Comments on: 27: Bigger than a breadbox

27: Bigger than a breadbox

mathowie — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:04:55 -0800

Show #27 features recaps from the past three weeks of MetaFilter. It was recorded on May 28, 2008 and runs about 60 minutes long.

direct download link Music mentioned: til we're dead by inoculatedcities melancholy piece by xmutex Book of Love (cover) by sleepy pete MetaTalk posts Projects gets public comments vacapinta as midnight mod Jobs Intelligent Female American Voices Wanted MetaFilter Posts Gary Snyder Utah Phillips obit One Man's Polaroid Collection Earthquake on your wedding day Rimshot and Sad Trombone The Weezer webmeme video (barenaked ladies version) (dave weinberger's post) Muxfind search for Muxtape Tables of Contents: Flickr set and tags Ask MeFi Posts Why can't my cat's paw work a laptop trackpad? Minibike stunt death of the world's largest twins? Handbrake ripped off by a commercial software company Why is the only .arpa site about unicycles? What do I need to know about wine as a restaurant server? What are code words in your field? Difference between a bag and a purse Do you wear your shoes indoors? Notable comments DaShiv on Clinton/Obama and Democrat primaries in history Downsides of Wii Fit

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:21:52 -0800

True story: usually I drink a big coke before recording so that I'm chipper and upbeat but the coke machine was broken where I got some breakfast so I sound sleepy and mumbly. Stupid caffeine!

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Fri, 30 May 2008 12:48:35 -0800

Country things! Country things!

By: ThePinkSuperhero

ThePinkSuperhero — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:22:01 -0800

And I'm down with the letter writing campaign, just say the word.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:59:50 -0800

Christ, I still haven't listened to #20. I need a vacation so I can get caught up.

By: drezdn

drezdn — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:06:49 -0800

Weezer on Muxtape.

By: danb

danb — Fri, 30 May 2008 14:51:32 -0800

"Everyone's Twittering now! Fuuuck!"

By: aubilenon

aubilenon — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:11:35 -0800

I have a breadbox! It's the same size as a small toaster oven.

By: netbros

netbros — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:48:15 -0800

What measurements define toaster ovens as small, medium, large, xl?

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:50:03 -0800

I'll call in.

By: unknowncommand

unknowncommand — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:46:33 -0800

Everyone I ask is in Bangalore. Bangalore! A great word.

By: dirigibleman

dirigibleman — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:05:58 -0800

Can I help you? What'd you do this time?

OMG! You sound just like me when I was the unofficial Linux tech support in grad school! Only less bitter!

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:43:11 -0800

Well, I've made it.

By: dirigibleman

dirigibleman — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:54:16 -0800

BTW, starting Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road right at the start of the indoor shoes thing absolutely meshes perfectly.

By: munchbunch

munchbunch — Sat, 31 May 2008 07:21:34 -0800

First song, did not appreciate the "dyslexic Presidents" line. Kind of a pejorative use don't you think?

By: graymouser

graymouser — Sat, 31 May 2008 09:25:31 -0800

Thanks to jessamyn for the very positive mention of the Utah Phillips post. It was really great to see so many positive reminisces and just a very nice appreciation of him on the site. (Am I really some kind of old-timer here? I joined right after $5 registration started, I guess that's been a while.)

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 31 May 2008 10:21:50 -0800

The lyrics for that verse are

Disbarred lawyers are threatening to sue
Dysfunctional families reproduce
Dyslexic presidents
Destroy the residents
Of a land previously unknown to you

You may want to take it up with innoculatedcities since it's his song. I think as pejoratives go, it's not that terrible, but we didn't pick the song for the lyrics.

By: danb

danb — Sat, 31 May 2008 14:32:54 -0800

For jessamyn and other record book fans: The Guinness Book of World Records Editor Answers Your Questions.

By: BrooklynCouch

BrooklynCouch — Sat, 31 May 2008 15:08:52 -0800

Guess I missed deadline on this one...

By: sleepy pete

sleepy pete — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:39:15 -0800

Hey, thanks for adding the song to the podcast. I think I forgot to say something last time you did that and I don't want to seem ungrateful or anything.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Sat, 31 May 2008 18:27:36 -0800

Hey! Glad you liked the teeshirt, Jessamyn. I was walking out the door of the restaurant and saw that and thought, "How could I not buy that?"

Great podcast. 27? Holy moses!

By: mothershock

mothershock — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:35:32 -0800

Awesome!

You know, we had a bit of a Wii-breakthrough, and I thought about updating my WiiFit comment in the original post, but maybe I'll throw it in here. After being totally demoralized by the WiiFit's casual frankness in regards to his physique, my 5 year old has come around and has started to play a few things. He does the yoga, a few strength moves, and especially loves the running (mostly because if you run really fast, you can make your Mii trip). He's kind of gotten the hang of the trainer responses, and has started to feel pretty good about his accomplishments. And his BMI went down a little after a week of WiiFit playing. He's still a little sad about not being "normal" in the body test (I wish they had some different terminology for that!), but he no longer feels ashamed that "the Wii thinks [he's] fat." Mostly we've just been talking a lot about how fun it is to try stuff even if you can't do it perfectly, and mostly he's been buying it.

By: Riverine

Riverine — Sat, 31 May 2008 21:35:59 -0800

Two notes:

I grab the podcast via Juice, and the version I got was only 19 minutes long. I am about to listen through the link on this page and see if it is 60 minutes long. (It appears to be complete.) Anyone else have this problem?

And second, is Mathowie snickering throughout the Gary Snyder bit? What, it's funny that a poet won a prize? Was the amount of the prize laughable? Does Matt hate poetry? WTF?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:58:40 -0800

It was hearing the phrase "$100,000 poetry prize" that cracked me up. It's such a weird phrase, like a jumble of words I never thought I'd hear in the same sentence -- I think of poetry as an intensely personal form of expression, something one does for many reasons, but I never thought of "prizes" or "$100,000" as a motivation to do poetry. It sounded weird; almost anti-poetry that a 100k prize exists for it.

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 00:39:54 -0800

sleepypete, just wanted to say that I Loved your cover!

By: eponymouse

eponymouse — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 07:37:41 -0800

Stuff I missed, cool!

The mail campaign idea for obtaining cat-scan.com cracked me up. I bet we could impersonate endearing/demanding children quite well (ahem).

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:07:19 -0800

Heh. The Wii Fit reminded me this morning that it was my wife's birthday. Then, when she got on to do her exercises, the Wii Fit Board Icon was wearing a birthday hat and it shot fireworks and streamers for her. Neat.

By: potch

potch — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:31:57 -0800

m: Why Female?

j: WE SOUND NICE!

Now I'm cleaning up after my spit-take.

By: BrooklynCouch

BrooklynCouch — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:37:46 -0800

This was a very funny podcast. I am glad I joined Metafilter.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:40:29 -0800

That was a very funny occurrence. I am suprised my comment was deleted.

By: BrodieShadeTree

BrodieShadeTree — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:38:54 -0800

Did Matt "yadda, yadda, yadda" the phrase "don't kill babies" ?!