This is our first Sauce Packet, a short show on a single topic. The inaugural topic is “that album that always finds its way into your playlist.”

• What is a Shadoe Stevens? Sorry Film Frown fans, Traxx is just bad, not so bad it is good.
• Who was the announcer in the $10,000 Pyramid?
• Paul’s pick, “The album that they handed out in the streets of the suburbs,” Green Day’s Dookie.
• Chris married his music to his wife’s in Subsonic. He loves it, she misses her free singles from Starbucks on iTunes.
• Chris’ pick, New Radicals - Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too.
• Pick two from the Paul, pandering to the Canadian listeners, Barenaked Ladies - Rock Spectacle.
• Chris drops a cover album as his second pick, If I Were a Carpenter. The grunge bands of the 90s sing Carpenter hits.
• Chris’ oldies favorite is the Greatest Hits from Blood, Sweat & Tears
• Paul enjoys singing the Sounds of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel to his girls. Thus, it is his final pick.

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We go deep into programming languages and their history with our guest Tierney Coren. There’s a sprinkling of tech recommendations, some Rooster Teeth and a discussion on the popularity of Let’s Play videos.

• Chris asks the tough question, “What is Node.js?”
• Learn more about javascript with Douglas Crockford.
• Syntax can make things difficult when it comes to languages. Paul says jQuery really helped in the case of popularizing Javascript.
• Tierney discusses Gulp.js and Electron, web kits for Node.
• Our guest is using a Razer mouse and headset. He found this gear thanks to the company sponsoring his favorite content producer, Rooster Teeth.
• Chris uses a Logitech Performance Mouse MX. He wore one out in 3-4 years, but bought another because he couldn’t find the rad gaming mice that people really enjoy.
• Our younger guest uses his iPhone 6+ for all his media viewing rather than a TV or computer. Paul’s testing out an iPad Pro, maybe it’s an all-in-one solution?
• Paul likes Sleep++ to monitor his sleep.
• Tierney uses CodeHub to connect to Github on his phone.
• The many text editors in Tierney’s life, Brackets, Atom and Visual Studio Code.
• Flavors of linux discussed, Elementary OS, ubuntu, kubuntu, CrunchBang and Arch.
• Chris like this windows manager for Linux, OpenBox.
• We discuss the popularity of Let’s Plays.
• Pewdiepie has built an empire by just making Let’s Play videos.
• Tierney asks that you please visit the Node.js Github and join the community. Everyone is welcome.
• Chris thanks Tunabelly software for giving him a copy of Temperature Gauge Pro to test on his Mac. Guess what? It works great and is making his computer less noisy during the podcast!
• Thanks to Arturo and Brandon for joining us in the chat channel.

Special thanks to Tierney for joining us at the last minute! Of course, thank you for listening to the show. Find Tierney on Cupcake or his site bnb.im. If you want to know what’s happening with Montreal Sauce, check the posts on Patreon. You can also support the show there. There’s also a Facebook page now.

This episode features discussions of cities in New York that aren’t New York City, succeeding in university and it turns out there are people who love candy corn. No. Really! Our guest Tierney Coren is part of the Node.js Evangelism Work Group, a web developer, designer, writer and student.

• The glorious reputation of Utica.
• Tierney teaches us that the origin point of the grid system in Salt Lake is the Mormon Temple.
• Chris has been using Here.com to replace Google Maps.
• Tierney & Paul have issues using Duck Duck Go for search. However, Paul does love the !bangs.
• Chris defends DDG, but shares an option given to him on the Cupcake.io community, Startpage.com.
• Tierney is doing an accelerated Bachelor’s/Master’s program at SUNY Poly.
• We previously did a show with a professor of information design, part 1 & part 2.
• Let’s talk about our dark future with 1984, Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451.
• More books? How about Snow Crash, Ready Player One, Wuthering Heights & The Prince.
• Tierney thinks previous guest Arturo could be the protagonist from Snow Crash.
• Paul & guest review the Twilight Saga films.
• Tierney’s instructor is obsessed with TiddlyWiki, so he’s learned a lot about it.
• Let’s Encrypt is in beta.
• Tierney teaches Chris about Coursera.
• SuperCard Suite wants to be your HyperCard replacement.
• Tierney was using ghost for his site. He tried Jekyll and Hexo. He settled on Metalsmith, a static site generator.
• Paul says the Montreal Sauce & Film Frown sites are also created with a static site generator, PieCrust. The setup is documented on his blog, A Podcaster is Me.
• Chris mentions that he’s going to take a stab at joining the IndieWebCamp movement with a new site using Known. He was inspired by Jeena.net and our chat with Jen Montes, part 1, part 2.
• A really great way to connect with Webmentions is to use brid.gy.

Thanks for listening to the episode & thanks to &! (@bitandbang), Tierney, for chatting on the Sauce. Want to learn more about our podcast or read more about the production, check our Patreon.

Too lazy to write a blog post on the Patreon page, Paul & Chris meet to discuss exciting new updates to the show. Promotional swag, sauce packets and secretive episodes are coming your way. Not to mention our tremendous backlog of live episodes to publish for downloads.

• This special episode is brought to you be quantum mechanics.
• Remember when we had a t-shirt drive? (You can request Cotton Bureau print more, if you wish.)
• Paul goes searching for domains for the insanely long iTunes link on hover. Should we get dot soy?
• You want shorter content? Yeah. We can do that. We’re going to start doing sauce packets.
• When the ventilation goes out at work, Paul plays clips from Anchorman.
• Chris says a future episode in April will feature a discussion about developing VR with Aaron Clifford.
• Modeled on the Chicago Podcast Cooperative, Edmonton media superstar Karen Unland is busy putting together the Seen and Heard Podcast Network.

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In part dos of the discussion with Arturo Vergara we discuss the value of a college education, the importance of agriculture, the false idea of a post-scarcity society and rapping, yo!

• During the education rant, Paul refers to an earlier show we did at The Centre for Digital Media. Here’s part 1 and part 2.
• Do we really have a Post-scarcity economy?
• Chris discusses a story from That Sugar Film.
• Internet for everyone is not altruistic. It simply means more customers. That’s why Google has balloons & Facebook is making drones.
• Arturo loves performing music. (Psst, he once posted something to his soundcloud.)
• Paul tries to convince Arturo to compose us a song for the show. Arturo says maybe he can collaborate with Jonathan Killearn.
• Arturo has a gorgeous jarana and plays it for us on the show!
• Paul’s Russian teacher wanted him to learn to play the Balalaika. Instead, he learned to play this song on guitar.
• The Swedish Chef performing Rapper’s Delight.
• Chris recommends Hush Tours for a unique view of New York. Much love to Grandmaster Caz, his tour guide.

If you want more Arturo, (of course you do!) hit him up on twitter, github or his site arturovm.me. Thanks a lot for listening! And thank you Arturo. As always favorite us in your podcatcher, tell your friends and get more information about upcoming shows at Patreon.