Ep. 424: "The Beaver, the Badger, and the Buckwheat"
Roderick on the Line
Merlin Mann
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2021
⏱️ 83 minutes
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The Problem: John ordered one twenty dollar thing too many.
(Recorded on Monday, May 10, 2021.)
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| 0:00.0 | In a world where everything is good, nothing is garbage, and things are priced accordingly. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello. Hi, John. Hi, Merlin. How's it going? Oh, I'm going to have to do a little hot plug here. |
| 0:24.4 | You know, yeah. Here we go. I'm going to hot plug. Here we go. I'm not supposed to do that. Yeah. |
| 0:33.2 | How do we find? Oh, wait a minute. Hold on. Hot plug. Did I have that hot plug? I did. I got it. |
| 0:39.4 | You sound good. That's it didn't use it. It didn't use to work. You know, it used to hurt your |
| 0:43.3 | computer to do that. Oh, yeah. It depends on what you're, what you're, what you're plugging in. |
| 0:47.5 | I mean, one of the mentions how hot it is. Right, right, right, right. Well, that was the thing that |
| 0:51.6 | was always confusing about it. Some of the things were not hot at all, but still you hot plug it, |
| 0:55.7 | and then you lose all your memory. I know people who like to, to dare the fates and to hot plug |
| 1:04.4 | things that oughtn't, oughtn't be hot plugged or hot unplugged, unhot plugged. You ever lose any |
| 1:10.5 | data? You ever know anybody that lost any data? Oh, I've lost data. You have. Oh, yeah. I mean, |
| 1:15.0 | back in the day, it was a real big deal. But like today, people like, oh, I'll just pull up this |
| 1:18.8 | USB thumb drive because it's an SSD and who cares. But I say that all the time. It's going to work |
| 1:24.0 | until it doesn't work. That's what I say. You know, I'm saying, I still have that hard drive that I |
| 1:29.3 | couldn't get to work. And some nice person wrote me and said, hey, I work on those. I'll fix it for |
| 1:35.1 | you. I sent it to me. I'm in Scotland. And I was like, I just don't know about sending this broken |
| 1:40.1 | hard drive to Scotland and back. Yeah, I mean, you know, there's probably one concerning thing on |
| 1:45.1 | there that you wouldn't want a Scott to see. Don't look at your in photo of Scott. |
| 1:52.8 | I don't know. You know, I don't know. I wait now. What are you thinking about going off on |
| 1:59.0 | on Scotland or data, hot plugging? No, I had a nice conversation with a with a Scott's person, |
| 2:07.2 | not very long ago, toward the, toward the beginning of the year. And it just to, you know, |
| 2:13.3 | I already had a high opinion of Scotland. I'm a fan, but I'm a big fan. But this guy, this |
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