Comments on: 23: One Year Down

23: One Year Down

mathowie — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:10:11 -0800

Show #23 is just after the one-year anniversary for podcast and covers all the best bits of MetaFilter in February. It was recorded on February 27, 2008 and runs an hour long.

Helpful links Podcast Feed MeFi Podcast on iTunes Direct mp3 download (56Mb) Music played The Punisher by cyphill Tyme Flyes When You're Havin' Rum by Faint of Butt Shelter by Corduroy Links mentioned in intro RPM challenge - cortex's, miko's MetaFilter Infodump MetaFilter Data Playground Links mentioned in calls callers: mmascolino, hadjiboy, loiseau, jouke Old "What if Matt gets hit by a bus" questions (2006, 2002) Mexican standoff, "some big shooting thing" "Linus Torvalds hit by a bus" Viewropa at the archive MeFi Jobs New Media Assistant at the Smithsonian, Library of Congress on Flickr Video Engineer at Disney MeFi links The Dyatlov Pass Mystery (mentioned on the SF Chronicle site) Bob and Doug McKenzie post (Canadian content requirement explained) Frozen, firegutted building (honeyx's comment in it) Astro Zombie's comment in the homeless thread (Afroblanco wrote a similar story, jdroth's interview with Adam Shepard) Ask MeFi links How does the Apple Store in NYC keep its heat in? How not to be a dork at a They Might Be Giants concert (Greg Nog's favorite songs) Meatbomb's laptop seized in Canada (Modest Mouse guy lost his too) Name some blogs like kottke.org How much weight can you possibly gain in a weekend? What is the origin of the term "Spoiler Alert"?

By: gen

gen — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:21:32 -0800

Happy podcast anniversary Matt, Jessamyn, pb, Cortex & all of us who love MetaFilter :)

By: gen

gen — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 23:45:48 -0800

You guys were talking about Orkut's popularity- here's the Le Monde map on social network services.

By: peacay

peacay — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:09:09 -0800

I think the mystery Québécoise caller was loiseau.
In addition to Viewropa: MadameMartin.
Thanks!

By: Dave Faris

Dave Faris — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:02:26 -0800

Hmph. The first podcast to come out after my hugely popular front page post, only after it's become irrelevant because the site has gone dark.... you waited this long just to avoid mentioning it. How very, very petty.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:04:35 -0800

I can absolutely see why the reference to the ending of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly was escaping Jessamyn's brain. You absolutely wouldn't wanna invite speculation as to which one was which.

By: bluefly

bluefly — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:01:28 -0800

I think jessamyn was talking about the SNL digital short which parodied the finale of one of the seasons of the OC. Here's the the Metafilter thread about it. It was pretty funny.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:04:49 -0800

I would say it's more Death Cab for Cutie guy, not Modest Mouse.

By: loiseau

loiseau — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:28:35 -0800

peacay: I think the mystery Québécoise caller was loiseau.

I even posted in the MeTa thread that I'd called! : (
Maybe you 'merkuns were expecting it to be pronounced loy-zoo or somethin'.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:42:50 -0800

Maybe you 'merkuns were expecting it to be pronounced loy-zoo or somethin'.

After reading the site in text for years, it's totally brain-bending to hear audio versions of everyone's username. Like with jouke's name, we were blown away by the pronunciation clashing with how we guessed what it sounded like in our brains years ago.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:59:54 -0800

So, did he get his laptop back? He's commented since, so I assume he did...

By: barnacles

barnacles — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:01:52 -0800

I found the timezone part of this one appropriate, as I downloaded the podcast to keep me awake until 3 AM, so that a post on the green would be seen by Californians first thing in their morning. Eerie timing! Maybe not so eerie as the Dyatlov business, but I'll take what I can get (and keep my tongue, thankyou).

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:07:37 -0800

My name is pronounced Astrizich Zombizitch.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:10:25 -0800

I think jessamyn was talking about the SNL digital short which parodied the finale of one of the seasons of the OC.

Well that makes no sense at all. How is that any kind of Mexican standoff? (Dunno about the SNL skit because it's not there any more.)

Obviously, this was the correct analogy:

jess, cortex and pb struggle for access to the mefi server after mathowie's death.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:10:52 -0800

No kidding? So is mine.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:14:09 -0800

This is the SNL skit (I changed the FPP link). I guess it's not a Mexican standoff per se.

By: quin

quin — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:14:33 -0800

Thanks bluefly, I knew immediately what she was talking about, and I was just starting to dig through my old links in an effort to find it.

It's a shame that the Predator link from the original post has been pulled from youtube. After watching the cleverness of the others, it was a perfect conclusion to the meme.

By: danb

danb — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:16:44 -0800

Whoops -- somehow I forgot to call in even with the extra week. One day!

By: onalark

onalark — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:30:39 -0800

Wow, thanks for going back to the Adam Shepard story, jdroth does a much better job of interviewing him than the original article and I might have missed that link.

By: loiseau

loiseau — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:33:53 -0800

Oh -- the Bob & Doug title is supposed to mean "it's a beauty way to go, eh?"

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:18:46 -0800

Yay, loiseau! You got it! Score one for Google Translator! (On my end, not yours. I speak no French, hein?)

By: loiseau

loiseau — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:20:16 -0800

Well, it's a bit too literal a translation... ("chemin" mean road) but I got the gist.

By: loiseau

loiseau — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:21:52 -0800

(mean+s)

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:57:21 -0800

La moitié de un, six douzaine de l'autre.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:08:39 -0800

Je suis desole, mais je ne parle pas francais.

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:36:42 -0800

Heureusement que je ne suis pas non plus, ou je vous ai dit maintenant, Take off!

By: Corduroy

Corduroy — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:16:10 -0800

I haven't listened to the podcast yet, so I don't know if this gets mentioned or not, but I just wanted to make sure that Audrey Johnston gets credit for the song "Shelter". All I did was post it.

By: danb

danb — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:32:56 -0800

Hey, speaking of all the great songs coming out recently -- is there going to be a MeFi Music Challenge theme for March?

By: Afroblanco

Afroblanco — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 22:18:59 -0800

Anniversary podcast is #23? Very Discordian, I must say!

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:51:17 -0800

No, I am leaving tomorrow and still without my laptop. Small mercies, having my super excellent new laptop waiting for me when I arrived here in Canada took away the sting a bit, but man am I pissed off.

None of the legal advice worked out, btw. Left messages on four different lawyers' answering machines, never heard back from one. Go figure.

On the other hand, I guess this is part of my small individual contribution to defending freedom, so hey, it's all good.

By: fijiwriter

fijiwriter — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:44:39 -0800

Sweet! My dorky TMBG Ask MeFi made it to the podcast! And I made #1 and Jessamyn laugh (and yes, kinda make fun of me). My life can officially end.

Jessamyn: the concert is this Saturday night in Jackson, Miss., ... I think the Ask post will still be open, so if it is I'll post a recap.

By: misha

misha — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:10:10 -0800

I was worried that super excellent new laptop was the one that was stolen, so I guess that's something to be thankful for, though the laptop seizure still sucks.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:59:26 -0800

True story: when Meatbomb spent the night at my house, the fan in his laptop was so loud, I was sure it ran on unleaded.

Excellent podcast, once again.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:17:01 -0800

Holy cats! Thanks for putting "Tyme Flyes" on the air.

By: dmt

dmt — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:55:49 -0800

First time I've listened - enjoyed it. Thanks!

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:50:20 -0800

This (and the previous 3 podcasts) helped get me through a way-too-long flight to Europe. Thanks!