cortex has a new job and was hard to track down and we had a few months of missing each other. We found some time on August 14th and tried to play catch-up. Runs about 97 minutes. Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTunes Direct mp3 download not_on_display did the mixing on this one and I think it hopefully sounds better than last time? Prer…

A nerdy debate about the relative term "this week" and "last week" and that mystery week in between them. We got together on March 4th and tried not to talk about the weather too much. Runs about 105 minutes. Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTunes Direct mp3 download No Jobs Except Cortex's New One Projects Lirdle - Like Wordle, but with …

More or less on time! New theme song! We talk about heating up water and heating up ourselves. cortex read a lot of MetaFilter this month, Jessamyn's still reading old FanFare threads. Runs about 82 minutes. Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTunes Direct mp3 download Job Lead Product Designer by jchan Projects Mondrian's Toothpicks by cort…

Back on track this year. We resolve to get these out on time. More or less. Maybe. Cortex and I talked on January 3rd about our usual nonsense for a tight 87 minutes. Thanks for listening. Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTunes Direct mp3 download FanFare Letterkenny: Entire Season by fizzix Leverage Rdemption Projects Face To Face: Portr…

Cortex and I decided to make up for lost time after the delayed previous episode by knocking out another one quick-like, and here it is! Catching up on what we can of the last couple of months of MeFi, and also ranting and philosophizing a little bit about recent seismic changes in the social media sphere and also about design skeuomorphism and the…

Some difficulties hitting escape velocity with this one. We recorded it in October 5th and, well, here it is now. Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTunes Direct mp3 download Helpful links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTunes Direct mp3 download Misc Jessamyn's Weird Bathroom Damn Bitch, You Live Like This? Buttplug.io MeFi Lumper or Splitter…

Belated podcast for August, American summer is just like that. No idea what we talked about, but I know we had a good time. Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTunes Direct mp3 download Jobs Transfering faculty profiles (~150) into a new format by Shepherd UX/UI Design Intern (Sep-Dec 2022) by jchan Projects Woefully Neglected by Devils Ranc…

It's episode 186 of the MeFi podcast, with Jessamyn and I...and loup! Who joined us to talk a bit about their experiences with internet past and present and their last couple of years as they've been working here. The three of us have a long and winding conversation about community management, internet ethics, MeFi in particular, the recent transit…

Random podcast bonus content! Jessamyn and I decided to do a mid-month episode to just chat about a couple media things we liked. Is it a FanFare podcast? I dunno! Will we keep doing it? I dunno! But it was fun and so here it is. We talk about V Rising, a survive-o-craft vampire game I have been very much enjoying, and about Severance, a TV show th…

It's episode 185 of the MeFi Monthly Podcast, with Jessamyn and I talking for a good chunk up front about the whole process over the last couple months of figuring out transferring ownership of the site from me to her. We also talk about, like, good stuff from the site for most of it. Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTunes Direct mp3 down…

I didn't edit or write this month's podcast (other than this little bit)! Thanks so much to eotvos for all his work on this; note his note at the end of the podcast about other possible contributions as well! In any case, Jessamyn and I talk about MetaFilter as we are wont to do; it runs the usual 90-ish minutes. Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscrib…

It was a very busy turn of the month so we're wandering in pretty late with this episode. I talk a little bit about my recent decision to transition away from running MetaFilter (but we'll, inter alia, keep podcasting); Jessamyn and I talk about MeFi stuff as per usual; we establish that she started watching the wrong show and couldn't figure out w…

Psst, hey kid, wanna buy a podcast? Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTunes Direct mp3 download Misc - I've been enjoying dry British trivia show Only Connect - jessamyn watched The Sparks Brothers - move over Wordle, here comes Semantle - the old 100K user raffle video, Rafflers Jobs - Illustrator for Rider–Waite style drawing by wesleyac…

I love podcasts, woo woo woo! I love podcasts, how 'bout you? Here's episode 181, with jessamyn and I contemplating the idea of a week and a month and talking about misc. MetaFilterian stuff. Runs about 90 minutes. Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTunes Direct mp3 download Misc - my penance for being late getting this up is reusing last m…

I checked in with management and apparently we have to do a 2022 now even though we just finished wiht 2021. Jessamyn and I do our best to roll into the new year and talk about MetaFilter stuff and get in a philosophical discussion of the nature of the literal horizon qua solar objects. Runs about 90 minutes. Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe wi…

In our triumphant return to posting podcasts at the turn of the month, Jess and I talk about time management and reminders, complicated conversational dynamics, the assassination of JFK (but only very briefly), and a bunch of somewhat more MetaFilter-centric things. We time-managed our way up to about 93 minutes. Also I play a euphonium. Helpful Li…

We got a rootin' tootin' podcast here. Darn tootin'. Can you both rootin'- and darn'- something that's tootin' in the same paragraph like this? I don't know. I really don't know. I might be going to podcast jail. Before that happens, though, here's me and jessamyn chattering about MetaFilter, the nature of daylight, representation vs. allusion in c…

I accidentally wrote "make a podcast" on a colander instead of the calendar, so on the downside this episode is pretty late but on the upside it has been thoroughly rinsed. Is that anything? Can we do anything with that? Anyway, here's a podcast, it's about 90 minutes, and it involves me and Jessamyn getting off on at least a couple different tange…

Jessamyn and I managed to stumble our way into and through a podcast despite both having the needle pegged hard to E this afternoon, and here is recorded evidence of that fact, at about 75 minutes. Helpful Links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTunes Direct mp3 download Misc - Jessamyn is still cleaning out her mom's house. - like seriously that's a lo…

It's only the first day of August, but the weather in Portland is such that it already feeling like plural dog days have elapsed. And yet, through it all, a podcast episode drags itself through the sun-baked streets to appear, sweating and winded, on your doorstep. Come along with Jessamyn and I as we...chatter about MetaFilter? Basically what we n…

On July 13th, the writer Jess Zimmerman posted "Where's My Cut?": On Unpaid Emotional Labor on The Toast, an essay about how and why emotional work is often undervalued and treated as "women's work". Or, more to the point, not even work: just something women are inherently supposed to do. It's a good piece, and what it spawned was even more interes…

In 1846, a dead snail was glued to a specimen card in the British Museum. In 1850, somebody realized that the snail...wasn't so dead after all, kicking off a curious story of molluskular stoicism that charmed the mid 19th C. science-and-nature circuit. But what went on in the ensuing 150 years? Site user "nicebookrack" wanted to know, and posted qu…