17: Piles all the way down

October 23, 2007 4:49 PM

Show #17 of the podcast features an interview with scody and recaps from the last three weeks of the MeFi universe. It was recorded on October 19, 2007 and runs about an hour long.

helpful links
Podcast Feed RSS (Subscribe to the MeFi Podcast in iTunes)
Direct mp3 download (58Mb)


MeFi Music
Even Then by sleepy pete
surely, something is meant by this (goddamn) by es_de_bah
MeFi Music Challenge


Projects
Brewing in a pumpkin project (best picture of it)


Jobs
Museum Collections Manager (oops, applications due today) posted by Miko (who posted this metatalk thread about meta-metafilter sites)


MeFi Posts
"Photos pile"
NYC Photos 1968-1972, Photos of American Cities from the mid-20th Century, and Photographs Of Unknown Origin

"Music pile"
Good MySpace Music, Djanjo Reinhardt, Roland Dyens

"Ice Pile"
Polar ice sheet breaks and Mysterious ice circles

Legend of the Unicorn Kingdom random videos by a kid in his basement

Randonneur bike rides

50 best breasts

Radiohead: WhatPriceDidYouChoose.com

Jessamyn interviewed by Chronicle of Higher Ed.


Ask MeFi

"Introversion pile"
Bad at small talk, How much solitude can a telecommuter handle?, and How can I shut my brain up and enjoy my life?

Classy behavior?

In Search of the Perfect Spinach Salad

Name your favorite mnemonic device for recalling historical facts

Where do I find your country's b3ta?

Looking for a disturbing image from several years ago

Help jessamyn remember where she read something

Food items that help with weight loss

Beautiful, large public interiors (including the Krannert Center in Urbana, Illinois)

Sad story pile
Bad divorce story and sad coming out story


scody interview
The State thread
scody: hot for quonsar

posted by mathowie to MeFi Podcast at 4:49 PM (27 comments total)

"scody is another one of those middle-aged women using Metafilter"

That makes me LOL.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 4:52 PM on October 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

Wait -- is there a quota? (Sex change, rejuvenation or accelerated aging -- how to choose?)
posted by maudlin at 5:18 PM on October 23, 2007

I think I meant "other besides ME" Oh gosh that sounded funny.
posted by jessamyn at 5:51 PM on October 23, 2007

This is an odd complaint - but does anybody else have a *lot* of trouble hearing Matt and Jess's voices on an iPod? I often listen to the Mefi podcast on my walk to work, and I have to turn the volume ALL the way up to hear anything at all (and even then I lose half of it). I just can't follow the conversation at all over the street noise and traffic. I don't think it's a general problem with my hearing, because music at that level is deafening. (I've also listened to other voice-based podcasts that didn't seem so quiet.) Or maybe it's a frequency issue - I can definitely hear Jessamyn's voice a lot better than Matt's. Maybe I need to use a different equalizer setting or something. Suggestions would be welcome. (Is there any way you can record 'louder', Matt??)
posted by web-goddess at 6:33 PM on October 23, 2007

scody is soooooooooooo freakin' haaaaaaaawwwwwwwt.

*facial tic*

*drools*
posted by quonsar at 6:38 PM on October 23, 2007

She'd look cool in a Josie & the Pussycats costume.
posted by jonmc at 6:56 PM on October 23, 2007

Oh yeah, usually I compress the voices and boost the volume at the end, but I forgot this time. I'd say load the song in itunes, right click it and hit Get Info, then push the volume up a bit and iTunes should save that setting the next time it plays.
posted by mathowie at 6:57 PM on October 23, 2007

Middle aged women represent!
posted by Miko at 7:03 PM on October 23, 2007 [1 favorite]

Regarding that youtube video of just the parts of movies where famous women take their tops off that Jessamyn mentioned . . . linx plz tia.
posted by ND¢ at 7:12 PM on October 23, 2007

ND¢: here.
posted by jessamyn at 7:26 PM on October 23, 2007

Sweet. Thanks.
posted by ND¢ at 7:38 PM on October 23, 2007

Actually it wasn't just this one, Matt; it's been the last three or four that I've really noticed. I'll try your iTunes trick tomorrow and see if that helps.
posted by web-goddess at 7:55 PM on October 23, 2007

Scody sounds just like she oughta - cool, energetic, verbal, and vibrant. It's quite the museum-erific podcast this time. With breasts! Awesome.
posted by Miko at 8:07 PM on October 23, 2007

I'm re-encoding the podcast and it'll finish uploading in about an hour.
posted by mathowie at 8:13 PM on October 23, 2007

Hey, thanks for the shoutout, scody! My photo-taking finger is just fine despite all the furniture moving. I'm not actually a believer of karma, but given how people have helped me before (like letting me crash on their couches before/after meetups), it's only fair that I give some back here and there. But you had better not break up with that bastard: I'm so not moving that mattress again, you hear?

P.S. Still hot for melons!
posted by DaShiv at 8:50 PM on October 23, 2007

No call-ins? I'm sad, I was stealing up my resolve to call in my question this time! :(
posted by SassHat at 10:42 PM on October 23, 2007

All hail mefi's Lupercalian wise woman!
posted by brujita at 1:55 AM on October 24, 2007

In general I find podcasts are quieter than my CD collection. This is true both of professionally-produced podcasts coming from NPR and some homebrewed stuff acquaintances do on their laptop's built-in mic.

I don't know exactly why but I'm guessing it's because I have "Sound Check" selected in iTunes, which equalizes playback levels on music. I'd bet it doesn't affect podcast files.
posted by ardgedee at 6:44 AM on October 24, 2007

A resolution has been posted in Metatalk about the bad divorce story... thanks everyone.
posted by Unicorn on the cob at 10:02 AM on October 24, 2007

I think it's interesting to note that no one seems to have any problem hearing me on the podcast, probably because I am yelling. Hee.

Anyhow, thanks again, Matt and Jess -- it was mucho fun! And it was nice to have it to listen to it last night... I had just brought my boyfriend back from a trip to the ER (note to everyone out there: please avoid accidentally putting your arm through a pane of glass, as Bad Things tend to ensue), and so in his Dilaudid haze, he was quite amused by the whole thing.
posted by scody at 1:53 PM on October 24, 2007

Thanks for calling me a genius, jessamyn! I'm going to use that to my advantage MANY times.
posted by iconomy at 2:42 PM on October 24, 2007

That was a great show. scody was a damn crack up! Great interview. It seems matt fixed it prior to my listening, because it sounded really good to me.
posted by snsranch at 3:52 PM on October 24, 2007

Another great podcast! And "Big Ups" to Jessamyn for the name drop. Your check is in the mail!
posted by ColdChef at 5:35 PM on October 24, 2007

Thanks for calling me a genius, jessamyn!

Thanks for reading my mind so that I could make my point to a bunch of librarians the next day. You made ME look smart. Yay AskMe!
posted by jessamyn at 7:36 PM on October 24, 2007

More "Big Ups" to Jessamyn for the name drop. Your fish is in quonsar's pants!
posted by blasdelf at 12:22 AM on October 25, 2007

In the "cool podcast points allocation sweepstakes" you guys get all my points because these are the only podcasts I can be arsed to listen to. Nice job!

Technical question: Are you two in the same room? And if you're not, are you using something to make it sound as though you are? And if so, what?

Enquiring minds want to know, please.
posted by DarlingBri at 7:35 AM on November 2, 2007

That should be "there is resolution on the sad divorce."
posted by Pronoiac at 11:55 AM on November 2, 2007