Posts tagged with 'Office'
Andy Beeker is watching Office Space. This episode is not sponsored! Want to be a sponsor? You can contact me or check out my sponsorship gig on Fiverr
This episode is different than a normal episode of Cross Cutting Concerns!
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This episode is about an R-Rated movie! Normally my podcast is G-rated, but that is not the case for this episode. If you normally listen with children, I recommend you listen to Story Pirates with them instead!
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This is a long episode: almost an hour. Normally my episodes are around 15 minutes.
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This is an episode about a (vaguely) technical/computer related movie. I’ve done a couple of episodes like this in the past: 071 - Bill Sempf on Sneakers and 036 - Kevin Groves on Pirates of Silicon Valley.
Show Notes:
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We watched Office Space, a 1999 film by Mike Judge. If you haven’t watched it, you should!
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Inside joke alert: the mention of a "white jimmy". This is a reference to a GMC Jimmy SUV that’s painted white. But suppose someone came up to you and said "I have a white Jimmy" and then paused for 15 seconds…
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There are many tangents we go on in this episode. Confused? Send me a question, and I will try to clarify.
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K*Pax - a film you’ve probably never heard of starring Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, and (notable for this podcast) Ajay Naidu.
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Speaking of Kevin Spacey, if you’re out of the loop, you might want to read up on Anthony Rapp.
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The video discussed briefly in the episode is 7 Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Office Space
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Adult Swim is the late night block of Cartoon Network that showed King of the Hill in syndication.
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Be sure to check out the Office Space soundtrack.
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Speaking of the "year 2000 switch", check out episode 100 - with Joe Kelly on COBOL.
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We mentioned Tiger LCD games. Here’s a refresher if you don’t quite remember them.
What movie should I tackle next time? Leave some feedback and let me know!
Want to be on the next episode? You can! All you need is the willingness to talk about something technical.
Welcome to another "Weekly Concerns". This is a post-a-week series of interesting links, relevant to programming and programmers. You can check out previous Weekly Concerns posts in the archive.
- Here are 10 technology predictions that turned out to be false.
- What do you think about DRY parameter names?
- Remember "grammar" checkers in Word processors? Hemingway seems to be a more useful take on that.
- Generate Office Files (Excel, Word, etc) from C#
If you have an interesting link that you'd like to see in Weekly Concerns, leave a comment or contact me.
