A Favorite Child

This week, your hosts talk about some stuff they're doing, loving Spotify, some Echo podcast-listening tips, the attraction of Google Drive, some thoughts on backup strategies, getting swole, the joys of rock tumbler ownership, scary times in Austin, weird iMac problems, some more thoughts on backup strategies, Merlin's obsession with drumming videos, and yet more Apple TV foibles.

Links for this episode:

• Ungainly X-Mann Meetup #21 — Merlin Mann
  
• Amazon adds follow-up mode for Alexa to let you make back-to-back requests | The Verge
  
• Mindfulness in Plain English - Audiobook | Audible.com
  
• Beatles '66 - Audiobook | Audible.com
  
• All the Pieces Matter - Audiobook | Audible.com
  
• The Dragonet Prophecy - Audiobook | Audible.com
  
• Spotify
  
• Spotify Integration - Fireside
  
• Amazon.com: My Pod: Alexa Skills
  
• Home - My Pod
  
• Using Google Drive - New Features, Benefits & Advantages of Google Cloud Storage
  
• Microsoft OneDrive
  
• Google Photos - Wikipedia
  
• How to use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support
  
• Shirt Pocket
  
• SuperDuper!
  
• Etcher
  
• How to create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support
  
• How to download macOS Sierra - Apple Support
  
• Cory Doctorow's craphound.com | Cory Doctorow's Literary Works
  
• Audiobooks matching keywords percy jackson | Audible.com
  
• School for Good and Evil
  
• Bernard "Pretty" Purdie: The Legendary Purdie Shuffle - YouTube
  
• No Retreat, No Surrender - Wikipedia
  
• Jean-Claude Van Damme - Wikipedia
  
• The Doctor's Promise - YouTube
  
• Netflix
  

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