109: Rhymes With Picard, feat. Greg Nog

Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast

• Episode: 109: Rhymes With Picard, feat. Greg Nog
• Website: Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast
• Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MeFiPodcast
• Duration: 01:42:29
• Published: 2015-10-09 03:49

For this episode, Jessamyn and I are joined by none other than Greg Nog, who chats about cats and puppets and moving from one city with "louis" in the name to another, plus lots of great MetaFilter stuff. We cover September 9th through October 8th, all in a shockingly lean hour and three quarters.

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Misc
- The Timezones of Indiana
- The mysteries of CIX, LIM and FAP
- Paleo, paleo, paleocats hooooooooooooo!
- That terrible old Chevy ad pitch
- Brad Graham bench
- Nintendo World Championships 3-in-1 carts
- jessamyn should totally watch I Know That Voice because she has Netflix now
- some VT beer
- some Kentucky beer

Greg Nog facts
- he is a puppet man
- pretty solid beard situation
- you can twitter on him
- he makes a delightful show called Lil Friendys

Jobs
- throw something in an active volcano
- character/airship art for an indie game
- jessamyn already got someone to transcribe a thing so tough luck, buddy

Projects
- Instrumental doom metal album by DoOoM, by gwint (MeFi post, rad metal art)
- New non-gross gaming-centric ad network Eudaimoneers, by stavrosthewonderchicken
- Twitter bots 4 momz, a trio of bots by Metroid Baby (MeFi post)
- typewritten-in-person 10 cent stories, by Archibald Edmund Binns (MeFi post)
- olduse.net, a 30-year-hence real-time USENET replay by joeyh

MetaFilter
- on trying and failing to trademark "NO FUCKS GIVEN"
- that terrible Peeple thing
- also that whole Victorian cosplay-as-lifestyle thing
- Hurfy 15th Burfdurf, everlasting blort
- Yoann Hervo's Weird Simpsons
- K-Mart in-store mix-tape (which is now also a funeral home mixtape)
- Enterprise D VR construction project
- Happy Birthday unshackled
- Rhaomi's Key and Peele megapost
- the end of the library catelog card
- Women in animation
- Singles, by Rebecca Sugar

Ask MetaFilter
- What was your day like on September 15th, 1985?
- Help me sound like Linda Belcher
- What should I put in my bottles?
- backpack campin' hacks
- if this didn't kill me, your pom juice is fine
- looking for sexually-charged body horror and such
- going back to school as an older student
- help me understand US weather patterns
- Greg Not hungers for podcast about ancient history
- help identify the computer in my childhood picture (spoiler: it was identified)
- old-fashioned letter duplication methods

Music
Hey, so that September 15th, 1985 question up above? It got a bunch of great answers, including one from jan murray, who mentions in passing that some music he recorded around then is on MetaFilter Music. Including a number of tunes, starting with this one, recorded in Sweden in 1984 to cassette tape by Jan and co, which tape he subsequently found in a woodshed a quarter of a century later. Really great stuff, and he's been recording stuff since then as well.

The jan murray tracks sampled this episode:
- For a' that
- Teenagery
- Days of Strong Light
- Sister in teh USA

FanFare
- the FanFare Watercooler continues to be a handy way to see what people are talking about
- which includes Hannibal, of which a gigaaaantic season finale thread
- of which Greg Nog also does rad puppet Hannibal recaps in Hamibal
- Also: British bake-offs? Pretty great, IMHO.

MetaTalk
- Folks saying nice things about other folks is pretty nice
- Let's get together and make Super Mario Maker levels
- Hell froze over, we're testing 'save draft' functionality for posts