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Episode 60 - Limited Brutality is Still Brutality
Tangential Convergence - February 25, 2023 20:34 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt's been a year since Putin started his illegal invasion of Ukraine. We here at TC are staunchly pro democracy and pro Ukraine. I wonder how people feel about this in Russia? We could ask Russian. So we did. Daniil also told us the story of his leaving Russia in March of 22. Give to the R...
Episode 59 - Unrepresentative Yahoos
Tangential Convergence - December 01, 2022 05:01 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt's Canadian National Day of Podcasting! It's also me and Ken. Hey, remember the occupation of Ottawa? Remember the Emergencies Act? Well the EA requires a commission be struck to look into the use of the EA, and well, that was our jumping off point. We talked Ottawa, the October Crisis, ...
Episode 58 - For the Glory of the Empire
Tangential Convergence - October 23, 2022 21:02 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe're back. Well, Ken was for a bit, then there was a LIBRARY EMERGENCY!! Gee, what'll we talk about? How about Putin's war of choice in Ukraine? Putin knows little of the operational. art. Deception is key. This got us thinking about a lot of things, Babylon 5, DS9, Operation Mincemeat, R...
Episode 57 - Gorby, We Hardly Knew Ye
Tangential Convergence - September 11, 2022 19:56 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt's been a heck of a few days. The Queen died. The Russians are rushin' away (sorry...) But a couple of weeks ago Mikhail Gorbachev died. Hey wait, now that's TC material. You know what else? I KNOW AN ACTUAL RUSSIAN!! His name is Daniil, and he escaped Putin's totalitarian nightmare wit...
Episode 56 - This Book Represents a Weapon
Tangential Convergence - April 24, 2022 21:38 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt's another in our ongoing coverage of Putin's war in Ukraine. Lots of weapons are coming in. Lots of war crimes are happening. We talked a bit about the history of war crimes. How can you get someone to do something evil? I talked a little Asch Line Experiment. Ken has lots of books. T...
Episode 55 - The Ken and Dave Greater Co Prosperity Sphere
Tangential Convergence - March 19, 2022 22:26 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis one is all about propaganda. Of course we've been both thinking about the topic ever since Russia invaded Ukraine. Does Putin actually believe his own propaganda? Are we swayed by propaganda (of course we are). I've. got a lot of problems with Noam Chomsky. Oh yeah, this one was recor...
Episode 54 - Слава Україні! Героям слава!
Tangential Convergence - February 27, 2022 21:38 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsHey it's us! Gee, what's been in the news? Maybe the Soviet Russian invasion of Ukraine? Is this a reboot of 1918 or 1938? (With credit to @docpinko). We think it's more like 1918. What is Russia's end game? We don't know, what the hell do we know about anything? Will this lead to the e...
Episode 53 - Decision 2020 Pre Game Show or Whatever
Tangential Convergence - November 04, 2020 01:26 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe recorded this one at around 7pm EST. Some polls are closed, some are open, some people are still in line. I conducted a completely (scientifically) useless twitter poll. Many of our US friends voted in advance. Many of them didn't have lines. That said, my twitter following probably s...
Episode 52 - The All New Honda Freebee
Tangential Convergence - June 04, 2020 01:53 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsOriginally Ken and I were going to hop on Skype and talk about reopening economies. Then, the murder of George Floyd happened. So, we couldn't not talk about that. So we did. Though, really, we agree that white people ought to be doing a lot more listening and a lot less talking right now. W...
Episode 51 - Chock Full of Plagues
Tangential Convergence - April 10, 2020 01:42 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsActual t shirt that I'm wearing as I type this We're back, and better than ever. Oh and there's a plague and we're all working from home. Also, Ken is now in entirely different city, so we're doing this over Skype for the first time. So of course we're talking COVID, we're talking bubonic p...
Episode 50 - Timely, Topical, Terrifying and Tom
Tangential Convergence - July 07, 2019 13:01 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsLive from MMPR 2019, it's Tangential Convergence! Yeah, so I'm typing this up on the Sunday before we all meetup for the goodbye breakfast of MMPR. It was good fun. It was Ken's first TC, and Tom's as well. We talked about the history of military parades, what with the oddness of the recent...
Episode 49 - I Can't Even Throw Away Paint
Tangential Convergence - May 28, 2019 02:12 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsHey look, it's us! Also, we streamed this one live. Sorta cool right? Of course we peaked at three listeners, still... Evil Bond villain Elon Musk launched a bunch of satellites. It's pretty crazy. SpaceX is like the British East India Company, or the Company of a Hundred Associates. Elo...
Episode 48 - You Need Three People For Propaganda
Tangential Convergence - April 09, 2019 02:30 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsOK, we're back after a long hiatus. Ken has merged with a new kidney, and he's doing much better thank you. We started out by talking about the SNC Lavalin affair here in Canada at the request of friend of the show, Tom Merritt. We gave our impressions on the affair. This got us to talking ab...
Episode 47 - Ward Cleaver Was Really Into Cock Fighting
Tangential Convergence - September 18, 2018 02:01 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsHey, we're back! If anything gets us back to talking it is overreach by a company with a bit of copyright! I'm using too many exclamation points! So, a guy who had bought a movie from Apple went to re download his purchase, and it turns out, he didn't really buy the movie. He bought a license...
Episode 46 - A Warehouse Full of Minitel Terminals
Tangential Convergence - July 20, 2018 02:15 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsYup, we're back. Don't worry, we just took a little break. So, today is Isabelle's birthday, so there's that. Our topic though, is not birthdays, but, the recent fine the European Union has slapped on Google. The deal here is, that if you make an Android phone, and you want to use the google ...
Episode 45 - Sending Your Scribe to John Grisham's Place
Tangential Convergence - June 29, 2018 01:52 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsEveryone sing along. It's Tom Merritt's birthday. Today, or tonight really, we're tackling a topic we've spoken of before, cloud computing. Yeah, that was back in episode 12, that file is long gone.... Today at work there was a presentation about G Suite for education. Hey the university get...
Episode 44 - Churchill as a Service
Tangential Convergence - June 22, 2018 02:24 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsLook, another episode! Look, another episode about copyrights! Look, the EU is being silly again! Is it censorship? I dunno. I'm sure Ken will know much more about this than I, because of his librarianosity. What if you could make copies of people's consciousness? Would you? What about ...
Episode 43 - The Small Pencil Manufacturing Trade Association Has a Grievance
Tangential Convergence - June 08, 2018 02:07 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsDo you have it? Can you feel it? Election fever has gripped Ontario! OK, look, I'm not so sure I have election fever, it might just be some bad clams. As I write this it looks like it'll be four years of bad clams. Oh for the first time we had voting machines! The company that made them i...
Episode 42 - Quarter Poundor
Tangential Convergence - June 01, 2018 02:22 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsAnother week, another episode of The Expanse, and, another TC. Oh remember, you heard it here first that the Expanse was going to be picked up by Amazon. Speaking of Amazon, this article on Engadget caught our eyes. FAKES! Apparently there's a lot of stuff on Amazon that is fake. I remember ...
Episode 41- Parking Tickets For Their Shuttlepods
Tangential Convergence - May 25, 2018 02:47 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsI just announced on twitter that I'm currently writing this post, so I guess I ought to get to it. So, how about that Trump/Kim summit? Yeah, no, that's not happening. I don't know about you, but it strikes me that this was Kim's plan all along. Try for ridiculous concessions (US troops out...
Episode 40 - My Suit Wouldn't Be Pressed As Well Without RADAR
Tangential Convergence - May 18, 2018 02:27 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsHey we've hit 40! Now the podcast will buy a Corvette and think about a career change or something. At this rate we'll hit 100 before the next Olympics! Ken and I got into it tonight about the recent tests (that failed in Quebec, and maybe got a C- in Ontario) of the Alert Ready system. As a ...
Episode 39 - It's The Future, Which One of These Knobs Do I Have To Blow?
Tangential Convergence - May 04, 2018 02:19 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsFollow us again dear listener as we converge tangentially. Well, we're going to watch last night's Expanse, and before it, who knows, we might record a thing! First off I'd like to thank both @acedtect and @alkebob for posting a picture of the two of them from Vegas where there was a meet up. ...
Episode 38 - Five O'Clock Nigel
Tangential Convergence - April 27, 2018 02:25 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsAs I do with Broken Area, I'm writing these show notes before we actually do a show. Who knows if we are tonight. That said, I do know that Baron von Hernden is coming over tonight to watch the Expanse. I honestly have no idea why I just called him Baron von Hernden. He's really more of a Lor...
Episode 37 - Suitably Chagrined
Tangential Convergence - April 20, 2018 02:21 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsAs I do over at Broken Area, I'm typing this before even recording. Hell, I'm not even sure we're recording tonight. Anyway, it is another Thursday, another Expanse night, and another week of work. Hey! We did record, we talked about the twitter shitstorm after Barbara Bush's death. This lea...
Episode 36 - Do You Have Change For a Krugerrand?
Tangential Convergence - April 13, 2018 02:24 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWelcome to our Expanse pre show. Well not really, but we will be watching last night's premiere after talking about Cambridge Analytica! I don't know why that exclamation point is there. Maybe they could use data mining to tell me. Oh, as an aside, some yim yam friend of mine used 'This is Yo...
Episode 35 - Harry Hopkins is My Barman
Tangential Convergence - March 09, 2018 02:34 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsYup, two times in a one week span. Tonight, before Altered Carbon we talked a bit about the story of how Alexa is maniacally laughing at users. As an aside, they've got a fix out. As an aside aside, the New York Times talked about the whole thing, 21 years ago. This got us in to talking abou...
Episode 34 - Darth Putin
Tangential Convergence - March 02, 2018 03:00 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsHOLY SHIT WE'RE RECORDING. You know, Ken has been coming over to my place every Thursday for a few years now, we talk a lot then we watch a show. Man in the High Castle, the Expanse, Manhattan, and now, Altered Carbon. The thing is before every show we talk about politics and technology and hi...
Episode 33 - Sunny Ways
Tangential Convergence - November 17, 2015 18:54 ★★★★ - 3 ratingsWe're back! You demanded it (I mean like one guy) and we made it happen. Yup, we decided to do an episode about the recent Canadian election. We talked about why the election turned out the way it did, when it turned out the way it did, and of course how it relates to the election of Clement A...
Psychology 3256 (Winter 2014) - Multiple Regression (Video)
Dr. Dave Brodbeck's Statistics Videos - March 26, 2014 01:13 - Video ★★★ - 5 ratingsMultiple regression
Psychology 3256 (Winter 2014) - Correlation and Simple Regression (Video)
Dr. Dave Brodbeck's Statistics Videos - March 19, 2014 11:16 - Video ★★★ - 5 ratingsCorrelation and simple regression, video
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