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The Talk Show With John Gruber

359: ‘Big Booger Came After You’, With Merlin Mann

The Talk Show With John Gruber

John Gruber

Technology

3.63.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

Merlin Mann returns to the show to talk about AI image generation (along with a few asides).

Transcript

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0:00.0

You ever wear out a nail clipper?

0:02.2

I can't say that I have.

0:03.8

I, you might have recommended it to me.

0:06.1

I moved to the special Japanese nail clippers

0:08.2

a few years ago, which are like a practically surgical grade.

0:11.5

But I've sometimes wondered, I wondered are my nails,

0:13.6

am I getting old man nails?

0:14.8

Am I getting a nail this hard to cut?

0:16.3

I don't think I've worn them.

0:17.2

How are you running into that?

0:18.7

Well, what's this brand of Japanese nail clipper?

0:21.4

Sakura, I wanna say.

0:23.4

Ooh, we gotta get this in the show notes,

0:25.6

because I,

0:26.6

because you know what, I did this smart thing

0:28.8

and I didn't, I didn't,

0:30.2

I didn't like your slippers from Mac Weldon, right?

0:32.0

You gotta stock up.

0:32.9

I've been using the Tweezermann brand,

0:34.9

which was a really nice upgrade.

0:36.2

So what happened to me years ago, many years ago,

0:38.8

I was in Las Vegas, Nevada, the city of San City.

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