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#MrAyinde was premiered on the #PGMshow yesterday, big s/os to @douglasjekan @sammywalsh & citymonstar ... everybody on the record was there, song is out tho, link up in my bio. (at Lekki Phase 1)

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Podcast Ep #00106 - Vita on your TV & Beer in the Keg

Another Friday, another Perpetual Geek Machine podcast! I'm just back from vacation, and I wasn't on this show, so I get to enjoy it fresh right along with you guys! Here's what I've been told they discuss.

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What we've been doing- 2:33 - 39:08)

Nintendo 2DS

Vita TV (with a slight diversion into Ouya chatter)

Diablo III on PS3

Ryan's internet went down

Kevin's now kegging beer

Break- (39:09 - 42:35)

EyeFone Five Talk- (42:36 - 56:20)

5 Hit Combo - (56:21 - End)

Top 5 Reasons Kevin Should Switch From Android to iOS.

Daniel Vs. Ryan

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Ep #00056: Perpetual Geek Machine Podcast

We've got a smaller Machine for you this week. You're going to basically be a "fly on the wall" for a conversation between Ryan and Kevin. Don't worry though, nothing gets that weird. Just a little weird. And uncomfortable. Yeah.

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Show Notes to show your battery-powered bipedal:

What’cha Been Doing? (3:02 - 35:00)

They ramble on about:

Kevin has some sort of strained muscle in his neck and a fine cocktail of drugs to soothe the pain.

He's also been rewatching Louie now that his wife is into it.

We played Scallywags and Tsuro recently.

Ryan been enjoying the "outside", whatever that is and playing a bunch of Wipeout on his "Vita", whatever that is.

He also increased the bicycle count at his house to 5 between two people.

Break (35:01 - 37:46)

The music I laid in there this week:

"Write Like The Wind (George R.R. Martin)" by Paul and Storm

Let's Talk About... (38:23 - End)

Last week Google held their developer conference (I/O) and announced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the Nexus 7 tablet and something called the Nexus Q.

Total Run Time - 1:02:18

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Ep #00055: Perpetual Geek Machine Podcast

The Machine keeps getting bigger! You heard his voice on our show before but he's now going to be a regular contributor to our podcast bringing his expansive knowledge of movies, comics and (evidently) old-timey radio shows to the mix. Who, you ask? Why Bryan Wall, of course. He also makes a killer 5 Hit Combo debut on this show.

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What’cha Been Doing? (3:21 - 43:36)

This week we break down Bryan's wall talking about:

Garth Ennis is behind the relaunch of The Shadow.

To complement his love of the movies Bryan's been reading Ian Fleming's James Bond books.

Is Dead Zone: The Last Stand a Facebook game that's actually worth your time?

One of our resident Movie Guys finally saw The Avengers.

Dan's still reading and enjoying New Avengers.

He's also taking Bryan's recommendation and picked up Moon Knight.

NimbleBit knows what Dan likes. Pocket Planes is his new obsession.

Warhammer 40K: Space Marine isn't exactly convincing Dan to keep playing "big games".

Kevin's confounded and a bit entertained by Roller Coaster Rampage.

Diablo III has finally challenged Kevin's unwavering love.

Break (43:37 - 45:44)

The music I laid in there this week:

"Schfifty Five" by Group X

Let's Talk About... (46:27 - 56:30)

Dan saw Pixar's Brave this weekend and we all saw that Monsters University teaser, which gets us chatting about whether or not Pixar is "losing it" and what that means.

5 Hit Combo Classic (56:31 - End)

This week's topic: Top 5 Movie Monologues

Dan vs. Bryan with Kevin judging.

Next Topic: Top 5 Movie One-Liners

Total Run Time - 1:26:45

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Are you new to Doctor Who too? #NewToWho

A note from future Adam... I started writing this article several weeks ago before the onslaught of “Doctor Who’s new season is almost here!” articles started hitting the web. Sometimes timing works out since this article folds in nicely to BBC’s #newtowho campaign on twitter, even if it’s a bit more long form than they intended. Now, back to my original timeline...

Lately I've been trying to fill a gaping hole in my geek/nerd background. I have never really watched Doctor Who. I didn't have a reason for it… it just kinda happened. A while ago I do remember seeing the "Eric Roberts as The Master" made for TV movie. Maybe that kinda tainted the whole universe for me.

Anywho, I digress... I fired up the Netflix app on my Tivo and jumped in. I had been blissfully ignorant about specifics of the Doctor Who universe so I got to start out on the ground floor. All I knew was he is something called a Time Lord and he travels in time having adventures. That, and there is something that shouts EXTERMINATE in a robotic sounding voice. I’m sure that won't end up being important, right?

Without getting spoilery about important content, here is what this not-yet-Whovian has discovered. The show lets you learn about who The Doctor is without an abundance of exposition. I'm always against blatant exposition, except for Saturday night SyFy movies. For some reason, I let them get away with anything they want.

The Doctor travels with a companion and you learn most of what is happening from their interaction, with just enough extra non-companion knowledge thrown in to let you know when she is about to get into trouble. I say she because thus far the companions are always female. No one ever said The Doctor was a dummy.

By now the astute reader has noticed that I keep calling the main character The Doctor. "Yeah, but doctor who?", you ask. I say, "Exactly, Doctor Who." And I cut off the conversation there so neither of us get a cease and desist order from the Abbot and Costello estates. You kind of get the idea though, we aren't really supposed to know his name other than, The Doctor. We'll see what happens with that in later seasons.

The show is a lot of fun, but the nitpicker in me pulled back. I'm like many Star Trek fans who like to complain when a TV show breaks its own laws of physics. Doctor Who does not give you that chance, not by a long shot. So, you want to go to another planet do ya? Well, just dance around this console, give this hand crank a couple twists and push this big lit up button, and off you go. Need to go back in time do the same thing but maybe add in a couple lever pulls like you are Doctor Frankenstein in a thunderstorm and you're all set. Did I mention not a single of these controls is labeled. And they are inside a British police box from the 1900's. A police box that is waaayyyyyy larger on the inside.

Alright, it's not really a police box, it's a TARDIS,  "Time And Relative Dimension In Space". Ooh, acronyms are good, maybe they are getting me back in. Sometimes The Doctor does give an explanation of how things are working, but it sounds more like "If I put tab A in Slot B the TARDIS ends up in Ancient Rome." and less like, "Dilithium crystals regulate a matter/anti-matter reaction in a warp core allowing a warp field to be generated allowing the ship to travel faster than the speed of light." Sure they are both fiction, but I like more sciency sounding fiction.

I thought this lack of technical sounding technobabble would have me out of the show by the fifth episode but I plunged along and started to notice something. The Doctor is a fun character. He is the quintessential explorer who, luckily, is always put in a situation where he needs to quickly find out some important mysterious information to save the day. Sometimes he needs to figure this out to save a couple peoples lives, other times it would be the end of time and space as we know it. You know what, he goes about both of those 'missions' with the same amount of enthusiasm. Every little life is sacred to this man, and every mystery is a glorious thing to unravel and put right.

This would be an easy thing to take too far and become overly cheesy, but they pull it off. It's the sense of wonder that The Doctor has for every situation and everyone he meets that is, in the ninth (first after the reboot) doctor's words, fantastic.

Follow up, by present day Adam: Like I mentioned at the top of the article, I started this weeks ago. I intended to only cover an introduction to the restart of the show and watch maybe the first season. Like many geeks, I dove in whole hog and caught up on almost all episodes. Thank you Netflix. Now I'm trying to best judge when to watch the final few episodes left before the premier of series seven which was just announced to happen September first. (Side note to the follow up, if you pull a full geek like I did and watch all the episodes straight through via Netflix there are quite a few episodes that do not have a corresponding season but are available on Netflix if you search around. If you look here, all the episodes from 2009 and 2010 fall between seasons 4 and 5. Watch them all, specifically the one pictured below, otherwise you you’ll be confused as hell.)

I found it necessary to get caught up as quickly as possible both because it is an entertaining show, and now that  I had any Doctor Who knowledge I noticed how many references to it infected the intertubes. Pinterest is the worst for spoilers! I only complain because it is so entertaining I wanted to discover the show for myself.

Later seasons took a decidedly more intense and dramatic turn. They slowly transitioned that way, so it wasn't jarring, but the difference is obvious. It was probably for the best since the show had to develop and grow to keep from getting boring. Every so often there is still a maguffin style fix to their problem, but if you have stuck with the show you come to accept it and it's just fine.

This will be my first season watching along with the show in real time. I'm not sure I'll be able to handle not having that next show ready to go in my queue.

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Ep #00063 - Perpetual Geek Machine Podcast

Our first "OG" show in quite a while felt great, as it always does when it's been a while since Dan, Ryan and I spend some time chatting about all the shit that makes us happy (or is supposed to). It's not always easy for us to get together, especially when one of us is buying and renovating a house, so it's awesome when it happens.

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Show Notes that are easy to share, even when you don't want to:

What’cha Been Doing? (5:13 - 46:32)

Ryan laments to closing of Liverpool Studio (AKA Psygnosis), the developer behind his beloved WipeOut series.

Dan has been super busy with "real life" stuff but he's still found time to play some Sound Shapes and the first few minutes of Papo & Yo. Beyond that he picked up a Nintendo 3DS XL and is thus far impressed with the system.

Kevin recaps his impressions of the popular board game Puerto Rico. Tells us about the martial arts action film The Raid, his excitement over seeing the Google Streetview Car. His time spent with the NHL 13 demo cements that some of the major sports games have become pretty incredible. Lastly he's jonesing to play some of the new Team Fortress 2 Horde-like mode Mann vs. Machine with some friends.

Lastly Dan puts in a pitch for the glorious weirdness of Adventure Time.

Break (46:33 - 50:14)

The Music I Laid In There This Week:

"Friday" by Rebecca Black (of course)

5 Hit Combo (55:27 – End)

Topic: Top 5 Movie Theater Candies

Dan vs. Ryan, Kevin judging.

Next topic: Top 5 TV Shows To Watch In ReRuns

Total Run Time - 1:13:06

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New Podcast Schedule

@perpetualgeek I'm not blind and missing a hidden podcast somewhere am I?

— Jay (@Agreschn) August 22, 2012

No, Agreschn, you're not missing something. Not exactly.

You might have noticed that we've been releasing a show weekly for a couple of months now. We didn't want to officially announce that we were switching to this schedule in case it didn't work out. Luckily, it has. Officially folding the excellent voices of Bryan and Nicole (and Adam soon!) into the rotating cast has definitely helped to keep us on schedule.

The second thing you might have noticed is that there's no new podcast to download today. This is the other thing that is changing: We're gonna start releasing our shows on Fridays now. This gives you something to look forward to on the weekends and us some leeway in gathering a full show together.

Hopefully these changes are pleasing to everyone. It's still gonna be the same show we've been doing. So look out for Show #00063 this Friday and until then, let us know what you think in the comments or drop us an email: podcast (at) perpetualgeekmachine (dot) net.

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Homebrew Adventures - Brew Day #1: Brewer's Best Belgian Tripel

After so much hemming and hawing over the past couple of years Phil and I have finally brewed our first 5 gallon batch of beer. It started with Phil calling me to say "Hey, let's stop fucking around, get the equipment and get brewing" and as of today, we're about ready to bottle our Belgian Tripel.

As I mentioned in a previous post I had received a Mr. Beer kit a few years ago as a Christmas present from a friend. It's served as a great introduction into the world of homebrewing, allowing me to experiment and get comfortable with the process. I've churned out some pretty decent beers with that kit, like my "Christmas Eve Ale" that I prepped for our annual Christmas Eve Open House.

While enjoying the brew with my wife's uncle he was asking me about the process. The conversation ended with him offering to give me all of his old homebrew equipment that hadn't been used for years. Of course I jumped all over this chance and a few months later I was in possession of a 6 gallon glass carboy, bottle capper, fermentation bucket, thermometer, hydrometer and some other miscellaneous equipment. Unfortunately, not all of it was usable. The fermentation bucket had been scoured clean, creating too many scratches in the plastic that would make it difficult to properly sanitize. With the help of my local homebrew supply shop we were able to figure out what could be salvaged and what we had to replace (or what we could just build), which finally happened with the phone call mentioned above.

We had picked out Friday, August 10th as our very first Brew Day. Anticipation and excitement for both of us was high and we made a last minute trip to the homebrew store to pick up a couple things we had overlooked. A pack of ice and new propane tank were also on the must-buy bill but eventually we made it back to my house to set up our brew space at the top of my driveway.

I'm gonna let the pictures and captions take it from here.

Our Brew Space is just about set up as Phil preps a sanitizing solution.

  Note for next time: StarSan gets REALLY foamy.

  Bentley the Beagle, our resident Brew Dog.

  Brew Dog is inspecting the setup.

  Kick the tires and light the fires. Waiting for the water to reach a steeping temp between 150-165 degrees.

  The specialty grains sit in this water for 20 minutes. They had a great nutty aroma.

  The grains are turning plain water into wort, giving as a nice base to add the extracts.

  Phil looks on approvingly as he monitors the temp.

  Our table full of ingredients, notes, supplies and most importantly, iPod dock and some tunes.

  Dried Malt Extracts, Maltodextrin, Candi Sugar, Bittering and Aroma Hops.

  Two 3.3 lb cans of Liquid Malt Extract.

  The instructions.

  Irish Moss and Safbrew S-33 yeast.

  With the steeping complete it's time to bring up the temp and get a rolling boil going. 

  Rolling boil underway and all fermentable have been added.

  Still boiling away with the bittering hops now added.

  Final moments of the boil, aroma hops and Irish Moss have been added.

  Time to bring down the temp of the wort so we can pitch the yeast at the proper temp, using the handy-dandy wort chiller I built!

  And that's where the pictures end. We added the wort to the brewing bucket to add water there and bring the volume up to 5 gallons before running it through the filtered funnel and into the carboy. We had a little trouble bringing down the temperature quickly since it was kinda hot out the water from my garden hose wasn't quite cold enough. To remedy this we've built a small prechiller that will be submerged in a cooler of ice water between the spigot and wort chiller. That should help immensely.

I racked the beer from the carboy into a fermentation bucket about 4 days later to let it clear up some more. There was a good amount of trub on the bottom of the carboy that was left behind, as was expected. We're going to bottle into 12 oz. brown bottles this week, which will end up being almost exactly two weeks from Brew Day. We'll let the bottles condition for another two to three weeks after that and our Belgian Tripel should be ready to go.

On deck we have a Pumpkin Spice Porter 5 gallon extract from Brewer's Best and the Olé Molé Stout 2.5 gallon extract from Mr. Beer. Can't wait!

If you're into craft beer and have never homebrewed before I can't even explain how much fun this is. Sitting outside with a friend or two, relaxing, making and drinking some beers brought me a content happiness that is wholly unique to anything I've felt before. It can seem intimidating but trust me, it's pretty easy if you're careful and insanely fun. Cheers!

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