Episode 567: Sit on Me

DISCUSSED: the Russians are coming; Dan has thoughts on Marvel TV shows, and Merlin has thoughts on Hawkeye specifically; Merlin bravely and boldly recommends watching a film that's often considered the greatest ever made; in Follow-Up, Dan has an update on Taskpaper as well as wanting advice on how to fire Photoshop; Merlin seems weirdly excited about his new pencil; yet more praise is heaped on Rogue Amoeba; and, finally, in an unexpected twist, both your hosts realize they did the same thing last week.

Links:

• Reconcilable Differences #176: The Curse of Convenience - Relay FM — As a main topic, your hosts dive deep on spaces.
• Amazon : Kaweco Sketch Up Pencil, Brass, 5.6 mm : Arts, Crafts & Sewing
• Why Should I Tell You?: A Guide to Less-Extractive Reporting – Center for Journalism Ethics — I’m still early in my journalism career, but I’ve already encountered a number of situations that have made me question the role journalists should play as they cover people who are in some way suffering.  
• Drive (2011) - The Quadrant System - YouTube
• Pixelmator Pro
• Acorn 7 | Full Featured Photo Editor for the Mac
• Affinity – Professional Creative Software
• DaVinci Resolve 17 | Blackmagic Design
• Amazon.com : Staedtler Mars Technico Lead Holder (780 C) : Mechanical Pencils : Office Products
• Use Synology NAS as UPS Server to safely power down your other servers/computers : synology
• All about the new ML Super Resolution feature in Pixelmator Pro - Pixelmator Blog — Our latest ML-powered feature is called ML Super Resolution, released in today’s update, and it makes it possible to increase the resolution of images while keeping them stunningly sharp and detailed. Yes, zooming and enhancing images like they do in all those cheesy police dramas is now a reality!
• Pixies - Monkey Gone To Heaven (Official Video) - YouTube — 5…6…7
• Wheat and chessboard problem - Wikipedia — If a chessboard were to have wheat placed upon each square such that one grain were placed on the first square, two on the second, four on the third, and so on (doubling the number of grains on each subsequent square), how many grains of wheat would be on the chessboard at the finish?