DISCUSSED: Merlin is reporting live from the show floor; sleep is complicated; food is complicated, too; Dan tries to build muscles the right way; he also has strong feelings about TV shopping; Merlin just wants someone to tell him which is The Good One.
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As The Lone Star state struggles with a surfeit of anomalous weather events, your hosts dig into the challenges inherent to all sorts of complex, interconnected systems.
Merlin presents a lengthy and disordered jeremiad on HomeKit, HomeKit apps, and the new iOS playground; which is mostly all just to say: why are email apps still so terrible?
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Dan continues to explore the exciting possibilities of his latest hardware acquisition.
Your hosts start diving into Dan's exciting new acquisition and how best to put to good use.
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Making a problem go away is not the same thing as solving the problem.
DISCUSSED: The generational struggle to understand things we can't understand, dealing with other people, and "Star Wars."
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