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Before hopping into a little creams and lotion shop, we discuss some more every day topics and memories from Kim’s teenhood.

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While getting hair cut recently, Kim and I discuss things not only hair cut related, but perhaps other things. I don’t know: I don’t really remember.

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After a fine BBQ meal, Charles and I catch up on the back porch.

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While we actually have a DrunkAndRetired.com episode for this week (which I’ll post at the end of the week), I wanted to point out the last one you might have missed. I posted it right before vacation, but just put it in the feed instead of posting it here as well. Click the play above, or just download it. Enjoy!

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While driving around on some trip-errands, Kim and I talk about our upcoming trip to Thailand: the problems we’ve had, packing light, our plans, and a few other random things here and there.

Having finished up The Caryatids and the spime-tastic (unintentional) playbook for IBM’s “Smart Planet” Shaping Things, I’ve now read all (I’m pretty sure…except for the Difference Engine, co-authored with William Gibson) of Bruce Sterling’s books. There’s a passel of them, but I’m a pretty big fan of his fiction and non-fiction. The list above is incomplete, of course, but it’s the things I thought of as reoccurring several times through-out the short stories, fiction, and non-fiction.

After having read all of them, my main suggestion is to make sure to read his first three books: Involution Ocean, The Artificial Kid, Schismatrix They’re completely different than Cyberpunk and post-Cyberpunk Sterling and a lot more “space opera” but with that gritty edge you’d expect from a Cyberpunk dude.

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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 Leaky Abstraction.”
• Try the R2 podcast, it’s fantastic.

(Here’s an even larger version if you’d like.)

In the spirit of one of the above, here’s the podcasts I currently subscribe to - and occasionally listen too! ;>

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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.