TEH 094: Social Zoom, location tracking, long distance sandwiches, and hopeful graphiti

In This Episode: Tracking viral infections on cell phones, baseball game games, spelling sports, great binge shows, and homeless in a pandemic.

Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:07:11 — 61.0MB)

This week the TEH Podcast is hosted by Leo Notenboom, the “Chief Question Answerer” at Ask Leo!, and Gary Rosenzweig, the host and producer of MacMost, and mobile game developer at Clever Media.

Our guests are …

Kay Savetz, the man behind freeprintable.net and faxzero.com.
Ken Gagne, Technical Account Manager at Automattic works and man about the world.
- Games: Jackbox
- Cards Against Humanity: Family Edition

(You’ll find longer Bios on the Hosts page.)

Show Notes & Links

Ken: Contract Tracing can help us trace who we’ve been in contact with during a pandemic.
- Admittedly not a perfect system, but an attempt to use phones to trace infection rates.
- Apple and Google are collaborating on the tech.
Gary: Sports.
- ESPN is reduced to running Spelling Bees.
- Baseball teams are playing Play Station games for their fans.
- Baseball, for real… Chinese Professional Baseball League Becomes first to play ball in 2020… real games with nobody in the stands.
- Streaming Chinese Baseball
- It’s odd to watch it with no audience, some shows are adding sound effects.
- Saturday Night Live pulls off a social distance episode.
Leo: – How Steak-umm Became The Tweeting Voice Of Reason in a Pandemic – examples of how social media and positions of ~power can meet and help.
- Great quote: “Communicators aren’t experts, and experts aren’t communicators”

Possibly Off Topic, But Cool

Leo: Good Graffiti? Street artists are painting hopeful art on boarded up businesses!
- Online list of local restaurants with gift cards
- Even Andrew Lloyd Webber is making YouTube productions free: Jesus Christ Superstar
Gary: Westworld… Season 3 is great science fiction.
- Ken: Watching anything Star Trek, Thumbs up on Picard, The Good Place, Timeless, The Flash… and more.
- Kay: Saving old software:
  - Saved from the dust… Bankster for the Atari 800
  - Checkers for the Atari VCS
Ken: Wrapping up my Apple II blog – Ten years blogging about a computer that has not been manufactured since 1993, finally said everything that needs to be said.