375: Wobbly Goblin
Accidental Tech Podcast
Marco Arment
4.3 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 142 minutes
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Summary
- Pre-show: Homeowners associations
- Follow-up:
- Mac Pro wheel stability
- W5700X is a decent deal after all
- iPad Pro Magic Keyboard impressions
#askatp- Is it a bad idea to prevent hard drives from sleeping? (via Andreas Beyer Bowden)
- What was it like for old dudes to graduate from college? (via Nate J)
- PHP is nuked from orbit. The world rejoices. What does Marco do? (via Asajz)
- Post-show: Neutral
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I have a tweet I would like to propose to you which Aaron told me not to tweet |
| 0:05.3 | But I need somewhere to get out of my system and this pre show is all gonna get tossed anyway |
| 0:09.9 | So I'm gonna use you as my guinea pig. No wait. Are you are you suggesting that I tweet something more you drafting a tweet that you're going to write and |
| 0:16.2 | Running it past your review committee here. That's correct. Okay. All right, so I |
| 0:22.4 | accidentally deleted it because tweet by crashed, but it was something along lines of I have found |
| 0:28.1 | Potty training Michaela to be less challenging than working with the HOA board in my neighborhood. I |
| 0:36.7 | Am on the HOA board in my neighborhood. I don't know if that holds together as a piece of writing. It's fine |
| 0:46.4 | I don't see the connection between the potty training and the and the HOA board. I understand you won't there |
| 0:53.1 | There you're trying to compare two difficult things, but there's no there's no connection there |
| 0:56.8 | Well, because that's the thing is that |
| 0:59.1 | Michaela getting potty trained has actually been pretty easy so far so far |
| 1:02.5 | Yeah, but the person reading the tweet doesn't know that like it doesn't you got it |
| 1:05.9 | You got to either connect those things or leave them aside |
| 1:08.0 | I think the idea of the HOA board being annoying and you being on it is solid. We could work with that |
| 1:14.2 | But I think you got the potty training saved that for a separate tweet. All right, noted. Thank you |
| 1:19.6 | Regardless of how you're going to phrase it you are basically |
| 1:24.3 | inviting lots of |
| 1:26.8 | useless and and annoying and and like you know high friction comments from two different groups three actually from all parents |
| 1:36.8 | Toddlers as well |
| 1:39.1 | How those are upset about being you know used in this way having to sit on the potty because they know it eats their bottom |
| 1:44.1 | Right, so you already know the toddlers |
| 1:46.4 | You've definitely you're gonna you're gonna hear from all the parents why this is you know wrong or stupid or whatever |
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