Episode 975

Seagate Pocket Drive
Dick's version of the Seagate Pocket Drive is only 3 years old (the year the Daily Giz Wiz started). The original 5GB version won the CES 2005 Innovation Award.  By 2006 it offered 6 and 8 GB capacities.  The 8GB cost $149.  The recent Verbatim Tuff N Tiny 8GB (Episode 901) costs $38.

Seagate Pocket Drive
Dick and Leo are surprised that they have never covered any Seagate product, and the only "pocket drive" they talked about was the HP Pocket Media Drive (Episode 189).

More Customer Reviews
Steven Clarke from Many Farms, Arizona was listening to Episode 966 in which Peter Costello wrote in about the reviews on Amazon of the Steering Wheel Laptop Desk.  In a similar vein, Steven would like Dick and Leo to read up on the Tuscan Whole Milk, including a poem after "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.

Other silly reviews can be found for the Three Wolf Moon Short Sleeves Tee.

Tuscan Whole Milk, Three Wolf Moon Tee, on Amazon

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Episode 974

Weather Brains
Talk of New York weather reminds Dick of Kevin Selle of Weather Brains, and Leo wonders how Dick knows Kevin.  Kevin has been a long-time listener and correspondent.  His last letter appeared in Episode 766.

Improv with John Putnam
On a MAD trip to Bermuda, John Putnam, art director of MAD, started talking nonsense to Dick in the lift in a hotel in front of other hotel guests.  Dick played along, as Doctor/Professor/Architect Richard DeBartolo, as the situation (comedy) required.

The Over-Sterilisation of America
Pants Commander Evan Pedersen of Fancy Pants Gangsters (who last wrote in Episode 598) has been reminded by the recent discussion of anti-bacterial soap (see Episodes  954 and 962) of George Carlin, who was very much against America's over-sterilisation and its obsession with cleanliness, which deprives of the body of opportunities to build up a healthy immune system.

The Pasta Formerly known as Prince
Somehow Dick and Leo get on to Prince Spaghetti Day, Wednesday, and Anthony.  This video may explain it.  The chatroom has a new name for the old pasta.


 

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Episode 973

Match Game and Set
Much more interesting than the X10 BOC is Dick's special Match Game Gift Set - a "The Best of Match Game" 4-DVD set (which includes the pilot episode), AND a Match Game Question card autographed by Dick.  Check out Match Game Memories on this site.

Germs Poster
Dick has prepared a Germs Poster for the March 2010 issue of MAD.  You can see it now.

DGW Outtakes
"How about a Daily Giz Wiz Outtakes Show?" suggests the chatroom.  We already have it.  It's called the Daily Giz Wiz.

I Love SYNC
Jeff Kaplan from Michigan has been driving a Ford Focus since May 2009 and he loves Ford SYNC.  For people who don't have a smartphone like an iPhone, Blackberry or Droid, they can still enjoy many of the features of SYNC as long as their device (whether it be a dumb phone or an mp3 player) has Bluetooth Audio (like Jeff's iPod Touch).  On short rides in his Focus, Jeff keeps the iPod Touch in his pocket and only connects it to the USB connector on longer rides.  SYNC can still play his music and podcasts from his iPod Touch.  He can talk hands-free on his bluetooth dumb phone using SYNC - which can also call 911 for him in an emergency, from his bluetooth phone.

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Episode 972

A Rare Letter from a Jingle-Writer
The Sunday Theme ("Sleeping-In Sunday") was first aired in Episode 635 and the Saturday Theme ("Show-Free Saturday") in Episode 639.  Since writing the weekend themes, Rob Houghton has been keeping a low profile.  Today we have a rare letter from Robert, who recommends an iPhone app called Momu which he and his friends have come up with.  Momu stands for "Motion Music".  It detects your motion (walking, jogging) and plays music based on your rhythm.  Rob has kindly included a promo code but Leo has decided to buy the app without using the code.  That’s all very well but how about a promo code for the rest of us?

Momu
To hear the themes again, go to saturdaytheme.com and sundaytheme.com (set up by Daniel Rodrigues Parreira).

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Episode 971

Seal Shield Wireless
You can see the flexible LED-backlit Seal Flex Glow keyboard in Dick's write-up for today.  For the wireless Silver Surf Keyboard and Mouse, here's a picture.

Seal Shield Silver Surf

Last Day for Voting !!!
Today is the last day for voting at Podcast Awards.  Your last chance to support the Daily Giz Wiz for the People's Choice award.

TWiT on Roku
Dick got the new wireless-N Roku box for Christmas from Leo, although he is disappointed that Dane Golden, who visited Dick in New York, didn't bring along an East Coast Mustang for Dick.  Some TWiT shows are now on Roku as downloadable videos, and the firmware update is gradually being rolled out to existing Roku boxes.  In due course, the TWiT network will be available as live streaming.

Salad Crunching
Alex Lindsay has lost 45 pounds since using the diet prescribed by Nutrisystem, which he reckons is about $83 per pound of weight lost, for his Basic Plan.  Leo is going for a more expensive plan, the nu-kitchen Fresh, for chef-prepared food which will be Fedexed to him once a week.  Does it mean that instead of munching a fresh salad, Leo will be crunching a frozen salad?  Sadly Leo has chosen Thursday for his weekly delivery.  He should have chosen Tuesday.  Then they could play "What's In the Box?" while recording the Daily Giz Wiz.

A Tweeting Tractor
Steve Tucker, a farmer in Brandon, Nebraska, heard Dick and Leo talk about meeting half-way across America to do their shows, has worked out that that would be right in the middle of his wheat fields on his 4000-acre farm.  He is offering them full facilities to do the shows, including portapotties, extension cords and generators.  His 14.4-baud modem may be a little wanting and he advises Leo to bring his own internet connection.

In truth, Steve is very well connected on his farm, and has a GPS-guided, auto-pilot tractor where he tweets (Tykerman1), and listens to the Daily Giz Wiz.  He has even appeared on CNN to talk about his technology-laden farm.  You can watch the video at CNN.

 

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