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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 little bit about recent seismic changes in the social media sphere and also about design skeuomorphism and the semiotics of interfaces? That last bit is probably overselling it a little? Anyway, runs about 90 minutes.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - Do some last minute holiday shopping at The MeFi Mall - Jessamyn's hone game memory was Kubrix Jobs - Setting up and moderating a Mastodon instance (but not hosting) by Shepherd - Business Process Automation Specialist by chiefthe - Software development guru by Dansaman Projects - Daily MRRP! by ignignokt - Finishing my grandfather's work: stained glass menorah by cortex (MeFi Post) - Part I of my graphic memoir "Growing In My Gray" by DMelanogaster (MeFi Post) - Get Blogging! by bwerdmuller (MeFi Post) - You've Been Played: How Corporations, Governments, and Schools Use Games to Control Us All by adrianhon - More "More Info" for Netflix (desktop web) by staggernation MetaFilter - Dear Twitter Advertisers by autopilot - Subterranean birdsite blues by nthdegx - a comment by mark k - Cohost, a new social media site by brainwane - Mastodon is having its moment in the sun by toastyk - Sick of Musk? by dobbs - PSA: do not use services that hate the internet by mecran01 - We knew this was coming by May Kasahara - Advent Incremental by juv3nal - No, that can't be done.... WHAM!!! by Pendragon - To a Nacreon in Heaven by Rhaomi - Yummy: Spammer on Toast! by rcade - Colonel Mustardle in the Yardle with a Petardle by taz - The Great Purpling by Etrigan - Explore Quasi-Periodic Tiling by gwint - Everything in Conway's Game of Life can be constructed from 15 gliders by automatronic - "we were, in effect, rewriting our own childhoods" by jessamyn - The State of Ketchup in 2022 by Fizz Ask MetaFilter - What's your Check Please hand signal, and what does it signify? by cortex - Help me give myself the gift of freedom by rebent - MeFiGiftGuide2022 - The Metafilter Gift Guide by rebent - Comparing apples and oranges by Just this guy, y'know - What is up with these old french cars? by selenized - Sci-fi Survey Course by darchildre - Carnivorous Lamp by Just this guy, y'know MetaTalk - Mefi Mastodon server? by Pronoiac - MeFi Posts for "Sale" by jessamyn - What The MeFi BIPOC Board Does by brainwane MeFi Music Snippest of tracks this episode, at the beginning and end respectively: - Death Scene Music for an Imaginary, Low-Budget Cyberpunk Movie by thatwhichfalls - 73 Keep It Beautiful by chococat

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 downloadJobs Transfering faculty profiles (~150) into a new format by Shepherd UX/UI Design Intern (Sep-Dec 2022) by jchan Projects Woefully Neglected by Devils Rancher Nelson's Linkblog by Nelson IUDs for All by thandal Making a watermlon chair from green wood by twirlypen Every Diner in Whatcom County, WA by cidrab Latent Space Netsuke by gwint AUTOEXEC.CAT by oulipian I... HAVE... THE POWER ️ by Rhaomi The Kubrick Times by malevolent Metafilter "with this sign for beautiful, there is no objection" by jessamyn You really should watch a manhole entrance get replaced by majick Nice threads by janell "Have you ever wondered what happens to the things you leave behind?" by Kattullus The word on the Bird by storybored I AM IN SO INTO YOU by MollyRealized There was good money to be made as a beatnik by wesleyac Ten Million Power by ThePinkSuperhero "What's it like to be a girl in a band?" by box Ask Metafilter My friends are struggling but I am also struggling. How to balance? by anonymous When did cars stalling fall off as a movie/TV trope (and in...reality?) by cortex Out of Sync by invincible summer Your favorite stars-with-fans videos? by wenestvedt How do I maintain a happy little kitchen? by pleasebekind Tell me your one weird trick for loved one caretaking/advocacy by rednikki Comedy Suggestions to Watch with my 70-year old Mother by pdxhiker Does anyone else mishear the chorus in "Institutionalized"? by Boxenmacher Metatalk Metatalktail Hour: Life's Unwritten Rules by Taz Miscellaneous Ronni Solbert, Children's Book Illustrator, Dies at 96 Sign for MA Route 187 Wikipedia's entry on One Eighty Seven The Untold Story of the Zip Code zipmap.net WHAT IS THIS? Complexity 2022: Innovations in Weaving Sleater-Kinney (Three Interlinked Wireframe Cubes)

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, good stuff from the site for most of it.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadOnce again I am gloriously doing almost no work in causing this post to be here; thanks again to eotvos who has once again done all the actually fiddly bits in turning Jess and I rambling on mic into an actual mix down and pile of text as seen below. Projects - I made Some Tools by bondcliff. - The Daily Brief -- News as Information by jkrobin. - ... a look back at your Amazon shopping history by ph00dz. - Every .horse domain by Shepherd. - Dark Patterns Now Available on Android and iOS by cosmic owl. Metafilter - Mechanical Watch by Devils Rancher. - blank blank in the blank of blankety blank, blank blank? by Ten Cold Hot Dogs. - The "FU" is how you answer the phone when the man tries to bring ya down by not_on_display. - The Uselessness of Phenylephrine by brainwane. - Something Went Very Wrong by cavenet. - Things that Make White People Uncomfortable by box. - The Mefi-wiki page about Givewell. - Now you know your A-B-Trees by secretdark. - You're welcome, Matt, by zenon. Ask Metafilter - Everything Everywhere All At When? (streaming) by fleecy socks. - How should I learn Linear Algebra? by cortex. - Expressing a line figure as a set of triangles by Tell Me No Lies. - Advice on Art Appraisals, by Saxon Kane. - Navigating complicated grief for alcoholic father by showeringsuns. - What happened to the squatters? by wesleyac. - Is saying "I'm proud of you" patronizing? by Dressed to Kill. - Is it wrong to use these antique postcards as postcards? by The corpse in the library. Metatalk - Paperwork & Bodywork: short virtual anti-procrastination calls by brainwane. - [MeFi Site Update] May 25th by loup and staff. - MetaFilter: A Utopia of Rules? by General Malaise. - A MetaFilter User Survey by curious nu and the transition team. Music clips - Bigass Pizza Blues by CarrotAdventure - Look At Me by transitional procedures. - One Month Dragon by srednivashtar - For Each One To Discover (AO) by q*ben. - End Credits by CarrotAventure.

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 about MetaFilter as we are wont to do; it runs the usual 90-ish minutes.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadProjects - BOKEH game by malevolent - Reunion Tour by Valrus - Set Side B by JHarris - Ancient Animals by moonmilk Jobs - Usability and Delops cluster hire by rockindata - Freelance project uploading to our CMS by Magami (filled) Metafilter - Elon Musk wants to buy twitter by joannemerriam - the fail whale could not be reached for comment by fight or flight - Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need by zengargoyle - Medical Gaslighting by dancing leaves - Calleafgraphy by curious nu - I promise you, all of us up here tonight, we WERE that kid! by hippybear - This is the time, and this is the record of the time by oulipian - The Onions Has Been Permanently Banned from Twitter by DirtyOldTown - A LaserWriter dreamscape by furtive - I'm better at this than you are at everything you do. by Etrigan - Gonna go down to Black Mesa and get myself a BajaaAAaaAa Blast by cortex - "...a lot of fuss over a flight with one takeoff and one landing." by jessamyn Ask Metafilter - what have you got in your pocketses? by RobinofFrocksley - Holes found in Net by storybored - Umbrella/generalist terms for jobs/roles that have distinct subroles? by cortex - Where is a pot a kettle? by evilmomlady - Heavy, flat and cheap? by bondcliff - What media hit you differently the second time around? by jeszac - Find me gentle, fictional, happy ending TV by rednikki Fanfare - Our Flag Means Death: Season 1 by gladly Metatalk - Ch-ch-ch-changes! by Eyebrows McGee - Transition Team Post #1 by warriorqueen - Transition Team initial discussion summary and kickoff by cortex - Masto and other accounts by Fiasco da Gama - https://metatalk.metafilter.com/26053/Four-years-of-Mefi-Card-Club by Sparky Buttons Music clips - Hope After Despair by gt2 - Halt to Start by q*ben - Chase Music for an Imaginary Low Budget Cyberpunk Movie by thatwhichfalls - The Only Load the Lord Has Given Me, with Thanks for His Grace by youarenothere - Plumbium by q*ben

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 about MeFi stuff as per usual; we establish that she started watching the wrong show and couldn't figure out why people liked it; and we chatter about at least three words we're not sure how to pronounce and establish, once more, that neither of us can read IPA. Runs our usual "about 90 minutes".Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - Jessamyn has been reading The Rabbi Small Mysteries - I have been tweeting about Semantle and word2vec - turns out it's psychosomatic, ADDICT, insane, not "attic", which does make more sense - we didn't do an April Fools thing this year, but there was a nice thread chatting about 4/1 stuff past Jobs - Distinctive Collections Coordinators by mfoight - Distinctive Collection Librarian / Archivist by mfoight - Call for submissions for women's writing anthology by Flock of Cynthiabirds Projects - A VR Schizophrenia Simulator for Us All by Lillitatiana - Anoited by ignignokt - You think you're addicted to Spelling Bee? by AMyNameIs - Hermit Crabs of Paradise Cove, Vanuatu by dobbs - Brass sextet for 6 trumpets and epic digital signal processing by range - Crafting: Ceramics and Metal Wire Trees by gemmy - Guess the AI Jukebox artist by Rhaomi MetaFilter - "Get Free Gold Rush Land Today!" by jessamyn - You are now subscribed to Random Ball Facts! by loquacious - How to make writing easier to read for everyone by storybored - Not what I usually associate with talking mushrooms by clawsoon - Guess the Secret Word! by not_on_display - Mission Accepted.....Mission Complete. by Fizz - These boots were made for narrative photographic essaying by cortex - "reform all the tawdry inefficiencies" by brainwane - The Inevitability Of Bushveld by cortex Ask MetaFilter - You too can be "Jew for a Day!" by Drasher - Funeral smalltalk by b33j - How to find what was on p29 of a 1954 issue of Canadian Bride magazine by paduasoy - This is the best __________ I know of.... by dobbs - Looking for sounds that shout their gender by nosila - How do you interpret Maimonides' levels of charity in a modern context? by dorothy hawk - Outdoor art installations around the world? by cyndigo - Have there been any art shows where the art didn't exist? by andoatnp - Do cavemen have more fun? by Jubey - It's a round...thingy? by cortex - Have the things you find on the ground changed in the last 30 years? by bdc34 - Name this fragment of a tune by mpark - Help me buy a great film! by JimN2TAW - a comment by jessamyn MetaTalk First steps in some MetaFilter changes by cortex

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 - the old 100K user raffle video, Rafflers Jobs - Illustrator for Rider–Waite style drawing by wesleyac Projects - Quantle by lipsum - DNDle - Wordle, but you're picking stats to guess D&D monsters by avapoet - The World's First Granny Square Pattern by rednikki (MeFi Post) - Saturday morning cartoons by Gucky - WordleWordle by willF MetaFilter - Today's Wednesday...? Really? What does time even mean anymore? by not_on_display - Russia orders troops into Ukraine by russilwvong - twosday by fight or flight - The story behind and after the photo by brainwane - lol, buddy, good luck finding the Lincoln tunnel by bondcliff - "Graham's number is effectively zero compared to TREE(3)" by mubba - It was a great day for America, everybody by Rhaomi - Crease and repeat by janell - Do You Know Who That Worker You Just Hired Really Is? by Toddles - "Back then longevity itself was a newsworthy topic." by jessamyn - Thursday! What A Concept! by cortex Ask MetaFilter - How cold could I comfortably keep my house if I dress really warmly? by Juffo-Wup - How can I monitor the temperature over time in several rooms? by unus sum - Preserving Paper by roue - Defunct blogging platforms by wesleyac - Can I kill somebody with a sock and a hockey ball? by Zumbador - Can you show an Iowa cow at the Illinois State Fair? by Ishbadiddle - You mean I have to do this every night until I die? by Jubey - Chronic Fatigue, dealing with by Brandon Blatcher - Why do (some) people hate athlete profiles? by alex1965 MetaTalk - Newsletter 6: Happy belated Valentine's Day! by Pronoiac - Shoutout to Wenestvedt on His 150,000th Favorite Given by theora55 - A Long Bet Pays Off by Rhaomi - Dearest Reader by the primroses were over - 22222 by loup with congrats to it takes twototututoo

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 FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - my penance for being late getting this up is reusing last months experimental horn version of the original podcast theme even though it hurts to listen to now - rabbit rabbit, apparently - 181 is a palindromic prime - I haven't gone back to figure out if I started doing the podcast at episode 34 or earlier, but god it's been a while either way - Jessamyn, when the reference didn't land Projects - The year I won a year's supply of cheese by jessamyn - The Rocinante, my hand-painted ship model from The Expanse by rachaelfaith - The 885 films I saw and reviewed in 2021 by growabrain - Birdsong Audio Separation by kaibutsu - So I made a Wordle clone (with some extra features) by RustyBrooks - Return to the Planet: a Zine Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of FFVII by subdee MetaFilter - "Life's hard enough, and I'm looking to make people feel better" by jessamyn - WKRIP by guiseroom - No More Waiting For The End Of Time by chavenet - Up to 30 stitches per inch! No bobbins! Quiet! by metaquarry - What came first? Or last, or in between? by brainwane - A Brief History of Windfuckers by oulipian - Ex-NM labor official shares real world experience: capitalism sucks by wenestvedt - "There are as many forms of love as there are moments in time." by oulipian - JEOPARDAMY! by Going To Maine - Look at the quality of this 3D animation by They sucked his brains out! - "It's like people who try to clone their dogs" by jessamyn - Free thread! by cortex - Free Thread Returns by cortex - Free Thread Forever by cortex - Free Thread & Robin by cortex Ask MetaFilter - HELP, there's an elk in my freezer! by MonkeyToes - What was that music video with the giant blue butt sculpture? by mermaidcafe - what's that song? by peppercorn - What's that weird instrument: The Beatles: Get Back edition by 2N2222 - When was Van Halen's 1984 album released? by Short End Of A Wishbone - Help identify this mystery object? by scody - What do they call a stupid SOB in your neck of the woods? by Gotanda - Rock music puns? by OrangeVelour - Do I need a bank with a real building I can go to? by DMelanogaster - Parsing Amazon reviews by Cozybee MetaTalk - Introduce yourself! by cortex - Our favorite under-loved comments of 2021 by MonkeyToes - a comment by kimberussell

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 nature of the literal horizon qua solar objects. Runs about 90 minutes.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - Jessamyn's 2021 wrapup - Library twitter to remain menace - Elmo says worker's rights Jobs - Need a portfolio site for my writing / editing / translation business by Sheydem-tants Projects - Noddy screams "It's Christmas!" for one hour by Shepherd - Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day by brainwane (MeFi Post) - Emma Goldcoin by motty - Triple Tautonyms by malevolent - Overtime (a seasonal Laundry Files tale) by cstross MetaFilter - Wordle: A daily word guessing game by hurdy gurdy girl - Wow'en Wilson: The Quiz by Pater Aletheias - HarDCore Videos by Cash4Lead - Free thread! by cortex - Bro. ... Bro. *Bros.* by rewil - Are you a good person? by dancestoblue - Um something has come up... HOOOOOLLLYYY SHIIIITTTTTTT by jessamyn - street fighter, more like, uh, sheet...highlighter by cortex - Sorry, Steve, but we'll use your scene in the DVD's bonus footage by not_on_display Ask MetaFilter - Mental breaks at work by roaring beast - How do I help a friend with cleanup and moving forward? by zooropa - a comment by The Wrong Kind of Cheese - What do healthy people do? by coffeeand - I need to talk to Santa then I need Santa to talk to my kid... by If only I had a penguin... - What's that weird instrument: The Beatles: Get Back edition by 2N2222 - Animal Doctor, M.D. by averageamateur - Recommend boring people taking about kind of boring things? by aspo - EMDR therapy: True or Woo? by Anonymous - Can I (re)read this? by Gotanda - How to disassociate fan behavior from fandoms? by The Adventure Begins MetaTalk - It can be terrifying to make a Front Page post. Please be kind. by bondcliff - Metafilter Webring by beesbees - Newsletter 4: Secrets by Eyebrows McGee - Newsletter 5: Farewell to 2021 by Eyebrows McGee - Your video games of 2021 by curious nu Back to MetaFilter for a second to talk about Babble Royale - Scrabnite? Fortble? by backseatpilot

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, though, here's me and jessamyn chattering about MetaFilter, the nature of daylight, representation vs. allusion in crappy old Sierra erotic comedy adventures, MetaFilter, the concept of (for some reason) No Nut November, "Meta", and who knows what else because we're both still getting used to the time change. It runs exactly, precisely, to the second 90 minutes.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - Jessamyn is a bee - I got a tattoo and literally everyone guessed right - remember, remember, the No Nut November, the Poe's Law'd Sienfeldian plot - Jess recently enjoyed reading Finna - I recently enjoyed rereading Dune, I don't have a link or anything, I just did is all - also Sierpinski Triangles - okay, on review I totally recognize that yodel breakdown in Focus' Hocus Pocus Jobs - Property project management and maintenance by Barbara Spitzer - Drop off a document at the PA Secretary of State in Harrisburg by Sheydem-tants Projects - The Worst House On The Internet by missjenny (MeFi Post) - Are You a Clickbait Genius? by malevolent - Saturday Afternoon Ikea Trip Simulator by dng (MeFi Post) - Mini-Project: Convert exported Metafilter comments to HTML, JSON, or MBOX by Kadin2048 - Mystic Paths - A new word board game! by meinvt MetaFilter - anyone who enjoys wild birds is a birder! birding is for everyone! by jessamyn - Aspirational rhetorical loquaciousness by simmering octagon - The United States Postal Service: "Non oficialis motto!" by not_on_display - Uh oh by Cookiebastard - Fractal vise by clawsoon - Welp, there goes my evening ... by dancestoblue - Off, dud, over, under, upon, hot, ono, oof, hi, lo, etc. by tss Ask MetaFilter - help me find more podcasts by jessamyn - HBTY HBTY HBD* HBTY by QuakerMel - How fast/reliable is TSA's lost and found? by LSK - What's a good name for an office can crusher? by box - Programming/computer science/IT terms that refer to obsolete tech? by potrzebie - Burying ethernet cable (or wireless??) by wenestvedt - I want to learn art by Brittanie - Donated to take a campaign over its goal. Goal changed afterwards. wtf? by scruss - Have Jazz Hands, Will Jazzercize by meese MetaTalk - MeFi Mall 2021 by hippybear - MetaFilter Gift Swap 2021 Signups by curious nu - MeFi Holiday Card Exchange by needlegrrl - NaNoWriMo 2021 by womb of things to be and tomb of things that were - Roll, Truck, Roll by lauranesson

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 iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - Jessamyn is still cleaning out her mom's house. - like seriously that's a lot of books - Also, it is Virgo month of leisure, which seems fair, he works really hard in his movies and—oh, I'm being told that Viggo - Samuel Taylor Coleridge is not Samuel Coleridge-Taylor and, by the commutative property, vice versa Jobs - Writing Editor by parmanparman Projects - Antarctic survival manual: art for the pandemic and other disasters by SinAesthetic - New England Carnegies by jessamyn - Pattern Explorer by reventlov - Procedural bit-pattern art by suetanvil - The Camera Offset Project: Hide your face. Save the world. by missjenny - thoughts.page by wesleyac MetaFilter - Cats. Trees. Cat trees. by ardgedee - 40 albums, 1 year, & Mike Townsend hit a Grand Slam by CrystalDave - Nandi Bushell and Foo Fighters by mokey - AIDS denialism in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? by The Ardship of Cambry - Frank Herbert heard "shows within shows" and got excited by cortex - All Your Mashups Belong to Us by WCityMike2 - If you're not Kubla Khan by Sokka shot first - Come as you are? Nevermind by girlmightlive - Hot coffee + brandy + tranquilizers + turpentine = Houses of the Holy by jessamyn - Chuck Close 1940 - 2021 by ardgedee Ask MetaFilter - Can anyone identify this song? by marimeko - Music copyright and TV licensing by soonertbone - 2020 Olympics Best-Of, No Spoilers Edition by exceptinsects - Cashing old checks by Anonymous - Is the concern over vegetarians getting enough protein overblown? by rjacobs - Commonly taught facts/trivia that are oversimplifications by Seeking Direction - a comment by backseatpilot - 1883 House - Money Pit? by imjustsaying MetaTalk - August is MetaFilter fundraising month by cortex - Hey, it's a MetaFilter newsletter! by cortex - Call Me By My Name: Mefi Newsletter 2, the Denominated by taz

This week Inger is joined by Jonathan O'Donnell from the Research Whisperer as Jason is still away on #epictrip2021. Jonathan has given us lots of suggestions for On The Reg, so now is the time to talk to him directly!We start off talking about why innovation is hard inside universities, which have been fine tuned to avoid waste and increase transperency and accountability. This increases their sensitivity to risk. Sometimes the best way to get things done is through what Jonathan calls 'skunk works', which is exactly how Inger started Bootcamp at ANU.We travel over a lot of ground before we get to our reading segment. Inger has been reading Julia Banks' new book 'Power Play' and musing over 'Cognitive Flexibility'. Aside from reading about Anglo-Saxon history in the 900s, Jonathan has a fun read on the ridiculous morning routines of the influencer class and a fascinating article on 'ask vs tell' cultures, which can really help us work with others.There's a two minute tip about email that Inger is definitely going to try and a brief, but enlightening discussion about advanced Google searches - this episode has it all!Links:Potts, J. (2009). The innovation deficit in public services: The curious problem of too much efficiency and not enough waste and failure. Innovation, 11(1), 34–43. https://doi.org/10.5172/impp.453.11.1.34.Potts, Jason. ‘Innovation by Elimination: A Proposal for Negative Policy Experiments in the Public Sector'. Innovation 12, no. 2 (1 August 2010): 238–48. https://doi.org/10.5172/impp.12.2.238.Potts, Jason, and Tim Kastelle. ‘Public Sector Innovation Research: What's next?' Innovation 12, no. 2 (1 August 2010): 122–37. https://doi.org/10.5172/impp.12.2.122.Brandão, Soraya Monteiro, and M. Bruno-Faria. ‘Inovação No Setor Público: Análise Da Produção Científica Em Periódicos Nacionais e Internacionais Da Área de Administração', 2013. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-76122013000100010.5 to 9 (Dolly Parton) video on side hustles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8jF96hoF9M 'IQ tests can't measure it, but ‘cognitive flexibility' is key to learning and creativity' on the conversation “The exact morning routines 18 successful high-achievers implement to start their day.”https://pdfcoffee.com/successful-morning-rituals-2-pdf-free.html Donderi (tangerine), Andrea. ‘This Is a Classic Case of Ask Culture Meets Guess Culture'. Ask Metafilter. What's the Middle Ground between ‘F.U!' And ‘Welcome!'?, 16 January 2007. http://ask.metafilter.com/55153/WLeave us a message on www.speakpipe.com/thesiswhisperer. Email Inger, she's easy to find. You will not be able to find Jason's email (he likes it that way).Talk to us on BlueSky by following @thesiswhisperer and @drjd. Inger is sadly addicted to Threads, but cannot convince JD to join. You can find her there, and on all the Socials actually, as @thesiswhisperer. You can read her stuff on www.thesiswhisperer.com. You can support the pod by buying our Text Expander guide for academics from the Thesis Whisperer website.

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 winded, on your doorstep. Come along with Jessamyn and I as we...chatter about MetaFilter? Basically what we normally do. This one's about an hour and 45.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - the wikipedia article on 175 has, since recording, lost the specific nag it had when we were discussing it! - jessamyn has been catsitting - more like the hooey decimal system - wellllll, Godot? We're WAAAAAAITTIiiiing! - freedom to tinker - you ever (Stevie) Wonder about the clavinet? - it's a BEACH that makes you OLD - jessamyn's maple dealer Projects - Quarantine Happy Hour concert archive by hades - Recollections Of A Summer by dng - The Sound of the Far Future by ignignokt MetaFilter - Patterns by They sucked his brains out! - A unanimous vote for the right to repair. by mhoye - Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates joining Howard University by Nelson - Whammy Clavinet by Harald74 - His last purchases—beer, cigarettes, pot—occurred 18 years ago. by Grandysaur - Happy birthday, Metafilter! by Melismata - Shawty Got Low in Those Apple Bottom Memes by jonp72 - All mountains are old, but the Appalachians are incomprehensibly old by Karmakaze - The world's first 1541 disk drive graphics demo by JHarris Ask MetaFilter - What to do in Vermont when traveling companion has mobility issues? by The Pluto Gangsta - How does MetaFilter have such a high user engagement compared to others? by oracleia - Nouns that you would never say "the" before? by ftm - Library book with potentially valuable author's signature by clair-de-lune - What song is this? by Trespassers William - Songs with radio clips? by ftm - Voices coming out of my iPad in the middle of the night by squink - Why is my gas bill so high? by artificialard - Friends' anxiety makes me angry/anxious by unicorn chaser - Dating Failure by Aranquis - How commonplace is crossing one's arms at Catholic communion? by Charity Garfein MetaTalk - Metatalktail Hour: Sneaky pet/kid stories by LobsterMitten - MetaFilter's new Privacy Policy document by cortex - A change in moderator coverage of the site by cortex - 1. money 2. budget 3. ??? 4. profit!! by bendy - Donated By "Anonymous" by cursed MeFi Music Featured in this episode: - Car Music by gt2 - You Should Eat Your Yellow Vegetables by not_on_display - Brazilian Brooks by CarrotAdventure - Signal Tower by edlundart

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 Pingu - no Josh it's not Gunther O'Brian - also we briefly discussed The Myth of Pruitt-Igoe Jobs - nobody wants to work anymore Projects - Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else by escabeche - Blaseball is a Horror Game by restless_nomad - Violent Penguin (Series One) by dng - An electro cover of Laurie Anderson's "From The Air" by Artifice_Eternity - Art by Josh Millard by cortex MetaFilter - cats and their Muslim humans who just would like some peace and quiet by cendawanita - Simplifier by Foci for Analysis - The invention of trousers. by Bee'sWing - El Mago by chavenet - One Two Three FOUR Five, Six Seven Eight NINE Ten, Eleven Twelve ... by metabaroque - "Fitness is a journey and we all start somewhere" by brainwane - "My brain just gave up" by hanov3r - We are all the same inside, the real inside, the brain by sammyo - Neurotypical Syndrome and the Double Empathy Problem by brook horse - The resistable rise of the Tartarian empire by ivan ivanych samovar - As long as you're still pulling something, you're racing by cortex - "The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone." by mecran01 Ask MetaFilter - What song is this? by Trespassers William - Very long paperback books? by Jacqueline - What novels do you re-read and why? by BWA - Drawing for the dumb dummies? by Melismata - Cat lost in unfamiliar territory by tinymojo - What will you keep from a year in Shelter-in-Place? by Toddles - songs with interpretations the songwriter denied by kevinbelt FanFare - Saturday Night Live: Anya Taylor-Joy / Lil Nas X by rhizome - Eurovision Club Music - Music podcast is back! Turn On Some Music by greenish MetaTalk - Modern Pen Pal Project by chiefthe - Gender & metafilter names by Margalo Epps - Rosemary's Baby's Day Out by DirtyOldTown

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 FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - 172 is the 19th element in the Lazy Caterer sequence, which should really be called the hyperoptimized caterer problem because this takes way more work than just making a couple extra slices and being done with it. - jessamyn is now very slightly on TikTok - I continue to be somewhat more actively on TikTok though my shitposting has really fallen off recently - Klaus Floride et al covering Bad Reputation Projects - Doing Standup Comedy in Pre-COVID New York City Taught Me How To Live by chinese_fashion - The Chaoyang Trap - A Newsletter about Everyday Life on the Chinese Internet by beijingbrown - Covid Project: Grocery Bags by macrael - Music Video and Vinyl! by Corduroy MetaFilter - Mefi's own Corduroy made a record! by umbú - "Should we just fend?": A vernacular for eating whatever by Going To Maine - You can still askme by ardgedee - Google v. Oracle by jedicus - ed balls by fight or flight - Josh v Josh v Josh v Josh by meese - "The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone." by mecran01 - Parking Achievement Unlocked by Cardinal Fang - Fotomat's Greatest Hits by not_on_display - You think I own Ikea? by Ahmad Khani - Prancer, "a chucky doll in a dog's body" by Hypatia - infinity.mod by schmod - Eternal Sunshine of the Monetized Ghost Life by MonkeyToes - The Girl in the Kent State Photo by tonycpsu - "This is magic. We are watching magic unfold here." by Stark Ask MetaFilter - Is it strange if most of the windows in a house don't open? by ClaireBear - How can I get soft serve from SF to LA by car without ruining it? by rileyray3000 - Can a string taken off a guitar be used again? by BadgerDoctor - Songs that are about a song of the same name by LSK - Comeback Songs by BuddhaInABucket - What strange things has your dog eaten? by warriorqueen - Deleting contacts of people who have passed away? by Dip Flash - Travel to Canada this June? by wenestvedt - north by northwest train romance scene by snerson MetaTalk - Bread Glaive Jalapeña by Going To Maine - Updating the graphical style of mod notes by cortex

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 iTunesDirect mp3 download- Leah Velleman notes that a lot of free software is free as in piano - I can't believe we had a whole conversation about doubting ourselves about what a gas mantle is supposed to be called and didn't once riff on gaslighting - chess masters make history with double bongcloud opening Jobs - Research assistant - neuroimaging by ghostbikes - Executive Director by mcbaya - Musical Entrepreneur by MrVisible - USGS Water Data Science, Machine Learning, and Product Management Cluster Hire by rockindata - help me brainstorm pros and cons of using static jekyll site by elgee Projects - Recent work at USGS Water by rockindata - Painted pine linen press by bonobothegreat - The Kilobyte's Gambit 1k chess game by malevolent (MeFi Post) - Women and Other Monsters book by babelfish - A make-believe band by jragon - Needledrop by thomaspark MetaFilter - The quest to save "the floppy goblin," the Blakiston's fish owl by jessamyn - Malign Directive by adrianhon - And his bio sounds like the worst dog in the world! by jacquilynne - Swatchbook by Fiasco da Gama - Daniel Tiger welcomes new autistic character to the Neighborhood by brook horse - GothamChess vs Dewa Kipas by interogative mood - a comment by value of information - No one is ugly. No one is really fat. Everyone is beautiful. by Ghidorah - Shrimp Heaven Now by punchtothehead - It's stuck by automatronic - Ways to research the modern and ancient worlds by brainwane Ask MetaFilter - Have you convinced a reluctant family member to get the vaccine? by Kutsuwamushi - Catholic School Crossover Ties by falsedmitri - Streaming Romanian/Hungarian TV in USA by DirtyOldTown - NAME! THAT! SHOW! From a single still image. by magnetsphere - I need to grow a 100 pound pumpkin. by Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug - a comment by jessamyn - Who was the 80s? band with white pants and/or white belts? by cortex - looking for book titles! by =^.^= - Can I set up RSS on my made-by-hand blog? by mark7570 MetaFilter Music - MUSIC CHALLENGE - ideas and votes! by greenish - MeFiMusic - O Come All Ye Faithfull! by greenish MetaTalk - Right day, wrong century by cortex - Uncle Mefi's Big Book of Beans by cortex - Asian American MeFite Checkin by Alensin - Thank you MeFi for career change advice, & coding bootcamp success story by skwt

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 - and hey why are flamingos pink - I made some Stop sign permutation linocuts - also apparently I am on TikTok now, god help us all - Steve Miller Band's 'The Joker' but the Wolf Whistle Happens After Every Line - you know who doesn't seem particularly culpable for the inculcation of fascism: MySpace Tom - "Pokemon Go turned me into a birder" Job - Website Developer / Programmer - Side Job / Crowdfunded by Meatbomb Projects - Animal Bastards: An Inquiry Into Anthropomorphism by johngoren (MeFi Post) - Helix Mirabilix: Ball-lifter for marble machines by mpark - The Bomb dot LOL by jazon (MeFi Post) - Explaining Gritty to the French (in Lang Belta) by Pirate-Bartender-Zombie-Monkey - Scenes from the Quarantrain by bondcliff - Quarantine Collage Series by coevals - bad screen: a Firefox extension to block distracting websites by wesleyac MetaFilter - Rumble in the Jungle by Alex404 - What happened? by MartinWisse - How are you gentlemen !! by effbot - "I would pay $15 to go to this show rn" by MartinWisse - Iceberger by Westringia F. - "No More Jockeys is a three-pints-and-a-packet-of-crisps pub game" by jessamyn - Artist's Statement: You got your AI in my MS Paint! by not_on_display - She was shamed for still having her Christmas lights up. by folklore724 - The Legend of Beavis by robocop is bleeding - this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences by doctornemo - NP Complete by kliuless - Non-Metro Congress-people mover under the Capitol by Rash - "No, your controller was not really low on batteries." by Servo5678 - a comment by LEGO Damashii Ask MetaFilter - Reading alt text within Tweetdeck scheduled tweets? by theatro - How to make clothes-shopping less of a sensory hell? by heatherlogan - a comment by cortex - What else hath God wrought? by babelfish - Do your rEsEaRcH-What doyou call the type of research Qanons try to do? by Che boludo! - Nazi flag with Airborne (?) patches sewn on? by ebesan - Podcasts about process by prewar lemonade - Looking for examples of less obvious but desired movie props. by Unsomnambulist - Can I make walks fun for my almost-six-year-old? by ManInSuit FanFare - Taskmaster: Series 1 and Series 2 and Series 3

It's Febuary, Februr, uh, it's Ferbur—it's not January anymore and here's a new podcast episode. We're catching up since episode 168 a couple months ago because last month we did the live-stream gala instead! So jessamyn and I try and sum up a couple months of MetaFilter best we can. Runs about 85 minutes.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - marvel at the Parler moderation interface - please continue to End Meeting For All - there are no rules, just run the dishwasher twice Jobs - Paypal checkout figure-outer by goatdog - Shopify dev for quick job by rednikki - Immediate Opening: Customer Journey Specialist by MiraK - Burn and mail some dvds by mosessis - Fact checker for non-fiction book by adrianhon IRL remote events - Saturday Morning Online Baking Club by Stanczyk - Peripatetic Persistent Pirate Puffins' Pacific Peregrination*: SF to Tokyo (1411 of 1708 hours to go!) by aniola Projects - Happy Birthday To You free stock music by malevolent (MeFi Post) - Finger.Farm: Advanced Finger Hosting by ph00dz (MeFi Post) - A browser extension that chooses a random movie from your Kanopy.com watchlist by waninggibbon - blob-opera-midi by OverlappingElvis - Netflex: Work out while you watch Netflix by missjenny - I promised MeFi some information about singing mice a long time ago... by sciatrix (MeFi Post) - A new type of musical instrument that's ridiculously easy to play by MrVisible MetaFilter - Please Stop Calling Things Archives by niicholas - BrachioGraph: the artistic, inaccurate and very cheap pen plotter by scruss - Doug Scott CBE, 29 May 1941 – 7 December 2020 by bondcliff - "The impossible is made possible!" by not_on_display - If you followed this thread, you're both a crazy person and I appreciate by hippybear - Will There Be a Trump Presidential Library? Don't Count On It by not_the_water - There is a legend which comes from... by doctornemo - The Lonely Legacy of Spam by DirtyOldTown - Making Pokemon Not Fun To Play! by JHarris - Sir, this is a DuckTales by adrianhon - Larry King, 1933-2021 by ardgedee - The suspense! by metabaroque - Parler Games by Just this guy, y'know Ask MetaFilter - Best life upgrades in a pandemic world? by everydayanewday - Artist of Don Quixote Print? No, Not Picasso by gknauss - Initials on the Old Oak Tree: a survey by ubiquity - Looking for a really neat or beautiful bird feeder by Triumphant Muzak - How are libraries charged for patron database use? by kristi - What are the weirdest nonstop flights? by goodbyewaffles - Divided by a common tongue by trig - When do you Christmas? Need a timeline! by Miko - What are the most boring topics? by Cozybee - What kinds of *Trails* are there? by theora55 MetaTalk - Tell me things to recover my optimism / good vibe. by signal - rainbaby RIP by emelenjr - Surely this... by nicoffeine - Snark Less, Post More by adrianhon - Tiny Text - Please Stop by NotTheRedBaron - New merch! Shirts, stickers, and magnets! by cortex

Back on something resembling a schedule, jessamyn and I chat about MetaFilter and also...other things? I am very punchy! This has been successfully posted! Have a great weekend!Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - have a wild Sukkot everybody - did you vote for your favorite rocks in the Mineral Cup? Jobs - Help me pack a studio apartment in Oakland by pinochiette (via this AskMe) - Principal IT Architect, Commercial and Medical IT by jenkinsEar Projects - Chess Patch Notes by thomaspark - Automanic Pixie Dream Girl by Just this guy, y'know - Lost Notes: 1980 by mykescipark - Roadside New Mexico: a photographic journey by wev5280 - Places In Space by dng - What caused institutions to take Y2K seriously? by brainwane MetaFilter - So the DVD copy protection was cracked, by mathowie - I ate the Pope by Cardinal Fang - wltm fat bears by fight or flight - Mouth Dreams: 2020 Gives Back by CrystalDave - A $90,000 Dome Home To Give Your Life Purpose by medusa - "Burning down parts of the city was one of the most popular solutions" by jessamyn - #guessthepaint by bitteschoen - Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died. by bile and syntax - Trump Tests Positive for the Coronavirus by bertran - Genealogist helps lay WWI veteran to rest by wenestvedt Ask MetaFilter - SKELETON question by longhaultrucker - Road scholars by Not A Thing - Help with Chord Progressions for Lucky Sue by circular - Home High Holy Days Traditions by carrioncomfort - What's the deal with pro athlete pre-game luggage? by zebra - How is data transferred over the internet? by lewedswiver - What to say in job application when supervisor will speak unfavorably? by kingbuzzie - What was this post apocalyptic educational program in the 1980s? by chrchr MetaTalk - Metatalktail Hour: The Past Is a Different Country by Eyebrows McGee - Fucking fucks, fucking fucks, fuck this fucking shit by nakedmolerats

After an August break, jessamyn and I are back to talk about Metafilter, bad weather, libraries, Metafilter, blaseball, and Metafilter.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - element 166 is pretty UHH - and adorable but not-for-everyone hairless, eyeless kitty - mathowie still misses Google Reader - a useful introduction to Blaseball - a somewhat less useful one - welcome to Zook, Kansas - BAT QUARTERS Jobs - Blog migration by brainwane - Game UI/Generalist Programmer, Character Modeler, and VFX Artist by DoctorFedora - Android OAuth2 mentor to help improve some token refresh code by johngoren - Help me with WIX? by cyndigo Projects - Random Animal Crossing Island Dream Codes by disaster77 - 25 examples of Hackney & Islington's BLM street art by Paul Slade - What caused institutions to take Y2K seriously? by brainwane - "Cruiser" is a strong word for what it is now. But just you wait ... by donpardo - Mixolumia by davejh - linocut print: A Powerful Culture by cortex - ReLarn: A classic Roguelike, updated by suetanvil - A Book Of Beasts by dng MetaFilter - Emma Peel, Bond girl, Mrs. Danvers, Lady Olenna Tyrell, etc. by theora55 - "Tagaq's concerts serve as acts of resistance" by jessamyn - "she bought low, sold high, and kept her calm through every panic." by jessamyn - The problem is that this person cannot speak Scots. by Think_Long - Need a safety sign? by GuyZero - Never, ever, anger a librarian by Wordshore - Crying in blaseball is [censored] by taquito sunrise - How To Cook Steak by philip-random - An Awkward, Anomalous Step, Usually Skipped by adrianhon Ask MetaFilter - What would happen if you bought a ghost town? by ficbot - hacking cabin construction by history is a weapon - COVID trend? by snerson - a comment by fancypants - Swallowing Pills For Adults by Anonymous - What lounge chair is this? by lalunamel - Is it possible to stay socially distant at the Grand Canyon by nancynickerson - Are board game rules copyrightable? by escape from the potato planet - When I say lyrical sci-fi, you say... by Beardman MetaTalk - Metafilter Fundraising Month! by restless_nomad - Help cortex cut his hair, fundraising edition. by cortex - Dream Week by travelingthyme - MeFi Posts: $20 SAIT by jessamyn FanFare - Special Event: Blaseball Season 6 by cortex MetaFilter Music Featured in this episode: - Sweet Nell by hades - Heroes On My Sleeve by allaboutgeorge - Better Watch Your Step (It's The Charleston Shoe Thieves) by cortex - Song 1 by Kye - For Now, For Now by moonmilk

It was a time known as The Great Resetting, when, after a months of wandering in a week late or so with episodes, jessamyn and I finally managed to release a new episode smack dab on the 1st. It was spoken of in legend as...episode 163 of the MetaFilter podcast.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - jessamyn has been placing jokes in the local paper - revisit the old Is MetaFilter Back Yet?" video Jess and I made, good god, NINE years ago - Sufjan Stevens: teach the controversy - Bruce fucken Campbell Jobs - Designer for print + web publication by Rich Text Projects - TV Opening Sequences Quiz by AndrewStephens (MeFi Post) - I have eaten the plums by Lazlo Hollyfeld - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Deanna (TNG edition) by avocet - Ultimate Quarantine House Selection! by Iridic (MeFi Post) - Basho poems by vacapinta - StockOrrery by lucidium - Restoring 100- to 200-year-old woodworking planes by not_the_water MetaFilter - Twitch.tv is more than just video-games: by Fizz - Rage Within the Machine by theodolite - Aprs Sufjan, le dluge by Etrigan - Evil Elvis sings Original Elvis by filthy light thief - One Gruff Harding, Two Gruff Harding by i_am_joe's_spleen - it's gotta be big and it's got to be dumb by Fizz - Hello, Gordon! Hello, Gordon! Hello, Gor-- by cortex - early "Stay Away" by jessamyn - Gorgeous Libraries by Iris Gambol - Mathematician John Horton Conway died yesterday of COVID-19. by Obscure Reference - Bird's Eye View of What We Call the Brand Zoom Funk by WCityMike Ask MetaFilter - A dog unfriendly TV? by mmmmmmm - Do banks really monitor ATMs for left cash? by geoff. - What happens during breakdown on bridge or in tunnel? by toastchee - What stops someone from clearing out the Treasury via check? by Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug - Identify/translate Arabic cassette tape by gryphonlover - Gifts ideas for an octogenarian, Italian-American barber. by eotvos - How did they accomplish this multi-person musician jam by katecholamine - What technobabble should I google? by aubilenon - Word game involving linking similar-sounding words by definitions? by The otter lady - Help Me Paint a Mural (Please God help Me!) by WalkerWestridge - How do I help my spouse keep up our home internet setup after I die? by sciatica Music Tracks featured this month: - My Way (Roboticized) by q*ben - Bach Prelude in C, but shifted by a sixteenth-note by mpark - Salaman by umbú

It's me! It's jessamyn! It's episode 158 of us podcasting about about the sort of MetaFiltery things we're wont to podcast about! It's about ninety minutes!Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - turns out there's no Dunkins Donuts in Portland anymore - Jessamyn has some cables - and a plow neighbor - and a daylight lamp - and a newsletter - Tom West, clock synchronizer - a few years ago I made a Snake game called Shai Hulud Jobs - Hey, somebody helped out btfreek with their job thing! - Purchase a ticket for a show in Osaka by btfreek - MeFites italiani per favore aiutatemi! by mattdidthat - Full-Time (Salaried) Retail Associate at the Crow Museum of Asian Art by macrowave - Photoshop an 80s style double exposure for my family holiday card by tatiana wishbone - Social media freelance help by arnicae - Looking for someone to pick up a small heavy table on long island ny and take it to greyhound by arnicae Projects - The Drag Kings of Taipei by storytam (MeFi Post) - AI Dictionary (Twitter bot) by you (MeFi Post) - Niche Museums by simonw - NYRB discussion group by The Ted - Absolute Bleeding Edge by maxsparber MetaFilter - Gimme some money by mandolin conspiracy - A Deepfake Nixon Delivers Eulogy for the Apollo 11 Astronauts by Etrigan - what on earth is this: '⋮'? by jessamyn - Imaging, Reconstruct, Erase, Noise, Etc. - IRENE finds words by jessamyn - Right now, the official U. S. Time is: by Going To Maine - What time is it? by silusGROK - The search for the Enormous Pippin continues by web-goddess - Failure is Inevitable. What Matters is How You Deal With It. by thatwhichfalls - Florida Dog takes Florida Man's car for a heckin' fun ride! by Lizard Ask MetaFilter - Strategies for leaving a note for myself in a library book for 20 years by rileyray3000 - Mustache Pageant Colour Commentary by nathaole - An ice-cold glass of blood?? by catcafe - What are your top Oboe jams to displease my roommate? by Krawczak - Are small scratches in new stainless steel appliances normal? by rouftop - a comment by rouftop - Looking for affordable, quality clothes in Toronto by jb - E-ink ereader with a strong screen - or a strong case by jb - How many books are printed in one edition of a book? by plant or animal - How to clean ears before ear mold? by madonna of the unloved - a comment by Lutoslawski - National Geographic was wrong!! by Melismata - a comment by Ashwagandha - Another question about telephones in 1991 by swheatie - What is your chill vibe? by Phyltre MeFi Music Featured in this episode: - Skeleton Dance by usonian - Magic Show by AppleSeed - Stones/Water/Time/Breath by youarenothere - Fire Over The Deep by Devils Rancher MetaTalk - Secret Quonsar 2019 THANK YOU! by pjsky - 'Guess My Word' by bq - Mefi Mall 2019 by frimble FanFare - Watchmen! - The Mandalorian! - The Good Place! - Till Death Do Us Blart!

It's our Halloween episode, which is not particularly spooOOOOooOOoooky because I accidentally left it out on the counter overnight after we recorded it yesterday. But jessamyn and I catch up on the last month of MeFi stuff and you can't prove that there wasn't also a ghost on the call. Runs about 90 minutes.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - Jessamyn went to trivia as a kangaroo - eyeball humanoid street art - on the subject of RIP blogs - Beware of Mr. [Ginger] Baker - No Context No Context Twitter Accounts - the MeFi wiki's Hey, That's Me! page Jobs - Old Photo Retouching by kathrynm - arXiv.org python developer by bdc34 Projects - Printable Totally Real Birds of the World 2020 Calendar by COBRA! - Orange Grove Tool Sheds and Utility Boxes of Oliva, Spain by dobbs (MeFi Post) - ??, an emoji adventure by NMcCoy - Images in Detail by rory - All the Buddha Boxes: 70 Songs for 70 Years of China by beijingbrown - What Is Your Deal With Carly Rae Jepsen? by Maaik MetaFilter - Christians (actually) hiding secret messages on vinyl records! by jessamyn - 80×25 by cgc373 - Basketball is basketball. You know what I'm saying? by cashman - Thinking Outside the Plane by aws17576 - Nice Is Different Than Good by The Whelk - TIL... how to do picture descriptions in twitter for blind/sight-limited by hippybear - The Mystery of the "Terminator" Theme Time Signature by WCityMike - :emoji: by Fizz - Ginger Baker is gone. by Freedomboy - Then it happened. Tyler finally croaked. by Atom Eyes - Tour Halted Immediately After Scandal! Willie will never perform again! by 3j0hn - 38 people are looking at this FPP by Vesihiisi - In spite of present difficulties, hold on and give me optimism. by eotvos Ask MetaFilter - Orca-moose predation by jeather - Finding Canada Post parcel lost in the US by skycrashesdown - Music for a Winter Garden by sciencegeek - An Edible Curse by Acheman - How to deal with finding out decades later that mom was an alcoholic? by Anonymous - Tonight's NCIS - what is going on? by lungtaworld - Surgery vs. natural remedies for osteoarthritis by htm - Examples of overly simple solutions that were wrong by amtho - Fun feminist songs by hotchocolate - Every Photograph of Frederick Douglass by The Blue Olly - What's the origin of "Portland Orange"? by cortex - Unique Road Signs From Your Neck of the Woods by Fizz FanFare - Saturday Night Live: Chance the Rapper/Chance the Rapper by jessamyn MeFi Music Featured this episode: - chords 'n gourds by CarrotAdventure - A New Flame by srednivashtar - Invocation by Wolfdog MetaTalk - Rolling out some updated site documentation by cortex - Post Your Name Month! by Orange Dinosaur Slide - non-ascii tags in posts by signal - secret quonsar: can you take over? by julen - The Internet 50 by progosk

It's time for that monthly podcast: jessamyn and I caught up yesterday on the last month or so of all things MetaFilter, Ask MetaFilter, Projects, and so forth through the ol' enumeration of subsites. We also talk about trivia a little, and as a result I ruin taiga and possibly everything else. We also got to wondering whether Jeopardy would throw you off the show for refusing to answer questions in good faith, so, hey, Jeopardy folks: any good stories there?Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - it's a goddam ceramic guitar! - some sort of script parsing error turned Jessamyn's contacts page into this ancient post by Mathowie with her userid as the postid and I'm just including it here to prove I checked the script parser output I guess! Jobs - Record a Yiddish song by overeducated_alligator - Turn a ripped sheet into boxers by batter_my_heart - Service Desk Consulting Engineer (Tier 1-2 and Tier 3-4 Positions) by churl - Endpoint Engineer (Senior) - Brown University by BlackPebble Projects - 'Change the Subject' Documentary by soy bean (MeFi Post) - Deadwood As It Was. by dances_with_sneetches - Undulating Jigsaw Puzzles by mpark - Tufte Bootstrap by dylan_k - The Generalist Academy by Paragon (MeFi Post) MetaFilter - play play play play hate hate hate hate by cortex - I FEEL VERY STRESSED, but in a good way maybe?? by KTamas - "All my dreams fall like rain on a downtown train..." by jessamyn - "I've just been having fun, posting funny stuff online." by Johnny Wallflower - Paging Umberto Eco by PMdixon - The great Dickens and Dostoevsky hoax by Pyrogenesis - Weee Weee Wrrr Wrrr ( Repeat Repeat Repeat Repeat ) by zabuni - Every Champion Loses... Eventually by Etrigan - The Perpetual Diamond by carter - "Enjoy my old flute if you find one. I certainly did." by LobsterMitten - It's a resin-ator by mandolin conspiracy - Place-names by sylvanshine - You Were the Man Then, Dog by Rhaomi Ask MeFi - Tell me the cool way you organize your car by FencingGal - where can I buy very large containers of toothpaste? by meaty shoe puppet - TOCs for a specific volume of "Japan Quarterly"? by ryanshepard - Toothbrush care by the primroses were over - a comment by jessamyn - You're gonna feel some kinda way about this by DirtyOldTown - Something like Smores but infinitely better! by JenThePro - Cross Country Trip Planning, 1899 Edition by bajema - Was My Hotel Bonkers? by Raybun - need silly reasons why partner changed her last name by Sophont - Plastic bags, the more sustainable choice? Break it down please... by Miko - Are "man poops" a product of sexism? by crunchy potato MeFi Music featured in this episode: - Crushed by Evstar - Cider by usonian - Audio Tape From Paradise by Richard Upton Pickman - 02 - dolphin or giraffe - vampire deer by pyramid termite - That Lonesome Road by backseatpilot - lightning strike by umbú MetaTalk - Reconsidering the rule against friend-linking on the MeFi front page by cortex - things just got a lot more Helio-centric by cortex

On July 13th, the writer Jess Zimmerman posted "Where's My Cut?": On Unpaid Emotional Labor on The Toast, an essay about how and why emotional work is often undervalued and treated as "women's work". Or, more to the point, not even work: just something women are inherently supposed to do. It's a good piece, and what it spawned was even more interesting: a huge, revelatory MetaFilter thread in which site members, women in particular, talked about all the ways this asymmetry and devaluation of emotional labor has affected their lives and their relationships.The resulting thread was immense, with surprising momentum: while many discussion threads tail off after a day or two, this one kept going for the entire month it was open (MetaFilter threads close after 30 days) and collected upward of 2100 comments by the end, from hundreds of different people. New folks signed up by the dozens to join in; members shared personal revelations, talked about the new vocabulary the discussion was giving them, posted both hopeful and heartbreaking updates about how these ideas were impacting their relationships with spouses, romantic partners, and friends. There were spinoff discussions, especially on Ask MetaFilter where several site members asked about emotional labor in various contexts. And there were even 170 or so comments about a proposed women-only retreat called Crone Island, for which ocherdraco made a travel poster. In this episode, I talk with Jess Zimmerman about her expectations and experiences writing the original piece, the reaction it got on MetaFilter, the collective disservice these gender expectations do both women and men, and some of the ideas that came out of that intense, personal collection of stories in the discussion thread.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 download@MefiOOTB on Twitter

In 1846, a dead snail was glued to a specimen card in the British Museum. In 1850, somebody realized that the snail...wasn't so dead after all, kicking off a curious story of molluskular stoicism that charmed the mid 19th C. science-and-nature circuit. But what went on in the ensuing 150 years? Site user "nicebookrack" wanted to know, and posted question to Ask MetaFilter asking, well, whatever happened to the snail that wouldn't die?The answers she got put her on the path to reaching the Natural History Museum's Jon Ablett, Curator of Mollusca, who was able to help her put together the missing details, all of which she collated into a fantastic post on MetaFilter. In this episode, I talk with nicebookrack about the snail's story, how it caught her attention in the first place via Project Gutenberg, and her experiences putting the whole thing together.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 download@MefiOOTB on Twitter

Matt Haughey founded MetaFilter, a well-moderated forum for discussions about interesting things that expanded to also answer questions. At just a few months over 15 years old, it's a veterans of many Internet lifecycles. In the last couple of years, however, MetaFilter began to face an existential challenge, which we'll talk about in this episode, along with its history, nature, and future. Sponsors & patrons This podcast is made possible through the support of sponsors and patrons. Thanks to our sponsor, Harry's: A great shaving experience for a fraction of the price of its competitors. $15 gets you a set that includes a handle, three blades, and shaving cream shipped to your door. Use coupon code DISRUPT for $5 off your first order. We've started a new kind of ad: "indie ads"! If you're a solo creator or small firm, we're offering discounted short ads with the kind underwriting of Cards Against Humanity. (CAH just launched a site where you can buy directly from them, including their Bigger Blacker Box and their 2012 and 2013 holiday packs, the profits from which are donated to charity.) Thanks also to patrons Bryan Clark, Rönne Ogland, and Mike Mansor for supporting us directly through Patreon! You can back this podcast for as little as $1 per month. At higher levels, we'll thank you on the air and send you mugs and T-shirts! Show notes Atex was the first digital composition system, used widely in the newspaper and magazine world into the 1990s, when PageMaker, QuarkXPress, and other software superceded it. Matt worked at Pyra Labs on Blogger for a short stint in its early days with Ev Williams, Meg Hourihan. We mention Tim O'Reilly, a publisher and thinker who invested in Blogger and a number of other interesting early-stage ventures. He founded Global Network Navigator (GNN) in 1993, which was sold to AOL in 1995. He is part of O'Reilly Alphatech Ventures. David Carr, the New York Times' media critic, used the terrible, terrible term platisher to refer to Medium, which is a combination of a platform and a publisher in a recent article. An OC-12 line is up to 622 Mbps of throughput. MAE-West was once the major interconnection point for ISPs on the west coast. The MAE stands for Metropolitan Area Exchange. In 1995, I wrote "The Experiment Is Over," about the how the National Science Foundation was shutting down its contracts for NSFNet, because commercial organizations could now directly operate the Internet backbone. A Virtual Private Server (VPS) is a virtualized instance of an operating system running on a host alongside potentially many others, each of which is allotted guaranteed amounts of CPU usage, storage, and the like. VPSes are just like running a virtual machine on one's own computer, but designed for efficiency and reliability. Glenn uses Linode, which recently switched all its drives to SSDs and doubled many system parameters. Digital Ocean is slightly cheaper (it used to be much more so). Amazon EC2 is another alternative for rapid scaling. After years of pictures of cats in scanners, MetaFilter set up cat-scan.com to house those and its memories. BREAKING! Cat-scan is dead and its file lost forever! BREAKING! File were found and it's fixed. As you were. The community at Ask MetaFilter produces some remarkable answers. A poster asked for help deciphering coded messages her grandmother on index cards before she died in 1996. Within 15 minutes, there was an answer. Andy Baio asked about an image he used a decade ago for the soon-to-be-revived Upcoming, and Boing Boing's Rob Beschizza had an answer four minutes later. Einstein probably didn't tell a story about "no cat," but it's an interesting history of where the apocryphal quote came from; and my original Google Answers query, for which I was willing to pay $15 if someone had an accurate reply. Jessamyn West is part of the lifeblood of the interesting part of the Internet. Matt blames his PVRblog for the rise of content farms. On Medium, Matt explained MetaFilter's Google search and AdSense predicament. But the good news is that even after we recorded this episode, donations continued to pour in. They've now received about $40,000 in one-time donations and a commitment of $10,000 per month in recurring ones. That monthly figure is about one-third of the site's Google ad revenue, and thus a good cushion against future drops. (Photo by Chris Ryan.)

Colin Marshall sits down in Portland's Slabtown with Matt Haughey, founder of MetaFilter, the most civilized community on the internet, co-founder of Fuelly, and creator of several other sites as well. They discuss his escape from San Francisco's "goofball startup culture"; what it means for MetaFilter to be "civilized"; his desire not simply to create "a safe place for people to yell past each other"; the importance of keeping personal identity out of debates; the strange backend provided by MetaFilter's question-and-answer service Ask MetaFilter; the second-most popular Ask MetaFilter thread of all time, Colin's own "What in life did it take you a surprisingly long time to realize you've been doing wrong all along?"; the strange popularity of questions about how to talk to girls, relate humanity, and/or live life, also known as the "forever alone" series; what it takes to become one of MetaFilter's ten worst users, drunk on power or stupidity; the hyperarticulate sourness that makes bad comments on MetaFilter especially bad, and how it leads to users pre-emptively armor-plate their sentences; Portland as a setting for the simple life, but also the good one; advertising's domination of internet business models, and the bite mobile browsing even now takes out of that; who's actually clicking those ads that ostensibly support everything; the benefits of living down the long tail, and of executing difficult-to-describe ideas that are therefore difficult to replicate; where to shut yourself off from the net in Portland, be it on a bike or at a food cart; and how a Portlander can possibly react to a kid on a unicycle, in a Utilikilt, playing a bagpipe, topped with a Darth Vader helmet.

SHOW SUMMARYWhat's YOUR choice for the Word of the Year for 2011? What word or phrase best sums up the ideas, events, and themes that speakers of English have been talking about? Grant shares some of his picks. And speaking of picks, why do football commentators seem to love the term pick-six? Also, great quotations from writers, the meaning of such Britishisms as cheeky and naff, the intentionally misspelled and mispronounced word defulgaty and a discussion of whether the term ladies is offensive. And does the insect called an earwig really crawl into people's ears at night?FULL DETAILSWriters always seem to come up with brilliant quotes about writing, and why shouldn't they? Douglas Adams has noted, "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." And Gloria Steinem once quipped: "I do not like to write. I like to have written." What's the difference between hand grenades and pomegranates? Not much when you think about their shape and the fact that they're both packed tightly with small things, which is why both share a linguistic root with the word granular.http://www.altalang.com/beyond-words/2009/07/13/pomegranates-and-hand-grenades/Grant offers examples from his latest Words of the Year list, including Crankshaft (the code name for the Osama Bin Laden), and basketbrawl, referring to the fight that broke out between the Georgetown Hoyas and the Chinese National Team. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ClAM3zXx-I Football, like most sports, brings its own set of idioms and jargon that ride the line between cleverness and cliche. The adjective multiple describes a player, an offense or defense, or even a whole team that has multiple threats or talents. And a pick six, one of the more exciting plays in football, is when a player makes an interception and scores a touchdown. For a more erudite take on the language of sports, David Foster Wallace's "Roger Federer as Religious Experience" never fails. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2011/10/writing-the-beautiful-game.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html?pagewanted=allWriters will appreciate this quotation from Burton Roscoe: "What no wife of a writer can understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of a window." Our Quiz Guy John Chaneski offers a quiz called Take-Offs. For each clue, remove the first letter of a word to get the second (or third) word in the puzzle. For example, in the first chapter of Moby Dick, Ishmael had to screw up his courage and join the crew. Or, I've been in the barber chair for an hour, my hair looks great, but it's time to come up for air. Be sure to check out John's new NPR show, Ask Me Another.http://twitter.com/#!/NPRAskMeAnotherhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/NPRs-Ask-Me-Another/263283727044159What is an earwig? Those skinny brown insects with pinchers coming out their backsides have a reputation in folklore for crawling through people's ears and laying eggs in their skull. But really, earwigs are just simple insects that take their name from the Old English term wicga, meaning "insect." The males do have one interesting anatomical feature, though.http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17223183.200-lucky-earwigs-are-doubly-endowed.htmlA professional auctioneer shares some techniques for creating his mesmerizing, melodious patter. He explains that auctioneers are known as colonels, because colonels in the civil war were assigned with auctioning off captured property. And he warns to beware of so-called chandelier bidding. His final tip: Remember, at an auction, it's cheaper to kiss somebody than to wave at them! The 2011 Words of the Year list wouldn't be complete without occupy, as in the Occupy protests that sprang up in Manhattan's Zuccotti Park and elsewhere. And Zuccotti Lung? It's an illness that made its rounds among the camped-out protesters.Have you ever been faced with a defugalty? This ironic misspelling and mispronunciation of difficulty popped up in a Dashiell Hammett novel, The Glass Key, in 1931. It's often said with a tongue in the cheek, but, as in the case of the Hammett novel, it refers to the mispronunciations of the uncouth or uneducated. http://www.languagehat.com/archives/000630.phpIs the term ladies an offensive way to refer to a group of women? As a recent discussion on Ask Metafilter revealed, many interpret it as outdated, condescending, or patronizing. The hosts conclude it all depends on context.http://ask.metafilter.com/200453/Why-are-some-women-offended-by-the-term-ladiesWhat does cheeky mean? How about the words twee and naff? A British ex-pat says she finds it hard to convey the nuances of these adjectives to her American friends. What's Lady Macbeth talking about when she urges Macbeth to "screw your courage to the sticking point"? This image of mustering up bravery most likely has to do with tightening the strings of a crossbow. If your iPhone's Siri thinks that two meetings in one day is not bad, does that make her an optimist? And by the way, since when did cellphones start making value judgments?Nobody likes a humblebrag. That's when someone complains about, say, having to choose among their dozen college acceptance letters. Harris Wittles, a writer on television's Parks and Recreation, runs the Twitter handle @Humblebrag, where he retweets those ironic complaints akin to Arianna Huffington's tweet: "About to take off from Milan to Istanbul and none of my three blackberries are working."https://twitter.com/#!/Humblebrag--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2011, Wayword LLC.

[This episode first aired January 23, 2010.]Good poetry is even better when you read it aloud. For his anthology, "Essential Pleasures" http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Pleasures-Anthology-Poems-Aloud/dp/0393066088, former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky selected works with just that in mind. Martha and Grant discuss a poem from the book with lines that are more delicious when spoken. Also this week: If a woman decides to keep her own name after getting married, should she be addressed as "Ms. or Mrs."? When you were young, what did you call "your favorite blanket"? When do you "redd up" the table, and what does it mean to be "out like Lottie's eye"?The hosts talk about some verses from "Essential Pleasures" http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/20680, Robert Pinsky's anthology of poems meant to be read aloud. If a woman decides to keep her own name after getting married, should she be addressed as "Ms." or "Mrs."?"Don't be frontin'!" A Texas college student is curious about the origin of "fronting," and learns that it goes back several decades to the world of petty criminals.What can go "up a chimney down, but not down a chimney up"? Martha has that riddle's answer.Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a happy time with a word puzzle whose answers all include the word "happy." Try this: "The nickname of Xaviera Hollander, as derived from the title of her bestselling 1971 memoir."When you were small, did you have a favorite blanket? If so, what'd you call it? A "woobie"? A "blankie"? A listener says her grandmother called hers an "ookoosh," and wonders if the word reflects grandma's Czech roots. If you're driving and need to turn 180 degrees, you make a U-turn. But what do you make if you speak a language that doesn't include the letter "U"? If you're a Hindi speaker, what do you call wearing a V-neck sweater in an A-frame house?When someone's fast asleep, a Texan might say that he's "out like Lottie's eye." But who's Lottie and what happened to her eye? Some children don't talk until they're age three or older, then go on to do just fine. Why do some kids start speaking relatively late in life? The hosts talk about a recent Ask Metafilter http://ask.metafilter.com/139980/Why-didnt-I-say-anything-until-I-was-three thread on that topic.Is there a word that describes someone who's good at visualizing how best to pack a suitcase or car? A Michigan woman is sure she heard such a term for someone who can visualize 3-D arrangements in advance, but darned if she can recall what it is. Can the hosts help?A Connecticut listener is suspicious of a Wikipedia entry that claims the slang term "homie" derives from Latin "homo," meaning man.The Spanish phrase "Donde lloran, está al muerto" literally translates as "Where there's crying, there's a dead person." In everyday use, however, the meaning is somewhat different. You might use it, for example, to describe someone who claims not to have money when in fact he does. A bilingual caller wonders if there's an analogous expression that refers to someone who's miserly despite being wealthy. Grant recommends he check out "A Dictionary of Mexican-American Proverbs" http://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Mexican-American-Proverbs/dp/0313253854 by Mark Glazer.Another riddle I'm taken from a mine and shut up in a wooden case from which I'm never released, yet I'm used by almost everybody. Who am I?"Redd up the table"! A California listener says he remembers hearing that all the time when growing up in Iowa, but now that he's on the West Coast, no one has any idea what he's talking about.--A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2011, Wayword LLC.

This week, it's backhanded phrases, those snarky remarks that come sugar-coated in politeness, like "How nice for you," "Oh, interesting!" and the mother of all thinly veiled criticism, "Bless her heart." Also this week, free reign vs. free rein, the origin of the one-finger salute, and what it means if a Frenchman has big ankles. And "Jeopardy!" champion Ken Jennings stops by to try his hand at a slang quiz.You've been on the receiving end of backhanded phrases, and admit it, you've used them, too. A discussion on Ask Metafilter http://ask.metafilter.com/133910/Bless-your-heart-and-other-backhanded-phrases prompts Grant and Martha to talk about the ways people use sugar-coated snark. By the way, if you want a fancy word for veiled criticisms like "bless her heart" and "let me know how that works out," it's "charientism," from a Greek word that means "the expression of an unpleasant thing in an agreeable manner."Is it free reign or free rein? Ruling or riding?The "back forty" refers to a remote area of a large piece of land. Grant has the origin of that phrase.What do English bowmen, the French, and lopped-off digits have to do with the classic middle-finger insult? Absolutely nothing. A San Diego truck driver wonders about the true origin of the one-finger salute. There's a great debunking of the English archers story here: http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/pluckyew.asp.Quiz Guy John Chaneski says he's been visiting some "niche" high schools, all of which have the word "High" in them, maybe in reverse of a standard phrase. How about this one: "The school where they study phantoms, ghosts, and apparitions." That would be "Spirits High."A caller who grew up in Australia has a question about wedding-invitation etiquette in the U.S. She wonders: Shouldn't an invitation refer to a daughter's "marriage with" the groom rather than a "marriage to" him?A man who works nights in a mortuary in Brookings, Oregon is curious about the origin of--what else?--"graveyard shift." Quick, picture a berry: Is it blue? Red? Then where'd we get the English expression "brown as a berry"?It's "Slang for $500." All-time "Jeopardy!" Champion Ken Jennings tackles his next logical challenge, the "A Way with Words" slang quiz. Ken puzzles over the meaning of "brummagem" and "pluck of a pig," and tries to guess an usual meaning for the term daylight. More about Ken at his website, www.ken-jennings.com http://www.ken-jennings.com/index.html.In many neighborhoods, the night before Halloween is the night when pranksters run around wreaking all kinds of mischief--toilet-papering houses, spraying windows with shaving cream, ringing doorbells and then running away. A Connecticut woman remembers calling that night "Goosey Night," and is surprised when friends call it "Mischief Night." In fact, that prankfest goes by lots of other names, including "Corn Night," "Picket Night," and "Devil Night."In English, we say that someone who's egotistical has a "big head." But in French, according to a caller, the person is said to have "big ankles." Why ankles?Grant shares a "quirklum." --A Way with Words is funded by its listeners: http://waywordradio.org/donateGet your language question answered on the air! Call or write with your questions at any time:Email: words@waywordradio.orgPhone: United States and Canada toll-free (877) WAY-WORD/(877) 929-9673London +44 20 7193 2113Mexico City +52 55 8421 9771Donate: http://waywordradio.org/donateSite: http://waywordradio.org/Podcast: http://waywordradio.org/podcast/Forums: http://waywordradio.org/discussion/Newsletter: http://waywordradio.org/newsletter/Twitter: http://twitter.com/wayword/Skype: skype://waywordradio Copyright 2010, Wayword LLC.