Comments on: 34: cortex drives the bus

34: cortex drives the bus

mathowie — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:51:16 -0800

The 34th podcast features newly pantless full-time employee cortex and is unfortunately jessamyn-free. It features recaps from around the MeFi universe and runs about 45min long.

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By: doctor_negative

doctor_negative — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:53:26 -0800

and is unfortunately jessamyn-free

Sausage fest!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:04:38 -0800

You did NOT just say "hot three-way action" next time.....

By: DU

DU — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:10:21 -0800

If you think cortex is only newly pantsless you are more naive than I thought.

By: Brandon Blatcher

Brandon Blatcher — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:33:25 -0800

and is unfortunately jessamyn-free

slowly, cortex's plan unfolds...

By: scabrous

scabrous — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:36:43 -0800

I really want to ask the question "What's the deal with meatballs?" just to see what the answers would be.

By: geoff.

geoff. — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:54:12 -0800

(1) Kansas is the America's silent silicon valley. We don't like to brag. Remember goatse? He lived walking distance from me (which given Kansas' sparse nature, is something). None of us had the courage to go to his house, who wants to see the man behind the curtains? After it snowed we wrote "Goatse is Pokey the Penguin" in his driveway, hoping to open up some sort of Internet blackhole, alas, we probably just creeped him out.

(2) I'm pretty sure Sean Tevis brother / cousin / relative sold me my a/c unit because he both looked and talked like Sean Tevis and shared his last name. When I asked he ignored my question, which leads me to believe ... SEAN TEVIS IS GOATSE AND IS STALKING ME.

We might not have a Nick Denton gawker / wonkette / major media outlet, but gas is $1.68 and I'm on a 100mb fiber to the home connection. So , take that.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:58:01 -0800

I've been in Kansas twice in the past month and had a very nice time.

By: fantabulous timewaster

fantabulous timewaster — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:08:41 -0800

I've never been to Kansas, but I hear there's a big asshole down the street.

By: sleepy pete

sleepy pete — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:24:43 -0800

I've lived in Kansas and if you think this is the first job cortex was pantsless at, you are sadly mistaken.

By: wheelieman

wheelieman — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:56:54 -0800

Ok whats with the leaky faucet Cortex?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:00:21 -0800

That's the Skype noise when you send links back and forth. Cortex apparently doesn't have a headset [true?] and so you can hear it when him and mathowie IM each other.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:36:13 -0800

It's not that I don't have a headset, it's that I was stubbornly not using one because I was feeling sassy. But I also don't have a USB one, so as far as the Macbook is concerned I guess I don't have one after all.

But: sassy.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:59:41 -0800

Holy crapcannon, cortex sounds like my evil twin (OR AM I THE EVIL ONE)! I was having a tring very disconcerting 'wait a minute am I living a dual life the details of the other one I am totally unable to recall' moments there, listening.

Until he said 'Meh-fie' and the spell was broken.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:00:23 -0800

tring='a string of'

By: Astro Zombie

Astro Zombie — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:26:46 -0800

God damn it tkchrist. That's a great fucking story, but if it beats my Pixar story for favorites I will cry and cry and cry.

By: Cranberry

Cranberry — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:17:25 -0800

This thread is useless without pictures.

By: wheelieman

wheelieman — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:10:52 -0800

Why does Skype want you to go to the bathroom?

By: robocop is bleeding

robocop is bleeding — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:13:44 -0800

I is not a dick!

I just have 12 fingers.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:41:22 -0800

you can hear it when him and mathowie IM each other

Him? Him??? I'm just going to assume that's a result of the same blunt-force head trauma that got cortex on the podcast.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:42:54 -0800

I got tired of the nitpicky rainmen telling me how to pronounce everything, so I spent the day in the tub instead, actually.

By: steef

steef — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:43:07 -0800

ORthey? I just got that. (Facepalm.)

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 08:20:17 -0800

It's not that I don't have a headset, it's that I was stubbornly not using one because I was feeling sassy.

Dunno about sassy, but with the echo and the drip noises, you sound like you're broadcasting from inside a leaky bathysphere. Adds a certain frisson.

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:01:48 -0800

Also, that cover of Miss You is fucking ace.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:27:30 -0800

I can't believe cortex pronounces "LOL" as "Lowell".

Mind.

Blown.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:48:10 -0800

I went to school in Worcester. I'm just telling it like it is.

By: sparkletone

sparkletone — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:48:58 -0800

Holy crapcannon, cortex sounds like my evil twin (OR AM I THE EVIL ONE)!

I have thought this several times while playing TF2 with you, since I have a vague memory of what his voice sounds like over the mic from way back when.

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:01:19 -0800

Cortex sounds almost exactly like Lore.

And like me.

And apparently everyone else.

OMG GUYS ARE WE ALL THE SAME PERSON?!

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:37:52 -0800

Sorry I broke your compressor with my overloudness.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:07:55 -0800

sassy.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:10:24 -0800

'I can't believe cortex pronounces "LOL" as "Lowell".'

You've obviously never been to LOL, MA.

By: cortex

cortex — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:34:31 -0800

butts lowell

By: Karlos the Jackal

Karlos the Jackal — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:27:34 -0800

This is my first time being featured! Thanks!

I'm "featured!" I'm "featured!"

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:16:36 -0800

holy crap i made the podcast omg omg omg

But truly, my comment stands on the shoulders of ~~giants~~ other Mefites.

I'd like to thank those Mefites today for making this possible. And thanks also to... ma-thooey? maa... hoh-wee? ...for the shout-out.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:55:17 -0800

Can I just go on the record saying that thanks in no small part to cortex, this was an absolute delight to listen to? Josh really seems to bring a lot of energy to the conversation.

Looking forward to the gleesome threesome!

By: fantabulous timewaster

fantabulous timewaster — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:10:46 -0800

is LOL, MA anywhere near roflmao?

By: SlyBevel

SlyBevel — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:13:30 -0800

So whose drip was that in the background?

By: Ambrosia Voyeur

Ambrosia Voyeur — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:21:27 -0800

Did you just call jonmc and I lurkers? WTF? *knocks over lamp, cries, takes off clothes, inexplicably*

By: tellurian

tellurian — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:50:55 -0800

Yeah, it was good to hear cortex but I swear every time he said Aspergers, it sounded to me like ass burgers.