Scobleizer: Introducing “Cooking with Geeks”
Ajay Juneja
· 2 years ago
Looks like fun! Can I come to the next one?
Ajay
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
Ajay: you'd be great. Is your car ready for being on the show?
PJ
· 2 years ago
Compelling content! I've got another great idea for you: "Geeks Taking Dumps." Just be sure to make it 3 hours long, like all your other videos. Fascinating stuff!
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
If I had a three hour long video of geeks taking dumps it'd go straight to the top of YouTube!
You can keep THAT traffic, thank you very much!
Peter
· 2 years ago
Who's house is this taking place in? Yours, Scoble?
I'd hate to have your fracking tax bill, dude.
Peter
· 2 years ago
Scoble,
You should upload photos of your house so we can all see how the other half lives.
New show idea: Geek lifestyles. How geeks live. Photocopies of bills and mortgages a bonus.
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
Peter: nope, this one isn't in my house. The OSX vs. Vista dinner, coming tomorrow evening, was filmed in my house, though.
Robert Scoble
· 2 years ago
Peter, here's some pics that Shel Israel took in my house on Saturday evening:
Say, I recall you mentioning the price of your house a while back, and in one of the photos, I see you have neighbors... really close. Shouldn't you have at least a couple of hundred feet of land for that price?
Peter
· 2 years ago
Robert,
I just noticed what you said above...
The OS X vs Vista dinner... lol
What happened? All the Mac people on one side of the table and the Windows people on the other?
I guess the Linux folks sat out on the porch with Gladware plates... :)
jillmfoster
· 2 years ago
AWESOME! "Living with Geeks" will ping! A few of the geek couples I've interviewed were wine enthusiasts (and they'd share some vino with the ever grateful interviewer while explaining where they found 'that year' etc) but none of them cooked a meal! Love it, love it.
> Ajay: you’d be great. Is your car ready for being on the show?
Yes, sure, except it can only tell you recipes, it's not such a good cook.
sal alvarez
· 2 years ago
Cool! Looks a little different than my dinner parties which make use of a rusty hibachi on the back porch (but we grill ahi too!), shorts, aloha shirts and Coors. Thanks for the view ino the inner sanctum!
Steve Lacey
· 2 years ago
You should get Alton Brown from the food network involved - he is the ultimate engineer's cook.
There's lots of great food related websites around, but most of them fail in one of two ways. They're either very US centric (great if you live in the US, but most of them don't even pay lip service to the fact that you might measure ingredients by weight, not volume) or aiming at one of the "extremes" of eating. There's plenty of places for gourmet food, plenty of places for super-healthy food, but nowhere that discusses everyday food - the stuff you can eat and enjoy with minimal effort and is sensibly healthy. Or have I just given away the niche in the market I've discovered?
There's a comment I've been meaning to make for a while as well. I just don't have TIME for video blogs. A video blog post like this means I have to devote an hour of my time to getting the content. I just don't have that much unproductive time to fill, so the bar is set pretty high for me to actually watch more than a five minute video. I've no doubt there's some great creative stuff going on here, but you've got to be national media standard to get my attention for that long. And in a five minute clip, you'd better have me hooked in the first thirty seconds, or I'm outta here.
Conor O'Neill
· 2 years ago
Robert, check out what PodChef Neal is doing. He's done great food podcasts for quite a while now and has also started doing video on YouTube. The production quality is very low but the content is world class. With his food knowledge and your resources, you could have a killer programme on your hands.
VK Narayanan
· 2 years ago
Great thing to read. Would you like to send in those recipes that you cook in these interesting events to our group cookbook project - "You Can Cook"? We are working on this group cookbook for the Feed a Hungry Child campaign. Let me know if you folks are interested in any possible collaborations.
healthxy
· 2 years ago
Food is a social experience, from planting to plate. For un-conference fans, CookCamp http://barcamp.org/CookCamp is coming up in SF, I'm not going to make it but it looks like it will be fun.
Craig Cmehil
· 2 years ago
Hmm, do I need to find a new title for my little "experiment" as well? I don't think I can compete with you guys :-(
obiwil
· 2 years ago
Hi Robert!
I had some difficulties with the whole user interaction experience with your embedded video here and on PodTech, so I sent a short summary to Maryam.
Nice job, though. Keep up the good work!
Guy Pelletier
· 2 years ago
@7, Peter, Thats going to be the new reality show: "Living with Geeks and all thier crap"
Guy
Steve Wilhelm
· 2 years ago
If you are into food, I highly recommend this article from this weekend's NY Times Magazine by Michael Pollan.
All Comments
Ajay
You can keep THAT traffic, thank you very much!
I'd hate to have your fracking tax bill, dude.
You should upload photos of your house so we can all see how the other half lives.
New show idea: Geek lifestyles. How geeks live.
Photocopies of bills and mortgages a bonus.
http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/2007/01/scob...
and
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2007/01/28/h...
Thanks for the photo link...
Say, I recall you mentioning the price of your house a while back, and in one of the photos, I see you have neighbors... really close. Shouldn't you have at least a couple of hundred feet of land for that price?
I just noticed what you said above...
The OS X vs Vista dinner... lol
What happened? All the Mac people on one side of the table and the Windows people on the other?
I guess the Linux folks sat out on the porch with Gladware plates... :)
Yes, sure, except it can only tell you recipes, it's not such a good cook.
Even Raymond Chen agrees: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/...
There's a comment I've been meaning to make for a while as well. I just don't have TIME for video blogs. A video blog post like this means I have to devote an hour of my time to getting the content. I just don't have that much unproductive time to fill, so the bar is set pretty high for me to actually watch more than a five minute video. I've no doubt there's some great creative stuff going on here, but you've got to be national media standard to get my attention for that long. And in a five minute clip, you'd better have me hooked in the first thirty seconds, or I'm outta here.
I had some difficulties with the whole user interaction experience with your embedded video here and on PodTech, so I sent a short summary to Maryam.
Nice job, though. Keep up the good work!
Thats going to be the new reality show: "Living with Geeks and all thier crap"
Guy
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nu...
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Great advice.