

Grumpy Old Geeks
Jason DeFillippo & Brian Schulmeister with Dave Bittner
We dissect the tech news train wrecks of the week, calling out what went wrong and who’s to blame. Think of this podcast as if Kurt Cobain threw down with Tom from MySpace, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg in a back alley brawl. No mercy, no filter—if tech had a walk of shame, this would be it.
Episodes
Mentioned books

Jun 3, 2013 • 1h 9min
11: Social media burnout. Fact or Fiction?
Jason and Brian discuss social media burnout, the evils of tech support, and a movie review of a hacker classic.
Subscribe to the Grumpy Old Geeks in iTunes and give us a five star rating. You know you want to...'
Shownotes:
Kia Forte Techathlete Games - Jasons day job while on vacation
Skinny Puppy
Student science experiment finds plants won't grow near Wi-Fi router
Tim Ferriss and Sperm Count
Michelob Ultra
Gazelle
How Teens Are Really Using Facebook: It's a 'Social Burden,' Pew Study Finds
What Really Happens On A Teen Girl's iPhone
Top 15 Most Popular Social Networking Sites
Facebook opens up on platform growth, ads, and Parse, reveals 1B stories are being shared daily
Hackers
Gleaming the Cube
Netflix's Sarandos scoffs at stock drop on 'Arrested' reviews
Elementary
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 27, 2013 • 43min
10: Who checks the lady boys?
Joey Rabier a.k.a. Joey the Intern from TechTV/G4/Revision3 joins Jason and Brian this week for some serious inappropriateness that's guaranteed to offend the entire family. I'm just going to leave this episode here and you do with it what you will. We'll be returning to our regularly scheduled programming next week unless Jason dies in a ball of flames from his cross country air travels.
Subscribe to the Grumpy Old Geeks on iTunes and give us a five star rating. You know you want to!
Shownotes:
Our guest this week is Joey the Intern
Revision3
TechTV
Kent's Tshirt
The Newsroom
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
And Not a Single Fuck Was Given That Day
Pigeon, handling life like a boss
Crypteks on Kickstarter
People complaining about not getting their Crypteks stuff
Why Kickstarter 'can't' and won't protect backers once a project is funded
Bitcoin Mining Has An Absurd Environmental Impact
Cannes: Zach Braff's Kickstarter Film Lands Full Financing
Amy's Baking Company - This Is The Most Epic Brand Meltdown On Facebook Ever
Amy's Baking Company on Yelp
Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Backlash Sees Greg Karber Hand Out Clothes To The Homeless
The Jenna Marbles Paradox: Why Are YouTube Videos So Terrible?
It's Getting Harder to Make Money on YouTube
The Purge Movie
Smitten teen girls stir up #FreeJahar mania for Boston Marathon bombings suspect
Suicide Club
Meet an Inmate
GoDaddy.com CEO Bob Parsons' Elephant Hunt Sparks Outrage
PETA Kills Animals
Penn and Teller - P.E.T.A. (Full Episode)
Sea Shepherd's Idiotic Antics Cost Australian Taxpayers "Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars"
Paul Watson, Sea Shepherd Founder, Vows To Continue Work While On The Run
Paul Watson: out of jail, but still in trouble
Japanese whalers run over Sea Shepherd boat
Alternate view of crash
Scrimshaw Pilsner - North Coast Brewing Co.
US government: zero-day vulnerabilities wanted - we pay bitcoins
Bang With Friends Isn't Actually That Anonymous
Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened
Secret photos KYMS Free: Hide and lock photos, videos, documents
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 21, 2013 • 41min
09: Tend your own garden
Jason realizes he's a whiny brat and starts to eat his own dogfood. A conversation ensues about the dangers of giving up your content to so many sites that you don't own and Brian tries to make his brain grow.
Subscribe to the Grumpy Old Geeks on iTunes and give us a five star rating. You know you want to!
Shownotes:
Oh shit, him again?
Melissa Joan Hart's Kickstarter Campaign Canceled After Project Falls Extremely Short Of Goal
Lefsetz Letter
Asahi Super Dry
No More Sharecropping!
After Instagram controversy, a watchdog site tracks shifting Terms of Service
Rocket Arena
Quake Live
Lumosity
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 13, 2013 • 55min
08: I'll bet you think this podcast is about you. Don't you?
Brian returns from Hawaii, Snapchat is busted hardcore, and Kickstarter is kicked in the nuts. Again. Jason reveals his tips on interviewing for tech jobs, his addiction for hardcore gaming, and love for quality television. Brian talks about his love of trivia and his unjustified hatred for Farscape.
Subscribe to the Grumpy Old Geeks on iTunes and give us a five star rating. You know you want to!
Shownotes:
I won't give Zach Braff one dime by Ken Levine
Zane Lamprey
OMG, "Deleted" Snapchat Sexts Can Actually Be Recovered
For $300, a Utah Company Can Recover Vanished Snapchats
Newcastle Brown Ale: "Ocean"
Dots
Trivie
Sci-Fi Becomes Syfy: Why?
Defiance
Friday the 13th: The Series
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

May 6, 2013 • 55min
07: Must learn balance Daniel-san!
In this episode the geeks talk about how they've gotten screwed by bad business practices and dish out some serious wisdom on how you can avoid the same fate.
Subscribe to the Grumpy Old Geeks in iTunes and give us a five star rating. You know you want to...'
Shownotes:
Rackspace
Derek Powazek
Pegging
Jason Schupp
Irish Music Cruise
iPhone waterproofing
LoseIt
Fuck You. Pay Me
Coachella
Muji
Moleskine
Pattern Recognition
Markus Pierson
Fab.com
Brian's Bottle Opener
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 29, 2013 • 1h 7min
06: Yeah, that sounds expensive.
We have our first guest! Rudy Jahchan of Timey Wimey TV and Galacticast fame kindly joined us this week for an awesome conversation about coding, getting old, and how Hollywood works. There is a bit of problem with the audio on this episode and we apologize and hope you still dig it. Just pretend we're dropping the bass.
Subscribe to the Grumpy Old Geeks in iTunes and give us a five star rating. You know you want to...'
Shownotes:
Squarespace
Rudy Jahchan
Galacticast
A Comicbook Orange
Timey Wimey TV
Wordpress
Update WP Super Cache and W3TC Immediately – Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Disclosed
Yahoo snags exclusive rights to Saturday Night Live's archives
WISH I WAS HERE by Zach Braff
Are Hollywood Millionaires Ruining Kickstarter? Let's Ask the Internet
Carbon Five
35 in Hex
The Social Network
Work-life Balance
Entropy
Java
Ray Tracing
Quake
Ruby
Python
Grok
Coffee Script
Node.js
Liz Shannon Miller
Liz tells Frank...
Casey McKinnon
Star Wars: Machete Order ( Fuck it, go 4, 5, 3, 6 )
Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)
J. J. Abrams
Simon Pegg
Quantum of Solace
Casino Royale
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 22, 2013 • 58min
05: We're all screwed...
How Facebook is screwing up their privacy initiative, what you need to get started with security and some awesome sci-fi books!
Subscribe to the Grumpy Old Geeks in iTunes and give us a five star rating. You know you want to...'
Sponsors:
Burner - Download the app and use the code GRUMPY to get 3 free credits. Open to the first 50 listeners who download the app.
Shownotes::
Short Circuit
App.net
Don't call it San Fran
Apple Spaceship
Apple iBook
Coldplay Ebook
Penetration Test
Sexting
Firestone Union Jack
Antivirus
No, You Can't Have My Social Security Number
Visual Basic
Hotmail
URL Redirection
Phishing
Botnet master gets 30-month prison term for renting out infected PCs
Denial of Service Attacks
Little Snitch
LastPass
1Password
XKCD Password Strength
Rainbow Tables
Social Engineering and Pretexting
Metasploit
Social Engineering Toolkit
Facebook: What's secure browsing (https)? How do I turn it on?
Please Rob Me
Twitter: Keeping your account secure
What to do with $175,000 in weed found in your back yard
Mammoth
Kindle App
Cyberstorm
Daemon
Freedom(tm)
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 16, 2013 • 56min
04: How we got our groove
This week the guys talk about free online education, how free software can bite you in the ass, and wonky design.
Subscribe to the Grumpy Old Geeks in iTunes and give us a five star rating. You know you want to...
Sponsors:
Burner - Download the app and use the code GRUMPY to get 3 free credits. Open to the first 50 listeners who download the app.
Shownotes::
Grumpy Old Geeks on Twitter
Grumpy Old Geeks on Facebook
Russ Meyer
Goo Goo Dolls
LiveJournal
FitBit
Radiohead
Appcelerator
Amazon Web Services
Stella Artois
Blink Tag
IBM XT
Pascal
Autodidacticism
Concurrent Versions System
FutureSplash Animator
Codeacademy
ExpressionEngine
Drupal
Lynda
Stack Overflow
Graceful Degradation
PHP
Scalability
Load balancing
MySQL
Facebook At 13 Million Queries Per Second Recommends: Minimize Request Variance
Technorati
Google Shipping Container Data Centers
Explore a Google data center with Street View
College of DuPage Photography Program
History of Photography Podcast
UCLA Extension
udemy
MOOCs: Top 10 Sites for Free Education With Elite Universities
Downcast
Instacast 3
Endgame by Rise Against
Tumblr
Wordpress
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Apr 9, 2013 • 1h
03: You just gotta hump it!
In this episode the guys talk about how modern mobile computing has taken the romance out of the music and the yellow pages, more tips on how to make money doing something you dig, Brian gushes both good and bad about Arianna Huffington, and Jason expounds on his anti-love for Bill Maher.
Subscribe to the Grumpy Old Geeks in iTunes and give us a five star rating. You know you want to...
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Mar 29, 2013 • 1h 1min
2: No, we are still not the media.
In this episode of Grumpy Old Geeks the guys examine the folly of herd behavior and changing your profile picture to join a cause as well as offer up a million dollar idea for the taking. Brian rips Amanda Fucking Palmer a new one and Jason defends the rights of fans to get raped by the studios to bring back their favorite shows. The guys also discuss their favorite fitness and travel tools. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.


