Mostly Satisfactory - Episode 31 - Nowhere to Go But Up
0:00 Intro
4:59 First Blood
10:42 Just Stairing into Space
24:25 Tech Support and Cel Phones
34:14 Form Over Function
45:39 A Grandpa Moment About Geeks, Nerds, and Technology
- I use Excel a lot when playing my games. In case you are not familiar with the application, check this out.
- When jumping up to dodge the hog, I said, “¡Ole!“.
- I mentioned the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States.
- While talking about our Thanksgiving weekend, I used the term, “skedaddled“. I also mentioned “Black Friday“.
- I mentioned that it has been over a year since I started this series. In fact, the first episode of the series was uploaded on 20 October, 2024.
- The term “up, up, and away” comes from this.
- “Old tricks are the best tricks” is a quote from the Fifth Element.
- I also mentioned Occam’s Razor.
- While talking about tech support, I got sidetracked and started talking about smartphones… including the venerable old Microsoft smartphone running on Windows CE.
- I figured that there are as many or possibly more active smartphones than people alive right now. According to this, I was wrong… but it is VERY close.
- While talking about area codes, I mentioned Los Angeles County, San Bernardino County, as well as that 213, 714, 619, and 858 area codes.
- I mentioned the Battlestar Galactica reboot and Caprica, its prequel series. Eric Stoltz was one of the main stars in Caprica.
- I mentioned the Big Bang Theory and the Blade Runner franchise.
- While talking about geeks and nerds, I briefly mentioned Mark Zuckerberg. I even made a comparison to Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang Theory.
- I also mentioned Minecraft while wondering about how my life would have been different if these kinds of computer games were available when I was a kid.
- While trying to think about my early years with personal computers, I remembered seeing the new space shuttle, Enterprise in the late 1970s. I also talked about the Commodore VIC-20, Commodore Plus/4, Commodore 64 and Commodore 128. I also lamented the problems with loading and saving data using a cassette tape drive. I also mentioned the old Infocom text adventure files. I also mentioned Radio Shack while talking about the difficulty in finding 10 minute audio cassettes.