32: This kid doesn't even know how to drive

October 3, 2008 1:14 PM

The 32nd podcast features recaps from the month of September on all the mefi sites and a very special comment reading from TryTheTilapia. It runs about an hour long.

direct link

MeFi Music
1988 and There's a Party in My Head by god particle

La Tarea by ORThey

Intro stuff
Jessamyn's posts about Palin on her blog that became newsworthy

Banned books week

Cycle Oregon (my vacation write-up and photos)

Old meetup threads now have direct photo links

MeFi Jobs
Designing Treehouse Plans (lovely sketch)

International English job

MeFi Projects
Library Finds

Short Meal Service

Modista

"Ivy League Elitists"

MeFi threads
Musical Highway!

Pickering and Female Computers history

David Foster Wallace obit thread

Paul Newman obit story by TryTheTilapia (she reads it in the last 8min)

Adam Savage's hour long talk about his Dodo bird skeleton and the pursuit of knowledge

Solitaire Civilization paper game

Stack Overflow blog launched (cortex on their podcast talking about lots of behind-the-scenes MeFi stuff)

Ask MeFi
How do I get websense to unblock my innocuous blog?

Make the Beeriodic Table

How do you make your own log cabin?

Presidential Debate party ideas

It burns when I pee!

posted by mathowie to MeFi Podcast at 1:14 PM (26 comments total)

Talking pony request: Can the next podcast have a 'Meet the Mods' segment, so we can finally learn what pb and vacapinta sound like?
posted by ardgedee at 1:44 PM on October 3, 2008 [1 favorite]

Choice! they are giving us more podcast! (gin)

This is my monthly cleaning ritual now, new podcast comes out: time to listen to it while cleaning the apartment.
posted by mrzarquon at 1:48 PM on October 3, 2008

Can the next podcast have a 'Meet the Mods' segment, so we can finally learn what pb and vacapinta sound like?

pb sounds like KITT. Vacapinta sounds like fresh dew on a lovely spring morning.
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 1:56 PM on October 3, 2008

You only clean once a month? I don't know whether to be repulsed or turned on.
posted by WolfDaddy at 2:08 PM on October 3, 2008

> You only clean once a month? I don't know whether to be repulsed or turned on.

Really, you will have to figure that one out on your own.
posted by mrzarquon at 2:14 PM on October 3, 2008 [1 favorite]

[ʃaˈ na toˈ va]

Another quibble? Matt, you can't buy dick for $5 at Radio Shack anymore. That place is ridiculous.


AWESOME reading, TryTheTilapia!
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 3:06 PM on October 3, 2008

I remember buying dick at Radio Shack for $5. Even back when they were a dick store, they still had that weird section of wires in the back.
posted by roll truck roll at 3:13 PM on October 3, 2008 [1 favorite]

Anyone have a link to the Obama Mccain elitist picture?

the one with the bike
posted by cillit bang at 5:40 PM on October 3, 2008

here's the elitist pic.

[ʃaˈ na toˈ va]

SHA-nah TOE-vah. Yes?
posted by jessamyn at 5:51 PM on October 3, 2008 [2 favorites]

Heh, I was actually talking about this one, which is the same thing but more elegant looking and doesn't mention the bike.
posted by mathowie at 6:10 PM on October 3, 2008 [1 favorite]

Do you think Obama listens to Journey's Escape in his Ford Escape? I bet he does.
posted by jonmc at 6:17 PM on October 3, 2008

Do you think Obama listens to Journey's Escape in his Ford Escape? I bet he does.

Or he might listen to Rupert Holmes' "Escape" (the Pina Colada song).
posted by amyms at 7:00 PM on October 3, 2008

That bike of Obama's... How new is it?
posted by ardgedee at 7:42 PM on October 3, 2008

The best part of this was listening to Jessamyn trying to approximate Rossini with Wagner's The Valkyries and the Dudley-Do-Right theme :)
posted by pjern at 9:39 PM on October 3, 2008

I really liked the comment reading at the end. It's like Metafilter come alive!

I looked at the elitist picture, and listening to everyone talk, I would have thought he had 10 Mercedes or something, but there's only that one Lexus. He has a 2001 Honda sedan and a Jeep Wrangler and a Prius. The McCain's just seem like people that never sell their old cars. Maybe, they let their kids' drive them; that's what my parents did with their old cars. The plane does seem like a bit much though -- and all those houses!
posted by bluefly at 4:06 AM on October 4, 2008 [1 favorite]

Oy! There are lots of errant apostrophes in the last comment; sorry!
posted by bluefly at 4:24 AM on October 4, 2008

The McCain's just seem like people that never sell their old cars. Maybe, they let their kids' drive them; that's what my parents did with their old cars.

They own 10 cars, almost all of them less than 8 years old (not to mention the 3 GEM vehicles)! My parents are actual people who never sell their old cars (or, only when they really have to) -- and they've owned about half that total number of cars over the last 30 years or so.
posted by advil at 8:14 AM on October 4, 2008

TryTheTilapia's reading is indeed awesome. Comment readings should become a regular feature!
posted by steef at 10:08 AM on October 4, 2008

[ʃaˈ na toˈ va]

SHA-nah TOE-vah. Yes?

Nope, nope. Sha-NAH Toe-VAH!
posted by Ambrosia Voyeur at 12:11 PM on October 4, 2008

Tajikistan is the home of my excellent woman!
Jessamyn: "Kyrgyzstan" doesn't have a "dz" sound, it is a hard g. The first two vowels are not even schwas, you just kind of swallow them. Take the last syllable of "maker" or "faker" - that's the first syllable of "Kyrgyzstan".
posted by Meatbomb at 9:05 AM on October 6, 2008

You can sort of tell I learned to talk by reading the internet, huh?
posted by jessamyn at 9:36 AM on October 6, 2008

jessamyn:

"So why don't you, like, give people some back story, if God forbid, they've missed it?"

mathowie:

"I know, yeah, uh, so what's. So we get this dumb, uh, Vice Presidential, uh..., nominee. Nominee? Uh-at, He picked her.

jessamyn:

"He picked her. Or somebody picked her."


Nice.
posted by Rafaelloello at 9:31 PM on October 11, 2008

The ums and yeahs and stuff are me stammering to try and explain the Palin pick to someone as if they hadn't heard the news which was kind of a hard thing to imagine since it was the biggest story for weeks when we recorded the show.

It's like a friend asking you to explain the US election to someone that has never heard of either candidate, in 30 seconds, with no prep. It's not easy.
posted by mathowie at 10:27 PM on October 11, 2008

For future reference, the dodo is from Mauritius, not Mauritania.

*the more you know*
posted by mdonley at 4:09 PM on October 12, 2008

jessamyn: For the record, is was Wagner you were humming like a Nazi.
posted by Sys Rq at 9:44 AM on October 15, 2008

Talking pony request: Can the next podcast have a 'Meet the Mods' segment, so we can finally learn what pb and vacapinta sound like?
posted by ardgedee at 9:44 PM on October 3

This is me talking.
posted by vacapinta at 1:21 PM on October 27, 2008