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- DTD922 Listen Up
Can you Yellow spot the colour randomly Red inserted into passages of Blue text? I bet you Purple can.
4 min - DTD921 Puzzle Prison (revisited)
Covered about a million and a half episodes ago, today's skill is well worth a revisit. Can you puzzle your way out of this rectangular, er, square room with nothing but your wits, four statues, a cabinet, a letterbox and a computer to help?
6 min - DTD920 Treasure Words
It's Cows and Bulls all over again, but this time the hoof's on the other foot. The A-lady has to guess our three-letter word and we give her a little help with a piratical twist.
5 min - DTD919 One Minute Meditation
That's it - just a minute to meditate each day. We can all squeez that amount of mindfulness in to our busy schedules, can't we? Let's do it.
5 min - DTD918 Ambient Loops
Ooooh - I like this one. The name reassures us that it'll loop forever without a jarring stop, and the sounds are so good that you'll want them to loop forever and never stop. Nice.
BTW if you want to be instrumental in ensuring that there's an episode every day for the next couple of weeks, please send them in to [email protected] with big thanks from me. And did you know that you can follow me on the Twitters with @USA2DAY or the show with hashtag #DTDPod?6 min - DTD917 Word or Absurd
Is 'Mimsy' a word? Surely that's absurd! Actually it's a portmanteau of 'Miserable' and 'Flimsy' as defined by the A-lady and, according to this skill, it means 'Rather feeble or prim and affected'. Thus it's a great word to include as one of the names of Sir Nicholas in the wonderful HP books. BTW I bought a bottle of sauce the other day. HP. I'm paying 8p a week for 15 weeks. If that doesn't make sense to you then Google 'HP Sauce' - it's a British institution.
6 min - DTD916 Sleep Aid
Today a new contributer, Tiffany Black (@1modernmonster on the Twitters), brings us a brilliant new skill to help you sleep; 'Sleep Aid' - and it's better than that pesky 'Sleep Sheep', that's for sure.
7 min - DTD915 Additional - A-lady, sing The No Body Blues
Just say, “Alexa, sing the ‘No Body Blues’” and you'll (hopefully - depending upon where you are) get this fab and rather moving song by the very tuneful A-lady.
Oh and BTW, this month's free audio book is possibly my favourite book of all-time; “Alexa, read Anne of Green Gables from Audible.” If it's not available where you are, then listen to it somewhere, somehow - you won't regret it.2 min - DTD915 Rogue's Choice (revisited)
First covered waaay back in episode 346, this one's well worth a revisit. From the amazing developers, Magic Door LLC (yes, that's right - bringers of the brilliant Magic Door skill covered in episode 1 and then rightly revisited in episode 384), this one definitely deserves a dabble.
8 min - DTD914 Startup School (by Y Combinator)
By the excellent Y Combinator startup incubator and launched with 'Startup School', this ten-week podcast course provides invaluable info for anyone starting in business or just curious about exactly what's involved in being an entrepreneur.
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About Dot to Dot - the daily 5min Alexa demo show
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These short top tips and skills for the Amazon Echo are for everyone who’s simply dotty about Alexa. Your host is Robin Christopherson - with frequent appearances by Shaun Preece and other friends.