Episode 319: Contract with the Universe
Back to Work
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2017
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
TOPIC: Oh my GOD, this is torture.
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about—amongst other odds and sods— the Mean FedEx Guy, the weird future of gig economies, and Adventure Time.
Then, there's some handy tips on how to leverage iOS Accessibility settings for a better and more efficient experience on your device.
Listener Michelle writes in to ask about dealing with colleagues who use the hallway as an ad hoc one-on-one meeting. What strategies can we employ to be civil and collegial about careless interruptions without lowering our standards or losing our minds?
Links for this episode:
- Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #16 — Merlin Mann
MERLIN MANN (Back to Work, Roderick on the Line, Reconcilable Differences, Do By Friday, You Look Nice Today, et al.) invites you to drop by Two Cats Comics on the evening of Thursday, April 27th to hang out, talk about comics, and just say, “Hi.” It's free and it's fun.
- How to use Theater Mode on the Apple Watch | iMore
Includes a great tip on making a bespoke theater-friendly custom watch face.
- Brat Pack (actors) - Wikipedia
- Rival buys SF's biggest cab company for chump change - SFGate
For less than a million bucks, CityWide gets Yellow Cab's color scheme, its famous phone number (415) 333-3333, 160 of its cabs and the sublease to Yellow Cab's property.
- Adventure Time Pilot - YouTube
- Animated short/Transcript | Adventure Time Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia
[The episode starts with Pen sleeping under a tree and a meditating Jake floating. Pen wakes up and rushes to Jake.]
- U-Haul Lesbian Moment | Do By Friday
- Equestria Girls - Helping Twilight Win the Crown [HD] [Bluray] + MP3 - YouTube
- Tesla passes General Motors to become the most valuable US automaker
Tesla's market capitalization is now bigger than General Motors', making it the largest U.S. based automaker by that metric.
- 933 Clipper St - Google Maps
Clipper Street! One of San Francisco's "Magic Streets." It's like a portal.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Merlin. Hello. How are you today? |
| 0:04.0 | Good. I'm playing with my watch. Which watch you got on the Apple Watch? |
| 0:08.0 | Oh, no, it's my, um, oh, you know, it's my Rolex |
| 0:14.0 | Bombadier. That's a good one. What year is that from? |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, it's, I don't know, like probably from like the 20s. |
| 0:21.0 | It's got a real crown. Uh-huh. |
| 0:24.0 | And a self-winding piston rims. Uh-huh. Cool. |
| 0:29.0 | And it's a water resistance to, uh, |
| 0:32.0 | up to something. That's very cool to dive watch. |
| 0:37.0 | Right. This is really, really interesting. |
| 0:39.0 | Yeah, I have, I have a great life hack. |
| 0:41.0 | What is this the show? Yeah, this is a show. Why not? |
| 0:44.0 | Did you get your eyes cast on? |
| 0:45.0 | I was still still working on tweaking that. We did a major, major server, |
| 0:50.0 | uh, re new, new servers, new infrastructure, new everything. |
| 0:56.0 | And the last little thing that I'm messing with is the |
| 0:59.0 | ice cast server, which is how this is the show. |
| 1:02.0 | This is the show. This is the, totally is the show. |
| 1:04.0 | Okay. Um, I was just going to mention in passing that, um, |
| 1:09.0 | theater mode on the Apple Watch is really cool. |
| 1:12.0 | It's, it's such a simple little tweak, but it's really useful. |
| 1:16.0 | Because, you know, if you have it where it wakes when you move your wrist, |
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