cortex has a new job and was hard to track down and we had a few months of missing each other. We found some time on August 14th and tried to play catch-up. Runs about 97 minutes.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloa

192: The week between last week and this week

Mar 5th, 2023

A nerdy debate about the relative term "this week" and "last week" and that mystery week in between them. We got together on March 4th and tried not to talk about the weather too much. Runs about 105 minutes.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe

191: Thoroughly insinuated into the normalcy of our life

Feb 11th, 2023

More or less on time! New theme song! We talk about heating up water and heating up ourselves. cortex read a lot of MetaFilter this month, Jessamyn's still reading old FanFare threads. Runs about 82 minutes.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe w

190: New Year, New Me... Fi

Jan 9th, 2023

Back on track this year. We resolve to get these out on time. More or less. Maybe. Cortex and I talked on January 3rd about our usual nonsense for a tight 87 minutes. Thanks for listening.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3

189: Snowperson Trauma

Dec 11th, 2022

Cortex and I decided to make up for lost time after the delayed previous episode by knocking out another one quick-like, and here it is! Catching up on what we can of the last couple of months of MeFi, and also ranting and philosophizing a litt

188: Big Stride Moonshot

Dec 5th, 2022

Some difficulties hitting escape velocity with this one. We recorded it in October 5th and, well, here it is now.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadHelpful linksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downlo

187: Man, It's A Hot One

Aug 30th, 2022

Belated podcast for August, American summer is just like that. No idea what we talked about, but I know we had a good time.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadJobsTransfering faculty profiles (~150) into a new for

186: Am I Being A User Right Now

Jul 5th, 2022

It's episode 186 of the MeFi podcast, with Jessamyn and I...and loup! Who joined us to talk a bit about their experiences with internet past and present and their last couple of years as they've been working here. The three of us have a long a

185a: V Rising and Severance

Jun 15th, 2022

Random podcast bonus content! Jessamyn and I decided to do a mid-month episode to just chat about a couple media things we liked. Is it a FanFare podcast? I dunno! Will we keep doing it? I dunno! But it was fun and so here it is. We talk abo

185: A very wearing my bathrobe all day day

May 31st, 2022

It's episode 185 of the MeFi Monthly Podcast, with Jessamyn and I talking for a good chunk up front about the whole process over the last couple months of figuring out transferring ownership of the site from me to her. We also talk about, like

184: Sentences are music

May 8th, 2022

I didn't edit or write this month's podcast (other than this little bit)! Thanks so much to eotvos for all his work on this; note his note at the end of the podcast about other possible contributions as well! In any case, Jessamyn and I talk

183: Severance, not Succession

Apr 11th, 2022

It was a very busy turn of the month so we're wandering in pretty late with this episode. I talk a little bit about my recent decision to transition away from running MetaFilter (but we'll, inter alia, keep podcasting); Jessamyn and I talk abo

182: too many trees, not enough goats

Mar 7th, 2022

Psst, hey kid, wanna buy a podcast?Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc- I've been enjoying dry British trivia show Only Connect- jessamyn watched The Sparks Brothers- move over Wordle, here comes Semantle-

181: Pivot Table the Calendar

Feb 4th, 2022

I love podcasts, woo woo woo! I love podcasts, how 'bout you? Here's episode 181, with jessamyn and I contemplating the idea of a week and a month and talking about misc. MetaFilterian stuff. Runs about 90 minutes.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubs

180: Is Sunset A Local Phenomenon?

Jan 6th, 2022

I checked in with management and apparently we have to do a 2022 now even though we just finished wiht 2021. Jessamyn and I do our best to roll into the new year and talk about MetaFilter stuff and get in a philosophical discussion of the natu

179: Calendrical Is Totally A Word

Nov 30th, 2021

In our triumphant return to posting podcasts at the turn of the month, Jess and I talk about time management and reminders, complicated conversational dynamics, the assassination of JFK (but only very briefly), and a bunch of somewhat more Meta

178: Leisure Suit Larry's, Uh, Pixels

Nov 10th, 2021

We got a rootin' tootin' podcast here. Darn tootin'. Can you both rootin'- and darn'- something that's tootin' in the same paragraph like this? I don't know. I really don't know. I might be going to podcast jail. Before that happens, thou

177: Good Soup

Oct 13th, 2021

I accidentally wrote "make a podcast" on a colander instead of the calendar, so on the downside this episode is pretty late but on the upside it has been thoroughly rinsed. Is that anything? Can we do anything with that? Anyway, here's a pod

176: Low-Key Podcast

Sep 2nd, 2021

Jessamyn and I managed to stumble our way into and through a podcast despite both having the needle pegged hard to E this afternoon, and here is recorded evidence of that fact, at about 75 minutes.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesD

175: Don't Throw The Banana Peel In The Toilet

Aug 2nd, 2021

It's only the first day of August, but the weather in Portland is such that it already feeling like plural dog days have elapsed. And yet, through it all, a podcast episode drags itself through the sun-baked streets to appear, sweating and win

174: Knobs and Dials

Jul 3rd, 2021

Jessamyn and I were both feeling excessively chatty today so this one clocks in at about one hour fifty five, with discussions about MeFi, Ask, etc. along with a bunch of wanderings and heat wave chatter. Also there is a spider and a bird, and

173: No That's A Different Penguin

Jun 1st, 2021

My dog ate my podcast synopsis. It's me, it's Jessamyn, it's a podcast recorded in the deep past of before the long weekend, it's about 90 minutes.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc- no Jessamyn it's not Pin

172: I'll Get There At Some Point

Apr 30th, 2021

I'll be straight with you: this is an episode, of a podcast, and it's me and Jessamyn, and we talk about MetaFilter and stuff adjacent to MetaFilter. There's no sugar-coating it: this is 90 minutes of MeFi-adjacent chatter.Helpful LinksPodcast

171: Was I Weird

Apr 5th, 2021

We've made it through the dark tunnel that is April 1 online and jessamyn and I are here with that good good MetaFilter chatter and a little bit of linguistics speculation. Runs about 85 minutes.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDi

170: Through A Paper Towel Tube Darkly

Mar 4th, 2021

number one victory royale / yeah podcast with Jess who's my pal / 90 minutes running time oh wow / just cleaned out my Chrome tabs nowHelpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc- purple otter PDF- purple sea urchin-