DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast - Better Than Half the Stuff Out There

DrunkAndRetired.com Podast - New Year's 2013

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 14:41:15 +0000

All about enStratus - DellWorld 2012

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 16:29:00 +0000

VMware Back of the Envelope #013

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 03:15:10 +0000

Getting donuts in Friday night

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:23:52 +0000

All about IBM. Also: #projectsputnik and hoodies

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 12 May 2012 15:29:53 +0000

Cloud - Back of the Envelope #011

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 18:40:11 +0000

It's better than washing the dishes - DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast #177

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:31:08 +0000

In which we hear Coté's grand theory of work-is-entertainment.

#barcampATX - DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast #176

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:28:10 +0000

We talk with Zane about barcampATX and Noah: the Culling.

PE vs. VC and other tales - Back of the Envelope #10

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:35:34 +0000

More about hard drives than you knew you wanted to know - Back of the Envelope #009

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:59:41 +0000

Cloud Talk with Ernest Mueller

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:55:12 +0000

Avoiding MySpace - Acquisitions - Back of the Envelope #008

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 05:01:10 +0000

2011 Review, The Problem with Old People - Back of the Envelope #007

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:16:24 +0000

Puppet Update, Winter 2011

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:46:32 +0000

Teyo Tyree and Dan Bode update us on what's going on with puppet and Puppet labs.

If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you - Back of the Envelope Podcast #006

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 03:05:32 +0000

More Healthy Livin' - DrunkAndRetired.com #175

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 03:38:42 +0000

OpenStack and Crowbar with Rob Hirschfeld at DellWorld

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:50:09 +0000

Dell and Developers - Web|Tech with Barton George

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 13:34:29 +0000

VMworld 2011, VMware strategy - CoteIndustries.com Podcast #001

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 03:14:18 +0000

For just 30 minutes a day... - DrunkAndRetired.com #174

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:52:38 +0000

Google I/O, and other stuff - "Are you the one who says 'truché'?" - DrunkAndRetired.com #173

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 20 May 2011 19:09:58 +0000

The parallel dimension known as "being an adult" - DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast #172

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:12:53 +0000

Of cigars, JavaScript, VIM, Christmas gifts, and things that don't pan out #170

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:16:00 +0000

Enterprise Software Explained, Oracle vs. ASF - DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast #169

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 04:24:00 +0000

All the world's Furniture - DrunkAndRetired.com Episode #168

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:10:00 +0000

Debt, The Ruby Racer, Tales of Platinum Amex – DrunkAndRetired.com #167

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:39:00 +0000

Happy birthday Nick Morgan! - DrunkAndRetired.com #166

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:41:00 +0000

Walking the dog - #53

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:47:00 +0000

Afternoon in the park - #52

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:36:00 +0000

How to Eat a Taco - Austin's Very Own Micro Edition

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:57:00 +0000

Friday afternoon at Jo's

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:06:00 +0000

Austin Trail of Lights

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:51:00 +0000

Walking in downtown Phoenix

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:47:00 +0000

Voting, Texas-style - Austin's Very Own #51

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:41:00 +0000

Americans don't know how to eat French bread - Austin's Very Own #50

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:34:00 +0000

Cloud Closures and Server-side JavaScript Injection - DrunkAndRetired.com Episode #165

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:11:00 +0000

I pledge allegiance to Spaghetti - DrunkAndRetired.com #164

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:22:00 +0000

Business hours - DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast #163

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:01:00 +0000

Kim's morning iPhone routine - Austin's Very Own #48

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:40:00 +0000

Kim tells us her morning routine with her iPhone - doing Interner chores.

DrunkAndRetired.com #162 - My fellow man is fucking me

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:31:00 +0000

DrunkAndRetired.com #161 - iPad Madness

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:28:00 +0000

Facebook rediscovered - Austin's Very Own #46

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:49:00 +0000

Burger Beat: Jo's - DrunkAndRetired.com Podcast #159

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:09:00 +0000

Austin Politicos, Urban Outdoors, Nagging - Austin's Very Own #45

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:42:00 +0000

Evening Strolling - Austin's Very Own #44

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:51:00 +0000

Kim Sounds – Austin's Very Own #43

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:50:00 +0000

Hamthrax in the neighborhood – Austin's Very Own #42

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:35:00 +0000

"They’ll validate!" – Austin’s Very Own #41

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:40:00 +0000

Texas backyard

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:29:00 +0000

Office Space, Beeps, Pens, and Costly IP - Episode 158

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:12:00 +0000

Sugar on Cereal - Episode #157

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:07:00 +0000

What won't Meatloaf do?- SXSW 2009 Edition

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Picking up a Pizza - DrunkAndRetired.com #156

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:22:00 +0000

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On the way to pick up a pizza, we record an episode. Catch the drive-thru beer-barn!

Sci-fi Plots, B&B Door-to-Door - Austin's Very Own #40

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:58:00 +0000

Some Kind of Wonderful - Austin's Very Own #39

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:24:00 +0000

Jury Duty, part 2 - Austin's Very Own

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:21:00 +0000

Jury Duty, part 1 - Austin's Very Own

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:19:00 +0000

Mom Comes to Visit, Bacon Bourbon - Austin's Very Own #37

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 01:12:00 +0000

Episode #155 - Kids and Time Management

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 18:41:00 +0000

Among other things, we discuss:

Niilo, the new kid in town.
Time management for makers vs. managers, craftsmen vs. factories.
EMail, GMail, and business privacy concerns.

The Return of Captain Benny's - Austin's Very Own #36

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:10:00 +0000

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While driving for tacos one day, Kim noticed a Captain Benny's is now in town. She tells us her memories of Captain Benny's from her Houston childhood, and he dad's memories of how Captain Benny's started. We also review the food we got at Mi Madre's while recording this episode.

Austin's Very Own #35 - Safety Deposit Boxes and Boys Instead of Movies

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:38:00 +0000

Austin's Very Own #34 - The Hair Cut

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:36:00 +0000

Episode #154 - Porchtastic

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:21:00 +0000

Edirol, Too Complicated Podcast Publishing

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:44:00 +0000

Austin's Very Own - iPhone 3.0

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:24:00 +0000

Kim and I talk about new features in the iPhone 3.0 software.

Yertle Wants In

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:17:00 +0000

Episode 153 - Belayed Thailand, Browser PTSD

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Wed, 13 May 2009 00:23:00 +0000

Austin's Very Own 33 - Thailand Packing

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Mon, 11 May 2009 22:56:00 +0000

DrunkAndRetired.com #152 - Stop Eating Boring Tuna

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:55:00 +0000

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Stop Eating Boring Tuna.
The Bench Seat of Doom - one fart could kill us all: helping Charles & Silva move.
Beverly Hills Cop II - jogging in oil fields.
Arley's Cheese Whiz Police covers - where are they now? - are they in Mesa Quotes? (No...?)
Finish Pride - there was always...sauna.
Charles' JavaScript talk at the Ann Arbor Java User's Group.
"Play With" - JavaScript/JSON
Using GitHub on the (slow) netbook?
JavaScript & JSON makes me wonder, "is Object Orientation flawed?"
Wittgenstein means "Language is a language is a Leaky Abstraction."
Try the R2 podcast, it's fantastic.

DrunkAndRetired.com #151 - "BAM! What's in your UNDERPANTS?!?!"

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 19:27:00 +0000

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In this two episodes in one episodes, Charles and I embed an episode of RIA Weekly into an episode of DrunkAndRetired.com. It's like a taco in a hamburger wrapped in a slice of pizza.

Here's a brief summary:

Detroit's motto is actually "Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus", which means "We Hope For Better Things; It Shall Rise From the Ashes" in English.
Check out The Bladerunner game FAQ I wrote long ago.
Charles gives his love to DonkeyTron 5000.
Since both of us have heard the NPR coverage of Detroit this week, I (re-)ask Charles, "what's up with Detroit?"
This gets us into a discussion of the villains plans to tear down the old city and build a new one in movies like Darkman, Robocop, and Bruce Sterling's recent book The Caryatids, which I give a brief overview of.
Don't forget Charles' upcoming talk at the Ann Arbor JUG! Charles will try to address Pete F.'s desire for a recording.
Charles discusses his concept for "TwitterDick.com," that is, seeing how much social media ego you have.
This leads us to propose the DrunkAndRetired.com Listener Market Research Omnibus Survey. Want to participate, just tell us!
For a detailed summary for the RIA Weekly episode, see the RIA Weekly #49 show-notes.

DrunkAndRetired.com #150 - From Seoul

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:40:00 +0000

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While in Seoul, I Charles and I finally had the chance to record a new episode. We talk about my trip over to Korea, house hunting in Austin, and the Apple Time Capsule.

Lightening SXSW 2009 Reviews

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While in the Gingerman, Kim, Charles, Silva, and Cote' give their review of SXSW so far.

DrunkAndRetired.com #149 - You'll never guess what I'm calling from!

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:39:00 +0000

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While running a quick errand, we talk about all sorts of things:

Football-shaped iPhones
The Many accents on the Garmin GPS nuvi.
King Ranch Casserole - see the essay/receipe here.
Charles' sandwich inventions: The Pork-chop Garnish and The Double Egg Bonus. (See more of Charles' pictures over in twitpic.)
It's true, those kids won't get off my lawn.
Kim looses her iPhone.
Charles on Groovy/Grails.
Ruby and JavaScript in IntelleJ.
...and more!

Austin's Very Own Special: Asking people to call ahead

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:54:00 +0000

Austin's Very Own Special: What are you thinking right now?

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:53:00 +0000

Austin's Very Own #32 - The 'burbs dilemma & waiting in the hospital

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:00 +0000

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In this episode, Kim and I talk about figuring out our housing situation: the nice, city neighborhood vs. the luxurious suburbs. We also go over Kim's time in Houston where she spent lots of time waiting around in hospitals which causes is to wonder out-loud if there's some kind of doctor shortage.

Austin's Very Own Special: Amber's Report Card

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:52:00 +0000

Austin's Very Own #31 - Caviar on the Buffet

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:51:00 +0000

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While driving around to find some frozen yogurt in Austin, we talk about...frozen yogurt, videos online, and some other exciting topics like desserts. Towards the end, things get gassy as we talk about my problem keeping enough fuel in my car.

Austin's Very Own #30 - A Weekend with Amber

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:51:00 +0000

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After a weekend in Austin, we talk with our niece Amber about such hot topics as "Mall Cop" and her Nintendo DS.

Also, don't forget to subscribe to the podcast feed in iTunes (or whatever you like) to have all of the Austin's Very Own episodes automatically downloaded for your viewing and listening pleasure! Click right here and select the way you want to subscribe.

Episode 148 - "Have you tried it hot?"

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:06:00 +0000

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Netflix On-Demand, or more "traditional" video On-Demand delivered to XBox.
"Have you tried it hot?"
Art by polls - painting and music.
Charles gets his hard-drive "fixed."
Going back to paper and pen for notes - maybe Netbooks can save us.
What's up with these clogged toilets?

Episode 147 - Using Technology for Evil

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:21:00 +0000

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Enjoy!

Episode 146 - All these goats are retarded

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:22:00 +0000

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This week, Charles and I catch up with this second episode. Our lateness is your benefit, dear listeners.

To that end, here's a select list of some of the things we discuss:

Charles was deadly ill.
The half-hipster carabiner key-chain arrangement.
The Pomegranate phone.
Valentine's Day Gifts - the ladies have it tough here (mine were awesome!).
Country Clubs seem like they'd be nice, if expensive.
Charles on designer/developer workflow - applying changes ain't that hard if the developer defines the deliverables.
Sprites in HTML.
Maybe the designer/developer workflow will never be de-coupled, really.
Charles' upcoming talk at the Detroit Java User's Group: it'll be February 18, 2009 6:30PM to 8:30PM at ePrize headquarters in Pleasant Ridge.

Enjoy!

Episode 145 - Return to Zane Studios

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:32:00 +0000

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While he was in town last week, Charles and I went over to Zane's studio again to record. I must confess, I don't remember what we talked about.

Enjoy!

DrunkAndRetired.com Special 01 - Put Java in a package repository

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Charles gives advice on what Sun should do for better Java distribution in the Linux world: make his life easier by hosting an official package repository.

DrunkAndRetired.com Special: Scotch Tasting

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:24:00 +0000

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Several weeks ago, I was lucky enough to drop in on my old friend Zane for a Scotch tasting. We had about 5-6 different types of scotch, and took the 2+ hours of this special episode to review each.

Zane has a pretty nice setup for recording and we've recorded this week's episode in there as well.

Also, in addition to the write-up about Zane's recording setup, check out the rest of his wiki for all sorts of fun content.

DrunkAndRetired.com # 144 - Ripple

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:16:00 +0000

In this episode, Charles and I go over several key agenda items for the new president. Namely:

Is Charles a morning person?
The cult of morning people
Silva's Dance performance with People Dancing Movement Guild
All about Evernote. The public Coté Stash
The so called "wet sauna,"or fake sauna
Dealing with Snow: Getting around, long-underwear (sheep's wool), driving
What Charles has been working on - Library Sciences thing called "Summon" Serials Solution
The Jon Udell regional web-ization efforts
Browser-cross platform hatin'
A little bit on Lotusphere 2009
The Agile Executive
Texas Social Media Awards - go leave a comment on Coté's nomination!
Charles' JavaScript talk at the Detroit Java User's Group
JavaScript on the server-side, that article

Also: why don't you just subscribe to the podcast feed to have all episodes automagically downloaded?!

Austin’s Very Own #22 - Kim Phung

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:51:00 +0000

Austin's Very Own #21 - Wine tasting in Grapevine

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 20:48:00 +0000

Austin's Very Own #20 - Wrapped or Unwrapped

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 15:50:00 +0000

Episode #143 - d20’s Cause Blindness

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:10:00 +0000

Austin’s Very Own #19 - Amber on Christmas

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:10:00 +0000

Austin's Very Own #12 - Christmas Gift Buying Theory

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 06:05:00 +0000

In this audio only episode of Austin's Very Own, Kim and I discuss our Christmas gift buying theories: how we go about it, what we look for, etc.

Episode 142 - The Barbed Wire on the Nuts

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 15:15:00 +0000

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See if you can't leave me an inch from where the zipper (burps) ends, round, under my, back to my bunghole, so I can let it out there if I need to.

In this well documented episode, Charles and I talk about:

Do you flush the toilet when someone is talking on the cellphone in the bathroom?
We discuss Charles "professional" uses of video conferencing.
How bit torrenting works, like, if you want to watch Heross.
XBox Live and Charles ordered and Android G1 dev phone.
Google Native.
KirinDave's post on ruby.
I solicits advice for what type of content you, the dear reader, would like to see more of.
Why not be like LBJ and call people every morning? (No exactly like this, though.)

Austin's Very Own 8 1/2 - A Skote' Thanksgiving

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 02:36:00 +0000

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On the way to pick up the dogs, Kim and I recorded a little update on our Thanksgiving, which we'd just come back from. We also go over an update on the adoption process we've been going though, which is pretty near the end. Exciting!

Episode 141 - Health care is killing me, on the bright side, I'm getting and XBox

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:38:00 +0000

In an attempt to get back to weekly recording, I submit to you, dear listeners, this week's episode!

In this 90+ minute episode, Charles and I cover Thanksgiving, health-care for the indie-type, and then get into scheming how I can get one of Charles' spare XBox's so we can shoot zombies together in Left 4 Dead.

Legendary!

DrunkAndRetired.com #140 - It's that time of month

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:01:00 +0000

Episode 139 - US Debates

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:31:00 +0000

In this episode, Charles and I talk about this week's, US presidential debates.

Also, in response to last week's 64 bit talk, Roger V. sent this in:

A 64-bit OS can access more memory because it's using 64-bit address pointers. In C, C++, and assembly language, one deals directly with address pointers.

Whereas in Java, C#, or the myriad of various scripting languages, one is shielded from raw pointers and one doesn't make direct calls to the OS from these mangaged languages - unless done through a special mapping or adapting mechanism.

So in Java one passes references to objects around and has no idea how big the reference is. Unlike address pointers in C, a Java reference is not directly manipulated. Now from Java, if you want to interact with the native OS, where address pointer types do matter, you have to use the JNI and write that code in C. Java interacts via JNI conventions with the C code, and the C code can interact with any native OS APIs. The C code can then deal with any 32-bit vs 64-bit conversion issues (perhaps by even dropping into some inline assembly language if necessary).

When you pass an address (like a pointer to a string buffer) to an OS API, the language signature for calling the API will make the type of address pointer (32-bit or 64-bit) very, very explicit indeed. You have to pass it the kind of address pointer that the API expects.

So 32-bit code running on a 64-bit OS has to make any system call interactions via some sort of thunk layer. Hence when I run 64-bit Firefox on 64-bit Ubuntu and attempt to use the Adobe Flash player (which to this day is still only available in 32-bit versions no matter what OS), I have to use a special adapter plugin that provides for this thunking. (Same goes for any C/C++ shared libraries - the 32-bit app will have to have 32-bit versions of its shared libraries.)

Now with Apple's latest version of the Mac OS X, the thunking is essentially the other direction. Apple is still using an essentially 32-bit OS, but wants to provide the ability to run 64-bit software applications (Photoshop) that can address beyond 4 GB of memory. So they have a special 64-bit compatible thunking layer for such 64-bit programs that adapts OS calls down to the actual 32-bit native OS API calls. If there is a comprehensive 64-bit thunking layer for all OS APIs, then 64-bit software, including their shared libraries, can be ported to run.

If you young whipper snappers had been around programming in C or assembly back in the days of the 8088/8086/80286 and then dealt with the transition from 16-bit code (MS-DOS, Win3.0) to 32-bit architecture (Win32), this 32-bit to 64-bit thing would all be old hat. Also, if you recall, Win95 was a 32-bit API programming model that thunked down to an underlying 16-bit MS-DOS underpinning.

Hopefully 64-bit will last us longer than 32-bit has - before we have to deal with the 64-bit to 128-bit transition.

--RogerV

Episode 138 - Re: WTF on this Financial Thing, 64bit Java

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:07:00 +0000

This week - episode here, man! - Charles and I have John Willis on as a guest (you may know him from one of my other podcasts, The IT Management Podcast). John explains the business owner side of all this financial stuff that we ranted about last week. Also, as we mention several times, this last week's This American Life episode explains it all very clearly.

We also spend a long time on Charles ranting about the lack of full 64 bit support in Java's Firefox plugin, esp. on the Mac. And then we do the usual noodling around on anything in particular, like how Charles and I met, "5,000 boots a day," ShopUS (seen above), and my neighbor-lady hanging out on her front-porch in her skivvies.

And, actually, it turns out they're not IBM clocks in the Detroit airport.

Episode 137 - "Take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs. And take them down."

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:24:00 +0000

You guys have it real easy. I never had it like this where I grew up. But I send my kids here. Because, the fact is, whether you deserve it or not: you go to one of the best schools in the country.

Rushmore. You lucked out.

Now, for some of you it doesn't matter. You were born rich, and you're going to stay rich. But here's my advice to the rest of you: take dead aim on the rich boys. Get them in the crosshairs. And take them down.

Just remember: they can buy anything. But they can't buy backbone. Don't let them forget that. Thank you.

--Mr. Blume, Rushmore

In this episode, I welcome Charles back State-side by bombarding him with questions about what the hell is happening with this financial stuff. I think we get to 2 or 3 good theories, but as Charles says, it's off course all ass Talk. We're not SmartAndFinancial.com, afterall.

We then sort out when Charles and Silva are going to finally move to Austin (March, 09, it seems), and then I get off on a tear on how Texas needs to best California.

Overall, I'd say this is a damn fine episode.

Episode 136 - Cracks in the Web UI Powerbase

podcast@drunkandretired.com (Coté and Charles) — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:53:00 +0000

In this episode, while I'm State-side, Charles is still in Finland. Thus, we start out talking about the wood-burning sauna he's been using. We then jump into a discussion of Chrome, and then I float the theory that there's major cracks in the dominance of web-only UIs - what with RIAs and the iPhone.

We wrap up with a special production from Charles.