Comments on: 64: Unsticking a dead mouse

64: Unsticking a dead mouse

mathowie — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:58:53 -0800

Podcast episode 64 features Josh and Jeremy talking over the last month of things on the site while I've been off on vacation. Enjoy!

AskMe Posts unsticking a dead mouse from the floor monkey in the middle relationship name? should I keep my moustache find a blog based on no information is morning breath real? What do I do about anal bleeding? MeFi Posts Anniversary post ZOMG BILL NYE I do not have an eating disorder Cheapass games free Murray Hall was buried in women's clothes A corpus analysis of rock harmony NPR story on hit math uPlaya post Introduction to Artificial Intelligence How to talk to a depressed person Music Posts Old Joe Clark Old Rockin Chair Public Transport Fashion Explosion Charlie Citrine Superhero Hey It's Okay Boron Rod Projects Which Fish & WhichFish site Tabletop iPad music studio Deleted Post Filter & Meta thread MeTa Threads mathowie interview in Willamette Week MeFi Mag #5 surprise haiku thread! Thanks for the support Jobs Mobile game developer On the subject of Tower Defense (of which genre Desktop Tower Defense is the best) Kingdom Rush is a good tower defense game

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 03:47:03 -0800

Jeremy?

By: malibustacey9999

malibustacey9999 — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 03:58:08 -0800

You're in Ozstralia. We don't have vacations, we go on holidays.

When in Rome...

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 03:58:12 -0800

Jeremy.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:17:25 -0800

Huh.

By: zarq

zarq — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:35:40 -0800

There's a typo in "Tabletop ipad studio"

Also, yay podcast! :)

By: ellieBOA

ellieBOA — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 04:49:22 -0800

The iTunes link to the iTunes store via my iPhone (wow too many iWords!) still has ep 63 as the latest?

By: item

item — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 05:50:02 -0800

Jeremy spoke in class today.

Interestingly enough (to me, at least), Pearl Jam wrote that song about an incident that happened at my high school the year before I attended there. Couldn't have happened to a crappier band. Poor kid.

By: wheelieman

wheelieman — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 05:53:00 -0800

I'm surprised the Retro Nickelodeon post didn't make it onto the podcast. That was a great FPP

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 07:10:15 -0800

There's a typo in "Tabletop ipad studio"

Fixed! Also removed Jessamyn's name from the "features..." bit since it's actually literally just me and restless_nomad this time out for wacky logistical reasons.

I'm surprised the Retro Nickelodeon post didn't make it onto the podcast.

Water is wet, sky is blue, Rhaomi makes a killer encyclopedic post. Truth be told I didn't get cable as a kid and so had never really given much of a care for Nickelodeon so it wasn't really on my radar, but, yeah, that was a monster.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 07:50:47 -0800

stavrosthewonderchicken?

By: Think_Long

Think_Long — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 08:11:21 -0800

Should the "Best tower defense game" be under the jobs category?

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 08:18:27 -0800

I would like to hire someone to build the best tower defense game.

But yeah, we generally put the links in the order they show up in the podcast, and we just suddenly started talking about it at the end there, so I guess it should be under Jobs but not in. I'll go subtly edit the post text now.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:18:57 -0800

for wacky logistical reasons.

I'm catsitting my sister's four cats and dealing with a blizzard of estate paperwork this week and I forgot to bring my headset down to MA. I scooted out to find a headset and after stopping at three different smaller local stores wound up at Walmart where I got a cheapie headset which, when I got it home, turned out to be BROKEN. Rawr! But I did do the HTML for the links do you can blame the typos on me.

This was fun to listen to!

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:23:23 -0800

It was fun to do! Even though I haven't been doing the regular podcast thing and had to sort of scramble for links, there were plenty and I think the video game derail, while inevitable, wasn't that excessive. I may actually bring myself to listen to it this afternoon, actually. (I cannot stand the sound of my own voice. *shudder*)

By: wheelieman

wheelieman — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 09:43:48 -0800

Before Matt edited this post, I kept waiting for Jessamyn to jump in and scare Josh and Jeremy but oh well, it was still fun

By: The Whelk

The Whelk — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:05:36 -0800

Jessamyn Josh And Jeremy, J FORCE THREE

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:18:54 -0800

I should probably take down the "games developer" job post. I found a software/hardware engineer and we're already working on the project.

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:35:05 -0800

I can't really describe how happy I am that you used my song. Thanks!

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:46:55 -0800

But do you pronounce your name koozlitz?

By: koeselitz

koeselitz — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:51:40 -0800

I pronounce my name "köselitz," like this guy. Mostly because German "ö"s are fun. Kyuuuuuuuuh-selitz.

When people say "koozlitz," though, I still come running.

By: troll

troll — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 13:49:25 -0800

I was surprised that the Bill Nye post turned out to be so problematic. It only has 312 YT links, whereas stavrosthewonderchicken's epic I like to watch post has 13,344 unbroken (99 broken) YT links. What gives?

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:24:32 -0800

Stav's epic (a) was also problematic as I recall but (b) predated the YouTube inline player which is what really melted the site initially with the Nye post.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:51:06 -0800

Man, that post embarrasses me.

By: chococat

chococat — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:13:39 -0800

Hey thanks for the inclusion, guys.
I put the lyrics up, cortex.

By: Rhaomi

Rhaomi — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:20:23 -0800

cortex: "Truth be told I didn't get cable as a kid and so had never really given much of a care for Nickelodeon so it wasn't really on my radar"

Was it really not that interesting (apart from its length) to people who didn't grow up with it? Putting it together, I found what I thought were a lot of fascinating stories in their own right -- the animated doo-wop redesign that took it to first place, the kiddie magazine that was a secret renaissance for underground comix, the controversial gay parenthood special from 2003 -- but then again I did grow up with it so that might just be the personal connection coloring things. A lot of the posts I do are motivated by that, so if they're coming off as more "nostalgiawank for a narrow cohort of users" than something legitimately interesting for everybody, I'll try focusing on other things more.

To be honest, I kind of felt like that about Miko's "Alice's Restaurant" post -- it was clearly objectively a great post, but just had no relevance to me because it was entirely about a socio-pop-cultural phenomenon that was before my time, so I didn't get the references or share the memories. I wouldn't want to do too many of those when there are more generally interesting things to post about.

Also, if you want another site-breaking post, check out filthy light thief's Christmas Lectures one from last year, which cortex had to split into multiple below-the-fold sections.

By: cortex

cortex — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:32:51 -0800

Was it really not that interesting (apart from its length) to people who didn't grow up with it?

It wasn't not-interesting so much as just not leaping to the top of my to-read pile, personally. There's so much posted just on mefi every day that I rarely find myself thinking, man, what am I gonna read? So with the exception of the rare OMG MUST READ THIS LATER thing that I just don't have time for and favorite, if it passes me by it just passes me by like 90% of posts.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:36:13 -0800

if they're coming off as more "nostalgiawank for a narrow cohort of users" than something legitimately interesting for everybody

I don't much care about Nickelodeon either but I mostly came to say that narrowcasted nichey esoteric bullshit is totally okay for front page posts so do not at all worry about this. Everything doesn't have to appeal to or interest everyone. I don't see it as wanky at all, just something that a bunch of people will be super psyched about, some people will look into just because they appreciate the efforts and some people will just keep cruising on by which I think is fine.

By: Ashley801

Ashley801 — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:34:22 -0800

Jeremy.
posted by gleuschk at 3:58 AM on August 13 [+] [!]

What?? Why did I think restless_nomad was a girl??

By: Ashley801

Ashley801 — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:35:32 -0800

Oops, nevamind, heh.

By: P.o.B.

P.o.B. — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 05:16:40 -0800

Jessamyn Josh And Jeremy, J FORCE THREE

It was like when you went and sat down to watch Voltron and it turned out to be one of those episodes with just a couple of the Lions running around trying to beat the big bad guy, and you keep thinking "Only if they could've combined forces, because otherwise this dude would be TOAST!" but of course it turned out all good anyway.

By: restless_nomad

restless_nomad — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:32:50 -0800

What?? Why did I think restless_nomad was a girl??

Apparently one of the failure modes of having Jeremy as a name when I'm pretty obviously female in person is that people decide my name is Jeri (or Jerry, or whatever.) I have a neighbor who has been calling me that for for five years now. It's fine, I'll answer to it, and it works better for the friends who thing "Jer" sounds like a nickname for a frat boy.

By: cortex

cortex — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:15:46 -0800

In the future, we should just always refer to you as "Jeremy (who is a GIRL)...", in sort of the same triumphant phrasing as Kermit uses at the end of A Muppet Christmas carol when he says "...and Tiny Tim (who did NOT die)..."

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 18:52:42 -0800

FYI, I fed a brief excerpt into a speech-to-text engine - the transcript was, uh, inaccurate. It read like a cross of markovfilter and Zalgo. I'm looking into improving the results.

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:01:08 -0800

A transcript is in progress on the wiki. (The actual transcript, not word salad.)

By: Pronoiac

Pronoiac — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 21:53:04 -0800

MY ANUS IS BLEEDING!

Don Hertzfeldt's "Rejected" in full, also available with commentary from Hertzfeldt. He has a Youtube channel now!

By: juv3nal

juv3nal — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:02:51 -0800

I was promised a 2 hour long Skyrim podcast...what is this other non-videogame stuff you keep talking about?

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:14:44 -0800

Do yourselves a favor (or favour)! Go to iTunes and download everything by armoured-ant. I just did and it's all amazingly fantastic. I don't normally gush, but...holy wow!

By: nickmark

nickmark — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 12:02:59 -0800

Wow - what ColdChef said.