163: You must understand!

Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast

• Episode: 163: You must understand!
• Website: Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast
• Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MeFiPodcast
• Duration: 01:34:20
• Published: 2020-05-01 19:14

It was a time known as The Great Resetting, when, after a months of wandering in a week late or so with episodes, jessamyn and I finally managed to release a new episode smack dab on the 1st. It was spoken of in legend as...episode 163 of the MetaFilter podcast.

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Misc
- jessamyn has been placing jokes in the local paper
- revisit the old Is MetaFilter Back Yet?" video Jess and I made, good god, NINE years ago
- Sufjan Stevens: teach the controversy
- Bruce fucken Campbell

Jobs
- Designer for print + web publication by Rich Text

Projects
- TV Opening Sequences Quiz by AndrewStephens (MeFi Post)
- I have eaten the plums by Lazlo Hollyfeld
- Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Deanna (TNG edition) by avocet
- Ultimate Quarantine House Selection! by Iridic (MeFi Post)
- Basho poems by vacapinta
- StockOrrery by lucidium
- Restoring 100- to 200-year-old woodworking planes by not_the_water

MetaFilter
- Twitch.tv is more than just video-games: by Fizz
- Rage Within the Machine by theodolite
- Aprs Sufjan, le dluge by Etrigan
- Evil Elvis sings Original Elvis by filthy light thief
- One Gruff Harding, Two Gruff Harding by i_am_joe's_spleen
- it's gotta be big and it's got to be dumb by Fizz
- Hello, Gordon! Hello, Gordon! Hello, Gor-- by cortex
- early "Stay Away" by jessamyn
- Gorgeous Libraries by Iris Gambol
- Mathematician John Horton Conway died yesterday of COVID-19. by Obscure Reference
- Bird's Eye View of What We Call the Brand Zoom Funk by WCityMike

Ask MetaFilter
- A dog unfriendly TV? by mmmmmmm
- Do banks really monitor ATMs for left cash? by geoff.
- What happens during breakdown on bridge or in tunnel? by toastchee
- What stops someone from clearing out the Treasury via check? by Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug
- Identify/translate Arabic cassette tape by gryphonlover
- Gifts ideas for an octogenarian, Italian-American barber. by eotvos
- How did they accomplish this multi-person musician jam by katecholamine
- What technobabble should I google? by aubilenon
- Word game involving linking similar-sounding words by definitions? by The otter lady
- Help Me Paint a Mural (Please God help Me!) by WalkerWestridge
- How do I help my spouse keep up our home internet setup after I die? by sciatica

Music
Tracks featured this month:
- My Way (Roboticized) by q*ben
- Bach Prelude in C, but shifted by a sixteenth-note by mpark
- Salaman by umbú