Aug 27

Episode 023

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023 The Functional Nerds

In the 23rd episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by returning 3rd Nerd Aidan Moher and our youngest recruit to date – Dan Goodman!  This week, we chat about NASA, crowdsourcing wake up music for astronauts, digital distribution, Stargate Atlantis, creative commons licensing, Cory Doctorow, free tv, pay tv, bit torrent, record companies, the music industry, the long tail, publishing, ebooks, ereaders, Caprica, the channel formerly known as Scifi, Stargate Unierse, Haven, Jeff Vandemeer, A Dribble of Ink, Literary Musings and bandcamp.com.

Featuring Original Music by:

John Anealio – Sundog (instrumental)
John Anealio – I should be writing (acoustic)

© 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio

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Aug 20

Episode 022

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022 The Functional Nerds

In the 22nd episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by Z from Hipster Please – together, we chat with Kyle Stevens & Jim Demonakos – better known as Kirby Krackle!  We chat about: Nerd Rock, Voltron: the music writing machine, music, the song writing process, Lennon / McCartney, Taupin/John, Comiccon, Alpha Flight, E for Everyone, the Great Lakes Avengers, On and On, Music videos, PAX, Mega-man, Ring Capacity, Up up down down, geeks are sexy, the Esacpist, Pearl Jam, Fan Expo in Toronto, Ustream & the Green Lantern Movie.

Featuring Music clips by:

Kirby Krackle:

Secret Identity
The Great Lakes Avengers
Up, Up, Down, Down
Teabagged
Ring Capacity

© 2010 Patrick Hester & John Anealio
Music © Kirby Krackle used with their permission

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Aug 05

Episode 021

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021 The Functional Nerds

In the 21st episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by The Book Nerdist, Jessica Barton!  This week we chat about Chris Hardwick, The Nerdest, Scott Siglers Ancestor, book reviews, Tuesday, science fiction, Mur Laffertty, Tab Benoit, Sonny Landreth, Sookie Stackhouse, True Blood, Anne Rice, Confessions of a Japanese School Girl, iPhone Skype app,, SfSignal.com, Ninja Assassins, Twilight, iPhone security, ios, dial-up Internet, Blizzard, Starcraft II, raiding (on World of Warcraft), LEROY JENKINS & Blake Charlton.

Featuring Music by:

John Anealio – Sundog (instrumental)
John Anealio – San Luis Obispo

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Jul 30

Episode 020

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020 The Functional Nerds

In the 20th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by bestselling author Peter V. Brett!  This week we chat about writing a book on a Windows Mobile phone, writing to sell, making time to write, The Warded Man, good v. evil, magic symbolism, demons, moral ambiguity, genetic memory and fear, symbol magic, folklore, superstition, music for writing the perfect scene, twitter, wikipedia, The Desert Spear, Independence Day, Star Wars, the sympathetic villain, comic books and Red Sonja.

Featuring Music by:

John Anealio – Sundog (instrumental)
John Anealio – Merithyn’s Promise (instrumental)

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Jul 23

Episode 19

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019 The Functional Nerds

In the 19th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by bestselling TOR author L.E. Modesitt Jr.  This week we chat about MR. Modesitt’s career, his 56 books, how he became a writer, his time in the U.S. Navy as a pilot, as a poet, military science fiction, Andrew Liptak, WW2, Vietnam, Afghanistan, The Parafaith War, The Imager Portfolio, The Corean Chronicles, The Spellsong Cycle, The Recluse Saga, music as magic, artisan musicians, voice training, strong women, hard science fiction, fantasy, the Ghost Books, the eBook industry and his upcoming appearances at Fandemonium & WorldFantasy Con.

Featuring Music by:

John Anealio – Sundog (instrumental)
John Anealio – Lonesome October Night

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Jul 16

Episode 18

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018 The Functional Nerds

In the 18th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army, John DeNardo from SF Signal.com!  John D gives us a hand as we welcome legendary science fiction author and five time hugo winner Mike Resnick!  This week we talk about: Hugo nominations for SfSignal.com, the Mind Meld, Chicago, the White Sox, his early career, editing tabloids, mens magazines, Bob Silverberg, Herschell Gordon Lewis, writing science fiction, She Lives! by Paul Neimark, Marvin Kaye, humor in science fiction, Lucifer Jones, Harry the Book, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, William (Bill) Gibson, sparkly vampires, supernatural romance, Pyr, Lou Anders, John Picacio, Baen’s Universe, Subterranean Press, Bill Schafer, The Dragon Page, the small press versus the mass market press, Golden Gryphon, Gary Turner, eBook publishing, Amazon’s Kindle, Readercon, Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, the Starship series, Weird Westerns, Blasphemy, Classics Dismembered, Africa, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Alexander Lake, Dragon Con & the World Fantasy Con.

Featuring Music by:

John Anealio – Sundog (instrumental)
John Anealio – The Ballad of Wilson Cole

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Jul 09

Episode 17

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017 The Functional Nerds

In the 17th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army, Curtis Silver from Wired.com’s Geek Dad!  In the show this week, we discuss, ramble and conversate upon such varied and wondrous topics as: the Apple App store hack attack, iTunes reviews, spoofing the ranking system, the Justin Bieber Haircut App, Prince declaring the Internet dead, human cloning-Little Richard & Prince – same guy?, the artists percentage on iTunes, 1999, KISS, Metallica, the secret backwards message hidden inside George R. R. Martin is not your bitch, Youtube takedowns, Radiohead, the cd/vinvyl model seeming similar to the brick & mortar publishing model, flash fiction, Scrivener, Comic-Con 2010 and rebooting The Fantastic Four, The X-Men & Spider-Man movies – is this end of the comic book movie as a genre?

Featuring Music by:

John Anealio – Sundog (instrumental)
John Anealio – Cylon #6

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Jul 02

Episode 16

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016 The Functional Nerds

In the 16th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruits – plural! in the 3rd Nerd Army, Matt Hammond and Shannon Flowers of the Seattle-Geekly podcast!  In the show this week, we discuss, ramble and conversate upon such varied and wondrous topics as: Hipster Please, bad movies, MST3K, Riff Trax, the Seattle Space Needle – tourist wonder or motion sickness torture chamber from hell?!, Mount Saint Helen’s and ‘volcano day’, Nathan Fillion and Eva Longoria as Ant Man & The Wasp, the Avengers movie, The Green Hornet, Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place, Ryan Reynolds, Brandon Sanderson, The Wheel of TIme, The Way of Kings, Terry Goodkind, The Sword of Truth, Terry Brooks, The Shannara Series, George R. R. Martin, Ken Scholes, Kate Elliot, J.V. Jones, A Cavern of Black Ice, The Legend of the Seeker, Steven Erikson, Peter V Brett, The Warded Man, Jim Butcher, The Dresden Files, urban fantasy, Mur Lafferty, the fan fiction contest to benefit the Lupus Alliance of America, Wil Wheaton, John Scalzi and, Unicorn Pegasus Kitten.

Featuring Music by:

John Anealio – Unicorn Pegasus Kitten
Erwin Beekveld – Taking the Hobbits to Isengard

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Jun 25

Episode 15

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015 The Functional Nerds

In the 15th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army, 2001 and 2006 International Horror Guild Award winner for Best Artist, 2005 Chesley Award winner for best paperback cover & 2010 Hugo Award nominee & mega-artist John Picacio! This week we chat about: Lou Anders, Mike Resnick, Pyr, John Picacio’s beginnings as an architect, comic books, genre illustration, the design process, Michael Moorcock, Jose Luis Garcia Lopez, Dick Giordano, John Byrne, Terry Autsin, Epic Imprint, Marvel, Dave McKean, Darrell K. Sweet, Joseph Cornell, shadow boxes, mix media, physical and digitally layered art, painting, Photoshop, Jeff Ford, Del Ray, Elric, Graphic novels, the 2012 George R. R. Martin calendar, X-Men the Return, artist copyright, monetizing cover art, Paul Vaughn, Missions Unknown, Frank & Ellie Frazetta & the future of the genre cover artist and the printed book.

Featuring Music by:

John Anealio – Unicorn Pegasus Kitten

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Jun 18

Episode 14

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014 The Functional Nerds

In the 14th episode of The Functional Nerds, Patrick Hester and John Anealio are joined by the latest recruit in the 3rd Nerd Army, blogger and mega science fiction and fantasy book reviewer from Grasping for the Wind: John Ottinger! This week we chat about: John Anealio’s inability to pronounce Thaumatrope, Aiden Moher of A Dribble of Ink, reading for review writing, the history of Grasping for the Wind, David Eddings, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, podcasting, blogging, the science fiction and fantasy community online, Safari vs Firefox, Google Reader, the Geek Media Roundup, the Grasping for the Wind link-up meme, Technorati, writing book reviews, Peter V Brett, The Warded Man, Paul Kemp. Star Wars The Old Republic, The Desert Spear, John DeNardo & SfSignal.com, Robert Jordan, Terry Brooks, George R. R. Martin, A Game of Thrones, HBO, Starz, Showtime, True Blood, tv shows & movies with more mature/adult themes, Netflix, The A-Team, Tad Williams’ Shadowmarch, the War of the Flowers, Stories Anthology, Spawn and the lawsuit, The Unit by Terry DeHart, The Griffin Mage by Rachel Neumeier, Song of the Dragon by Tracy Hickman and Jim Butcher’s Proven Guilty, White Knight, Welcome to the Jungle & Small Favor.

Featuring Music by:

John Anealio

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