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Speaker 1:So, for this episode, I've got, just some stuff coming for the next episode that I want to give you a heads up about if for ways for you to be involved. But, just thought I'd recap since it's been a week already since I recorded. I I do try to do at least one a week and Wednesday has sort of been my ballpark day and this week actually it looks like I'll have at least two out so, it kind of rains when it pours and snows when it blizzards as it snows outside. We had friends over this weekend as many of you probably did doing the Super Bowl thing. We actually hadn't planned to watch the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1:We forgot it was on. That's how dedicated and hardcore a lot of us fans are of football. But we when we realized it was on, I kind of panic because we don't have traditional cable. We don't have any sort of subscription like that. We do the Netflix thing and and then iTunes and rentals and stuff and then library borrowing stuff from library.
Speaker 1:So we don't have TV in the traditional way, but luckily my parents do. Both our parents do and so we have access to their cable accounts occasionally especially when they're not at home and stuff and so I installed the TSN which is our Canadian sports network, their app. They have one for the Xbox ones, install that on there and stream the game away just like we normally would if we had the channel. So it's kind of nice that way, kind of on demand literally, cable TV almost and it definitely isn't ten eighty p resolution, but for most of us sitting around on a 32 inch TV while kids are screaming and throwing all sorts of other balls and hockey sticks around, it was, good enough. The funny thing is we as maybe many of you did as well, we turned the game off after three quarters thinking it's done.
Speaker 1:Everyone's kind of headed home with little kids, bedtimes, all that kind of stuff, and then of course if you pay attention to football you're aware the, Patriots rebounded one in one of the more exciting finishes to Super Bowl game in recent history anyways. So we kind of missed that, but watch the highlights and kinda just got the same same effects. And with the for the, halftime show, we skipped Lady Gaga, which nothing I don't have anything as Lady Gaga. We're just downstairs and showing a bunch of the bad lip reading videos, football videos instead just to have a laugh during halftime. Afterwards, soon I watched the end of Black Mirror season one episode one, which if you've seen the series at all, we we hadn't watched any of it.
Speaker 1:That was the first one we got into and well, obviously, it's the start of the series. But first time we got we started down that series just to check it out because we I've heard a lot about it and, and after watching if you've watched season one episode one and I'm sure the other ones are equally kind of disturbing in different ways, I kinda needed to chase that with something. So we watched Brooklyn Nine Nine season three episode just to have a little bit of fun laughter before head to bed because, Black Mirror season one episode one is definitely not something you just relax and go to sleep to. So, a little bit we know we would be woken up for a few hours last night with, our youngest has a just a stuffy nose and and, gets very sad sad and emotional when she can't sleep in the middle of the night. And so you're kind of like equal parts frustrated, laughing, and just really wanna sleep.
Speaker 1:And so, yeah, it was a bit of a long night, but thankfully, Sue would let me somewhat unintentionally, I think I was just so tired. I slept in this morning a bit, so I got caught up and so feeling a bit more energized than I would actually otherwise. So, but, yeah, as far as what's happening on the next episode, wanted to let you know, be aware of, my buddy Dave Rupert who hosts the Shop Talk Show podcast which I also edit for them as well as writes blogs at daverupert.com and davatron five thousand on Twitter and is a awesome designer developer guy, with a couple of his buddies out of Austin, Texas. Anyways, he's had a little project ongoing for a while, called Dave on ShopTalkShow, they've used the hashtag Dave goes Windows as the sort of project moniker, but basically building a he's been a Mac guy all his life or a good portion of his life recently anyways and has been attempting to and has built himself a Windows computer sort of to like make sure that he's not stuck in one platform as a a way to broaden his experience that his use his own users of the websites and stuff that he builds as well as the other developers he's giving advice to on Shop Talk Show are using to have a bit of a variety in that way that he experiences the the tools and the sites that he's viewing.
Speaker 1:And also I think well, I'll talk to him a bit about it but about, you know, doing a bit of gaming and stuff like that, sort of the fun stuff. And so it struck a nerve with me because I got my start in computers and tech on a Windows computer. It was definitely Windows in the school. There's Mac computers there but, once sort of in high school for me getting a figuring out how that I could rebuild my own computer and ordering parts from a far off place and customizing it and getting them in and then later on I went to work in a computer store. I was I started in the Windows department and just helping people build their own computers and stuff like that and advising them against buying a big brand computer for various reasons and customizing video cards and sound cards and all that kind of stuff before I stumbled onto the Mac and fell in love that way with the Mac platform, which I still like.
Speaker 1:But I just watching and reading and hearing Dave sort of going through this kind of kindled a lot of or rekindled a lot of memories of days gone by fixing and upgrading and messing around with computers and and and maybe a bit of part of it is like seeing through my kids eyes like them not knowing at all how a computer is actually made and and I like I said, I love the Mac. I love my iMac and recording this on and my MacBook Air that I use and how it's just like sleek slick works. You just use you get to do the thing you wanted to do which, you know, whether it's checking your email, checking Facebook, building a website, or recording a podcast you just you're into the tool already, you don't have to worry about customizing sound cards and drivers and all that kind of stuff. That's all awesome. But part of me wants to sort of expose them a bit to the the guts of how a computer works and putting your processor card on with some heat gel and onto the motherboard and connecting wires and cables and seeing how it all pieces together.
Speaker 1:But, that's also expensive and so I thought by way of starting I would talk with Dave and get reminded of the actual, fun and frustrations of building your own computer, these days in 2017. So he's gonna be on the show the next episode which, is gonna be recorded tomorrow Tuesday February 0. So if you have questions or thoughts or stuff related to that, either for Dave or us collectively, I'd love to hear them. You can tweet them at me Chris I Chris on Twitter. Send me an email [email protected] or in the the Reddit subreddit com comments field for this episode as well.
Speaker 1:Or the patrons folks definitely on the Patreon posting for this episode. Throw some questions in there if you have about some of you probably use Windows computers and you're like, why would you bother doing that? It's just Windows but it's not so much about using Windows. That's what Dave's thing was on the Shop Talk Show but, more the building the machine and customizing it and ordering parts and all that kind of stuff that's kind of the the where I where and why I want to talk with Dave. So feel free to do that, and, that episode should be out this later this week.
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