145: Lasers and Pew-Pew and Space Aliens
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2015
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show / Follow-out‡:
- Follow-up:
- iPad Pro and wide-gamut displays
- iMac insomnia
- What 2015 tech are we thankful for?
- John gets hypercritical about Thanksgiving
mDNSResponder(notdiscoveryd)- Functional High Ground
- Marco's follow-up post
- Craig Hockenberry on
discoveryd(strong language)
- Live Photos & 4K Video
- Canon 5D Mark II
- Sony A7R II
- If you get that, you want this lens, and probably this one too.
- Apple Photos
- Podcasting
- Olympus O-MD E-M10
- Big SSDs
- Slack
- Lightning Digital AV Adapter
- Destiny
- Apple Watch
- Post-show bonus items:
‡: Still not Siracusa-approved
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I made the mistake of going to the grocery store today. |
| 0:02.4 | I figured, you know, if I go, yes, it's Thanksgiving week. |
| 0:06.1 | But if I go on Monday at noon, no one else is gonna be there. |
| 0:10.6 | It's way too early and it's the middle of the day. |
| 0:12.7 | People take off the whole week, I think. |
| 0:14.2 | I didn't understand where everybody was when I went to work today. |
| 0:16.7 | It was a little traffic. |
| 0:17.7 | There wasn't a lot of people in the parking lot. |
| 0:19.3 | Yeah, don't go to the any food, |
| 0:21.6 | but any places that sell food or beverages this week. |
| 0:25.0 | All of the traffic was in my grocery store's parking lot. |
| 0:28.8 | Apparently everybody else in the world had the same idea that I did. |
| 0:32.6 | No one's gonna be there on Monday at noon. |
| 0:34.7 | I didn't realize you live in a retirement community. |
| 0:37.4 | Mm. |
| 0:38.4 | I feel like we need something fun and clever to start the show with. |
| 0:43.5 | Maybe we can do a little bit of follow-out, John's favorite topic. |
| 0:46.7 | The internet has given us a gift today. |
| 0:49.4 | And by the internet, I mean, David Galetli. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm so sorry that I probably pronounced that wrong. |
| 0:55.2 | But David has given us the John Sircusa paper doll kit, |
| 1:01.4 | which this is really a call out to reconcilable differences, which... |
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