• Dogfish Head 90-minute IPA for Paul
• Brooklyn Brewery Black Chocolate Stout for Jim
• Ravenswood Cabernet for Mur
• Essential Mathematics for Games and Interactive Applications, Second Edition: A Programmer’s Guide at Amazon.com
• It was funnier the first time
• Mur’s first fiction novel is coming out from Swarm Press on 8/25
• Playing for Keeps at Amazon.com
• This week we experiment with asking questions from our followers on Twitter
• PROMO: Astral Audio Experience
• Jim’s Essential Math website
• Favorite TV Shows: for Mur, The Office and for Jim The Closer. Together: Heroes or Battlestar Galactica
• Heroes, feh
• Favorite books from childhood
• Dr. Horrible vs Playing for Keeps
• The News from Poughkeepsie
• The Piddler
• The games Jim would bring back from obscurity if he could: Liubo, Shuanglu, and Magic Realm
• MUSIC: Playing for Keeps by The Beatnik Turtle
• PROMO: Playing For Keeps experience. Join us on 8/25 to help Mur make her run on Amazon.com

• Sweetie
• Tracy Hickman’s thought provoking positions on NaNoWriMo
• It’s not about getting published, it’s about getting read
• The mystical powers of Mur Lafferty (is she the cause of our Skype problems)
• Tracy is a big fan of Mur’s
• Tracy’s segment on NaNoWriMo
• Editors notes
• Nuri joins us for NaDruWriNi (take 1, we’ll try it again at the end of the month)
• NaNoWriMo allows interconnected short stories to be counted
• Nuri is writing about 2 characters in a Steampunk world
• Drinking wine, skype in the ghetto, living in bad neighborhoods
• Table wines as a reference to 7th Son
• Doing laundry in college. Bar and laundromat in one
• Martha reads our script for The Monster Under The Bed
• Nuri reads from her short story
• Nuri loves Balticon
• Artist Alley
• Balticon Podcast

PROMO: Playing for Keeps / 7th Son

PROMO: The Commandline Podcast

MUSIC: Old Lady with a Hammer by Chris Hardy

• Martha & Paul
• Command Line and Andrea
• The Pod Doctor, John Cmar

Drinkinging a moderate amount of liquor makes you smarter [link]

• The season opener for Eureka!
• Spoiler Alert, watch before you listen
• Season 3 of Doctor Who

• The economics and machinery of making world wide releases of DVDs
• PROMO: Serve It Cold available at Dancing Cat Studios and Podiobooks.com
• PROMO: Brave Men Run
• Happy Birthday to Matthew Wayne Selznick
• Videos: The Writer Stalking, This Day in Alternate History, and Zombies in the Workplace available at Lulu.tv
• All hail the giant heads of Jason and Mur
• Zombies!
• Can’t talk about Zombies without talking about Patrick McLean
• The oblique Leann wiener dog reference
• When Rupert Murdock dies and angel will get its wings
• No else saw Charlie Jade, if you haven’t seen it, download it and watch it! 100% geeky goodness
• The evolution of the care package
• How’s the chinese food in China? It’s full of penis
• The obligatory Tee Morris reference
• Oh! BTW, we’re talking about Cmar’s wife, Sci-Fi Laura
• South of the Border! We love Pedro
• The best use of an M-80 firecracker vs. shovel full of fire ant nest
• Here comes the statute of limitations
• Begging for nominations and votes: Darn! It’s too late.

• The Gift
• Man vs. Child 2: The Birthday Party
• Calling out George Hrab
• Paul’s week sucked, but it was nothing compared to Tee’s week
• Michelle Malone is coming to Jammin’ Java in Vienna, VA
• SONG: Avalon by Michelle Malone. From the album Home Grown
• PROMO: Give Us A Minute, the Joe Murphy Memorial Fund Podcast
• PROMO: Parsec Awards
• Memories of Farpoint Convention and Balticon
• Memories of the Harve Bennett interview
• Kirk vs Piccard in the movies, or rather Shatner vs Stewart
• Spiderman 3: It doesn’t suck
• Paul’s love of Spiderman 1 & 2
• Martha’s take on Spiderman 3
• PROMO: Crescent
• PROMO: Tag in the Seam
• We’re so unprofessional
• Tee plays with the cart software
• This Week in Drama
• Paul is angry. Personal attacks are dead wrong
• Ask the Magic 8 Ball
• More memories of Balticon 41
• Tee Morris can jump
• Color Paul dumb and dumber
• Carry and the twins
• August Trometer’s interview on Typical Mac User
• Beth Wojiski is awesome
• The coffee war
• Michelle Malone is playing at Jammin Java in Vienna on July 11 – Buy Tickets Here!

• RavenCon Report:
• Hanging out with the Geek Label guys, they also have a podcast
• Baen Books and the Baen Barflys
• Bowmore Islay single malt scotch
• Drinks:
• Bonny Doon Muscat Eiswine – vin de glacier
• Stone Brewery Arrogant Bastard Ale and Smoked Porter
• We love Norm’s Wine & Beer
• PROMO: Fear The Boot and Ziggurat Con
• Known supports of Ziggurat Con are Mystic Station Designs makers of Chivalry and Sorcery. Tee is going to try to get them some of his books. He also wants to hook them up with the makers of the game Scallywags.
• PROMO: Failed Cities Monologues
• PROMO: Singularity
• Tee talks about the new 8 core Mac Pro he ordered. It’s screaming! 5 GB RAM and 500 GB drive. Applecare Rules!
• Tee talks about his studio moving to the basement
• Martha has solved the problem of deadening sound in a big empty room with rolling garment racks.
• For twice as much money, you get two. Two is more than one.
• Be on the lookout for Sekret Project First of May!
• Phil Rossi is the man on that
• The Voicemail! from Hugh Bracket
• iTunes is good for Podcasting, but it’s not great.
• MUSIC: George Hrab – Cruel Spines. Geo also has a great podcast.

Quote of the Week: What is it with peeing in the sink this week?

Paul’s drinking Chaucer’s Raspberry wine.
Heather and Phil are drinking Dogfish Head Raison D’Etre

We’ve been singing about fucking all day. Secret Projekt “First of May” is revealed. Many people will be singing about fucking to bring you our secret project.

• Are we the Winging It of the east coast?
• Stereo Bronchitis
• The secret Vienna, VA glaciers
• Long Island was made out of all the crap that couldn’t hold on to the ground in Connecticut. But we have great beaches. Big hair sucks.
• Yoklahanky – WTF?
• Promo: Crescent Station (Phil’s creepy Promo)
• Promo: Billibub Baddings
• PSA: Tequila
• Phil gave someone the Heimlich maneuver.
• The PMS escape route.
• Phil’s Minstrel Cycle pops the cherry on our studio as he treats us to the first live music ever in studio. Phil is such a cunning linguist. He wrote it himself.
• My clever thong is riding up.
• Leave us a voicemail. Send us an email.
• Heather can’t get that Enormous Penis out of her head.
• MUSIC: The Shillas, Don’t Even Care
• Plug: Phil will be disemboweling puppies on May 3, 2007.

The Balticon Lineup:
We will all be at Balticon 41, so will
Mike and Evo
Mur Lafferty
Steve Eley
Jack Mangan
Rich Sigfrit
Tee Morris
Bill Shunn
Bill DeSmedt
Matthew Wayne Selznick
Christiana Ellis (click on pool rules button half way down right side)
We’ll mention everyone else who’s coming next time.

• Heather Welliver and Marc “Grailwolf” Bailey
• It’s Marc’s birthday and Superbowl Sunday
• Wine: Drinking German wine today – Dr. M. Brun riesling
• No possum in the wine today
• Drunk animals
• Grailwolf is either a lazy bastard or a busy bastard, either way he’s still a bastard.
• NoVAPod! – The Northern Virginia Podcasters Meetup Group
• Promo Party at Paul and Martha’s!
• You look like the piss boy…
• Our NoVAPod.org site. The Meetup.com site for NoVAPod.
• Why are podcaster’s always showing their oats?
  
• PSMN, PiSMaN, or Pod Safe Music Network
• The Shillas available on The PMN
• Sound Scientist by bill
• Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut (1961). A story where everyone is given handicaps to make them equal.
• Local radio sucks, but local music rocks. We have Jammin’ Java.
• PROMO: Balticon Podcast
• PROMO: Singularity – Book – Podiobook
• PROMO: Billibub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword – Book – Podiobook
• Jonathan Coulton is coming back to Jammin’ Java on March 11! With Paul and Storm, a.k.a. The Creepy Dolls
• Re-Wine: Eisswein from Keffir in Munich Germany, sweet like honey and amber
• Ice Wine – real vs. manufactured. Costs. This is what mead should be.
• Bargetto’s dessert wines – Raspberry wine, Mead, Raspberry Mead Combo
• Duckboy Bottomfeeder on the rise
• Saving money vs. the effort to make. A.k.a. the journey vs. the destination.
• L.E.D. replacements for incandescent light bulbs
• PSA: Tequila
• What does that finger mean?
• The math on making your own L.E.D. light bulbs
• Ass load vs. Butt load vs. Metric Butt load
• Secret Project Alert
• Geek Widow Podcast – Heather and Martha or Heather and Paul. Who is the geek Widow?
• Must avoid the whiney aspects of it.
• How to get your geek off the computer.
• SONG: Faithfull by The Shillas (Heather sings lead)

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