Episode 25: My Food Court of Functionality
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 July 2011
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Dan and Merlin talk about nerds getting problems and about using Markdown in BBEdit, Textmate or any text app because you need to find tools that remove friction, not distractions.
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- OS X Lion and the state of the new 1Password extension (Updated) | Agile Blog
- Daring Fireball: Markdown
- MultiMarkdown
- And now it’s all this (Blog of "Dr Drang")
- Welcome to BrettTerpstra.com, home of Brett Terpstra and his nerdery
- Macromedia HomeSite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Coeliac disease - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Build and Analyze #34: My Best Dan Benjamin Impression - 5by5
- TextMate — The Missing Editor for Mac OS X
- Bare Bones Software | BBEdit 10 is here!
- Posting style - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Text files and me IV - BBEdit and TextMate - All this
- Projects - Brett Terpstra
- nvALT 2.0 - Notational Velocity Fork
- Blogsmith Blogging Bundle for Textmate
- Markdown Service Tools - Brett Terpstra
- Sodastream | Turn Water Into Fresh Sparkling Water And Soda
- TextMate Manual » Bundles
- Byword • A Simple Text Editor for Mac
- Untitled-1.jpg
- TextMate Blog » Introduction to scopes
- Byword MultiMarkdown Guide
- Think of Microsoft Word as the internet
- Scott Schwartz - IMDb
- MPU 046: Workflows with Merlin Mann II « Mac Power Users
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hey, Merlin. Hi, Dan. How are you? I'm doing well. How are you doing today? |
| 0:13.2 | Great, great. Have you met, have you met Faith yet? I did. I met her when you were talking to |
| 0:22.1 | her all over Marco show. Hi, Faith. How are you? I'm very good. How are you? Wow. You're |
| 0:26.0 | not on your presence. Yes, I am. Did you get your own mic? I did. Okay, don't use Dan's mic. |
| 0:31.7 | No, he won't let me. No. You know why? Do I want to know what? Glutants. |
| 0:38.8 | Even this is Rob Wolf has this in the book, it's in chapter 97. Even if you spit a tiny, I don't |
| 0:43.6 | know if you know what gluten is our faith, you will very soon. If you get gluten on his mic, |
| 0:48.8 | he might get called celiac disease. He might never stop pooping for the next eight weeks. |
| 0:52.6 | Is that what happens? Welcome aboard. Thank you. So what now? You're giving her that MacBook Pro? |
| 0:58.7 | Is that what I hear? Yeah, she's getting that. That's a good computer. That's the best computer |
| 1:03.2 | you've ever owned. Best one I've ever owned. Yeah, you're just now. You're just mocking me. Am I? |
| 1:09.8 | How are you? Big week. Big week. Big wall. You kidding me? Huge week. Just giant, giant |
| 1:14.9 | big piece of lumber. Good week. Good. Was your week good? Now, Dan, you noticed that you noticed |
| 1:20.1 | I haven't talked to you for four days. I know it's very weird. Didn't know what was going on. |
| 1:23.8 | You know why? Because I want you to do your thing. You get things to do. |
| 1:26.4 | It's thoughtful of you. We can talk about it later, not now, later. Yeah, well, definitely. |
| 1:32.3 | Where are you right now? I am in the one of the upstairs bedrooms in the new house, |
| 1:38.4 | while the painters and other people are downstairs. Faith and I are up here with all of the |
| 1:43.2 | equipment balanced on a stack of moving boxes. It's all like a makeshift |
| 1:50.8 | It's like a war room, really. So you're in a house, is that right? You're in a real house. |
| 1:56.6 | It is real. So you're not in the closet at all. Not the way you meet. |
| 2:02.0 | Because you need a Austin County. They say you need a shepherd for that. |
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