No Agenda Episode 451 Introduction and Red Book Anecdote
Adam Curry and John C. Dvorak open episode 451 of the No Agenda podcast on October 11, 2012, from Austin, Texas, and Northern Silicon Valley. Dvorak introduces a new "red book" for show notes, noting it was a promotional item from Memjet, a printing technology company. The hosts discuss the speed of Memjet's "waterfall" printing technology and their tendency to "front-run" mainstream news cycles by approximately one month.
adam curry· john c. dvorak· gitmo nation· memjet· red book· austin texas· silicon valley
00:00 That's our slogan for today, John. Eventually everyone gets tased. Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak. It's Thursday October 11th 2012 time for your Gitmo Nation Media Assassination episode 451! This is no agenda That's right, 10 11 12 the magical 33 on the best podcast in the universe from the capital of the drone star state Austin Texas and morning everybody I'm Adam Curry. And from northern Silicon Valley where i am opening a new red book! I'm John C Dvorak Are you telling me that people in Berkeley blow their nose into their sleeve? Yes what they do No Yeah especially the Berkeley City Council
00:45 That's an expression I'm not familiar with obviously. But Berkeley City Council? No, blowing your nose on your sleeve! Well you know that ever since I stopped smoking which and we're now we are now into...I don't know week six I don't have a drippy nose anymore. I might have to blow my nose once in the morning just you know, just clear it all up. In the morning? Yeah only in the morning! In the morning to you Adam Curry and all ships at sea boots on the ground feet in the air and subs in the water and all the knights out there I want to wish them well. Yeah yeah in the morning to you too John C. Dvorak and everybody else who's tuning in live to The Best Podcasts in The Universe oh thank you so much love Ms. Mickey always
01:26 You don't have to do the whole bowing thing, though. That's a little much I kind of like it though Could you wear skirt next time? Bim sala bim! Bim sala bim! Thanks, Lowell Yes hello to all the human resources in the chat room. You know what you can do with yourself Good to see y'all charged up and ready to go My name is Adam He's John we are citizens of Gitmo Nation And were just as effed as the rest of ya Hey now So i got a new red book and I want to tell you that I got a little anecdote here So the red books, people want you know they've got them on my third but this will be my last one of this model unless I can get a hold of Memjet. It turns out these red books were given away at a trade show and i grabbed three of them And that's it? We've already filled one or two? Two
02:15 Wow. This is the third one and it's Memjet. It's Memjets company, look at they have little flyers trapped around this book 3000 patents Memjet is transforming color printing You have to see it to believe it Memjet, I don't know if they have any more of these books at mem jet. Hey They got a video on their site hold on let's take a look at what they got on their video Yeah, men jet printing technology over hard to believe that printer technology hasn't changed in 20 years yeah Have you seen a 3d printer recently no evolution? No breakthroughs? Oh, no Eureka moment oh It's time for a change. Uh-oh! Introducing printers powered by Memjet patented waterfall technology. Eughh! The paper moves under the printhead and it... Okay, well alright so that's Memjet. What? Does the paper move under all the printheads? Covered in ink from edge to edge in just one pass
03:07 Yes, this is real-time printing you're seeing. It's kind of cool it looks like a newspaper that's rolling through and doesn't stop just goes in one go. So it just drops crap on it? I should look into this! Yeah you should alright so Memjet I guess they don't make the red book anymore. I don't know where they got them obviously had its embossed outside the book it says mem jet think fast But I suspect they were bought as a premium for one of the trade shows. Oh, they were just a premium? Wait a minute! If you go to noagenination.com they have red books there for sale! I should get some of those. Maybe you'll get a discount if you ask Eric nicely... Yeah
03:48 Did you want to put something good for about three months? We're gonna put something into the red book or did you have something I start off by putting the date yes, and then I take notes during the show mm-hmm and And write down any predictions that either one of us make and how have we done on our previous two books? We've probably where I noticed that what we do which i think is a drawback as we are like what's it called, front-running. We're front running the news by about a month. A month yeah I agree and then about a month later the news that we reported a month earlier starts to crop up in the mainstream media and so we probably should be more redundant kind of remention once in awhile what we've talked before well let's do just that now so he was in fact exactly a month ago on September 11th I believe it was the day after September 11 when we had a program
