Episode 501: You're Sad Wrong
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
DISCUSSED: hey, it's an advice episode!; San Francisco has a lot of available office space; a musical unguent for your soul; a cool font that makes accessibility pretty; getting in front of your next wave of depression; the Emotional Police are here to cite you for your numerous infractions; and, finally, Merlin highly recommends a recent podcast episode about why we're all so exhausted and what we might want to do about it.
Links for this episode:
- Visualizing the Vacant Office Space in San Francisco
In other words, there’s roughly 8.7 Salesforce towers, or 516 Salesforce tower floors, worth of empty office space in San Francisco at the moment, which is roughly enough space to accommodate between 67,000 (based on an average, pre-Covid, density) and 91,000 (a la twitter) worker bees.
- Nick Lowe & The Southsea Alternative Choir - (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding - YouTube
- Download the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font | Braille Institute
- Everything is Exhausting | To The Best Of Our Knowledge
- Everything is Exhausting — To The Best Of Our Knowledge — Overcast
- Help for people who suffer seasonal and pandemic depression - The Washington Post
- Watch SEDUCED: INSIDE THE NXIVM CULT Online: Stream Full Series on STARZ - Free Trial
This four-part documentary series follows the story of India Oxenberg's perilous journey through the dark and criminal world of the notorious self-help-group-turned-sex-slave-cult NXIVM.
- Reconcilable Differences #141: The Panopticon of Frasier - Relay FM
No spoilers, but if you're a big fan of Facebook, you might want to skip this one. Because, oh boy, do your hosts ever go off.
- Marked 2 - Smarter tools for smarter writers
Marked is a previewer for Markdown files. Use it with your favorite text editor and it updates every time you save.
- Why Zoom School Is So Awful for Parents and Kids
We're only a few weeks in. We can't keep doing this.
- President Donald Trump: The 60 Minutes 2020 Election Interview - YouTube
- How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy: Odell, Jenny: 9781612197494: Amazon.com: Books
- Salesforce Tower: Official Web Site
- John Mulaney: New in Town - Ice-T on "SVU" & Old Murder Investigations - YouTube
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I think I'm pretty well with the noise I think. |
| 0:03.5 | Hello. |
| 0:05.3 | Hello, Marlin. |
| 0:06.5 | How are you today? |
| 0:07.7 | I'm good. |
| 0:09.1 | You must think I'm really dim. |
| 0:11.1 | Not ever. |
| 0:12.1 | That is never a thought that has occurred to me in my whole life. |
| 0:15.2 | Um, I've been updating that app. |
| 0:19.5 | I talk about a lot that Brett Terpstra app a bunch. |
| 0:22.0 | I've been really trying to trick that out, doing stuff like an automatically change my |
| 0:27.2 | audio inputs and outputs. |
| 0:29.3 | One of the things I added was automatically turn on, do not disturb. |
| 0:33.1 | Yeah, I do. |
| 0:34.1 | I'm Mac. |
| 0:35.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:36.1 | But what happens when you do that is you don't get a bloop when Dan is calling you. |
| 0:40.2 | Oh, you don't even get notified about anything. |
| 0:42.2 | So you think I'm probably the guy as they say, ghosting you. |
| 0:45.5 | I wasn't. |
| 0:46.5 | I wasn't ghosting you. |
| 0:47.5 | No, I don't feel like you're ghost. |
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