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

mathowie — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:14:52 -0800

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!

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:44:47 -0800

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

By: mrzarquon

mrzarquon — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:48:34 -0800

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.

By: Fuzzy Skinner

Fuzzy Skinner — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 13:56:29 -0800

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.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:08:17 -0800

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

By: mrzarquon

mrzarquon — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:14:46 -0800

> 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.

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:06:38 -0800

[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!

By: roll truck roll

roll truck roll — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:13:38 -0800

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.

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:40:40 -0800

Anyone have a link to the Obama Mccain elitist picture?

the one with the bike

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:51:43 -0800

here's the elitist pic.

[ʃaˈ na toˈ va]

SHA-nah TOE-vah. Yes?

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:10:08 -0800

Heh, I was actually talking about this one, which is the same thing but more elegant looking and doesn't mention the bike.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:17:33 -0800

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

By: amyms

amyms — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:00:48 -0800

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).

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:42:59 -0800

That bike of Obama's... How new is it?

By: pjern

pjern — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:39:30 -0800

The best part of this was listening to Jessamyn trying to approximate Rossini with Wagner's The Valkyries and the Dudley-Do-Right theme :)

By: bluefly

bluefly — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:06:22 -0800

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!

By: bluefly

bluefly — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:24:54 -0800

Oy! There are lots of errant apostrophes in the last comment; sorry!

By: advil

advil — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 08:14:19 -0800

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.

By: steef

steef — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:08:27 -0800

TryTheTilapia's reading is indeed awesome. Comment readings should become a regular feature!

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:11:26 -0800

[ʃaˈ na toˈ va]

SHA-nah TOE-vah. Yes?

Nope, nope. Sha-NAH Toe-VAH!

By: Meatbomb

Meatbomb — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:05:40 -0800

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".

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:36:57 -0800

You can sort of tell I learned to talk by reading the internet, huh?

By: Rafaelloello

Rafaelloello — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:31:54 -0800

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.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:27:13 -0800

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.

By: mdonley

mdonley — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:09:56 -0800

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

*the more you know*

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:44:21 -0800

jessamyn: For the record, is was Wagner you were humming like a Nazi.

By: vacapinta

vacapinta — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:21:47 -0800

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.