Episode 262: Large Platinum Spoon
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🗓️ 8 March 2016
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Summary
TOPIC: Staying out of Technology Detention
This week, Dan and Merlin do another giant-size grabbag episode that covers a lot of ground, including:
- movies, kids, and ratings, oh my!
- better text editing on iPad, faster typing on iOS
- complexities of picking the right pairings of Apple devices
- what's up with apps not launching in iOS?
- Hound, and the future of voice-controlled computing
- staying provisionally joyful about the possibilities of new technology
- exploring Merlin's early experience with a Synology NAS
Links for this episode:
- Tablo 2-Tuner Over-The-Air HDTV DVR
- Amazon.com: Synology Disk Station 2-Bay Diskless Network Attached Storage (DS216play): Computers & Accessories
- Kids-In-Mind: Movie ratings & parents' reviews that actually work
- Deadpool [2016] [R] - 8.8.10
- The Big Lebowski [1998] - 5.5.10
- Finding Nemo [2003] [G] - 0.3.0
- The Big Lebowski (1998) - Alternate Versions - IMDb
- Big Lebowski - Edited For TV... Badly - YouTube
- Canvas #5: Typing - Relay FM
This week Fraser and Federico dig into how to be more efficient with typing and text entry on iOS.
- Editorial for iOS
- SoundHound - Hound App
- Amazon.com: Echo Dot
- The Best NAS for Most Home Users | The Wirecutter
- Amazon.com: WD Red 4TB NAS Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM Class SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD40EFRX: Computers & Accessories
- Compatibility - Synology - Network Attached Storage (NAS)
- Episode 12: Make the Lobster Sit in a Cell and Watch TV — Top Scallops — Overcast
Merlin and Max do terrible impressions of Bane.
- Reviews & Age Ratings - Best Movies, Books, Apps, Games for Kids
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you're working with Siri correctly, it helps understand what it wants to hear. |
| 0:05.3 | Hello? Good morning, sir. |
| 0:08.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:09.0 | How are you? |
| 0:10.0 | I'm very well. |
| 0:13.7 | I'm here in my ladies' house enjoying a turkey leg. |
| 0:18.0 | And some Renaissance paintings. |
| 0:20.0 | Well. |
| 0:21.0 | In my medieval village, I'm dawned at a cape and a velvet hat. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm the lord of the manner. |
| 0:30.0 | How's everything going up there? |
| 0:34.0 | Everything in the manner is very well. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm organized, bespoke, |
| 0:41.0 | but efficient in every manner. |
| 0:43.0 | The manner of the matter is very well-run. |
| 0:47.0 | Man. |
| 0:48.0 | Master of the house. |
| 0:50.0 | I feel like I know you very well, this person. |
| 0:54.0 | May perhaps thou mightst dare me to speak such as this for one hour and a half. |
| 1:02.0 | This is well within my powers as Master of the house. |
| 1:04.0 | No, I'm Bane. |
| 1:06.0 | See, the problem is I try not to get a little angry and you become Bane. |
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