Grumpy Old Geeks

Jordan Cooper and Gigi Edgley join the show to fill in for Brian while he's on holiday. We talk drone camo, poop maps, luxury selfie sticks, Waze-holes, sports-splaining, fat pets and fitbits, bitchy guys named Bob, Facebook glitch makes 2 people happy. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/131 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pri...

Apple Music & Google Inbox fails; getting screwed as a business; static salaries & rising costs; no peeple please; Derbycon recap; Amazon no longer a store; Scrotal Recall; Facebook copyright morons; that Patreon thing... Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/130 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Jason's live at DerbyCon; a # is not consent; offloading our memories; Du Hast vomiting rainbows; algorithms will beat your fantasy team; dislike this; #KardBlock'n the dom; mystery emojis; making Steve Jobs boring; Snowden, Maher & Dawkins lose it. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/129 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy...

  Is Star Trek's Utopia coming? Is HP irrelevant? Do e-books earn more at lower prices? Is Twitter going to lose a lawsuit over scanning DMs? Is the ad-blocking Peace app still available? Are we trapped in a closet? Do we like Betteridge's law of headlines? Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/128 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com...

  Quiznos burns Burning Man; Apple's new crap; McAfee 4 Prez; Augmented v Virtual reality; Russia bans porn, still into voyeurism; not into OverSuccess; new chairs, mail apps; welcome to the race, Homo naledi; Trainspotting 2, electric boogaloo? Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/127 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-...

 Star Wars has awakened to your wallet; Ashley Madison who?; Uber's pesky human problem; Google logos; free-dronin'; networkin' on the Playa; comfy butts & phantom wrist syndrome; Mr. Robot shows there's nothing new under the dystopian sci-fi sun. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/126 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#d...

  What do Ashley Madison & the Middle Ages have in common? Flying Penises & Bronies! Rich idiots; Dismaland & Disneyland; Facebook billion day; Spotify "sorry-2"; cops get weaponized drones; Howard Stern kills advertising; tech chicks, don't get pregnant. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/125 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p...

Jason slammed for Apple Watch, Brian slammed for Uber; that whole Ashley Madison thing; the real cost of YouTube stardom; Amazon burn & churn; AT&T sells you out; Tarintino, Matt Damon, Patrick Stewart & Simon Pegg plus Bill Murray in Underoos! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/124 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-n...

  Apple Music almost as broke as musicians; Google, sorry, ABC's MusicKey MIA; rent explosions; Sesame Street for the privileged; CIA apology drafts; OverSuccess & Superheros; Blackberry Redux; Top Gear, Westworld & We Are Blood; turn on Ludicrous Speed! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/123 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pr...

  Big data for cities, transparency in music, the Middleman Economy, no good deed goes unpunished, our first salvo against Canada, Facebook's illegal video problem, hacking through audio, Germans invent Warp Drive & we've got a Berenst#in Bears problem. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/122 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pri...

Your job will never love you; WIFI isn't making you sick; mind your own business, twitter vigilantes; RIP Google+; Win10; air-gapped hack, Rowhammer, Black Darts, hacking sniper rifles, breaking Brinks, FBI plane surveillance & the Hoff, oh my vlog! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/121 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy...

  San Fran fails to fall into the ocean, NASA finds new ones; Americans working longer, 80s lessons learned; Russell Brand vs. Uber, Instagram #ban, jerks with drones; hackings cars, butt dialing & self redacting fonts; M. Night Shyamalan's Electric Banana. Show notes: http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/120 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p...

Apple Music fail, Neil Young hissy-fit, Sinead slam. Sharing economy & Internet of Things stumbling blocks, Java & Flash on the ropes, geek reminiscing & disappointments: Armada, Coin & singing, dancing Fight Club. I am Brian's exploding brain. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/119 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-n...

  The world is running down and we're bugging out to Canada and Estonia. Ecological collapses, depressed start ups, death by selfie, Greeks without Apple Music, Reddit burns, the Hacking Team fallout... maybe we need a guided meditation. F That. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/118 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-...

  You own NOTHING & double billed for it. Beats headphones suck, does Beats/iTunes mashup Apple Music? Facial recognition faux-pas. Uber ups & downs. Facebook wants to stream, too! Robot uprisings, cable cuttings, corporate sponsored documentaries, oh my! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/117 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p...

 Taylor Swift takes down Apple, or does she? France says non to Uber. Microsoft charging for Win10, or are they? CIA can't keep propaganda straight, or can they? Pratchett Estate says no more Discworld, we say more Long Earth. And screw you, Belle Gibson. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/116 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/p...

The episode that almost didn't happen flies by with talk of flying, Apple Music, AT&T & Uber spankings, new Top Gear hosts, committing future sins, drone regulations, post-App landscapes, American Gods, Game of War, Star Wars Battlefront & Cyndi Lauper! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/115 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pri...

  Jason's already hating on LA, Brian's worried about big data, crunching Spotify #s, investing basics, John Oliver effects, Kaspersky hacks, Anime recos, Babymetal, don't clear that browser, comments galore! You like us, you really really like us! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/114 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#...

The boys are back in LA with a new theme song, despairing at new tech offerings but rejoicing at new books, attempting to play games without getting played, taking a bumper dump, kung fury, personalizing your aural world & a plethora of morons. Bueller! Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/113 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pri...

From a basement in Canada and a pile of suitcases in Chicago, the Geeks talk Nocebo effects, dystopian futures, Walmart nomads, the Bank of Facebook, art jerks, FBI hacks, the Kingsman and ultra-violence, potatoes, Amy Schumer, FIFA and Seveneves Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/112 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do...

The coffee kicks in big time; tech billionaires like their own privacy; trucking a bellwether for the death of the middle class; here come the robots; who needs a Starbucks app; Barack twitter & crypto problems; Twin Peaks back on; we rock our Suitsy. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/111 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/priva...

Meditating on Prius; digital death; don't quit school to code; the Singularity will kill us all; Die Wordpress Die!; Jason really didn't like an app; Brian doesn't like social PR teams; Waldorf & Statler are back but we're more bitter & miserable. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/110 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#d...

Being well rounded; You know nothing, Jon Millennial's; Betteridge's Law of Headlines; HuffPo & Ello; A.I.s & Ex-Machina; smiling happy computers; Maximum Homerdrive; Spiderpacalypse; starting, quitting & starting again; Fight 215; Wordpress still sucks. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/109 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/pr...

Back on the FitBit, gun caches in every city, Morrissey calls crowdfunding insulting, #TidalFail, Tesla batteries, Amazon rockets, AirBNB bans & topless Venetians, Microsoft Edge, tattoos stymie your watch, & we're having our musical mid-life crisis. Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/108 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privac...

Jason talks to master experimenter Tim Ferriss about crazy Ketogenic dieting tips, Tim's recipe for rocket fuel tea, and disaster prep stuff before rolling into what happened to his TV show and the future of Tim Ferriss on the small screen.  Show notes at http://grumpyoldgeeks.com/107 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-...