• • Intro
    • How to pronounce 2010
    • Championship game on while podcasting, excuse our inattentiveness
  • Movies
    • Avatar, any difference between Imax 3D and real3D
    • Any movies to look forward to
      • Youth in Revolt (1/8)
        • Michael Cera
      • DayBreakers (1/8)
        • Vampires
      • The Book of Eli (1/15)
        • Post Apocalyse or Post Denzel?
  • Tech
    • Attend CES next year?
    • CES 2010 what we’ve seen so far
    • Color eInk displays prominent, makes me cautious on purchasing a Ebook right now
      • How close to consumer tech are they? 6mo’s / 1 year.  What is the sweet spot $$ for these devices?
    • Tablets aplenty from Sony (runs chumby), HP (windows 7), Dell (Android) all feel like a me too devices, despite Apple not even acknowledging that they’re making one.
      • Is apple going to release a tablet?
    • Too many things running Android, bubble getting too large, too fast, going to pop
      • What is the optimum Android application?
        • Cellphones
        • Devices
    • Sony making SD cards, world may be ending
      • Awesome!
      • When will Wimax/4G make this obsolete?
    • 3D televisions shown, some without glasses, still in infancy
      • http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/04/mitsubishi-shows-off-3d-tv-technology-no-glasses-needed/
      • http://www.markstechnologynews.com/2008/05/phillips-presents-3d-tv-without-glasses.html
    • ESPN and Discovery debuting 3D networks this year
      • Does this make sports the new porn or are we still waiting for a Jenna Jameson 3D adventure?
    • 6.8mm thick TV, when is it too thin, Kate Moss or Keira Knightly?
      • Wireless picture transfer.  How does the picture quality stack up?  Is it compressed?
    • Nexus One, prices, specs, Android 2.1 not coming to G1 ever, will I buy one
      • L and I still have 9 months left on my contract.
    • Palm Pre Plus/Pixi coming to Verizon
      • Meh………………………Palm is dead……………………………
    • ATT getting Android and webOS devices this year, iPhone exclusive done?
      • Well documented ATT data network issues.  While T-Mobile has been upgrading to higher capacity network (up to 14Mbps?) for now and more in the future.  Is this playing a factor?
  • Outro
    • There’s an app for that

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Without further adoo, here’s the tentative show notes for episode 10.  We are recording it this evening (Thursday Nov 12), post production will be fininshed tomorrow (Friday Nov 13), and we should see it cycled through the ITunes aggregator around Saturday (Nov 14).

As always, Thanks!

• Dollhouse being phased OUT!
• Fringe notes
• SGU?
• V
• HOUSE
  • Cuddy and the detective

Sports

• Somehow the Hawks won
• Somehow the Huskies lost
• What’s new?

Tech

• Finally, a practical application of Google Voice
• Google Wave Invitations
• Hilarious that the Tech Lay Person knows the faults inherent in Windows Mobile
• Call of duty?
• Trip to Barnes and Nobel including NOOK conversation
  • Dec 11 on pre-order, likely not in stores until after Christmas
  • Not even displays

Tech Pepeeves

• FB becoming a pay site
• People not seeing the forest for the trees with technology
• Laptops not being totally awesome?

What’s new?

• Several new listeners
  • Episode 8 is gaining reach
  • What I’ve been doing to grow the listenership
  • Constructive Critisism of the Show notes
  • Shout out to those that are helping and feedback
    • Nichole, Richard, Jeff, Zintrady, Colleen, Ryan, Etc
• Show Notes as always posted at www.JoshPenner.com
• Reaction to post production split in Episode 8?
• New with Josh
  • Started new book series (Saga of 7 Suns)
    • Finished 2 of the 7 books in the last couple days.
  • Wheel of Time Series Finale (1 of 3) picked it up at 40% off.
    • Now started it.
• New with Matt

New Movies:

• Pending

TV:

• Legend of the Seeker
  • Season 2 starts Nov 7
    • Got a sneak peak of Season 2 episode 1
  • Doesn’t look like it’s going to overlap with the second book at all, except with a couple very loose character adaptations.
    • Good
      • Kahlen (Bridget Regan)
    • Bad
      • Richard
      • Zedd
      • Shota
      • Etc
      • Story
      • Production Value
• Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show
  • Should Air Sunday
• V
  • Air’s Tuesdays on ABC
  • Remake of early 80’s classic miniseries.
    • Synopsis
    • Reaction to S1E1
    • Thoughts on series parallels
    • Verdict

NFL

• GB vs Minn
• Seahawks didn’t now 2-5 (WTF?)

MLB

• Yankee’s still winning WS
  • By the time this show is produced, Yankees likely to be champs
• Josh Predicts Phillies win in surprise WS comeback!

Tech

• TMobile
• DROID
• pending

As for the podcast, we recorded it in three segments in the hopes of improving the quality and keeping the content fresh.  As you might imagine 2 hours straight is quite a slog, but we never have a problem thinking of topics to discuss, or dumb things to say.  The problem we run into is fatigue.  Hopefully this change of pace helps both us the producers and you the listeners to maintain interest and focus.

Episode 8 Final Cut

Segment 1

What’s new?

• Reaction to episode 7
  • New poll posted on JoshPenner.com
  • Was Rider a good addition?
  • Other guest hosts
• We’ve been getting good feedback and even some help
• Going to move our production to a “studio”
• Decided to post show notes before podcast to help us and the listeners
• Thinking about segmenting the show up a little bit
  • In anticipation of sponsors
• If you’re listening to the show, subscribe with your podcaster.
• Started new book series (Saga of 7 Suns)
• Wheel of Time Series Finale (1 of 3) releases Nov 3.
• New Garage Band Features (Matt)

10ft Great White Shark with two bites in it from another Great White estimated to be at least 20ft.  At the time of this picture, the shark was still alive.  You think you had a bad day?  (insert kitschy comment here)

New Movies:

In the spirit of Halloween.  Best Scary  Movies of all time definitive

• Friday the 13^th part 6 & 7 (RR Owns it)
• Halloween 1&2 (RR Owns it)
  • Doesn’t include the remakes
  • The Thing (RR doesn’t Own it, but should)
  • Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Leather face
    • Includes the remake (RR Owns it)
    • Event Horizon (RR Owns it)
    • Arachnophobia (RR Owns it)
    • Jaws (RR Owns it)
    • Poltergeist (RR doesn’t Own it)
    • Leprechaun (RR doesn’t Own it)

TV:

• Legend of the Seeker
  • Season 2 starts Nov 7
  • Loosely based off second book
    • Good
    • Bad
    • Verdict
• Family Guy Presents: Seth and Alex’s Almost Live Comedy Show
  • Microsoft windows 7 was sole sponsor, but they just pulled out
  • Commercial Free
    • Features: original music, animation, live action musical numbers and guest celebrities.

Segment 2

NFL

• Josh’s SB prediction Vikings lost to Steelers
• Patriots slaughtered Bucs in London
• Huskies lose another one to Oregon

MLB

• Damn Yankees
• Josh Predicts Phillies win WS

Segment 3

Tech

• Windows 7
  • When to Buy
  • Why to Buy
  • Should you Buy
• Google voice now available without a Google phone number
  • Some extra features with g#, but most of the cool features are still available with original number.
  • DJ Hero

DJHERO website

• $120 standard (Turntable)
• $200 renegade (carrying case with table)
• Roku set top box for $80 for standard(SD) $130 for HD(HD-XR)
  • Roku.com
  • Good
    • Cheap/Excellent Pricepoint/HDMI/Netflix/Small
  • Bad
    • SD only in 802.11 b/g
    • N, only available in (HD-XR)
    • Still kind of ugly-but at least its small
  • Verdict
• $3.4 Billion for smart grid
  • Myth of smart grid
  • Realities of power generation/storage/consumption
  • Tech devices that are power hogs and what to do about it.
• Nuviphone
  • Been in the collective subconscious since at least January
  • Commercials starting to appear
    • Runs on AT&T
    • Is it a phone or  a Nav device
    • Does it do what it does well
    • Likely direction of this product in the market
    • Who’s going to buy this?
• Swine Flu distribution via supercomputer
  • How about some real leadership on the vaccine?
• Éclair (android 2.0)
  • Successor to 1.5 (cupcake) ,  1.6 (donut)
  • Upgrades include
    • Account management
    • Contacts and syn
    • Multiple (email accts) & exchange support
      • Unified inbox (missing from iPhone)
      • Support for syncing from third party online services
      • New contact features (quick-contact)
        • Synergy feature of Palm webOS
        • More camera controls
          • Flash
          • White balance
          • Digital zoom
          • Macro focus
          • Keyboard improvements
          • Browser improvements (including double tap zoom and others)
  • Droid likely running OS 2.0, so release should be imminent.
    • Fun fact, Lucasfilms owns the right to the word DROID
• FACEBOOK
  • WTF
    • Google inspired “live feed”
    • Why are you down almost all day?
    • Why do you eat my comments?
    • Be Bold, but not stupid!
    • 300 million strong and stinking

As for iTunes, the good news is-we are searchable as a podcast via the phrase: “WhiteNoise” from the iTunes store.  Yippee!  We even have a rating or two by this point. If you’ve stuck around long enough to make it through episode 5, you’ll definitely notice episode 6 & 7 are successively better than the previous.  I’m encouraged by the positive feedback we’ve been receiving, and despite talking for 1.5 hours each episode, Matt and I both feel that we have even more to say every time-once we cut our microphones.

In episode 7, you’ll hear a special guest host-that’s something we’d like to incorporate occasionally, in addition to breaking the show up a bit more into segments, instead of a full 1.5 hour bum-rush of topics.  Hopefully this helps our transitions and keeps our content fresh and interesting.

Without further ado: Episode 7 show notes-

Any thoughts?

Episode 7 Show Notes

What’s new?

• Episode 6 uploaded, episode 7
• Rider going to be on show but bitched out.
• New job prospect?

New Movies:

• Law Abiding Citizen:  RR (Buy it, based on the name and theme only)
• Amelia Earhart: RR (Don’t see it, Don’t Buy it)  Richard Gere / Hillary Swank
  • HS is aging terribly
• Couple’s Retreat: (Don’t See it, Buy it), Vince Vaughn
• Surrogate: RR (Don’t See it, Buy it), Bruce Willis
  • Another Avatar type movie
• Stepfather: RR (Don’t See it, Buy it)
  • Lame story line
• Saw 6: RR (Don’t See it, Buy it)
  • Seriously, are we still talking about this?
• 2012: RR (See it, Buy it)
  • Epic Fail Warning, Don’t see it = you’ll be disappointed!

TV:

• Dollhouse:
  • Does anyone watch this?
  • Shouldn’t have cancelled TSCC
• SGU:
  • Catching it on Hulu along with SG1 Season 8
  • Matt’s mom (Tilk w/hair || Tilk w/o hair)
• Fringe:
  • Record two episodes in a row without advancing the plot.
    • Sleeping episode
    • Tonight’s show

NFL

• Seahawks got slaughtered.
  • Josh at game and disappointed.
• SuperBowl Predictions
• Huskies: Lost in a big stupid way.
• Red River Rivalry
• USC v ND

MLB

• Angels falling behind in ALCS: 3-1
• Phillies going to WS for second year in a row
• WS Predictions

Tech

• Windows 7
  • Release Parties
  • Upgrades (reasons to &/or not to)
  • Upgrading from Vista/XP
  • Awesomeness/Specs
  • According to FOX news analyst: tips the scale on towards Windows
• B&N Nook
• Apple Release
  • New iMac
  • Magic Mouse
• Tesla being offered at a 42K (106K-64K) discount in CO
• Twitter=Microsoft/Google Turf War
  • FB=Microsoft/Google Turf War
    • Aging population: Average age T: 31 dropping, FB 34 raising
    • Huge potential market
    • Advertisers now feeder market as well as parasite to market
    • Twitter Revenue: 140M this year, 100M invested earlier which valued company at 1B
    • over the next couple years.
• Droid Does Commercials:  Verizon Droid

~Josh

“In the event of Rapture, we’ll still be doing this podcast…”  Matt ~ Episode 2 

The last week has been hectic with relatives in for a wedding, Congratulations Sean & Katie Six.   Matt and I had tentatively planned to push another podcast out Saturday morning, but that plan never materialized.  Fortunately, Matt had free time last evening, and we were able to produce this gem for your listening pleasure.

Something that is frustrating both Matt and myself, is the static and echo issues we continue to encounter when producing this podcast.  This is apparently a common occurrence with multiple microphones (USB) used in GarageBand.  Looks like we’re going to need to spring for a little better equipment.  At least that will be good for you the listener, and your ears.


The second episode was smoother than the first episode, mainly because introductions weren’t as weird and the content was fresh.  In fact, even though we talk for nearly an ninety minutes in this episode, there was content we omitted (because of time).  I guess that is what happens when you wait 10 days between podcasts. 

Items Covered:

Movies in Theater:    Rider Rating (RR)

• GI Joe: The Rise of Cobra - Don’t See it, Buy box set w/ GI Joe 2
• The Final Destination: 3D - Buy It, Watch It

• Halloween (Rob Zombie) - Buy It, Watch It
• Friday the 13^th - Buy It, Watch It
• Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Buy It, Watch It
• Star Trek  -  Buy It, Watch It, Punch Hardcore Trekkies

10 Year Rule:

• Peter Pan - Don’t Buy it, Female PP Confuses Kids
• Parent Trap - Don’t Buy it, Another Lindsay Lohan Fail
• Freaky Friday, 17 Again, Big -  Buy Big, Forget the Rest
• Phantom of the Opera - Buy It, Let the Wife Watch It

TV:                 

• 3D Football
• Fringe
• House
• NFL Preview
• College Football Opening Weekend

• Google Voice Beta
• Google Chrome OS Look Ahead
• Bing
• Matt Suggests Waiting on Laptop Purchase
• Pixi Unveiled as Low Cost Alternative to Palm Pre
• Netbooks
• Windows 7
• GMail Fail