Tangential Convergence
Two guys start out with a tech or news story, and end up through discussions of history and science fiction, somewhere else.
- Update frequency
- every 48 days
- Episodes
- 26
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Rifles Make Ready! - Episode 0, You Know Who I am, My Name is Sharpe
Ken and I are taking a break from our usual tech/history/sci fi ben and doing a deep dive into the historical fiction tv series Sharpe. We're going to watch all 18 episodes and talk about them, you k…
Sun 10 Aug 2025
Episode 60 - Limited Brutality is Still Brutality
It's been a year since Putin started his illegal invasion of Ukraine. We here at TC are staunchly pro democracy and pro Ukraine. I wonder how people feel about this in Russia? We could ask Russian. …
Sat 25 Feb 2023
Episode 59 - Unrepresentative Yahoos
It's Canadian National Day of Podcasting! It's also me and Ken. Hey, remember the occupation of Ottawa? Remember the Emergencies Act? Well the EA requires a commission be struck to look into the u…
Thu 01 Dec 2022
Episode 58 - For the Glory of the Empire
We're back. Well, Ken was for a bit, then there was a LIBRARY EMERGENCY!! Gee, what'll we talk about? How about Putin's war of choice in Ukraine? Putin knows little of the operational. art. Deceptio…
Sun 23 Oct 2022
Episode 57 - Gorby, We Hardly Knew Ye
It's been a heck of a few days. The Queen died. The Russians are rushin' away (sorry...) But a couple of weeks ago Mikhail Gorbachev died. Hey wait, now that's TC material. You know what else? I KNO…
Sun 11 Sep 2022
Episode 56 - This Book Represents a Weapon
It's another in our ongoing coverage of Putin's war in Ukraine. Lots of weapons are coming in. Lots of war crimes are happening. We talked a bit about the history of war crimes. How can you get someo…
Sun 24 Apr 2022
Episode 55 - The Ken and Dave Greater Co Prosperity Sphere
This one is all about propaganda. Of course we've been both thinking about the topic ever since Russia invaded Ukraine. Does Putin actually believe his own propaganda? Are we swayed by propaganda (of…
Sat 19 Mar 2022
Episode 54 - Слава Україні! Героям слава!
Hey it's us! Gee, what's been in the news? Maybe the Soviet Russian invasion of Ukraine? Is this a reboot of 1918 or 1938? (With credit to @docpinko). We think it's more like 1918. What is Russia'…
Sun 27 Feb 2022
Episode 53 - Decision 2020 Pre Game Show or Whatever
We recorded this one at around 7pm EST. Some polls are closed, some are open, some people are still in line. I conducted a completely (scientifically) useless twitter poll. Many of our US friends…
Wed 04 Nov 2020
Episode 52 - The All New Honda Freebee
Originally Ken and I were going to hop on Skype and talk about reopening economies. Then, the murder of George Floyd happened. So, we couldn't not talk about that. So we did. Though, really, we agr…
Thu 04 Jun 2020
Episode 51 - Chock Full of Plagues
Actual t shirt that I'm wearing as I type this We're back, and better than ever. Oh and there's a plague and we're all working from home. Also, Ken is now in entirely different city, so we're doing …
Fri 10 Apr 2020
Episode 50 - Timely, Topical, Terrifying and Tom
Live from MMPR 2019, it's Tangential Convergence! Yeah, so I'm typing this up on the Sunday before we all meetup for the goodbye breakfast of MMPR. It was good fun. It was Ken's first TC, and Tom's a…
Sun 07 Jul 2019
Episode 49 - I Can't Even Throw Away Paint
Hey look, it's us! Also, we streamed this one live. Sorta cool right? Of course we peaked at three listeners, still... Evil Bond villain Elon Musk launched a bunch of satellites. It's pretty crazy…
Tue 28 May 2019
Episode 48 - You Need Three People For Propaganda
OK, we're back after a long hiatus. Ken has merged with a new kidney, and he's doing much better thank you. We started out by talking about the SNC Lavalin affair here in Canada at the request of fri…
Tue 09 Apr 2019
Episode 47 - Ward Cleaver Was Really Into Cock Fighting
Hey, we're back! If anything gets us back to talking it is overreach by a company with a bit of copyright! I'm using too many exclamation points! So, a guy who had bought a movie from Apple went to r…
Tue 18 Sep 2018
Episode 46 - A Warehouse Full of Minitel Terminals
Yup, we're back. Don't worry, we just took a little break. So, today is Isabelle's birthday, so there's that. Our topic though, is not birthdays, but, the recent fine the European Union has slapped …
Fri 20 Jul 2018
Episode 45 - Sending Your Scribe to John Grisham's Place
Everyone sing along. It's Tom Merritt's birthday. Today, or tonight really, we're tackling a topic we've spoken of before, cloud computing. Yeah, that was back in episode 12, that file is long gone…
Fri 29 Jun 2018
Episode 44 - Churchill as a Service
Look, another episode! Look, another episode about copyrights! Look, the EU is being silly again! Is it censorship? I dunno. I'm sure Ken will know much more about this than I, because of his libr…
Fri 22 Jun 2018
Episode 43 - The Small Pencil Manufacturing Trade Association Has a Grievance
Do you have it? Can you feel it? Election fever has gripped Ontario! OK, look, I'm not so sure I have election fever, it might just be some bad clams. As I write this it looks like it'll be four ye…
Fri 08 Jun 2018
Episode 42 - Quarter Poundor
Another week, another episode of The Expanse, and, another TC. Oh remember, you heard it here first that the Expanse was going to be picked up by Amazon. Speaking of Amazon, this article on Engadget …
Fri 01 Jun 2018
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