John guides Merlin through an unusual form of communication.

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John guides Merlin through an unusual form of communication.

So unusual is this form of communication that its interrogation continues through the members-only bonus episode.

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(Recorded on Tuesday, April 2, 2024)

Credits

• Audio Editor: Jim Metzendorf
  


• Admin Assistance: Kerry Provenzano
  


• Music: Merlin Mann


• The Suits: Stephen Hackett, Myke Hurley

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You Ruined Everything, by Jonathan Coulton

Kottke's post about Waffle House’s Magic Marker System

Waffle House's Pull Drop Mark Order Calling Method - YouTube

Waffle House's Food Safety Training - YouTube

Waffle House Marker System Poster

"…wheat" - YouTube

Multimodal Literacy and the Myth of Low-Skilled Labor at Waffle House

The learning curve for a Waffle House server can be steep, and even steeper for a cook. The process by which an order cycles from the customer-menu interaction to the final presentation of food is complex, multimodal, and reliant on code-switching.

Hamming code

John mistakenly used this name instead of the correct one. (See next link.)

Huffman coding

This is what John should have said.

The XKCD comic about generalized systems

Merlin's pegboard

Julia Child's kitchen