Episode 557: Food Court of Pain

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4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2021

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

A classic odds and sods episode covering: Rush lyrics; personal pronoun tips; Fitness+ meditation; more melees with various voice assistant ecosystems; a big shout-out to the iconic Listener Rachel A.; and Merlin's newfound love of Keyboard Maestro.

Links for this episode:

The Wisdom Project (Draft)
Keyboard Maestro 10.0.2: Work Faster with Macros for macOS
David Smith extends his Apple Watch battery – Six Colors
Wearing an Apple Watch in Glencoe - David Smith, Independent iOS Developer
20-Minute Calm Meditation with JoAnna - Apple Fitness+
Just put the bag down.
The Popular Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data on Its Tens of Millions of Users – The Markup
Merlin's Keyboard Maestro Macros
Key commands to add Notes and Reminders in Safari.
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0:00.0	This is one thing about, hi Dan,
0:02.8	well think about it, it's 10 I do not love.
0:04.6	What's up?
0:05.4	Is this the show?
0:06.3	Are we doing the show?
0:07.3	Is this the theft of focus?
0:09.8	Yeah.
0:11.0	Start to feel like some kind of trading places.
0:17.4	Is this for the wisdom?
0:20.2	No, I add some new stuff this morning though.
0:21.8	I'll be happy to share it with you.
0:22.8	I'm gonna, I'm gonna great move Dan.
0:24.0	I'm not spinning plates.
0:25.4	I'm, I'm planning to glass our monolith.
0:27.5	You are, I've gotta go.
0:28.3	You are not spinning plates, you are a plate.
0:30.5	You've become very sexual with me and I don't love it.
0:33.0	So then started to feel like some kind of trading place.
0:34.8	You don't hate it though, do you?
0:36.0	So, Dan, I don't even like having sex with myself.
0:40.0	We gotta start somewhere.
0:42.2	I did.
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