Tea: Golden Peacock (Jin Kong Que) black tea. Damon talks about automating work. Michael looks at different fountain pen technologies. Also: second floor windows, daylight saving time, tea farm ownership structures, confusing Mandarin and Spanish, getting lost in interstellar space, being rude, phone keyboards, bullets vs. bullets, therapists, Michael’s ancestral home, wax cylinders and vinyl records, drawing on the walls, Kodachrome, geoducks and oysters, old museum-goers, dynamiting boats, and being invaded.
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Show notes
- Quote: “Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom of a blanket and have a longer blanket.” However, we can’t find any source for the quote, just “an old Indian” or “anonymous” and sometimes claims it’s “the government” not “a white man.”
- A Day Making Puer Tea on Jingmai Mountain for the “typical” tea processing from this region
- Article about mapping a section of No Man’s Sky
- One review of the NMS update that caused Damon to self-censor
- Rotarycraft
- Alphabet’s Jigsaw and the New York Times comment section
- Cortex #47, where they talk APIs and automation
- If This Then That, aka IFTTT
- “The other tool” is Zapier
- Workflow (and yes, it’s only for iPhone/iPad)
- The Todoist blog on the advantages of doing some of your work on paper
- Getting Things Done by David Allen (affiliate link)
- Episode 9: Secret Tea Machine with Nigel Melican
- Damon’s phone keyboard screen shot
- Bullet Journal (main website) by Ryder Carroll
- Video showing the “old” BuJo style more like Michael uses
- Episode 8: The Time Travel Episode
- Winchester House
- How do Fountain Pens Work?
- Explanations of a few pen filling systems
- Even more systems for filling a pen
- Presentation by Michael’s cousin
Our theme music was written by Lisa Purdy.
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