Description

Links

• The Nutty Professor (1963)
  Jerry Lewis as Professor Kelp / Buddy Love
• Hank Azaria on Professor Frink
  Based him on Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor
• Tropic Thunder
  Simple Jack; "you went full [redacted]"
• Be Kind Rewind
  Video essays on women in film history
• Stewart Lee
  British comedian; Paul Nuttall of UKIP
• Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
  BBC Two series (2009-2016)
• Tailscale
  Mesh VPN; part of the Iron Troika
• Amphetamine
  macOS app to prevent sleep
• AutoMounter
  Keeps network shares mounted
• Synology
  NAS; Merlin's home server setup
• TP-Link Archer AX55
  The router
• NextDNS
  DNS with ad blocking; Iron Troika member
• Cloudflare
  Third member of the Iron Troika
• DynDNS
  Dynamic DNS; the old way
• Let's Encrypt
  Free SSL certificates
• Passkeys
  Passwordless authentication
• Hide My Email
  Apple's email aliasing
• Linda Stone
  Coined "email apnea" and "continuous partial attention"
• "Are You Breathing? Do You Have Email Apnea?"
  Linda Stone's original article
• Claude Code as elevator music
  Matt Webb on the contemplative rhythm of working with Claude Code
• J. Edgar Hoover
  FBI director; Clyde Tolson
• Cary Grant & Randolph Scott
  Lived together; "Riding the Trails Alone"
• The Carter Family
  First family of country music
• Cowboy Carter
  Beyoncé's country album
• Country Music (Ken Burns)
  2019 documentary series
• Trypophobia
  Lotus seed pods; a clown situation
• Pansy Division
  Queercore band; pun on Panzer Division
• Reformation Iconoclasm
  Defacing religious art