Operation: Have a Conversation

We have a very important question for you, but first let’s start with “how do you do?”

Good, we hope. Now, let’s skip “what’s new?” And instead ask how do you to-do?

With things to remember and projects to pursue, what is the way that works best for you?

To take your thoughts and turn them into a list of well-defined tasks to get through.

An app for your phone? There’s more than a few. Or maybe just paper and pen and some glue?

Whether it’s the teeth you brush or the dishes you do, the emails you send or the drafts you review.

An appointment to make or library book to renew, so many tasks are clogging the queue.

While shopping, to remember to get more shampoo, and don’t forget peas for the stew!

Come lend us an ear (possibly two!) for another episode with the OHAC crew.

Jack pivots some tables, Mikhail buys the wrong tool, and Mark has a pizza toolbelt full of cold cuts.

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SHOW NOTES

Liquid Death

Justin McElroy drinking drinks on MBMBAM | YouTube

AutoSave in Office 365 is only available for files saved to OneDrive 

Nudge by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein

Matt Parker Stand-up comedy routine about Spreadsheets | YouTube

Front – Email application

Spark – Email applicaton

A World Without Email by Cal Newport

Asana – Work management tool

Fantastical – Calendar application

Vornado AVH2 heater fan

Toronto Tool Library

Todoist

For Your Consideration – Mark’s Blog

ClickUp – Team management application

Loop Habit Tracker

Habit Tracker – Your Goals by Robin DREUX

Strides Habit Tracker

James S.A. Corey Writes a Novel | Patreon

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal webcomic

Infinite ad loop during Spotify podcasts

So I know we’ve had a lot of fun today, but we need to talk about checking in. It’s important to do every once in a while. So, how’s it going? Seen any good movies lately? Have you drank enough water today? How’s that book you’ve been reading? When’s the last time you’ve painstakingly analyzed all of your goals, relationships, career prospects, hobbies, and toilet paper choices in your life and decided which get how much of your finite time and attention? Are you living to your fullest potential? How’s that house plant that you’ve really been meaning to re-pot but just haven’t taken the time to get to the store to grab more potting soil? Cool, good luck with that. Anyway, Jack, Mikhail, and Mark yammer on about some tech and/or sales stuff in this episode. Enjoy.

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SHOW NOTES

QuantumAuthor

Scrivener

Vim

Overleaf

Monday | Gantt Software

Salesforce

xkcd 353: Python (import antigravity)

Accounting for Developers | Modern Treasury

Double-entry bookkeeping | Wikipedia

Audio Hijack from Rogue Amoeba

Toast | Point of Sale

Jack’s 2023 theme – Season of Foundations

Modern Wisdom podcast with Chris Williamson

Hello Internet #3: Four Light Bulbs

Alex Hormozi | YouTube

Mikhail’s 2023 theme – This Too, Shall Pass

Mark’s 2023 theme – Year of the Future

We’re in for it folks. That’s right, this description is gonna use semicolons. Cuddle up with your favorite niche punctuation and get ready because Mikhail critiques his inconvenient encounters with international tax laws and inattentive coders; Mark gets taken on an emotional rollercoaster in the search for his lost disc which might not be in Kansas anymore; Jack buys a treadmill to compensate for the walks his dog refuses to take; and, in a totally unbelievable turn of events, they figure out how to go back in time and become a sponsor for the 89th Annual Hopkins Raspberry Festival! Click here to find out more: episode.description.a_totally_working_link

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SHOW NOTES

FBAR Form 114

Bank Secrecy Act

Buzzsprout podcast hosting

The Roman Mars Mazda Virus | 99% Invisible

SQL Injection

Exploits of a Mom | xkcd (Bobby Tables)

How The Self-Retweeting Tweet Worked – Tom Scott | YouTube 

iOS Shortcuts App

Shortcuts bilingual error – Shortcuts (screenshot) – Focus Modes (screenshot) – Shortcuts in French (screenshot)

The Primeagen | YouTube

37.09024, -95.71289

World Clocks – Onboarding Step 1 (screenshot) – Onboarding Step 2 (screenshot) – Onboarding Step 4 (screenshot)

iA Writer

OHAC 40: Some Feelings About Some Feelings

1Writer on iOS

Obsidian

Mendeley

Jack’s under-desk treadmill

Salesforce 

Outreach software

Don’t Start a Podcast (CH Sketch)

OHAC 09: A Tale of Three Cities

OHAC 37: UPS is the Arbiter of Truth

OHAC 24: A Francophone Prankster in the Night

OHAC 21: 18 Pounds of Meat in the Mail

OHAC 07: It’s Pronounced “Escapology®”

OHAC 12: Electromagnetic Resonance Enchiladas 

Cory Wong featuring O.A.R.

Scrolling so stoically, the podcast peruser parses a perfectly prosaic pandect packed with platypodes. Inexplicably all about alliteration, Mark, Mikhail, and Mack make mirthful scrutiny of somewhat silly thoughts and timely topical topics. Illustrative instances include ingenious designations for digital devices, flummoxing phantom file backups, and bothersome bugs in banking / baseball brograms. Well, this description has gone careening off a cliff more times than an animated jeep caught in a checkpoint loop. Anyway, they also play a text-adventure game or whatever.

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Show Notes

TFSA (Tax-Free Savings Account)

CIBC

Backblaze Cloud Backup

Ghost of the Abyss (image)

Backblaze – drives missing (image)

Datalore | Star Trek: The Next Generation 

Infosphere | Futurama

Spaceman Spiff | Calvin and Hobbes

The Zogwargs | Calvin and Hobbes

USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53)

HMS Audacity

The Audron Ships from Skyjacks: Courier’s Call

Slime Rancher Speed Run

Halo: Reach glitch video

Stump Lake Liquor & Fireworks sign (photo from Mark?)

Ferrite Recording Studio | iPad app

Adobe Acrobat Reader

Zelle money transfers

Schneiderman’s Furniture

Ally Bank

Interac e-Transfer

MLB.tv

I see you’ve played knifey-spoony before

Math Jams – Art of Problem Solving

Twitch Plays Pokémon

Chaotic Neutral

Large language models

Martin Shkreli

Facebook’s large language model leaked

This podcast will damage your phone. You should move it to the Trash. Save yourself from having to hear Jack, Mikhail, and Mark prattle on about bank accounts, data migration, statistics, and that meme. You know the one. You don’t want to hear about UPS, software licensing, or the fast inverse square root algorithm. In fact, don’t just delete this podcast, delete your browsing history, contacts, and all your photos. You know, just to be safe, completely disassemble your phone into its component pieces and take a walk around town, disposing of each piece in a separate trash can until you can breathe the fresh air in deeply, finally free of our ever-encroaching AI overlords.

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Show Notes

Due By Friday – bell gets noise-cancelled

TFSA (Tax-Free Savings Account)

Change.org Petition about UMN alumni email usage getting phased out

Google Takeout

Python Podcast Parser 

PDF of Podcast Data

pickle – Python object serialization

Matplotlib – Parasite Axes

That meme

UPS Error code: LASSO_1010

“Atom will damage your computer. You should move it to the Trash.” | Reddit

GitHub got hacked | Computer Weekly

VSCodium

VSCode – Microsoft’s telemetry and data collection license terms 

MIT License 

Lex Fridman Podcast – John Carmack

Fast inverse square root algorithm

Debugging in VSCode

Spaceship You – CGP Grey | YouTube

Cortex podcast

Room Arranger app

Sam Harris

Your Theme – CGP Grey | YouTube

The Trouble with Transporters – CGP Grey | YouTube

Strap in your earbuds and get ready for 2:19:47 of episode featuring a 4-door scooter, 6 feet of Mark, and a singular joke. Get a load of these 3 idiots, Mark, Jack, and Mikhail, who didn’t even know the title of this episode the entire time. I mean, c’mon, what are they even doing? Tryna set up wireless printing using the Advanced Method? Remove the DRM from an ebook file in Minecraft? Read a book inside a dog’s stomach? Ridiculous. And I haven’t even mentioned the chickens.

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Show Notes

Ember mug

Mikhail’s Ember mug with a lid

Intel Core i7 Processor vs. 7th Generation Intel Core Processor

iPad Display Zoom

Ultimate RPG guide by James D’Amato

Epubor – doesn’t work, don’t use it

Kobo eReader

Calibre eReader software

UMN gmail service

TFSA – Tax-Free Savings Account

Brother HL-2270DW printer user’s guide

OHAC 42: In the Non-Lethal Way (2022 Yearly Themes)

OHAC 30: I’m an Agent of Chaos (2021 Yearly Themes)

OHAC 21: 18 Pounds of Meat in the Mail (2020 Yearly Themes)

OHAC 14: Happiness is Shallow (2019 Yearly Themes)

The Theme System Journal (see bottom of page for Cortex podcast episodes)

CGP Grey: Your Theme (YouTube)

Mark’s 2022 theme – Year of One

Jack’s 2022 theme – Year of Execution

Mikhail’s 2022 theme – Year of Flow

Mark’s 2023 theme – Year of the Future (with accompanying graphic design)

Jack’s 2023 theme – Season of Foundations

Mikhail’s 2023 theme – This Too, Shall Pass

Mandelbrot set

ProFolio Oasis Notebook

MLB Uses 3 Baseballs in 2022

This episode depicts the gruesome fate of Mark, Jack, and Mikhail, three lost technology enthusiasts trapped in an unending corner case corner by menacing locals who harvest human frustration. As the time of Mark’s baseball game nears, they attempt to escape through a discussion surrounding an IMDB page only to realize: we are the menacing locals.

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SHOW NOTES

Spotify Podcasts

The Besties Podcast

History of The Besties

The Joe Rogan Experience | Spotify

Sidecar for iPad

Mark’s external monitor: Arzopa 2K Portable Monitor (Amazon link)

Dell Latitude 5590 (for those keeping score at home)

Luke Smith YouTube | Full Arch Linux Install (SAVAGE Edition!)

dd commands (destroy disk)

Arch Linux Wiki

YouTube video Jack used to install Arch Linux

LARBS script (Luke’s Auto-Rice Bootstrapping Scripts)

Ricing – making it look good (r/unixporn)

Desktop Window Manager (DWM)

The Linux Command Line, 2nd Edition: A Complete Introduction

PulseAudio vs. PipeWire

The Finer Points of Scorekeeping on Mark’s blog

Handbrake

H264 vs H265

Jack’s pdf flashbacks on OHAC 36: Dot and Dot Dot

Starkey

Scarce (2008) IMDB

University of Toronto Outing Club (UTOC)

You know that corner of the room where you just kinda dump stuff? That picture frame you keep meaning to hang up. That t-shirt you won at an intramural sports tournament. The set of hex-wrenches you pulled out of the toolbox weeks ago with the intention of tightening that chair leg that’s a bit wobbly. Another reusable grocery bag that you bought because you forgot to bring the ones you already had. It grows. Day by day, week by week. Neglected, but ever-looming. Somehow staying out of sight and out of mind until it has grown to encompass all but the other far corner of the room. If only you had taken a couple minutes here and there, every once in a while to put things back where they belong, you wouldn’t be picking out your slow, careful steps like you’re walking through 2 feet of snow. Anyway, come listen to this episode of OHAC where Mikhail, Mark, and Jack slog through 3 months of garbage that’s accumulated in the show notes.

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SHOW NOTES

Google Stadia

Xbox Game Pass

Go Comics

Comical Start Podcast

FAT32 (File Allocation Table)

FAT64

wimlab (because FAT32 has a file size limit of 4 GB)

Wimlab-Imagex-Package (because MacOS 12 doesn’t have full Homebrew support yet)

Linus Tech Tips

DALL*E mini (now Craiyon) 

Operation Have A Conversation (as interpreted by Craiyon)

Baseball photos

• Jack throwing
• Mark in a rundown
• Mark pitching

IPTC Photo Metadata

Arc Browser 

How to Organize with Arc

Arc Browser screenshot of calendar

The Pan-Canadian Rogers Network Cock-up of 2022

Canadian ISPs: Bell and Rogers

CarryTel

Interac e-transfer

Zelle

Spotify error dialogue box

I HATE YOU

Mikhail’s 2022 theme – Year of Flow

Cal Newport

Mark’s 2022 theme – Year of One

Jack’s 2022 theme – Year of Execution

Taako’s Good Out Here

Operation: Have A Conversation – Two Thumbs Up

ERROR: No description found for episode code "OHAC44“

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SHOW NOTES

Shortcuts on Mac

Automagical

The contents of this manual are subject to change without notice

Panera bread email error

Tax form 2555 – Foreign Earned Income 

Foreign Earned Income Exclusion for U.S. expats

Tax Slayer

Fire pump

72 Letters by Ted Chiang

Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang – Arrival (film)

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (sci-fi book)

Foundation Series by Isaac Asimov

The Oh, Hello Show by John Mulaney and Nick Kroll

Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling

The Lord of the Rings Series by J.R.R. Tolkien

Kabbalah 

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke 

Web 1.0, Web 2.0, Web 3.0

Tom Clancy talks about predicting 9/11

A Renegade History of the United States by Thaddeus Russell

You are you, a person with a ton of free time and a rubik’s cube you will never finish. You are bored out of your mind and have run out of things to do. You decide to listen to a podcast. “Operation: Have A Conversation”. You figure it will be a good way to pass the time. After all, what else is there to do? You listen to Mark, Jack, and Mikhail play a text-based adventure generated by an artificial intelligence. Why should you worry? You can handle anything!
“Well, if you insist” says Torren.
You say “How did you get here?”
“Seems like I made it just in time.” Torren scratches his chin and looks around expectantly.
You say, “In time for what?”
“We don’t have the time to spare.”
“Well, I guess you will have to.”
“Fine.”

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SHOW NOTES

California charitable donations tax deduction bug

Permanent Residency in Canada – Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) Criteria

Language Testing for Skilled Immigrants to Canada

AI Dungeon