#73: Devil Giraffe

This week, Dave and Gunnar talk about forks, k-cups, and a Very Special Solutions Architect.

• Gunnar’s favorite tips on zoning policy in SimCity
• HT Robin Price: Keurig 2.0 Genuine K-Cup Spoofing Vulnerability
• Future of Popular Coding Tool in Doubt After It Splits in Two
• Let’s build a fingerprint reader into a trackpad
• Identity theft man bites dog

• New Red Hat Reference Architecture: Deploying Oracle Database 12c on Red Enterprise Linux 7- Recommended Practices
• Give the gift of RTM and get bonus months
• Margaret Hamilton is the coolest developer you’ve never heard of, looking like a 2014 hipster in 1972 and taking humans to the Moon
• Red Hat Solutions Architects are multi-dimensional
  • Example: Ben Breard, his guitar, and the Purdie Shuffle

Cutting Room Floor

• D&G Christmas ideas
  • Brilliant guerrilla marketing: This Year You Can Rent Your Ugly Holiday Sweater
  • Makes the perfect Christmas gift: Gently used Rapiscan backscatter body scanner for $8K
  • For the child who has everything: Devil Giraffe
  • For the man without beard Christmas decorations: Beard Christmas decorations
  • Speech synthesis Christmas choir



• A table held up by buckets resting on it


• Mathematically perfect donuts


• At last: an in-browser Spirograph

We Give Thanks

• Ben Breard for the Chick’n Pick’n Blues!
• Robin Price for the Keurig announcement