The Mind of Men

Episode 133 – What’s On My Christmas List 2011

Jim — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:33:32 +0000

Jim is back with guest host Ed joining him this time to present our special holiday edition of the Podcast. On the front end, we talk about some stuff and then follow with with this year’s annual roundup of what’s on their respective Christmas Lists.

Topics Discussed:

Amazon Kindle Fire
Apple Macbook Air
Don’t forget to check the Apple Store on Black Friday, November 25 for their once-a-year sale
One of the oldest and best Black Friday Ad Scan Websites is BFAds.Net
Planning on doing some shopping at Midnight on Thanksgiving? Not if you live in Massachussetts
Congress fails to overturn FCC Net Neutrality Rules
For all inventors out there, patent reform coming soon
And Congress is at it again with the Internet Blacklist
Newt Gingrich for President?
Super Committee a Joke?
Is your lawmaker getting rich off of insider trading?

Jim’s List

Apple TV 2 Jailbroken using Seas0n Pass then XBMC installed using the instructions on Lifehacker
TAWATEC E. O. Diver Watch with Tritium Vials
Breville One Touch Tea Maker
Warm Breath Mask
Kinect Sports Season 2
Crimson Trace Lasergrip for Sig Sauer P239
Audible, Amazon Prime, and Netflix

Ed’s List

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Episode 132 October 2011 Surprise

admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 03:31:54 +0000

No Tricks here – just a treat as Jim & Mike return with a throwback episode to the early days of the Mind of Men podcast. No agenda, no back end segment, just Mike & Jim talking about what’s on their minds with the microphones running. Download it, give it a listen, and let us know what you think. Also look forward to our annual What’s on My Christmas List later in November.

Grab it from iTunes, or Download it Here

Episode 131 – What’s On My Christmas List 2010

Jim — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 01:34:47 +0000

Jim & Mike return with our 5th annual edition of What’s on My Christmas List, but first they need to get some stuff off of their chests…

Stuff We Talked About

Our Christmas Lists:

Jim

Tivo Premiere
Sapphire Radeon 6870 Graphics Card
Make: Electronic Components Pack #1
Call of Duty Black Ops for the PC
A Printer that Supports AirPrint
Bruichladdich PC8
A Compact Digital Camera
Toys for Tots or something like that

Mike

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HH81 – La Aurora 100 Anos Lancero and Four Roses Marriage Collection 2009 Bourbon

admin — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 02:17:23 +0000

After saying goodbye to the Mind of Men podcast, Mike and Jim return to the Havana Hut with an all new cigar and libation review.

Episode 130 All Good Things..

Jim — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:53:59 +0000

This week, the guys get together for the very last show of the Mind of Men.

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The Technique we used to Cook Our Celebration Rib Dinner

Jim’s Blog Projects:

Small Business Lessons – Thing’s I’ve learned running a small business

Active Moderate – The political blog that observers events from the perspective of the middle

Home Tech Place – The Place for me to talk about all kinds of home tech

Interesting News

Engadget puts Streak’s “Gorilla Glass” to torture test

Engadget releases App for Blackberry – now includes support for Storm and Storm2

Obama and BP refused Dutch help to contain oil three days into the spill

Tea Party-backed candidate Sharon Angle may upset Republican hopes to get rid of Harry Reid

People We Want To Thank:

Doctor Stogiefresh of the Stogiefresh Podcast

Steve from the Extra Points Podcast

Mark Gillespie of the Whiskycast Podcast

Tad Kledzik of KledzikChristmas.com

James Bragg of the Fighting Chance Car Buying Information Service

Greg Rempe of the BBQ Central Radio Show

Carrie Oliver of Oliver Ranch

Ryan Maloney of Julio’s Liquors

Dave Garafolo of 2 Guys Smoke Shop

Our Good Friend, Ed (no website, sorry)

Thoughts on the Temporarily Lost American Teen Sailor

Jim — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:57:04 +0000

I was reading this story today on the successful location of the 16 year old girl who was trying to be the youngest person to sail unassisted around the world or something like that. As the story goes, she was fine until sometime around Wednesday/Thursday when she activated her emergency locator beacon as she became increasingly concerned about the stormy conditions she was sailing in. On Thursday, her boat was successfully located in the middle of nowhere in the Indian Ocean. She is 2000 miles East of Madagascar, 2000 Miles West of Perth, Australia and 500 miles north of some small French Islands in the Antarctic. An Australian rescue plane overflew her boat and noted that while it had been dismasted, it was still afloat and appeared seaworthy. The French government has diverted a small fishing boat to pick her up, but she is so far from anywhere that it will take them until Saturday to reach her. The Australians have also dispatched a military vessel to the area.

Okay, so here are my questions – first of all, who the hell is going to pay for this? The rescue plane had a good distance to fly to find her and with rising fuel costs, it’s not going to be cheap for either the French fishing boat or the Australian Naval ship to get on the scene. Secondly, as the article states, she is pretty far off any shipping lane. She is supposed to be a very accomplished sailor – if that’s true, then what the heck was she thinking? If she had a medical emergency, she might very well be two days or more from help sailing where she is.

While I’m certainly glad that she has been successfully found, I hope that her and her family gets the bill for rescue effort. It just really annoys me when people go out and do something so amazingly stupid like this and then look to the rest of us to pay a lot of money to get their stupid butts out of the mess they got themselves into.

I’m also going to go out on a limb and suggest that these idiot record books that track things like “youngest person to sail around the world” or “world’s fattest person” are partly to blame for this. We should not have records that encourage stupid behavior. Left to our own devices, as a race, humans do some pretty stupid things without additional encouragement. If this girl had been successful in making it around the world, eventually, some 15 year old would try a round the world stunt, then a 14 year old, and on until someone eventually gets killed. The parents of this girl are incredibly irresponsible – really – letting a 16 year old try to sail solo around the world. What would have happened had she come across some of the pirates that sail in the area – hell – her web site was tracking her progress so it wouldn’t have been too hard to find her. She would have disappeared into a brothel or faced an even worse fate never to be seen again and then everyone would have felt sorry for her parents instead of asking them what the F- they were thinking letting her do this in the first place.

Like I said, I’m glad she was found, but I sure as heck hope we hear about the five or six figure bill her family gets to pay for the rescue effort. It may help discourage similar stupid behavior in the future. Chances are, though that you know they’ll be able to afford it with the royalties they’ll get when her story gets turned into the inevitable TV movie lauding her daring and skill or something foolish like that.

Episode 129 – The Penultimate Show

Jim — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 03:25:41 +0000

The guys get together for the final “regular” show before the final episode of the Mind of Men, which will be happening the third week of June. If you have any questions, comments, and/or well wishes, get them to us before June 17 and we’ll talk about them on our last show.

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Interesting News

Stocks end May with worst showing in a year

Gary Coleman Passes Away at 42

Tech News

Apple’s Market Cap Exceeds Microsoft and is closing on Exxon Mobil

Chinese Hardware Maker Foxconn continues to have problems with suicides

A guide to privacy on Facebook | Facebook

How to Build a Water Rocket | Step-by-Step | Family Projects | This Old …

Air Rocket Kit from the Maker Store

Tech Stuff

IP enabled Thermostat

iPhone App for Remote Thermostat Control

Mass Effect I and II bundled for $42 by Impulse

Politics

Goodbye and Good Riddance to Arlen Specter

But Republicans are upset that White House interfered with the primary campaign

President takes some of the blame for the BP spill debacle

Episode 128 – Gettin' Near the End…

Jim — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:21:05 +0000

This week, we talk about a bunch of things, but the most important is the announcement that we are approaching the end of the Mind of Men as a regularly scheduled podcast. We invite everyone to get their questions and comments in and we’ll be talking about those (along with a bunch of other stuff) during our two week hiatus before the final episode, Episode 130, which will be our around June 23rd.

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Interesting News

No Triple Crown again this year as Looking at Lucky steals Preakness from Derby winner Super Saver

Article on Getting the Drugs out of horse racing to fix Triple Crown

BP Oil spill continues to threaten America’s Shores and President Obama forms bipartisan commission to study ways to prevent this in the future

Arizona threatens to cut off power to L.A. in response to city’s boycott

Skydiver preparing for Supersonic Fall from 23 miles up

Tech News

Adobe targets Apple in ad campaign launched today, publishes open letter from founders

Are Digital Devices Like iPads Rotting Our Brains?

Politics

Primary Races Show further polarization between Left and Right

Our Website is Baaaaaaaaaaaaack

Mike — Fri, 28 May 2010 04:22:08 +0000

Hello everyone. Our website has finally been restored. Unfortunately, it’s a bit dated in that the latest good backup we had is from late April. We will be adding the latest episodes over the next couple of days.

In the mean time, you can still access our RSS feeds from our menu and of course, our iTunes subscriptions are still active.

Thanks for your patience during our website’s “vacation.”

– Mike & Jim

Episode 127 – Tech Update 2010 – What We Use Day to Day

Jim — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:28:54 +0000

This week on the show, we revisit one of our favorite topics – the tech that we use everyday. We’re light on front end stories, so we can make time to jump into the main segment.

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