An almost 30 Software Dev that enjoys gaming, woodworking, electronics and plenty of other hobbies. Too many hobbies.

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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Lateral - guests try to solve weird puzzles that require lateral thinking

    Regular Features - regulars take turns telling a funny story each. They can be all kinds of different things. Songs, plays where everyone needs to get involved, or even true stories backed up with covert voice recordings.

    That’s Absurd Please Elaborate - regulars either explain something weird and interesting or listeners will prompt then with a question that they will go and research and explain in the podcast.

    Horne Section Podcast - Little Alex Horne (of Taskmaster fame) interviews a guest alongside his band that will keep playing improv music of all kinds of different genres throughout. Regularly playing songs that end up being relevant to the guest, for example could be a funny retelling of their life or some fun word play on their name etc. the banter between Alex and band makes this one. They probably didn’t even need guests to be honest.

    A Problem Squared - 2 regulars each try to solve a question posed by listeners. Is often very intellectual but the two hosts are very witty and can find an interesting and funny way to explain someone’s complicated concepts that anyone could understand and learn from.

    James Acasters Perfect Sounds - each episode James shares an album specifically from the year 2016 to try and convince them that 2016 was the best year in music in an attempt to justify his obsession of trying to physically collect every album released in 2016. The reasons for it being 2016 specifically are very personal to him and uses each album to explain why. (This is like a companion piece/extension to a book he wrote prior on the same subject, except this time with other people involved and their opinions as well as the audible medium allowing him to share snippets of the sins they are talking about).

    Some other ones I regularly listen to: Cox n Crendor Geekenders Bill Burr’s Monday Morning Podcast C.R.E.A.M. (Cars Rule Everything Around Me - The TDC Podcast) SmartLess Windbreaker Better Offline (A good one for Tech Sceptics that hate the big tech monopolies)




  • Bit of a sidenote.

    Are the English numbers 11-20 influencer by the base 20 system of french back when we had French speaking royalty? And for some reason they’re the only unique “digits” for lack of a better term that survived because once we get to twenty it’s a pure base 10 system with a consistent pattern throughout.

    I’m hoping someone more knowledgeable than me can tell me if my thinking is correct or not.

    Edit: thanks for the history lessons, were interesting to read through.