last name at least twice.

This Episode

We are giving away free copies of Final Draft, BBEdit and ByWord. Tweet us, e-mail us or -- better yet -- write a review of the show in iTunes and you are automatically entered to win a free copy Final Draft, BBEdit or Byword.

ByWord: I literally use Byword every single day. Don't be confused by it's simplicity... it's more than "distraction free" or "minimalist" writing. Byword really removes much friction when writing Markdown and rich text.

Kanen Flowers

I'm the creator of That Post Show and of Scruffy Thinking. There are less than 30 days to help me finish my film, JAKE FORGOTTEN, and submit it to festivals. Go to JakeForgotten dot com where you can find out more or make a donation.

John Foster

John Foster is the creator of KnowTech.tv.

Victor Cajiao

Victor is the creator of A Typical Mac User.

The Good Stuff

Be sure to RATE THE SHOW in iTunes. It helps us with sponsors, helps attract listeners and lets us know how we are doing.

Follow Scruffy Thinking on Twitter.

The host records on a Blue Yeti mic.

Download the Scruffy Thinking wallpaper designed by the amazing Michael Critz.

Music

Music: Industrial Revolution by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Notes

Victor pronounces his name, kah-hee-ow. We discuss Philip Rosedale of Second Life -- Coffee and Power and the Coffee Bar SF -- where @wilshipley hangs out as well as Philz Coffee and Blue Bottle Coffee.

Victor takes a Canon G11 - "Cheap Camera" out when he acts like a tourist.

We all use Levelator to fix audio levels in our podcasts. Victor uses the Aphex 240 Interface when he records. But I also use Call Recorder for Skype. Apparently, the Apogee Ensemble is also pretty good.

Nothing beats the amazing Zoom H4n for on-sight recording.

Get the The Shure SM58 Mic and be like Victor and create your own stories!

We saw Devon McClive ... live and John Foster does Beer School.

Dave Winer may have created RSS, but Adam Curry might have paid someone to create a pod-catcher.

I used to use NeXTStep for a long time, but I also used OpenBSD and some Linux. I also owned a Mac G4 Cube.

Victor does a benchmark on the Promise Pegasus RAID and then does a a real world Speed Test using my tool, HD Speed Test and then his Skype magically goes away (and John and I think it it might be the fault of my software).

You should be listening to or watching: WNYC RadioLab, ScreenCastsOnline, KnowTech, the R-Rated -- Keith and the Girl, but some of us dislike This American Life. Foster thinks you should listen to The Starter: By Scott Sigler and IT Conversations and some horror stuff called PseudoPod.

The now infamous, This Week in Media 107: Rebels.

Quotidian Public Radio may be the funniest thing ever recorded by anyone in the history of all time.

I love Doodle for all my scheduling right now.

A Frank Conversation

Kanen — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 06:38:09 +0000

On this Episode of Scruffy Thinking, our guests are: Ze Frank and Michael Critz. We talk about Los Angeles vs. New York, building online brands, the nuances of language and how we are all very, very tall.

Alternate show titles

An undignified 404
Taking an audio bath
Remarkably devoid of precise questions

Last Episode

We would like to congratulate Allison Reynolds. Allison is the winner of #BBEdit from #BareBones software. To claim your software, please contact us and we will send you a complimentary version.

This Episode

Byword is a finely tuned Markdown and rich text editor for the Mac. It's in the Mac App Store and it's optimized for Lion, with Autosave, Versions and full-screen support. Don't be confused by it's simplicity... it's more than "distraction free" or "minimalist" writing. Byword really removes much friction when writing Markdown and rich text.

I literally, yes, (Merlin) -- literally -- use Byword every single day: for blog posts, for taking notes, for writing Markdown, for writing the show notes to this episode, and even for making lists. All my words are in Byword.

So... to help you get efficient, we are giving out a ton of free copies of Byword. Tweet us, email us or write a review in iTunes and you're automatically entered to win!

Kanen Flowers

I'm your host, Kanen Flowers. I am the creator of That Post Show and of Scruffy Thinking. I also write a blog. And, I amraising finishing funds for my own feature film, JAKE FORGOTTEN. Go to JakeForgotten dot com where you can find out more or make a donation.

Ze Frank

Ze Frank is one of the few Internet celebrities who actually earned it. His talent extends beyond just dancing and funny cat videos and into a profound understanding of human behavior and the essence of humor. He helped build online video blogs and is now a founder of star dot me.

Michael Critz

Michael writes a blog at MichaelCritz dot com. He will be at the Eventley booth for DreamForce ’11, between August 30th and September 2. Everyone should come by and say hi.

Other Stuff

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Music

Music: Industrial Revolution by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Notes

Ze moved from New York to Los Angeles, California.

The Salt's Cure Restaurant

San Francisco Neighborhoods, including: Russian Hill, Nob Hill and The Mission. Michael walks from Bay Side to Ocean Side and back.

Michael wears Arm and Hammer Deodorant, but Ze wears Axe for Men.

Amanda Congden

Freddie W - videogame podcast

FPS Russia

The Bannen Way

Duncan Watts and Paretti paper - Big Seed Marketing

The Morning After on Hulu

Halldor Laxness - Independent People

William McDonough

Aubrey de Grey

Ze mentioned his company, Star dot me

Aftershow

Byword is awesome, but iA Writer needs extra panties, just to get into a wad.

Merlin Mann on the text episode

Hat in the bag? What the hell was I thinking?

A Venture Cast

Kanen — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 04:50:38 +0000

On this Episode of Scruffy Thinking, our guests are: Craig Syverson and David Hornik.

We discuss the economy, venture capital, naming children and much more.

Hosts

Kanen Flowers

(John) Kanen Flowers is the creator of That Post Show and has a blog. He is currently trying to raise finishing funds for his own feature film, JAKE FORGOTTEN.

Craig Syverson

Craig is the creative genius behind Gruntmedia, which produced Video Grunt. He worked at IDEO for 10 years. And he was on MacBreak Tech.

David Hornik

David is an Investment Professional at August Capital, one of the great Venture Capital Firms. He writes a blog called Venture Blog and still podcasts, with some frequency, at Venturecast.

Sponsor(s)

This Episode of Scruffy Thinking is sponsored by BareBones, makers of the best, most Lion-friendly, text editor, source code editor around. I use it every day, for text and Markdown. It's in the Mac App Store for $39 until September... a great deal.

If you'd like to win a free copy of BareBones Software BBEdit 10, follow @ScruffyThinking on Twitter and send a tweet that contains #BareBones. We will announce the winner on the next show (and on Twitter).

For 10% off any domain registration, transfer or any other domain-related expense at HOVER.COM, use the COUPON CODE "SCRUFFY" at checkout.

Show Links

Knowtech

Ridgely Evers and Davero Olive Oil

Dry Creek Olive Oil

Theravada Buddhism

VentureCast in iTunes

videogrunt #4: Aspect Ratio

The Lobby Conference

The TED Conference

Tom Rielly at TED

Hans Rosling at TED and his amazing stats video.

Jeff Han multitouch breakthrough video

Steve Jobs: Laptop touchscreens do not work

Justin, of The 5th Race Podast, with the touch-screen laptop bet

Paycycle - Online Payroll

Rocket Lawyer

LinkedIn and DJ Patil Social Graph

InMaps direct link

My crazy LinkedIn map

Hacker Sex Chart

Midnight in Paris: The Movie

Salon in Paris

The now defunct Life Zero podcast

Writers Grotto SF

Urban Tribes

Golden Gate Mothers Group

Workclub SF

William Gibson Villa Straylight chapter

David Hornik e-mail address

But, having said that...

Chat Transcript

My notes

This is meant to be a frank and direct discussion about Venture Funding, the way the world has changed and what people should think about in a world with Social Networks, iOS and the Cloud.

Speaking of purposefulness... TED and, aside from that, did you see my Thailand presentation?

How has it changed over the last 10 years?

The Foundation: Rose (Guy from Second Life Cafe)

How has the economy impacted the venture world? What is hot today? What kind of startups are being funded?

Is it less expensive to start a company in 2011 than 2001?

So you are not totally diluged with people asking for money, talk a little about what kinds of things interest you at August and the process.

The Real @CBARRETT

Kanen — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 00:18:32 +0000

OFF THE AIR

This episode of Scruffy Thinking is a collection of what was said "Off The Air" when the show was not officially recording. It has audio from the last three episodes:

No Cows in Battlestar, Dr. Frost is a Genius! and Writing in Latex

With Justin Nolan, John Foster, Michael Critz, Ron Brinkmann, Colin Barrett and Merlin Mann

Alternative Topics

Pumping gas, making raspberries
Not Smart Enough to drive the Starship Enterprise
I am not going to talk about commerce
Camels had value
The all raspberry pass
You're really famous, you can have a lot of beans
Earl Grey tea is complicated
Cybil like resume

Intro

OPINIONATED. PASSIONATE. INSPIRED.

Some people are neat. Some people are messy. Some people are just scruffy.

SPONSOR

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Errata

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Follow Scruffy Thinking on Twitter.

The host records on a Blue Yeti mic.

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Scruffy Thinking is now available as an MP3 file instead of an AAC.

Music

Music: Industrial Revolution by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Topic

OFF THE AIR.

Show Question

Guests

Ron Brinkmann

Ron is the author of The Art and Science of Digital Compositing, the writer and creator of Digital Composting, a blog about visual effects and film and he was partially responsible for Apple's Shake and Aperture applications. Also, Sony Imageworks.

Colin Barrett

Merlin Mann

Show Links

NONE

Chat Transcript

NONE

I do all my writing in latex

Kanen — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:58:30 +0000

With Colin Barrett, Ron Brinkmann and Merlin Mann.

Image from Culture Burn (click for link)

Topics we considered, but did not use...

Distraction Free Intercourse.
I can't have an erection with all this red.
40 posts a day about minimalism.
Intellectual fetishes.
Distraction free shoes.
Laudman and Poe.
Demons writ large.
Steve Jobs had a calligraphy class.
Appropriatism.
The big orgy of editing.
I've never talked about any of this.
Reading Shakespeare at the right speed.

SPONSOR

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Errata

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Music

Music: Industrial Revolution by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Question

On this Episode of Scruffy Thinking, we ask the question, "Text or RTF?".

Guests

Ron Brinkmann

Colin Barrett

Merlin Mann

Show Links

Markdown vs. Rich Text Format

Small Pieces Loosely Joined

Macintosh Quadra

vi ... represent!

SubEthaEdit

MultiMarkdown

LaTeX ... It's pronounce LAY-TEK

Crazy vi input manager

Notational Velocity

Siracusa's 116,000 work Lion Article at Ars

BBEdit + Tidbits article 12348

Fitz's Law

Pandoc document conversion tool thing.

WriteNow: The original Word Processor

OmmWriter Dana II

ByWord for Mac

The Art and Science of Digital Compositing -- Ron's book, which took 2 years to update.

Homesite

And, as a teaser for an upcoming OFF THE AIR @ScruffyThinking podcast...

Colin Barret Photo

Dirk Gently and the Couch

Skype Chat Transcript

[2:59:18 PM] Kanen Flowers: Hello RED TEAM, this is BLUE LEADER 5.
  We are almost read to record. You guys ready?
[2:59:28 PM] Merlin: y
[2:59:35 PM] ron brinkmann: stay(ing) on target
[2:59:35 PM] Colin Barrett: yes
[2:59:49 PM] Kanen Flowers: 
[3:24:35 PM] Kanen Flowers: Upcoming question (from John Foster): 
  Explain "distraction free writing."
[3:26:54 PM] Kanen Flowers: Me - ByWord, iA Writer, Pages, 
  TextMate recently replaced with BBEdit.
[3:32:27 PM] Kanen Flowers: Upcoming question: 
  Explain why Markdown is such a godsend.
[3:35:08 PM] Colin Barrett: http://www.corsofamily.net/jcorso/vi/
[3:43:58 PM] Merlin: http://babelmark.bobtfish.net/
[3:51:44 PM] Kanen Flowers: Quiz round: Markdown vs. 
  Multi-Markdown, iA Writer vs. ByWord, TextMate vs. BBEdit, Green Lantern vs. The Flash and, finally, Lex Luthor vs. Magneto.
[3:52:48 PM] Kanen Flowers: Not to put you on the spot! ;)
[3:58:45 PM] Kanen Flowers: Zen Habits. Minimalism 140 times a day.
[4:02:34 PM] Kanen Flowers: f scott fitzhemingway
[4:04:41 PM] Merlin: http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/1169153343/only-you
[4:09:00 PM] Merlin: kljsefkljsdfkljlsdkfjlksdjflkjsdf
[4:09:03 PM] Kanen Flowers: nice
[4:09:17 PM] Merlin: s/kljsefkljsdfkljlsdkfjlksdjflkjsdf/notebook
[4:09:18 PM] Colin Barrett: how dare you say that about my mother?
[4:09:25 PM] Merlin: kljsefkljsdfkljlsdkfjlksdjflkjsdf yor mother!
[4:09:39 PM] Colin Barrett: that's... that's just cruel.
[4:11:27 PM] Colin Barrett: http://quiteajolt.com/gff/storybookweaver.jpg 
  me & my best friend writing batch scripts.
[4:11:47 PM] Colin Barrett: That picture is so embarassing, heh.
[4:16:52 PM] Merlin: http://www.kungfugrippe.com/post/346528233/start
[4:22:15 PM] ron brinkmann: I'm happy to contribute to the Green Lantern 
  vs. The Flash and, Lex Luthor vs. Magneto conversation... :-)
[4:22:28 PM] Merlin: http://cl.ly/1J120M3k2m3w3F0I1a01
[4:22:48 PM] Colin Barrett: i have some stuff to say about the green lantern
[5:25:07 PM] Colin Barrett: http://macpowerusers.com/2011/07/mpu054qa/

Dr. Frost is a Genius!

Kanen — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:39:38 +0000

On this Episode of Scruffy Thinking, we ask the question, "Where is the Genius of 2011?".

Guests

John Foster

John is the creator of Knowtech and has appeared on a number of podcasts, since the beginning of time.

Michael Critz

Writes at MichaelCritz dot com. Check out his twitter stream at Tweet Library where he summarizes books in 140 characters or less.

Ron Brinkmann

Ron is the writer and creator of Digital Composting, a blog about visual effects and film. He is the author of The Art and Science of Digital Compositing and was part of the initial design and development team that produced Shake (acquired by Apple in 2002).

SPONSOR

For 10% off any domain registration, transfer or any other domain-related expense at HOVER.COM, use the COUPON CODE "SCRUFFY" at checkout.

Errata

Be sure to RATE THE SHOW in iTunes. It helps us get sponsors, attract listeners and lets us know we are doing a good job.

Follow Scruffy Thinking on Twitter.

The host records on a Blue Yeti mic.

Download the Scruffy Thinking Wallpaper designed by the amazing Michael Critz.

Music

Music: Wizardtorium by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons "Attribution 3.0"

Show Links

During the show, we talked about too many topics. Here are a few of the more important ones:

Wiki Genius

Leonardo da Vinci

Richard P. Feynman

James Gleik's THE INFORMATION

James Gleik's GENIUS or Genius for Kindle

Jonathan Ive

Thomas Edison

Dr. Frost - aka, Mr. Freeze

Letters of Stanley Kubrik

Letters of Feynman

10,000 Hours

Malcolm Gladwell's Book: OUTLIERS

Banksy

Stu and Prolost

No cows in Battlestar Galactica!

Kanen — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:04:22 +0000

On this Episode of Scruffy Thinking, we talk about Star Trek and Stargate. We also talk about Battlestar, Firefly and everything else in the Science Fiction universe (and on Television).