155: No curses, no whammies

September 1, 2019 4:38 PM

After several technical hiccups, Jessamyn and I managed to record a podcast, and here it is! Lots of MeFi and Ask; lots of users' first posts, lots of animal posts, even several first animal posts. Runs about 90 minutes.

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- Ten years of thanks. by mrbill

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Featured on this episode:
- Red Prairie Dawn by CarrotAdventure
- 06 - dwarfdub headache - vampire deer by pyramid termite
- Permanent Temporary Structures by srednivashtar
- Continue Save Retry by q*ben

posted by cortex (staff) to MeFi Podcast at 4:38 PM (22 comments total)

in retrospect the thing where we said "no curses no whammies" may have been lost to the pre-roll edit, which i guess qualifies as one final curse and/or whammy after all

*shakes fist at podcast clouds*
posted by cortex (staff) at 4:44 PM on September 1, 2019 [2 favorites]

I imagine that jessamyn is going to be getting an influx of Quip toothbrushes sent to her as gifts.
posted by The Wrong Kind of Cheese at 6:41 PM on September 1, 2019

I sort of wish that was how it works, but it so rarely does
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 8:07 PM on September 1, 2019 [2 favorites]

Ooh, a post of mine made the podcast! I'll definitely have to give this one a listen.
posted by capricorn at 8:11 PM on September 1, 2019

Wait, TWO of my posts made the podcast! How exciting!
posted by capricorn at 8:13 PM on September 1, 2019 [4 favorites]

(Capricorn the constellation/astrological sign is half-fish, half-goat.)
posted by capricorn at 8:18 PM on September 1, 2019 [2 favorites]

Ooo, podcast on a Sunday! I don't have to wait until after work to listen! Looking forward to it.
posted by rangefinder 1.4 at 8:19 PM on September 1, 2019

pangwin!
posted by iamkimiam at 2:48 PM on September 2, 2019 [2 favorites]

I think it's from an old game show called Press Your Luck?

I realize I said "androgynous zones" instead of "erogenous zones." I am fine with this.
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 5:04 PM on September 2, 2019 [6 favorites]

Glad to hear that cortex is at least looking into an ad or 2 for the Podcast.
posted by 922257033c4a0f3cecdbd819a46d626999d1af4a at 6:29 PM on September 2, 2019

I don't know that jessamyn will get toothbrushes, but if I should ever happen across a llama x-ray...
posted by zengargoyle at 10:46 PM on September 2, 2019

In regards to "Thirst Account", I see it as an evolution from having a "hunger for attention" to "thirst for attention" to posting things on twitter/instagram/whatever to get likes and favs to slake that thirst; therefore a Thirst Account is one that's used to get a lot of positive feedback by posting cute pictures, tasty food, witty remarks, and so forth.
posted by jazon at 6:39 AM on September 3, 2019 [1 favorite]

This is great; I was just thinking last night about how Septembers always seem to be reliably stressful (including shingles a few years ago). Apparently it's because I'm a Virgo.
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 9:24 AM on September 3, 2019 [1 favorite]

“Last quarter we took in about $28,000 and two Casper mattresses per month...”
posted by Huffy Puffy at 12:35 PM on September 3, 2019 [1 favorite]

Hey, just occurred to me you guys don't talk about Fanfare! Why not?
posted by bq at 1:32 PM on September 3, 2019 [1 favorite]

I go in and out of using FanFare, though I really should have talked about it this time because I started watching a show that everyone else watched years ago. but it was fun to get to dip into threads and see what other MeFites had to say and spam their Recent Activity with my various impressions.
posted by jessamyn (retired) at 2:12 PM on September 3, 2019 [1 favorite]

I often don't find a lot of time to engage with FanFare genres of media outside of slowly working an episode or two at a time through older TV stuff in the evening, and then making the time to go find and re-engage with older threads about that stuff where it exists is a habit I haven't built up enough. Basically it's a me thing, not a FanFare thing, but if I haven't actually mucked around in FanFare that month I may not have anything to say.

I'd like to get into the habit of checking in on the new GBBO season, and the new Terrace House season when it starts, to have an excuse/reminder to go pop in weekly about stuff.
posted by cortex (staff) at 3:50 PM on September 3, 2019 [1 favorite]

I feel compelled to defend 155 because every number has something to recommend it.

If you want to build a house of cards 10 levels high, you need 155 cards.

This is a silly fact that I don't expect anyone else to care about. But I really like the snub square tiling (and use it for my profile picture here and elsewhere). My icon is just a small section of that tiling; here's a larger region- a circle-ish thing where all the points are within a fixed number of line segments of some central point. If you form the region reachable within 30 line segments of a central point, your region would have 155 points.
posted by a snickering nuthatch at 9:53 PM on September 3, 2019 [2 favorites]

Small note about an existing pony that might kick-start activity in Jobs - letting people post multiple "position wanted" posts, or letting people update their existing one. What's the status of that?
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 5:53 AM on September 5, 2019

Aside from "dryer core" (which I'd seen in the Ask), I thought I heard the name of a new nerdy music genre in this episode: "technical debt metal." Which I thought was fantastic and made me wonder if it would be the official genre to play during work. But of course it's actually technical death metal - interesting but not quite the same.

For a not-at-all-high-priority item (so many other things that would be more important), how about putting the map on IRL (rather than, or in addition to Jobs)? It'd be neat to see all the meetups/events on a map and give a visual sense of the global reach of MeFi meetups.

Did not expect that the loudest laugh for me would be from "Let's talk about my Sony VAIO!"

Thanks for another enjoyable podcast roundup.
posted by rangefinder 1.4 at 2:20 AM on September 6, 2019 [1 favorite]

i hereby declare that Technical Debt Metal is a subgenre of chiptunes/circuitbending where you intentionally overload the CPU with too many layers of function call abstraction so it can't render audio at full-speed and instead creates a slowed-down drone synthemetal full of unreproducible hiccups and filter malfunctions
posted by cortex (staff) at 3:32 PM on September 10, 2019 [2 favorites]

I really, really, really do not have time this month to explore latency as an art form. Introducing the idea is just mean.

Also, the podcast made me wonder if this existed. I'm delighted to find that it does.
posted by eotvos at 6:45 AM on September 11, 2019 [1 favorite]