Ep. 72: "Diddling is the MacGuffin"

Roderick on the Line

Merlin Mann

Thelongwinters, Society & Culture, Merlinmann, Philosophy, Johnroderick

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🗓️ 8 May 2013

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Roderick on the Line, Ep. 72: “Diddling is the MacGuffin” on Huffduffer

The Problem: Just give it to me in pigs and bunnies.

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0:00.0	Hello. Hi John.
0:07.0	Hi John.
0:08.0	Hi, Merlin I know it's you because I was just talking to you on the phone.
0:11.0	Are you sure?
0:12.0	Yeah, I, pretty sure.
0:14.0	I was helping you do some troubleshooting on your computer.
0:17.0	Yeah, you were.
0:18.0	See, I had to reboot my USB because my firewire was, um, who had forgotten that it was a friend.
0:27.0	Oh and you you told me that I should unplug everything and then plug it all back in.
0:37.0	To be honest with you, I think I mostly understand what you're saying, but I'm not really
0:40.6	a technologist.
0:41.6	Could you give that to me again in pigs and bunnies?
0:43.4	So what happened?
0:45.2	You heard that term?
0:46.2	The pigs and bunnies.
0:48.2	I used to work with a guy, my boss, was way smarter than me in every conceivable way and I would go into him, you know how I get, right?
0:57.0	Oh, I do.
0:58.0	Yeah, so I would go into his office and go,
1:00.0	who's the same, JavaScript, and I would miss you like have to say JavaScript.
1:05.0	Yeah, yeah, but like you know me like I will go in and and in my premedicated days
1:10.8	especially I would give him this you know amissus of half
1:15.4	understood data and Richard would lean back in his chair and he paused for a
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