Comments on: 59: The Most Illegal Thing I've Seen in the History of Wrestling

59: The Most Illegal Thing I've Seen in the History of Wrestling

mathowie — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:11:02 -0800

Four Years Running! This episode runs about an hour and 20 min long and covers everything from the first of the year until Wednesday the 23rd when we recorded it.

Ye Olde Cortex interview MeFi Projects GameFilter In Focus (Big Picture blog successor) Chinese street portraits and interviews about the future of China IRC bot for #mefi & A modern Markov chain chatbot & Twittov: Nonsense generator & Previously, On The X-Files (Markov meets Mulder) Bad Job Interviews YouTube Comment Limericks YayTM: Rewarding Quality Dancing with Dollar Bills TileMill (open source, easy editing of maps) MeFi Jobs Taxonomy Data Analyst IRL Austin, TX SXSW meetup Portland One last MeFi Project Start to Finish: A MetaFilter Music Podcast MeFi Posts The Crazy Nastyass Honey Badger Online Corpora (related: MetaFilter corpus frequency of word use) Bibliotheca Corviniana Egyptian Revolution thread Twitter search of all mentions of the MeFi short Twitter URLs Music from a MRI machine The Julie Project (18 years of photos of a drug user dealing through AIDS) The Baseball Club flash game Caspar Babypants music for kids & adults (and they showed up in the thread) Lots of links about mathematics Human Centipede on Amazon streaming for free Baseball Card Hall of Fame MeFi's own Fernando Perez (his userpage) Dog noises came from this: Ask MeFi What are the great TV shows available on Netflix streaming New Years Resolution-ish highlights: What are some things you tell yourself when you have "woe is me" moments? and How to feel creative and successful like you did during that one relationship years ago and What useful things can you learn in an hour or less? Is parenting going to suck forever? What small things can I do each day with big rewards in the future? (habit judo: A nice little hack for variously rewarding yourself for good deeds) Share you Kraft Mac 'n Cheese hacks Give me tips on how to make the worst possible presentation (includes a copy of the asker's slides and presentation, which went badly) The Most Illegal Thing I've Seen in the History of Wrestling: Unusual American History moments (related blog: Memory Place) Awesome cross-stitch:

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:23:41 -0800

"How long have you been with us Josh?"

oh my god Jessamyn's gonna fire cortex oh no

By: cortex

cortex — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:34:29 -0800

Holy wow that old podcast was short.

By: absalom

absalom — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:34:47 -0800

Gamefilter!

By: mathowie

mathowie — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:36:15 -0800

Yeah, the original plan for the MeFi podcast was to run it at 20-30 minutes. We used to record for about an hour, and I'd spent three days cutting it down to the absolute minmal length. Then the feedback on the early episodes was "if you guys talk for 90min, why not just put 90min long podcasts up?" and we eventually obliged.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:37:01 -0800

The unscripted stuff makes the podcast, so thanks.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:58:39 -0800

Oh! Oh my!

*giggles & blushes*

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:07:34 -0800

Ms. Clav is a Cross-stitcher and that is nice work and it brought a very slow smile to my face.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:10:56 -0800

Sorry I sound like I am in a well, I am at not-home and don't have my normal nerd headset.

I am at the point where cortex tells mathowie to "man the fuck up and watch some Star Trek" and it is making me smile.

By: P.o.B.

P.o.B. — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:52:52 -0800

Woah! Did Jessamyn dropped some Run DMC at the end there:

Not bad meaning bad
but bad meaning good!

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:53:54 -0800

I was going to listen to this, but I think I'll wait for the house remix.

By: P.o.B.

P.o.B. — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:54:08 -0800

drop-ded

By: ocherdraco

ocherdraco — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:03:12 -0800

"clickity! clickity! clickity!"

heehee!

By: filthy light thief

filthy light thief — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:09:36 -0800

What is the thing above the phrase in the cross-stitching? (Or is that something addressed in the podcast?) All I'm seeing is the top of an Oregon Trail-type wagon, may crashed or collapsed on rocks.

By: maudlin

maudlin — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:12:07 -0800

I haven't watched anywhere near 3 minutes of wrestling since I was a kid in Montreal, when Saturdays always included 2 hours of wrestling with legends like Giant Jean Ferré (as Andre the Giant was known back then.)

But I had to watch that whole video. Unbelievably awesome!

By: shakespeherian

shakespeherian — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:26:53 -0800

And people have the audacity to claim pro wrestling is fake.

By: mintcake!

mintcake! — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:38:42 -0800

Woah! Jessamyn dropped some Run DMC at the end there

People always ask 'DMC - what does it mean?'
D's for never dirty, MC's for mathowie & cortex.

By: ocherdraco

ocherdraco — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:41:42 -0800

or mintcake!

By: mintcake!

mintcake! — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:45:54 -0800

Oh damn.

By: achmorrison

achmorrison — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:21:49 -0800

So, what do you want to know about achmorrison?

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:02:42 -0800

How do you pronounce it!

By: achmorrison

achmorrison — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:43:01 -0800

I say "a. c. h. morrison", since the first three letters are the initials of my first and middle names. So, not Jewish. :)

And I'm glad cortex enjoyed the post. Sometime soon I hope to post a followup on my blog about what I learned while researching the post.

By: boo_radley

boo_radley — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:04:05 -0800

also enjoying the pregnant pause around corpora.

By: hydrophonic

hydrophonic — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 17:04:57 -0800

cortex, I think the music you're searching for is the Langley Schools Music Project.

By: Hardcore Poser

Hardcore Poser — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 22:21:36 -0800

I sure hope Matt escapes the Borg Collective before the next podcast.

By: kaibutsu

kaibutsu — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 05:37:10 -0800

And then one day User #1's name was mysteriously changed to 'locutushaughey'....

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 20:06:24 -0800

Thanks again for the kind words, folks. I hope the Gamefilter gets some traction and that people have fun with it. I like fun!

By: iamkimiam

iamkimiam — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 07:34:14 -0800

Language podcast, yay! Thanks for the shoutout on the cor'ora stuff (I don't pronounce the 'p'...word armies, fuck yeah!)

By: Fin Azvandi

Fin Azvandi — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:09:18 -0800

There are countless universes in which I discovered the MeFi podcast before today...I wished I lived in one of them. Thanks folks.

By: Hackworth

Hackworth — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:17:31 -0800

Ok, so wait, someone thought that Neutral Milk Hotel was offensive just because they reference Anne Frank? That seems a little knee-jerk, no?