Episode 409: He Says Hard
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🗓️ 15 January 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
DISCUSSED: moisture; kids and watches; some recent media consumption; encouraging kids to have good taste; memories of watching VHS movies in school; follow-up on Dan's new keyboard experiment; Drobo concerns; thinking about modern backup and, gosh, how that's evolved; frustrating typos; Dan and Merlin have iOS concerns; Dan has further thoughts on Bandersnatch.
Links for this episode:
- Becket (1964 film) - Wikipedia
- The Beths 'A Little Death' | RNZ Music Live Session - YouTube
Weirdly, Merlin's kid likes this one too.
- The Beths - "Happy Unhappy" (official lyric video) - YouTube
- Amazon.com: Vortexgear 75% Programmable Mechanical Gaming Keyboard - Grey Alu Casing - PBT DSA Profile Dye Sub Keycaps - Cherry Mx Switches [CNC Aluminium Casing] RGBY Modifiers (Cherry Mx-Brown): Computers & Accessories
- Amazon.com: Das Keyboard 4 Professional for Mac Clicky MX Blue Mechanical Keyboard (DASK4MACCLI): Computers & Accessories
Merlin's primary Mac keyboard.
- Amazon.com: Glorious Gaming Wrist Pad/Rest - SLIM TENKEYLESS - Black - Mechanical Keyboards,Stitched Edges,Ergonomic | 14x4 inches/13mm Thick (GSW-87) Slim Tenkeyless (Black): Computers & Accessories
- LenovoEMC - Wikipedia
- West Side Story - "Maria" (1961)
"Say it soft and it's almost like praying."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Hi, Merlin. How are you? |
| 0:04.0 | Good morning. I'm very well. How are you? |
| 0:06.0 | Doing pretty good. How are you? |
| 0:08.0 | Pretty good. |
| 0:10.0 | It's wet here. Everything's wet. |
| 0:12.0 | I took off my pants. |
| 0:14.0 | You take off your pants and then the wetness happens. |
| 0:18.0 | Ooh. |
| 0:20.0 | Hmm. |
| 0:22.0 | Sitation needed. |
| 0:24.0 | No, it's very rainy and very, very humid. |
| 0:28.0 | It's that kind of humid. I bet you don't get this so much there. |
| 0:30.0 | We walk around, you just like a sponge. |
| 0:32.0 | It's like living in Florida, kind of, except it's in the 50s. |
| 0:36.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:38.0 | So I'm sitting here with no pants on. |
| 0:40.0 | Yeah, good. |
| 0:42.0 | I took off my shoes, took off my pants. |
| 0:44.0 | I don't normally do that. See that? That's unusual. |
| 0:46.0 | A lot of people, they go pants all the time. |
| 0:48.0 | Or they wear pajamas. |
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