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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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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, even as a pescatarian who can’t eat half the recipes in there, they’re still so beautifully illustrated and beautifully written.
[00:01:39] Brett: And it’s just, it’s a fun read. It’s food, it’s food porn.
[00:01:43] Jeff: in an era yeah, but with line art. But in a in an era of like, um, the horrible, awful, terrible, evil, fascist food blog, where it’s like, let me just push all this shit away to get to a very simple recipe.
[00:01:59] Brett: [00:02:00] huh.
[00:02:00] Jeff: How amazing that all of the extra verbiage in Cook’s Illustrated is just towards you learning.
[00:02:07] Jeff: Uh, I think it’s amazing. It was like in the day, maybe it sounds like it’s the same, it was like McSweeney’s level design attention, but like even beyond that somehow. Yeah. That’s awesome.
[00:02:18] Brett: That’s exciting. Um, yeah, she also got me the book, um, Hip Hop is History by Questlove,
[00:02:26] Jeff: Oh, nice.
[00:02:27] Brett: cause they heard a, an interview and they’re like, Oh, this is all Brett. This is great. So they got me the book. So anyway, it’s been a great birthday.
[00:02:37] Home Improvement and Plumbing Stories
[00:02:37] Brett: My parents got me a flood sensor, which at first blush is ridiculous because we live high on a hill.
[00:02:45] Brett: Uh, on a bluff or like on next to a bluff, but like, there’s no chance of our house flooding, but I have done things like missing, poorly install a bidet and not [00:03:00] realize that I’m flooding the basement
[00:03:02] Jeff: Yeah, those are great for the basements.
[00:03:04] Brett: Yeah. So, so having some, some, uh, moisture sensors around the house could be. Could be truly valuable.
[00:03:13] Brett: My dad got it for me because he had recently discovered that a 30 year old toilet had begun slowly leaking into the foundation.
[00:03:23] Jeff: Oh man.
[00:03:24] Brett: so he’s like, everybody gets flood detectors now.
[00:03:28] Jeff: That’s amazing. I bet it wasn’t the toilets fault though.
[00:03:32] Brett: Well,
[00:03:32] Jeff: just like a seal or something? Cause the amazing thing about toilets is they can go forever. There’s such simple machines.
[00:03:37] Brett: just solid pieces of porcelain. Yeah. It would have been like a seal or something. Um,
[00:03:44] Jeff: Fascinating content. Hey
[00:03:46] Brett: Yeah, yeah, subscribe, subscribe for more home improvement. Um,
[00:03:50] Christina: Okay. Speaking of
[00:03:51] Jeff: about it all day.
[00:03:53] The Best Toilet Seat Ever
[00:03:53] Christina: of toilets, someone showed me, no, no, genuinely, somebody showed me the best toilet seat I’ve ever seen the other day. [00:04:00] Um, it’s, it’s, it’s from like this, this, um, LA based artist who’s pretty awesome. And she, she basically took a bunch of old smartphones and made like a toilet seat out of them.
[00:04:10] Christina: Um, let me, let me find the link that I, that I can give you guys. Um, it’s really good. It’s the only problem is, and the only reason I’m not going to have it is that it’s. Is 1, 250. So, um, you know, that, that, that, that unfortunately, um, prices me out just a little bit. Yeah. The woman’s name is, uh, is Bailey, um, Hikawa and her stuff is incredible here.
[00:04:31] Christina: I’m putting this link in our chat here
[00:04:35] Jeff: Do you ever have to tighten your toilet seat?
[00:04:37] Brett: oh yeah,
[00:04:37] Jeff: Man.
[00:04:38] Brett: when you sit down and it wiggles off
[00:04:40] Jeff: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I find that to be probably the most disgusting of toilet related maintenance because you have to get your hands around there and get your hand under there on the nut. Uh, just very terrible and preventable. I’m sure,
[00:04:55] Brett: we have one of those like bolt on bidets and in order to [00:05:00] properly clean our toilet, you have to fully remove the toilet seat and the bidet. So about once a week I do that and I’ve gotten really good at it, but I’ve also stripped out the screws by using a drill on the plastic screw.
[00:05:13] Jeff: oh no, you should have called
[00:05:15] Brett: the chances of ever tightening it enough that that little slip doesn’t happen when you sit down, that’s going to require
[00:05:22] Jeff: Wait, let’s make this the whole podcast. I have a couple of questions. Are those screws embedded or can you replace them? Cause they,
[00:05:27] Brett: Oh, they’re totally replaceable.
[00:05:28] Jeff: Okay, okay. Good to know.
[00:05:30] Brett: I have replaced them multiple times. I even tried replacing them with metal screws once, but that was, uh,
[00:05:35] Jeff: But you only really think about it when you’re on the shitter. Yeah, that’s a problem because you can’t do anything from there. Maybe Amazon.
[00:05:41] Brett: How much, how long do you think we could talk about toilets? Because
[00:05:44] Jeff: I’ll tell you what.
[00:05:46] Brett: haven’t even gotten into the talking toilets with the built in bidets. I,
[00:05:52] Plumbing Mishaps and Family History
[00:05:52] Jeff: One, my entire line of, of Gunsels, uh, in America, up until my dad [00:06:00] became a teacher, was plumbers. Gunsel Plumbing and Heating ruled the North Side. Uh, and, and so that’s one thing. Two, the reason my name is Jeff and not John, is because is because my dad was worried that coming from a plumbing fact, uh, family, I would be ridiculed for having a name that is also what you call a bathroom. So I can talk about this all day, uh, but we should probably stop for the sake of our, our,
[00:06:25] Brett: No, I’m, I’m digging this. It’s my birthday and I want to talk about toilets. I actually worked as a,
[00:06:31] Jeff: what you wish for.
[00:06:32] Brett: I worked as an apprentice plumber in, uh, in college and have installed my fair share of toilets. I enjoy everything from the wax ring up. Um, that’s, that’s actually
[00:06:45] Jeff: The wax ring is fascinating. For people that don’t know, the seal that keeps your toilet from doing what Brett’s dad’s toilet
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