I watched this yesterday with a couple friends. It's good so far, got a few hearty laughs out of me. Still need time to see, but Mike Judge usually does great work-related comedies, so I'm optimistic.

Kid Rock appears briefly, right at the beginning, and he's the butt of a "nobody cares about Kid Rock anymore" joke, so that's OK. I never saw the Social Network so I can't really say if it's a serialized version of that, but there is some Jobs/Woz foreshadowing, and there's a barrage of techie-culture references, including a very interesting parody of Peter Thiel (the "drop out of college" guy) and Marc Benioff (the evil cloud computing FUCKTARD WHOM I HATE, whose parody character is, fortunately, seemingly cast as the villain in this series). Your corn flakes are in the kitchen, and that's not your cat, that's a house painter who fell off the roof and spent days begging you to call an ambulance.

Five stars for reminding me about HOW MUCH I HATE CLOUD COMPUTING!!!! Turning computer users from artisans into digital serfs, oh yeah, that's a GREAT idea, why don't we do that, just have corporations control all our software and all our data rights, can't possibly GO WRONG AARRRGGHHH!!!! SOFTWARE AS A SERVICE MY ASS, BENIOFF, YOU BASTARD RAAAAAAAARRGGHHHH HOMER SMASH

"Kid Rock" tag is there because that's as far as I got (i.e. 10s) when I submitted this. I've now finished it, so I added the Mike Judge tag. (I'd forgotten he was involved.)

I'd say it's too hard to say how good the show will be. It's basically nerd-Entourage and the Social Network, it seems to me. I warmed up a little in the second half, but it will matter quite a bit how the long plot arc goes in assessing the value of this show. I guess what I'm saying is, it's hard to imagine this show staying very good for more than a season.

I have a ton of encoding/export work to do today, so I'll definitely check it out in my downtime. I hate Benioff for the same reasons, and you were totally on point about the dead painter. Now that I think about it, those definitely weren't meows I was hearing.

And exy, just think of the possibilities if it went on for too long, a la KOTH. Judge grows bored with the project, and young techies start getting jobs at convenience stores and jumping out of planes for no reason. Tom Petty is cast as smartwatch pioneer.

ahem: " I didn't like what I saw with Eastbound and Down at first, and turned out loving it"

It's funny, as zany as that erect nipples finder at the beginning is, it's not too far-fetched. I was talking to one of my old housemates who created the original Portland Pinball Map app, which is now used in other cities as well (if you like pinball, check it out) and we were talking about how much it sucks to get off work, have about 10 bars to choose from, and get there and there's no single people at the one you chose, and you've got 20 minutes to drink until last call.

We were drunk and it sounded really creepy so it was just a joke but basically it was an app to track people sitting alone at a bar, which makes a "random" encounter happen through the power of technology, vs. sites like OKcupid or blendr or grindr. We both decided we were going to hell for the idea, but I'm willing to bet that someone else made that app.

That might not actually be a bad idea! Maybe not an app that surreptitiously tracks single people, but rather something simple and casual that lets users flash their GPS coordinates if they're looking for strangers to do something with. No need for profiles and contacts and dating site matchup stuff; just tap tap, single at bar, see if anyone shows up.

It could get kinda creepy, like an IRL ChatRoulette, but hey, for some people that might be part of the fun.

I thought that was what Blendr actually did when I first heard about it. So I signed up figuring the very least I could meet and chat up some company with some ladies during lonely after work happy hours.

Nope. Turns out it's just Hot or Not with an even higher ratio of "virtual validation" users than Okcupid.

OKCupid's app kinda works that way.. it doesn't say the specific bar but you can "check in" like you do on facebook so it says you're at ____ coffee shop or bar.. you can click on "let's meet up" or something.. after they put something like "drinkin' frappachinoz!"

but yeah then it's the awkward "oh look at my poorly written profile with pictures that look nothing like my own.. blah blah blah" AND NOW I'M STANDING RIGHT BEHIND YOU!

Rethinking it, it's really not that bad of an idea. Just a really simple profile picture and a "what are you doing in this zip code?" Especially if it was an app designed for people, well like poeTV people, who'd probably rather discuss music over pinball and PBR (I'm really pigeonholing myself) rather than get down at the club to Ke$ha with a whole bunch of drunk girls.

Glad you're still with us