Episode 19: Corner Casey Kasem
Back to Work
5by5
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2011
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Merlin and Dan talk about mindful tool adoption, screwdriver museums, why Vi users may (or may not) be cannibalistic insects—plus debate on whether a home video of a toy horse falling down in someone's bathroom is about Humanity. Also, Dan effs with Merlin's head. Again.
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- Maladroite Cheval. on Vimeo
- Vimeo
- Tumult Hype
- YouTube - David Lynch - Funny Moments
- How and where not to do The Fishstick on Vimeo
- The most popular file utility for the Macintosh
- Fetch Softworks
- TextMate — The Missing Editor for Mac OS X
- Dropbox
- Elements — Dropbox powered text editor for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch from Second Gear
- Notesy
- Nebulous Notes
- vi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Introducing "?—": A Distraction-Free Writing Environment - kung fu grippe
- Bare Bones Software | Welcome
- Coyote Tracks - Text Editor Intervention
- Sublime Text: The text editor you'll fall in love with
- Acorn, a great Mac image editor, built for humans.
- Pixelmator
- Tweetbot — Tapbots
- goodiware.com :: products :: GoodReader
- Panic - Shockingly Good Mac Software.
- The Omni Group
- Byword • A Simple Text Editor for Mac
- iA Writer
- Contacts Cleaner on the Mac App Store
- Syncman | Synchronize Address Book with Gmail
- Mailplane - the best way to use Gmail on the Mac
- Sparrow — The new mail for Mac
- BusyCal - Sync calendars on your Mac with MobileMe, Google, and the iPhone
- Flexibits | Fantastical | Meet your new assistant.
- Blacktree
- LaunchBar 5
- Alex Payne — How I Use TextMate
- QuickCursor — Your text editor anywhere for Mac.
- Tags - Simply Organized
- Noodlesoft: Hazel
- Spirited Away - drikin.com - the Mac way
- Rogue Amoeba | Freebies: Free Software for Mac OS X
- Amazon.com: Sakura IDenti-Pen Permanent Dual-Point Pen, Blue: Arts, Crafts & Sewing
- Amazon.com: Moleskine Plain Reporter, 9cm x 14cm (9788883705502): Moleskine: Books
- Field Notes — “I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.”
- Notational Velocity
- TuneIn: Listen to Online Radio, Music and Talk Stations
Transcript
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| 0:31.0 | So that thing he said yesterday see that thing again. Would you say yesterday? You're really pretty and I like your shirt |
| 0:41.4 | Okay, okay, and you want to pour water on my head, is that right? |
| 0:45.6 | Not what one thing yesterday about how baptism damn look it up. I feel like you are an artist who |
| 0:53.2 | Has never discovered or for whatever reason has now has not yet found the true medium |
| 0:59.7 | That that you could truly excel in but because you're so talented and gifted that you |
| 1:06.7 | Anything you touch is it becomes your canvas and and that that at my analogy |
| 1:13.2 | I think was that if you you know if you gave Lance Armstrong |
| 1:18.1 | You know tax reports to do he'd probably do a great job on him |
| 1:21.2 | But it went it's like if he never discovered that how great he would be as as an athlete writing |
| 1:27.8 | You know, writing a bike and being a competitive racer |
| 1:31.4 | That yeah, he might excel at these other things with the same |
| 1:36.2 | Success but |
| 1:38.7 | Maybe that's the wrong word not success with the same energy with the same output |
| 1:41.9 | But only when when he's actually you know racing on a bike do you realize what his true potential is? |
| 1:47.8 | I feel like you have only skirted his scratch the surface of |
| 1:52.5 | the true artistic |
| 1:54.9 | Medium that you could excel in and when I see a video like this humanity horse |
| 2:00.4 | And you probably weren't even intending it to be there |
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