Dumbed Down Life - Blog

DDL145

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 18:53:00 +0000

A special show this week, video only as listening to the two of us playing Star Wars won't make much sense unless you watch the video.

Lance and Darren both recorded separate game videos then Lance expertly edited them both together.

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DDL144

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:07:00 +0000

This week we discuss memorial plans for Sir Terry Pratchett, The Australian GP, and catch up with our training for Snowdon

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Terry Pratchett Memorial
Formula One
Snowdon Preparation

DDL143

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:05:00 +0000

This week we chat about meeting up with old friends, Our day out in London to meet Scott Sigler, and the rise in Boardgaming.

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Day In London
Star Wars Identities
Board Gaming

DDL142

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 19:38:00 +0000

This week we wish Darren and Buffy Happy Birthday and discuss the old, new, and NEW new Top Gear as well as the disaster that is The Grand Tour.

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Birthday
20th Anniversary Of Buffy
Top Gear/Grand Tour

DDL141

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Fri, 10 Mar 2017 20:59:00 +0000

This week we talk about Elon Musk's plan to send people on a trip around the moon, Our plan to walk up Snowdon and the non existence of ghosts

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Moon Trips
New Planets
Snowdon Walk
360 pictures from Darren's training: LINK
Ghosts
Mrs Hammell's Ghost: LINK

DDL140

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 22:55:00 +0000

Trying web cams for a change. The biggest challenge, getting a tidy background! :D

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Bill Paxton
Formula One Pre-season Testing
Phone Scam
Digital Assistants

DDL139

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Wed, 22 Feb 2017 20:21:00 +0000

This week we talk about Lance's new job as an Arial Surveyor, the potential for many new planets to be included in our solar system, robo racing, and we have a message from an old friend.

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Irthlingborough Archeological Society
https://www.facebook.com/Irthlingborough-Archaeological-Society-681796648511182/

Ricoh Theta
https://theta360.com/uk/about/theta/

Formula E
http://www.fiaformulae.com/en

Roborace
http://roborace.com/

DDL138

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Sun, 19 Feb 2017 08:27:00 +0000

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Exercising
Scott Sigler European Tour
Drones

DDL137

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 20:18:00 +0000

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Darren's photography skills
Peter Capaldi leaving Dr Who and the shortlist of his replacement
Lance's fitness drive

DDL136

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Wed, 01 Feb 2017 20:11:00 +0000

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What's Changed Since The Last Show?
18 months between shows, what's been going on?

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Dumbed Down Life 135

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 05:00:00 +0000

Very short show as, during my first go at recording for a long time, the Skype recording software stopped 12 minutes into our half hour conversation.

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I'm On A Boat!
Lance tells us about his weekend at sea.

Dumbed Down Life 134

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:39:00 +0000

Messaging, GFL, motoring and comet tracking.

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Dumbed Down Life 133

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 18:53:00 +0000

Scott Sigler's GFL and a bit of TV banter.

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Scott Sigler's world, talking about the GFL series.
Following the completion of Scott Sigler's audiobook "The Champion" Lance and Darren talk about what they think of the latest episodes and where the series may head (spoilers if you've not listened to the end of "The Champion"). http://scottsigler.com/

Current TV
Lance and Darren talk "Game of Thrones" and about the current spattering of superhero tv shows (very few (possibly none) spoilers).

Dumbed Down Life 132

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:00:00 +0000

Formula One, Road Rage and TV stuff!

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Formula One Safety

Formula One Shuffle

Song
Eddie Bingo - Everything I Touch Is Gold
https://www.jamendo.com

Road Rage

Gotham

Star Wars Rebels

Dumbed Down Life 131

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:47:00 +0000

Another random mix of topics, Lance preparing for a weekend with the Cubs and Darren climbing up the wall!

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Lance gets a costume for a weekend away with the Cubs

Amazon Fire TV

3D printed telescope

Song
The Easton Ellises - Sex, Drugs, Rock-N-Roll
theeastonellises.com

Not counting holiday

Rock Climbing

Dumbed Down Life 130

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Thu, 18 Sep 2014 20:54:00 +0000

Nothing to talk about this week so the show ends up at just over an hour long!

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A quick round up on Smart Watches and Rosetta

Microsoft buy Minecraft

Scottish Independence

The New Doctor

Formula E

Song
Josh Woodward - California Lullaby
www.joshwoodward.com/

Dumbed Down Life 129

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 07:30:00 +0000

Another tech' show talking about phones and watches, with an answer to the question posed last week.

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Phones And Smart Watches
With Apple having released the Apple Watch every nerd on the planet has an opinion on wearable tech' and we're no different.

Song
Michael McEachern - One Way Heartbeats
www.michaelmceachern.com/

Question From Last Week
So how much air does an astronaut breath while on the ISS?

Dumbed Down Life 128

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Fri, 05 Sep 2014 07:30:00 +0000

Watch this space! We talk about Darren's ongoing grapples with wearable technology and Lance answers some questions from the last show about life in space.

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Smart watch update
Darren has issues with his Kreyos but still has the desire for wearable tech.
www.youtube.com/embed/ttGns0zZKs4

Rosetta in for closer orbit
www.bbc.co.uk/news

Song
Sam Brown - Who Cares
www.youtube.com/user/SamBrownQC

Formula E
www.fiaformulae.com/
www.youtube.com

Dumbed Down Live 127

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Sat, 09 Aug 2014 06:24:00 +0000

More spacey stuff and watch talk.

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Next rover to make oxygen
www.bbc.co.uk/news

Rosetta attempts orbit
www.bbc.co.uk/news

Song
Anne Davis - Awakening
www.annedavismusic.com

Where’s My Watch?
https://www.kreyos.com/

Technical Hickup With RSS Feed

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Thu, 07 Aug 2014 10:56:00 +0000

My apologies folks! A small mistake in the coding of the blog post for DDL126 made the RSS feed not work correctly.

You should now be able to tell your podcast player to "re-download" the last episode and it should all work.

The Technical Bit

The host we use for our mp3 files uses both http and https. I had copied the address for the https file. While your web browser will happily connect via https and do all the secure certificate negotiation associated with the secure protocol, most RSS podcast software will not perform the secure handshake and instead reads the link as broken.

Dumbed Down Life 126

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Sun, 03 Aug 2014 07:38:00 +0000

Dusting off the microphones for the first time in almost exactly one year!

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In this show we talk about:
Where have we been?
Opportunity breaks distance record
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/july/nasa-s-long-lived-mars-opportunity-rover-sets-off-world-driving-record/index.html#.U9jT5_ldV8G

Driverless cars in th UK

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28551069

Girl with a Trademarked name

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-28559872

Music from:
Tamara Loral - Sweet
http://www.tamaralaurel.com/

Dumbed Down Life 125

noreply@blogger.com (Lance Goodman) — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 21:53:00 +0000

This week we discuss using a company intranet like a social network and YouTube's upcoming celebration of all things geek along with some new music from Jordan Reyne

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Jordan Reyne - The Annihilation Sequence
Iron Baby

Jordan Reyne - Bandcamp
Robert Llewellyn announces his participation in Geek Week
Jamie Oliver's YouTube channel
YouTube's Geek Week channel
The Knightmare TV show Wikipedia page

ContactTel - 07092 274 759
E-mail - ddl.podshow@googlemail.com
Website http://dumbeddownlife.blogspot.co.uk/
Twitter Username: DumbedDownLife

Dumbed Down Life 124

noreply@blogger.com (Lance Goodman) — Sun, 28 Jul 2013 20:16:00 +0000

This week we discuss putting Superman & Batman into a single movie and Google's latest venture into your living room.

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The Annihilation Sequence - Jordan Reyne

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 11:44:00 +0000

Jordan Reyne is a favorite of the show and we've played her tracks many times over the years. Jordan's new album, The Annihilation Sequence, was recently released. Jordan is releasing "chill out mixes" of some of the tracks from the album.
http://jordanreyne.bandcamp.com/

Jordan's web site is: http://www.jordanreyne.com/ . Links from there to all the social media sites you could wish for.

Getting Back On The Map

noreply@blogger.com (Daz) — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 11:06:00 +0000

We've re-registered http://dumbeddownlife.com/ to make it easier to find our podcast. We'll be posting updates there as well as on Facebook, Twitter and on other social networks.

The web page (blog) is the best source for updates as other social sites are more likely to be links back to here. However you found us, why ever you listen, thank you.