Episode 44: Circuitous Bridge of My Own Design
Back to Work
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🗓️ 7 December 2011
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Topic: Moving from dumb nouns to awesome verbs.
This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the problem with Capital Letter Nouns; how real and specific verbs will always trounce Excellence, Effectiveness, and Mission Statements--even in the Best-of-Breed Pursuance of Five-Nines Quality Across The Enterprise.
They also look at transitive and intransitive flavors of "feasance," finding your keyboard's Excellence Key, opting-in for The Johnson Treatment, lancing that actionable boil, and (as ever) shooting the obvious fish in the obvious barrel.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm doing fine. You know, you were marked as offline on my, uh, my Skype, Dan. I don't |
| 0:12.2 | know what's going on on my computer. I don't know. So I just, I ran you in line. I just, |
| 0:16.1 | I did an FSCK and I came back up and, uh, and it's being pokey. I think I might have |
| 0:20.6 | one of those Trojan horses. How do you know if you have a Trojan horse? Did you come |
| 0:23.4 | back, uh, stronger than ever? I looked at my crash reports today and I never felt more |
| 0:28.1 | stupid in my entire life. Do you ever look at crash reports? No. Oh, man. There's a lot |
| 0:32.8 | of things in brackets, Dan. I think it might be C or C plus plus. Is that cocoa? I saw |
| 0:39.8 | a video. You made a new video though. Which one of the thing? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. |
| 0:45.0 | That's what we think of that. It's pretty funny. I love that. I look a little homeless. |
| 0:49.8 | No, you look really homeless. That's true. It's a good point. You should see what I'm wearing |
| 0:55.4 | right now, though. I should send you a picture. Like I thought you were sort of, you know, |
| 1:00.3 | playing things up a little bit to make the story funny, but no, doing a bit, doing no. |
| 1:04.5 | There's no bit there. You really, you look a little concerning homeless spot. Hmm. Why |
| 1:11.8 | lie? We need a beer. Failure beer. I, you know, I got a serious. That's called tequila. |
| 1:17.0 | By the way, why were you wearing the hat? Is it that cold in San Francisco? And do you |
| 1:21.7 | really want to see? Yeah. Send your photograph. Do it. It's not good. It's not good. |
| 1:29.7 | How you doing? Everything seems okay. Let's talk about it. Okay. Well, it's not waste any time. |
| 1:35.8 | Let's get right to it. I enjoy wasting time. Get right to it. Boy, I got a lot here, though. |
| 1:41.4 | Oh boy. I just I wrote on some, got some new cards, got three cards here. I got some things in |
| 1:45.0 | the text mate. Okay. So here's the reason I'm going to send you a photo. Are you ready? |
| 1:51.0 | Ready for the photo or ready for the reason? Well, are you on your ball or are you, uh, |
| 1:55.7 | are you airborne right now? I'm standing. Okay. We'll stand up for this one. Uh-huh. I think, |
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