Episode 19: 19: Don't Make Me Read
Hypercritical
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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2011
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk toasters again, then discuss John's first computer love, the classic Macintosh Finder. Time constraints cut the love affair short, but the passion burns beyond the bounds of the podcast.
Links for this episode:
- About the Finder... - Ars Technica
- The Finder revisited, ten years later - Ars Technica
- Intel's new five-year warranty on the SSD 320 family - StorageReview.com
- Twitter Annotations
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| 0:00.0 | This is hypercritical weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the |
| 0:08.1 | microcosm of Apple and related technologies and businesses. Nothing is so perfect that it cannot be destroyed by my co-host John Syracuse. |
| 0:18.0 | I'm Dan Benjamin and this is episode 19. |
| 0:22.0 | I'd like to say a quick thank you to our two sponsors. And this is episode 19. |
| 0:23.0 | I'd like to say a quick thank you to our two sponsors today, |
| 0:25.6 | Get Harvest.com and Felt Tips, |
| 0:28.2 | Sound Studio 4, which we'll tell you about |
| 0:29.9 | as the program commences. |
| 0:30.9 | How are you, John? |
| 0:32.1 | I'm pretty good. It's a good day for you today. It's |
| 0:34.1 | a Friday before a holiday weekend. Yeah it is. It's going to be nice. We got a hard |
| 0:40.8 | stop at an hour though. Hard stop. I mean like hard. You just slam the laptop shut and walk out the door kind of hard stop. |
| 0:48.0 | We'll see what we can do. I hate doing that to you because I know you like to go long. |
| 0:52.4 | It's all right. I think by the time and hour is up this room will be put darn hot. |
| 0:56.0 | I'm going to figure out the summer podcasting situation. |
| 1:00.0 | I don't think I can have the AC on because it will be too noisy. |
| 1:03.0 | That's what I was doing, turning it off. |
| 1:05.0 | I don't know, why don't you throw it off? |
| 1:07.0 | Flip the switch and we'll see, I don't want you to suffer. |
| 1:09.0 | You shouldn't have to suffer for your art in 2011. |
| 1:12.0 | I'll go as long as I can. Well just turn it on let's see |
| 1:14.4 | you hear with the noises. All right, hang on a sec. It might not be bad. Once we get |
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