John’s first smart device
Arizona backlash against self-driving cars
Booze and Coffee are the key to long life!
Best of 2018 Nominations
- Technology
- iPad Pro
- Apple Watch Series 4
- Nikon and Canon mirrorless bodies
- Xbox Adaptive Controller for those with motor disabilities
- Rentable Scooters
- Skateboard with motors
- Dyson smart vacuum
- Oculus Go
- SpaceX
Overblown/Over Hyped
- Cryptocurrency/Bitcoin
- Snakeoil “Identity protection”
- Elon Musk
- Amazon HQ2
- Not hyped enough but primed for overhype in 2019 – 5G
News
- Kavanaugh Hearings
- Cambridge Analytica and the Facebook shitstorm
- Hawaiian Missile Scare
- Migrant Child Separations
- California Fires
- Parkland Shooting
- Amazon HQ2
- Larry Nasser Olympic Gymnastic Coach
Movies
- Into the Spider-verse
- Infinity War
- Black Panther
- Black KKK Klansman
- Sorry for Bothering You
- Vice
- Isle of Dogs
- MI: Fallout
- Incredibles 2
- Bohemian Rhapsody
- Deadpool 2
- Solo
- Ralph Breaks the Internet
- Bird Box
TV Shows
- Letter Kenny
- Titans
- Killing Eve
- Better Call Saul
- Ranch
- Black Mirror
- The Purge
- Westworld
- Stranger Things
- Bodyguard
- Handmaid’s Tale
Breach/Hack of 2018
- Facebook – 29 million
- Google+ 52.5 million
- Cambridge Analytica/Facebook – at least 87 million records
- MyHeritage – 92 million
- Quora – 100 million
- Under Armour (myfitnesspal) – 150 million records
- Exactis (marketing and data aggregator) – 340 million records
- Marriott Starwood – 500 million
- Aadhaar (Indian Govmnt ID) – 1.1 billion records
Transcription/Vendor Scum
- Hung Up
Meme
- Tide Pods
- Laurel vs. Yanny
- Is this a Pigeon?
- Change my mind
- Gru’s Plan
- I don’t feel so good
- Trumpet kid
- Distracted Boyfriend
WWIT Guys Moment
- Introduction of Podtails
- Alley Drinking
- John, you’re being an asshole
- Dion falling on his ass at the lake
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