Subtitle: John is disappointed in everyone.

Follow-Up opens with a correction from John and an admission that he's very disappointed in you, the listener. John clocks Merlin's sudden overuse of some given word.

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Things kick off with an acknowledgment of the enthusiastic listener response to the Waffle House episode. Merlin compliments John on a bit, and John handles that pretty much how you'd expect.

Follow-Up opens with a correction from John and an admission that he's very disappointed in you, the listener. John clocks Merlin's sudden overuse of some given word.

There's a brief tangent into Shōgun and some films Merlin liked less than John. There's some discussion of subtitles and screenshotting.

There's further Follow-Up on the Mark System in day-to-day use. Then some discussion of horses, words that sound like other words, plus more sneaky Britishisms.

As is so often the case, this somehow leads to your hosts complaining about technology for a pretty long time. Would it kill you to provide a deep link?

Merlin suddenly becomes very animated thinking about designing a new Mark system that would involve 3D-printing some jellypacks.

The episode concludes on a surprisingly rabbinical note.

(Recorded on Tuesday, April 16, 2024)

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Waffle House Training - Pull Drop Mark Order Calling Method - YouTube

The video that changed so many lives.

Huffman coding

Hamming code

The Secret of NIMH

Anthony Bourdain visits Waffle House

Another video of the Magic Marker system in action

Metafilter comment about Waffle House

Equus (1977) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p] - YouTube

Urban Dictionary: Tachy Goes To Coventry

Merlin Mann: "Easy." - Mastodon

Merlin made a GPT for the Mark system.

Merlin Mann: "Jelly pack. " - Mastodon

Merlin made a jelly pack supercut.

John guides Merlin through an unusual form of communication.

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John guides Merlin through an unusual form of communication.

So unusual is this form of communication that its interrogation continues through the members-only bonus episode.

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(Recorded on Tuesday, April 2, 2024)

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You Ruined Everything, by Jonathan Coulton

Kottke's post about Waffle House’s Magic Marker System

Waffle House's Pull Drop Mark Order Calling Method - YouTube

Waffle House's Food Safety Training - YouTube

Waffle House Marker System Poster

"…wheat" - YouTube

Multimodal Literacy and the Myth of Low-Skilled Labor at Waffle House

The learning curve for a Waffle House server can be steep, and even steeper for a cook. The process by which an order cycles from the customer-menu interaction to the final presentation of food is complex, multimodal, and reliant on code-switching.

Hamming code

John mistakenly used this name instead of the correct one. (See next link.)

Huffman coding

This is what John should have said.

The XKCD comic about generalized systems

Merlin's pegboard

Julia Child's kitchen

Subtitle: Merlin only ate one.

Topic include perception, misdirection, binaries, and how it is that "Survivor" so rarely leaks.

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Things kick off with the usual problems, and then somehow there's a whole thing about magic tricks, perception, and misdirection. John cannily coins "The Reverse Columbo."

In Follow-Up, Merlin has a headphone correction, Listener Dave nominates !bff, Listener Benjamin identifies the weird old guy pronunciation channel, and a band from the 80s gets the LED out.

John points out that, with computers, binaries are definitely a thing, but Merlin feels like he could go either way about it.

For a main topic, your hosts have more to say about Jelinsky. As a very entertaining dingaling, our guy's brief time on Survivor provides a good opportunity to explore how the show is produced and presented.

Finally, your hosts consider John's potential career path as "an external coach."

(Recorded on Tuesday, March 19, 2024)

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Dr, Geoff Lindsey, "the weird old guy pronunciation channel"

An American T-dropping conspiracy?! - YouTube

Jack Rhodes's YouTube channel

Slow-motion up-close magic example video - YouTube

Merlin's Apollo Robbins playlist - YouTube

Trying to understand why light "slows down" in water, glass, etc. - YouTube

The cover of The Police album Ghost in the Machine

Fair-Play mysteries

List of Seinfeld fictional films | WikiSein | Fandom

The series Seinfeld mentions many fictional films, sometimes as major plot elements, sometimes minor plot elements and often as running gags.

Revisiting the Seinfeld Movie Posters - IGN

"Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants" (David Mamet, 1996)

Dr. Katz - Best of Ray Romano - YouTube

"Blade Runner" (1982) - Photo Analysis Scene - YouTube

Penn and Teller Magic bullet catch complete - YouTube

Frinkiac - S04E07 - SHE MUST THINK YOU'RE AFTER HER EGGS!

"I ONLY ATE ONE!"

Subtitle: The usage is "chiefly British."

A new season of Survivor brings an amazing new dingaling with a novel definition of "several." Then, John chats with Merlin about his recent Apple Vision Pro experience.

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Things kick off with having already begun, then there's some words that also mean their opposite, and some new weird pronunciations.

In Follow-Up, a new season of Survivor also brings an amazing new dingaling with a novel understanding of "several."

As a main topic, John chats with Merlin about his recent Apple Vision Pro demo.

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We also have, as a special added attraction, how Merlin goes to bed.

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(Recorded on Tuesday, March 5, 2024)

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Title Drops analysis

Jeff Severns Guntzel's realization about SCTV - Mastodon

In the interest of transparency, I only JUST realized SCTV is Second City TV. Ugh. I know. I KNOW.

"Chiefly British"

David Jelinsky - Survivor Wiki

Jelinsky's brief time in the game was marked by a tendency to overcommit before giving up at the slightest resistance. His non-committal attitude cost him his tribemates' faith and he became the first person voted out of the season.

Subtitle: You have desk at home.

Follow-up, Billy Joel, and Apple Vision Pro.

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John doesn't like how Merlin starts the show but, unsurprisingly, has nothing better to offer. Counting is discussed. Then, there's a tangent on the peculiar joys of long-running videos series.

Then there's a lot of really good listener Follow-Up, including new Things It Took You Too Long to Realize plus more examples of movies that don't seem to understand the sport that they're about. Merlin confesses that Ry is his only friend.

Next up is some fascinating FU on the ways non-English languages handle plurals. John demands Merlin find out whether his kid knows what a jellyroll is and directly implies that Merlin also does not know what a jellyroll is.

It seems like your hosts are about to talk about Apple Vision Pro when Merlin suddenly remembers there's very important new content from Dr. William Martin Joel that requires immediate discussion. John thinks he kinda looks like a Sontaran.

Then your hosts talk about Apple Vision Pro for a pretty long time.

(Recorded on Tuesday, February 20, 2024)

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Scansion

Rebuilding the historic Tally Ho sailing ship: Sampson Boat Co - YouTube Playlist

On Cinema at the Cinema - YouTube Playlist

Tim Heidecker's On Cinema at the Cinema: An Under-Appreciated Masterpiece - YouTube

"Tim Heidecker's On Cinema at the Cinema is a web series created by Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington. Well, web series is reductive... its more like a cinematic universe... the OCU?"

Hero (2002)

Dual (Grammatical Number)

Japanese Counters

A funny video about Japanese counters - YouTube

Language Plural Rules from the Unicode CLDR

Jelly Roll

Billy Joel: Turn the Lights Back On (Music Video)

The Sunrise Wildfire of 1995

The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)

Ry :ducked: (@[email protected]) - duck.haus

Merlin's sole friend on the internet.

Subtitle: I never said she stole my money.

John has Follow-Up on the Ides of March that leads to an examination of Roman numerals, contextual adjectives, and the challenge of adapting software for the peoples of Volapük.

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John has Follow-Up on the Ides of March that leads to an examination of Roman numerals, contextual adjectives, and the challenge of adapting software for the peoples of Volapük.

Next up is some guidance on the rope John was trying to push in the previous episode, and Merlin expresses gratitude to the listeners who also didn't know Aja has a person on it. Your hosts learn that you can't make an Omelas without…you know. Breaking something.

Then, John and Merlin talk about the American singer, Taylor Swift.

Apparently still in Follow-Up, there's more talk about DisneySea, and then Merlin gets surprisingly animated in discussing his ardor for some networking software and a recent music video.

Finally, the listener is treated to a discussion of sports in movies.

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(Recorded on Tuesday, February 6, 2024)

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The Ides of March

"I never said she stole my money." - One Sentence With 7 Meanings

Pushin' a Rock - America's Funniest Home Videos

The Young Ones - "Nozin' Aroun'" - YouTube

"Knifin' Around" with Thom Yorke - YouTube

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots - The Flaming Lips

Clouds Taste Metallic - The Flaming Lips

Chris Williams on the Aja cover - Mastodon

Merlin on the Aja cover - Mastodon

WPIX channel 11 NY logos

Volapük

XLIFF

"Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” by Ursula K LeGuin

Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole?

Taylor Swift - "Change" (2008) - YouTube

Taylor Swift - "Mean" (2011) - YouTube

Bleachers - "Tiny Moves" - YouTube

Kenzo World - YouTube

Margaret Qualley dances her little heart out in this outstanding commercial directed by Spike Jonze.

Kenzo World Mirror Shot Breakdown - YouTube

@RecDiffs on Mastodon

Tokyo DisneySea Review: Simply Incredible - YouTube

Sindbad’s Storybook Voyage: Tokyo DisneySea's Hidden Gem - YouTube

Mystic Manor at Hong Kong Disneyland 2016 - YouTube

Maid - Netflix

All Too Well: The Short Film - YouTube

Go Away Green - Wikipedia

"or no-see-um-green"

Discover Disney’s Color Magic With Go Away Green and Blending Blue! - Inside the Magic

Walt Disney World Best Kept Secrets - Magic Kingdom

Listen for the subtle music changes between lands in the MK. Also notice how the pavement changes as well, especially as you travel across the nation and through time from Liberty Square (the Colonial Eastern US) into the Frontierland (western US). 

Purkinje effect - Wikipedia

The Purkinje effect occurs at the transition between primary use of the photopic (cone-based) and scotopic (rod-based) systems, that is, in the mesopic state: as intensity dims, the rods take over, and before color disappears completely, it shifts towards the rods' top sensitivity.[

Subtitle: John is not a candle person.

Your hosts begin unpacking some of the things it took them too long to realize

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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)

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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.

Subtitle: John thinks Merlin was overkissed.

John shares some updates on "Secret Weird Things [Other] People Do,"

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John thinks Merlin is wasting his time trying to tune his news consumption, and Merlin reveals that he knows more than you'd probably think about women's fashion.

In Follow-Up, a listener has questions about applying BFF to anime, and John offers a response that Merlin finds almost useful. Merlin shares some FU on both his late father and chapter markers.

Merlin is struggling in a shell, and John thinks a lot of people could probably benefit from learning UNIX from the bottom-up.

John shares a quick update on the Britishisms that are crossing the pond—even in the world of reality TV.

Next, up John has some updates on "Secret Weird Things People Do," collecting a few links to threads that, to varying degrees of credulity, address similar secret weird things.

Your hosts are both reminded of a memorable All in the Family scene that pretty definitely counts as one of the SWTPD. Because footwear has an order of operations you never notice until someone else does it weird.

For this month's members-only bonus show, John interrogates Merlin's new sobriety.

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(Recorded on Tuesday, January 9, 2024)

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The Unix Shell

ROM: Ruby on Mac

Where's Bill?

Unix Power Tools

Your Face, by Bill Plympton - YouTube

All in the Family - A Sock and a Sock - YouTube

Archie Bunker - A Sock And A Sock And A Shoe And A Shoe! - YouTube

Second System Syndrome

Back to Work Episode 13: The Kid's Great

If I Said You Have a Beautiful Body (Would You Hold It Against Me) - YouTube

Subtitle: Merlin has a had a lot of hospital.

On the complexities and frustrations around seeking medical help. Especially when it involves more than just finding an egg.

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Things kick off with some TV talk and a consideration of sane and civil ways to watch TV with a partner.

In Follow-Up, there's more on this whole chapter markers issue, but honestly it's all a little difficult to follow because of the way time works chronologically.

Merlin has been doing a lot of stuff with computers, and John reluctantly admits that at least JSON is better than YAML, but that's not really saying very much.

As a main topic, your hosts talk about the complexities and frustrations around seeking medical help—especially when the medical help one needs falls outside the interest, curiosity, or expertise of a given medical professional.

And especially when the help you need concerns your brain and doesn't just involve finding an egg and calling it a day.

(Recorded on Tuesday, December 19, 2023)

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Mr. Show - "Pre-Taped Call-in Show" - YouTube

Quote Origin: “The Pun Is the Lowest Form of Wit” “Yes, That Means It Is the Foundation of All Wit” – Quote Investigator®

Paul Karason - Wikipedia

Paul Karason (November 14, 1950 – September 23, 2013) was an American from Bellingham, Washington, whose skin was a purple-blue color.

Love Has Won (HBO)

Escaping Twin Flames (Netflix)

For All Mankind (Apple TV+)

George Lucas: “They Rhyme” - YouTube

How George Lucas’s two Star Wars trilogies call out to each other visually

SciPy

SciPy signal correlate method

The House of J.F. Sebastian

Health Record Export iOS app

Disney’s new robot - YouTube

Godzilla (2014)

Why'd I take speed for twenty years?

Why'd I take speed for twenty years? (Part 2)

None of us is as dumb as all of us

Pacific Rim review by Merlin Mann

You people are gonna feel like such dingalings when you finally realize and accept that this is one of the great films.

Luminous: Is it the drug or is it the trip?

For all the talk about how psychedelics might transform psychiatric care, there's still a fascinating question at the heart of psychedelic science. Is it the mind-blowing experience that fundamentally changes a person’s outlook on life? Or is it the powerful molecules that rewire the brain?

"Theodoric of York: Medieval Barber"

Bethlem Royal Hospital - Wikipedia

Bedlam!

Subtitle: The One with the Chapters.

The main topic this week is ideal versus actual holiday plans.

Links and Show Notes:

"Suggest podcast chapters for this episode. Aim for 15-20 chapters overall. Try to name the chapters descriptively and split them apart when the script moves between topics, themes, or vibes. Where possible, name the chapter using an unusual phrase or sentence that someone said during that particular chapter. Try to make sure there’s a new chapter marker at least every three minutes."

(Recorded on Tuesday, December 12, 2023)

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Whitman's Sampler

Dole raisins

Come On Eileen on VH1's Pop-Up Video - YouTube

The Chaotic Story of Dexys Midnight Runners & "Come On Eileen" - YouTube

Merlin's infill sampler

Whitman's Sampler product image

Technology Connections on LED Christmas lights - YouTube

Twinkly lights

Star Wars "Machete Order"

Yub Nub

Genesis of the Daleks (TV story) | Tardis | Fandom

"In a 1998 poll conducted by Doctor Who Magazine, 'Genesis of the Daleks' was praised by fans as their favourite Doctor Who story of all time."

Merlin Mann: "Pretty sweet infill sampler. …" - Mastodon

"Pretty sweet infill sampler.

Ladies?

Merlin Mann: "Badass. This is gonna be so ha…" - Mastodon

"Badass. This is gonna be so handy."

Merlin's networking is not working, John continues to be vexed by UK speakers, and they both can't stop talking about the software and services that ostensibly exists to help them watch moving pictures on the TV.

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Links and Show Notes:

Merlin's networking is not working, John continues to be vexed by UK speakers, and they both can't stop talking about the software and services that ostensibly exists to help them watch moving pictures on the TV.

(Recorded on Thursday, November 28, 2023)

Credits

• Audio Editor: Jim Metzendorf
  
• Admin Assistance: Kerry Provenzano
  
• Music: Merlin Mann
• The Suits: Stephen Hackett, Myke Hurley

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_IanOfEarth's toot about Preparing the Way

Decoder podcast

That "blue" song John mentioned

The Boy and the Heron

Merlin's Letterboxd profile page

John's Letterboxd profile page

Movies titled "The Killer"

John's post about TV streaming apps

John's follow-up post about TV streaming apps

Fargo (1996)

Fargo (TV series)