March 13, 2006: 12:09 am: acedtecteastmeetswest
East Meets West Episode 13, The Evil Episode
This time Tom and Roger mess with forces they can’t control. You might hear them talk about the World Basbeall Classic, ramen noodles, the meaning of federalism, proper way to gain tech experience and more. Then again you may only hear the voices of evil.
March 13th, 2006 at 12:14 am
Oops, i just left a comment in Episode 12’s comment section asking for this episode. we missed by a minute. thanks.
March 13th, 2006 at 1:01 am
i heard the evil voices!…”irql not less or equal”
March 13th, 2006 at 1:06 am
Yea, i just got the download , can’t wait ti hear . sad that some one beat me to comments
March 13th, 2006 at 1:08 am
I had to dump the whole file. It was maybe too much for me. If you had a clean version, i would love it.
March 13th, 2006 at 1:33 am
i actually did listen that far. it was an attrition to the end for i could not let the voices beat me. alas, i must wait another week.
March 13th, 2006 at 2:04 am
I have no life amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Donec ac est sed lorem Old Spice dignissim. Maecenas mauris felis, bibendum non, volutpat id, condimentum ut, risus. Ut venenatis. Ramen is not sit amet end volutpat, listener magna interdum massa, vitae egestas quam arcu nec nulla. Vestibulum et neque. Black & White TV erat. Morbi ut massa tempus elit eleifend ullamcorper. Quisque consectetuer nibh a arcu. Nunc egestas. Chinese food sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Aenean aliquam elementum nulla.
Tom feugiat imperdiet lacus. Vestibulum ante ipsum primis in faucibus orci luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae; Etiam mattis porta risus. Cras et nibh. Proin sit amet justo nec erat tincidunt mollis. Duis sit amet enim in enim lacinia euismod. In ullamcorper arcu ac dui. Vivamus lorem massa, placerat ac, dignissim quis, laoreet non, justo. Vestibulum sodales, urna ut aliquet accumsan, magna nisl pulvinar urna, a Merry Christmas metus quis turpis. Again, velit lacus, eleifend vitae, Rodger nec, rutrum consectetuer, work.
I must have no life, I listened for the whole 34:06. If I wake up tomorrow and I am suddenly overwhelmed with the need to purchase an East Meets West souvenir…vitae egestas. Laoreet non, show.
March 13th, 2006 at 2:05 am
What in the world happened to my comment!!! The ghost of Veronica has taken over East Meets West!!! Andy is scared!!!
March 13th, 2006 at 2:22 am
I think my computer just tried to eat my soul. You might try either holy water or virgin’s blood (plus maybe a sacrificial chicken)to fix the problem.
Just because I feel like sharing, here are the sports that I enjoy watching:
Baseball, Football, Hockey, Lacrosse, Australian Rules Football
The last 3 I haven’t watched very much of at all, but still found quite entertaining.
March 13th, 2006 at 8:13 am
Man, if you didn’t have the disclosure at the begining, I would have thought my iPod was possessed!
Sounded like you guys didn’t take kindly to my last comments. I didn’t mean to sound like I was hating on the show, just trying to give some constructive criticism. I really do enjoy your show-that’s why I didn’t “turn it off”. I don’t want you guys to think I’m writing in to give negative comments, so I’ll be listening and lurking. Keep up the good work guys!
March 13th, 2006 at 10:41 am
Roger got to wear JC Penney knock-offs to school, a step up from my school wardrobe. My mom was an assistant manager at a Sears, so I was able to have real Levi’s, but everything else was a little dated. At least I didn’t have to put on my Sunday best to go to Sears.
March 13th, 2006 at 10:06 pm
Tom and Roger – i’ve been ruminating about possible East Meets West logos. i’ve come up with a very general concept which might kick this off. at first i was thinking of gathering a bunch of keyboard buttons and spelling out East Meets West in a slightly jumbled/orderly fashion but i only had one spare keyboard lying around and not enough buttons. another thought was to remove all the letter keys and leave only the ones needed for “East Meets West,” each word spelled out per letter-row (duplicate keys needed of course). then i decided to keep it simple with EMW and came up with a crude representation via PowerPoint (i don’t have a graphics program). i do not like sending attachments so i uploaded it on a webpage instead. i must again apologize that this is a crude concept and i’ll leave the actual designing to the experts. of course, dependent upon if you guys like it or not.
xie xie
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/30328439/
March 13th, 2006 at 11:00 pm
Hi Tom and Roger, I was going to say great podcast but instead, I’ve called in the team from SETI, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ to investigate the non-terrestial signal. They’ve concluded the presence of the words “To Serve Man” :) (Twilight Zone episode)
Tom, you sound so relaxed and comfortable. Its a nice change. Great show about nothing! or everything! Nice to listen to something other than tech.
cheers, g
March 14th, 2006 at 1:32 am
You know you guys are talking about that you had to wear to school, try wearing a uniform to catholic grade school for 7 years. Now that ain’t fun. Also you were talking about grocery stores, two of the bigger ones in the STL area are schnucks and dierbergs. Both are very good stores to do grocery shopping at. By the way, I think I am going to have nightmares tonight after listening to the show. But thats ok, you need a good nightmare once in a while. Keep up the good work.
March 14th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
To DECjr, I just watched that Twilight Zone Episode a few weeks ago, I didn’t know the Simpsons parodied that in a Halloween episode. As for uniforms, I went to BYU my freshman year of school and they have a dress code. Not as strict as BYU-Idaho, which doesn’t allow shorts at all.
For the next show, Tom and Roger should have a Slobodan Milosevic Greatest Ethnic Cleansing Moments memorial show.
March 14th, 2006 at 3:36 pm
For a logo, I say a map of China pitched in battle with a map of Europe.
March 14th, 2006 at 8:34 pm
parody of Milosevic is arguably acceptable in some context but the trivialization and parody of ethnic cleansing is simply poor taste.
March 15th, 2006 at 12:54 am
I am not saying that ethnic cleansing is funny, but satire and parody can be used effectively in pointing out the great tragedies of history. Think “The Great Dictator”, it is considered one of the greates anti-Hitler movies of all time, or even parodies of Mussolini, one of which was on “The Office” a few weeks ago.
March 15th, 2006 at 10:07 pm
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March 16th, 2006 at 8:30 am
Holy crap! …maybe UNholy crap….
I heard your disclaimer but shrugged it off… until IT started happening. In reflexively jumped & let out a yelp! Fortunately I was on the subway where that sort of behavior draws no attention.
Please don’t make this a regular feature. :)
Joe in Boston
March 16th, 2006 at 10:59 am
Wanted to say that just finished up listening to the last of the 6 episodes I had downloaded, must say I enjoy the podcast! (even the 34+ minutes of episode 13)
Might I even be the first post from north of the border as well?
A few comments/questions:
Tom, your knowledge of Canada seems to be somewhat above the norm, just curious where it has come from. I’ve noticed it both here and on BOL, and its always been a curiousity.
And a comment on the Ramen, I’d have to agree to your comment from a recent (can’t remember which one, I’ve listened to 6 in the past 2 days) episode, that if you’re going to be buying cup ramen, get it at Asian grocers. The brands they import, while more expensive, are definitely worth it, for both flavour and how you’ll feel after.
Now, if only I could find a good late night, streetside ramen stand here in Ottawa, like they’ve got in Japan . . .
March 16th, 2006 at 1:56 pm
So I guess Adam Miller does not support the no-confidence motion to remove Tom as Prime Minister of East Meets West? If there is an election, vote for the Bloc Quebecois, more Francophones are needed on East Meets West.
March 16th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Wow, that was painful.
But I can help, I’ve seen this sort of thing before, you have a possessed box!
You will have to call upon the spirit of ENIAC and perform an exorcism.
First, you must give her a conduit for manifestation. On the floor draw a schematic for an amplifier (and don’t be shy about the size) http://koti.mbnet.fi/ijl/loopamp3.gif.
In a triangle outside of the drawing, light 3 candles (one red one green one blue). Next to each candle light a stick of coconut incense (this will remind her of the suntan lotion that her young shirtless slaves wore while working inside of her replacing vacuum tubes)
She will require the sacrifice of a piece of technology, depending upon the severity of the problem it can range from a couple of light bulbs to a male freshman computer science major (I would remind you that he must be a virgin, but that would be redundant).
Whatever the sacrifice is, burn in and scatter the ashes on the schematic.
Finally, place your computer in the center of the schematic and read the following incantation (this must be read in binary, I have posted the translation here http://eikonphotografx.com/krap/incantation.txt )
Ban! Ban! Barrier that none can pass,
Barrier of the queen, that none may break,
A vector whence none can issue forth, to spread for evil.
Whether it be evil spirit, or demon, or gremlin,
Which hath attacked the shining tubes of ENIAC,
May the snare of ENIAC catch it;
Or which hath assailed the meal of Filaments,
Let not the barrier of the Queen,
May the Queen entrap it,
May the great Ruler of all Technology curse it.
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This may seem like a lot to go through, but you should see the procedure for exorcising a printing press…