Episode 425: Off the Cushion
Back to Work
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2019
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
DISCUSSED: Dan explains what the photos he sends mean; Merlin encourages Dan to air a beef, and Dan kindly assents; Oh, boy, Windows! My old nemesis…Windows!; the Mac's interoperability glory days were amazing; it really sucks to watch a computer start up and start up and start up; ports confuse Merlin, who is now officially an old; Dan and Merlin talk about a few things they enjoyed watching on YouTube; Merlin has a recommendation for downloading internet videos (purely for educational reasons); Merlin also recommends a really good podcast episode about "data-driven parenting"; then, Merlin kinda pops off a little; hey, listen: you can rarely have benefits without risks (and kinda vice-versa); Dan's watching Deadwood again, and Merlin gets kinda excitable again and does lots of quotes for some reason; and, finally, Merlin has a super-tip about improving your results in Apple Health.
Links for this episode:
- Manage Health data on your iPhone, iPod touch, or Apple Watch - Apple Support
- 376. The Data-Driven Guide to Sane Parenting — Freakonomics Radio — Overcast
- The Data-Driven Guide to Sane Parenting (Ep. 376) - Freakonomics Freakonomics
Humans have been having kids forever, so why are modern parents so bewildered? The economist Emily Oster marshals the evidence on the most contentious topics — breastfeeding and sleep training, vaccines and screen time — and tells her fellow parents to calm the heck down.
- Universal Audio | Audio Interfaces | UAD Plug-Ins
- Downie - YouTube Video Downloader for macOS - Charlie Monroe Software
- youtube-dl
- Target Disk Mode - Wikipedia
- 19 useful Mac startup key combinations you should familiarize yourself with
- How to use disk mode on your iPod - Apple Support
- WWF - Mankind vs The Undertaker (Hell in a Cell) - video dailymotion
- 5by5 | After Dark #530: After Back to Work 424
- Dr. John Ioannidis Exposes the Bad Science of Colleagues - The Atlantic
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Hi, Marlin. How are you? |
| 0:04.0 | I'm fine, Dan. How are you? |
| 0:05.0 | I'm pretty good. Pretty good. |
| 0:06.0 | You can't complain. Yeah. |
| 0:08.0 | Yeah. Canter won't. |
| 0:10.0 | You can complain here. This is a safe space. |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah, but no one wants to hear it. |
| 0:17.0 | Pick one. |
| 0:18.0 | I don't know if it's a lot of things or one thing. |
| 0:21.0 | Can you pick one thing you want to complain about? |
| 0:23.0 | I'd like to complain about Microsoft Windows a little bit. |
| 0:26.0 | Oh. |
| 0:28.0 | Okay. All right. Thank you. |
| 0:31.0 | Because there's a thing you do where you send me a photo sometimes. |
| 0:34.0 | And that's all you send. |
| 0:37.0 | It's a photo. |
| 0:38.0 | Well, you know, sometimes I feel like if I'll send it to you. |
| 0:41.0 | And this is like, you know, when you're back in the old days |
| 0:44.0 | when we used to watch a regular TV and you'd flip channels. |
| 0:47.0 | And if you'd be flipping channels and you'd look and you'd see something. |
| 0:51.0 | And if that thing was cool, you might pause on that channel |
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