Ep. 112: "The Takeaway Dream"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2014
⏱️ 73 minutes
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The Problem: John has measured the portables.
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| 0:17.3 | A better web starts with your website. Hello. Hi John. Hi John. Hi, Berlin. How's it going? Good. Did you put a did you put your avatar in your Skype profile? |
| 0:35.5 | Isn't it, it's jarring? |
| 0:36.9 | It's like we've been doing this a long time and there was never an avatar in your profile. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, what you probably... |
| 0:47.0 | There it is now. |
| 0:48.0 | What you probably stopped noticing was that what I had up there was whatever I threw into Skype in order to have an image in probably 2003 |
| 0:56.8 | Yeah, yeah, it was a selfie. It's a selfie before we called it that a placeholder image that was there for a long time and now you've |
| 1:04.1 | gone and you've cleaned up your metadata. Your image could use a refresh. |
| 1:09.0 | What is my image? I don't see a picture. I'll get a screen grab for you. You can't really appreciate it because you're probably seeing it at the small size that does not exaggerate the lossiness of it. So you got Nippeel Glasses, you look like you're blowing out an imaginary birthday |
| 1:24.0 | candle and it looks like it's being presented at approximately 12 times of the intended |
| 1:32.2 | image size. It kind of looks like somebody smeared |
| 1:35.9 | Vaseline on you. Oh, not in a good way. Well, you know, that was the era. |
| 1:39.7 | That was the look at the time. Do you remember those days? You remember how crazy that was? I saw some picture of me holding a bag of |
| 1:46.9 | Pirates booty not very long ago when I was really early. You were Mimi. I was early young. Mimi I know you're a gold mine. You um. Mm. |
| 1:57.0 | Pirates booty. Pirates booty. That's before I had met you. That's when I merely knew one of your songs. |
| 2:03.7 | Yeah that was a that was a thing that was a thing in the early days of memes. |
| 2:08.6 | That was a weird thing. Why did we do that? |
| 2:10.9 | I don't know. For those of you, for those of you who are not like all the way... |
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