It’s Brett’s 46th birthday bash, and he’s celebrating in style with Jeff and Christina. Expect gifts like Cooks Illustrated and flood detectors, riveting overflowing toilet tales, and sampling fun with Koala. Dive into comedy insights with an ‘Elf’ story featuring James Caan, and honor Bob Newhart’s 1961 Grammy win. Plus, a TUAW domain kerfuffle and Macstock marvels. Laugh, learn, and maybe even fix your toilet seat!
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Chapters
00:00 Introduction and Birthday Celebrations
00:43 Gifts and Subscriptions
02:37 Home Improvement and Plumbing Stories
03:53 The Best Toilet Seat Ever
05:52 Plumbing Mishaps and Family History
11:10 Birthday Party Plans
13:40 CrowdStrike Incident
19:09 Sponsor: 1Password
21:20 Sponsor bonus content
27:33 Reviving TUAW: A Controversial Story
33:59 AI Articles and Identity Theft
35:08 The Resurrection of Old Content
35:48 Reflecting on Past Work
37:40 The Sale of Content Rights
44:50 Macstock Reunion
50:09 GrAPPtitude: App Recommendations
01:04:38 Remembering Bob Newhart
Show Links
Best toilet seat ever
Major Windows BSOD issue hits banks, airlines, and TV broadcasters - The Verge
A Beloved Tech Blog Is Now Publishing AI Articles Under the Names of Its Old Human Staff (404media.co)
Early Apple tech bloggers are shocked to find their name and work have been AI-zombified - The Verge
Apple blog TUAW returns as an AI content farm (engadget.com)
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Koala Sampler
Jammin’ on the One
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Transcript
Jammin' on the One
[00:00:00] Introduction and Birthday Celebrations
[00:00:00]
[00:00:03] Brett: Hey, happy birthday. It’s my birthday. It’s Overtired. Um, we’re all here this week. It’s Jeff Severance Gunsel, Christina Warren, and myself, Brett Terpstra. Uh, how are you guys?
[00:00:16] Christina: Not too bad. Go on, go on, Jeff. Yeah, exactly. I was gonna say pretty birth I was gonna say happy birthday. I was like, not as good as you, birthday boy, but you know,
[00:00:24] Brett: I’m 46 today
[00:00:26] Jeff: Forty six.
[00:00:28] Brett: I’m not lying about my age like some people do. Um,
[00:00:33] Christina: It might be, it might be your birthday, but I’ll still tell you to fuck off. I can lie about my age as long as I want.
[00:00:37] Brett: I wasn’t singling you out. I just said some people.
[00:00:41] Jeff: Some people.
[00:00:43] Christina: Some
[00:00:43] Gifts and Subscriptions
[00:00:43] Brett: Um, yeah, I, uh, I’ve had a really good birthday. Elle, Elle knows how much I love getting gifts and I’m too old for most people to give me so they take it upon themselves to shower me. With gifts every year. [00:01:00] Um, and this year they got me a bunch of cool stuff, including a subscription to Cooks Illustrated and, uh, the book Vegetables Illustrated from Cooks Illustrated, which I’m very excited.
[00:01:11] Jeff: Print subscription? What a beautiful is this still beautiful? It’s been a long time. I don’t know if it got eaten by okay,
[00:01:17] Brett: I was picking them up at the co-op and just like, well actually, uh, one of the, one of the families that EL was house sitting for had them laying out. And I had forgotten how much I loved that magazine. Even like,