The Show Notes

Lennox icomfort Wi-Fi Touchscreen Thermostat , nice display, but is showing the weather forecast really useful NWS severe weather statements, often not so severe in California Disabling hyper threading can improve performance : "[…] their are a few applications that perform marginally better, to the tune of one to two percent, with Hyper-Threading disabled. But at the same time there is far more to be gained in terms of performance from leaving Hyper-Threading enabled than there is to be gained from disabling it." Ubuntu Unity , which wasn't well received, but apparently improved significantly in 12.04 A BJ's Imperial Red Ale review , with an overall pretty good rating Juniper , one of the major competitors to Cisco

Occupational therapy : "is the use of treatments to develop, recover, or maintain the daily living and work skills of patients with a physical, mental or developmental condition" The Ood : "are a fictional alien species with telepathic abilities from the long-running science fiction series Doctor Who. In the series' narrative, they live in the distant future (circa 42nd century)." Nespresso in restaurants : "Even the finest restaurants are serving coffee made with capsules" Nespresso in San Francisco Nespresso Boutique Nespresso San Francisco Boutique Beer Imperial beer : "With beers coming from American craft brewers these days, "imperial" is an indication that the beer is going to be big and bold regardless of the style. The hops and malts used during brewing are doubled or even tripled, and the resulting beer can pack quite an alcoholic punch ranging from 8% to 12% ABV." This probably applies to "imperial red a...

Reading/movies Uncle Tom's Cabin : "is an anti-slavery novel by American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. Published in 1852, the novel "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War", according to Will Kaufman." Brokeback Mountain : "a 2005 romantic drama film directed by Ang Lee. It is a film adaptation of the 1997 short story of the same name by Annie Proulx with the screenplay written by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry. The film […] depicts the complex romantic and sexual relationship between two men in the American West from 1963 to 1983." Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln : "a book by historian Doris Kearns Goodwin published in 2005. The book is a biographical portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and some of the men who served with him in his Cabinet from 1861 to 1865" Beer Elements of beer style Gulden Draak (Dark Triple) - Brouwerij Van Steenberge N.V. - Ertvelde, Belgium - BeerAdvocate Gadgets Jaw...

Swiss Card includes roundtrip to/from airport 1/2 price ticket Fonds de dotation / endowment fund Stately font : "Stately is a symbol font that makes it easy to create a map of the United States using only HTML and CSS. Each state can be styled independently with CSS for making simple visualizations. And since it's a font, it scales bigger and smaller while staying sharp as a tack." John Cleese debate on The Life of Brian (1979) ( Part I / Part II ) Pinker: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined Subways Subway hero Wesley Autrey (that was 5 years ago) Woman Is Charged With Murder as a Hate Crime in a Fatal Subway Push : “I pushed a Muslim off the train tracks because I hate Hindus and Muslims ever since 2001 when they put down the twin towers I’ve been beating them up.” Lyon Metro Line D [MAGGALY (Métro Automatique à Grand Gabarit de l’Agglomération Lyonnaise)] La mode du boguet  (1974) (30 km/h max) White House weighs in on Puer...