But the memories remain…. steak dinners, dirty martinis, burlesque entertainers dressed as bad guys from Dr. Who.  The boys discuss the full resurgence of the fine art of taking your clothes off in public, as well as a demographic breakdown of the audience one might find in such events.

Speaking of demographic breakdowns, the big birthday weekend also gave us a first hand look at the difference between iPhone users and Android users, since Crashbrother came along for the trip and brought his Google progeny with him.  The nerds were forced to admit it ran circles around their iPhones (in some departments).  One thing the android doesn’t do however is monitor your sleep to wake you up at the proper time.  Then again, Crashboy spent $100 clams to discover the iphone doesn’t either, which leads to a discussion on how the tech world might very well help you catch a few of those long overdue Zs.

How long has Scientific American been around?  Long enough that the first issue featured a cover article on the “latest locomotive”.  The lads geek out to the retro blogging styles of the first ever issue of the respected publication.  It will be interesting to see what they have to say about any upcoming missions to Mars.  They certainly have more to write about now that a group of Russians have emerged from their year and a half isolation to train for an upcoming mission to the red planet.  This time, they made it through the entire 500 days without any booty call based fisticuffs.

All that plus, Art’s next meat thermometer, Andy Rooney’s greatest hits, and Ask Art provides a number one answer to a number two dilemma.

“Quite strange.”

Bravo good sir!  Of course, the Bill had a few other things to say, including his take on Occupy Wall Street, and why you might want to get a drop cloth for your retinas.

Have you ever thought Uranus was boring? (don’t go there)  Scientist have for years thought it was pretty much the most boring planet in our solar system.  Not any more.  Certainly not after a series of explosions the size of Texas shook the blue planet last week.  What caused the explosions remains a mystery.  One mystery that did get solved this week is who exactly was responsible for the six foot Lego man who washed up on a Florida beach recently.

L.N. producer Ellen Smithee talked to the nerds recently about bringing a more.. balanced voice into the Flimm building.  Thus the welcome appearance of author and geekette Amber MacArthur who stops by to tell us why we’re never going to get a “dislike” button, and whether or not she really was in Girl Scouts.

CNN would never run with a misleading headline, would they?  If they say “Netflix takes up 32.7% of Internet bandwidth”, you can trust it’s really true, yes?  Well,……. no.  The nerds dissect that claim and in doing so discover the pros and cons of the popular streaming service.

All that plus, how Steve Jobs drove without a license plate, grown up goths, and what exactly the name of this week’s episode refers to.  All on Siri’s favorite podcast, Lesser Nerds.

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Have you read the Steve Jobs bio yet?  Why not?!  After all, it’s been out for 48 hours now.  This week the nerds have read it, and find some select juicy bits.  Crashboy finds Steve’s potshots at Bill Gates to be somewhat of a pot/kettle situation.  But he’s not exactly one to talk.  After all, following Art’s revelation on last week’s show that he picked up a shiny new iPhone, Crashboy made his own trip to Cupertino.

If you are of the same vintage as the nerds, chances are you have fond memories of the ads in the back of comic books.  And if that’s you, you’ll enjoy our interview with author/blogger and retro archivist Ken Demarais who drops by the Flimm building to delve into the shadowy world of sea monkeys and X Ray specs.

How many Facebook friends do you have?  If you’ve always taken a certain amount of numerical pride in the size of your virtual social circle, you’ll be pleased with the results of a new study that links your brain’s grey matter to the number of your Facebook friends.  The nerds discuss, and compare the size of their circles.

All that plus, your new fake virtual texting girlfriend on this week’s show.

Previously on the show, the nerds questioned whether or not people still read Playboy.  Well now they have an easier way to do it.  Now that Hef’s new young bride is feeding him his blue pills in the freshly disinfected and now 100% disease free grotto, his business savvy daughter has put every single page in Playboy’s illustrious 57 year history online.  So for the millions who were looking for that long sought after Bruce Dern interview, your luck is about to change.

Those listening to the show last week will remember our luck needed a bit of changing when it came to interviewing the author of “Man Up” who we found on a train to work.  This week Crashboy sits him down to talk about the finer skills involved with being a modern man, including the controversial inclusion of bra removal.  (not your own)

Of course0 as everyone knows, the real measure of a man is his fertility, or lack thereof.  And researchers this week found a rather unusual way to determine which men will be more likely to have boys that can swim.  It all has to do with a length measurement, but….. umm…… probably not the one you’re thinking of.

All that plus, what we learned this week from an anonymous projectionist nicknamed “Deep Focus”, the nerds make a brief return to vajazling, and why you might want to work for a German insurance company.

The nerds are getting down to business this week.  For example, just how much time and money was lost this week when Google turned it’s homepage into a Pac-Man emulator? More importantly, does anyone care?  If anyone does, it might well be a go getter like Alec Brownstein… the young whippersnapper who landed himself a job by appealing to the hubris of his potential employers.  How did it turn out?  We ask him ourselves!

Business is booming for the info ladies of Bangladesh – those two wheeled mavens of  modern tech who pedal their way through the townships doling out advice on anything from crop diseases to contraception. (two topics related only through alliteration)

Bill Gates used to be in the business of seeing the future (before HE started ridding the world of crop diseases).  So, ten years ago when he made some bold predictions about the future of computers, how well did he do?  The nerds have a look.  For example, did he predict the end of instant messaging?

Plus, the best phony Twitter accounts, William Shatner gives Art a touch of Tourette Syndrome, and how we might be able to tell which space pioneer pleased the ladies more.  Oh, and if you thought vajazzling was gone… think again.