155: No curses, no whammies

Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast

• Episode: 155: No curses, no whammies
• Website: Best of the Web: the MetaFilter Podcast
• Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/MeFiPodcast
• Duration: 01:32:11
• Published: 2019-09-02 01:38

After several technical hiccups, Jessamyn and I managed to record a podcast, and here it is! Lots of MeFi and Ask; lots of users' first posts, lots of animal posts, even several first animal posts. Runs about 90 minutes.

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Misc
- jessamyn and the Virgo month of leisure
- it's post your animal month!
- pb (hi pb!) scraped up and posted old school bloggers via an Ask thread

Jobs
- Quickie: Fix Blogger Indexing Issue via Google Search Console by Quisp Lover
- Looking to speak with people who've had bad experiences with bereavement leave. by jimandtammy

Projects
- The Radiotopia Index: A Final Project in Organizing Information Class by CMcG
- Chinese poetry translations by Quasirandom
- Oregon Coast to Kentucky WITH NO FLAT TIRES! by JeffL
- Living #Ferguson by brentajones

MetaFilter
- THE WONDER FUL MAGIC TO TELL THE FORTUNE! by capricorn
- more weird and magnificent mustelids by sciatrix
- The Ruling Class. by dhartung
- RELENTLESS DOPPELGANGER \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ \m/ by Ten Cold Hot Dogs
- just absolutely wet as hell by chrchr
- "I want it to look like a comebacker hit me in the nuts," I said. by filthy light thief
- I Didn't Count On This Package Deal by chavenet
- On the Hunt for Boston's Signtronix Signs by capricorn
- Malignant tissue expectorated upon the pages by metaquarry
- Welcome! To LibraryLand. You can do anything in LibraryLand. by not_on_display
- Pow!Pow!Pow!Pow!Pow! by ChurchHatesTucker
- The Cutest Eels! by GoldenEel
- Just some ducks jumping out of a box (SLYT) by just_ducky
- Pavlov's Ducks: Ding dong ducks commit lunch time crime by quacks like a duck
- The Figure 8 Voyage by jackmakrl
- Nooo they be stealin mah donut by Orange Dinosaur Slide
- "only one slice...was necessary to fill the can." by jessamyn
- "on any given day half a million raptors might be gliding overhead" by jessamyn
- All my life Ive felt like an alien by ArbitraryAndCapricious
- Bird Watching Goes Both Ways by dinty_moore
- A penny sawed is a penny earned by oulipian
- Ishkur's guide to electronic music updated for 2019 by gen

Ask MeFi
- Any old-school bloggers still posting? by y6y6y6
- What is this mystery machine? by introcosm
- "bring me the red dog ball" by komara
- That's some good ink, bub. by curious nu
- No Regerts? by sockandawe
- Taming the mechanical dragon's breath by umbú
- Blank / bogus books by aubilenon
- Pith fact, not fiction by uans
- What is/was the maximum number of rings on a landline? by swheatie
- Where can I go to see the most beautiful night sky, within reason? by wooh
- Tell me about some ill-conceived opening acts for concerts! by mattholomew
- You're Killing Me Smalls by WalkerWestridge
- Tell me about your experiences owning a lake house by AgentRocket

MetaTalk
- Metafilter Dialup group – Get to know your fellow MeFites by KTamas
- Post Your Animal Month by If only I had a penguin...
- Share your ThinkPad Love! by Chairboy
- Anxiety/depression/ADHD/autism/bipolar & other neurodivergences on MeFi by diss track able
- Person of color only thread #3 by Brandon Blatcher
- Alas, MrBill by ColdChef
- Update on my wife's passing away by mrbill
- Thank you for all the support and caring. by mrbill
- MeFi helped me through the darkness. by mrbill
- Ten years of thanks. by mrbill

Music
Featured on this episode:
- Red Prairie Dawn by CarrotAdventure
- 06 - dwarfdub headache - vampire deer by pyramid termite
- Permanent Temporary Structures by srednivashtar
- Continue Save Retry by q*ben