Episode 399: Blue Whale Salt
Back to Work
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2018
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Discussed this week: coffee water, voting, inertia, new iPads on the way, difficult buying decisions, returning merchandise (as a thing), some TV suggestions, Dan's new ODROID, 80s video game nostalgia, asking for your iPad-at-work input, plus seeking suggestions for apps for new joggers.
Links for this episode:
- Building A Better Ballot Box — To the Best of Our Knowledge — Overcast
- Brydge - Award Winning Bluetooth Keyboards for iPad & Surface Pro
- CREATE - Logitech Support
- Bodyguard (TV Series 2018– ) - IMDb
- start [ODROID Wiki]
- Amazon.com: ODROID-GO open source gaming console : Assembly and learning WHY, CODING CAMP: Video Games
- ODROID-GO Game Kit — ameriDroid
- ODROID | Hardkernel
- Gorf - Wikipedia
- LG UltraFine 4K Display - Apple
- LG UltraFine 5K Display - Apple
- Lindsey Vehlewald on Twitter: "1/[Thread] Storytime. Listen up. It’s a long one. But it's important, I promise."
- LG Corporation - Wikipedia
- Ep. 312: “Always is How” - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
The Problem: John hasn’t earned a chair.
- Reconcilable Differences #90: Cargo-Cult Thoreau - Relay FM
This week kicks off with some Dear Evan Hansen talk, and Merlin admits he still hasn’t earned the second act. This leads John to interrogate this odd affliction of Merlin’s. Both hosts finally address how, whether, and when they commit to the full consumption of cultural products. Why does John so often stick with the whole season of a C-plus TV show, and when does Merlin know he’s ready for the second half of a given Broadway hit?
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. |
| 0:02.2 | Good morning, sir. |
| 0:03.2 | How are you? |
| 0:04.2 | I'm good. |
| 0:05.2 | You hear the sound of coffee water. |
| 0:07.0 | Oh, is that what that is? |
| 0:08.8 | Yeah, I'm really sorry. |
| 0:09.8 | It's super loud here. |
| 0:10.8 | And there's a jackhammer. |
| 0:11.8 | And there's some kind of a machine. |
| 0:12.8 | So I don't even know what's going on. |
| 0:13.8 | It's a crazy morning. |
| 0:14.8 | It is crazy. |
| 0:15.8 | They don't want you to vote. |
| 0:18.6 | They don't want you to vote there. |
| 0:19.6 | So they're trying to throw shade in your way. |
| 0:22.2 | You're saying they don't want you to vote. |
| 0:23.9 | They don't want you to vote. |
| 0:24.9 | They say they don't want you to vote. |
| 0:26.8 | Well, the people who are making noise and trying to impede your progress to the |
| 0:29.9 | voting center. |
| 0:30.9 | Oh, man, I went in today like the soup Nazi. |
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