Back to Work Episode 575: You're Being Scared Wrong
May 10, 2022
01:08:10
Swallows as Tenants
- Dan Benjamin's new tenants, swallows, built a nest in his soffit.
- They incorporated spikes meant to deter them into the nest's structure.
Swallow Nest Construction
- Dan describes the swallows' nest-building process as similar to a beaver dam or stone wall construction.
- He expresses frustration with their rapid reproduction cycle.
Try a Duck Egg
- Try a duck egg if you haven't before.
- Don't assume duck eggs taste like chicken eggs.
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Introduction
00:00 • 3min
A Weewe, Imperempte, What's the Word?
02:54 • 4min
I'm a Terrible Person, but I Used to Be a Really Terrible Person.
06:26 • 2min
I'm Sory Brook, I'll Send You a Picture of a Quick Swallow Nest
08:04 • 2min
You Can't Take These Guys Off Their Gam
09:53 • 2min
O Yo, I'm Not Taking a Chunk Out of You.
11:46 • 2min
I've Got Aunts, Aunts in the Halls and Aunts at Supper Time.
13:44 • 3min
The Crows Look at the Roderick Family
16:37 • 2min
I Like Duck Eggs, I Like Scrambled Eggs
18:42 • 3min
The Threshold Effect
21:17 • 3min
Star Trek: The Next Generation
24:42 • 2min
A New Way to Grow Your Business on Line
27:08 • 3min
Square Spaces Are Trying to Screw You Over
30:20 • 2min
Square Space
31:53 • 2min
The Birds Are Going to Have a Mother's Day
33:37 • 4min
Is That a Dangerous Movie?
37:45 • 2min
How to Write a Great Subject Line
40:00 • 4min
I'll Deal With the Kid, I'm Going to Deal With Them
43:34 • 4min
Is Your Kid Scared of Blood Magic?
47:25 • 4min
Is There a Peanutalergy?
50:55 • 5min
You Know, I'm Not a Gun, It's a Bullet, That Kind of People
55:39 • 6min
How to Unlock One Password
01:01:15 • 4min
Severance - A Brief Introduction
01:05:00 • 2min
DISCUSSED: Dan's new tenants flip him the bird, and Merlin has strong feelings about email.
Runner-up titles:
- Glass Surfing
- I Don't Believe in a Lizard Binary
- A Game Stop and a Bathroom
- A Mother Son Relationship That Is Weird
- The Allergies of Childhood
- Medium-Sized Important Breakthrough
- The Cultural Installation of Fear
Links:
- Stories Behind Some of the Weird Stuff on ‘Severance’ - The New York Times
- The complete FUN TO IMAGINE with Richard Feynman - YouTube
- Busted! How to Handle the Police Until You Get a Lawyer - by Mary Griego - YouTube
- Google Search Operators: The Complete List (42 Advanced Operators)
- Welcome to Bunch - Bunch.app
- Introducing Bunch - Bunch.app
- Fonts - Apple Developer — Get the details, frameworks, and tools you need to use system fonts for Apple platforms in your apps. These typefaces offer the control and flexibility to optimally display text at a variety of sizes, in many different languages, across multiple interfaces.
- BBC - Richard Feynman: Fun to Imagine — Gifted physicist Richard Feynman (1918-88) was known as the 'great explainer' due to his ability to help non-scientists imagine something of the beauty and order of the universe as he saw it. In this series, Feynman looks at the mysterious forces that make ordinary things happen and, in doing so, answers questions about why rubber bands are stretchy, why tennis balls can't bounce for ever and what you're really seeing when you look in the mirror.
- 1Password 8 for Mac | 1Password — The world's best password manager is now even more powerful. Designed for uncompromising protection and productivity on macOS.
- StopTheMadness — StopTheMadness is a web browser extension that stops web sites from making your browser harder to use.
- StopTheMadness for Safari Support
- Blue Ruin (2013) - Reference View - IMDb
- Green Room (2015) - Reference View - IMDb
- All About Swallows' Nests and Nesting Habits - Birds and Blooms — An open cup made of pellets of dried mud mixed with grass and lined with feathers.