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Zak and Liz discuss the Dairy-Free lifestyle, Liz’s fear of loosing data, and what Big-Milk is doing to market to Gen-Z. Recorded on July 3, 2022 Dairy-Free Mac & Cheese – Daiya Wicked Kitchen Daiya Slices Original Creole Seasoning – Tony Chachere’s Media Top Soccer Shootout Ever With Scott Sterling – Studio C on YouTube Top Soccer Shootout Ever With Scott Sterling – Archived on the Internet Archive The Dollop Podcast The Offline Internet Archive – Internet Archive blog Archivebox.io Against SQL – Scattered Thoughts Life Streams iOS File System Recommendations – Apple Developer Documentation Desktop Metaphor – Wikipedia Lifestreams homepage – Yale.edu Yahoo Pipes – Wikipedia Lifestreams – Wired Reconcilable Differences #169 – Relay.fm Zettelkasten – Wikipedia The Murderbot Diaries – Martha Wells Apache Kafka Explainer Comic iBeacon – Apple Developers Feed (novel) Fall; or, Dodge in Hell Marketing Milk to Gen Z Gen Z and Driving Dairy Demand – Martha Kemper on LinkedIn Cow Methane Capture – AG Daily Undeniably Dairy sponsoring Version1 – Midwest Dairy Generation Z: Uncovering Dairy Insights – Oregon Dairy Industry Rick Diggins’ Monologue (from Dimension 20 Tiny Heist) – HippoMii on YouTube Contact Us @zaksharp.me Support Us Patreon This episode’s PGP signature: (download link) What is this?

Zak and Liz try out other pharmacies, discuss the best gay chatbot that 2022 can offer, and check-in about yearly themes. Recorded on Jun 18, 2022 Containers MicroK8s Trevor Project Walgreens Rainbow Logo (as of June 2023) – Facebook What does “Queer” mean? – them magazine One neurodivergent critique on Autism Speaks – Autistic Heroes Autism Speaks high executive compensation – Disability Scoop (2009) Allism – Zefram on fysh.org The Trevor Project’s AI use for training – Protocol (via the Wayback Machine) Google engineer says Lamda AI may have its own feelings – BBC Three Laws of Robotics – Wikipedia Interview with GPT-3 as a squirrel – AI Weirdness PogChamp – Wikipedia Care With Pride – via the Internet Archive OGX Care with Pride collection – GCI Magazine Themes Minidump Stackwalk crate – docs.rs Remarkable tablet Contact Us @zaksharp.me Support Us Patreon This episode’s PGP signature: (download link) What is this?

Zak and Liz talk about Zak’s Year of Being a Better Friend, how he plans to be the latest-greatest Zak next year, and why Liz is NOT friends with Walgreens. Recorded on Jun 12, 2022 Zak’s New Theme Your Theme – CGP Grey on YouTube Big Friendship Call Your Girlfriend Walgreens Pharmacy Woes Economies of Scale – Wikipedia CPOE – Wikipedia Alarm Fatigue – Wikipedia Therac-25 – Wikipedia Calvinball – TV Tropes Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names – Kalzumeus Express Scripts Contact Us @zaksharp.me Support Us Patreon This episode’s PGP signature: (download link) What is this?

Zak and Liz want the aliens to kiss, the milks to duke it out for glory, and the error messages to say what they mean. Recorded on May 8, 2022 GMO Free Chicken – Sentient Media Project Hail Mary Andy Weir The Martian Artemis Randomize The Frontiers Saga The Silmarillion Dwarf Fortress – Wikipedia Project Hail Mary Fanfiction – AO3 Seveneves Milk Alternative Bracket Hey Riddle Riddle Oat Cinnamon Swirl – Nutpods Pocket Sand – Know Your Meme BattleBots – Wikipedia   Russian Doll – Wikipedia Zak Programming WSDL – Wikipedia REST Microsoft Dynamics X++ ekuber (the Rust errors guy) – hachyderm Function overloading – Wikipedia Museum of Endangered Sounds Causative Verbs – Wikipedia Contact Us @zaksharp.me Support Us Patreon

Zak and Liz talk about mapping tools and displays of geograpic data. They also talk about the “gay pirate show”. Something for everyone this episode. Recorded on April 24, 2022 More Maps Manifesto Zak’s Tweet about Black Restaurant Week – Twitter What is GIS? – Esri Milwaukee Spec Hydrants Edward Tufte Milwaukee Food Deserts and Grocery Stores– Fox 6 Urban Milwaukee On Milwaukee Zak’s postcard map – ArcGIS OpenBenches Wikitravel Atlas Obscura GeoJSON Content Management System– Wikipedia Semantic Web – Wikipedia Our Flag Means Death – IMDB   Contact Us @thePunsGuy   Support Us     This episode’s PGP signature: (download link) What is this?

Zak and Liz talk about weighing a W boson (with “bonus content” for those who participated in the Worrying Bugs Book Club). Liz’s new old has bluetooth audio… if you’re willing to work for it. The 2016 Macbook Pro only has USB-C ports and drivers are a nightmare. Recorded on April 10, 2022 Newly Measured Particles – Quanta Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! – Bookshop.org Elden Ring Messages – Fextralife The 7 Percent Solution – Section from Surely You’re Joking, on okstate.edu Feynman diagram – Wikipedia Schrödinger’s cat – Wikipedia Standard Model – CERN ORM – freeCodeCamp Homomorphic Encryption – Wikipedia Bluetooth Why talking on the phone while driving is dangerous – CityMonitor Proximity Effect Backprop – Wikipedia Genie – Stanford Ethernet DriverKit   Contact Us @thePunsGuy   Support Us     This episode’s PGP signature: (download link) What is this?

Zak and Liz talk about Liz just wanting the all the levels of software to get along and Zak’s recent travel experience. Recorded on April 3, 2022 Whale Fall – Wikipedia I Contain Multitudes – Harper Collins Chemosynthesis vs Photosynthesis – NOAA Osedax mucofloris – Wikipedia The Universe is Weird – Hank Green on YouTube “The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” – Victor E. Frankl Logitech’s Bad Software Logitech MX Master Series Better Touch Tool Logitech G Hub RansomWhere Richard Stallman – Wikipedia The Printer Story – gnu.org OBS Studio Kensington Trackball Mouse Open Source Trackball Mouse – Ploopy Train Review Amtrak Hiawatha Route – Amtrak California Zephyr – Amtrak Amtrak Not Owning Their Tracks – Atlas Obscura Snowpiercer (film) – Wikipedia PSA Source – The Atlantic   Contact Us @thePunsGuy   Support Us Patreon   This episode’s PGP signature: (download link) What is this?

Zak and Liz are taking the fortnight off.

Zak and Liz talk about E15 gasoline; it’s like E10 gasoline, but 5 more. Zak tells us what he has found out about the Home Front Energy Independence Act. There is a billion dollars on the line to accomplish 4 things (and the 4th thing is “Other”). Recorded on March 12, 2022 Home Front Energy Independence Act – Russia Invades Ukraine, one year on – Associated Press – The Cold War – Wikipedia – American Car Dependency – Bloomberg CityLab – Redlining – Wikipedia – American Sprawl and the Cold War – Treehugger – Tear down this wall! – Wikipedia – Is Modern Russia Communist? – Russia Beyond – Oil crisis – Wikipedia – Stop de Kindermoord – Environmental Justice Atlas – Denmark responded to 1973 oil crisis by reducing car-dependency – StreetsBlog Chicago – The Tweet Liz Was Talking About – Inelastic Demand – Investopedia – They Don’t Represent Us – IndieBound – Senator Baldwin Supports Biofuel Bill, Blames Putin for Fuel Prices – E15 – US Department of Energy – Home Front Energy Independence Act – congress.gov – Does Git actually keep track of changes? – stackoverflow – Overton Window – Wikipedia – Freight Rail Efficiency – BNSF   Contact Us @thePunsGuy   Support Us Patreon   This episode’s PGP signature: (download link) What is this?

Zak and Liz talk about what Liz’s vision of a better Internet looks like. She’s got some radical ideas like “don’t make your website worse for the sake of profit”, “wow, online advertising is pretty intrusive these days”, and “putting existing infrastructure on a blockchain is strictly worse.” Recorded on Feb 28, 2022 Screaming – How to Scream – WikiHow – How to bellow like a koala Web 3.manifest0 – Tim O’Reilley Web 2.0 – Web 2.0 – Wikipedia – Web Application – Wikipedia – Gamergaters and Geek Masculinity – SagePub – Big O Notation – Wikipedia – Accessibility – W3C – Is web accessibility as big of a deal as it seems? – Reddit – As a designer, if accessibility is killing design for brands that exert fun. Would you move on? – Reddit – Repeat Stuff by Bo Burnham – Genius.com – 3 Ways We Fail to Take Accessibility Seriously – Reddit – Polymer a11y – Web Components – Accessibility for Everyone – A Book Apart – SOLID – Wikipedia – Markdown – Wikipedia – tag – mdn – The Big Short – Wikipedia – ZeldaDungeon.net   Contact Us @thePunsGuy   Support Us Patreon   This episode’s PGP signature: (download link) What is this?

Zak and Liz talk about their Lists™. Zak puts his body on the line to see if the vegan mac and cheese can pass as a comfort food. Liz finds a suspicious infographic, so some research and incredulous journalism is done. Liz shares her thoughts about the NFT video essay that Zak assigned as homework. … Continue reading Markedly Watched P’dcast

Zak and Liz talk about re-experiencing movie theaters, Zak explains how Docker works which is even nerdier than using Docker, Liz explains why she loves a Minecraft mod-pack which is even nerdier than playing it, and Zak untangles yarn of truth regarding some farmland that is owned by people who wear very expensive suits. Recorded … Continue reading Journalistically Hunted Containers

Zak and Liz talk about the latest Dairy Free Milk Alternative, Zak tried the Tofutti imitation cream cheese that Liz really liked, and Liz just got back from a road trip and there was a lot to think about, okay? Recorded on January 21, 2022 (Not) Milk – NotMilk – Nextmilk – Silk (Not) Dairy … Continue reading Agreeably Leaning Pickles

Zak and Liz try to figure out how their brains work by reciting the alphabet a few times. Zak gives a brief history of computer handwriting recognition and tells us his opinions on the ReMarkable Tablet. Want to meditate but can’t stop thinking about all the stuff you have to do? Zak has just the … Continue reading Lgebily Digitized Tiles

Zak and Liz talk about the best dairy-free cream cheese that Liz has had the pleasure of spreading onto a bagel. Zak calls out the cowards at Malk Organics LLC for not standing up to the dairy lobby… oh, and their new oat milk isn’t that good. Zak describes the Log4Shell exploit and all of … Continue reading Problematically Shelled Soy