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Accidental Tech Podcast

339: Ketchup Momentum

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2019

⏱️ 123 minutes

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0:00.0

But rest assured, Casey, we will get paid back because we will hear from every hunts fan.

0:05.0

Paul, six of them.

0:06.5

I don't know. I don't know. I'm now in fear that like it's another one of those mustard things.

0:12.8

We'll see.

0:13.9

I would be stupified, but you never know.

0:16.1

Even you would be stupified if other people shared your bad taste.

0:19.2

Yeah, seriously. That's basically what it boils down to at this point.

0:24.0

John, tell me about your cheese grater. I'm hoping that this is your computer that has finally

0:28.8

died. I mean, I mean, I mean that it's still going strong, but I'm assuming this is about your

0:32.8

literal cheese grater.

0:34.2

That's about one of my little cheese grater is the one I talked about last week. The electric one.

0:40.4

Good news, bad news. Good news. I know what the problem was. Bad news. The problem was all my fault.

0:47.3

This shows the danger of having the wrong mental model. I don't know why I had this in my head,

0:54.0

but I have this idea in my head that this grater that you'd get it. I guess all the other

1:00.9

kitchen appliances that I have that use electricity, you plug it into the wall with the cord and you use it.

1:09.6

That's exactly what I thought.

1:10.8

It's a plug-in appliance, like my blender and the toaster, the immersion mixer.

1:17.9

I have plenty of, just, but anyway, that was the wrong mental model and that led me down a terrible path.

1:29.4

This is a German product, but the manual did have English and I guess manuals have multiple

1:34.2

languages. I did look at the manual, but like ad banner blindness. My eyes just slid right over the

1:39.6

relevant sections and I was just looking for what is the voltage? What is the output of the ACDC

1:45.1

converter? I just kept reading that and just was ignoring the fact that this device is supposed to

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