111: It's Too Late To Play The Accordion

Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast

• Episode: 111: It's Too Late To Play The Accordion
• Website: Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast
• Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MeFiPodcast
• Duration: 01:43:17
• Published: 2015-12-02 02:42

This month on Best Of The Web, our special guest is each other, as Jessamyn and I pull a dynamic duo all by our collective lonesomes for once. Recorded earlier today, this episode runs about an hour and three quarters and covers November 2nd through December 1st.

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Misc
- the butts-over-time graph
- Thanksgiving Stanhope
- not_on_display has Quirkle probs
- do androids indeed
- a legit (?) but still tremendously bullshitty hoverboard
- vs. a thing that isn't even remotely a legit-but-bullshitty hoverboard at all, why would they call them that, what is even, I can't

Jobs
- Demographic research sysadmin in Minnesota
- videography this Friday at Tufts U (too late to play the accordion)

Projects
- Explaining general relativity, a BBC animation featuring freelanceastro
- Trans, Kink, and Poly-inclusive sex ed by not that girl
- My Path to Trans Motherhood by elephantsvanish
- an 11-minute supercut of movie screams by azarbayejani
- some more Hirsute History designs from Jezztek
- a fictional emergency alert bot by ignignokt, Metroid Baby, and EndsOfInvention
- Magic Realism Bot by dontjumplarry (MeFi post)

MetaFilter
- "This one's not making the podcast, huh?", a tale of postly woe from josher71
- on being a parade balloon jockey, a neat comment from allkindsoftime
- Endless Sky, a rad free space game ala Escape Velocity
- Custom box templates
- isochronic maps are super dope
- check out this amazing papercraft microbe
- mefites talk about those super awkward moments
- suck.com rebroadcast 20 years later
- fun with n-grams (the n stands for "n")
- Stanhopes, or how your great great grandpa got his secret porn on
- epic post about day-planner fandom

Ask MeFi
- looking for specific sorts of repetitive music
- new non-fiddly non-endless boardgames
- help me find a specific Win10 offline Scrabble game
- what are some quality memoirs by comedians
- hit me with your fave holiday album
- help me deal with people reacting to me changing my appearance
- gimme that Blade Runner-ish future noir fiction
- and how about some smart thrillers while we're at it

Music
Featured in this episode:
- Thanksgiving Snow by Wolfdog
- Blackberry Blossom by OverlappingElvis
- Elegy by talltaleheart
- Dirtbag, a cover of frenetic aka Brad Sucks, by comealongpole
- Choc Cream-O-Land, by grumpybear69

MetaTalk
- posts you wish had gotten more love
- hey, MeFites, what do you collect
- Meyers-Briggs throwdown
- jessamyn did an AMA (o'er yonder)