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Digital City No. 30: Swine-2-K vs Twitter

2009-04-30
Joseph I know what you're hot clearly I know why you're hot and actually Julie's extra hot because she ran the show last week when I was there yeah excellent excellent job I have to say is this the first time you ran the board right exactly it's actually Joseph how did you feel about having a julie manning the manning the ship of state i had all the world of faith of julie that's what you have to actually you have to actually sit by the microphone when you're talking for us to hear you now we're all gonna be we're all gonna be on our best behavior day where are you going you're like running away Hey look we're playing around the cameras here trying to figure out how these work we're so divided tutoring ourselves because no one will show us though being technologically minded being technologically minded guys I think we'll be able to kind of figure this that what do you think so far can you watch little monitor behind me what do you see um could you see right now and you in it and yes and there's a Joseph and wait wait wait have special surprise for you guys what I want you guys to be all be on your best behavior because oh yeah it's got yeah oh yeah actual recording video today uh we're trying to we're gonna see if I come we're gonna see if it comes out or not I'm going to try to hit the buttons of the people who are talking so I can you know kind of keep that person I was like say something watch I'll show you how it works say something just and she saw videos but there you are up on the screen yeah isn't magical Julie thing yes I see all right excellent I'm gonna go to the wide shot there is that there we all are so besides messing around with this kind of stuff and having a Scott sign here seen its newest th newest editor welcome everyone well welcome to me yes well everyone say hello to me hey hi excellent and we're glad to be here and we're just gonna jump right in because this is kind of a short show we don't we try to keep it under like 25 minutes or so so it's kind of like sitcom sitcom length almost mm-hmm I think the big topic is what i like to call the swine 2k swine is divine and that is my version of the y2k meets the swine flu I'm trying to practice um finger aerobics heer ranjha taken eating all the buttons on the different cameras think someone else is gonna have to eventually take this over well thanks got what you see on the screen in front of you I see firefox 3 okay so you don't see this after the second owner is it was up on that monitor last week like for instance hit hit on your number this will be fascinating for anybody came to this I want you to hit the number one on the number keyboard at the top and see what happens it's not open it's not right so we're controlling it from over here and that's fine hmm swine 2k are you guys afraid you're gonna die you're not gonna die what's going on here if I die I die what can I do are you going to avoid are you gonna avoid people who like coughing stuff or sneeze on a on the street or in the trains what can you do I mean your call me be like yo take that in between cars well they're telling people to stay home Joe Biden said don't get on the the subway if you think somebody around you is got the swine flu board you might have is that your way of telling me and Julie we have lost tomorrow huh if only only if you actually do have the swine flu you have to get a test comes back positive you're cool if not there's gonna be consequences well i'm going to have allergies right I'm gonna miss time to go get tested so he didn't mention buses you just mentioned Subway's so if you took a bus buses did he was it an accident that he forgot to mention buses or was it the ventilation of a bus only buses run outside so the air has a chance to kind of blow the swine flu away doesn't like it doesn't like sunlight it doesn't like Sen like I was on a bus today and I saw a man wearing a little surgical mask the business suit wasn't Michael jackal teacher wasn't a little woman he was a seemed to be a Japanese businessman which is common in Tokyo if you have an illness yeah that you would protect others from your illness so I don't know I meant that he had the swine flu probably not but it was terrifying because the night before we had been watching Ernie Anastos and the you know local news discussing casually the way it had been going out of hand well people are using obviously reason why were talking about this people using technology to battle the swine flu yeah one way they're doing it is a google map they have they have a pandemic map of where outbreaks have been reported by the World Health Organization the wh 0 there's a big google map you can you can keep a look you can keep track of it there they'll have like let's say they have purple i think purple arrows mean there's a confirmed case like pink arrows mean there's a probable case and red ones means somebody's dead now I haven't seen anybody dead but let's see they're all in their own California there's a lot of Mexico and let's look at the Northeast a couple kind of in the Northeast to hear wait I'm gonna hold this up actually look at that slices up but the third is although if Joseph actually oh no wait Scott if you call the map up on your screen I think I can cut to that would that be exciting where was he dress is in that google doc which he had open on allergy had open yeah my phone well we can have you guys there an iphone app is there is there a special i dont ask y luna hey you know what I'm I'm gonna go program that right now is ninety-nine cents ice wine wine ice wine I should buy ice wine all right well I swore yeah which is also delicious I said I said well I made them fermented apples ice wine no yeah I swine the switch is not like I spear I see which was a brief late 90s trend where they would freeze beer sweep off the crystals that formed on the top and then they'll view the beer you just love you anyway there is a nice wine like a it's delicious yeah like a barley wine is another form yeah yeah like an apple wine mm-hmm delicioso very sweet unlike the illness yeah anyway besides besides my my fictional iphone app what was I gonna call it ice well I don't know there's actually a website now called spline fighter dot-com I check that out before it's a little web browser game for for fighting you take your needle and you stick pigs with them and cure them really because they all have the because they all have the swine flu to eliminate our aggression afraid it's a glitter spray should be able to get the link right there in Joseph's have you play swine fighter yet no I can't say that I haven't had much time to game lately cuz you're too busy yeah it's probably a flash game it's not that yeah really go for it now seriously I'm actually testing a key drive right now well somewhat let's see oh there you go Scott yesterday we go go do a swine oh yeah just go to swine fighter calm i'm watching your screen right there okay then i slowly google it might be the voting on the episode ever but once we get goods is it everything one city center everything I think it'll be a lot smoother okay so nicely growing pains swine fighter com yeah yeah and the virus is getting out of control so let's kill it now and swine flips Wi-Fi to the swine flu game they can see over your shoulder your computer screen so I'll know when you got there we go it's intimidating the bashment arrest in there we go yes oh wow okay look like Simon Colbert is that Stephen Colbert in disguise I think so oh my gosh should be some sort of viral there should be some kind of viral whatever is not funny that's funny that does not not funny you see this jason i think this this is not i feel like this one those apps is good and with merriment skull the terrified man serious epidemic right no I say we're making fun of it it's like a problem my dad's a doctor and he said last night he doesn't feel at this point that but it never reach level 5 before so it's pretty it's pretty terrifying it's like it was that much late seventies with the with the people in the underground bunker trying to solve the trying to cure the space disease I don't know michael crichton book anyone andromeda strain and drive day there you go you know what actually get man can i can i actually directly quote my dad or paraphrase what he said of course can we call him can we have him on well he said he said there's nothing to worry about or it'll happen so fast that everybody's gonna die and that's the way it is 10pm eyes like thanks the Strand it kind of seemed strand like it does I mean not that strike you to his friends books understand what about what about the others i have all those books it's like that movie I'm outbreak yeah kind of like that but that was based on what the hot zone right ya the monkey be right the stand was like super flu so Stephen King may have predicted this Stephen King priests age the super Lulu as much as this dude Craig side he had to predict something one in a hundred eighty like you know what the columns are not coming to life the prom queens don't have psychic powers but the flu it's okay Peter was not a good prediction meteor I come true yet Oh for me it was creepy yeah oh yeah yeah wait wait wait wait is this something going on here's Julia texting someone I don't know is that Julie I know I'm gonna cut to the Jilly cam we're gonna find out oh oh I wasn't texting anybody was reading a text difference hello you're not gonna respond + + + + + no one heard right oh my phone thank you very much cuz i have it on my break my other people mind silent and if you can text i could text too i got a text you right now I just see I said no text i was reading attacks i knew i was really nice shine that's right he was just using skype which is using ice wine to figure out where he should hide to avoid the swine flu so we've what we've established here what we've established here is there are two ways primarily to use technology which is our topic here to help us with the swine flu one track it on the google maps so you know we're not to go or to just play swine fighter which is there go still up on the screen how many did you get what youre square there i can't read um 0 wait no i did better before it's 40 level 3 and gets a plan it's getting addictive not tremendously what's more it's just that boring in here it's cuz i'm afraid of accessing the other app that actually tells me the spread of swine flu I'd rather play this and live in denial wasn't it won't confirmed death toll from swine flu in in the States uh there might have been the young Mexican Boing in Queens yeah 15 months old the 23 months old damn yeah yeah think they really need to move this monitor behind me over here so I can actually see which cameras that we forget I was gonna keep it on long shot now it reminds me of sliver slip up there with all the morrow yeah they're in Sedona somebody Baldwin one of the Baldwin that's right and they're all monitors are being under surveillance I keep turning and I feel like my head is I'm never looking at myself in the right angle I'm checking out these is just adjusting they're looking at himself it was actually looking at the camera you had it on Julie sipping her water I meant to put on you but again two and three or first that's kind of weird alright and that's why men's game we don't wanna panic everybody instead too late I found another very disturbing notice waiting for me yesterday when I went home it was a paper notice taped to my front door and it read I need a truck lights get like a flashlight none of my fish there was a nose escape to the front door and it said in fact if I had my snowing on my phone with a but it's that time warner will be upgrading the service in your building today to expect outages between 10am and for ya well luckily you're here luckily I'm here so I don't have to live with a cable outage but I figure about braiding who knows what that means and it certainly did not look like any kind of official notice it was like somebody typed it out on their computer there's no time water logo on it it's just like here it is taped up and and and then then it said there will be outages and then somebody wrote in May so it said there may be outages well I mean now weird maybe the guy ran out and forgot the free online they wiped up an adopted typed it up in the truck because my service has been terrible lately we've discussed the lack of good cable and internet options here in New York specifically Time Warner's pretty much all your your only game if you're in a lot of the city well you give verizon dsl maybe not ok but are you gonna get your a TV from that dude ish did you love before life oh yeah barb has he gone off grid oh that's right oh my god I talked about this yeah second bomb off the grid the time warner cable but not time warner broadband and it's like a long-term relationship i think so instead of the triple play that they advertised in this single single play what's that spanish music style me the song that takes Latin people back ten years that's right that's right horrible yeah it's like 23 comer what I came back 87 to the eye reggaeton style song right yeah it sort of guys on the beach and he's like a sort of reggaeton but it's not but it's about because it's a commercial yeah guys like wearing like a lobster is embarrassing nursing lettin people everywhere thank you very much we got to find that how can i find that now you to be no no def no I feel if we play that before though they're like several now you don't we did it but you don't have to play and we will not I mean the girls that the girls look I but listen it's like the fun that commercials yeah you're right it is that's that's horrible too who is that from Zephyr Eisen oh that's great daddy talk baby that's the golden boy yep long I own gets that um well yeah I'm just I'm just broadband now we use a uhf antenna to pull over the over-the-air HD mm-hmm and then i hook up my macbook with a little converter which is send me annoying but then can in the end watch stuff from hulu or boxy when boxy is working with all the feeds and hook up itunes so we're like uh I'm sorry this drugs us too if you go to play got at least let me see it there's like clockwork orange I don't want to hear let me see it at least not beethoven's nine my people are gonna come here yeah come on d gente move yeah we ate your people it's not it's not as bad without the video video video makes it eight don't make you see the guy dressed up like you see the guy just like the Loch Ness monster let's get dude in the background stabbing his tail over and over again like a fake sword I'd like to get the lobster after Don like hiding in the sand well one thing's for sure you'll never forget the phone number you're right about Iver I've already forgotten it oh please really yeah that's your thing I'm not gonna eat something larissa I'm not going to say if I know because I'm not giving you advertising exactly high 55 XYZ em okay so when did you got at the concentrate on hitting the camera buttons at the same time when did you decide to get rid of actual cable service and just keep the internet well we had a kid so I'm in the baby boat too and we thought we'd save some money we don't even have time to watch TV and my wife said to me why don't we do it and then everybody says you don't time to watch TV but Joseph you up lending time to watch TV nav art and watch it when he goes to bed ok ok and of course the games you fit in the game as well right unfortunately I have to DVR those and I tell people don't call me when they see a spectacular play because I'm a little behind ok ok we know what you're right we do if I'm watch TV we usually wind up watching the reality shows I don't want to watch so we sort of get trapped in I love money flavor of love rock of love watch oh yeah that one's good what the hell is up with that tanisha told me that's an Oscar De La Hoya's nice is that so ooh that's Oscar De La Hoya's nice oh no I think she's on a different show i've heard that didn't I first yesterday before like that's tasty yeah ever I don't know whatever chick is one of our own show whatever moving on but yeah so I got it I got a new macbook on the fall and when I realized that you know it handles it fine and i bought the converter to you know DVI up to hdmi that you know it plays a fine the streams and finds i said let's do the experiment it sounded appealing as opposed to upsetting no would you call time warner and you said yeah so we called them get rid of the cable and i'm keeping the internet yeah so we downgraded first to just a basic package then i had to return the cable box do they try to talk you out of it they wanted to know what i was doing and they were actually okay because i think you know I actually think now with the recession a lot many people are cutting off completely I bet the fact that I was still keeping half of it they probably felt was it was a that was a win a Pyrrhic victory yeah they're like you know what we're getting this guy for some money plus my account which is earthlink which is setting 2099 on a promotional goes up to 50 in about a month and and then who knows what in the future and that if they unleash more damage so metered a metered broadband yeah it's upsetting cuz I left off I had to go downtown to drop off the box which was annoying it's like big Brazil like waiting waiting room like DMV is actually one there's actually a Time Warner office right by here on twenty-third Street it's actually very nice that's the one I went to but it just you take a number they call your number it's great it was not bad it was fast it was a bit like DMV it was weird just like actually they didn't give me any hard time they said it's fine and and so I was excited to watch everything uh you know without having to plug in the cable but then first box he's been having problems linking you know the ABC kind of holdouts connectivity weaken their links on it the hulu feeds weird and then hulu started pulling content and now it's cycling so i was watching it so always sunny in philadelphia and now i am trapped in the middle of season three because they don't have any more than five episodes yeah but you said got netflix i guess you got yeah you do netflix I mcneff content isn't a whole library I get lazy about ordering the discs yeah but who's really good in fling.com as a lot of stuff in our own our very own tv.com is very good also that's a lot of stuff so so far um has been going on this has now been a month oh it's new it's very new we're gonna have to keep track of this the most annoying thing is angling I'm back to antenna angling because i bought this about this one model a target and get the over the air sick nigga diversity get over here HD yeah okay and it looks great never sir guy i have been cable HD it is expressed exactly its but i have a friend who's a die-hard into that convinced me to do it but you have to contribute over-the-air HD like survival is that's an a-line people he lives in anyway so he's like a grizzly adams what do they call those guys the the militia people you know they're very the very you know of the earth types and they aren't over the air stuff zactly most people don't even know it's funny how many people when you talk to them don't know that you can still get TV over the air that's HD I've had a lot of people say to me wait I don't understand I thought they stopped that and because it got totally confused with with the whole message about intended TV going down and that you had to buy your converter box so I'm just saying it's out there we have to get the you I mean amazingly a lot of people but what are you laughing yes we can mr. cackling like I feel like I feel like I'm saying something wrong room dorky god are you fine he doesn't only cancelled over here last week anyway it's secret lab okay thing is though it's on a roof babbling go what did I do now it's not all about now that's it's not all about but there's no fuzzy HDTV watching over the air it's either honor its off so you go from total blackness to a perfect picture so you do have to like turn it five degrees or hold it or maybe just be in a better neighborhood where they're less buildings yeah TV are you watching the thumb i'm watching i have a 32-inch 720p mm-hmm samsung's from 2006 so now when you're not the greatest but samsung samsung watching your favorite them does it ever black out in the middle of a game or anything like that yeah you know well i'm a Jets fan and so i figure i can watch on the broadcast on CBS but it does it fuzz's up sometimes you get the digitization suddenly hiccup when i'm watching lost that happen I'm getting really nervous about when that when that happens I think we have to sort of I I might go back I don't know I told you the wife doesn't know this but I'm verse for the NFL season I can't afford that I told you what to do i got that you put a slingbox in your in your in-laws aussie or your parents that I need you damn you sling to it now wait I'll point out that yo your kid you're in the entertainment technology industry right it's a tax write-off I know I'm just saying but we're still there so the year is the pain point we still paying for it we're we're shaving off money so we can get our kids some good day care and some some milk that he can throw look here than yo self sufficiency always kid is nothing he's doing fine i just bought him an ATV yesterday was riding around in the back what it was one mile two miles two miles to mouth to Molina okay go fast in that walk I can't be chasing this kid this kids now officially owned one more car than I have yes and by two he's gonna twerk it to four yeah it's had to get it for me is just like is he gonna overclock it no no overclocking but I was thinking about giving him my old my original ipod video to rock on it cuz there's a cup holder in the little storage department he can't be cruising around so I hereby wrightson so Suzy sees a girl that's potty trained he can get her on the back of the bike and ride off in the descent hey baby you know what we've got to do is get some Wi-Fi in that car so we can yell or good him a GPS oh yeah we could use my cell phone if you watch GP yeah there you going but he's never gonna be on my side he doesn t iphone is given the ideas babies love i might like my kid loves the iphone he does touch screen big red hang up button he loves putting it in his mouth that's what he loves to and he always seems to go for the part where the charger goes always the body i'm just get some nice chunk a jewel in there the most dangerous dangerous part well that's about it for today well y'all this kid Todd is that fro to go I would have gone so ABO to go visit my son Joseph manages to to blow out the microphones by shouting right next remember if you're gonna shout what do you do you lean back lean bed torture but listen there now we have the camera you can watch this now I'm gonna talk softly and everybody allowed if I going back here and I'm gonna come in again you see is its it it's effective all right now you have the camera we want you to raise your hand when you want to speak back chiller and all right I have one final joke on I have one final uh thought to express you guys and that is there are two things like deep thoughts there is no kizu deep caused by the attraction of productivity in the Western world those two things are Twitter and World of Warcraft someone is now combine these two going into a widget Twitter graph that's right no no no I've writing about this today on crave our gadget blog at grave cnet com and you know they're like in Game browsers and in-game widget engines like steam is kind of like that and xfire this is one that's called what does the called is called play expert and I guess you can get a web browser in game and stuff and it works with world of warcraft but also works with that you know other games also it's just like an overlay that sits over whatever pc game you're playing so now they have a twitter app for it so you can just pop open your twitter account and start twittering like you know lawl just saw giant Goblin oh he killed me you know or whatever in a world of warcraft people say i've actually know if you see Garth Lord don't fight him he'll kill you three kills he's 19 I less sherrod I did any of that but I'm sure it's vaguely role playing really good morning Ozzy Osbourne did the freaking world of warcraft comercios oh yeah yeah I'm here playing world of warcraft raise your hand I did the the free the free the trial crap oh you did yeah so what's like a nerdy message you would you were Twitter from there I wouldn't because I didn't stay on long enough for I couldn't do it our boys out west play um Norman Eric play watch the dome said he officially quit but Eric these Beasley you know what people say they quit and then I come back well I don't no Sam don't max out his character yeah I think she's maxed out his character and that's why they keep raising the level cap just like they're doing in fallout 3 actually they're raising the level cap from 20 to 30 even though that's a single-player role-playing game not a multiplayer one but that's gonna be the new patch called Broken Steel I'm not May fifth I believe dad's gonna be pissed but dumb and Eric are my boys out west inside cnet labs yeah lovely people Yakima plug I could get a plug yes inside to see the lab listen to my boys dorm an e that's right that's right Oh shouldn't be play like a promo for some other show how do I do that yeah you wouldn't know because you never did it I know because it's a grid here Julie shows ok show me show me tell me where they are yeah the promos are not in our folder just getting a decent exposure all right I'll play that folder that sounds great if chromos we have our own promo actually i'll have to uh but we have to redo that promo 2 promo for wet what a lot of promos in here I'm just going to do the most recent one go for it promo Studio C let's try that ready go for it what is to hear our music interviews and exclusive live performances from our favorite rock hip-hop country and R&B artists recorded right here in our cnet studios by listening and subscribing to our music sessions from Studio C podcast check out podcast cnet com for this and all other cnet com podcast I never heard what that show is I know Studio C is probably from download com okay I gotta check out well we did one and that's better than optimum online I like that hi Oh digital cable are from bday ever play you guys that I know where that is but it should be in I think um indecent exposure has our promo on there oh really I'm there for ya that's nice thinking of the only 100 in their folder what's in Russia get out oh its name we're gonna find us at your digital city at cnet com that's we can email us so you go do digital com we're doing that already ready well nog he's gonna I'm sure you're gonna edit all we do we don't have anything oh we're not headed in yeah what did you say I wasn't paying attention I should you can email it now trash digital city at Cena well it's a good time for an outro actually cuz we're at a time or you can um yes you can look for digital city dot cnet com or you can become a fan of our facebook page did your city podcast well that's excellent oh it's been a pleasure hanging out here with you guys nobody questions that we will gladly forward it to him as well I'll be twittering while playing call of duty for which apparently is also compatible i was thinking i don't even know what you do doggies let you know them headshot get ready for final manner way no conoces is called the Doodlebops yeah uh Joseph really all right there we go wasn't exciting place music here guys again back away from the money I'm not backing away from I don't back away from no retreat no sir no I yeah I close down the wrong microphone it goes down Joseph if he couldn't be quiet as long as you're far away from nothing on the track I represent New York I got it on my back say that we lost it's the one
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