Zak and Liz talk about Zak’s experience with setting up Fastmail. Zak demands features from the developers of an app that he does not pay for then discovers that the feature he wants is already included.

Zak breaks his silence regarding his history with cargo shorts. Listener discretion advised. He also tells us how he manages his left glove in today’s modern society.

Liz wants to journal in every sense of the word. Her new yearly theme focuses on having a conversation with herself through time which isn’t as self-aggrandizing as it may seem.

Recorded on September 26, 2021

Bicycle Zines – Microcosm Publishing

Fastmail

• Spark
• Inbox by Gmail – Wikipedia

Go Bags

• Project Ara – Wikipedia
• American Innovation Dollars – Wikipedia

Liz’s Yearly Theme

• Fresh Start – You Need A Budget Doc
• Starting anew with OmniFocus – OmniGroup

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Zak and Liz talk about Liz having some very healthy and normal feelings about a guy that makes Youtube videos about the block game and Zak rudely pathologizes her with the bible. She continues to double down until it’s not funny anymore.

Liz is trying to get one step closer to living her Tony Stark fantasy life by getting Zak to come up with more things that could be nails for her Jarvis-shaped hammer.

Zak is very upset that Google is reading his emails and making him pay for it. Liz tells us how email actually works and why we should all give up and let Google eat our data. Zak ignores this advice and is considering Fastmail.

Recorded on September 12, 2021

Liz is Toxic (Not Clickbait)

• docm77 – YouTube
• Hedonic Treadmill – Wikipedia
• Hasan House Drama – Wikipedia

Personal Server

• Personal Digital Habitats – Wirfs-Brock
• Particle Photon
• Junk DNA – Wikipedia
• Remembrance of Earth’s Past – Wikipedia

Email

• How Email Really Works – Oasis Open
• Proton Mail
• Spark
• Fastmail
• Fastmail Team
• jmap
• Mimestream

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Zak and Liz invented a new role-playing game in an effort to help Liz figure out her yearly theme.

Recorded on August 29, 2021

Themes

• Everyday Problems Generator
• Motive Generator
• Terrible Things Generator
• Space for Secrets And Lies – YouTube
• Obverse and Reverse – Wikipedia
• Running a Session Zero – Sly Flourish

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Zak and Liz talk about borrowed knowledge, computational theory mottos, Zak’s ren-fair experience, programming with cute little bubbles, how loud things are, and how Zak is arranging his boxes.

Recorded on Aug 18, 2021

Theory of Computation

• Your Program as a Transpiler – YouTube
• Nondeterministic Polynomial Time – Wikipedia

Bristol Renaissance Faire

• LARP – Wikipedia
• Little Brother – Cory Doctorow

Scratch

• BNF Grammar – Wikipedia
• Blockly
• Mac Mock-up Guy – Twitter

Bad Apartment Vibes

• Migration Assistant – Wikipedia
• An Abundance of Katherines – IndieBound
• Fluxions

Crossword – New York Times

• YU Rebus – Rex Parker

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Zak and Liz talk about what Liz thinks should happen in an award winning play.

Recorded on July 31, 2021

Play Synopses

• Atomic Gardening – Wikipedia
• The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds – Wikipedia
• The Hot Wing King – Wikipedia
• That Championship Season – Wikipedia
• Among Us – Wikipedia
• Scooby Doo Body Swapping – YouTube
• Old – Wikipedia
• Seascape – Wikipedia
• Waiting for Gal Godot – Freedrama.net
• Lamarckian Inheritance – Wikipedia
• The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? – Wikipedia
• Waiting for Godot – Wikipedia

Double Middle Names – Sancta Nomina

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Zak and Liz talk about artificial poetry, wanting to tell everyone where we live, wanting to know where and when to do things, how monopolies are ruining clocks but not milk, ‘And’ the cat.

Recorded on July 18, 2021

Statement Begins – Tumblr

• The Poem on Archive.org
• The Magnus Archives
• GPT-2 – Wikipedia

Addresses

• IndieWeb
• Listserv – Wikipedia
• h-addr – microformats
• V-card – Urban Dictionary
• John Q. Public – Wikipedia
• SSN: Our Insecure National ID – The Verge
• Liz couldn’t find the Amazon ad she was talking about (it’s probably unlisted), but if she sees it again, she will update this page.
• Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you – Steve Jobs – Speakola
• Pokémon Go settles with Milwaukee County – JS Online
• False Consensus Effect – Wikipedia
• Lost Dog Remembers Address – Newsweek

Zak Wants Events To Work

• Fantastical’s Natural Language Processing
• Export Facebook Event
• h-calendar – Microformats

Monopolies, Clocks, Milk, and You

• John Siracusa buying clocks – Twitter
• The Henry Ford joke – OpLaunch

Petfinder.com

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Zak and Liz talk about their tips and tricks for changing your home, what we would do if we ever had guests, and a conversation game.

Recorded on July 11, 2021

Moving

• Moving in Amsterdam – 99pi
• Fox, Chicken, Sack of Grain – Math Is Fun
• Randomize – Goodreads
• Project Hail Mary – Goodreads
• The Egg – Goodreads
• Trypophobia – Wikipedia
• UHaul Pods
• usedcardboardboxes.com

Guests

• Animorphs – Wikipedia
• Flat Palm Phone Gesture – BuzzFeed
• Pacific Rim – Wikipedia
• Millennium Actress – Wikipedia

Games

• Bundle for Palestinian Aid – Itch.io
• A Normal Lost Phone
• Democratic Socialism Simulator – Itch.io
• Signs of the Sojourner – Itch.io

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