Episode 116: Beagle Removal Service

TOPIC: Quit & Analyze, and Marvel Character Speculation.

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about Dan's "Quit & Analyze" episode, then proceed into a very useful conversation about which characters from the Marvel Universe they're each most like.

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• [SPONSOR] TextExpander: Mac Typing Shortcut Utility Saves You Time
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• 5by5 | Quit! #21: Quit & Analyze
  Dan is joined by a familiar guest, Marco Arment, to take calls and discuss Marco's very recent sale of Instapaper. They delve deeper and discuss when to hire, outsourcing, feeling burnt out, when to sell, and being selective about which company gets to buy what you've built. They take some listener calls and answer questions about job-seeking in a new town, how to come up with the next great idea, the reinvention of the corporate stooge, what to consider when you're desperate for freelance work, and what to do when you get let go from your job.
  
• She-Hulk Vol. 1: Single Green Female: Dan Slott, Juan Bobillo: 9780785114437: Amazon.com: Books
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• 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  The 100 Greatest Marvels of All Time was a series of trade paperbacks published in 2001 by Marvel Comics. Earlier in the year, the publisher had held a poll asking readers to vote on their favorite issues of Marvel comic book series. The top 25 issues were then reprinted in trade paperback form, with a list in the back of each volume listing the results of the poll from the 100th issue to the last issue contained in that particular volume. Numbers 25 to 6 were published in volumes one through five, each of which contained four issues. The top five issues were each reprinted in their own volumes (volumes six through ten).[edit]
  
• Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Omega level mutants - X-Men Wiki - Wolverine, Marvel Comics, Origins
  The terms "Alpha" and "Omega" (roughly meaning "first" resp. "final") are blurry in-universe terms used by some writers to categorise different characters. Omega mutants are, in theory, supposed to be the most powerful class of mutants, but with time the scope of the term has widened to include a much wider scope of characters that, following the same logic, could technically qualify half the ones in existence.
  
• Omega Level Mutants - Marvel Comics Database
  PROVEN Omega Level Mutants. A character can only be added to this category if they have a reference for when they were 'outed' as an Omega.
  
• White noise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  In signal processing, white noise is a random signal with a flat (constant) power spectral density. In other words, a signal that contains equal power within any frequency band with a fixed width. The term is used, with this or similar meanings, in many scientific and technical disciplines, including physics, acoustic engineering, telecommunications, statistical forecasting, and many more. (Rigorously speaking, "white noise" refers to a statistical model for signals and signal sources, rather than to any specific signal.)
  
• Brown note (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  A brown note is a hypothetical sound wave that would cause involuntary defecation.
  
• Methuselah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Extra-biblical tradition maintains that he died on the 11th of Cheshvan of the year 1656 (Anno Mundi, after Creation), at the age of 969, seven days before the beginning of the Great Flood.
  
• Your Nice New Outfit
  (Phil Noto's awesome Tumblr site.)
  
• The Monkey's Paw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  The story is based on the famous "setup" in which three wishes are granted. In the story, the paw of a dead monkey is a talisman that grants its possessor three wishes, but the wishes come with an enormous price for interfering with fate.

• The Howling Fat Men of the Coen Brothers - YouTube
  
• Enjoying My Coffee - YouTube
  
• Glengarry Glen Ross - Will you go to lunch? (Kevin Spacey) - YouTube
  
• "Megan Draper," as drawn by Phil Noto.
  
• [IMG] "SNAP"
  Poor Gwen. Poor Spidey.

  Ugh.
  

• Twitter / hotdogsladies: I really like Greg Land, but ...
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• Amazing Spider-Man Vol 1 121 - Marvel Comics Database
  "She was dead before your webbing reached her! A fall from that height would kill anyone before they struck the ground."
  
  -- Green Goblin (Norman Osborn)
  
• Markdown Service Tools - BrettTerpstra.com
  
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