Episode 502: Lifestyle Billy Butcher
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4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 November 2020
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
DISCUSSED: Merlin has a lot to say about the benefits of making lists; this leads to an old-school stemwinder on "Journal" calendars, functional playlists, shared Notes, the lessons of the cutlery drawer, desire paths, arbitrary grids, "Reference" albums, urban bike hooks, auxiliary paper towel holders, and more; praise for The Boys; the magical combination of Halide and Pixelmator Photo; Dan resurrects a beloved podcast; and, finally, Merlin endorses a really weird British weather report that can help you sleep.
Links for this episode:
- Desire path - Wikipedia
- The Pot Roast Principle | Psychology Today
"I don't know. That's just the way my mom always cooked it. Why don't you ask her?"
- Star Trek Dr. McCoy Pop Art T-Shirt
- My Happy Place - YouTube
Videos I watch pretty often when I need a little pick-me-up.
- "The Boys" (Prime Video)
- Halide
- Pixelmator Photo
- QUIT! with Dan Benjamin
Dan's amazing podcast QUIT! has returned!
- The Secret History: Howard Hughes, Bizarre Billionaire - YouTube
- 5 Hours of The Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4! - YouTube
- The Shipping Forecast.mp3.zip
- The Shipping Forecast: A Miscellany: Compton, Nic: 9781785940293: Amazon.com: Books
- What are Affordances? | Interaction Design Foundation
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello. |
| 0:02.0 | Hello, Marlin. How are you? |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, Dan. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm very well. How are you? |
| 0:08.0 | Doing all right. Everything's good. |
| 0:10.0 | Good morning. It's Tuesday. It's the optimistic day. |
| 0:13.0 | Today is the most optimistic day. |
| 0:17.0 | No reason to not be optimistic today. |
| 0:22.0 | You know, it doesn't hurt. |
| 0:27.0 | It hurts a little. |
| 0:29.0 | Everything hurts a little. |
| 0:31.0 | I'm going to be 54. 54? 54. |
| 0:35.0 | Not that bad. |
| 0:37.0 | Yeah, yeah, I suppose so. |
| 0:39.0 | It's not like 55. I mean, that's... |
| 0:43.0 | God. |
| 0:45.0 | Better than the alternative. |
| 0:47.0 | I've had to tweet in my drafts for months now. |
| 0:53.0 | I've had to tweet in my drafts. |
| 0:55.0 | Yeah, never mind. I'm going to keep it light. |
| 0:57.0 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.0 | Hey, what's up, honey? |
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