Bad Philosophy » cell phones http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog Ever just sat around and wondered Why? So have we. Bad Philosophy is your one-stop fix for random philosophical musings about pretty much anything. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:12:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ captainvalor@gmail.com (The Bad Philosophers) captainvalor@gmail.com (The Bad Philosophers) Philosophy 1440 http://www.badphilosophy.com/podcast/BF_Logo_144x144_Color.jpg Bad Philosophy http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog 144 144 Upsetting the balance of reality, one rabbit trail at a time Ever just sat around and wondered Why? So have we. Bad Philosophy is your one-stop fix for random musings about everything from the nature of reality to the essence of modern digital society. Every week Stephen Torrence and Kevin Saunders invite guests from greater Texas Tech to chew the cud and make some magic. The more rabbit trails the better... philosophy, random, humor, college, politics, life The Bad Philosophers The Bad Philosophers captainvalor@gmail.com no clean Episode 075: A Minor Detail http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2010/10/07/episode-075-a-minor-detail/ http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2010/10/07/episode-075-a-minor-detail/#comments Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:52:01 +0000 StephenTorrence http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/?p=225 This past weekend, the Facebook movie (aka. “The Social Network”) premiered in US theaters, racking up a cool $22 million at the box office. Even before the film launched, This Week in Google discussed the film’s “anti-geek” tone and Jeff Jarvis slammed it in his review. Copyright reform advocate Lawrence Lessig also critiqued the film on a number of counts. Before all this controversy, The New Yorker wrote a long and revealing piece about “the real” Mark Zuckerberg, contrasting him with Aaron Sorkin’s character in the movie. Over the weekend Kevin, Kiki, and I all watched the film, and we had a few rebuttals to make on its behalf, partially inspired by webcomic author and blogger Tom Brazelton. Have a listen!

This Week’s Post-show Song Pimpage: “Baby, You’re a Rich Man” by The Beatles

]]> http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2010/10/07/episode-075-a-minor-detail/feed/ 1 1:08:30 This past weekend, the Facebook movie (aka. “The Social Network”) premiered in US theaters, racking up a cool $22 million at the box office. Even before the film launched, This Week in Google discussed the film’s “anti-geek[...] Bad Philosophy Episode 075: "A Minor Detail" Recorded Oct. 4, 2010 Bad Philosophers: Kevin Saunders, Stephen Torrence, Kiki Canon This past weekend, the Facebook movie (aka. "The Social Network") premiered in US theaters, racking up a cool $22 million at the box office. Even before the film launched, This Week in Google discussed the film's "anti-geek" tone and Jeff Jarvis slammed it in his review. Copyright reform advocate Lawrence Lessig also critiqued the film on a number of counts. Before all this controversy, The New Yorker wrote a long and revealing piece about "the real" Mark Zuckerberg, contrasting him with Aaron Sorkin's character in the movie. Over the weekend Kevin, Kiki, and I all watched the film, and we had a few rebuttals to make on the its behalf, partially inspired by webcomic author and blogger Tom Brazelton. Have a listen! This Week's Post-show Song Pimpage: "Baby, You're a Rich Man" by The Beatles Podcast The Bad Philosophers clean no Episode 023: The Birds and the Babies http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2009/02/19/episode-023-the-birds-and-the-babies/ http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2009/02/19/episode-023-the-birds-and-the-babies/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2009 16:47:58 +0000 StephenTorrence http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/?p=96 When a man and a woman love each other very much… they listen to Bad Philosophy together! This week neither panelist woes nor audio troubles nor the relentless Lubbock wind could keep us from recording BF. Numero Uno fanboy Jed brought Danielle, a [female] friend from Colorado, onto the show to talk about BABIES. You know… those cute, pink little flesh-wads that scream and crap a lot? Of course, we took some very BF detours, and we swear we didn’t let Kevin talk the whole time (really). So put on a diaper, slam an adrenaline shot into your heart, and crank up the Barry Manilow. It’s time to BF!

]]> http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2009/02/19/episode-023-the-birds-and-the-babies/feed/ 0 0:41:42 When a man and a woman love each other very much… they listen to Bad Philosophy together! This week neither panelist woes nor audio troubles nor the relentless Lubbock wind could keep us from recording BF. Numero Uno fanboy Jed brought Daniell[...] When a man and a woman love each other very much… they listen to Bad Philosophy together! This week neither panelist woes nor audio troubles nor the relentless Lubbock wind could keep us from recording BF. Numero Uno fanboy Jed brought Danielle, a [female] friend from Colorado, onto the show to talk about BABIES. You know… those cute, pink little flesh-wads that scream and crap a lot? Of course, we took some very BF detours, and we swear we didn’t let Kevin talk the whole time (really). So put on a diaper, slam an adrenaline shot into your heart, and crank up the Barry Manilow. It’s time to BF! Podcast The Bad Philosophers no no Episode 017: The Last of the Noughties http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2009/01/01/episode-017-the-last-of-the-noughties/ http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2009/01/01/episode-017-the-last-of-the-noughties/#comments Fri, 02 Jan 2009 05:16:23 +0000 StephenTorrence http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/?p=81 As we enter 2009, the last year of the Noughties, we here at BF decided to do a little retrospective on the previous year, highlighting some things that piqued our interest in 2008. Not only that, we decided to make some outlandish predictions as well. If you’re still hungover from last night’s revelry, we forgive you. If not, join me, Kevin, and Jed for some laid-back BF action. We even created a New Year’s resolution for once-again-absent Matt Legler, who was stuck in the middle of nowhere unfortunately. Oh, and as an added New Year’s bonus, I cooked up a brand new intro. Bon appetit!

]]> http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2009/01/01/episode-017-the-last-of-the-noughties/feed/ 1 0:49:53 As we enter 2009, the last year of the Noughties, we here at BF decided to do a little retrospective on the previous year, highlighting some things that piqued our interest in 2008. Not only that, we decided to make some outlandish predictions as we[...] As we enter 2009, the last year of the Noughties, we here at BF decided to do a little retrospective on the previous year, highlighting some things that piqued our interest in 2008. Not only that, we decided to make some outlandish predictions as well. If you're still hungover from last night's revelry, we forgive you. If not, join me, Kevin, and Jed for some laid-back BF action. We even created a resolution for once-again-absent Matt Legler, who was stuck in the middle of nowhere unfortunately. Oh, and as a New Year's bonus, I cooked up a brand new intro. Bon appetit! Podcast The Bad Philosophers no no Episode 008: Microwave THIS http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2008/10/25/episode-008-microwave-this/ http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2008/10/25/episode-008-microwave-this/#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:39:40 +0000 StephenTorrence http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/?p=55 A friend of a friend told me that if you listen to Bad Philosophy on a Microsoft Zune while preparing a Hot Pocket, the microwaves resonate with the current in the headphone wires and cause your ears to secrete Jello! Really … this totally happens … … Okay, you caught us. It’s a pure urban legend, just one of many we discuss on this fine yarn of an episode. Local genius Nick Bergfeld and the beautiful Kimberly Stewart both joined us for the first time, adding a touch of magic and some unintentional cuteness to the occasion. Oh, be sure to meet your swallowed spider quota after listening, or Osama Bin Ladin will forward you knock-knock joke emails from now until the end of the Mayan calendar.

PS. If you’re wondering what happened to Episode 007: Pretentiousism… well, it will forever be known as the “lost episode,” since the sound quality on the recording was discovered to be catastrophically horrendous after the fact. We might attempt to recover it someday, but until then it will be lost forever to the sands of time. On the bright side though, our ordinal and cardinal number sequences are now in sync. (i.e. episode 8 = the 8th episode) Yay…

]]> http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2008/10/25/episode-008-microwave-this/feed/ 1 0:58:43 A friend of a friend told me that if you listen to Bad Philosophy on a Microsoft Zune while preparing a Hot Pocket, the microwaves resonate with the current in the headphone wires and cause your ears to secrete Jello! Really … this totally hap[...] A friend of a friend told me that if you listen to Bad Philosophy on a Microsoft Zune while preparing a Hot Pocket, the microwaves resonate with the current in the headphone wires and cause your ears to secrete Jello! Really … this totally happens … … Okay, you caught us. It’s a pure urban legend, just one of many we discuss on this fine yarn of an episode. Local genius Nick Bergfeld and the beautiful Kimberly Stewart both joined us for the first time, adding a touch of magic and some unintentional cuteness to the occasion. Oh, be sure to meet your swallowed spider quota after listening, or Osama Bin Ladin will forward you knock-knock joke emails from now until the end of the Mayan calendar. PS. If you’re wondering what happened to Episode 007: Pretentiousism… well, it will forever be known as the “lost episode,” since the sound quality on the recording was discovered to be catastrophically horrendous after the fact. We might attempt to recover it someday, but until then it will be lost forever to the sands of time. On the bright side though, our ordinal and cardinal number sequences are now in sync. (i.e. episode 8 = the 8th episode) Yay… Podcast The Bad Philosophers no no