Episode 463: Begloved in Otherness
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🗓️ 4 February 2020
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
DISCUSSED: thoughts on hand-washing and habit-building; Dan has a really good scarecrow joke; Merlin still can't figure out how many 12-year-olds Dan owns; Dan has a question about laptops and backpacks; the Tao of Backpacks; how to listen to a podcast; Dan has a question about iPhone cases; what we talk about when we talk about ad blocking; Merlin recommends a TED talk and a podcast about delight; Dan's new Picard podcast is going well; Dan has questions about OmniFocus; finally, Dan has questions about Los Angeles and, then, repeatedly ruins Merlin's very good endings.
Links for this episode:
- Ligatures in programming fonts | Butterick’s Practical Typography
- Tim Harford — Cautionary Tales
- Cautionary Tales — Overcast
- A powerful way to unleash your natural creativity | Tim Harford - YouTube
- The Show of Delights - This American Life
In these dark, combative times, we attempt the most radical counterprogramming we could imagine: a show made up entirely of stories about delight.
- Amazon.com: Pro Co Sound CDSS Short Stop Mute Box: Musical Instruments
- Joe Smith: How to use a paper towel | TED Talk
- Myriam Sidibe: The simple power of hand-washing | TED Talk
- DSPTCH Daypack Review - Matterful
- Daypack - Ballistic Nylon - DSPTCH
- Synapse 25 - Backpacks - Travel Bags – TOM BIHN
- Short Stop - Pro Co Sound
- How To Use Plaque Disclosing Tablets
- Talking Heads - Live in Rome 1980 [Full Concert] - YouTube
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:01.0 | Hello, Marlon. |
| 0:02.8 | How are you? |
| 0:03.8 | I'm fine, Dan. |
| 0:04.8 | How are you? |
| 0:05.8 | Doing fine. |
| 0:06.8 | Have you recovered from your illness? |
| 0:08.8 | I wasn't really sick. |
| 0:09.8 | Oh, good. |
| 0:10.8 | That's the best kind of being sick where you're not sick at all. |
| 0:15.0 | No, it's just who cares. |
| 0:16.4 | I've been sick for a week and a half and I'm real sick of it and sick of sick and I've |
| 0:23.4 | got a lot of scoffing and this rolls MS111 mic switch doesn't take enough off, you know |
| 0:33.3 | I'm saying? |
| 0:34.3 | I don't use that one. |
| 0:35.8 | The one I recommend is called a short stop. |
| 0:39.2 | Anyway, it's the coughs sometimes still get through, but I'm great. |
| 0:45.4 | I was sitting here trying to prepare a little bit and I think I've lost a month at some |
| 0:50.2 | point. |
| 0:51.2 | Have you found a month? |
| 0:53.2 | Just laying around, I haven't seen one. |
| 0:55.6 | I might have left my jacket at your place with a month in it. |
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