sleeping on the sofa ... a river and a sailboat ... squishaphobia ... opening to the bay ... gripes about Boston ... AA flashlight ... tons-a-rock-aphobia ... my ear pricks up at German ... seen a hundred mummies, you’ve seen them all ... a thousand beers for the afterlife ... a walking wallet ... okay, find your own parking spot ... this car is going out of service ... the poverty is amazing ... gift for me ... arrangement no. 6 ... you ate my cookies ... baksheesh is not a bribe ... tourist police ... terrorists: you’re taking food out of the mouth of my kids ... with this special app you can make phone calls, with your cell phone ... free market parenting ... weekly pick: rattatouille ... weekly pick: yooks.com and bluefly.com ... weekly pick: retreveo.com ... weekly pick: ipod nano

Not a loose phone ... [uh, sorry] ... 4 months without netflix ... chapter 10 ... shark boy and lava girl is 3 out of 10 ... if only I had an iPhone ... a film we like, and the kids will watch ... netflix won't sneer ... a supply of disaffected film students ... will work if I can make snide comments ... they have more piercings than I have stretch marks ... the litmus test: Cain Toads ... at work, don't quote ``Sponge Bob, the Movie'' ... ... now you're doing it on purpose ... I was hoping it would be up to Spy Kids 3 ... Indiana Jones on the beach, immortal ... I saw it twice, just to be sure (it was the worst movie ever) ... exciting MA student theses ... I'm going to write about X ... I'd like to thank D---head and D---head ... this is bad, go back ... non-idiomatic French ... shooting ducks in a barrel ... plagiarizing PowerPoint ... oh, I'm sorry, you ARE toast ... is there something you want to tell me ... the guy on the conference sounded like Boris ... what does ``soiled'' mean? ... Duel: Spielberg's precursor to Jaws ... Weekly pick: NPR on your iPhone ... Weekly pick: blackberry ... Weekly pick: instant run-off voting ... coin toss at the polls ... Weekly pick: domestic flat rate Christmas gifts to Africa ... Weekly pick: David Bach, ``Smart Couples Finish Rich''

Clean up music ... 4.3 secords of law suit ... you're a lawyer, you can do anything ... sleepy clean up music ... the one he didn't write ... woodwork or pine box ... if I look as good as sting does now – at any age ... the gray story ... and that SOB keeps doing it ... skip this nine tenths stage ... we paid someone to shrink our house ... studio G2 ... analog to digital conversion ... refrigerator is ''colder than in bed'' ... staying up ''way stupid late'' ... ''is that in even legal late'' ... zombies have to be organic ... whereas we Catholics are used to that gory stuff ... take back the night approach ... put the hurt on that girl ... passage del terror ... scaring the carp out of trick-or-treaters ... drive by pumpkin victim ... ''adult'' Halloween ... trick-or-treat as community building ... nature's hammer ... the three-sleeve gown ... drafty by design ... the lead codpiece ... girls party games ... let's play jarts – you be goalie ... knots and circle tag ... hive war ... weekly pick: grandparents.com ... frictionless iPhone ... semi pick: rubber InCase iPhone sleeve ... weekly pick: iTunesU ... weekly pick: Orson Scott Card, Empire ... leave me alone with however many monkeys

Intravenous coffee ... back on the juice ... stealing alertness from later in the day ... giving blood ... just microwave you at the same time ... when starting a fire is not socially acceptable ... mistaken phone robots ... there's no human you can yell at ... a token amount of $50,000 ... overly-labeled city ... upgrading to Leopard ... is that a bug or a feature? ... the time machine button ... 45 terabyte home drives ... file bloat ... rant about Outlook's failure to search ... I guess we don't have a rule against that ... no sftp!!! ... whole disk encryption ... hard drive as brick ... 16 hours of guessing passwords ... weekly pick: truecrypt ... ftpbad.com ... weekly pick: .mac ... weekly pick: mystery science theater 3000 ... weekly pick: select a candidate quiz, http://www.wqad.com/Global/link.asp?L=259460

Finding Marcella ... cheering the Sox ... Leonardo's sleep habits ... vodka sleep ... 4 things that set my teeth on edge in one night ... ``alright, who doesn't need to go to the potty?'' ... the plot of an Elvis movie ... Seth, the HSM on ice sound guy ... going over to Seth’s side ... he’s pitching like Al Gore ... Mt. Everest erupts again! ... shutuptimmccarver.com ... thinking outside of the batter's box ... Dealey plaza - about ... grassy knoll a sidewalk away ... what if Kennedy hadn't been shot ... is that a question, me and two kids want to go to ice cream ... has the world just started making better ice cream? ... FD&C Cactus Flower #4 ... seas of people at the sour kraut festival ... the glaciers missed this area ... the payoff is a parking space ... rightful death suit ... the weight of two people makes a difference ... flying in OLD plains ... sister podcast: heroic cthulu ... silently strange ... Marcella is expecting -- a child ... issues with Disney ... just-kill-me-now stomach flu ... legs waking you up ... talking about risk ... it’s your type C graph, Skeeter ... picking apart medical study methodologies ... we're not going to get women pregnant to study ... data handed to you on a stainless steel platter ... I can read your chart upside down and see that ... finishing the doctor’s sentences ... weekly pick: favorite ad: kfog ... weekly pick: ``N, the way of the ninja'' ... weekly pick: favorite ad: turn it up ... weekly pick: Meet the Robinsons

Dave and Richard learn to record a podcast on the fly.

Muting ... disease vectors ... ;pngis and oy whuck ... texting follies ... mornings and senses ... waking Dave ... waking Flint from the dead ... water alarm clock ... mattress spikes ... turning a mini-maglite into a laser ... new TV/old console ... curses of stumblevideo ... Richard appears ... forcibly turn off the droud ... "Pronoun Trouble" ... Pax Americana ... bugs bunny for the next generation ... Banned 11 cartoons ... Parisian restaurants ... vodka soup with cigarette butts? ... "BEEF OR FEESH" ... do we leave a tip? ... French Laundry experiences ... the bread guy ... swingline operator ... weekly pick: Tyson the skateboarding dog video ... weekly pick: Google Earth and YouTube (in Featured Content: YouTube) ... weekly pick: Grand Central (single phone number) ... weekly pick: French butter ... Trader Joe's plugras butter

Connection problem ... Vista blows ... time shift ... the ``other language'' part of your brain ... dui bu qi, pardon, scusi, or something ... small head guy ... excuse me sir, you're standing on the foot of my wolverine ... excuse me sir, your donut is demonic ... my ignorance (of baseball) pains me ... it never even touched the stadium ... bus are ev-ree-where ... canadian soldiers ... the infield fly rule ... game called on account of plague ... $4.50 for a dollar of water ... stumble video: youtube on crack ... how to pick any padlock with a soda can ... can't control what the players are saying on the field ... hard to make comedy of Achmed ... youtube build in to iphone ... weekly pick: potterpuppetpals.com ... weekly pick: jott (phone to email) ... jackdaws love my big sphinx of quartz ... weekly pick: video.stumbleupon.com

Oh. Mute. Right. ... the Giant Swing and the thrill of death ... the little death ... a smash hit in France ... the age-inappropriate part ... The Man Who Would Be King ... Daveless ... audio voyeurs ... Red Sox and Reds ... teaching the children to lift ... waiting ... affadavits from the children ... students having copyrights to their own work ... ``All right, children, turn to chapter 11'' ... suicide squeeze ... veryfunnyads.com

Octogenarians, beware! ... the headphone buffer ... Shure noise cancelling headphones ... like the first time you got in an isolation tank ... blow up an immense number of things ... riding in a Russian MiG ... vomit comets ... the ''gross'' tag ... tales from Switzerland ... well-dressed beggars ... 6 francs for a tiny cup of coffee ... trying to find local cuisine ... German potato miracle workers ... 160 dollars a day in Geneva ... a traditional Christmas in India ... 19 lanes of traffic on a 2-lane road ... ''dirty'' ... but you get a bottle or water with admission ... but my wife's name is Petunia ... I'm no Sherlock Holmes ... Holmes: ''you know I only said that once'' ... At work, I made it through tribal council ... skype video interview ... office hours over instant messaging ... savant - not burned at the stake ... I tried 3 languages and it never worked ... oh, my god, my German is gone ... defaulting into French ... I'm speaking ''Foreign,'' come ON ... do you speak gibber? ... take pity on me and speak English ... weekly pick: Avenue Montaigne ... painting in the nude ... the first blogger ... the French sex movie conundrum ... stumble.com redux ... eBay bought the cool web properties ... weekly pick: Skype phone ... a lot of free Internet access in my neighborhood ... precise cell phone location ... concerns over lack of transparency, accountability ... weekly pick: Corey Doctorow, ''Scroogled'' ... weekly pick: Columbia spf shirts ... salumbra - tailored spf shirts

press 4 for inane political commentary ... welcome back, Dave ... just like in 2001 ... losing your temper ... rage-aholics ... taking a swing at a judge ... schoolyard bully – the gateway drug ... cat punting ... at least, that’s what’s in the police report ... you know that guy too? ... hang up and call back ... 1.5 places that are not the Via Borghese ... my broken Italian, which is my Spanish ... come around to the back window ... systeme D ... pain trainer ... years of hurtling ... Bear’s postcards from Switzerland ... panda’s thumbs ... you are a boob, sir ... fixing the QWERTY keyboard ... A1 paper will cover Antarctica ... at some point you may hear an extremely loud bang ... twice as thick ... weekly pick: Jasper Fforde, “First Among Sequals�
Mary Russell mysteries "The Game" ... weekly pick: Karen Schwabach, “A Pickpocket’s Tale� ... weekly pick: garden with native ecosystems ... birds eat butterflies ... weekly pick: Electric Light Orchestra ... netbooks ... book filtering ... weekly pick: James Randi, “Flim Flam�

fiasco cast... sleep caster... terrorists use that skype phone... guilty knowledge... sharing a cell... chef tasting at Komi... Picasso at the Bellagio... the French Laundry... she’s into food like I’m into breathing... x-raying the podcast... not able to sit down for weeks... podcast by iPhone... selling like cakes... large expense loves company... terabyte ipods... what flavor lollipop do you like... living room of the future... why do these people dress like crap... weekly pick: goombah - “I bet you would like� tech for music... Bear, stop backing up... skip it without prejudice... google knows your inner psyche... datamining possibilities... if they know too much... 3 ads I have liked... only the good ones make it here... weekly pick: 4 GB iPhone... weekly pick: Parallels on the Mac... weekly pick: Brotherhood 2.0

Camping in the back yard ... anti-California weather ... pile bodies ... tiny Castle Wolfenstein Nazis ... don't date yourself ... Senators with ethics problems ... the bad side of humanity ... [fixing problems at work] ... white clouds in the neighborhood ... stealing mill stones ... 7,000,000 pounds per square inch ... concrete on glass ... taking apart the building ... we send Mike packing ... how sharp is Occam's razor ... real quotes form Albert Einstein ... jack-o-lantern chair ... star ship enterprise personal jet ... eyeballs-out is much worse ... suicide on the installment plan ... hey, what's that behind you ... when I put these in, I'm going to come kick your a** ... circuit breaker behind your head ... ''well, the good news is...'' ... draining a backyard pool in 1 second ... there go the piano lessons ... weekly pick: audacity + funformobile.com ... mike's gems ... weekly pick: thorium.blogspot.com ... weekly pick: Adam Gopnik, ''Paris to the Moon'' ... weekly pick: Dar Williams ... the only difference is that there is no cat ... with outrageous French accent, of course

the gathering ... computer: new to you ... survivor at work ... the thinning of the nerd ... quietly strange ... skype as burglar alarm ... bottom of the well, holding the rope ... bear moves to an upper room ... anti-pick: skype phone ... just the right weight for hefting across the room ... sleeping in the tub ... not a new time zone ... michigan is *not* all east of Chicago ... dateline? ... at the time it was the West ... goodbye to our listeners from Wyoming ... boats on the Interstate ... picking up a sofa in a...boat ... Richard gets profiled ... plate: “no tags� ... every room of the house vandalized ... the two Americas ... visiting Yellowstone ... spry?? ... Carlsbad caverns ... Blue Corn Café, Santa Fe ... weekly pick: Ethiopian food ... weekly pick: google map waypoints ... weekly pick: tori amos, little earthquakes ... weekly pick: iMovie HD on the Mac

Coming back from France ... revenge: a dish best served with shrimps ... wine pairings ... art, architecture, and archaeology ... future archaeology ... April in P-p-p-Paris ... subjects that start with an a ... cave art ... the short-lived tiger-butt period in art ... dungheaps compared to the glory of Rome ... spam ... fried bologna sandwiches ... getting a paper back in ... the third reviewer says you're a moron ... co-authored books ... ''Fine by me!'' ... bicycle thieves ... rewiring Aunt Victoria's house ... gay, gay, gay ... The Car ... BAM! ... ''You just got my bicep!'' ... weekly pick: dialahuman.com ... weekly pick: Grace Kelly by MIKA ... weekly pick: actual physical books ... the bookaholic business ... choosing books and museums ... weighty books ... making e-books work

''Got Dave?'' ... 3 minutes loss (maybe!) ... the question is mute? ... that really tightens my liver ... off by about 3 inches ... rathole alert ... goat rodeo ... herding big cats ... hemming and hee hawing ... knee drops ... let gravity have its way with them ... clean the room or I'll sheep you ... a bit more taciturn than I am ... there's a skit here ... there is nothing like a Dave ... gunnin' for the Daves ... similar but totally different ... 4 guys walk into a rathole ... screw up and it's turtlewax ... creative answering machine messages ... it better be good ... $800 phone bill ... I don't have an xbox ... anti-pick: froot loops / kamp ground ... got to pay transnasally ... we ran out of dolphins ... well it looked like a dolphin ... weekly pick: flosser ... dremel floss-o-matic ... absurd warning labels/pictures ... weekly pick: Lois Lowry: Gathering Blue ... weekly pick: Suite Frances ... weekly pick: gameday / gameday audio ($14.95)

Turning up the Mike ... rapid recording disclaimer ... luggage nightmares ... sorry, I lost my bag ... again ... stealing luggage off the carousel ... the Lincoln ... car with no sun shield ... 12 mpg highway ... blinking headlights ... ''today my trip ends here'' ... spf 50 ... looks 12 but sure knows his stuff ... just so we get this out of the way, I'm 34 years old ... is joke ... if you're looking for someone famous ... topdown/bottomup pastoring ... co-ministry team - venture capitalist and Buddhist ... velcome to family camp ... weekly pick: classic cars ... weekly pick: Logitech harmony universal remote ... weekly pick: Yale Book of Quotations ... English with English subtitles

sleep enfreude? ... my job is your semi-vacation ... ''You are going to get this binder'' ... marvelous notion: sabbatical ... work whatever 80 hours you want ... coming in with pencil and paper in hand ... meetings with alcohol waiting ... nu-uh, shut up ... political science fiction ... books from college are good ... cheese shop sketch ... Richard’s abysmal editing experience ... having them under a barrel ... editing errata ... click on this link and I’ll reward you ... my job is to read books about stuff I really, really like ... Dayton isn’t that bad ... hotel conference room look the same around the world ... the short answer’s “yes� ... the long answer’s “yes� ... buying Lincoln, NE ... suicide doors ... 2.5 tons of Detroit steel ... window crank: “what’s that for?� ... exploring tuschensraum ... bright shiny objects ... weekly pick: picnik.com ... weekly pick: not Mary Roberts Rhinehart ... weekly pick: triathalon ... weekly pick: if my nose was running money ... weekly pick: Robert Talbott 1998 Case Pinot Noir ... drive through beer

the chipmunks ... triathalon ... taking a cell phone for a swim ... baked alaska ... 400 yard swim not as easy as it used to be ... dave's stream of existance ... cyrillic numbers ... lenin's decree against the number 8 ... the movie Z ... sorry, Roger; you a tiger now ... including Richard ... tin man triathalon ... we bring our spare tire with us everywhere ... Bob's feat ... dave's family camp ... tsuchraum ... natural quarry, er, or not ... a drinking club with a running problem ... the Game Importer ... game called mafia ... dave's weekly pick: hash house harriers ... Bear's mom's health ... Mike's dad's health ... jello on a string ... hanging an LCD TV over a stairway ... the super ladder ... Richard ate a turducken ... it's a good story, but why should she get a billion dollars for that series? ... the author Mary Roberts Rinehart ... weekly pick: http://monty.python.videowall.sytes.org ... weekly pick: people at the walnut creek kaiser ICU unit ... weekly pick: michael museem's book The Leadership Moment ... scotch is really pretty good ... chinese restaurant's own scotch label ... scotch is whiskey made in scotland ... vodka's made from anything ... infused vodka on tap ... the drink to kingdom come.

pancake lady podcast ... military family camp ... fancy pancakes ...pancake babies ... growth hormones .... surprising animals ... weekly pick: bagel french toast ... french toast making prowess ... renewed apologies ... weekly pick: www.slideshare.net ... bare-chested t-shirts ... camelbacks for the whole family ... hiking on platforms ... distracting the kids ... vistas in Acadia ... thunderhole restrooms ... fukuya restaurant

All new technical difficulties ... Marcella's fair city ... shorts to the 'stick ... the theme park in Gilroy ... garlic is never dull ... the Monterey Aquarium ... sea otter stories ... barn owls ... converting things to numbers ... the Lincoln ... ''Is it a safety issue?'' ... Bear's mom's health ... the nurse and the apple juice ... weekly pick: Trader Joe's brownie mix ... weekly pick: girl scout skit night ... weekly pick: trulia.com

mike...stephen...bear...

problems connecting ... welcome Marcella ... "palmetto bugs" the size of dump trucks ... moving to Ohio ... Japanese states in the US ... highest point in every state ... 50 cent words ... gators at the mall ... and in the pool ... possibility of age discrimination ... Bear protests age jokes? ... meat patty with 2 breads ... and then we all started speaking Russian ... it will do a Chernobyl in your mouth ... mother of all cheeses ... weekly pick: Yosemite ... one or two of the natural wonders of the world ... weekly pick: the Burgandy Room ... weekly pick: zerofootprint.net ... smokin' the planet ... cigar the size of a sewer ... HOV: 300 or more ... weekly pick: the Everglades ... weekly pick: googlenope ... skype: better than being there

how hard could vista be to get to work with skype ... Father Gator ... hike tradition ... trip recovery ... they're "camping" ... eggs taste great right out of the pan ... joshua tree ... what is a joshua tree ... just a pile of rocks ... secret path to get to the top of the rock ... driving in caernarvon ... climbing vampire's neck ... climbing mt. snowdon (wales) ... Swiss military ... buzzed by an A10 ... where do you keep YOUR tanks? ... weekly pick marriedtothesea.com ... weekly pick netflix for obscure movies ... who needs to go to the movies? ... 300 ... friday night film series ... not another horse movie!  ... star wars for kids? ... weekly pick 12 year old McClellan (or something like that) scotch ... mt. sanjack and interesting rock types ... sanjack rental car ... eeinie meenie minee moe redux ...

Live from Palm Springs, CA

No show this week!  Dave explains.

Vacationing in Detroit...Russians in Meyers...road trip...''It's a farm, man''...visiting Aunt Bobbie...''Fap. I say, Fap.''...the Big Texan and the 72-ounce steak...steak-eating women...The Salmon Mousse...the Big Burrito...big, big burgers...the diplomatic incident...lightning...fast-food walkie-talkies...weekly picks: Best of Boston bars -- Doyle's, James' Gate, Neptune Oyster House...weekly pick: WebEx...weekly pick: camelback full of ice...Mom's surgery...hi, Marcella

Spring gumming us up ... the hyper-allergenic cat ... Studio G(arage) ... teasing the Empire ... splitting the pie ... house feeding frenzy ... biting a dead horse ... what gender is your brain? ... splitting 50 pounds ... hiring a game theorist ... ''assume no friction'' ... don't piss off the Dean ... who pays the buyer's broker? ... one step up from car salesmen ... well, I won't say there aren't any honest realtors ... weekly pick: baby laughing on YouTube ... weekly pick: carrot juice ... weekly pick: ted.com ... weekly pick: skybus -- wait, scratch that! weekly pick: PDFpen

Recorded live and in person -- no show notes. Contains updates on Dave's friend and Bear's mom, some shout-outs to listeners, and sundry tomfoolery.

More on moron ... early weekly pick: homestarrunner.com ... teaching with no voice ... trainedmonkey.com ... ''So how are you?'' -- wrong answer ... optimistic news for Bear's mom ... mna-ma-na, it's not a tumor ... medical malpractice ... moving on ... moving on ... moving on ... backdating your Jobs ... the ''It Blows'' episode ... old friends' divorce ... leftover rubber hoses ... except that people are not perfect ... maybe the drummer was right ... miscommunications in jr high ... advertising your buttheadedness ... Immortal Beloved ... weekly pick: Macallan 18-year Scotch ... weekly pick: Three conversations

pacific ocean isn't calm...balboa...Alaska's bigger than Texas...Boeing management in Chicago...sonic cruiser...tasmanian devil...Rach 3 and Shine...oh that guy? he's all if and no then...drunk with power...corporate culture to be nice...uncomfortable in their own skin...reviewing your peers...getting better at interviewing...carnot cycle...weekly pick google earth...angels falls...weekly pick: southerland falls (end of the milford track in new zealand...weekly pick: dead sea

Iain's hum ... Finding a house ... ''I can Google you'' ... ''cotton diapers too complicated??'' ... graduation from, um, diapers? ... grading with a green pen ... plagiarism ... stuff you never say to a Dean ... this is your grade on plagiarism ... Operation Just 'Cuz ... the downside of the experiment ... literary attainments and moral worth ... the beriberi donut ... weekly pick: The Lightning Thief, by Rick Riordan ... childhood muscular disorders ... weekly pick: epinomics ... weekly pick: Bill Cosby ... weekly pick: Dance Dance Immolation ... Twister with land mines ... extra weekly pick: Peace Art Project Cambodia

Answering google searches personally...Dumb alarm clock features...Bombers need to know daylight savings time...Afghan legislature keeping people on their toes...You mean pi isn't 3?...So bolts in bolt holes...Hard to make threads...Accurate to five microns...Home schooled in a machine shop...Google sketcher...AMD - Intel competitions...Putting on a wet bathing suit...Weekly non-pick: plazes.com...Social networking: location...E911 inside the house...GPS forehead...Hayfever = sick...Richard's sad...Weekly pick: books by Sandra Boynton...Weekly pick: draw your own google map...'Google' on my caller-ID?...Google post-katrina maps...Iraqi license plates...Backpack UAVs...Weekly pick: OK Go videos...Weekly pick: shoo fly pie

Don't touch the art...building a better mousetrap...dogshare...6 million dollar arm...REI sale...insuring the dead...addictive country road...listening to it with grandpa...the shut up game...that's not how you make a tree...no, this is how you parent...Weekly pick: bugatti veryon (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x157l2_bugatti-veyron-at-top-speed)...weekly pick: phone/IM at same time...weekly pick: wine bottle opener...dave and his dst-challenged ipod

Mike's grand entrance ... ''Sure it's terminal cancer, but at least you know'' ... Bear's knee, again ... wives are forever ... things no man would every say ... ''It makes your butt LOOK fat'' ... eatin' cheetos and watchin' Oprah ... walking in a circle ... John Thorne, a terrific food writer ... salivating for potatoes ... who cares how much money you have, if you don't eat well? ... Paris apartments ... don't get me anything for my birthday ... haven't made it out of the hole ... recycled PAPER toilet paper ... ''that hippie crap'' ... Renova and world peace ... our own landfill ... composting paper ... the evil worm ... boiling the phone ... Dirty Dancing ... a four-letter word for box ... assembling train tracks ... grown-up train sets ... cross-section of the human head ... mornin', Dave ... a hard drive can sound like THAT? ... leather-lunged little devils ... weekly pick: alarm clock that lets you sleep (apparently, for Dave) ... weekly pick: gotvoice.com ... weekly pick: Simple Cooking newsletter (John Thorne)

Dave's new microphone ... the red button ... 2 thumbs up for Flushed Away ... things funnier with a British accent ... the token American ... 5 Children and It ... what idiot invented daylight savings time? ... snow should know its place: the slopes ... graylight savings time ... poison nuts ... peanut hair gel ... turtles don't make good lightbulbs ... bee cruelty ... open the hives: Run! Run! ... real black-fly cones ... racing buses ... man tricks dog ... third fastest land animal ... fish: not dead yet! ... sidewalk fish ... can you learn to play far far away? ... Weekly Pick: Pete Stark, agnostic ... Weekly Pick: gorilla pod ... Weekly Pick: TurboTax ... Weekly Pick: TVBgone

Bear moving to Ohio ... the value of the housing dollar ... the financial side of retirement ... 4-percent rule: yikes ... and then there's college ... vacationing with your retired child ... 10 seconds to read death notices ... education increases longevity ... ''it's a pretty low-stress occuGAAAK'' ... it's all about how big your pointer is ... a really big kid with a whole lot of money ... if credit cards become illegal, only criminals will have them ... father-daughter love stories ... Annie ... ''Baby, mix me a drink'' ... kids making 'kung pao' chicken ... being the really, really old guys at the college reunion ... etch-a-sketch hair ... ''When image counts, get a nozzle ad'' ... Weekly pick: linked in ... Moby Dick, the gargantuan mail file ... Weekly pick: Steak a l'Ours ... Weekly pick: Texas Hold 'em with kids ... Weekly pick: Netflix and MovieLens ... the cat's queue

Technical difficulties (mostly omitted) ... Mr. Potty Mouth ... Guys and Dolls ... the helicopter ... hooking up with a babysitter ... as long as he's not wearing a hockey mask ... Bear is not your babysitter ... ain't technology grand ... Dave's drive failure ... the most sophisticated piece of technology ... eenie, meenie ... tigers in Africa ... the snows of Kilimanjaro ... portable Google data centers in the wilderness ... I'm mad as heck ... Katrina and the Waves ... being killed by irony ... the REAL inconvenient truth ... a hundred and thirteen degrees in the shade ... weekly pick: Airport Express ... clarification -- the child is not locked into the room ... weekly pick: Team of Rivals ... weekly pick: Nikon 105mm vibration-reduction lens ... down a rathole -- artificial intelligence ... weekly pick: Paul Harvey, The Rest of the Story

Richard's gone ... Richard's (lame) excuse...Iain's early...4 year old reading the bible...mary and martha story...nothing good in the bible?...churches as repositories of interpretation...jesus as iconoclast...what does 'begat' mean, daddy?...why IS Dave nice to people...the other Golden Rule...turn the other WHAT?...being 'first strike'... helpful worrying about Christian indoctrination...random Religious browning motion...Weekly pick: Fly the Road...Weekly pick: top gear video...Weekly pick: build a better bird feeder...Weekly pick: the Algebraist

Inadvertent crank calls ... ''Mary! The defibrillator!'' ... Odysseus and the dog ... The Odyssey is so cool ... O Brother, Where Art Thou? ... Ilium, by Dan Simmons ... The Places In Between ... the norm of hospitality among Muslims ... prejudice against zombies in Afghanistan ... Knock knock. Brains! ... the Old Rock Candy Mountain ... why would you help out a random traveler? ... travelers and vagabonds ... giving money to beggars ... the ins and outs of charity ... Sherlock Holmes and cocaine ... Porco Rosso ... weekly pick: lifestraw.com ... weekly pick: The Philadelphia Story ... weekly pick: Extreme Kids ... weekly pick: A Series of Unfortunate Events ... The Dixie Chicks and the Simpsons

Technical difficulties ... the all-in-one podcasting solution? ... an end to global warming ... nutty, homicidal astronauts ... Anna Nicole Smith = Cinderella? ... false fathers who won't take a DNA test ... this generation's tawdry Marilyn Monroe ... indefatigable Weird Al ... the HMS Rather Alert ... self-immolating Barbie ... lacdeflection ... return of sniglets ... the Sparticus queue ... ''No, I'm Sparticus'' ... Sparticus Pepsi ad ... Jarts ... weekly pick: Free to Be You and Me ... weekly pick: Trashmail Firefox extension ... weekly pick: Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

Welcome, Iain ... Google does cameras?? ... specialists who can't do anything ... how to do a Powerpoint presentation ... Tufte Powerpoint screed ... never, never do this ... powerpoint in a foreign language ... drunken translators ... delayed punchlines ... the unanticipated Chinese man ... anonymous wrong numbers ... the pod hotel ... ''We got a winner!'' ... kids planting hoax devices ... 2 things about Boston ... unmarked packages ... Weekly pick: Apples to Apples ... Weekly pick: Foldershare ... Weekly pick: Goodnight Gorilla ... Weekly non-pick: Horton Hears a Who video ... Weekly pick: Spin State ... Weekly pick: Nuclear Weapons FAQ ... Weekly pick: The Big Picture: states as countries ... leaving butt prints in the sands of time

Waking up a random Chinese man, and echoing at him ... Mike, failing to behave himself ... finding Richard ... being tortured by a sadistic Marine ... taking kids to Pan's Labyrinth? ... violence, but not gratuitous violence ... Luis Bunuel ... The Obscure Object of Desire ... shrimps and revenge ... revenche is a dish best served after dessert ... being corrected in French and Chinese ... prepare to receive my transmission ... how to negotiate with the Japanese: don't even try to bow ... ''Come alone. I am not a mountain lion'' ... cat fud ... AARP member vs. mountain lion ... irritating lethal animals ... the underwater knife ... how many rounds of surprise does the mountain lion get? ... playing ''got your trachea'' ... zebra stripes ... confused squirrels ... the Mongolian Death Worm ... weekly pick: the St. Louis Arch ... weekly pick: balldroppings.com ... weekly pick: reversible door-locking mechanisms ... weekly pick: George R. R. Martin's ''A Game of Thrones'' ... sucking books down in a single night ... Gravity's Rainbow ... Ulysses ... ''Don't be a fool, Jones!''

Talking to the Skype Lady ... where's Dave? ... safety color coding ... left-handed life-spans ... somebody get a rope ... Don Rickles: ''I thought you were dead'' ... Asimov's exhaustive autobiography ... Steven King's potted plant ... being ridden by the Muse ... scoring the game ... freezing fruit ... snizzle ... fuzzy little monkeys ... ''can't... talk... pain... in...'' ... squirrel and bird torture device ... the right tool ... ziggurat living room ... half-terrarium-trapped squirrels ... darwin awards: morally bankrupt ... got killed butchering a rare creature ... weekly pick: Pan's Labyrinth ... weekly pick: location-based reminders ... weekly pick: aqua doodle ... weekly pick: storm skirt

Can you hear me now? ... yes, we have frost ... hot chocolate on way to the BART train ... MX missiles on the oldest subway in the world? ... V for Vendetta ... ''Hello, Mr. Baggins'' ... daring to commit cinema ... NASCAR ... I've driven in Rome, pal ... artwork on the road ... driving as blood sport ... car body language ... the person who yells ''LEFT'' ... haben sie das notig? ... the stinking pit in the Dune series ... she has no Ruth ... drinking under an assumed name ... wanting an iPhone so badly ... iPod software issues ... weekly pick: the people's mario ... weekly pick: getting things done / 43folders.com ... weekly pick: the sparrow ... weekly pick: activeallowance.com ... ''God exists, so there!''

Dave's miss ... ''not the wed one'' ... perky Richard ... the Dixie Flatline bag-box thingy ... dissecting the frog ... one-man Mark Twain show ... I wish it were 60 degrees -- inside the cabin ... Velcro'd wiener dogs ... cartoonesque quantities of black flies ... head-dipping, snickering flies ... warming up cabins ... orgasmic dill sauce ... taking one for the team ... can you give me a hint and just beat the sh** out of me? ... turn off the light, or I won't leave ... get what? ... resentment-inducing long-johns ... the One Red Paperclip guy ... the million-dollar website ... click this button a million times and my girlfriend will, err ... audacity of the thing ... being good at lying ... 'scuze me, I dropped my headset ... smooch? ... right into the pond ... golfing with Uncle Tim ... pre-called mulligans ... miss it 5 times and shotgun a beer ... the club fling ... rodent-like sprinklers ... dodging golfballs ... weekly pick: mortgage-paying credit cards ... weekly pick: trio of hot sauces -- Molten Golden, Goin' Bananas, Weed Killer ... weekly pick: firefly the TV series ... nuthin' into nuthin', carry the nuthin' ... ''Is it Christmas?''

Waking Mike ... Richard's sixth round of presents ... rules for gift exchanges ... a very Ponzi Christmas ... Santa's Magic Key ... shots for Santa ... appropriate presents ... computer lessons for septuagenarians ... the Nancy Drew computer game ... kids watching Carrie: 6 feet backwards ... international babysitting blackballs ... my aunt, the wolf ... Robinette Hood panto ... The Zombie War ... weekly pick: my life as a CIA spy and lack of humint ... weekly pick: the online public library ... weekly pick: Groundhog Day ... Buddhists LOVE this movie ... weekly pick: a trio of zooming stuff ... it is the very model of a modern solar system ... a short history of nearly everything

Are you the tech guy? ... being a Linux user ... Youtube parodies of Mac ads ... Santa v. Jesus ... ''Give me that in a box, fat boy'' ... ready for Christmas ... Banana Boy's birthday ... first baby of the year ... trivial is vitriol ... what are the odds of sharing birthdays? ... why is my phone beeping? ... do you hear what I hear? ... Christmas morning ... piety through forgetfulness ... Christmas through the day ... no presents until the adults have eaten ... the constantly-growing Christmas Crumb ... traditional Christmas latkes, eclairs, French toast ... stealing Stollen and poaching eggs ... ''Would you rather be in dog-slobber land or knitting land?'' ... ''Those are the names of my fingers, duh!'' ... weekly pick: www.toothpastefordinner.com ... the Pan-flute flowchart ... Zamfir, master of the Pan flute! ... sudo makemeasandwich ... linear adventure of deaths ... weekly pick: Saturday drink night ... weekly pick: Dar Williams, The Christians and the Pagans ... weekly pick: Bamboosa shirts, comfortable and soft ... Platewire.com, road rage website ... www.YouParkLikeAnAss----.com ... www.SweetJesusIHateBillOReilly.com ... bumper sticker inkjet printer for the car ... family Christmas

Podcasting in the afternoon ... ''Wait, Wait'' contest ... interplanetary waves? ... as big as her mother ... suggestive Tarzan dolls ... last moments of a golden retriever ... the cat came back ... cat revenge ... Hammy goes ''plop'' ... death by lasagna ... a real cool cat ... cats that don't learn ... dogs that actually catch squirrels ... the safe word is banana ... climb down off a duck: the elephant-duck koan ... way to go, ex-lax ... weekly pick: StumbleUpon plug in ... Goombah ... mine my music preferences - please! ... privacy statement: you have no privacy ... pandora - no, not her ... weekly pick: don't say wax fruit – ''wax fruit?'' – damn! ... weekly pick: Good Omens ... Satan switched at birth ... weekly pick: mud slide, the drink ... the nation's fine alcohol laws

Roll call ... and the winner is: Dave ... musical accompaniment ... our Christmas edition ... flu epidemics ... violent crackerjack reactions ... poisoning Richard redux ... neighboring peanut factory ... Carver off, pal! ... what's weather? ... dinner with daughters ... drinking out of your cereal bowl ... practice dinners ... toothpick tricks ... Ronco turducken maker ... mutant chickens ... weekly picks: Crazy Machines (digression: autism and TV), flylady.com (and the multi-generational packrat), cryptic crosswords (used at Abu Ghraib!), winter drinks

Intro: Explaining our technical difficulties ... it is COLD ... my hand just froze ... I told you not to cheat ... scorpions vs. cockroaches ... analog to digital conversion ... the castration converter ... 4-voice answering machine ... not having to fight for the covers ... karate boy? ... the second pressing ... don’t acknowledge self-inflicted screaming ... speaking of flames and smoke ... not really a Bond movie ... jumping the shark ... ... but lord it wasn't good ... that's a 'tell'?? ... what are you, an actor? ... are you tall or short? make up your mind! ... mountains have the white hat ... pouring hot water on the ice on the driveway ... Bugs Bunny for the first time ... Charlie Brown in a Mac ad ... weekly picks: Edward Tufte poster, Dyson vacuum, imdb.com