The Crankiest Geek
The force is strong with this one, young geek viewer. We caught up with Mr. Cranky Geek himself, John C. Dvorak, while he was brushing up his crank skills with Master Yoda outside of George Lucas' infamous Industrial Light and Magic in San Francisco's Presidio. Irina goes into deep history with Dvorak to discover it all started with a fly in the sandwich.
Episode links: John C. Dvorak, Cranky Geeks, ILM
Wine Tasting With Gary Vaynerchuk
Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV and Irina suck on rocks, eat dirt and taste wine like superheros. If you've seen the Conan bit, this is similar until Irina turns the tables on Gary. Filmed at Technorati whom we love for putting up with our disruptions.
Episode links: Wine Library TV, Gary on Conan, Technorati
Linuxworld 2007 Geekery
We dropped by Linuxworld 2007 in San Francisco to see what's new in the world of Linux operating systems, stacks, racks and porn. Irina goes deep among the penguins.
Episode links: Linuxworld, ubuntu, Debian, SUSE, FreeBSD, FreeBSDGirl, LinuxQuestions
Mechanical Amusements From the Past
Violet Blue visits the Musee Mecanique at Pier 45 in San Francisco for a refreshing, nostalgic trip through mechanical games of fun and fortune from the past. Some of these relics are downright morbid, others are delightfully funny. Violet takes us on a tour and relays a bit of the museum's history.
Episode links: Violet Blue, Musee Mecanique
Captured! By Robots
If you have any doubt that robots are taking over, can carry a tune and are mean fuckers, then check this video out. Captured! By Robots dragged their creator JBOT to the last show of their tenth anniversary tour here in their home destination of San Francisco. Irina corners JBOT around back of the Bottom of the Hill before the show and tries to find out why he lets his creations torture him so.
Episode links: Captured! By Robots, JBOT, Bottom of the Hill
Dontcha Wish Your Cell Phone Was Hot Like Me?
Yes, this music video will make you buy an iPhone if you don't already have one. No, we don't get kickbacks from Apple nor do we make any apologies.
Directed, produced and edited by Nora McDevitt, featuring Randi Jayne, MC Prager & MC Slutsky. A collaborative effort.
Episode links: iPhone, Nora McDevitt (imdb), Randi Jayne, MC Prager, MC Slutsky, Doctor Popular, Myloekoe, Laura Swisher, FBC
Sex Blogger Audacia Ray Gets Naked
Violet Blue is back with an intimate interview with Audacia Ray, a sex blogger, virgin author and nerd of the highest order. Audacia just released her first book titled Naked on the Internet: Hookups, Downloads and Cashing in on Internet Sexploration.
Episode links: Violet Blue, Audacia Ray, Naked on the Internet, Center for Sex and Culture, Fleshbot
iPhone Launch Day
The culmination of all the hype finally hit on iPhone d-day. We went down to the Apple Store in San Francisco and spoke with a few potential iPhone owners waiting in line and a couple excited newbie owners with booty in hand. Irina takes the pulse.
Episode links: iPhone, SF Apple Store, Santa Inc : Dorothy's Magic Bus (soundtrack)
The Pixelodeon Festival
We took a trip down to Los Angeles for the first inaugural Pixelodeon online video festival. Irina chats up a handful of the creative minds that made this a weekend to remember.
Episode links: Pixelodeon, Can We Do That?, Rick Rey, Eric Rey, Josh Cohen, TheHill88, Fred Seibert,
Ruby on Rails geekSessions
To scale or not to scale Ruby on Rails, that is the question at the first geekSessions event in San Francisco. Using her super reporting powers, Irina finds out from attendees and presenters how Ruby scales in comparison to... other things.
Episode links: geekSessions, Ruby on Rails