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October 18, 2022Episode 594: Honey Sun Bear
Fortunately, Merlin had thoroughly prepared for 62 minutes of lizards, Morgellons, animal powers, and Tom Cruise.
Links:
Ruby on Mac: Get Ruby working on your Mac in minutes with a single command.
The Vanishing of America's Drive-Thru Fotomats - YouTube
PanWriter
Plizzanet Earth with Snoop Dogg – Iguana vs. Snakes - YouTube
Morgellons - Wikipedia
Chemtrails,SA Geoengineering,Morgellons. The Dark Agenda of Synthetic Biology.Full Power point - YouTube
1 hr 7 min
October 11, 2022Episode 593: One of the Eel Women
Sleep, practice, infrastructure, power, and OCD are themes. As per usual.
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⭐️👉 How to wield power to improve the workplace : Invisibilia : NPR
— "Bad bosses. Obnoxious coworkers. Unfair compensation. There are so many reasons people feel disempowered in the workplace. But how can our feelings about power enable or disrupt the larger dynamics we hate at work? This week, Yowei Shaw seeks answers from a power researcher and a union organizer."
Do not miss!—mdm
hayden #VALANCENATION on Twitter: "taika naptiti: a thread https://t.co/NgeRkDWr1C" / Twitter
— Taika Waititi can sleep pretty much anywhere.
Wired.com: 20 years later | Stopdesign
— Twenty years ago today, Wired launched a seminal redesign of its website that helped catapult forward web technology and what our industry understood as possible for commercial websites.
Amazon.com: Scrub Mommy Dual-Sided Sponge and Scrubber - 3ct : Health & Household
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) - Reference View - IMDb
— A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush.
Plague Of Tics - This American Life
— David Sedaris tells a story from his boyhood, when a voice inside his head commanded him to lick every light switch and tap his forehead with his heel. It's from his book Naked.
Merlin's Playlist: "Pretty Maids"
— These are runs of two or more consecutive album tracks that rule. If you play the first song, you must play the others. I do not, as @darth says, make the rules.
How To Use The Phrygian Mode | Beginner Guitar HQ
Leonard Cohen - "Suzanne" (1967) - YouTube
Lou Reed - "I Love You, Suzanne" (1984) - YouTube
Amazon.com: Farberware FDW05ASBWHA Complete Portable Countertop Dishwasher with 5-Liter Built-in Water Tank, 5 Programs, Baby Care, Glass & Fruit Wash-Black/White : Appliances
— Merlin's hilarious but kind of adorable "dishwasher."
The Now Habit: A Strategic Program for Overcoming Procrastination and Enjoying Guilt-Free Play: Fiore, Neil: 8601400338544: AmazonSmile: Books
1 hr 32 min
October 04, 2022Episode 592: Dirt Cat
Dan has Covid, so Merlin agrees to carry him, and yet Dan improbably carries them both.
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Amazon.com: ZHAOFAFA Fat Orange Plush Cat Stuffed Animals Toy,Lifelike Yellow Tabby Cat Kitty Toy for Boys and Girls Children Xmas Birthday Gift,11.8 /17.7 Inches (11.8 in（30 cm）) : Toys & Games
AmazonSmile: SUPERBIO 13 Gallon Compostable Handle Tie Tall Kitchen Garbage Bags, 30 Count, 1 Pack, Heavy Duty Food Scrap Trash Bags Certified by BPI Meeting ASTM D6400 Standards, Eco-Friendly and Convenient : Health & Household
David Bowie - Starman (Top Of The Pops, 1972) - YouTube
Smarf | Heroes Wiki | Fandom
🦎 Bando on Twitter: "o western wind when will u blow https://t.co/ILGKlTi3hD" / Twitter
Over ten years of Mann Family ideas for things to name notional pets.
— Over ten years of Mann Family ideas for things to name notional pets.
Universal Classic Monsters Collection - Peacock
Peacock: "Frankenstein" (1931)
Starman - "Top Of The Pops" Version - 2022 Mix • David Bowie
David Bowie - "Hunky Dory" (1971)
Roxy Music - "Virginia Plain" - Top of the Pops - 24th August 1972 - YouTube
Roxy Music - "Do the Strand" (1973) - YouTube
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) - Reference View - IMDb
Hunt for the Wilderpeople - Ricky Baker Happy Birthday Song - YouTube
— Gold.
Hunt for the wilderpeople scene (Funeral) - YouTube
1 hr 4 min
September 30, 2022Episode 591: A Closeted Magical Thinker
There are a few odds and sods, but, yeah, it's mostly about adjudicating Peak Cruise.
Runner-Up Titles
Bespoke Slime Hole
Gavin Assumed
Nom De Repair
Species-Ending Annoyance
Mosquito Tasks
One Set of Footprints
The Thing You Do Before It Breaks
Creating Conditions
Old People Jam-Up
Don't Give Me Notes
The Boston Janitor Movie
Links:
summarize.tech: AI-powered video summaries
— Get a summary of any long YouTube video, like a lecture, live event or a government meeting.
Lexica
— The Stable Diffusion search engine
Crabs and Convergent Evolution: Carcinization Explained
Animals have evolved into a crab-like-shape at least 5 separate times | Boing Boing
Maintenance Is Sorely Needed In The Fight Against Global Warming
— The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful framework for addressing climate change and other pressing planetary constraints.
'Why Buddhism Is True' Explores Links Between Evolutionary Biology And Meditation : Shots - Health News : NPR
— I mean, our feelings were designed to get genes into the next generation. But that doesn't mean they were designed to help us see the world clearly or bring us happiness.
'Why Buddhism Is True' Explores Links Between Evolutionary Biology And Meditation : Shots - Health News : NPR
— But as a practical matter, Buddhism works at the level of feeling. They don't interrogate the logic explicitly, but you deal with the feeling itself in a way that disempowers it.
Kids in the Hall - Gavin - Butcher Shop - YouTube
Kids in the Hall: Funeral Home - YouTube
Kids in the Hall - Painting a Chair - YouTube
Tom Cruise
The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A. N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice: 9781101612651 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
Netflix - "A Futile and Stupid Gesture"
The Hustler of Money - YouTube
The H Is O [Adam McKay, 2000] on Vimeo
Tropic Thunder - Wikipedia
1 hr 5 min
September 13, 2022Episode 590: A Load-Bearing Feeling
Feeling bad about feeling bad is ultimately optional.
Links:
Amazon.com: Beard Apron Cape for Men Shaving and Trimming with Suction Cups Adjustable Neck Straps Beard Apron for Dad Father Husband Boyfriend Brother Gift : Beauty & Personal Care
Why Buddhism is True | Book by Robert Wright | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster
Stream 74 Heart of a Gambler by ✪ The Talk Show | Listen online for free on SoundCloud
— Special guest Glenn Fleishman joins John Gruber to discuss Bitcoin -- how it works, the problems it solves, where it's going, and more. Also, Apple's "goto fail" security bug, and some Jeopardy and Blackjack game theory.
Brief History of the Royal Family - YouTube
wisdom/wisdom.md at master · merlinmann/wisdom
— By Merlin Mann.
It's only advice for you because it had to be advice for me.
Daring Fireball: Diffusion Bee 1.0: Easy to Install Stable Diffusion for Apple Silicon Macs
— Be warned if — like me — you have a busy week ahead. These AI image generators can be a real time sink.
divamgupta/diffusionbee-stable-diffusion-ui: Diffusion Bee is the easiest way to run Stable Diffusion locally on your M1 Mac. Comes with a one-click installer. No dependencies or technical knowledge needed.
1 hr 6 min
September 06, 2022Episode 589: The Outgassing of Ancient Woods
From choosing a pencil to relocating your ladder, one big and complex part of Knowledge Work is deciding how to do what you do.
Links:
MacMenuBar.com | A curated directory of 700+ Mac menu bar apps
Amazon.com : Staedtler Mars Technico Lead Holder (780 C) : Mechanical Pencils : Office Products
Amazon.com : Staedtler 502 BK A6 Mars Rotary Action Lead Pointer and Tub for 2mm Leads, 502BKA6,Blue : Pencil Sharpeners : Office Products
Amazon.com : Staedtler Mars Carbon Lead, 2mm, 2H, 12 Lead : Mechanical Pencil Refills : Office Products
Amazon.com: How to Draw Adorable: Joyful Lessons for Making Cute Art: 9781954854475: Tipsey, Carlianne: Books
AmazonSmile : AFMAT Long Point Pencil Sharpener, Pencil Sharpeners for Artists, Charcoal Pencil Sharpener, Manual Pencil Sharpeners for Art/Drawing/Sketching Pencils(φ6-8mm), Adjustable Points : Office Products
Blackwing Matte Pencils (12 Pack) | An Iconic Pencil | Blackwing602.com
Gigaverse — Radiolab — Overcast
Gigaverse
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive, 4th Edition: Edwards, Betty: 9781585429202: AmazonSmile: Books
yak shaving - Wiktionary
1 hr 37 min
August 30, 2022Episode 588: Quid Pro Crow
DISCUSSED: Your hosts talk about some of their favorite Mac apps available via Setapp.
Links:
Setapp | The best apps for Mac in one suite
Texas vs. Florida: Is It Better to Live in Florida or Texas? - Retirepedia
Size of Texas compared to Florida
Podcasting Conference Apologizes for Ben Shapiro's Presence
— "PM has made mistakes," tweeted Podcast Movement. "The pain caused by this one will always stick with us."
Preposterous TV censorship: Fight a Stranger in the Alps - YouTube
Tucker Carlson has become Jiminy Glick.
The Very Best of Jiminy Glick - YouTube
1 hr 14 min
August 16, 2022Episode 587: I'm a Map
We've got a man on the boat.
Links:
Murder of Dee Dee Blanchard - Wikipedia
The Day Breaking Bad Was Born - YouTube
— Exploring the origins of Breaking Bad, and the elements that made it great, until we find the first perfect episode.
Seinfeld I MiniEpisode I Tim Whatley, I'm a jew I The Yada Yada - YouTube
— "Chrissy, give me a schtickle of Fluoride."
Setapp | The best apps for Mac in one suite
Buy PDFpen or PDFpenPro | Nitro
1 hr 10 min
August 09, 2022Episode 586: We Have Met the Audience, and He Is Us
DISCUSSED: A very moist man's lawyer learns how Dropbox works; Merlin introduces "The Bump"; Dan has a cool new calendar technology; and Merlin speed-rounds some odds and sods.
Links:
Songlink/Odesli
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - "The Tyranny of Distance"
Start Here (fs.blog)
The Feynman Learning Technique
— Information is learned when you can explain it and use it in a wide variety of situations. The Feynman Technique gets more mileage from the ideas you encounter instead of rendering anything new into isolated, useless factoids.
There are two types of smoke alarm. One of 'em ain't so good. - YouTube
Onelink | Smart Smoke Detector and Carbon Monoxide Alarm
Amazon: Onelink Smoke Detector and Carbon Monoxide Detector | Battery Powered| First Alert
Drafts on Twitter: "If you use TextExpander with Drafts on iOS, please read this update about TextExpander’s future integration plans: https://t.co/8ewSNATHHn" / Twitter
TextExpander Changes Coming on iOS - News & Updates - Drafts Community
— "If you use TextExpander integration on iOS, be aware that the direct integration in existing versions of Drafts will stop being able to refresh snippets and fill-in snippets will cease functioning after a TextExpander update sometime this Fall. Around the same time, TextExpander support will be removed from Drafts in an update."
TextExpander - We’re Saying Goodbye to SDK
— We’ve been hard at work on a new TextExpander keyboard that incorporates much of the in-app functionality enabled by the TextExpander touch SDK.
In light of this, we’ve decided to sunset the TextExpander Touch SDK in favor of this new enhanced user experience.
From TextExpander to Keyboard Maestro… again - All this
— And I decided to tackle the one big advantage TextExpander had over Keyboard Maestro: the ability to make a new snippet quickly. By combining AppleScript with Keyboard Maestro itself, I now have a way to make a KM snippet out of what’s on the clipboard.
Do-By-Friday/How To Bump.md at main · merlinmann/Do-By-Friday
Calm Calendar
Don't Talk to the Police - YouTube
Former FBI Agent Breaks Down Interrogation Techniques | WIRED - YouTube
This Is Why You Should NEVER Talk to Police - YouTube
Alex Jones’ Damning Texts ACCIDENTALLY Sent to Sandy Hook Lawyer
— “You know what perjury is, right?” attorney Mark Bankston asked the Infowars host on the stand. “You lied.”
Tucker Carlson ‘Shitting Himself’ Scared That His Alex Jones Texts May Leak
— …the Fox News star is deeply concerned about his personal texts with the raving conspiracy blowhard possibly leaking.
Alex Jones's Lawyer Face Plants In EPIC Discovery Fail - Above the LawAbove the Law
— Apparently, Reynal put the digital copy of Jones’s iPhone in a shared Dropbox folder, and then blew it off when Bankston sent a HEY, IDIOT notice. And now, it’s too late.
Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 on Twitter
— "Sandy Hook families’ lawyer confirms that a naked photo of Alex Jones’s wife was on his phone, but adds that Alex sent that naked photo of his wife to Roger Stone."
1 hr 7 min
August 02, 2022Episode 585: The Wahlberg Uncertainty Principle
Frankly, it was a bit of a fever dream, but your hosts discuss sportsball, collective singular nouns, Coleridge's trap street, LEGO, and a handful of Merlin's recent wins.
Links:
Matter
— via Alex Cox
Walk With Me | To The Best Of Our Knowledge
TextSoap - Automate Your Text Cleanup
SearchLink - BrettTerpstra.com
Forgetfulness - Billy Collins Animated Poetry - YouTube
MasterClass - Chris Voss Teaches the Art of Negotiation
Firefox (film) - Wikipedia
YayText: A text styling tool for Facebook, Twitter, etc.
» 30 for 30 Shorts: ‘The Schedule Makers’
Galaxy Explorer 10497 | LEGO® ICONS™ | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop US
T. rex Breakout 76956 | Jurassic World™ | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop US
Hagrid's Hut: Buckbeak's Rescue 75947 | Harry Potter™ | Buy online at the Official LEGO® Shop US
How to get an upgrade: Tips from FBI hostage negotiator Chris Voss
Amazon.com : Maruman MNEMOSYNE Notebook 8.27 x 5.83 Inches (A5), 5mm dot grid, 80 Sheets (N105), white : Office Products
— Merlin's preferred desk notebook.
Amazon.com: Tul Retractable Gel Pens 0.5mm Needle Point, Black (8 Pack) : Office Products
— Merlin's preferred ink pen.
The Greatest haka EVER? - YouTube
Homepage - Wahlburgers
Amazon: Small Ceramic Dipping Bowls, White Oblong Dishes (3 oz, 12 Pack) : Home & Kitchen
— The ramekin, evolved.
Watch out, chickens.
Archers of Loaf - "In the Surface Noise" (2022)
— The new Archers of Loaf single.
Archers of Loaf - "Raleigh Days" (2020)
— Merlin's favorite Archers of Loaf song since their 90s glory days.
Archers of Loaf - "Harnessed in Slums" (1995)
— Probably Merlin's favorite Archers of Loaf song.
Archers of Loaf - "Wrong" (1994)
— A close second place for Merlin's favorite Archers of Loaf song.
1 hr 17 min

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