Comments on: 18: The MeFites Have Been Drinking

18: The MeFites Have Been Drinking

mathowie — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:28:55 -0800

Show #18 of the podcast features recaps from all sections of the site and some talk about new and upcoming features. It was recorded on November 2, 2007 and runs about 70 minutes long.

Helpful links Podcast Feed MeFi Podcast on iTunes Direct mp3 download (64Mb) MeFi Music Featured in the show Scarring Party's "Follow It Down" uploaded by foole (earlier popular Scarring Party song from MeFi Music) "The MeFite Has Been Drinking" by goodnewsfortheinsane (all the Tom Waits Impression songs are freaking great) Various topics mentioned in the introduction MetaTalk thread about Halloween costumes/pumpkins: Mythbusters costume (Adam Savage chimed in), grumblebee's costume, and Tobais Funke in blue. help me shave my own back! MeFi Contact Activity mockup A writer explains the writers strike peacay's blog, turned into a book mothershock's post about her new book MeFi Projects The Day the Soldiers Came book MeFi Jobs Ruby on Rails programming job at GameLayers "GameLayers is to internets what lol is to cats." MetaFilter links recap Baby porcupine eats a banana and has the hiccups Remix the Flags of the World The encylocpedic Buffalo State Hospital thread ".99999 is the same as 1" Great YouTube video of a 30 minute BBC show on how TV production works TubeSock for downloading/converting YouTube video to iPod formats (OS X) Chris Anderson's adventures with PR spam The Definitive list of MST3K episodes on YouTube and Google Video Van Halen playing off-key music at a concert Ask MetaFilter links Exhaustive list of the best food threads from Ask MetaFilter, complete with categorization Why is a white sheet associated with a ghost? Driving to different neighborhoods for better candy? Why do we hate Cuba again? (previous thread comparing Cuba with Vietnam travel) Brilliant recurring events you should add to your calendar How to make a trip around the world more meaningful Books or Movies where the protagonist dies unexpectedly I don't watch TV but I want to stay up on cultural memes (like Head On?) How do I break my addiction to stuff? Jessica Hagy's Index book/blog

By: SassHat

SassHat — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:36:14 -0800

With IRC as my witness, I threatened two nights ago that I was going to post a MeTa consisting of the following:

"PODCAST! PODCAST! PODCAST!"

Clearly, patience is a virtue.

By: pantsrobot

pantsrobot — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:04:40 -0800

Any mirrors to the asavage costume?

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:09:04 -0800

"...and runs about 70 minutes long."

Yeah, sure, I didn't have anything else I needed to do this week.

It'd probably be a pain in the ass for Matt, who has to edit and post the things, but I'd rather have a ½-hr weekly cast than 60+ min ever 2-3 weeks.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:12:03 -0800

Ok, I'm going to pretend it rendered my HTML entity for "1/2", because Matt and pb have been rolling out a lot of stuff lately, cool or otherwise*, and one really stupid basic simple thing like that isn't worth bringing down the thread this early on.

* wonderchicken, I'm looking at you

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:18:46 -0800

Sometimes there is just a lot to talk about....

By: Item

Item — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:23:33 -0800

Your Mythbusters costume link is dead, and too bad as I missed it first time 'round.

see what I did there? I linked to the same dead page you linked to! I am very smart tonight.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 18:35:35 -0800

I didn't see that .9r=1 thread the first time 'round, and am disappointed that it's closed now, because early on in the Judas Priest another-think/thing-coming Lyrical Disputation and mathiness and despite the fact that my undergrad degree was actually in Math and I'm all about the wordplay, I got the idea to drop the totally awesome snarky pun about mental masturbation and 'another dink-thumbing' but I couldn't do it so now I'm sad.

By: Reggie Digest

Reggie Digest — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:01:43 -0800

I don't know if I want to be the one to bring this up again, but...

Meffite or Meefite?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:35:10 -0800

Meeefite is correct, but it works better in the Tom Waits song parody to say MehFite

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:40:44 -0800

Somebody hand Matt a Sucrets.

Great podcast. Needs more ColdChef.

By: delmoi

delmoi — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:45:56 -0800

Meefite?

I've always pronounced it like "may-fight" (of course that depends on how you pronounce those words in your accent as well)

Perhaps the next podcast can consist entirely of mefites calling in and trying to pronounce the word. It would be very pomo.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:49:48 -0800

The MeFite may fight, but in the end it's just a meh-fight.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:50:57 -0800

Also, 'mee-fight' is the way of light and truth.

By: Reggie Digest

Reggie Digest — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:52:53 -0800

I am satisfied. Issue resolved.

By: nicwolff

nicwolff — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:00:43 -0800

Of course, if you subscribed to the MetaFilter podcast Foneshow you'd have gotten this as soon as it was published.</self-link>

By: mathowie

mathowie — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:20:26 -0800

Needs more ColdChef.

No obligatory jonson reference either. That fucker's check bounced this week.

By: jonson

jonson — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:30:33 -0800

I AM JUST A LITTLE SHORT RIGHT NOW I WILL PAY DOUBLE NEXT WEEK!!!

By: yhbc

yhbc — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:36:42 -0800

(quoted for emphasis, because you can't favorite more than once)

Meeefite is correct...
posted by mathowie at 10:35 PM on November 6

By: danb

danb — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:26:59 -0800

Oh, what the hell does he know.

By: philomathoholic

philomathoholic — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 01:22:39 -0800

You know, I started out saying meeefiiii, but then when I heard cortex say it meffy I switched to that. It just sounds better, rolls off the tongue so smooth.

By: MetaMonkey

MetaMonkey — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:30:36 -0800

On the thing/think deal, sometime after that thread I stumbled upon an Alan Watts talk where he explains that a thing actually is a think, "a thing is a think - a unit of thought". Well I found it amusing anyway. It's a cool talk too, worth listening to.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:54:37 -0800

but I'd rather have a 1/2-hr weekly cast than 60+ min ever 2-3 weeks.

Me too; when they're an hour or more long I find it almost impossible to pay attention. Also, more than two people talking is a great improvement.

I am satisfied. Issue resolved.

You're easily satisfied. Matt may have started the site, but he doesn't control pronunciation. Like philomathoholic said, it's got to be meffy:

It just sounds better, rolls off the tongue so smooth.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:26:30 -0800

Like philomathoholic said, it's got to be meffy:

Not you too languagehat, nooooooooooooooooo!

Damn, you could probably cite 500 year old english language precedent for why is really should be meffy.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:11:40 -0800

I just asked Bill Shakespeare, and he told me "Meffy, forsooth."

By: horsemuth

horsemuth — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:46:38 -0800

I've always pronounced it like "may-fight" (of course that depends on how you pronounce those words in your accent as well)

Weird, because even though I call it Mee Fi, I have always pronounced (in my head) the full name May-ta Filter.
For example:

theta...
beta...
meta...?

By: Reggie Digest

Reggie Digest — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:54:55 -0800

The vowel i after the single consonant f effects the previous vowel e, making it long. So that's Me. The Fi is ambiguous on its own, but as part of Fite, it is subject to the same rule. Hence, Fi, as in φ.

(Just don't tell the Iraqis.)

Anyway.

So, Tubesock: Worth the $15?

By: languagehat

languagehat — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:15:19 -0800

horsemuth: It's not a Greek letter, it's a prefix. Do you say "may-ta-physics"? "May-ta-phor"?

By: horsemuth

horsemuth — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:49:52 -0800

Ahhh, good answer. Your examples stuck instantly and the voice in my head now says it properly - though, I'm paranoid that I will now accidentally say metaphor incorrectly.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:45:13 -0800

&FRAC; OFF

By: quin

quin — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 14:41:29 -0800

delmoi : I've always pronounced it like "may-fight"

You are weird.

Wanna fight?

By: dersins

dersins — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:22:26 -0800

He may.

By: web-goddess

web-goddess — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:15:53 -0800

Hey, that's my Mythbusters costume! Apologies for the broken link; crapflooding comment spammers have knocked my effing site off the Internet this week. I've managed to put up a holding page, but the archives are still hosed. HOWEVER - I did have a copy of our costume photo in my email, and I've uploaded that to my new host. It's here.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:57:57 -0800

re: metachat's "Recent MeFi posts by Metachat users" . We simply take the main rss feed and constrain on matching usernames.

By: solistrato

solistrato — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:29:44 -0800

INTERVIEW ROBOCOP IS BLEEDING

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:00:22 -0800

INTERVIEW ROBOCOP IS BLEEDING

I AM SAVING THE LIBRARIANS FOR LAST

By: dersins

dersins — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:30:07 -0800

THEN INTERVIEW ME. I AM NOT A LIBRARIAN.

By: dersins

dersins — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:59:37 -0800

OOPS I TAKE IT BACK I MEAN INTERVIEW JONSON. WE MUST KNOW WHAT MAKES HIM SO AWESOME.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:25:11 -0800

run
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run
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pant, pant pant.. whooh.. anyway, it's pronounced "Meh-fih." Like "Medford." MehtaFihlter.
Hey, am I late? Where is everyone? /me checks watch
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