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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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.