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Roderick on the Line

Ep. 112: "The Takeaway Dream"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Johnroderick, Society & Culture, Thelongwinters, Philosophy, Merlinmann

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2014

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Moley's in the poo hole.

The Problem: John has measured the portables.


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0:00.0

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0:09.9

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0:17.3

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0:24.4

Hello.

0:25.3

Hi, John.

0:26.7

Hi, Berlid.

0:27.7

How's it going?

0:30.0

Good.

0:30.4

Did you put your avatar in your Skype profile?

0:35.6

Isn't it?

0:36.1

It's jarring.

0:37.9

It's like, we've been doing this a long time,

0:39.8

and there was never an avatar in your profile.

0:45.9

Well, what you probably...

0:47.0

There it is now.

0:47.9

Which you probably stopped noticing

0:49.8

was that what I had up there was whatever I threw into Skype

0:53.9

in order to have an image in probably 2003.

0:57.0

Yeah, yeah, it was a selfie. It's a selfie before we called it that.

1:00.6

A placeholder image that was there for a long time, and now you've gone and you've cleaned up your metadata.

1:06.1

Your image could use a refresh.

1:10.0

What is my image?

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