107: Breakin' the Dowels with ColdChef

Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast

• Episode: 107: Breakin' the Dowels with ColdChef
• Website: Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast
• Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MeFiPodcast
• Duration: 01:35:50
• Published: 2015-08-03 23:47

Hey, it's episode 107 of the MetaFilter Best of the Web podcast, featuring special guest host GJ "ColdChef" Charlet, who joins me and Jessamyn to chat for about 90 minutes about Metafilter favorites, learning to drive stick shift, dealing with emotional labor, and a whole bunch of interesting funeral and graveyard tidbits.

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Misc
- We've launched a second, short-form Metafilter podcast: Out of the Blue
- 107 is the smallest English number with six syllables (if you say the "and")
- Section 107: Fair Use
- ColdChef's herpes tests results

Jobs
- Teach me to drive stick shift (NYC)

Projects
- Monkey Pop: The Experiment, by churl and St Sorryass
- The Whelk is really tired of living in this quaint English village (MeFi thread)
- The secret language of Brazilian trans women by TheGoodBlood
- Knock Knock joke autocomplete bot by ignignokt (MeFi thread)
- Exobike, a JavaScript ASCII motorbike game by suetanvil
- Calvin and Markov by cortex (MeFi thread)
- Librarian of Progress, on the Librarian of Congress opening, by jessamyn (MeFi thread)

MetaFilter
- Disrupting the funeral home business
- Happy 16th Birthday, MetaFilter
- On Unpaid Emotional Labor (bonus Ask: Emotional labor checklist, and several more: 1, 2, 3, 4; Metatalk thread)
- The snail that lived (originating Ask thread)
- Ruler comics
- On writing memoirs, ColdChef's single-comment post
- Old no-link weed FPP

Ask MetaFilter
- Pantoning a DEC PDP-11
- Songs in a miner key
- Glam office supplies
- What do people incorrectly believe to be universal?
- Asked and answered: what's that cookbook?

Music
- Actuary of the Year, by Wolfdog
- Singing in the Shower on the 4th of July, by jake
- Do You Feel, by Devils Rancher