Stationery Adjacent

Having called social media the root of all evil for months, Stu opens a new account on Instagram and likes it. Justin is too cold, no wait, too hot; too something, anyway.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/233

Episode 232 - Tiny Experiments. More homework for Justin.Briefly, Justin entertains the possibility of a book that is not...a hardback! Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/232

Justin turns his house into a winter-proof version of a Jean-Michel Jarre stage setup while Stu tortures Star Wars metaphors. Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/231

Stu is buried under a mountain of Filofax refills while Justin can’t find his VST controller. (No, Stu doesn’t know what that means, either.) Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/230

Stu meanders off in random directions while Justin manfully tries to keep the old fool on track Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/229

An explosion of old man energyShow notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/228

Justin plumbs new depths of grumpiness while Stu rediscovers time-honoured pro-procrastination techniques. Both ramble on and on.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/227

NEW Pry-bar updates! For real. A rapid-fire episode, brought to you by hiccups and thunder storms.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/226

The pry bar and the Nero’s firm are ever-present. JT has a hole punch that can kill people.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/225

Where has all the trust gone? Oh - and there’s a war on. Which is nice.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/224

Marriage. What could possibly go wrong?Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/223

At the tender age of 55, Stu discovers that parenting is hard. Justin sighs.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/222

Justin and Stu accidentally frighten the bejesus out of themselves as they consider the admin load of death.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/221

Justin and Stu swap acronyms and jargon. Medical versus Accountancy. Nobody has a clue what anyone else is talking about. Business as usual, then.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/220

A palate cleanser after the heavy vibe of last week’s show. (And another plug for the classic movie (Justin’s favourite) Love Actually.)Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/219

Two bewildered old men try to work out addiction and how best to deal with it. People dying on our streets. Is that the best we can do?Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/218

JT and Stu walk through their goals for 2026 (and try to outdo each other in grumpiness). Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/217

Stu’s grumpy. JT is getting into leather. Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/216

Stu’s confused. People study online, work online, even date online. Where do we expect younger folk to learn people skills?Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/215

JT is in a Christmas mood - as long as Christmas comes exactly as specified...Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/214

Mobile phones are essentially supercomputers, that do memes too. Damned by faint praise?Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/213

Whoop! What is it? Why is it? Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/212

Justin poses a profound question on the Choice of Heracles, Stu responds with Tom & Jerry (although in a marginally less sibilant fashion than last week).Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/211

The Giggle Bros get chatty about death. How jolly.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/210

Justin is keeping his wheels and boosting Ring sales. Stu’s not doing very much at all.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/209

Stu wants a medal for well, walking a bit and Justin wants more time for hobbies and more money for less work.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/208

Stu turning heads in London, while Justin supervises construction of a apocalypse-proof shed.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/207

Stu is playing, and losing, at Monopoly, and Justin fesses up to driving around with silly rubber ducks on his car windshield.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/206

Two spoiled middle-aged men have a privileged, first world problem whine before opining on things they barely understand.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/205

Stu gets all gooey over Oakywood and ambivalent about Apples and Windows. Justin gets a new chainsaw and shed.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/204

The Best Ever Episode 203 of Stationery Adjacent. We’ve always been bright orange. #justsayinShow notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/203

No! Really. There was life before the internet. Two old men meander through their failing memories of getting by without the World Wide WebShow notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/202

Stu is embarrassed by the sheer volume of computer equipment in his house and is horrified by Apple’s interface devices. Justin casually mentions his "home office complex”. Is JT actually a Bond villain?Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/201

Justin finds the marauding hordes of millennial wine hooligans unbearable, while Stu appreciates Cyprus' divide and conquer strategy. first world problems, anyone?Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/200

Travel. Wildfires. Illness. What a month it has been! Justin eases Stu back onto the podcasting saddle.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/199

A Wildfire swept through the village where Stu lives. Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/198

Who are we anyway?Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/197

Stuart is moved by the generosity of listeners, while Justin is traumatised by a trip to Costco.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/196

Justin finally discovers a use for Large Language Models.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/195

Stu throws words at a Google doc to create a completely nosensical episode title, and Justin immediately parses the words into something that makes sense.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/194

Justin dog wrestles while Stu blunders around fighting insurance companies, bureaucrats and any other windmill he can tilt at. Stop Press! JT recommends music that includes ACTUAL musical instruments!Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/193

Almost entirely an episode of whining and whingeing.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/192

Alright my lovers? Gurt smashing episode this week.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/191

"When I was a lad we lived in a shoebox and ate gravel". Stuart meanders off in that aimless way old men do, and uses Eurovision to make Justin's ears bleed.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/190

Listeners Rebecca, Phil, and James hijack the show with questions, and frankly, the whole thing is better for it.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/189

Justin takes his first steps as a stationery manufacturer, outlining a design for his Daily Journal.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/188

Stu makes the tech work on his Linux machine, giving Justin a whole new set of audio issues with which to deal.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/187

Doing Hard ThingsJustin proposes an excellent topic, which Stu hijacks, barely letting Justin get a word in.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/186

Stu has a new computer on a goofy European operating system that is making Justin's life hell when trying to post a show! The lack of shownotes, brought to you by Linux.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/185

Is working from home all over? Was it ever anything other than a coping strategy?Recorded on Liberation Day. No. It was. Really. They called it that.Show notes at: https://stationeryadjacent.com/episodes/184