• Chit Chat: Sauna season and show delays
• Title voting
• How does my garden grow (slugs): front yard gardening, plants are doing great, slug bait, roses
• Computer things are breaking (bugs): monitors, hubs, and hard drives, oh my
• Cocktail talk: (glugs) featuring a distillery tour, raspberry mint juleps, and the Kentucky Derby
• hello kitty: long fangs, looking for new family members
• Feedback city

Link-O-Rama: Balcones Distillery, Tastes Like Burning

• iPad arrives in my hands
• Heavy or lightweight?
• Apple app interfaces
• Reading tools: iBooks, Stanza, Kindle app, Zinio
• Accessibility tools: same as iPhone 3GS plus some tweaks, touch typing, zoom, app accessibility and usability

Link-O-Rama: My iPod launch podcast (Show #208), Maccessibility iPad first look, part 1

• Is Frank my sidekick
• Title voting
• News: Springtime, SXSW music night, Frank talks me into a new computer, gives away extra parts, my new reading glasses, fixing the lemon-y washer, thanks to Hot Tub Rod for his help, Warner Archive, state party delegates
• Cocktail talk: class field trips (ferret shot), morning cocktails @Frank, mixo cocktail party with fernet shots, sharing booze with Dave, ice crushing
• Hello kitty: the hand thing
• Austin gets its train
• Feedback city

Link-O-Rama: Girl in a Coma, Girl & Cherrie Currie video, Neptunebearing.com, Life of Spaguy’s Wife, For Whatever Reason, Warner Movie Archive, Anvil Bar & Refuge, Barely Podcasting

• News: SXSW is almost here, snow day, dinner with Charles and Diane, mom needs a bumper, and threatens to go to Vegas
• Chit chat with Frank: layoffs, paint shakin
• Olympics: Mom used to keep score, winter games = awesome, commercials jar our brains, Shelly’s Nancy Kerrigan memory, hockey
• Cocktail talk: passport, and a bar review
• Feedback city

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Link-O-Rama: SXSW music torrent, Thee Vicars at SXSW, Peche, Redboy Podcast, Wicked Good Podcast

• News: Endorsing the political club, watching people run, how to talk religion
• The impatience of Emma
• Cocktail talk: cocktailing with TipsyTech
• Media critic: Austin plane crash
• Hello kitty; Farewell, Eric
• Feedback city

Link-O-Rama: Tipsy Tech, Tastes Like Burning, Life os Spaguy’s wife

• Chit chat: uncle Frank is a goofball
• Selling mom’s lot, fixing the house, train spotting, street view updated, Frank looking for work, project terror too, dopplegangers and dubelbocks
• Cocktail talk: perfecting the sidecar with Frank
• Hello kitty: the Rowan is a lummox edition
• Tech talk: another media center, Tarzan and Godzilla
• Shameless plug
• Feedback city

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Link-O-Rama: MacJury, For Whatever Reason

Just a quick show where I share my thoughts about Apple’s iPad announcement. If you don’t like Apples, feel free to skip this episode. If you do, come on in.

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Link-O-Rama: iPad announcement presentation, David Pogue’s blog post, Daring Fireball blog post, 8 Things That Suck about the iPad, iPad game demo

• Chit Chat: Podcast studio updated with its own computer, show succumbs to captive sinus pressure
• NEW SEGMENT Franking privileges: (An aside about Christmas crap), flirting with cashiers, Shelly is uncomfortable
• Title voting: writing about rats, feeding pythons, who should have a rat?
  
• Hello Kitty

• Eating Out at the Highball: From the people who brought you the Alamo Drafhoutse, all-inclusive movie tickets, describing the Highball, bowling/eating/drinking/karaoke, fancy comfort food, fried chicken market price, bottle service
• Feedback city

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Link-O-Rama: For Whatever Reason, Life of Spaguy’s Wife, Tastes Like Burning, Badger Cast, The Highball, Alamo Drafthouse, The Redboy Podcast

• Chit Chat: I blame the holidays, the physical necessity of podcasting
• Title voting
• Old business: the red hat thing
• Shopping with kids: presents for mom and dad, handing over the cash didn’t work, hard to steer, punk rock talking Christmas cards, on time and under budget
• Thing 2 edits a podcast
• Gift Giving: basket o’ cocktails, cameras make kids happy, down camera memory lane
• Tech talk: wide screen computing, baby bluetooth, Frank’s promised upgrade
• five years of podcasting: the black and white years
• Feedback city

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Link-O-Rama: For Whatever Reason, QN podcast, Words with Friends iPhone app, Life of Spaguy’s Wife, Pizza Go Here

• Chit Chat: Long time no show
• Title voting
• Old business: Borderline pays a visit, brunch with Steve, (iPhone interruptus), mom makes fun of my beans
• Blinded by home decor: Not my forte, other people’s opinions are wrong, choosing wood blinds, good buying experience, minor glitch
• One ring
• New business: A unified theory of Black Friday
• Hello kitty: Outdoor kitties, Norbert does windows
• Tech talk: Ginormous TV on the Internet, Words with Friends addiction
• Feedback city

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Link-O-Rama: Borderline, GeekFit, For Whatever Reason, Words with Friends iPhone app, Tastes Like Burning, The Redboy Podcast