78: Finishing Moves
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March 4, 2013 10:04 AM Subscribe
This episode runs about an hour and forty minutes long and features recaps of the site for the month of February. Shortest month, but longest podcast?
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Links To The Damn Paper by Blasdelb - White House endorses the idea of open papers for public-funded research.
3500: An Autistic Boy's Ten-Year Romance with Snow White by Lokheed
Horse_egifs by six-or-six-thirty
Ebook index of free ebooks for the Kindle by Pronoiac
Slow Paparazzo by dontoine
Bird Presidents by cortex (President Coolidge gives props)
Sauna Sounds Cover Album by Corduroy
Cold Cat animated short by edlundart
I Can Eat 50 Cadbury Creme Eggs by kerning
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Information Systems manager for a food co-op in Austin, TX
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Foxes jump in a north-easterly direction
Inside the world of the Blind Baseball World Series
The "finishing moves" from games video
Get Your Shit Together - a short checklist for becoming an adult
We Buy White Albums (side one played 100 times, while my guitar gently weeps played 8 times at once)
Park Tools guides, videos, and technical papers on bike repair
Poutine is coming to Candian military meal rations (also Halloumi)
Biblionaut - prose/poetry in an audio/visual presentation
Growing up with Star Trek: Next Generation
Wood Central, the long-time woodworker's forum (Lost Art press, anarchist's tool chest, mug shots of WoodCentral's famous members)
Atari VCS demo 2012
The largest new prime number
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What is the "Bless your heart" of your field?
Citation needed: women talk more than men?
Restaurant Ask MeFi twofer: I have to eat at Red Lobster, what should I order? and What are the best things to order at bad chain restaurants?
How to criss-cross the US by traveling on the cheap? (Travels with Samantha)
Name the phenomena where all the numbers on a clock/calendar are the same
Name some songs that count in the lyrics
Please explain Ron Jeremy to me
Help me find smaller vitamin tablets that are easier to swallow (sugaring, sugar on snow)
Looking for useful sites like Lifehacker/Cool Tools/etc?
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The "majorminor" tag
Walk Into De Funeral Parlor Jig by usonian
Walking on Sunshine by chococat
There Goes The Sun by Obscure Reference
Astronomy Domine - Vampire Deer by pyramid termite
Margaritahell by cortex
The Lonely Karmic Cop by Doleful Creature
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Links To The Damn Paper by Blasdelb - White House endorses the idea of open papers for public-funded research.
3500: An Autistic Boy's Ten-Year Romance with Snow White by Lokheed
Horse_egifs by six-or-six-thirty
Ebook index of free ebooks for the Kindle by Pronoiac
Slow Paparazzo by dontoine
Bird Presidents by cortex (President Coolidge gives props)
Sauna Sounds Cover Album by Corduroy
Cold Cat animated short by edlundart
I Can Eat 50 Cadbury Creme Eggs by kerning
MeFi Jobs
Information Systems manager for a food co-op in Austin, TX
MeFi Posts
Foxes jump in a north-easterly direction
Inside the world of the Blind Baseball World Series
The "finishing moves" from games video
Get Your Shit Together - a short checklist for becoming an adult
We Buy White Albums (side one played 100 times, while my guitar gently weeps played 8 times at once)
Park Tools guides, videos, and technical papers on bike repair
Poutine is coming to Candian military meal rations (also Halloumi)
Biblionaut - prose/poetry in an audio/visual presentation
Growing up with Star Trek: Next Generation
Wood Central, the long-time woodworker's forum (Lost Art press, anarchist's tool chest, mug shots of WoodCentral's famous members)
Atari VCS demo 2012
The largest new prime number
Ask MeFi Questions
What is the "Bless your heart" of your field?
Citation needed: women talk more than men?
Restaurant Ask MeFi twofer: I have to eat at Red Lobster, what should I order? and What are the best things to order at bad chain restaurants?
How to criss-cross the US by traveling on the cheap? (Travels with Samantha)
Name the phenomena where all the numbers on a clock/calendar are the same
Name some songs that count in the lyrics
Please explain Ron Jeremy to me
Help me find smaller vitamin tablets that are easier to swallow (sugaring, sugar on snow)
Looking for useful sites like Lifehacker/Cool Tools/etc?
MeFi Music
The "majorminor" tag
Walk Into De Funeral Parlor Jig by usonian
Walking on Sunshine by chococat
There Goes The Sun by Obscure Reference
Astronomy Domine - Vampire Deer by pyramid termite
Margaritahell by cortex
The Lonely Karmic Cop by Doleful Creature
MetaTalk posts
MeFi Metup/Gathering talks in MetaTalk
I read the title as the total number of finishing moves available to the mods when deleting a post...
posted by Pantengliopoli at 1:52 PM on March 4, 2013
posted by Pantengliopoli at 1:52 PM on March 4, 2013
Skipped forward to the bit about Travels with Samantha. Mentioned it in a comment a few weeks back and sent Philip Greenspun a (hopefully not fanboy-ish) "Hey! It's 20 years, dude!" email. He sent a nice response, including:
"Thanks for the link. The 20th anniversary is not until September so I have a few months left. I guess I should do a Kindle version."
The end result of his book for me (and a few similar ones e.g. "Blue Highways") is now 3+ years spent in America, several road and rail trips (including a 7,000 mile loop), and now engaged to an American. Yeah, books can influence.
posted by Wordshore at 2:01 PM on March 4, 2013
"Thanks for the link. The 20th anniversary is not until September so I have a few months left. I guess I should do a Kindle version."
The end result of his book for me (and a few similar ones e.g. "Blue Highways") is now 3+ years spent in America, several road and rail trips (including a 7,000 mile loop), and now engaged to an American. Yeah, books can influence.
posted by Wordshore at 2:01 PM on March 4, 2013
That Ron Jeremy question was great. I had never heard of Ron Jeremy before, period, and that question had me reading the answers and linked articles in fascination for longer than I'd like to admit. I thought it was one of those Only on MetaFilter questions where you had people answering a question about a porn star so seriously and without the lulz. Well played.
posted by misozaki at 3:42 PM on March 4, 2013
posted by misozaki at 3:42 PM on March 4, 2013
About the swear jar, I don't think I ever had "hell" on the list. I don't think I've changed it since the original list: fuck, shit, damn, dammit, dick, bastard, and asshole. We could change it if you want, though. Or I could post what it finds, for sanity checking and lols.
Also, we could have swearing offsets, where e.g. dagnabbit, gosh, and darn count against swears, perhaps fractionally.
posted by Pronoiac at 6:10 PM on March 4, 2013
Also, we could have swearing offsets, where e.g. dagnabbit, gosh, and darn count against swears, perhaps fractionally.
posted by Pronoiac at 6:10 PM on March 4, 2013
Cheese curd talk got me to googling where I can find them around here (Philly) and I found we just got a food truck that exclusively makes fried cheese curds.
posted by DoubleLune at 6:37 PM on March 4, 2013
posted by DoubleLune at 6:37 PM on March 4, 2013
I like the idea of fractional offset swears. But I feel like it will be pretty easy to get swearing to the point where it's just a once in a while thing. This one was already scads better than last one (sorry Mo Nickels!)
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:37 PM on March 4, 2013
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 6:37 PM on March 4, 2013
Who are you calling a scad, eh?
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane (staff) at 10:50 PM on March 4, 2013
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane (staff) at 10:50 PM on March 4, 2013
cortex: Wait, the f-word? Which one is that?
mathowie: It was just all swearing.
cortex: Damn it.
Nice fucking try, cortex.
posted by iamkimiam at 12:02 AM on March 5, 2013
mathowie: It was just all swearing.
cortex: Damn it.
Nice fucking try, cortex.
posted by iamkimiam at 12:02 AM on March 5, 2013
Cussing's the best part!
posted by a humble nudibranch at 12:25 AM on March 5, 2013
posted by a humble nudibranch at 12:25 AM on March 5, 2013
Nice fucking try, cortex.
I didn't really expect it to work, but I had to try.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:21 AM on March 5, 2013
I didn't really expect it to work, but I had to try.
posted by cortex (staff) at 7:21 AM on March 5, 2013
OMFG. I LOVE grade B maple syrup! The plinth household favors grade B more than any other variety - but grade C? I've never seen that in these here parts.
Trying to figure out how to make a sugar shack breakfast work with a child with Celiac disease, though...
posted by plinth at 5:16 AM on March 8, 2013
Trying to figure out how to make a sugar shack breakfast work with a child with Celiac disease, though...
posted by plinth at 5:16 AM on March 8, 2013
gluten-free rice waffles, yes?
Also, for whatever reason, I've been on a Halloumi kick lately...Halloumi with fried eggs, in salads, over beans, fried in slices, whatever! That part of the podcast really amused me.
posted by iamkimiam at 2:24 AM on March 9, 2013
Also, for whatever reason, I've been on a Halloumi kick lately...Halloumi with fried eggs, in salads, over beans, fried in slices, whatever! That part of the podcast really amused me.
posted by iamkimiam at 2:24 AM on March 9, 2013
When in Sellwood, I suggest the charmingly old school Kay's Bar for poutine. Corner of SE Bybee and SE Milwaukie. The Portland Poutine blog will reveal all.
posted by mumkin at 9:10 PM on March 9, 2013
posted by mumkin at 9:10 PM on March 9, 2013
So. Cracker Barrel.
It's more of a Southern phenomenon than Midwestern, although there are some locations out that direction. Their headquarters is based just outside of Nashville in Lebanon, TN, so you can also consider that something of the epicenter of the restaurant expansion. If you're looking for a Yankee sort of approximation of what they offer by way of food, well, think about IHOP or perhaps your local all-night diner for the breakfast items and a southern meat-and-three (sorry, don't have another analog here) kind of offering for dinner. Every location will have very strange junkshop items and vintage ads on the walls (see previously) and the front of the restaurant will always be a miniaturized Wall Drug offering all kinds of kitsch and vintage candy. They also sell rocking chairs out front.
There is no buffet.
They are generally placed within half a mile of interstate exits with billboards advertising their locations several miles out. Paraphrasing jessamyn, it's one of the few places along the highway to get table service when on a long road trip. In general, not a bad place to grab a bite.
Golden Corral (or as we called it in college, Golden Feedbag) is a different beast altogether.
posted by pianoblack at 4:07 PM on March 10, 2013
It's more of a Southern phenomenon than Midwestern, although there are some locations out that direction. Their headquarters is based just outside of Nashville in Lebanon, TN, so you can also consider that something of the epicenter of the restaurant expansion. If you're looking for a Yankee sort of approximation of what they offer by way of food, well, think about IHOP or perhaps your local all-night diner for the breakfast items and a southern meat-and-three (sorry, don't have another analog here) kind of offering for dinner. Every location will have very strange junkshop items and vintage ads on the walls (see previously) and the front of the restaurant will always be a miniaturized Wall Drug offering all kinds of kitsch and vintage candy. They also sell rocking chairs out front.
There is no buffet.
They are generally placed within half a mile of interstate exits with billboards advertising their locations several miles out. Paraphrasing jessamyn, it's one of the few places along the highway to get table service when on a long road trip. In general, not a bad place to grab a bite.
Golden Corral (or as we called it in college, Golden Feedbag) is a different beast altogether.
posted by pianoblack at 4:07 PM on March 10, 2013
Let us know when it's on the wiki and we'll link it here. Thanks beryllium!
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:39 PM on March 13, 2013
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 7:39 PM on March 13, 2013
Okay, I ran the swear counter. There's more swearing in this comment than there was in the podcast.
I took damn and dammit off the list. Counting only fuck, shit, dick, and asshole:
jessamyn: 3, one from the project titled "Get Your Shit Together," and a couple of "shit"s after.
mathowie: 0! There was a false positive from mentioning Dickens, which, ah, did I mention the process was a hack?
cortex: 4, and all were "bullshit" and "shit."
In summary: You're doing much better, but you still have shit to work on.
posted by Pronoiac at 8:44 PM on March 13, 2013
I took damn and dammit off the list. Counting only fuck, shit, dick, and asshole:
jessamyn: 3, one from the project titled "Get Your Shit Together," and a couple of "shit"s after.
mathowie: 0! There was a false positive from mentioning Dickens, which, ah, did I mention the process was a hack?
cortex: 4, and all were "bullshit" and "shit."
In summary: You're doing much better, but you still have shit to work on.
posted by Pronoiac at 8:44 PM on March 13, 2013
I am legitly upset at the trashing of Popeye's in this podcast. I know you're food snobs, but...Popeye's!
(Although Matt's aversion to Roy Underhill was hilarious.)
posted by Phire at 8:40 AM on March 19, 2013
(Although Matt's aversion to Roy Underhill was hilarious.)
posted by Phire at 8:40 AM on March 19, 2013
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