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February 01, 2022Episode 564: The Elephants of Style
DISCUSSED: 🐇🐇; Dan shares follow-up on surviving his Covid week; a listener emails the show with a fascinating offer; your hosts discuss childhood mail; in Breaking News, the actor, M. Emmet Walsh is still alive; it's fun to say "Jackery"; praise for Maira Kalman; some initial thoughts on Apple's Universal Control; and finally, advice on the wisdom of running betas.
Runner-Up Titles
The Elephants of Style
A Birthday Party for Monkeys
Poor Professor Lumens
Links:
Fred Rogers inducted into the TV Hall of Fame - YouTube
— Fred Rogers' induction into the TV Critics' Television Hall of Fame is especially touching when Jeff Erlanger, who had visited on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood as a boy in a wheelchair, surprises Fred by making the presentation on stage.
Next Stop Grand Central: Kalman, Maira, Kalman, Maira: 9780698118881: AmazonSmile: Books
— At Grand Central Station, Chief of Police George Coppola finds lost people, and Mr. Chidchester, head of the Lost and Found, finds lost dogs. Marino Marino makes oyster stew, while thinking up interesting math problems. A man in a porkpie hat buys cherry pies. Maira Kalman's stylized artwork, along with entertaining text, brilliantly captures the excitement of Grand Central Station, "the busiest, fastest, biggest place there is."
The Elements of Style [Illustrated]: Strunk Jr., William, White, E. B., Kalman, Maira: 8601400937754: AmazonSmile: Books
— The only style manual to ever appear on a bestseller list now refreshed by one of our most beloved illustrators.
merlinmann/taskpaper-config: Merlin's TaskPaper Configuration Files
Do By Friday
— A weekly challenge show hosted by Alex Cox and Merlin Mann.
Cinemorgue Wiki | Fandom
— Cinemorgue Wiki is an encyclopedia that is dedicated to documenting which actors or actresses "died" in which movie or TV show.
M. Emmet Walsh | Cinemorgue Wiki | Fandom
Reconcilable Differences - Relay FM
— John Siracusa and Merlin Mann try to figure out exactly how they got this way.
BEST SEX POSITION FOR YOUR ZODIAC SIGNS - Dimepiece LA
— "Scorpio Helicopter."
The Power Station - Some Like It Hot - YouTube
Robert Palmer - New Day Rising - YouTube
Jackery Explorer 1000 Portable Power Station
Jackery Explorer 500W Portable Power Station
Jackery Explorer 300 Portable Power Station
100W Solar Panel, Foldable with USB & DC ports – Jackery
Multi Mount System | elgato.com
Birthday problem - Wikipedia
— In probability theory, the birthday problem asks for the probability that, in a set of n randomly chosen people, at least two will share a birthday.
Browse National TV Ads - iSpot.tv
Planet Hulk - Wikipedia
Comparing Lumens and Watts by LEDified
— One of the most common questions that consumers have about LED lighting is how lumens compare to the wattage rating, watts being something that we are all so used to seeing on incandescent bulb packaging.
What is Apple Universal Control and how does it work?
How to Set Up Universal Control Between Mac and iPad - MacRumors
Universal Control for iPad and Mac was worth the wait - 9to5Mac
1 hr 31 min
January 25, 2022Episode 563: Bang-Bang Machine
An epic journey that begins with Dan's viral week and ends with a misunderstanding about the first Chicago album.
Links:
Amazon.com: Weiman Stainless Steel Cleaner Kit - Fingerprint Resistant, Removes Residue, Water Marks and Grease from Appliances - Works Great on Refrigerators, Dishwashers, Ovens, and Grills - Packaging May Vary : Health & Household
YANSS 224 – How to have better conversations with loved ones (and just about anyone) about difficult topics (and just about anything) – You Are Not So Smart
— In this episode of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast, we sit down once again with Misha Glouberman, an expert on conflict and conversation, to discuss how best to improve your communication skills and turn what you suspect will be a difficult interaction into something marvelous and fruitful – the sort of talk that strengthens your relationship with the other person and leaves you both feeling like you gained and learned something – the kind you’d like to have again.
Patrick Lucas Austin (@patbits) / Twitter
— technology columnist
@TIME
/ #BlackLivesMatter /
OCTO LIGHTS Fluorescent Light Covers for Classroom Office - Eliminate Harsh Glare Causing Eyestrain and Headaches. Office & Classroom Decorations - Astronomy 005 - - AmazonSmile
— Reduce harsh fluorescent glares and escape the indoors without leaving your desk or cubicle. Whether at home, in school, or at the office, liven up any fluorescent lighting system with the Octo Lights' astronomy design light filters to make every day feel like you're stargazing or sojourning through the stars.
Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019) - Reference View - IMDb
— An in-depth voyage into the sci-fi film "Alien" with the visionary filmmakers who created it. See how one of the most terrifying movies of all time came to life 40 years ago, inspired by ancient mythology and our universal fears.
Memory: The Origins of Alien - Official Trailer - YouTube
— Take an in depth voyage into the sci-fi masterpiece ALIEN with the visionary filmmakers who created it. See how one of the most terrifying movies of all time burst to life 40 years ago, inspired by ancient mythology and our universal fears.
HBO Max - "The Suicide Squad"
— The most deranged supervillains in the country are plucked out of prison and enlisted by the government as a ragtag
intelligence team.
‎Merlin's Weird Movies for Weirdos, a list of films by Merlin Mann • Letterboxd
— Keep yourself occupied with these weird movies for weirdos. I want so many more movies like these.
‎Some Next-Level Shit, a list of films by Merlin Mann • Letterboxd
— Okay. Your concerns have been heard.
Those ““Weird Movies”” weren't weird enough for you, huh?
Well, buckle up, Buttercup.
Mitchell and Webb's Kitchen Nightmares - YouTube
Jodorowsky's Dune streaming: where to watch online?
— Shot in France, England, Switzerland and the United States, this documentary covers director Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre) and his 1974 Quixotic attempt to adapt the seminal sci-fi novel Dune into a feature film.
Jodorowsky's Dune | Official Trailer HD (2014) - YouTube
— In 1975, Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose films EL TOPO and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN launched and ultimately defined the midnight movie phenomenon, began work on his most ambitious project yet. Starring his own 12 year old son Brontis alongside Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, David Carradine and Salvador Dali, featuring music by Pink Floyd and art by some of the most provocative talents of the era, including HR Giger and Jean ‘Moebius’ Giraud, Jodorowsky’s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic sci-fi novel DUNE was poised to change cinema forever.
The Holy Mountain | Alejandro Jodorowsky (4K HD Trailer) - YouTube
— The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky's flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The Holy Mountain is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth.
1 hr 42 min
January 11, 2022Episode 562: No More Attempts on My Father’s GitHub
DISCUSSED: Memories of Super Dave; KEYnote by LockPickingLawyer; Dan gets conspiracy theory-curious; the tapestry of entertainment by cults; Dan helps Merlin understand Git; and Merlin gets a new hub.
Links for this episode:
LockPickingLawyer - YouTube
Keynote - LockPickingLawyer - YouTube
The Super Bob Einstein Movie (HBO)
"Curb Your Enthusiasm" Palestinian Chicken (TV Episode 2011) - Reference View - IMDb
Superdave Osborne on Letterman, 1990 - YouTube
Super Dave - King Of The Road - YouTube
Entertainment Made By Cults - YouTube
So... YOU can't hear auto tune? No problem, NOW YOU CAN SEE IT!!! - YouTube
Fixing Led Zeppelin with Autotune - YouTube
That Mitchell and Webb Look - "Corner Shop" - YouTube
Eleventy, a simpler static site generator.
Git and GitHub for Poets - YouTube
What can Avengers: Endgame teach us about Git?
Chemtrails,SA Geoengineering,Morgellons. The Dark Agenda of Synthetic Biology.Full Power point - YouTube
1 hr 28 min
January 05, 2022Episode 561: Flip the Telescope Around
Taskapalooza begins.
Rock me, Joseph Alberto Santiago.
Links for this episode:
Kiss - "Love Gun" - YouTube
Why 70% Isopropyl Alcohol Is a Better Disinfectant Than 99% Isopropyl Alcohol - Mun Global
Calm Calendar
TaskPaper – Plain text to-do lists for Mac
Pixies - "Wave of Mutilation" - YouTube
Dan does not like the guitar bends on this song.
Pixies - "Gigantic" (Live, 1988) - YouTube
Meat Puppets - "Up on the Sun" - YouTube
Wings - "Listen to What the Man Said" - YouTube
1 hr 40 min
December 28, 2021Episode 560: The Cat of Amontillado
Wrapping up the year with thoughts on unearned Covid optimism, defining "normal," Roomba training, Microsoft Visual Studio, plus a new (and decidedly more positive) reframing for New Year's resolutions.
Links for this episode:
@thesunnypodcast | Linktree
The Always Sunny Podcast on Apple Podcasts
The Gang Goes Jihad — The Always Sunny Podcast — Overcast
This Is How Michael Caine Speaks - The Trip - BBC Two - YouTube
Steve Coogan & Rob Brydon in The Trip - James Bond & Liam Neeson - YouTube
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: van der Kolk M.D., Bessel: 9780143127741: Amazon.com: Books
VSCodium - Open Source Binaries of VSCode
Visual Studio Code - Code Editing. Redefined
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.: 9780143127741 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
The Zombies - This Will Be Our Year - YouTube
The Kinks - Better Things (Audio) - YouTube
Smart Maps and Map Editing
Getting Started with Imprint™ Smart Maps
Adding New Areas/Rooms To My Map (My Map Doesn’t Look Like My Cleaning Area)
Random impressions - YouTube
5by5 | Back to Work #371: Avocado People
Also, your hosts finally (finally!) address a listener's excellent and very difficult question about her millennial employee's use of social media. Lot of levels!
5by5 | Back to Work #372: Hole That Rabbit
In extensive follow-up, your hosts talk about the listener who was having trouble with addressing employees and social media use. This goes lots of interesting places.
(1) Robbie Collin on Twitter: "Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and Michael Winterbottom have literally done this four times" / Twitter
Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and Michael Winterbottom have literally done this four times
Alan Partridge - Sports reporter, 1994. Part 1 of 2. - YouTube
Sold out every day! The hamburger that won the 1st place in the US Best Burger Awards 3 times!
DUKTIG Play kitchen, birch, 28 3/8x15 3/4x42 7/8" - IKEA
1 hr 34 min
December 22, 2021Episode 559: Grade on the Curve of Time
Talking Spider-Man and phones for kids.
Links for this episode:
Magneto | Marvel Database | Fandom
Dimensions | Into the Spider-Verse Wiki | Fandom
Griffin Explains Electro's Origins in Amazing Spider-Man 2 | Blank Check with Griffin and David - YouTube
Merlin's Wisdom Project (Draft)
1 hr 29 min
December 14, 2021Episode 558: Pseudism
Merlin's Best of 2021™ kicks off with the return of "Cool Things I Learned This Week."
Links for this episode:
The Talk Show #331 – “John Was the Problem,” with Merlin Mann
Merlin Mann returns to the show to discuss two brief topics (with a few asides): my dream of opening a steakhouse, and Peter Jackson’s Beatles documentary Get Back.
Overcast - ‘John Was the Problem’, With Merlin Mann — The Talk Show With John Gruber — Overcast
Watch The Beatles: Get Back | Disney+
ttscoff/KeyBindings: DefaultKeybindings.dict for Mac OS X
Five-Minute Coronavirus Stress Resets - The New York Times
Release v1.4.0 · swiftbar/SwiftBar
How to Calm Down from Extreme Emotions in 30 Seconds - Mindfulness Muse
The Mammalian Diving Response: An Enigmatic Reflex to Preserve Life?
5by5 | Back to Work #372: Hole That Rabbit
In extensive follow-up, your hosts talk about the listener who was having trouble with addressing employees and social media use. This goes lots of interesting places.
5by5 | Back to Work #371: Avocado People
Also, your hosts finally (finally!) address a listener's excellent and very difficult question about her millennial employee's use of social media. Lot of levels!
SonicCloud Personalized Sound - Home
Hearing Test Apps — Mimi Health
iOS 15 brings powerful new features to stay connected, focus, explore, and more - Apple
Eagle - Organize all your reference images in one place
Merlin's Wisdom Project
Mimi Hearing Technologies | Mimi Hearing Test now integrated into Apple Health
Accessibility - Hearing - Apple
Higher-order volition - Wikipedia
Higher-order volitions (or higher-order desire), as opposed to action-determining volitions, are volitions about volitions.
Meta-emotion - Wikipedia
Meta-emotion is "an organized and structured set of emotions and cognitions about the emotions, both one's own emotions and the emotions of others".
Stur Drinks
Mr. Show The New Ku Klux Klan - YouTube
dead kennedys - nazi punks fuck off (in studio) - YouTube
Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia - YouTube
AmazonSmile : Kassa Large Whiteboard Wall Sticker Roll - 17.3" x 96” (8 Feet) - 3 Dry Erase Board Markers Included - Adhesive White Board Wallpaper for Fridge, Office & Kids Room - Peel and Stick Paper Decal : Office Products
The Technium: Always-On Spatial Audio
This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Trauma — The Ezra Klein Show — Overcast
1 hr 32 min
December 07, 2021Episode 557: Food Court of Pain
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.
Naming and organizing your Movie files | Plex Support
If using the (non-“legacy”) Plex Movie agent available in Plex Media Server v1.20.1 and newer, you can also include the IMDb or TheMovieDB ID number in curly braces to help match the movie. It must follow the form {[source]-[id]}.
1 hr 29 min
December 03, 2021Episode 556: The Only Way Out Is Claws
The Boys are back, and they're not sure how big this thing gets.
Links for this episode:
Amazon.com: Celery Man : Alexa Skills
Good morning, Paul. What will your first sequence of the day be? Alexa, load up Celery Man!
1 hr 21 min
November 16, 2021Episode 555: The Accretion of Non-Essential Things
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
From the very talented designer's portfolio site.
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
1 hr 36 min

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