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227: Settled Business
Manage episode 398836408 series 97313
Subtitle: John is not a candle person.
Your hosts begin unpacking some of the things it took them too long to realize
This episode of Reconcilable Differences is sponsored by:
- Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code DIFFS.
Links and Show Notes:
John has thoughts on how home chefs overcomplicate Italian recipes, and Merlin administers a pop quiz.
What starts as quick Follow-Up leads to a discussion of UNIX history, culture, and philosophy.
As a main topic, your hosts begin unpacking some of the things it took them too long to realize. Merlin provides several very interesting examples, and John does not.
But Merlin does not hold it against him.
(Recorded on Tuesday, January 23, 2024)
Credits
- Audio Editor: Jim Metzendorf
- Admin Assistance: Kerry Provenzano
- Music: Merlin Mann
- The Suits: Stephen Hackett, Myke Hurley
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Bolognese recipe
Advent wreath - Wikipedia
Air Tag
Kieran Healy's toot about command-line stuff
Modern Plain Text Computing
Unix Power Tools
Modern Operating Systems, by Andrew Tanenbaum and Herbert Bos
AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System - YouTube
The Rise of Worse Is Better
Worse Is Better (Retrospective)
errno.h - A header file containing Unix error numbers
Aja (Steely Dan album)
strerror() - A function to convert error numbers to error message strings
Rod Stewart's Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright) lyrics
"Spread your wings and let me come inside"
Tokyo DisneySea Review: Simply Incredible - YouTube
[4K] Mystic Manor - Trackless Ride - Best Disney Ride Ever - Hong Kong Disneyland 2016 - YouTube
Merlin misspoke. The amazing variant of the Haunted Mansion he was thinking of is at Hong Kong Disneyland.
Sindbad’s Storybook Voyage: Tokyo DisneySea's Hidden Gem - YouTube
flintstones.md
So, to this day, over forty years later, whenever someone complains that "everyone already knows this" or they whine about how "everyone has already seen this," I always think the same thing: Every day, somebody's born who's never seen The Flintstones.
242 episodes
Manage episode 398836408 series 97313
Subtitle: John is not a candle person.
Your hosts begin unpacking some of the things it took them too long to realize
This episode of Reconcilable Differences is sponsored by:
- Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code DIFFS.
Links and Show Notes:
John has thoughts on how home chefs overcomplicate Italian recipes, and Merlin administers a pop quiz.
What starts as quick Follow-Up leads to a discussion of UNIX history, culture, and philosophy.
As a main topic, your hosts begin unpacking some of the things it took them too long to realize. Merlin provides several very interesting examples, and John does not.
But Merlin does not hold it against him.
(Recorded on Tuesday, January 23, 2024)
Credits
- Audio Editor: Jim Metzendorf
- Admin Assistance: Kerry Provenzano
- Music: Merlin Mann
- The Suits: Stephen Hackett, Myke Hurley
Get an ad-free version of the show, plus a monthly extended episode.
Bolognese recipe
Advent wreath - Wikipedia
Air Tag
Kieran Healy's toot about command-line stuff
Modern Plain Text Computing
Unix Power Tools
Modern Operating Systems, by Andrew Tanenbaum and Herbert Bos
AT&T Archives: The UNIX Operating System - YouTube
The Rise of Worse Is Better
Worse Is Better (Retrospective)
errno.h - A header file containing Unix error numbers
Aja (Steely Dan album)
strerror() - A function to convert error numbers to error message strings
Rod Stewart's Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright) lyrics
"Spread your wings and let me come inside"
Tokyo DisneySea Review: Simply Incredible - YouTube
[4K] Mystic Manor - Trackless Ride - Best Disney Ride Ever - Hong Kong Disneyland 2016 - YouTube
Merlin misspoke. The amazing variant of the Haunted Mansion he was thinking of is at Hong Kong Disneyland.
Sindbad’s Storybook Voyage: Tokyo DisneySea's Hidden Gem - YouTube
flintstones.md
So, to this day, over forty years later, whenever someone complains that "everyone already knows this" or they whine about how "everyone has already seen this," I always think the same thing: Every day, somebody's born who's never seen The Flintstones.
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