137: It Descended Into Butts

Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast

• Episode: 137: It Descended Into Butts
• Website: Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast
• Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MeFiPodcast
• Published: 2018-02-07 00:08

This episode, jessamyn and I catch up on the last month and change of MetaFilter, discuss books and the reading-or-not thereof, and workshop the title of this podcast episode briefly. Recorded Tuesday February 6th, it covers January and bits and pieces of December while we're at it, and runs about 75 minutes.

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Misc
- 137 is notable because well shit neither of us are sure really
- cortex has been reading a book called Beyond Geometry that this website is about
- jessamyn has been reading The Road Taken
- I Wanna Be The Guy
- jessamyn's very good Scrabble game

MeFi Jobs
- Taxation bureaucracy Australia by Barbara Spitzer
- I need a knit Adult JCVJ Onesie by Nanukthedog

Projects
- I made a Blockchain by bondcliff (MeFi Post)
- OpenStreetMap for mefi by farlukar
- Box breathing box by tmcw (MeFi Post)
- How I Became A 44 Year Old Rapper by jasondigitized (cf. this related Ask)
- MeFi Post Recommendation Engine by tomasbielskis
- Web archiving for bots by ignignokt

FanFare
- SUPERBOOOOOWL
- Star Trek: Discovery is pretty good y'all

MetaFilter
- probably getting tired of the "oh, your skull, is it" jokes tho by cortex (via jessamyn via mltshp via TheGoodDeath)
- He's like "Your decisions in life are horrible" by jessamyn
- "This is definitely the let's-get-the-fuck-out-of-here section." by jessamyn
- PLATFORMERS! SIDESCROLLERS! METROIDVANIA! by Fizz
- Favrd's down by holgate
- Hunter and Bears, obviously by Eyebrows McGee
- Math rock, but with actual math by Cash4Lead
- Warning: Graphic Content by Horace Rumpole (e.g., e.g., e.g.)
- conversation piece by fearfulsymmetry
- Why am I so lazy? by AFABulous

Ask MeFi
- Single-artist tributes to single albums? by pxe2000
- How do old people find new music by Automocar
- What are you favorite satisfying activities or habits? by sucre
- Podcasts to sleep to by OrangeVelour
- Remote realtime tools for socializing by Lyn Never
- Looking for a customer service service by tellumo
- So You Just Got Your Genome Sequenced... by not_on_display
- Any good verbal games for car rides? by mhh5

MeFi Music
Featured in this episode:
- Seawrack by grobstein
- Perilous Motion by Annika Cicada
- Samson by alexx51
- Close Enough by ageispolis
- Keeping up with my friend's five year old on drums by umbú

MetaTalk
- Cultural referents by mwhybark
- "Things People Do Differently" -- I can't find it! by erst
- LearnedLeague signup roundup 2018 by Huffy Puffy