Computex 2013 Travel Blog Part 2
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech Tips coverage of Computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital. Our
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trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner
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is ncx.com. Okay, so okay, come on. Help me
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out with this. Okay, so 13's unlucky. Okay, 13 is missing. And then four is
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unlucky. Four is 14. Why do you have 14 then? You know, it's kind of ridiculous.
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It's like the place my parents live. They have no 13th floor, no floors with
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four in them, but then it goes up to 40 floors. So they have 40, 41, 42. It's
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like you don't just get to make up new rules. So our room here at the Sherwood
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is awesome. Check this out. There's like a place to sit that it. Okay. No, the
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place to sit makes no sense, but it's like I don't know. You could if you had
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like a really small person, then you'd have like an maybe it's like a dog bed.
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I think it's like a romantic thing. romantic where you'd like have a couple
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sit well the bed's over there if they want the romance. Uh then we've got our
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closet. So that's where the safe is including a romantic house
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coat. Oh, please don't open the main switch. Got it. Okay. Toilets aren't The
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toilet's huge. The bathroom's huge. So
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this is this is sort of different because Oh, another romantic house coat.
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So Oh, whoa. Okay. So, you could have two people showering in this bathroom at
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the same time, but one of them would be expected to kind of do this and then the
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other one would be expected to go in the actual standup shower. So, it has both a
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bath and a shower and an additional shower for the bath, but only one sink,
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mind you. So, you you wouldn't get sort of too many too many sort of people in
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here at the same time. Although, one person could be on the heated can. So,
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there's power save functionality, seat heat, and seat
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sensor. And then, uh, there's a control
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panel on the left. Oh, control panel. Yeah, there we go. Okay.
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So, what happens if we press the thing?
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I think you have to be on it. You have to be on it for it to work. Yeah, it has
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sensors. It has sensors. Well, what if you like what if you I guess it's
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probably pretty powerful. They don't want you using it as like a drinking fountain. Yeah, cuz it can squirt over
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the seat.
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Oh, okay. Here we go. So, next we've got two
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queen beds, which is much better than our arrangement at CES where we had to
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have four people sharing two queen beds. Now we have two people sharing two queen
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beds, which is awesome. I'm sharing a room with B-roll. Got our TV. Got our
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little cabinet here with the presumably ludicrously expensive Ah, yes. Pringles.
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I'm almost afraid to touch them just because they'll probably be poisoned.
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Um, and then well, no, not poisoned, but they'll be expensive. And oh, oh, our
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breakfast menu, which is brilliant because uh our breakfast is covered for
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us every day except the days of the Computex show. So, we're like, well,
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we're here for Computex. They're like, "Oh, well then you get breakfast on this
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one day." Oh, okay. That makes sense. Here's our desk. Here is our window.
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Here is B-roll's chair.
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And this is my chair. Boom. This is
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actually a super super comfy chair. And
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uh that's pretty much it. That's our room. It's actually super super nice.
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So, uh, those butttheads left the hotel
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without us cuz we're running behind them.
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And they didn't give us the note at the hotel, so we have no idea where they are
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now. We're supposed to be finding Taiwan Cellular Corp, but
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like I don't know. We're in the spot now
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and it's not here.
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Yeah.
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Great. So, we're lost. Yeah, basically.
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Okay. Oh, so apparently this store is closed
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like forever. Thank you. Like forever. I I I don't know. He was
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just like, "Yeah, they're gone." So, okay. How can a hotel not have that
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updated already? I don't know. And apparently that's where they send Slick
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and Diesel. So then they must be just wandering.
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You have got to be kidding me. This is a great start. Have I told you how great a
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start this is?
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So here we are in Taipei. It's
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6:55. Yep. And everything is closed.
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We're trying to buy SIM cards. Oh, there's a card. We We don't really know
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how things work here. No, it's like really confusing.
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Oh, he beat us pretty. Okay. And yeah, apparently he went the other way.
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Okay, we should go to 7-Eleven now. We go to 7-Eleven. Why? Because I
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think it's the only store that's going to be open and it's really, really humid, so we want drinks. Yeah. Rule
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number one, stay hydrated.
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Where we are, folks. Um, we got some like egg things going on here. And it
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looks like you kind of make your own uh sort of delicious thing. We got some
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like hot dogs. This is This isn't really that
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different. Seafood wraps or seaweed wraps of some sort. Yeah. Yep. All look
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good, actually. 7-Eleven. So, this is new. Well, we got
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another note. We are in our room. We assumed you
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would stay here lol. So, we've been on a a wild goose chase. How long we walked
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like away from 7-Eleven? Where's their Where's their room? 1401.
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Hello. Hi. Hi. Did you guys find SIM
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cards? No, we couldn't get in. Did Did you like how the uh the directions were
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to a place that the guy told us is like gone? What? Yeah.
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So So we went down there, then we're like, "Oh, well, they're from North
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America. Maybe they gravitated towards the 7-Eleven." You did? I
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knew someone who's actually less adventurous than me. Can you walk me
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through the uh foreign delicacies that you have on your plate here?
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Uh I have uh what they call back over
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here. Backan. Yeah. Back. And waffla.
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Yeah. Uhhuh. And what were
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these? Sauti. Sauti. Patas. Potatoes.
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Okay. And this was salagas. Wow. Cool. Diesel,
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can you explain to me why you did this?
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Well, I thought I would clean up this mess because the guy who did it Linus.
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Uh, sorry. Did you say slick? No, I said
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Linus. Slick. Why would you put sausages in miso soup? You did. Yeah, that I
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think this video record will prove that uh it was you.
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Okay, so we're heading for the second tallest building in the world. I got
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Jason from WD who is of course uh taking
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pictures with someone else's cell phone other than mine. Hello. Thanks, man. Can
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you want to get the building? Take you. Oh, gotcha. Just playing video right
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now. Cool. So, yeah, we're going to head up there, which will be pretty exciting.
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The highest I've ever been is uh hotel in Vegas, which was not this high.
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Cool. I guess if I say the highest I've ever been is at a hotel in Vegas, that
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could be interpreted sort of the wrong way, but Oh, Taipei 101. Slick. The only
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building taller than you.
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Uh, how do we get there? I'm assuming go up. Going up a tall building. Tall
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building. Up as opposed to down.
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Slick. How are your ears doing in the world's fastest elevator?
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I can't see the thing tracking how quickly we're going there.
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1,000 m per minute. That is quite the uh
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My ears popped like multiple times on the way up here.
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Is that healthy? Oh, it's probably fine.
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So, there is bigger not that big. It's pretty cool, I guess. Yeah. No big deal.
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Holy crap. It's cool because how the building's built, it comes out on an
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angle. So when you look over, it feels like you're actually leaning over the
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edge because it comes in. That is very
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disorienting. I mean, that right there
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must be like what a 30story building.
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And this is just makes it look
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stupid. You can see
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everywhere. Sorry. Can Can you tell me can you tell me how normal this is? this
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vibration we're feeling right now. This is my first time.
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Okay. So, so the staff here on Taipei
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101 is very reassuring. Everyone seems to be kind of heading for the elevator
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over there.
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Wow. Let's go. Okay, we can go.
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There's like people running around with like messages and stuff.
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It's funny cuz we were just in there talking about how the damper made it so
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we couldn't feel anything.
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All the elevators. We just earthquake inside.
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Please be patient and wait for our next instruction. We thank you for your
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understanding. to go down. WD wants to go down. I think
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we're going down. So, we're going down 89 flights of stairs.
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Nope. Nope. We're not going down any stairs.
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Really? Even even
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if we have earthquakes.
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Sure. You know what's crazy is that's my
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first time. We've had probably four or five earthquakes in Vancouver in my
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life. That's the first time I've ever actually felt an earthquake. Felt an earthquake before. Yeah. I've always
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slept through them or something. Okay. All the buildings in Taipei.
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The biggest building in Taipei. That is awesome.
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Oh, we're down on the lower level of the damper observatory.
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Oh, I wish we'd been looking at the damper when uh our timing was almost
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perfect. Yeah. Yeah. No, the after the aftershock is coming for sure, right?
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Yes. So, it should be good. I'm just going to hide behind this dude. It's
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funny because if you get him from the right angle, he looks really unhappy.
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See, check this out. It's
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like anything. Yeah, we're not allowed
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to move. Apparently broken. The fastest elevator in the world is
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broken. Is it broken or is they just not let us
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They're not letting us walk down either. So, we're basically stuck in this building. See that? I don't Tell me how
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you feel about traveling all the way around the world. I'm totally emailing
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your mom and telling her there was an
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earthquake more. Yeah. Uh yeah, Slick
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Slick's mom is already super mad at me for letting him go halfway around the
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world. So, uh the fact that we were 101 stories up during an earthquake is going
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to really thrill her. You know, she follows me on Twitter. I think I just
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have to tweet. Who she's going to kill? She's going to kill you, not me. That's
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true. So, you're down. So, here. Let's just This I'm fine
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for now. So, that was a 6.5 earthquake and this
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is the line to go down.
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So, I think I think we're here for a bit. I think we should buy some jewelry
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and So, the entire team is getting uh
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haircuts so that we look nice and slick for tomorrow. So, we have no idea what's
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going on, but Albert from WD here is uh
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guiding us guiding us through the process. And uh B-roll, he's Albert is
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his new favorite person because they've been talking shop about cameras and
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lenses and stuff I barely even understood the whole time they were talking. So, we've been told to relax
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while we wait for our haircut. So, we got some pretty stylish chairs and they
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brought a refreshing beverage. So, so it's a paper cup, but it comes in
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a nice little plastic holder. I don't know what it is. It's
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yellow. I hope it's not for like haircuts.
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Okay. We're making sure the temperature is just right for
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not not too picky. Lennis, how you want it? Um,
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which shaved? No, not not shaved.
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Just shorter in general. You know what? Whatever. Uh, whatever
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they think is
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But, but I need them to show me how to, you know, how to style it properly
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after. He's taking a video. Yeah. So, this is
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Diesel getting his eyebrow shaped to look his best while we're uh while we're
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at the show there. Yeah. Let me get out of the way so you can get a better angle.
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You know how to censor stuff. Sorry.
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Yep. Yeah. There's nothing he can do right now cuz there's a straight edge
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like an inch from his face or touching
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it. She's really good with it. Yeah, she is. Yeah.
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No, I I barely even felt the straight edge on on