Episode 52: Walk the Coastline, Bitches
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🗓️ 31 January 2012
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
TOPIC: The Hidden Cost is the True Cost
Merlin is back from MacWorldPipeiWorld to talk with Dan about the True Cost of iceberg lettuce, an anchor tenant, 20 minutes of your time, and how much of your life you're going to eat sand.
You don't have a TARDIS to make it back to pick up your kid or make it to Built to Spill so walk the coastline.
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- Mandy Patinkin - IMDb
- Alien Nation (1988) - IMDb
- Merlin Mann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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- 5by5 | After Dark #75: Pamphlet
- Michael Wolfe's answer to Engineering Management: Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? - Quora
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- How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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| 0:00.0 | Your health is like an equal lateral triangle. |
| 0:05.9 | Hello. Hi, Merlin, man. |
| 0:08.2 | Hi, Dan. I'm Stanley. I was googling a goodly reference from Toy Story. |
| 0:11.2 | Sorry. That's okay. |
| 0:13.2 | Hi, Merlin, man. I'm, I'm really famous. I went to Macworld. Everyone knew me. |
| 0:17.9 | Do you know the, uh, the Tri-County area? Did you, did you know the reference I was talking about? |
| 0:23.5 | I know there are some talking about. Did you, did you read that in the, in the robot? What I said? |
| 0:27.6 | Yeah, I know the Tri-County area, right? |
| 0:30.6 | I remember like when, uh, when T.S. uh, what's it in T.S. too? I think you're thinking of T.S. Eliot. |
| 0:36.3 | Hmm. No, I think you're thinking of that movie Mac and me was based on E.T. |
| 0:40.8 | Well, that's the one with the shiny ship. |
| 0:42.9 | Um, I think you think of the one where they have the, you know, Reese's Pieces is the one in E.T. |
| 0:48.2 | Mm-hmm. And what is it that's in, is it M&M's in, uh, I know it's in Snickers bars? |
| 0:53.4 | The thing is, the thing in a Dove bars. |
| 0:55.1 | What, a, a, a, a bar. |
| 0:58.4 | Maybe it was. Remember that though when the pig, what's the pig's name? Pig? Is his name? |
| 1:03.4 | Uh, what's, what's the name? I call him fats. Hmm. |
| 1:06.8 | Quiet musical hog. What's his real name? The pig? |
| 1:10.4 | No, I, I, I have my space in on his name. It's really embarrassing. Remember when he says like, |
| 1:16.0 | license plates in the Tri-County area. What I'm saying, per are talking the robot 90 seconds ago. |
| 1:21.0 | Is I like the fact we're talking about cheers in the robot. And I was saying how I like |
| 1:25.1 | that the John Ratson burger character makes some cliff-claping style references. |
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