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Podcast With Jeremy Sploosh

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“The only work I’ve done the last two years is interviews. I’m very good at it.”

– Syd Barrett

Podcast With Jeremy Sploosh #1

Podcast With Jeremy Sploosh

If you’ve been dying to listen a voice that’s exactly one tenth less irritating than Gilbert Gottfried’s I’m happy to inform you that my smoothing monotone can be heard on Jeremy Sploosh’s recent podcast. All jokes aside, I had a great time and it was fun to be on the air. Podcasting is a lot different than blogging and I enjoyed the change of pace. On the show we discuss a cornucopia of different subjects which include:

  • Fasting
  • Business
  • Why I will not be releasing an eBook on business in the near future
  • Elance and oDesk
  • Lifting weights
  • And a whole lot more!

I’d suggest checking out the episode since it has a lot of great stuff in it. You’ll get some great information and probably have some fun to. Click the link to hear the whole thing.

Interview with Max Alpha

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“The blog that lactates testosterone.”

– Max Alpha tagline

I really messed up. Choosing to blog under my real name has forced me to write about things I’d actually discuss in public. Boring stuff like exercise, or learning a new language. As a barely literate troll recently pointed out, I’m a sad permavirgin neckbeard. Looking through the site, I’ve realized that he was right. I don’t have a cool pen name, I haven’t plastered my sidebar with naked women, and I don’t write about feminists conspiring to nurture the male populace.

To save face, I’ve decided to invite a special manly man of a guest onto the blog. Please welcome Max Alpha of the now defunct blog, “Max Alpha: Testosterone Overload.”

Rare photo of Mr. Alpha.

Robert: Can you tell us a little about your site?

Max: Yeah man, maxalphatestosteroneoverload.wordpress.com was the 12th largest counter feminism and pick up blog in the greater Cleveland area. I was averaging like 48 hits a day. And I’d only been blogging for three years at that point.

Robert: Wow, that is… Something.

Max: I was trying to monetize it. You know like that Tim Ferriss book says. I heard from some guy that one Google Ad pays ten thousand dollars a month. Add that to what Amazon Associates pays and I would have been rich.

Robert: You’ve sent me some of your old posts. Let’s see there’s: “Mark Zuckerberg isn’t a man,” “The new James Bond movie is for little girls,” and “The time I almost hooked up with that chick from Arby’s.”

Max: That was a good one, Social Kenny even left two comments on it.

Robert: If the site was so popular why did you shut it down?

Max: When I got mad at my manager I Photoshopped his head onto two dogs humping and posted it. Someone found out and I lost my job at Baby Gap. My mom was really mad.

Robert: Thank you for your time Max and I look forward to your future blogging endeavors.

Interview with a Computer Science Major

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Close personal friend and Computer Science Major, Evan Landis, volunteered his time for me to interview him about all things programming.

Right off the bat, I asked the big question: “Which programing language is the ‘best’ to learn?”

After thinking for a moment Evan replied: “If you learn Java you will never be unemployed. Java is the most useful language, it’s cross-platform.”

Since Java is cross-platform (meaning that it can run on any operating system), I asked Evan if the major software companies all used it, or if they each wrote in different codes.

What he explained to me was that the “Big Three” (Google, Apple, and Microsoft) each use different languages. Google writes in Java, Apple in C#, and Microsoft in a whole slew of different scripts (like C++ and Visual Basic).

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The “Big Three” and their languages of choice.

I told him that I was learning Python and asked what the major differences between it and Java were.

“Python is a dynamic programming language meaning you don’t have to have classes and objects like Java which is a an OOP (object oriented programming) language. Python can still do class and object programming but isn’t emphasized a whole lot. Java has more of a ‘throw and catch’ kind of relationship with the classes and objects, and methods, and literally everything has to have a class, object and usually a main method.”

Finally, I asked him if he thought was possible to learn Python in 30 days.

His answer reassured me, “Python is the easiest language to learn. You can learn Python in about a month, if you work hard at it.”