The Fringe

Steve and Andrew play the Oregon Trail, the Internet Archive's collection of DOS games, Steve's favorite naval battle game, and Andrew talks about old hardware after the show.

This is The Fringe to listen to, with banter from Matt and Ryan before Andrew and Steven appear, and so much more.

Ian Buck tells us about the time he left his edible underwear at home in his room while a German exchange student was occupying it, and more. Plus, Matt stops by to make noise!

Ryan figits with his sound settings, Andrew prereviews his gadget, and then they talk about Ars Technica for a bit.

Before the show, the Ian's adopt a Spongebob song, and after, Ryan's boom is drooping.

We discuss branding and massive threads of computerized innuendos before the show, and after, Ian Buck discovers that 99 comes before 100.

Steve talks about The Stanley Parable with Andrew, then talk about jpegs, CPUs, silencers, and HTML9.

Decker's mic is strong, and it hears the infamous question, "Why!" and later, Matt appears to say hi and toot his horn.

Ian and Ryan discuss developer-y things and the strange world of Barbie memes, and more about processors, devices and apps afterwards.

Andrew and Steve discuss mice that don't work, Stanley Parable, World of Tanks, and microphone noise.

Before the show, Ryan asks Buck about his Nexus 6 review impressions, and after, Buck ponders going near a black hole, among other things.

The Ian's work on the notes a bit before the show, and Ryan shares a tea-story about Matt.

Steven and Andrew talk about cats, whether or not the Ubuntu website has "Linux" on it, and a little bit about Dell.

It's not 1992 anymore, it's 1982 now. Before the show, Ian Decker discusses Nic Cage and his likeness to Disney Princesses, among other things. After, it's all about smells, apparently.

When Ian Buck publishes his blog post, it crashes his computer so we wait in silence for a bit, and then listen to some creepy song.

Andrew gives a spoiler alert, and Steven talks about a deer he almost got.

Ian Buck and Ryan talk about regex, redirection, the show note parser, and later, Ian and Ryan also chat about the good old days when the Nexus 5 just came out.

Ryan gathers a few notes before the show and after, Brian and Ryan chat about getting an Apple Watch.

Ryan forgets to turn the mixer on before the show and together, they gather the notes. Ian cannot experience The Verge search button. Later, Ryan has to run to class.

Ian Decker eats burnt popcorn before the show and Ian and Ryan discuss the problem of needing to know how it works.

Ryan and Matt actually record a show and Ryan even prepared before hand. All Matt can say is: the mail. man, the mail.

Andrew gives another Chris installment, then discusses games with Steven.

Before the show, Ian gives JPM a rundown of how Eight Bit works and figure out the latest dreaming episode opening.

Ryan and Matt sit through the entire Windows 9 -- wait -- it was renamed to Windows 10 -- announcement, live, on The Fringe. Warning: because this was recorded in the daytime, it's one of those days.

Before the show, Decker explains his file loss woes on campus and after, Putnam and Matt drop in and make noise.

Andrew tries to fix Steve's microphone, and Steve delivers another Chris installment.

It was one of those days on The Fringe. Matt and Ryan discover bending phones, shop on Amazon and Ryan shows Matt some NFC tags.

Ryan mentions a Twitter inquisition and tells the tale of Matt's squirrel poaching, and Buck hates his borrowed laptop.

Ian and Ian share their Steam Accounts again, and then Ian walks away while Ryan and Ian discuss Google's need for a Presentation remote.

Matt tries to stop Ryan from adding show notes after having not written any himself.

Steve talks about his Raspberry Pi shenanigans, Andrew figures out what a Bug-A-Salt is, and both discuss open source project names.

Before the show, Ryan and Brian experience audio issues with fake computers.

Before the show, Ryan and Ian talk about Destiny and after, Decker plays some music.

Matt wants to buy a branch chainsaw, and solution to his tree troubles.

Before the show, Matt has a few Diet Pepsi's and Ryan declares his ant farm be "an unholy place" in an Amazon review.

Ryan and Ian wait for Sonja and Ian, and after the show, Ryan mentions a train killing a guy and how the University tracks us all.

Matt decides to add a new segment about Knots and then Matt begins another new segment on shopping for absurd junk on Amazon.

Ian Buck wanted to make a test call with Ryan and ian in preparation for future episodes of Eight Bit. International latency will not stop us!

Matt tries to login into something without LastPass, Ryan shows off his new PS2 emulator and Matt and Ryan discuss many Guild Wars 2 problems.

Steve goes to get a mic, and Andrew gets familiar with Steve's surroundings.

Ryan and Matt discuss Pokemon and Digimon for an hour and then begin the show.

Matt briefly reviews the notes and then suddenly has to play Guild Wars for a few moments, and then the show begins.

While hunting for show articles, Steven talks about World of Tanks and keyboards, Andrew wonders about Internet speeds, then both watch some LoadingReadyRun.

Matt and Ryan discuss the regional Aquatennial and Matt shares some work stories.

Steven watches a Strongbad Email, and Andrew talks about the games he's been playing.

Ryan and Matt add some show notes before the show, and Matt catches a sudden case of tinnitus.

Ian Buck wonders where Ryan is and discovers a magical device and Buck and Decker briefly prepare for their last episode until sometime in fall.

In the fringe, Ryan mentions how there is no news this week, and Matt tries to read the news that does not exist.

Andrew complains about Ryan's microphone noise and the mic setup, then talk about PC hardware, then mitigation techniques against deletion.

Matt and Ryan listen to a story about the LG G3 and then Ryan rants about the Snapdragon and Qualcomm failures.