iPad novelty ... Mike, you've got a mic ... carpel tunnel Pad ... pounding a Corona ... slowing the typist ... world of left handed scissors ... weekly pick: the Existential Blues, Tom T-Bone Stankus ... the Infamous Reboot ... wait, there's an iPad2? ... the Citizen Kane of children's animation ... 7 is totally like 12, man ... weekly pick: dropbox ... Dave, stop talking ... the youth con http://vimeo.com/10796145 ... wink: the violent, loving game ... Mr. President Get Down ... British bulldog ... heterosexual de-ist scouts ... with all due respect ... weekly pick: daisyowl.com ... weekly pick: grooveshark.com ... weekly pick: Neil Stephensen, "Anathem"

Richards's in NY ... grandfather's funeral ... you could go at any hour ... if you had 5 years left, what would you do? ... can we finish that book for you? ... I can't believe I just that ... Bear's mom's passing ... live a little bit up to someone else's life ... value in suffering; learning is prompted more by pain than pleasure ... on the spot wake for 20 ... Rosebank 12, Port Ellen 11, Brora 24, and Carsebridge 43? ... weekly pick: ipad "this is magic" ... weekly pick: iAnnotate ipad app for pdfs ... weekly pick: John Adams by David McCullough

physically on East Coast time ... surprising holidays ... dead presidents ... not that Reagan is responsible for everything wrong with this country ... the coming debt crisis ... too pessimistic? ... biggest waste is the war ... VAT tax excitement ... nasty brutish and short ... shrinking population ... starting in 30 years, yes ... taxing Ellison ... I'll pay more taxes ... tinfoil car on principle ... I can arrange that for you ... monetizing citizenship ... all to firstborn ... weekly pick: American in Paris ... weekly pick: So You Think You Can Dance ... weekly pick: Belkin headphone splitter ... I want a babble fish ... if we win, everyone has to call it soccer

Mutual mocking society ... listener mail ... virtualweberbullet.com ... smokin' meat ... vacuum sealing for sous vide ... sous videnator ... bake meat or parboiling and then grill vs smoking ... weekly pick: youtube this drummer is at the wrong gig ... weekly pick: TV show Leverage ... also recommendation for show "Damages" ... US slow food biennial expo in Italy represented by Ohio ... Central Ohio is the new food destination - farm to table ... weekly pick: paperlesspost.com ... toxoplasma gondii (www.economist.com—16271339 <http://www.economist.com/node/16271339?story_id=16271339)> ... human genome not predicting diseases as well as we'd like

welcome Bear to the west coast ... newark airport is heinous ... reflecting on the hootenanny ... illuminati ... richard never wins ... Texas hold 'em ... blend of communism and testosterone ... Maryland hold 'em ... cribbage variant ... trumps vs spades ... michigan rummy ... canasta ... Bear's first runner up in asparagus competition ... asparagus bruschetta ... weekly pick: http://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/mint-ice-cream but take away mint and add asparagus or any other flavor you want ... berkeley farms thin mint ice cream ... does it compare to gelato? ... weekly pick: wrap-n-mat.com ... weekly pick: meringues (6 for 3 points)

no Richard ... humidity sucks ... cast iron bonfire listener mail ... 800 degree bonfires could be too much ... walrus lard cast iron cleaning method ... civility in business ... interest in local food when traveling abroad ... combining interest in a culture with meeting cultural ambassadors ... pubs ... wandering in London ... how to appear native ... smug smirk ... tour of ohio wineries ... Local 127 in Cincinnati with master sommelier chef ... rationing out eye contact ... you guys like lardo? ... no doors between kitchen and dining room ... dave needs to try good bacon ... friends with cool hobbies, like curing ... asparagus ice cream ... not quite to the level of Dave's weekly picks: Iron Man, cherry picking, Space Alert game ... weekly pick: Roborally ... plawless flan ... multiple online games of Go ... facbook group: plug the oil leak with the works of Ayn Rand ... weekly pick: Wolfram Alpha iphone app ... weekly pick: 44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith

The infinite hotel, aka the Hilbert hotel ... look outside and smell life, now that winter is gone ... modifying last week's cast iron pick ... Le Creuset, or the cheaper Lodge version (check back for results in future podcasts) ... basefook privacy settings ... weekly pick: diaspora as an alternative to facebook ... kickstarter.com ... is twitter an alternative ... twitterific iphone app ... tweety ... weekly pick: buttermilk marinated fried chicken ... when popcorn kernel pops, you know you're at 350 degrees ... weekly pick: Foyle's War

Weekly picks good for Mother's Day: Spanish Table cookbook, Jeni's ice cream, Once upon a time ... ice cream better with better ingredients ... stock market trade software opportunity ... stock option paperwork sucks ... drill, baby, drill, or not ... containment domes a mile down ... soviets betrayed lack of finesse ... nuclear sounding really good ... weekly pick: Hobson's Choice film ... nuclear power cooling tower-like structure in 1954 ... Girl, Interrupted ... Dave's youth district assembly attendance last week ... what makes a hero's story survive ... well heated pool ... battleships vs. submarines ... somewhat of an anti-pick, Jamie Oliver's food revolution (a bit high-end) ... weekly pick: "Now You're Cooking" by Elaine Corn ... Bittman's "How to Cook Everything" ... weekly pick: Lodge Logic's seasoned cast iron pans as cookware (cheap and last forever) ... BBQ in Bay Area (Doug's and Flynt's out, Bo's)

podcast envy ... walking outside in the wind ... lemony tar stuff ... brb ... feline or canine or crocodilian? ... who’s doing the training? ... weekly pick: How to Train Your Dragon ... ronco lemon square cooler ... a gaming convention? ... team alpha, go! ... emphasis on the shop ... weekly pick: Once Upon a Time (the card game) ... recognition of own mortality ... life strawed us on that one ... back to our usual depth ... trying to WIN ... weekly pick: iScore iphone app ... stealing allowed ... linear rugby ... learn to cook Spanish food ... weekly pick: Glee

squeeze off a yawn ... very Mike of you ... eavesdropping via video chat ... bandwidth police ... paid professionals ... people routinely hate Comcast ... Google would give us money & unicorns ... weekly pick: octopus thief video ... octo-potus ... I welcome our cephelopod overlords ... octopus with a shell ... weekly pick: Band of Brothers ... weekly pick: 2 Mules for Sister Sarah ... in another life ... Kurasawa inspired Clint Eastwood movie ... Best Westerns ... the Gauntlet ... paralyzed air travel ... plan B:  "Hey Everybody!" ... meteor backscatter communications ... Morse code laser tank ... My Friend Flicka ... fun event on tax day ... serving tamales to Rick Bayless ... chicken like your grandfathers raised ... not aware of the magnitude of his celebrity ... tactile dome ... mocking admiration ... weekly pick: Joshua Slocum, "Sailing Around the World Alone" ... weekly pick: Clarence Thomas on Twitter ... weekly pick:  Peter Pringle, "Food, Inc." ... good rat DNA ... wrapped in e coli ... salmon and chevre wrapped in eggplant

Skype amused ... mumbling cell phones ... CHIRP ... and 4 again ... I'm that guy ... nuclear alarm clock option ... you've got options ... fiber to the house ... 802.11n ... perils of wifi ... WEP enabled ... e-gated community ... if you don't [ ], the terrorists win ... buy coffee or be arrested ... Charlie's doctor note ... a resignation from society ... buh - bye ... 80's too much ... you're going to get a hangnail ... the 3 creepy guys suite ... father-daughter trips ... crepe restaurant ... basque restaurant with x's ... different cheeks ... my little stinky wrinkled vegetable ... kitchen photoshoot ... ink all over everything ... weekly pick: concentrated evil ... weekly pick: The New Spanish Table ... octopus confit ... weekly pick: The General ... weekly pick: Pandemic ... proud making ... weekly pick: ziggity ... scrabble for money ... weekly pick: c25k ... 5k2beer ... that was actually funny ... humor in the dentist chairs

Hail and well met ... signs of the Apocalypse ... the study of happiness ... beating expectations ... planning vacations ... a cask of WHAT? ... it's ok, I'll record ... 60 minutes of BEEEEEEEEP ... it puts the lotion on its skin ... The Beard Awards ... natural bartender? ... mixology ... Dave's good time at a bar ... Weekly pick: Scofflaw Cocktail (1 1/2 ounces rye, 1 ounce dry  vermouth, 3/4 ounces fresh lemon juice, 3/4 ounces grenadine, 2  dashes of orange bitters) ... Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster ... weekly picks: health care, House ... somebody gave my id a starring role ... kind of like the Aristocrats: Hitler's anger scene ... weekly pick: Hitler's rant about the iPad ... Mike's dog ate his homework ... the Blob ... Steve McQueen's breakthrough role ... squid ink ... Bullitt and health care ... weekly pick: Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution

Paint on snow ... Mr. Dixie Cup ... dog habit lazy ... getting more dogless every day ... flask of liquor rescue dog ... sudden death ... I'm against anything that is ideal ... portability medical care ... insurance co's trading money ... a source of litigation ... trust or anti-trust ... the anti-Dave ... grain of truth ... slurs against the Irish people ... steak on the barbecue ... going LBJ on your ass ... we/they mentality ... just make a statement ... lame (duck) Texas schoolboard ... weekly pick: facebook group: non-Texans for the Secession of Texas ... weekly pick: Smithsonian Magazine ... Chinese hard-bread soup ... garlic soup with bread and poached egg ... poached egg in shell ... weekly pick: Tylenol ... weekly pick: Google play

ah, the headset conversation ... email fourguysmail@gmail.com ... pleaserobme.com redux ... foursquare ... browser fingerprints ... weekly pick: embrace life video for seatbelts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-8PB ... Shatner on youtube ... Conan got more watchable as time went on ... best tutoring session ever ... should a customer complain directly, or just whine on the internet? ... obligation (moral imperative?) to be constructive and voice complaints directly ... when asked by a business about what you thought, are you honest or hold your complaint for yelp? ... do we have a moral obligation to do anything? ... what's the morally just thing? ... how do you define your value system? ... is morality just what you want to do? ... walk a mile in someone else's shoes ... lament that some belief systems seem to have a compulsion to find something good in everybody ... he's a waste of sunlight ... Breaking the Waves: difficult, but ultimately beautiful (?) ... Dancer in the Dark: like Breaking the Waves, just way more difficult ... weekly pick: Julia (compelling story performed well) ... weekly pick: Unshelved.com

Spicy meatball of death ... limping Mike ... eldest, bring me my whip ... I said shaken ... smaller fruit ... oh, you’ve still got these? ... marijuana butter ... helium marijuana ... go to jail free card ... margarine pie ... bocci on ice ... waiting for FIOS ... product of a communist tool ... weekly pick:  Daddy-Daughter dates ... weekly pick/anti-pick: pleaserobme.com ... at home with gun ... some possible future employer might see ... cured cancer again today ... check against reality ... vandalay industries ... weekly pick: wii-fit plus ... this time is poi-sonal ... weekly pick: wii dance dance revolution ... weely pick: The Tenth Kingdom ... weekly pick: Anonymous Bosch, "The Name of This Book is Secret" ... hereditary synesthesia ...vituperative dance ... colorbrewer2.org ... Tufte disciples

Deplaning Kevin Smith ... Oasis of the weekend free from work ... Settlers of Catan ... Carcassone ... Bear? Devil? jury is out ... Deviltry stories from Heinlein, Sandman ... Perfect way to cook a steak: sous vide ... 1. vacuum seal with marinade 2. pot of water (120-125 degrees) 3. leave steaks for 45-60 min 4. keep water to same temperature 5. put bag in bowl of ice water for 20 minutes 6. put in fridge for 3-4 hours, or however long 7. blot steaks dry 8. sear 1-2 minutes per side and serve ... Inglorious Basterds was art? ... flying a plane into the government ... Fiery food festival - chili and hot sauce ... weekly pick: pumpkin bread ... weekly pick: jenisicecreams.com (http://jenisicecreams.com/) ... dry soda - carbonated drink with minimum of sugar and flavor ... weekly pick: Glee

Video? NO ... warranty expires at 40 ... snow. lots of snow. ... skiing in a cold storm "this is awesome" ... forgot my wallet for the slopes ... 'don't screw up, don't screw up' ... to Cleveland for a birthday ... Lola, run by Michael Simon ... crispy bone marrow appetizer ... osso bucco ... just like grilled butter ... this is just sick and wrong ... weekly pick: Lola's crispy bone marrow blog.ruhlman.com—how-to-prepare.html  ... wine store with convenience store front ... knock 3 times and ask for Mel ... Scotch tasting event ... weekly pick: "Spook Country" by William Gibson ... weekly pick: "Singularities Ring" by Paul Melco  ... Godbody - how to write multiple characters in same person ... bonus weekly pick: "BumpTop"