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Accidental Tech Podcast

454: The Notch is Young

Accidental Tech Podcast

Marco Arment

Technology

4.32.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 125 minutes

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0:00.0

Let me show you how I had to pick up my MacBook Pro today.

0:04.4

Here, I'm going to put this in.

0:06.2

Why would you wait until we're live to do something with a visual aid?

0:09.7

First I was like, how you picked it up off the desk?

0:11.9

I'm like, oh no, I got it.

0:13.1

So it's been a bit of a storm.

0:14.5

All right, so listeners, what I'm looking at is what appears to be some sort of fairy

0:18.6

terminal and that's taking up the majority of the center of the image.

0:22.6

There's a lot of water.

0:23.8

Water in places that it doesn't really appear that there should be water including to

0:27.0

the left hand side of the image.

0:28.4

There's a different building with steps leading down from what appeared to be storefronts

0:32.1

or something like that.

0:33.9

Some or all of the steps, well not all of the steps, but either the steps are landing

0:38.1

in water which is not intended or the last couple of steps are under water.

0:43.6

So I'm going to go with this is not by design.

0:46.5

There was a large storm coming through the northeast and whenever there's a very large

0:51.4

storm, our little beach town here, the downtown area floods like this.

0:56.6

But to get my MacBook Pro, I had to wait first of all for the freight boat to arrive two

1:01.6

hours late because the Great South Bay was not in good shape with 50 mile an hour winds.

1:07.1

When it somehow actually did arrive, I had to ride through, ride my bike with very, very

1:12.2

tall boots through this water.

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