S6E18: "Living With and Without"

Posted 2021-10-24 23:59
Modified 2021-10-25 18:33
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In this episode, the hosts are dead. Our ladies give us a memorial.

• Just the Tip
• Notes
• 15 Plenty of Clams
• Errata
• Music

Just the Tip

• (Refer to topic)

Notes

Starts at 21m52s.

• What’s it like living with the Hosts?
  • Alex says that Paden likes to play with other peoples’ new phones.
    • And gets mad about setting up wi-fi in stores.
  • Audrey says it was weird her mom and Paden met in a video game.
    • And gets frustrated because Paden pretends he knows more about speedrunning than her.
    • And doesn’t like TikTok because China (which, to be fair, valid).
  • Emily says that Paden likes sticking things on the car because he can’t drill holes in it. (For ham (amateur radio).)
  • Nina likes that there’s always a USB charging cable available in any given room.
    • And doesn’t need to set up her own electronics.
    • And my cable management. :)
    • But doesn’t like how much tech jargon we use and doesn’t understand why so much of it is named after food. (To be fair, neither do I.)
    • And she likes that my Google-Fu and documentation parsing is on-point.
    • But it drives her nuts that I get things with “bells and whistles”.
      • But, BUT, hear me out, that rake I can use for grass clippings, leaves, mulch, whatever. It’s like three rakes in one!
      • And the weed puller gets the roots too! And her back may be fine but mine’s fucked, so the less bending over I need to do the better.
  • We all use what they consider unreasonably strong passwords.

15 Plenty of Clams

Starts at 1h17m12s.

(You can tell Nina and Emily have listened to the podcast before because they got the lead-up bait-and-switch joke Nina did for the Clams intro.)

According to Caity, Jthan is a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He was mad over a broken mug.

Errata

• I think I’ve mentioned my period of (quasi)Nazirite vow before on-air.
  • With some modifications…
    • I did a vow of 5 years (and kept the dreadlocks because they’re just easier than always getting my hair trimmed), so not a complete temporary vow (as there is no Temple anymore).
    • I extended corpse to any dead thing (incl. animals).
      • The terms of this, as Nina mentioned, were tricky. I imposed a 6-foot limit, and included animals. This means I could go to funerals but could not touch the body (or come within 6 feet of it).
      • There was also a limit of time on this since I included animals; meat that had been slaughtered more than 24 hours ago was okay. Roadkill still wasn’t. Yes, I’d sometimes need to swerve a bit (not drastically) or change lanes if I noticed roadkill. There wasn’t any significant danger in it, from what I recall.
    • The texts indicate an inclination, contextually, towards red grapes/wines/etc. specifically, but I avoided red and white both.
• Apparently it’s a tech guy thing to get nosebleeds.
• Paden and I can take credit for fast internet because you need a gigabit LAN and 802.11ac to take advantage of 1Gbps ISP. ;)
• TIL kids are stealing soap dispensers from their school’s bathroom.
• Nina didn’t have to futz with a screensaver because I followed best practices and made a new account for her and configured it closer to her usage patterns. :P
  • Step up your game, Paden and Jthan.

Music

Author r00t^2
Categories Season Six