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A special show this week, video only as listening to the two of us playing Star Wars won't make much sense unless you watch the video.
Lance and Darren both recorded separate game videos then Lance expertly edited them both together.
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This week we discuss memorial plans for Sir Terry Pratchett, The Australian GP, and catch up with our training for Snowdon
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- Terry Pratchett Memorial
- Formula One
- Snowdon Preparation
This week we chat about meeting up with old friends, Our day out in London to meet Scott Sigler, and the rise in Boardgaming.
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- Day In London
- Star Wars Identities
- Board Gaming
This week we wish Darren and Buffy Happy Birthday and discuss the old, new, and NEW new Top Gear as well as the disaster that is The Grand Tour.
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- Birthday
- 20th Anniversary Of Buffy
- Top Gear/Grand Tour
This week we talk about Elon Musk's plan to send people on a trip around the moon, Our plan to walk up Snowdon and the non existence of ghosts
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- Moon Trips
- New Planets
- Snowdon Walk
360 pictures from Darren's training: LINK - Ghosts
Mrs Hammell's Ghost: LINK
Trying web cams for a change. The biggest challenge, getting a tidy background! :D
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- Bill Paxton
- Formula One Pre-season Testing
- Phone Scam
- Digital Assistants
This week we talk about Lance's new job as an Arial Surveyor, the potential for many new planets to be included in our solar system, robo racing, and we have a message from an old friend.
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Irthlingborough Archeological Society
https://www.facebook.com/Irthlingborough-Archaeological-Society-681796648511182/
Ricoh Theta
https://theta360.com/uk/about/theta/
Formula E
http://www.fiaformulae.com/en
Roborace
http://roborace.com/
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- Exercising
- Scott Sigler European Tour
- Drones
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- Darren's photography skills
- Peter Capaldi leaving Dr Who and the shortlist of his replacement
- Lance's fitness drive
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What's Changed Since The Last Show?
18 months between shows, what's been going on?
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Very short show as, during my first go at recording for a long time, the Skype recording software stopped 12 minutes into our half hour conversation.
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I'm On A Boat!
Lance tells us about his weekend at sea.
Messaging, GFL, motoring and comet tracking.
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Scott Sigler's GFL and a bit of TV banter.
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Scott Sigler's world, talking about the GFL series.
Following the completion of Scott Sigler's audiobook "The Champion" Lance and Darren talk about what they think of the latest episodes and where the series may head (spoilers if you've not listened to the end of "The Champion"). http://scottsigler.com/
Current TV
Lance and Darren talk "Game of Thrones" and about the current spattering of superhero tv shows (very few (possibly none) spoilers).
Formula One, Road Rage and TV stuff!
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Formula One Safety
Formula One Shuffle
Song
Eddie Bingo - Everything I Touch Is Gold
https://www.jamendo.com
Road Rage
Gotham
Star Wars Rebels
Another random mix of topics, Lance preparing for a weekend with the Cubs and Darren climbing up the wall!
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Lance gets a costume for a weekend away with the Cubs
Amazon Fire TV
3D printed telescope
Song
The Easton Ellises - Sex, Drugs, Rock-N-Roll
theeastonellises.com
Not counting holiday
Rock Climbing
Nothing to talk about this week so the show ends up at just over an hour long!
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A quick round up on Smart Watches and Rosetta
Microsoft buy Minecraft
Scottish Independence
The New Doctor
Formula E
Song
Josh Woodward - California Lullaby
www.joshwoodward.com/
Another tech' show talking about phones and watches, with an answer to the question posed last week.
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Phones And Smart Watches
With Apple having released the Apple Watch every nerd on the planet has an opinion on wearable tech' and we're no different.
Song
Michael McEachern - One Way Heartbeats
www.michaelmceachern.com/
Question From Last Week
So how much air does an astronaut breath while on the ISS?
Watch this space! We talk about Darren's ongoing grapples with wearable technology and Lance answers some questions from the last show about life in space.
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Smart watch update
Darren has issues with his Kreyos but still has the desire for wearable tech.
www.youtube.com/embed/ttGns0zZKs4
Rosetta in for closer orbit
www.bbc.co.uk/news
Song
Sam Brown - Who Cares
www.youtube.com/user/SamBrownQC
Formula E
www.fiaformulae.com/
www.youtube.com
More spacey stuff and watch talk.
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Next rover to make oxygen
www.bbc.co.uk/news
Rosetta attempts orbit
www.bbc.co.uk/news
Song
Anne Davis - Awakening
www.annedavismusic.com
Where’s My Watch?
https://www.kreyos.com/
My apologies folks! A small mistake in the coding of the blog post for DDL126 made the RSS feed not work correctly.
You should now be able to tell your podcast player to "re-download" the last episode and it should all work.
The Technical BitThe host we use for our mp3 files uses both http and https. I had copied the address for the https file. While your web browser will happily connect via https and do all the secure certificate negotiation associated with the secure protocol, most RSS podcast software will not perform the secure handshake and instead reads the link as broken.
Dusting off the microphones for the first time in almost exactly one year!
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In this show we talk about:
Where have we been?
Opportunity breaks distance record
http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/july/nasa-s-long-lived-mars-opportunity-rover-sets-off-world-driving-record/index.html#.U9jT5_ldV8G
Driverless cars in th UKhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28551069
Girl with a Trademarked namehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-28559872
Music from:
Tamara Loral - Sweet
http://www.tamaralaurel.com/
This week we discuss using a company intranet like a social network and YouTube's upcoming celebration of all things geek along with some new music from Jordan Reyne
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Jordan Reyne - The Annihilation Sequence
Iron Baby
Jordan Reyne - Bandcamp
Robert Llewellyn announces his participation in Geek Week
Jamie Oliver's YouTube channel
YouTube's Geek Week channel
The Knightmare TV show Wikipedia page
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This week we discuss putting Superman & Batman into a single movie and Google's latest venture into your living room.
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Jordan Reyne is a favorite of the show and we've played her tracks many times over the years. Jordan's new album, The Annihilation Sequence, was recently released. Jordan is releasing "chill out mixes" of some of the tracks from the album.
http://jordanreyne.bandcamp.com/
Jordan's web site is: http://www.jordanreyne.com/ . Links from there to all the social media sites you could wish for.
We've re-registered http://dumbeddownlife.com/ to make it easier to find our podcast. We'll be posting updates there as well as on Facebook, Twitter and on other social networks.
The web page (blog) is the best source for updates as other social sites are more likely to be links back to here. However you found us, why ever you listen, thank you.