Episode 45 - Cmd+Shift+3

Summary:

It was a distraction-driven show as the boys try to add a video component to their Skype production process (don't worry listeners, the show is still audio-only). Jody fields questions, Matt thinks about what's good for the country.

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Follow Up / Feedback:

Matt's Partner may have a job offer coming, which is good, because her current one may be disappearing.
FB from Mr. Pieces:
- Procrastination - I really want to do this, but I need to do that. Only do this if you finish that. This is a reward for completing that.
  - yak shaving: 1. Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem. "I was doing a bit of yak shaving this morning, and it looks like it might have paid off." 2. A less useful activity done to consciously or unconsciously procrastinate about a larger but more useful task. "I looked at a reference manual for my car just to answer one question, but I spent the whole afternoon with my nose buried in it, just yak shaving, and got no work done on the car itself." From Wiktionary.org
- Focus seems very tied to procrastination. I feel like procrastination happens more frequently on things on which I have trouble focusing. These may be highly correlated but simply coincidental as I'm sure it's easier to focus on things that are more interesting (that I want to do).
- Company loyalty. Just remember most companies are only going to be as loyal to you as it is convenient for them to be.
- I'll leave you with this: Raising kids is both infinitely easier and infinitely more difficult than it seems to you right now. Put that in your pipe and smoke it - just not around pregnant partners or progenies.
- Idea for TCL:
More questions for Jody from Matt’s Partner (All asked and answered):
- What made J’s wife test (indicators)?
- Any mood changes yet? Appetite?
- Any morning sickness yet?
- Will you raise your twins in a church? Which one?
- Was she taking prenatal vitamins beforehand? OTC or prescription? How about now?
- Any changes to her diet?

Remember all the way back to the original "Kids Episode" (hint, it's so old it doesn't have a show notes page)? Well, Jody found his index card from way back then:
note card from Kids Episode

FFU:

Matt alluded to his displeasure with SCOTUS and the Hobby Lobby decision. Not everyone agrees with him, shockingly.
Matt bought a new, even more expensive pot for making gumbo/roast beast. Pro-tip: The Le Creuset outlet in Ellenton has great deals.
European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe orbits a comet. That’s already cool, but check out how they did it:
- Earth grav assist in 3/05, mars grav assist in 2/07 (heading back toward earth), another Earth grav assist in 11/07, then it flew by an asteroid in 2/09 to nudge it back toward Earth for a 3rd grav. assist in 11/09, then in 7/10 it used the grav from another asteroid to alter its course slightly, then it went into hibernation in 6/11, they woke it up 3 years later in 1/14 and made a series of maneuvers, to enter the comets orbit
- First spacecraft to/: fly out to the orbit of jupiter using solar cells for primary power, orbit a comet, fly alongside a comet on it’s way toward the sun, examine how the sun’s energy transforms the surface of a comet from close range, the lander will have the 1st controlled touchdown on a comet, getting the 1st images from a comet’s surface.
- Pics of the comet “Chury” already: http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/8622/20140819/rosettas-rubber-dukey-comet-compared-los-angeles.htm
Matt went back to work, which is hard, but no one cares becasue he got all summer off.