Episode 555: The Accretion of Non-Essential Things
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🗓️ 16 November 2021
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
DISCUSSED: Dad stuff; flying too close to the smart home sun; appreciating the magic of Wes Anderson; the virtues of UPS battery backup; and, finally, Merlin starts tentatively sketching a unified field theory for rethinking how we think about and use space.
Links for this episode:
- Drew on Twitter: "@hotdogsladies I had the same problems with Google Docs rich copy/paste. Turned out to be TrackerZapper. Might be worth toggling that to see if that fixes it." / Twitter
- Why Do Wes Anderson Movies Look Like That? - YouTube
- Futura & Wes Anderson: a love story - YouTube
- How Wes Anderson moved beyond Futura - YouTube
- The Needle Drop — What Fuels the Best Movie Soundtracks? - YouTube
- The Wes Anderson Style Explained — The Complete Director's Guide to Wes Anderson's Aesthetic - YouTube
- Wes Anderson Explains How to Write & Direct Movies | The Director's Chair - YouTube
- You Know It's Wes Anderson IF... - YouTube
- Wes Anderson: American Express "My Life, My Card" in HD - YouTube
- Amazon.com: CyberPower CP1500AVRLCD Intelligent LCD UPS System, 1500VA/900W, 12 Outlets, AVR, Mini-Tower : Electronics
- Amazon.com: CyberPower CP425SLG Standby UPS System, 425VA/255W, 8 Outlets, Compact
- 'Megaspider' is biggest of its kind we've ever seen, Australian reptile park says - CNN
- Did Olivia Rodrigo steal from Paramore? (analysis) - YouTube
- The Velvet Underground — Official Trailer | Apple TV+ - YouTube
- What We Do In The Shadows
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- Tank Chats #68 T-34 | The Tank Museum - YouTube
- Inside the Chieftain's Hatch: T-34-85, Episode 1 - YouTube
- The Wisdom Project (Draft)
- It's All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff: Walsh, Peter: 8601419123933: Amazon.com: Books
- Beef with Broccoli | Kenji's Cooking Show - YouTube
- Chinese-American Beef and Broccoli With Oyster Sauce Recipe
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Merlin. |
| 0:02.0 | What's with Descartes said? |
| 0:03.0 | What? |
| 0:04.0 | Oh, what do you say? |
| 0:05.0 | We're going to Descartes. |
| 0:07.0 | Oh, I can't... |
| 0:10.0 | Oh, I'm going to... |
| 0:11.0 | Oh, I'm going to how this sounded. |
| 0:12.0 | This is the show. |
| 0:15.0 | The improved audio quality using this God for Sick and Service. |
| 0:19.0 | Alex and I tried it last week for Dubai Friday. |
| 0:22.0 | And boy, it's... |
| 0:24.0 | Talk about an example of a cool service in a terrible app. |
| 0:27.0 | Woof. |
| 0:30.0 | Am I getting this right that if you don't remember to hit the button and save the session |
| 0:34.0 | out of the browser, oh, by the way, there's no way to actually stop the session, apart from closing the window. |
| 0:40.0 | Well, yeah, you hit the big red record button to make it stop recording, but that does not... |
| 0:45.0 | It just says there. |
| 0:46.0 | You get saved all the time there. |
| 0:47.0 | And if you close that you've lost your opportunity, right? |
| 0:49.0 | There's no place to go to read. |
| 0:51.0 | No, no. |
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