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Totally Uncool
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First-person stories from Unconsoleable host and IT professional Jessica Dennis. She thinks of these as "dumb stories about my dumb life," told at least once a month.
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22: My Cats Are the Best Cats
Oct 1, 201500:05:05Tap to summarize22: My Cats Are the Best Cats Jessica Dennis Download In which I present the case for my cats being the best of cats
Transcribe →21: Awkward
Aug 31, 201500:44:26Tap to summarize21: Awkward Jessica Dennis Download Soon I'm going to have to stop using "I moved long-distance" as an excuse, but that time has not yet arrived, so apologies for missing July, but I was moving! Moooooviiiiiiing, which sucks. Anyway. I'm joined today by Yasmine Evjen, one of the fabulous co-hosts of the Material Podcast, which covers the Googleverse over on Relay. Yasmine and I are basically the same person when it comes to interpersonal relations, so you know she has some good stories! Stuff (and people, oooh gossip) we talked about: Material Podcast Russell Ivanovic Google IO Material Design session and awards video Chris Lacy Jason Howell All About Android Action Launcher Deutche Bank, AKA douche bank Wink Murder, an annoying party game Nerf guns! Here are Popular Mechanics’ To 10 Nerf Guns of All Time
Transcribe →20: Violence Training
Jun 23, 201500:46:44Tap to summarizeBob was at my wedding. Yes I am wearing a tiara. I like tiaras. 20: Violence Training Jessica Dennis Download My friend Bob joins me to tell some of his crazy stories. Bob is an old-school IT guy, and not entirely free of Bastard Operator from Hell tendencies. Bob's appetite for mayhem makes mine look positively tame, so enjoy some of his "yes I really did do that" stories!Stuff we talked about:That Dilbert stripUC RiversideMr. TacoThose jerks who wanted to shut down UCR and UC Merced
Transcribe →19: The Future is Now
May 30, 201500:04:59Tap to summarizeFUTURE! 19: The Future is Now Jessica Dennis Download Have we reached peak introvert? Quite possibly! Your intrepid host tells you about her adventures abusing Amazon Prime and Prime Now and the introvert-optimized Panera app. Plus ordering burritos from the toilet with the Chipotle app!
Transcribe →18: Polishing the Cockroach, Poisoning the Piano
May 12, 201500:28:46Tap to summarize"But I'm so cute!" No, spider; no you are not. 18: Polishing the Cockroach, Poisoning the Piano Jessica Dennis Download Friends Joe Macirowski and his awesome wife Lia join me for an episode all about creepy crawlies, both real and imaginary.Discussed in this show:Ruffled Feathers, a podcast about things that ruffle our feathersEveryone knows you die instantly One of my favorite hatsThe boardwalks of New JerseyVery few spiders are actually harmful to humansCane spidersA beginner's guide to tarantula careBig ol' Hawaii cockroachesLemon-scented Raid and lemon-scented Pledge: not interchangeableCentipedes of Hawaii
Transcribe →17: HULK SMASH
Apr 17, 201500:02:24Tap to summarize17: HULK SMASH Jessica Dennis Download So this happened.
Transcribe →16: Key Lime or Go Home
Mar 24, 201501:02:48Tap to summarize16: Key Lime or Go Home Jessica Dennis Download Thomas Brand, Joe Macirowski, and I take a trip down memory lane, right through the heart of One Infinite Loop. We talk about our favorite old Macs and some of our not-so-favorite Mac memories.Stuff we talk about: The crazy expensive indigo iBook Key lime iBook Relatively reasonably priced Key Lime iBook G4 Cube Those horrible CRTs The LCD studio display alternative Quicksilver G4 Mirrored Drive Doors G5, the "good one" Blue-And-White G3 iMac G4 "lamp" Take-apart guide for a G4 iMac Take-apart guide for a clamshell iBook Tear-down of a beige Power Mac 8600 %^# CricketGraph GraphSketcher, formerly OmniGraphSketcher, now open-sourced by The Omni Group, which some people used to replace CricketGraph The mighty Mac IIfx Mac SE FDHD OS/2 was a thing Win 3.11 for workgroups! The New Macbook (one USB port) All of the PowerBook G3s The first Titanium Powerbook Ontrack data recovery Drive Savers Drobo Target disk mode Macdrive for Windows Those horrible TiBook hinges The Black Tax Colorware Flowered Dalmatian iMacs Plain ol Flower Power iMac, unfairly maligned And finally: Follow us on twitter! @jessicadennis, @joemmac, and @eggfreckles or on App.net: @jessicadennis, @joemmac, and @thomasbrand And also check out eggfreckles.com
Transcribe →15: How I Named My Cats
Feb 13, 201500:07:08Tap to summarize15: How I Named My Cats Jessica Dennis Download Moisés (Our Dear Leader) thinks it's awesome that my two older cats are named after literary/historical figures, so here's the epic (not) tale of how that came to be.Links:Eloisa to Abelard, by Alexander PopeEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind*The Penguin Joke*Yep, that's an Amazon affiliate link!
Transcribe →14: Celebrities Make Me Stupid
Oct 7, 201400:17:20Tap to summarizePhoto credit: Gage Skidmore 14: Celebrities Make Me Stupid Jessica Dennis Download Some stuff I talk about:Prosopagnosia, aka face blindnessDragonConJames MarstersAnd you have stupid hairCary ElwesAs You Wish (you bet that’s an affiliate link!)
Transcribe →13: I Lost on Jeopardy
Sep 12, 201400:10:49Tap to summarizeNo, see, this makes sense because the in-person audition was in Washington, DC. 13: I Lost on Jeopardy Jessica Dennis Download Video: recording myself taking the Jeopardy online testAudio: go buy I Lost on Jeopardy on iTunes or on Amazon or by some other means (though if you click that Amazon link I get a trivial amount of money!)
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