GSG 16 - Evil Alien Overlords

Hello, and welcome back to another episode of GSG. Today we discuss the particular difficulties of surviving evil alien overlords and their fascist police states.

A lot of today's podcast deals specifically with the 1980's sci-fi classic film, Flash Gordon.
We will also make some passing references to...
Heroes.
Geeks.
Twinkies.
Toilet Paper.
Hanging Wall Gardens.
PlayCafe.
Abandoned Missile Silos.
Johnathan Brandis.
Mud Baths.
Jonathan Coulton (again).
Lovecraft's Mythos.

Etc.

Enjoy!

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GSG 15 - Giant Robots

This episode contains references to:
Gundam (Particularly SEED and SEED:Destiny)
Power Rangers of all kinds
Hostess Snack Cakes
Iron Man, the Movie
and features occasional dimly heard remarks made by my wife that I just couldn't edit out.

Also, feedback.

Which you can send by e-mailing us at gsguide *at* gmail with a dot com at the end.

Enjoy!
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GSG 14 - Poke-addiction

Yes, this week we take on the mother of all Gaming Addictions - Pokemon.

For more information on addiction visit your local library.

For more information on what's discussed in the show...
Squirtle, Wartortle, Blastoise, Psyduck, Team Rocket, Gyarados, Milotic, etc., can all be explored in excruciating detail at serebii.net. You can also look there for information on EV's, but I recommend against it. That's one DEEP rabbit hole.

Also discussed in this episode...
Geek Acres
Vin Diesel (Almost as good as Karl Urban!)
Into the Blender (BTW - CATCHIEST PODCAST THEME MUSIC EVER! +3 Telepath Defense)
Pokemon-GTS.net
Afghanistan
Into the Blender again (Yes, it's THAT good a podcast)
and... (If you're a guy I highly recommend you try to avoid your wife's exposure to)
Stephanie Meyers books. (Seriously!)

For feedback and comments, leave 'em here at gsguide.blogspot.com or send them to gsguide *at* gmail *dot* com.

Enjoy!

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GSG Special Edition: Holiday Travel

Hello, all you great geek survivalists out there.

With the holidays here, and people traveling hither and yon to be with family and loved ones, I thought it might be a good chance to share some hopefully useful tips for a change. Hence, here's some things I've found recently to make my cell phone both a podcast catching portable drive AND an e-book reader. Who needs that expensive Amazon Kindle now? (Okay, it would be pretty sweet) Also, a quick word on travel and gaming, some suggestions for both old school and newer handheld gaming, and a car game (or any time game) you may or may not get a kick out of.

Show notes this time are right here...

BOOK TRICKS...
First, you need reading material! GSG recommends:
Gutenberg.org and Baen.com.
You'll also need the Tequila Cat Book Reader, and a cell phone that supports Java.

PODCAST TRICKS...
podcastready.com and podiobooks.com, or find many other quality podcasts at podcastpickle.com
Also, Audible.com's Audible Air, if you have a huge data package. That totally didn't sound right.
That link takes you to the Java version of Audible Air, there are other versions here.

PROMO: EXTRA POINTS, and Doug at Geek Acres Loves Us!

GAMING:
Do you really need this? Okay...
www.ebay.com.
In all seriousness,
FFTA and FFVI are awesome.
Other Nintendo games can be found by entering the game name as a search term at Google.
And, of course, Boticelli

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Enjoy!

GSG 13 - Bigfoot

Welcome to another episode of Geek Survival Guide. Today, we address something that strikes a little closer to home, the ominous threat of Bigfoot. Also, some interesting listener feedback.

Bigfoot - imaginary figment of drunk college frat-boys, or strange visitor from another world? You be the judge! And just in case, this week's show notes are chock full of news and information re: the hairy menace. As always, the notes are at this Google Notebook.

Enjoy!

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Note: GSG is now proudly hosted by Libsyn. No changes are yet pending. Stay tuned.

GSG Special Report 4 - Families!

Welcome to a special episode of GSG. On this episode we talk about a traditionally non-geeky institution, the family. Tips for assimilatin... I mean, introducing your family members to geeky things, as well as suggestions for what the family might enjoy together are found herein.

Enjoy!

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The Show Notes are at this Google Notebook

Drop us a line by leaving a comment here, or by sending an e-mail to gsguide *at* gmail *dot* com.

GSG: All Geek Alert!

Did you grow up geek in a non-geek environment? Do you have any particular insight into what happens when geek and non-geek collide in a family environment? If so, GSG wants to hear from you! We're looking for survival tips for a special episode of GSG to be recorded and released (please oh please) by the 21st, so we're requesting that any tips you have be in by the 19th.

If you have tips, please send them to gsguide *at* gmail.com. We'll take the best ones and put them in the show. (I keep saying we, but really, I just mean me).

Here's an audio announcement, in case you miss it on the page!

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