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Podcast 8 preview Transcript
A transcript for Episode 8 Preview: This American Parody (2007-05-08).
Pronoiac passed the podcast to otter.ai.
Summary Keywords
tongue, deliberation, touched, finger, conduction, happened, ajax, holly, innovator, adaptive, president, licked, filter, process, met, great, little bit more, pioneer, electrical current, tip
Transcript
mathowie 0:04 Jesse James Garrett is the pioneer of Ajax and president of Adaptive Path. The lately has been known for being an innovator in another way.
jjg 0:18 I've been shot before, by electrical current coming out of a wall and it didn't kill me.
mathowie 0:29 It all started with a question not asked better filter.
jjg 0:33 First, I touched it with my finger, right? I touch it with my finger and nothing happened. And so I thought, well, you know, maybe it needs a little bit more conduction. So I licked my finger and then I touched it with my wet finger. And still nothing happened. I touched the edge of it with the tip of my tongue. And I and there was nothing I'm like, okay, so clearly, I have to complete a circuit here. And that was at that point that I, when I put the whole thing on my tongue and the first time I put the whole thing on tongue, I still didn't feel anything
I can't say that. I mean, all of this happened within the space of about like, two and a half minutes. So I can't say that there was a great deal of deliberation that went into the process.
mathowie 1:24 Today and the better for the podcast, stories of people putting their tongues on things. I met Holly. Act One best of Metafilter annasmith With Jessamyn
