Archive for November, 2008

How to make BART go faster

Mark & Wes, in Orinda, CA at Yu Sushi.
Wes isn’t ready for the G1 phone yet, but is thinking about getting one once other carriers start offering their own Android phones. Mark doesn’t think that the T-Mobile network is all that good, so holding off on the purchase of a G1 specifically may be wise. [...]

I want the Woot BOC

Mark & Wes, in Walnut Creek, CA at the Plearn Thai Restaurant.
What’s that Mark? Did you say Bag o’ Crap? You still couldn’t get one? Mark describes something called a woot-off, and tells all about what happens near the end of one of them. What does "MUD" stand for? Hmm.. Mark’s friend has a hard [...]

Where does the cheese go?

Mark & Wes, in Lafayette, CA at the Chow Restaurant.
Tonight we find our two nerdy friends eating food at a small hidden away place underneath a heat lamp eating simple Italian meals. Mark doesn’t get the joke on Melissa’s myspace profile and goes on to describe the official definition of a ‘myspace picture’, and what [...]

I’m Loopt for Android

Mark & Wes, in Lafayette, CA at the Swad Restaurant.
Mark and Wes console each other about their stock market losses. In our fantasy, our podcast is better than KenRadio. Use your phone to display membership cards? Of course you can, so long as the bar code is visible and the facility approves. What tools were [...]

Stanfords Restaurant & Bar

Mark & Wes, in Walnut Creek, CA at Stanfords Restaurant and Bar.
Wes meets Wes, at Stanfords, where he and Mark discover what a ‘butter burger’ is. Mark discusses how to train a Cat by using a clicking device combined with treats and warm fuzzies. Apple drops the developer NDA for applications created for the iPhone, [...]

Why not JailBreak?

Mark & Wes, in Orinda, CA at Baan Thai.
Wes knows nothing about condoms. Mark jail breaks his iPhone 3g, which he then explains in more detail. They talk about how this hacking of the internal iPhone device started, and the discovery of the internal encryption key. Is it true that the jail broken iPhone runs [...]

Polenta and Potting Material

Mark & Wes, in Lafayette, CA at Pizza Antica.
The show starts out with a story about the first integrated circuit on Sept 12th in 1958. Al Bernay secured his own circuits by using potting material. NASA MARS image anomalies are probably based on image scale. Mark has a theory about UFO’s. Have you ever played [...]

My ‘Ding-Ding’ Machine

Mark & Wes, in Rheem, CA at Tamamis
This show was recorded using Mark’s lapel microphones. For whatever reason, you can hear us eat and chew and slurp in high detail. In the show, Mark and Wes ramble a lot about Apple’s new updates to certain products, iTunes 8.0, 2.1 firmware iTouch & iPhone update, Nano’s [...]

Kips cooks with Gas

Mark & Wes, in Berkeley, CA at Kips
This show was recorded in a noisy area of Kips in Berkeley. Wes complains about his bubble drink and how it wasn’t blended. Mark talks about Walter/Wendy Carlos and Switched on Bach. He has a pic of what looks like a Moog analog system, but there is a [...]

A GEM of a show

Mark & Wes, in Emeryville, CA at The Emerybay Public Market.
This show was recorded outside of the food court in Emeryville. People thought Mark and I were some strange group of Radio DJ’s, and the guard actually came up and started a conversation about our equipment.
In this show, Mark and Wes go back in time [...]