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We must talk about your parking regulations. In fact, we must mock them. In no other area of life do head spins quicker, and people's opinions take on truly bizarre forms, than we we talk about parking. I get it, we are a culture obsessed with driving and parking. It's part of nearly adult's daily routine. In this episode, Tony Jordan of the Parking Reform Network and I have some fun with it, while also diving into the nitty-gritty of how to make change in your community.As a bonus, Tony describes some of the most bizarre, and most hilarious parking requirements he's run across.Here's a link to Donald Shoup's article, “Roughly Right or Precisely Wrong.”Find more content on The Messy City on Kevin's Substack page.Music notes: all songs by low standards, ca. 2010. Videos here. If you'd like a CD for low standards, message me and you can have one for only $5.Intro: “Why Be Friends”Outro: “Fairweather Friend”Transcript:Kevin K (00:00.92) Welcome back to the Missy City podcast. This is Kevin Klinkenberg. Today we're going to talk about everybody's favorite topic, parking. The bane of my existence for most of my professional career, but we've got Tony Jordan here with us today from the Parking Reform Network. And I'm really looking forward to this conversation so we can get into the weeds a little bit on what's actually an incredibly important topic. So Tony, welcome. Tony Jordan (00:28.617) Thanks so much. Happy to be here. Kevin K (00:31.064) Well, it's a pleasure to have you. I ran into you in Cincinnati at the Strong Towns National Gathering and seeing you and we were chatting over a couple of beers and it just seemed like, you know, as soon as we start talking, it feels like, well, this probably should be a podcast. You know, we should spend more time getting into things. So I'm grateful you were able to make some time to be able to join. Tony, before we go too far, why don't we tell me what is the Parking Reform Network and how... How long has it been around? Tony Jordan (01:03.081) the parking reform network is a, 501 C three organization that was founded, founded in the spring of 2019 and we launched in March of 2020. and it, yeah, it was actually okay for organizing a national organization because everything moved online. Like we, we, people were much more amenable to slacking and, using zoom calls, but we, the idea behind. Kevin K (01:16.92) Good timing. Tony Jordan (01:33.641) The need I saw, I had been doing parking reform locally in Portland, Oregon, where I'm from, or where I live, for years, helping to get rid of parking mandates that had been added back in and removing them entirely from the city and worked on upzoning projects too. And the whole while I really felt like one of the things that was missing in advancing parking reform was, having an advocacy organization and a community that really was helping to educate the public and advance these policies. The practitioners and the city council even often knew that these policies were bad, the existing ones, but the public support wasn't there. So founding the Parking Inform Network, it's a community of practitioners, academics, activists, policymakers who... We exist to kind of build a community and a movement around educating the public about parking policy and accelerating reforms. And we do that through a number of research and outreach and advocacy avenues. Kevin K (02:47.352) That's cool. So how did you, what was your background then getting into this? Were you in planning or transportation or talk a little bit about like how you came to this, to this spot. Tony Jordan (02:57.641) Yeah, I mean, I grew up in Los Angeles in San Pedro, the port of LA, and went to school at Santa Cruz and got a politics degree. And then I moved up to Portland and I mostly worked in tech for most of my career, web design, backend, server services programming. And I also, but I also did a couple, I worked at a couple of jobs as a labor organizer. So my background was not at all in planning. I got rid of my car. We got rid of our household's car in 2008. I had a two year old. We had another child in 2010. And I feel like that kind of primed the pump. I started looking around transportation a little differently. And then in 2010, I read a blog post very randomly on a website called Metafilter that was about the high cost of reparking, about Professor Shoup's book that had come out years before. And I am the kind of person, if I hear something interesting, I'll go look up the Wikipedia or I'll look into it. And so I got the book on inner library loan and started reading it. And I was just like, my mind was blown. Shoop has asked me, you know, one time, what did you think when you read the book? And I was like, man, I felt like I was eating a hamburger and reading the jungle. Like it was really like, what is going on? You look once you your eyes are open to this, you look around. I live across the street from a parking lot. I worked overlooking a parking lot and I just like your. to understand why, how much these things cost and then why they're there was just like, why doesn't everyone know this? I looked at my own zoning code in Portland and actually at the time Portland was a pretty, was pretty Vanguard city. We had no parking mandates on our corridors, on our bus, our frequent service corridors that had passed in 2002 kind of to little fanfare. And, but then a couple of years later, In 2012, all of a sudden, they started building apartments on a couple of these corridors. Division Street was one, North Williams. And they were building like 30, 40, 50 apartments in a building with no parking. And they were leasing up. And then someone proposed someone got permitted at 81 unit building on the street with no parking and the neighborhood just went nuts. And they started petitioning the city council to add parking mandates back. Tony Jordan (05:18.633) And so there was a pro they started considering this and I said, Hey, I just read this book a couple of years ago and I started going to city council and I met people who were interested, but they weren't really very organized. And so I started just like creating a mailing list and, and, you know, we lost, they actually added parking mandates back in, but that kind of got me totally started. That was when I first reached out to professor Shoop. He wrote an op ed. And I started just that, that really kicked off. the fuel of like, okay, we need to be better organized on this and next time we're not gonna lose. Kevin K (05:52.152) Interesting. So if I could go back like you said in 2008, you got rid of your car. What prompted you all to, and you had a two -year -old. So what, do you like hate America so much you decided to get rid of your cars? What was that all about? Tony Jordan (06:06.665) You know, the check engine light went on and I took it into, I just afford focus 2004 focus second car ever owned. I took it to the dealer and I mean not to the dealer to the repair shop and they thought, this is the transmission. I thought, man, that transmission on that car has always been weird. Sure. And they, it was going to be $2 ,000. And, and I said, okay. And then they called me back and said, you know, it's not the transmission. We looked at it. Like we haven't charged you anything, but we think it's the computer maybe. So here. Kevin K (06:10.104) Ha ha ha. Tony Jordan (06:36.233) put this little dongle on and drive around for a week. And I said, how much does the computer cost? And they said, $2 ,000. And I was like, okay. And then I drove around and they came back and they said, nah, it's not the computer. We think it's this. How much is that? And I was like, they said engine or something, engine rebuild. And I was like, $2 ,000. And I was just like, man, if I pay for this to get fixed, I obviously expect that either the computer or the transmission will break next. And that will, so I just thought like, this is going to be a never ending money pit. So I told my wife and I discussed it and we had. We lived in Portland, we lived near Transit, I had a bike, we lived near Zipcar, right? Zipcar, it was kind of in the center of Zipcar. And so we said, let's put the car in the garage and just try six months without driving it. And we did. And then at the end of six months, I sold it to the dealer for $2 ,000. And so I was up $4 ,000. And then I never really looked back at buying a... Kevin K (07:22.52) What a cool idea. Kevin K (07:34.936) And that's just, hey, I really like, I mean, that's a great way to just like, let's test it out. Let's see if we can handle it for a while. And so then in terms of like having small children, I know myself having small children, it's not the easiest thing in the world because it's just, you know, there are so many things that you might want to take your kids to that you just need a car to get around. How did you manage that? Tony Jordan (07:55.945) I mean, some of it, we just didn't do as many things. My son took offense to this when I told him when he was older, but I said, one of the nice things was it does kind of make some decisions for you. It simplifies your life. So you're probably only gonna go to one birthday party in a weekend unless they're very close to one another, right? Like, or in a day, right? So some of it, initially we used Zipcar quite a bit and... Kevin K (08:15.608) God, that sounds magical. Tony Jordan (08:24.489) you know, tapered that off over time. And obviously with small, small kids, it's a little bit harder, but we know we carried the kids on our carriers. We never did, you know, when they got a little older, I had a bike trailer I would take to preschool. But it does, you know, you kind of adjust your life over time. It's not, it's not easy. I feel like we are a bit of like, you know, first adopters, still people who are voluntarily living in solidarity with people who can't drive. or can't own vehicles, right? Those people exist in our communities. And so, you know, I experience a lot of the same frustrations voluntarily, but I also have the capacity to try and, you know, argue for it. So, I mean, I think that, you know, my kids do sports or my daughter dances, my son does ultimate frisbee and other things, and he rides his bike to work now at Trader Joe's, and they take the bus, and they're just very independent. And I'm sure there are, you know, opportunities that... we can't do, but I mean, that's kind of life. You make decisions and in exchange, they really are, you know, they know how to get around. And I think they're gonna, I think it's gonna really give them a good leg up when they get to, you know, college or, you know, as the world has to adapt and reduce car dependency, you know, it's not gonna be as painful for them, I think, as you make these changes. Kevin K (09:51.224) How do you know, do you notice much of a difference then between like them and their friends and just other families that they, that you might run around with and like just their own habits and behaviors in that regard? Tony Jordan (10:01.769) Yeah, I mean, a lot of even though we live in a place that's pretty walkable, like obviously a lot of the other parents do drive frequently. I don't begrudge them that. My children get rides with other parents sometimes, too. I mean, we're you know, I don't think we'll offer to pay sometimes. Or, you know, like it's it's not like we're trying to be complete moochers or freeloaders on this. But, you know, like I think it on one hand, like my daughter, When she started middle school, other parents were often driving and we said, hey, we're not going to drive, so let's get our kids riding the bikes. And so our kids had their own mini bike group. And then as she didn't want to ride as much anymore, she would take the bus and other kids would learn to take the bus with her. So there is, I think, by just living a lifestyle that is less car dependent, sometimes I think people find it grating, like, these holier than thou. anti -car people, but at the same time, like it is an example. Like you can see it being done and other kids do it. My son now is 17. So he, you know, some of his friends are getting driver's licenses, but a lot of them aren't. One of the bigger conflicts is he's in film class and a lot of film is done. Well, not only logging, lugging gear around, but obviously, but it's a very common set piece, right? Is to be in a car or driving a car from point A to point B and Kevin K (11:28.248) Hmm. Tony Jordan (11:30.313) So one of his frustrations is he doesn't have a card to do these film transitions, you know, but it's, you know, I think it's worked out mostly okay. Kevin K (11:39.512) Have you ever tried to like quantify, you know, like how much money this has saved you over the years? Tony Jordan (11:47.337) I mean, I have not, other than the initial calculus I did where it was like, I'm up $4 ,000 on, and I can use that for zip car or whatever. I mean, I know it does. It definitely, I don't, I'm not the best budgeter, honestly. So I don't keep a spreadsheet, but I mean, the fact that we haven't owned a car for these years has definitely, you know, we take cheaper modes. And to some degree you do less, you do just do less stuff and that. Kevin K (12:04.26) Yeah. Tony Jordan (12:16.873) you know, simplifies your life and makes it a little bit cheaper. Kevin K (12:21.912) Yeah, I mean, I promise I'll get off on other topics, but I just find it's interesting when people are able to live in a way that we're told you can't live. So have you found that not having the car has opened up ways for you to spend money on other things in your life that maybe you wouldn't have been able to do otherwise? Tony Jordan (12:25.705) No problem. Tony Jordan (12:45.289) once again, I don't sure specifically like how much it impacts that. I mean, obviously the cost of buying some nice bikes is, you know, still much cheaper than, than spending on a car or the gas. I still have to pay for insurance. I mean, I still voluntarily pay for insurance. I don't have to, but I have a non -name donor policy, which is kind of expensive. you know, I think more, it just, it just, I find it is a much. more, it's a much more peaceful and relaxing way to live in most times. Like driving is so stressful, especially if you live in a larger city. Like it's, at least to me, it's scary. You, you, if you think about it, it's not like you're kind of making life difficult for everyone else who's not in your car at the expense of your convenience for the most part. And so I just find the ability to not have to like one of the best dividend is I never have to worry about like, you know, like that responsibility or that pressure or that inconvenience. If I'm on the bus, even if it's in traffic, I can be on my phone or be talking to who I'm with and not be worrying about piloting. Kevin K (14:00.408) Yeah, and you don't have to sweat finding a place to park wherever you're going. So that's kind of a nice thing. So then were you working in tech pretty much all the way up through the beginning of forming the Parking Reform Network? Tony Jordan (14:03.209) Exactly, yeah. Tony Jordan (14:14.025) Yeah, I mean, mostly, even when I worked for, so I worked two times for unions. I worked for the University of California, professional technical employees before I moved up to Portland. And then I worked for AFT organizing nurses. In both those jobs, I still often did the backend database or the website. And then I spent the 13 years before that working at a company that did online admissions applications. So yeah, I was mostly in. Kevin K (14:19.256) Okay. Kevin K (14:38.52) Okay, that's really cool. So then when you formed this nonprofit, who else kind of formed it with you or was this pretty much like you're taking this initiative on or were there others that really said they wanted to jump on board with you? Tony Jordan (14:51.561) I had been in discussions. So Portland has a great advocacy scene. So I had initially formed or after where I left off the story about the losing and parking mandates coming back. A couple of years after that, I started an organization called well, initially it was called Portland Shoopistas and then at Shoop's suggestion, we changed it to Portlanders for Parking Reform. And that was kind of just a low, I had a blog, a website, a newsletter, you know, an advocacy org that worked in partnership. Kevin K (15:02.488) Yeah, yeah. Tony Jordan (15:19.657) with other coalitions to just kind of like keep an eye on what was happening with various, you know, on street and off street parking policies in Portland and in the region and, you know, organize testimony and events and just kind of build awareness. So in that process, I worked with many. Portland has just, you know, freeway fighter this year. We have, you know, housing activists. It's a great scene. Michael Anderson from Sightline Institute and I had been talking about the concept of he proposed we should have a green lane project, which was a project of people for bikes to propose protected bike lanes. He said, you know, we should have, there should be some sort of project for parking similar. Like the idea was like, maybe get a cohort of cities together and take them on a discovery trip. And then they pledged to go review their parking code. And so we had pitched, he helped pitch that around to a couple of places and no one was really interested in hosting a similar project. that kind of consensus was it's hard to fundraise for parking reform, which is true. And so a couple of years later, I was in Chicago speaking at the Parking Industry Expo with these two women, Jane Wilberding and Lindsay Bailey. And... we kind of started hatching a concept around like, you know, like what, how do we, like, what would be a larger organization or, you know, a movement around this. And then I went to APA in San Francisco in 2019, Shoop was talking and there was, you know, a bunch of parking people there. And we met another student, we met a recent grad, Mike Kwan, who had graduated from Santa Cruz and now lives in DC. And so I said, you know, I asked, basically we were out at, at, at dinner with Patrick Sigmund, who is the original Chupista. And kind of we're just talking about like, you know, I think there just should need there needs to be something there needs to be an organization that is focused holistically on parking reform, not just the mandates of the on street management. And and really, I wanted to bring this organizing capacity. So we agreed you need three, you need four people to start a nonprofit organization. And so Mike and Jane and Lindsay were the. Tony Jordan (17:44.073) three original board members and it took a couple months to get the certifications and then set up a website. And then, you know, we went public with it in March and started bringing more people on March, 2020. I mean, yeah. Kevin K (17:57.08) That's terrific. That's terrific. So obviously, one of the big pushes has been in the parking reform world has been to remove or reduce minimum parking mandates. As you've talked about these things, what are the arguments that you are using or you see other people using that are most successful in sort of moving the needle related to that issue? Tony Jordan (18:23.305) I think the problem we've had is largely just lack of information, low information about what these mandates are, what we're talking about. So what are we talking about? We're talking about rules from the seventies, sixties, fifties that are anachronistic and completely based on nothing that are these like, Sorry, hold on. Just one second. Kevin K (18:57.048) No problem. Tony Jordan (19:12.297) I might need to take a redo on that section in one second. Kevin K (19:14.552) No, it's fine. Go ahead. Kevin K (19:24.504) All right, so talk about the most effective arguments. Tony Jordan (19:25.481) Yeah, yeah, yeah. So what we're talking about are these anachronistic rules that are based on nonsense from the 70s. But, yes, and we're talking about just getting rid of these mandates and not eliminating existing parking, you know, generally not severely restricting the ability of people to build parking in their new developments or with their businesses. But I think the other key is really showing people like, how much parking costs, how much space it takes up, what are the other impacts on things they care about, fiscal viability of their cities, the tax -based stuff, water runoff management or urban flooding and pollution, urban heat effects, just walkability, all these things come back to these rules. And what I found really effective lately is to just, you present that information, but in the context of, you know, I'll go look at, for example, bowling alleys. I'll draw a circle of a hundred miles around a city and find examples of bowling alley parking requirements, which are hilarious in themselves because it kind of shows you when they were written. And you'll find one per lane, two per lane, three per lane, four per lane, five per lane, six per lane, seven per lane, right? In just like an area around. And so it's like, what could be the difference between a bowler in this city? where they require two per lane and this one was seven or funeral homes. Like you'll, I, it's not uncommon to see one city require one parking space for 50 square feet, which is a pretty high requirement. You're talking the parking lot is going to need to be six to eight times bigger than the funeral home. And then another place will, will require only one per 500. So that's like a, you know, or, you know, like that's a pretty large difference. You know, 10, we'll find 10 to 12 times difference in. a city that's just 50 miles from another city. And I think that when people see that, that contrast, it really undermines the faith in like, why do these numbers exist? And their first reaction is, well, maybe we can just fix them. And you're like, no, like you can't, like just X them out and get working on the real work that it takes to repair your city, right? The parking mandates is just like... Tony Jordan (21:48.713) That's just clearing a hurdle. It doesn't actually change anything. That requires a developer -friendly zoning code, or it requires transportation management on the ground. But you're never going to get anywhere if these rules exist. Kevin K (22:06.072) Yeah, I was thinking about, and I think we may have talked briefly about this, but obviously, you know, Shoop's book, The High Cost of Free Parking is kind of like the gold standard for the field. It's a really, it's an incredible book. But I remember years before that, he wrote this little magazine article called Roughly Right or Precisely Wrong, which was maybe like three or four pages. But just that alone was such a devastating takedown of the stupidity of most minimum parking requirements and where they come from. And it's always wild to me that people think that those requirements are actually based in something real. Tony Jordan (22:48.169) Yeah, I mean, I have a slide that's called roughly right, precisely wrong based on that same concept. And it highlights this poor little town in Georgia, Woodbury, Georgia, that is really very small. And they have so many land uses with parking requirements and they have like, they're specific to two significant figures for things like, you know, hospital employees, like 1 .26 or 1 .72 for students. And then this place has two requirements. Like they have a separate land use requirement for parking for a hella port and a hella stop. Two, like it's different. Hell if I know what the difference is, right? And it's like, I like you point these out or North Carolina, when we went to CNU last year, we were looking at North Carolina cities because it was in, you know, it was in Charlotte. And there's all these parking requirements in cities in North Carolina for drive -in movie theaters. Like, and they literally are like, Kevin K (23:23.992) What is that? What the hell is that? Tony Jordan (23:46.569) one per speaker box. So it's like you're like telling a drive -in movie theater, which once again, no one's building them, that they have to have a parking space for every park. Like what is going on? One of my favorites is in Dallas, there is a parking requirement for sewage treatment plants. And it's one parking space per million gallons of capacity at the sewage treatment facility, which, and if you look at, Kevin K (24:12.264) my god. Tony Jordan (24:14.409) There's a sewage treatment facility. If you look at it on Google, it has this gigantic parking lot and there's like 20 cars in it because it's like it has like 300 million gallon capacity. So the parking lot is and this is the city telling it's who builds a sewage treatment plant, right? Like the city. But a water treatment plant in Dallas, like for drinking water, only requires two parking spaces. And you look at the you look at a satellite picture of the parking of the water treatment plant and there's like 20 spaces they didn't just build two. They built what they needed. Right. And so like this is really it's like. Kevin K (24:27.032) Yeah, no kidding. Tony Jordan (24:44.009) why are cities even saddling themselves with these requirements? It's insanity, right? Like something really went wrong in, you know, what in the urban planning profession and it just is kind of, we're trying to stop the bleeding and, you know, yeah. Kevin K (25:02.616) Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's just hilarious, some of this stuff. When you detach yourself from it and you're just like, it's so, some of it's just so utterly ridiculous. But I think there's something you said that was really important there, which is like, you know, you're really, you're trying to just go about the business of like clearing a hurdle. So like you're not trying to say this is going to solve every problem. But what this is doing, you're trying to remove an impediment to. especially to more like walkable urban style development that really prevents a lot of good things from happening in cities all over the country. Tony Jordan (25:40.649) Right. I mean, it's it. I use an analogy sometimes like if you want to grow a garden, the garden in this case being like a walkable community, you can't go throw, you know, vegetable seeds in your lawn and expect it to work. You've got to remove the rocks and the weeds in the grass first. That's getting that's your parking mandate removal is just prepping the zone. You still have to do all the other stuff. You have to, you know, create the zoning code and you have to. manage on street parking so that it doesn't create spillover or whatever. So it's really a first step. The other great thing is that it's not just housing, right? Like this is a policy, one of the reasons I work on it. I can hardly find a better way to spend my time than one policy area that works on housing, transportation and climate, right? Like it's a piece of, if you have a climate action plan, it's not gonna work. with parking mandates. If you have a transportation plan to build more transit or get people to use other modes, it's not going to work if you have parking mandates. If you have a housing plan, it's not going to work if you have parking mandates. So this one thing, it doesn't fix everything, but it unlocks and makes your other plans actually gives them a fighting chance at success. Kevin K (26:58.2) So then how do you respond to, I mean, I can probably, I'm probably going to test like some of the arguments that people, that I hear all the time and I'm sure you hear them all the time too. but I'm just curious and it's good for the audience to kind of hear how you think about these things. But you know, one thing that I certainly hear a lot is, well, you can eliminate that, but people, people are still going to drive. So what's the point? You know, we live in a big city in a big region that's spread out and people, people drive. That's what they do. So, you know, that, and that seems to me like that's a common. objection that people have to removing some of those standards. Tony Jordan (27:31.561) Right, well, I mean, it's kind of ironic because your arguments are either it's not going to have an impact or it's going to be a disaster and it can't be both at the same time, right? So I think that's true. And to that I say, yes, the world is currently, most of our country is built for people who want to drive. And so on one hand, that should be comforting to the person who's worried about. I've got kids and I don't want to take them on the bus or, you know, my grandma likes to shop at this Walmart. Like the Walmart's still going to be there unless they just close it and build a bigger Walmart farther away, right? Like, I mean, they're still going to, these places still exist that people will drive to. Your house still has a parking space. So no one's asking you to change. We know that there's intense demand for a different way to live. That's why walkable communities are very expensive because... people want, there's not enough of them and people want to live in them. So I think like this just, it makes it possible to build these places. And then we'll see whether it's just consumer preference shows that, you know, people see these places and they want to move into them and we can build more of them or retrofit more of our communities to be like this way. Or frankly, there's a distinct possibility that we will be forced to make some decisions about not driving as much, you know, based on, you know, climate or just geometry issues of traffic. So like one way or the other, I think we have to come up with a solution. And this is, you know, it's just stop digging. First, the first thing is stop digging. And these parking mandates are just requiring everyone to dig the hole a little bit deeper every time they start a business or build a building. And, you know, so that's, I think that's one argument is, you know, well, if the demand is not there, then what do we have to lose by trying, you know, like these. the rules are just in the way of even trying to provide that thing that people seem to want. Kevin K (29:32.696) So another thing that I hear a lot, especially this is much more so like in urban communities, this is where these issues really come up more often anyway. You don't really find a ton of this discussion in a lot of our suburban communities. But I mean, there's some of that, but not a lot. But like in the parts of town where I live in the more urban part of Kansas City, one of the really common objections, let's say there's a large new apartment proposal or there's a commercial. There's a business that wants to go in and if they want to have no parking or very little parking, one of the objections as well, people are still going to drive and all they're going to do is they're just going to park up all the streets in front of my house in the neighborhood nearby. And they're just going to spill over into that. So you're really just making my life more miserable by taking parking away from our streets. Tony Jordan (30:25.449) Mm hmm. Yes. This is the spillover issue can be real, right? I mean, obviously, if you have successful businesses that have parking and they attract more people, since we know these numbers are incorrect, right? There's nothing that says a restaurant, the minimum ratio is actually providing enough parking for the customers or not. Right. I mean, so there's spillover anyway. But, you know, so there's one I would say. The. The solution to that is cities need to mind their own business when it comes to parking. They own the curb. The community owns the curb. It's a public asset or liability, depending on how you look at it. And, and, you know, if sure, if it's free or underpriced, then people will take advantage of that. So manager, you know, the city also knows when permits are coming in for new businesses or for new buildings and should be able to pretty readily anticipate that demand might increase in an area. and create a permit district or a meter district or some other management, which are great because they actually can return revenue to the community to help, you know, make things more walkable with more lighting or crosswalks and help people actually get to these places in other ways. I think that it's also what this gets to me really interesting is just like, I'm often asked like who opposes these reforms and why, and, and it's incumbents, right? Like incumbents, people who, already are using the business that doesn't have enough parking supposedly, right? Like if, hey, you want these ratios because supposedly they provide enough parking. So if you support them, provide the ratio for your own business, and then you don't have a problem. But no, you're using the on -street parking. You're using the asset, and you're worried that another business is going to come in and attract more customers than you do. That's a business issue. Or you know, you... want to park on the street, you know, or you're develop, you know, you're using the asset already that exists, you're using this thing. And so you want to moat. I think one of the things people think developers fund this work. and I wish they did, but the fact is, I don't think current, the developers that are making a lot of money or building a lot of projects, they usually are, they've evolved to exist in the ecosystem that includes parking. Tony Jordan (32:44.265) Do they really necessarily want someone else coming in that's got a more nimble business model that's going to compete with their buildings? I don't know. I think that's one of the reasons why some of this has taken longer is like, you know, you're competing with a status quo and everyone who exists, they've evolved to operate in status quo. And this is a disruptive change potentially. This could change, you know, how your main street works. And so I think there's a natural pushback there, but the... You know, the solutions are easy. We know how to manage parking. So like, if that's really your concern is just that there might be congestion on the curb. Well, we've got a solution for that, right? It's, yeah. Kevin K (33:27.96) Yeah, it's funny because I think about like my own neighborhood, which was largely built in the first two decades of the 20th century. And so it has that sort of a neighborhood main street and that there's a portion of the main street that is built with sort of classic American early 20th century buildings, you know, right up to the sidewalk, very popular. numbers of restaurants and everything else. And it's a really popular little area. And it's been popular for years and years. But on that same exact street, like if you wanted to build a new restaurant, the zoning would require a minimum of 10 spaces per thousand square feet, which would make it completely impossible to actually build what's there today. And there's this really funny disconnect that. we've talked about forever, which is we have these places that people obviously really love for very human reasons. It's great to be in a place where you can just like walk around and see other people and you can sit at a table and just enjoy the street life and activity. And so these places are extremely popular in most places where they exist, yet our rules and regulations don't allow you to build it again. Tony Jordan (34:52.137) Right. Yeah, I think, yeah, it's true. I show a picture of, you know, like of Main Street. I have a slide where I show a picture of Main Street and then just a shopping center. And like you can't this isn't I am not the first person to do this, but you count up the number of businesses in there and they're roughly the same number of businesses in a big shopping center as opposed to like one block of a Main Street. Of course, the bigger businesses are bigger, but partly that's because they have to they have to support because we don't allow. We don't allow localized commerce either. I mean, that's a whole big part is there's a lot of the talk is around residential parking requirements and allowing more infill housing, but we need a lot more infill commercial too, right? I mean, my friend Neil Heller, you know, with his accessory commercial units, like, why don't we allow these, like, if you think about trip reduction, cities will spend so much money to try and get someone to take the bus to go get their hair done, where if you allow someone to open a hair, you know, just. Kevin K (35:35.64) Yeah, yeah. Tony Jordan (35:50.857) do hair in their basement or in their garage, you know, legally or open a little storefront, the person might just walk or ride a bike to that. You're reducing the trip for free. Kevin K (36:01.528) it out. So what is what's going on then? One of the things that you all do is you track what's happening nationally in terms of parking reform state by state. What are some of the most encouraging things that are happening across the country that you're seeing? Tony Jordan (36:16.041) Well, for one, I think we're just seeing more and more cities get rid of their parking mandates entirely or do large scale reforms. This is obviously, you know, just a drop in the bucket. Municipal, you know, we've got I think I was just looking at it yesterday and we're right around. There's like 70 or 71 cities that we know of in the United States that have gotten rid of their parking mandates citywide for all uses. Most recently, Tualatin, Oregon, I think was the most recent. when we've added to the list. So that's great because it shows other places that they can do it. It shows that the sky's not falling, there's momentum behind this, these cities are, you know, someone will say, well, we have, I was in La Crosse, I was talking to people in La Crosse, they said, well, we have snow. I said, well, you can talk to the people in Duluth or the people in Anchorage. They also have snow. You know, so there's, we're getting more and more comps. We finally just got a city in the center of the country in Colorado, like, you know, Longmont, Colorado just did it, so it's. Kevin K (37:13.08) Okay, good. Tony Jordan (37:13.705) It's great to see that momentum, because I think it emboldens people. And then that starts to trickle up into the statewide and regional planning areas where we're seeing the conversation start in, you know, Minnesota. They had people over parking act, which proposed to eliminate mandates statewide. Oregon has pretty strong reforms that are requiring. That's why we have so many cities with no parking mandates, because the state's kind of making requiring cities to make a choice between getting rid of their mandates or managing their off street parking. So I think that the encouraging thing is that the conversation is moving forward. The solutions are much less incremental at this point. There's a recognition that like we don't have time to mess around, you know, checking every couple of years. It takes so long to build things is one thing. It's like, you know, I tell people, it's like, you know, you're not going to see the impact of this for years. We don't have time to wait. So that's, I think that just the general awareness, all of these reforms then. create buzz or opportunity for buzz. And so just, you know, every time someone hears about this, there's an opportunity for another Tony Jordan to get hooked on the topic and get active in their local community. So like, you know, you hear about the city next door and maybe you're going to go down to planning commission next and start banging the drum around parking reform. Kevin K (38:35.672) What are some of the larger cities that have done dramatic reform? Tony Jordan (38:40.201) The largest in the US is Austin, which did it last year. In North America, Mexico City has no mandates. Toronto, Edmonton, Montreal is about to do so. San Francisco, in the United States, you got San Francisco. I'm trying to think of who's on the, St. Paul in Minneapolis. San Jose was, is a, is a large city that's done it. Portland has no parking mandates and Portland, because of our statewide rules, many of our suburbs are also starting to have no mandates. So we're starting to build a metro area that we'll have, which I think will be very useful to see how that interplays. Cause that's one thing, you know, Dallas could get rid of the parking mandates tomorrow, but you know, the Dallas Fort Worth metro area is such, or Los Angeles, you know, there's so many other cities that are requiring it and cars don't. car demand doesn't stop at the city border, right? So there's a bit of where everyone kind of needs to make a commitment together, you know, to not like, you can get rid of parking mandates in your downtown, but if all of your surrounding community is car dependent, it's going to be very hard to redevelop parking lots in your downtown because the demand is just going to be there. So I think like, you know, we're starting to, these larger areas will, will, will be helpful, but I, but it's also great to have smaller cities get rid of mandates too, because. That's the majority of cities in the United States are smaller places that aren't megopolises. Kevin K (40:13.56) Are you able to track like winds that come from the policy change at all, like in terms of maybe development activity, other stuff that would have happened, would not have happened without the reform? Tony Jordan (40:26.161) Starting to, so some of our partners like Sightline, Katie Gould at Sightline who covers parking the best. She covers this in the Northwest and in some other places. We just actually are, we have a blog post that's about to come out tomorrow based on a Twitter thread where someone was highlighting changes in Anchorage. One of the issue here is, you know, many of these, I mean, when we talk about 70 cities, There were about 15 cities at the end of 2020 in the United States, maybe 13, maybe it's 13, somewhere, you know, not many more than 10 that had gotten rid of their mandates citywide. So we've, you know, had about 55 cities do this reform just in the last four years. Seeing what happens, I mean, there are, Katie Gould has shown some great examples of, you know, projects that, you know, immediately when the reform has gone in. will go in and submit a redesign that doesn't punch a hole through the middle of the building to access the parking lot or adds a certain number of apartments or homes. There was great examples out of Fayetteville, right? When Fayetteville was an early adopter of no commercial mandates, they need to catch up on the residential side. But, you know, where buildings were getting reused all of a sudden that had been vacant for many years. So that's going to be, we're trying to track that. We're a small and growing organization and so capacity to do that. But, Those stories are the critical ones, I think, to show people the benefit of doing this. Kevin K (42:02.584) What about anecdotally from Portland, which you're most familiar with, where you didn't have mandates and you did have mandates and then you went back to not having mandates? Have you seen some good wins there? Tony Jordan (42:13.897) Well, I mean, in a way, the best example from Portland is in the opposite direction, right? We had, as I mentioned, buildings going up on this division street that had 30, 40, 50 apartments. They were very numbers, right? You look at the permits, the number of apartments being built, and they were all over the place between 30 and 80, right? What we did in Portland was we instituted a When they took a step back, they said, okay, you can build up to 30 units with no parking. But if you build 31, you have to have a 0 .2 parking ratio, one for every five apartments, which is relatively low, but it was retroactive to the whole building. So you had no parking to 30 units. And then the 31st apartment, you had to have six parking spaces on site. And what did we see? No one's gonna study on this, but I looked back, you know, you saw a haircut. All of a sudden, a bunch of apartments had exactly. 30 units. I think this marginal impact, it's harder to quantify, but I think honestly, the biggest thing is if you think of every apartment that's been built in the United States over the last 70 years, and you know, they might still, even if you say they built the exact same amount of parking that exists right now, if developers were allowed to just max out what was practical apartment -wise on that site with that same amount of parking, we'd have 10, 20, you know, five to 20 new apartments. in every apartment building in the United States. We would have no housing crisis if we had just let that happen, even with parking being built. So I think those marginal increases where you're just adding five or 10 apartments in a building that would have had a lower number because they couldn't meet the parking requirement, that's kind of the invisible benefit, I think, that is harder to quantify but is already, I'm sure, taking place, right? Cities with no mandates. They still build with parking, but they build a bit more housing. And that's, you know, that's important, you know, is to build. And then over time, maybe they start building a lot more housing and a lot less parking. But initially right away, you know, you might just add two or three more units because you can, or you might add bedrooms on the units because a lot of times the parking requirements are based on bedrooms. So you're going to build studios because they have a lower parking requirement. You know, I mean, I know there's many factors to layouts, but that's one of them sometimes. Kevin K (44:41.752) Yeah, it seems like it's probably a classic like hockey stick, you know, adjustment curve where it'd be really slow and minimal for a number of years potentially, or just kind of modest. But then there comes a point where there's an inflection and other things, other things that don't really work well right now, you know, like better public transit, better bike, but just better alternative transportation all of a sudden starts to work more. And, and you probably get more things that are within a walking distance that you didn't have before. What do you say to people who say, well, you know, the parking requirements really don't matter because the investors, the lenders are going to require a certain amount anyway. And that's really where the stumbling block is. What do you, what do you say to that argument? Tony Jordan (45:28.585) I mean, I think if we're talking about apartments with zero parking, sure. I mean, I think that's, you know, it took, it took 10 years for Portland to find a developer who was willing to build a large, a mid -size apartment building with no parking. Once they did and it rented, then the investors were very happy to do it. So some of it is just the market's not proven. This is what I mentioned before, the inertia of, of just these people have business models. They have relationships with bankers, they have funding streams, people understand the product and so they know what to invest in. You're trying to change that. To build an apartment building with much less parking requires not just the developer but brokers. There's a lot of players that have to align. So in a way, yes. Now the fact is that we can't even start working on fixing those other problems that the parking mandate still exists. So like, if you know, like it's absolutely worth it. They're just overhead on your city too. I mean, like they just cause city staff spend time on this that they could be spending approving other permits. So like get rid of them and you know, if nothing changes, then nothing changed. But if we are actually then can, can be successful in, you know, I think a lot of the work like incremental development Alliance or other people who are, you know, trying to, you know, there's a whole set of education and building capacity for building these kinds, remembering how to build these kinds of communities. And so that's going to take a little while to build that capacity. But if we haven't prepped the garden, once again, that can't take root. That can't happen. Kevin K (47:12.792) You know, it's always so funny also when I think about like the politics of some of these things and the politics of this issue. I mean, you're talking about something which is essentially removing a requirement from your local government, which is typically thought of as like a conservative political approach. And yet almost all the reform happening is in blue states and blue cities, which is just kind of bizarre. I always think about it, it shows how upside down a lot of people's thinking is in regards to these issues. So, I mean, that being said, obviously, you know, a lot of the places you've mentioned, you know, are pretty dyed in the wool blue places politically. What are you seeing as any kind of positive trend in more like conservative or red states as well? Tony Jordan (48:08.553) It surely is confusing, right? Why some people would support these regulations. I think there's a bit of just team opposition that goes into this. Whoever proposes the policy first might receive opposition. Yeah, I think some of the reason why these reforms took root first in... Kevin K (48:23.832) Yeah, sure. Kevin K (48:28.216) I've got to be against it. They're my enemy. I've got to be against it no matter what. Tony Jordan (48:38.761) in liberal, more liberal or blue places was, well, that happens to be where the housing crisis hit first. There also are, there are very good reasons for every one of every political stripe to support parking mandates, but there may be more reasons if you are politically, if you're, you know, liberally aligned, you might believe, you know, you might be more concerned about climate change, right? And you might be more concerned about transit access. So those issues tack on to the, you know, you know, general market problem. and they give you a little more reason. There's more coalition members. I think, you know, now that said, Anchorage is an example where, you know, it was a mixed city council that had broad political support from both conservatives and liberals. You know, there are a lot of Midwest cities that are doing this that are not necessarily very liberal. I think it's just the messaging is taking a little... it's a little harder, you know, because of just coding to break through, but this should definitely be an issue that we can win on across the political spectrum. I think it's just, it has to be intentional and continue that education around what we're actually talking about here. And to some degree it finds out if people are really for real about what they say about, you know, markets or business, you know, activity. I... Kevin K (50:01.4) Yeah. Tony Jordan (50:06.121) If you're in chamber of commerce or something, I had a woman complained to me. She came up to me in Chuck Morrone in Minneapolis and St. Paul and said, you know, I'm from the such and such Avenue business association. I said, and she was opposing the bill in, in, in Minnesota. And I said, do you, does your association just, it only supports existing businesses, right? Like you don't care about entrepreneurship. Do you? And, and, you know, she was like, well, of course, but I was like, no, of course you wouldn't. I will say one group that is on the. like kind of more conservative side of the spectrum. You know, some like I went to a conference in Arizona, a one day symposium that was about like doing business in America. And it was from like kind of like a, you know, economic, you know, libertarian side. And some of those folks really understand the parking mandates. Like they get that this and, and the like Institute for Justice is like they work not only on parking mandates, but just other barriers to people being economically free, like, you know, licensure requirements for hair braiding and things. It's one of those things that kind of fits into this, you know, once you see what this is being used for, which is often manipulation, right? Cities want to keep the parking mandates in place so they can sometimes just have more control over what businesses get to open or where they get to open. So. Yeah, exactly. And no one wants to give up their power, right? Like, that's one of the reasons it exists is because. Kevin K (51:26.04) Yeah, or leverage for negotiations. Tony Jordan (51:34.377) Yeah, people use them to decide where a restaurant can go as opposed to, it's not really about parking, right? Because they'll grant the variance somewhere else. They just don't want to have the bar next to where they like to hang out. Kevin K (51:50.072) Well, I mean, I do notice that on your map, Missouri and Kansas are not represented. So I hope that at some point we are within the next couple of years, we're working on some stuff to try to get us there locally. But yeah, it's a big hole. You're right. That's right. Branson eliminated theirs. Branson, interestingly enough, also has no building code. Or they were like, Missouri was one of the few states. Tony Jordan (51:59.817) What? Branson, Branson's got no mandates, right? Kevin K (52:18.712) God, my memory is going to fail me now because this has been a few years since I've thought about this issue. But for a long time, they were one of a handful of states that had no statewide building code adopted. And so cities and counties had to actually opt in to adopt one. And Branson did not have one for forever for a long time. So it's pretty interesting. Tony Jordan (52:28.329) huh. Tony Jordan (52:40.297) I think we're going to see a lot more activity. There's a lot of cities too. I know this isn't, you know, there's cities that have like Norman, Oklahoma is not on the map as a red dot because they maintain parking mandates for frat houses and some other housing alignments. So we're, we're pretty strict about who gets to be on the, on the dot. And, but there are a lot of places that are, that have done significant reforms. Hopefully we can tell more of those stories and highlight that. We just hired a policy director, Dan O 'Hara guess from, from strong towns. Kevin K (52:56.888) Okay. All right. Kevin K (53:08.312) Yeah, yeah. Tony Jordan (53:10.345) And we have an intern working this summer on kind of helping us to get more of an idea of where we can have a bigger impact in providing education and resources to the people on the ground. So I'm very excited about the potential for, you know, to see these. Right now reforms happen. Sometimes we know, like we knew Birmingham was going to, was working on getting rid of their mandates, but then other cities pop up where we haven't even had any contact. They might use our product, our maps or our resources, but. I wanna know, I wanna really, like I wanna know where the heat is coming from next so we can really, you know, hype it up and celebrate it. Kevin K (53:47.224) Yeah, I know. It's going to create like an impossible test for you since there's so many municipalities around the country. But there are those like, you know, the one I'm in, in Kansas City, Missouri, we have actually had some pretty good, I would say incremental reform at the city government level. And especially in Oregon, so it was passed last year that really is very helpful for infill residential development, sort of missing middle scale that basically just waived all parking requirements for that, which was nice. But we still have pretty onerous stuff in other parts of the city or other parts of the code. So it's very much piecemeal. Tony Jordan (54:27.561) Yeah, I think, I mean, obviously there's statewide reform progress and I know people are mixed, you know, that's tough because the cities want their local control. I think like, obviously if we're going to really deal with this problem, you know, that's probably necessary in a lot of places. It helps certainly to have a number of cities though, get rid of your mandates initially so they can be examples. And even I think anything that requires cities, I like it like if you can just get a city to open up and. and actually examine what these are and reckon with it. Shoop says one of the best pieces of advice he has to like someone who wants to get their city to get rid of mandates is take that paper, the pseudoscience of parking reform and, or pseudoscience of parking mandates, sorry, whoops. And, and give it to, you know, have a, have a planning commissioner, a city council person direct the staff to read this paper and prepare a memo as to why it's correct or wrong, right? Like, Kevin K (55:19.896) Hmm. Tony Jordan (55:20.393) I like it until like you go in your garage and you open up an old cooler and sometimes there's something really bad that you forgot in there. These mandates are like a fish that someone left in a cooler for 60 years, right? Like it's bad. You open it up and if you can force people to actually defend it, like I think that's what we need to do is say, okay, you don't want to get rid of these mandates, then it's on you to tell me why that they are correct. And so if we can shine some light on it, I think we'll start to see, you know, cities. in other communities get rid of them more readily because, you know, no one's going to want to step up and defend them anymore. Kevin K (55:59.928) It's pretty hard to defend. So when I think about Shoup and the work that he's done, especially if I go back to Pasadena, which is one of his favorite examples he loves to use in downtown Pasadena, I think about as much about parking management as anything and sort of balancing the on -street and off -street needs and figuring out the economics of it so it actually makes sense. How much of the parking management side do you all get into or track as part of your work? Tony Jordan (56:35.241) Well, one of our first things we ever put together was a or one of the first products we released that we actually are very proud of is a guidebook on parking benefit districts. It's a handbook for activists, right? And so this was written by one of our first interns, Evan Kimler. And it's like, I felt there was a need to. You have parking in the city, you have high cost free parking, you have, you know, various papers, but they're not. Kevin K (56:45.432) Okay. Tony Jordan (57:03.113) necessarily accessible or activism oriented. So we do promote parking. Parking benefit districts are a great idea. It's there's not it's such a synergistic thing. You know, you charge for parking, which would which helps to manage the demand and then you reinvest, which helps drive the demand lower. And then ideally, some point in the future, you don't have much more revenue because no one's parking, but you don't need it because you spent the money on making it more walkable. Great. We promote that. I talk about parking management every time I give a lecture. It's harder to track. We're starting to do this. We were just talking with some folks at IPMI, like, where are the data sets for this? How do we know? And so trying to figure out where there's good examples of data -driven parking management and good examples of permits. It's also a problem, potentially a problem. A lot of states have rules that prohibit cities from you know, actively manage their curb, maybe in a best practice. Like they don't allow them to, you know, charge parking for people with disability placards, which is leads to a lot of placard abuse and makes streets unavailable for people. Or they limit them from using demand -based pricing for permits. The permits can only be cost recovery, or they limit what they can spend money on, you know, from parking. Like you maybe you can only spend it on. parking garages, or maybe you can only spend it on, I mean, transit's not a bad thing, but San Francisco, I think, spends a lot of its net revenue from SF Park on transit. That's great, but there's also other things that maybe could be more impactful at a local level. So I think that's one case where I think we need to find out what the lay of the land is and then really start to highlight these examples. It's a harder political press because... Charging for things is not popular. But I think the other thing is that I think cities a lot of times don't go far enough. So they charge you, but you're not getting a value, right? If you paid a park and you still can't find a place to park, you're not happy. If you paid a park and you had a good experience, you know, that you're not, of course, I don't want to pay for anything in my life. I don't want to pay for a cup of coffee, but if I pay for one and it's bad, I'm upset. If I didn't pay for one and it's bad, you know. Tony Jordan (59:27.305) I'm not as much. So I think like once you're charging, go all the way and charge enough that there's an open space on every block, right? Like Shoop says, you know, maybe 85 % or whatever it is so that someone driving down the street can find a space, even if they have to pay for it. Like we're willing to pay for things as American consumers. We do it all the time. Kevin K (59:46.168) Yeah. So it does seem to me like this kind of work is the sort of work that developers and investors and lenders would want to support. But you say you're not really seeing much of that at this stage? Tony Jordan (59:59.945) Yeah, I think that, I mean, the funding in general for this is tough because we're a national organization. A lot of people are locally focused, a lot of developers, right? They're locally focused. So they want to see, like they're more concerned about what's going on in their community. And if they either, you know, if they have parking mandates, you know, like we can't promise we're not an organization that comes in and drops people out of a helicopter to like, you know, to work on something. We're helping to build just a national environment and movement to make these policies happen better. So, and I think once again, the developers that make a lot of money right now make it in the current regulatory environment, right? Like that's the end the ones. So we need the small scale developers as they start to, or the incremental or the ones that get it, as they start to maybe prove this point, maybe we'll see some people paying it forward. Kevin K (01:00:45.848) Do you know? Tony Jordan (01:00:58.377) you know, on what it is. But I recognize like, you know, yeah, the people who get it, they're just trying to get their, they can't build the projects that will make them the money because they're, you know, they're not legal yet. Kevin K (01:00:59.256) Yeah. Yeah. Kevin K (01:01:12.216) Yeah, that is an interesting twist. It probably is more of like the smaller and mid -sized developers who stand to benefit the most from parking reform. The large ones are going to negotiate their projects no matter what anyway. It's a different animal. But the smaller and mid -sized ones are less likely to have the kind of extra cash sitting around to support these efforts. Tony Jordan (01:01:23.881) Right. Tony Jordan (01:01:33.769) Right. I mean, and I'm not saying that the bigger developers, they don't fight the reforms at least generally. They're just not, they're not at contrary. I think this is, we find this across the whole housing zoning reform spectrum. You know, everyone thinks that it's developer, you know, developers financing this and it's, it's not, it's, I mean, mostly it's not even finance. Most of this work is done by people who care passionately about the place where they live or the, there's the, the future of, you know, for their children. And they're driven by that passion. And we're just all trying, you know, the more we can fund these endeavors, they have a ability to have a larger capacity because not everyone can, you know, can spend their time on these things without being paid. So I think, you know, I think the awareness is getting there, you know, and eventually, you know, I think we'll start to see more resources. put towards this, you know, some of it is just similar to when it took a lot of people. People wanted to see a building work in Portland before they would build more without parking. People want to see this as a viable organizing area. They want to see the successes coming and then, you know, then the, then they'll invest in it. Right. You kind of kind of prove, prove the point first on it when you're doing something a different way. Kevin K (01:02:58.2) Yeah. Well, Tony, this has been great. I really appreciate the conversation. Before we wrap up, I have to know, so how many Don Schupe posters or bobbleheads do you have? Tony Jordan (01:03:10.825) Those things don't really exist, unfortunately. I don't have nearly the collection of parking paraphernalia as I'd like. I've got an Andy Singer cartoon, you know, No Exit, that's about parking that I got. I have a weird poster on my wall here that's of a mural someone did on a garage door in Seattle. It's Jesus. Kevin K (01:03:14.264) I'm out. Tony Jordan (01:03:36.521) trying to find a parking space because there's a church across the street from this person's house and the people would park in their driveway. So they made this mural.

Dr. Don and Professor Ben talk about the food safety risks of the Waffle House magic marker system. Dr. Don - not risky

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:30:00 GMT http://relay.fm/rd/233 http://relay.fm/rd/233 Monkeys in the Hose 233 Merlin Mann and John Siracusa Follow-Up opens with a correction from John and an admission that he's very disappointed in you, the listener. John clocks Merlin's sudden overuse of some given word. Follow-Up opens with a correction from John and an admission that he's very disappointed in you, the listener. John clocks Merlin's sudden overuse of some given word. clean 3416 Subtitle: John is disappointed in everyone.Follow-Up opens with a correction from John and an admission that he's very disappointed in you, the listener. John clocks Merlin's sudden overuse of some given word. This episode of Reconcilable Differences is sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code DIFFS. Links and Show Notes: Things kick off with an acknowledgment of the enthusiastic listener response to the Waffle House episode. Merlin compliments John on a bit, and John handles that pretty much how you'd expect. Follow-Up opens with a correction from John and an admission that he's very disappointed in you, the listener. John clocks Merlin's sudden overuse of some given word. There's a brief tangent into Shōgun and some films Merlin liked less than John. There's some discussion of subtitles and screenshotting. There's further Follow-Up on the Mark System in day-to-day use. Then some discussion of horses, words that sound like other words, plus more sneaky Britishisms. As is so often the case, this somehow leads to your hosts complaining about technology for a pretty long time. Would it kill you to provide a deep link? Merlin suddenly becomes very animated thinking about designing a new Mark system that would involve 3D-printing some jellypacks. The episode concludes on a surprisingly rabbinical note. (Recorded on Tuesday, April 16, 2024) Credits Audio Editor: Jim Metzendorf Admin Assistance: Kerry Provenzano Music: Merlin Mann The Suits: Stephen Hackett, Myke Hurley Get an ad-free version of the show, plus a monthly extended episode. Waffle House Training - Pull Drop Mark Order Calling Method - YouTubeThe video that changed so many lives. Huffman coding Hamming code The Secret of NIMH Anthony Bourdain visits Waffle House Another video of the Magic Marker system in action Metafilter comment about Waffle House Equus (1977) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p] - YouTube Urban Dictionary: Tachy Goes To Coventry Merlin Mann: "Easy." - MastodonMerlin made a GPT for the Mark system. Merlin Mann: "Jelly pack. " - MastodonMe

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:30:00 GMT http://relay.fm/rd/233 http://relay.fm/rd/233 Merlin Mann and John Siracusa Follow-Up opens with a correction from John and an admission that he's very disappointed in you, the listener. John clocks Merlin's sudden overuse of some given word. Follow-Up opens with a correction from John and an admission that he's very disappointed in you, the listener. John clocks Merlin's sudden overuse of some given word. clean 3416 Subtitle: John is disappointed in everyone.Follow-Up opens with a correction from John and an admission that he's very disappointed in you, the listener. John clocks Merlin's sudden overuse of some given word. This episode of Reconcilable Differences is sponsored by: Squarespace: Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code DIFFS. Links and Show Notes: Things kick off with an acknowledgment of the enthusiastic listener response to the Waffle House episode. Merlin compliments John on a bit, and John handles that pretty much how you'd expect. Follow-Up opens with a correction from John and an admission that he's very disappointed in you, the listener. John clocks Merlin's sudden overuse of some given word. There's a brief tangent into Shōgun and some films Merlin liked less than John. There's some discussion of subtitles and screenshotting. There's further Follow-Up on the Mark System in day-to-day use. Then some discussion of horses, words that sound like other words, plus more sneaky Britishisms. As is so often the case, this somehow leads to your hosts complaining about technology for a pretty long time. Would it kill you to provide a deep link? Merlin suddenly becomes very animated thinking about designing a new Mark system that would involve 3D-printing some jellypacks. The episode concludes on a surprisingly rabbinical note. (Recorded on Tuesday, April 16, 2024) Credits Audio Editor: Jim Metzendorf Admin Assistance: Kerry Provenzano Music: Merlin Mann The Suits: Stephen Hackett, Myke Hurley Get an ad-free version of the show, plus a monthly extended episode. Waffle House Training - Pull Drop Mark Order Calling Method - YouTubeThe video that changed so many lives. Huffman coding Hamming code The Secret of NIMH Anthony Bourdain visits Waffle House Another video of the Magic Marker system in action Metafilter comment about Waffle House Equus (1977) ORIGINAL TRAILER [HD 1080p] - YouTube Urban Dictionary: Tachy Goes To Coventry Merlin Mann: "Easy." - MastodonMerlin made a GPT for the Mark system. Merlin Mann: "Jelly pack. "

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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 downloadnot_on_display did the mixing on this one and I think it hopefully sounds better than last time? Preroll Heat pumps! BestofMeFi on Facebook Jobs Flickr Commons and Jessamyn's new part-timey job Federal Gov't Administrative Support Specialist by kinsey Projects We built a giant eagle pupper for Iceland's national day by Nothing Have You Played? by adrianhon adrianhon on peglin Our Backyard by joannemerriam Banned Book Book Club by bwerdmuller (MeFi Post by Paul Slade) Jessamyn's tips for dealing with haters FLW inspired Bird Feeder by Marky Infinite LP records from the Boston Public Library via archive.org by metatuesday Today in Tabs Meta MeFi Site Update by jessamyn Happy birthday, Metafilter! by Melismata MeFi24 in 2023 by jessamyn MeFi Jeopardy! contestants weigh 2nd shot at glory vs. crossing picket line by Etrigan The Greatest Animated Series in the Surreal Sci-Fi Toilet Horror Genre by AlSweigart Police Log: "Misdemeanors: blahblahblhablahb" by not_on_display "For me, being an artist means being in community with others." by jessamyn To be more specific, he's a surgeon. by Fizz when you get your ass handed to you, just hand it right back by cortex "A counterexample to established techno-utopian histories" by box Design notes on the 2023 Wikipedia redesign by Etrigan Writing to possible or impossible audiences by brainwane WAH WAH WAH! [wah wah wah wah waaaaaaah] by cortex a comment by unearthed a comment by dephlogisticated Redditors, in defense of Reddit, destroy Reddit by Rhaomi a comment by sdrawkcab What Should We Learn from Reddit? by Bottlecap Room Temperature Superconductivity? by ZakDaddy The Unreality of Pro Wrestling by Pachylad "Don't rub it too high or someone will cry, and steal your homerun away" by The Pluto Gangsta Iocaine Powder by clawsoon AskMe Memory Filter: what is the name of this design thinking author/blogger? by mecran01 Rhinos named Clara by johngoren What does " T—S.T.D.—B" mean in a book? by whitewall Best "I quit Twitter and my life is richer for it" story? by Jon44 Recommend me brilliant biographies about brilliant women by underclocked I bought a dremel. Tell me everything! by cortex MeTa 2023 MeFi Fundraising Month by loup FanFare The Afterparty Peacemaker Mrs. Davis Silo TV Shows Not Set in the US or England Forged in Fore More MeTa A Memorial Day shoesfullofdust passed away

Lords: * Jenni * https://intfiction.org/t/lets-play-cragne-manor/56472 * Chris * https://trustory.fm/cool-time-dice-hour/ Topics: * All the stuff we did in the 90s that is horrifying to modern parents now, like sleepovers and latchkey kids * The movie for Jurassic Park 2 is somehow worse than the book and the book is very bad. * The VR episode of Nowhere Man * I fucked up my car by running over a mattress on purpose * https://vhsviscera.tumblr.com/post/705867030403973120 * There was a space battle over Nuremberg in 1561 and the local broadsheets reported on it with woodcuts: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561celestialphenomenonoverNuremberg * http://blog.zarfhome.com/2022/01/way-up-in-middle-of-air.html Microtopics: * Baby Mario and Baby Luigi being two different species. * Riff and Jenni play Rusty Lake. * Absorbing most of your twin in the womb and all that's left is his heart behind your nipple. * Nippleheart. * Cool Time Dice Hour. * Cragne Manor. * Heck of a project, terrible game, not recommended at all. * Cragne Manor's TV Tropes page. * A Metafilter thread about sleepovers. * Your mom asking for a report on all the swear words in the book you're reading. * Elsa Screams at Dentist. * Watching Elsa Screaming videos on Youtube to learn how to scream better. * Going to the bookstore by yourself when your are 13 years old. * Calling the anime repair guy when your anime goes out. * New guy just dropped: guy with trench coat full of VHS tapes who won't hand you the VHS tapes, he makes you reach in and take them. * Socializing your kids poorly so nobody will invite them to sleepovers. * Learning how sex works and then calling a conference on the playground to explain it to everyone. * Calvin's dad explaining that women only pee once a month. * Picking up the broken glass that your meth dealer neighbor keeps throwing in your cactus garden. * The tiny-handed thin-necked final girl. * Abraham Lincoln's wrestling career. * The one where they defeat the veloraptors with gymnastics. * The one where they defeat the velociraptors by showing them Elsa Screaming videos on Youtube. * Taking a bad book and adapting it into an even worse movie. * Doing drugs until the dinosaurs look like they have feathers. * Microscopic dust particles on the slicey bits. * Why blowing into the cartridge did or didn't work * Hunter-gatherers blowing on a blinking raspberry bush and cursing the defective lockout chip. * Being unable to hunt bison because of bison DRM. * A completely made-up kind of VR. * Downloading your estranged wife from the internet so you can reunite in VR. * A Rough Whimper of Insanity. * Max Headroom: a guy with a weird forehead who shows up in media sometimes, like a California Raisin. * Explaining Mac Tonight to a 22 year old. * The worst car you could have possibly imagined. * Delightful clean all-ages nonsense. * Demonstrating your allegiance to 90s-era edgelordism. * Cresting the event horizon of random bullshit. * The VR apparatus hanging off of your wasted body. * Adding more vanilla than the recipe calls for. * Putting a hapenny on the spice vendor's tongue and reaching into his trench coat to pull out a bag of cumin. * Poking bytes into memory to mod Cyberpunk 2077. * Whether Pico-8 is more or less racist than Dickens Fair. * The space battle that took place over Nuremberg in 1561. * UFOs vs. UAPs. * Tie-Fighters and Star Destroyers over Nuremberg. * The All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office: if you got an anomaly, yo, they'll resolve it. * Asking the Pentagon for money for a cab fare to go investigate unexplained aerial phenomena. * A mass hysteria of the collective unconscious. * Marrying your cousin and going into space. * Anakin is of the species Baby Mario and Padme is a Baby Luigi so when they breed they'll have an infertile Baby Wario or Baby Waluigi. * The fan theory where Jar-Jar is the Sith Lord. * The origin of angels as a terror. * Pre-hurricane ice crystal patterns. * Making biblically accurate angels out of everything. * Generational memory from back when we had wings. * Fish wings. * Being drunk all the time because you don't trust the water. * Aspartame's bitter aftertaste, and also fuck Stevia. * Coke Grownups. * Pepsi Peeps. * Eating the whole bag of Pepsi Syrup Peep Gushers and now you can't play D&D tonight because you just have to lie on the floor clutching your belly and complaining that nobody saved you from your life choices. * Food that exists to overwhelm your senses and your ability to make decisions. * The two genders of time.

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 with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadNo Jobs Except Cortex's New One Projects Lirdle - Like Wordle, but with one lie per answer by morspin (MeFi Post) Word Searches for Dad (and special meta one) by jasondigitized bondcliff's creation My portrait of COVID Toronto in maps by sindark (MeFi Post) Jessamyn's Zipper Epiphany MeFi Penta, Mariya: Rejected by shino-boy The Genetics of Chernobyl's Dogs by bryon Could you live without a cellphone? by SituationNormal Kill Six Billion Demons by curious nu I've heard it too many times to ignore it by DigDoug Nice social media account, shame if something were to happen to it... by gwint The thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts by gwint The natural destination of poor editorial judgment is the court of law. by curious nu What went wrong at the New York Times? by DarlingBri Playdough surgery by gottabefunky Lightning Crashes by Etrigan All The Malevolence Of A Grade School Music Class In A Box by NoxAeternum Infinite Mac by Fiasco da Gama Into the rest of the 20st century by gwint playing a 2x4 through a tacklebox head into a foamcore cabinet by cortex AskMe Tell me about your adventures with pre-internet physical bulletin boards by wowenthusiast Unsmooth the motion on a hotel tv by quintessence Help me find the blowup doll of my youth by queensissy a comment by Larry David Syndrome a comment by BlueHorse How do I make a cake when my resources are depleted? by toucan Please Tell Me about Pre-internet Personals Ads by wowenthusiast FanFare Kaleidoscope: Kaleidoscope (miniseries, all episodes) by adamrice Physical: 100: Physical: 100 by autopilot MetaTalk Open Gaming Thread: What are you playing right now? by Fizz Best of the Web anniversaries and transcripts by Pronoiac New Moderation Team Member by loup ChatGPT-filter by EndsOfInvention March is Steering Committee election season by Rhaomi Snow sounds from Directory Audio

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 with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadJob Lead Product Designer by jchan Projects Mondrian's Toothpicks by cortex The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences® The Real Problem With the New Dungeons and Dragons License is Capitalism by overglow Isle of Beasts by Zarkonnen Dither All the Things - Atkinson Dithering for the Web by AndrewStephens Rock Scissor Paper Machine by Literaryhero MeFi Snail Mail Security by cardioid A new kind of smartwatch with a special living component by tiny frying pan 10 PRINT "YADA YADA YADA" / 20 GOTO 10 / RUN by Atom Eyes AV Club: AI Seinfeld show has been given a Twitch suspension "one of many years of Scrabble that I hold dear" by jessamyn "...mourning the loss of yet more games that will soon be lost to time," by Fizz On this website, everyone knows you're a dog by not_on_display Vacuum Cleaner Defense League Knolling for fun and profit by Bella Donna MLTSHP: Dutch emergency services have a gear knolling meme going The Met: Studley Tool Chest Instagram: HAIRCUT Fresh and Full of Life by May Kasahara The Stink A by Etrigan Some Days, the Viewing Felt Like a Curse by logicpunk The Quizzing Equivalent of Holey Moley by Etrigan Remember Y2K? A similar issue will happen in the year 2038. by buffy12 The Mystery of the Dune Font by cgc373 Making Math into Art by duien AskMe ELI5 "Perpetual fireplace" videos by jackbishop Parents: how do you handle non-negotiable extracurriculars? by malhouse a comment by Alensin IRS How? by Alensin "Ingredients people" citation? by shadygrove Another Thing For the Book Of Conflicts by EmpressCallipygos Looking for a sci fi technobabble parody by cheesegrater What is the musical interval/harmony in this song? by unknowncommand FanFare Special Event: The Return of Blaseball by valrus

Library technologist, owner of MetaFilter, and author of Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide, Jessamyn West shares the joys of hands-on technology education in the public library - and how modeling behavior may just work better than scaling it.

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 downloadFanFare Letterkenny: Entire Season by fizzix Leverage Rdemption Projects Face To Face: Portraits of People of Color Before Photography by Horace Rumpole jamstats: data analytics for roller derby games by gurple lowercase t: A Very 8-Bit Christmas by ShawnStruck (MeFi Post) The Library Workers' Field Guide to Designing and Discovering Restorative Environments by 10ch Everybody Wins, the greatest board games ever made by Hogshead Psychedelic Drug Legislative Reform and Legalization in the US by jedicus MeFi "Epic put children and teens at risk" by jessamyn It's a book! It's a great wheel! It's a Book Charkha! by janell "We're all the same piece of little stardust energy..." by Ten Cold Hot Dogs They say of the Acropolis, where the Parthenon is... by Etrigan Ana de Armas Fans' Lawsuit Puts Studios at Risk Over Deceptive Trailers by Etrigan The inspiration and raw material to create something new by biogeo "Let me guess. Somebody stole your sweetroll." by Fizz Ah, yes, the [complex plane coordinates] genders by cortex "You don't want little children questioning their budding little bodies" by box "The common good stands as a menace to the status quo." by box Advent Incremental by juv3nal a funny comment by phooky a funny comment by house-goblin AskMe Favorite Internet Radio Stations? by COD Why is it called a "countersink"? by ignignokt (Fewer) papers please by happyfrog Keep me off the streets this winter by escape from the potato planet Looking for books and media with positive neurodivergent representation! by daikaisho Please recommend a book about writing non-fiction books by nezlamnyy Voracious reader of fanfic seeks help by sequel Please help me figure out which edition of a library book I read by Ceridwen MeTa Appreciate your MeFi Holiday Cards here! by HotToddy 6th Annual Mefi Valentine Mail Exchange by SunPower The Ongoing Modern Pen Pal Project by chiefthe Lèse-majesté by y2karl Music is from ccMixter and is Dolorem Ipsum by economix

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

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 links Podcast Feed Subscribe with iTunes Direct mp3 download Misc Jessamyn's Weird Bathroom Damn Bitch, You Live Like This? Buttplug.io MeFi Lumper or Splitter, Tag Yourself Elon Musk Says Fuck It The Deaf Child in Area is Now an Adult and He's Hot The Chess Drama is Over 20 Years of Languagehat History is Freaking Cool You Guys This Post Brought to You by A SYNC I don't Have 1 Billion in the Bank, I Don't Drive Lexuses Oh Bother If You Find A Strange Puzzle Box No Touchy This Isn't How Grief Goes Evil Across Millenia A lumpy toaster a goat exoskeleton and a harmless car walk into a bar Do You Remember I Pray the Tomb Is Shut Forever I Pray the Rock Is Never Rolled Away The Captain and Tenebrous Spiels AskMe What is your favorite song covered by another band Best Video About X Is Y Slowly the west reaches for clothes of new colors Autumn Wedding Poems Please How to Ensure A Happy Old Age Field Specific Terms for We Don't Know MeTa We are Healthy and Vibrant and Remarkably Long Running Have You Read TFA Steering Committee Check In October 2022 Why Does a Librarian Own a Social Media Site Thats Been Around for Long Music Twitter Blues by lipsum

In part 2 of our interview with Jessamyn West, the new MetaFilter owner tells us about her day job as a librarian in rural Vermont and her years spent working to close the digital divide. Inevitably, we talk about the library as a new battleground for right-wing reactionaries and its role as one of the few remaining public institutions.

Jessamyn West is not just one of the web's favorite librarians, but the new owner of Metafilter, an incredibly long-running social network that dates back to a very different Internet. In the first part of our interview with Jessamyn, she tells us just how Metafilter has kept going and stayed healthy since 1999.

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 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 and winding conversation about community management, internet ethics, MeFi in particular, the recent transition process, etc. Runs about 90 minutes.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadWe were so busy just talking about Stuff that we did very little of the normal thread review this time, so the notes are real short. We mentioned in passing: - jessamyn's adventures with the filtering Facebook - the latest Transition Team update - goofy amazon reviews e.g. this old post Music - On The Blue (With Apologies to John Coulton, Valve, Et Al) by cortex - Make it Out Alive by Maaik - A Conversation by ignignokt

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 about V Rising, a survive-o-craft vampire game I have been very much enjoying, and about Severance, a TV show that we have both enjoyed tremendously. Runs just about an hour.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 download- V Rising's homepage - Severance on FanFare - that's all for links, what do you want from me, I don't even work here

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

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 MetaFilter-centric things. We time-managed our way up to about 93 minutes. Also I play a euphonium.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - talkin' about fake cash which led to an old MeFi post - Chicken in the Corn - hey it's cranberry jelly - twitter discussion about trauma dumping - CALENDRICAL - jessamyn did some filing Jobs - Greasemonkey (or other) script to enable downloads by jessamyn - Shop at arch salvage store in Portland, OR for me by arnicae - Full Stack Developer by jchan Projects - Skittish, a playful space for online events by waxpancake - The Fucking Bible (warning: 7.5 MB) by ignignokt - The Stick Princess by Peach - I finally got my Murder Ballads book back into print! by Paul Slade - Princess Unlimited by yankeefog - "How to Sous Vide," a helpful cookbook by veggieboy - Formula Non (2009 - 2019) An Alternative F1 Photo Project by lawrencium MetaFilter - "The real Pacific Princess had a crew of 373, rather than 6" by jessamyn - a comment by cortex - a fluegelhorn is probably not a fluegelhorn, and vice versa by cortex - Film shows McD's trained new staff in proper use of Vulcan death pinch by not_on_display - Islands in the Stream by dorothy hawk - Divorced, beheaded, live! by Lorc - at the world you've left / and the things you know by fight or flight - Why so many people undercharge for their work by Bella Donna - Those who exist, have existed, or will exist in the vicinity of Omelas by brainwane - "the distance between reader and character or narrator" by brainwane Ask MeFi - a comment by brainwane - Where did the "Rock and Roll Ending" come from? by bondcliff - Why would I use a hot glue gun instead of just glue? by trevor_case - Tennis Pro decoded opponent's body language and serve? by umber vowel - How do you manage your time? by unicorn chaser - Then we'll take it higher - pop songs that are actually protest songs by Frowner - Waltham, MA ca. 1988 - 1990: Manufacturer of Geiger-Mueller Detectors? by ZenMasterThis - Seeking reputable carbon offset programs by Osrinith - Fun classic rock songs (Grateful Dead & more) to walk down the aisle to by Neely O'Hara - logistics! by everybody had matching towels MetaTalk - How MeFi (and other providers) deal with trust & safety issues by brainwane - Obit post: Speedlime by Pallas Athena - Newsletter 3: The Handovering by Eyebrows McGee - MetaFilter Gift Swap 2021 THANK YOU! by mochapickle - Mefi Art & Makers Group, Update by Glinn

Earlier this month, blogging pioneer Jason Kottke tweeted that “social media would be a better place to connect with people if the folks building and using these services had spent formative time on and taken inspiration from Flickr and MetaFilter instead of 4chan and Reddit. Gardening vs. waste management.” That tweet spoke to Patrick who retweeted it, and that retweet elicited a reply from Lydia Fiedler, community manager for Splitcoaststampers, leading to this episode of the podcast. What do your community members want out of their community? Are you tending a garden that is actively growing toward those goals? Or are you tolerating noise and managing waste that gets in the way? Having a clear sense of what brings the community together helps Lydia Fiedler keep conversations on track, set expectations for community members, and come up with inspiring challenges. If you're planning programming for the coming year or just in a creative rut with your own work, this conversation with Patrick and Lydia offers some great inspiration that can help you create great experiences that will bring your members together and enable them reach their own goals.  Lydia and Patrick also discuss: Operating in the “gray areas” of community management Features that people clamor for on social media platforms that hosted online communities offer routinely How challenges align with the Splitcoaststampers community's goal of becoming better artists and crafters Our Podcast is Made Possible By… If you enjoy our show, please know that it's only possible with the generous support of our sponsor: Vanilla, a one-stop shop for online community. Big Quotes Being comfortable with making judgement calls for your community (5:15): “If you have a community that you're taking care of, and there's something that maybe doesn't exactly violate the letter of one of your guidelines, you have to be able to make the judgment call that you still don't want it in your community. Then you have to be able to communicate that, ‘I'm a human being, and I make judgment calls. I do it to preserve the culture of this community.'” –@understandblue Fostering Splitcoaststampers' spirit of creativity (9:28): “The most important thing that you have is the definition of what you want out of your community. That's your little seed that you're going to protect. I'm in a creative industry, and so the cultural little seed that I have to protect with everything in my online communities is people's ability to feel creative.” –@understandblue Cultivating a community of gardeners (13:05): “When you have a really good, strong community culture, … the people that love what you're building, they help you take out the trash. They don't want it there anymore than you do, and you know you have a good thing going when you have people helping you with the trash.” –@understandblue About Lydia Fiedler Lydia Fiedler is the community manager of Splitcoaststampers, where she has been for 11 years. Lydia has been creating art for nearly 40 years and creating online content for about 20. Crafting spaces that feel friendly and welcoming is her mission, whether at work teaching online, or engaging in social media. She also spent 20 years in the construction industry as an HR director and marketing director, and has worked in software development and at great startups in the Austin, Texas area, but the art industry has been her home for more than a decade. Lydia lives in Austin with her husband and two feline overlords, Maddie and Splotchy. Related Links Sponsor: Vanilla, a one-stop-shop for online community Carol Benovic-Bradley, Community Signal's editorial lead, who has been working on the show for four years now! (added by Patrick) Understand Blue, Lydia's website Splitcoaststampers Twitter Blue Jason Kottke's tweet about “gardening vs. waste management” Derek Powazek on Community Signal Heather Champ on Community Signal Matthew Haughey on Community Signal Splitcoaststampers gallery Falliday Fest Challenge Forum Lydia on YouTube Lydia on Instagram Transcript View transcript on our website Your Thoughts If you have any thoughts on this episode that you'd like to share, please leave me a comment, send me an email or a tweet. If you enjoy the show, we would be so grateful if you spread the word and supported Community Signal on Patreon.

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

¡El pozo, el pozo! Álex recuerda su exilio en MetaFilter y repasamos por qué la moderación dura desde el inicio da paso a un tipo de red social diferente. TikTok tendrá bastantes problemas en el futuro, pero ha aprendido muchas cosas de Facebook. Imgur: The magic of the Internet https://imgur.com/ MetaFilter | Community Weblog https://www.metafilter.com/ ‘Timofónica' | Opinión | EL PAÍS https://elpais.com/diario/2000/05/07/opinion/957650402_850215.html Crea y edita tus vídeos de TikTok online | Adobe Spark Video https://www.adobe.com/es/express/create/video/tiktok Online TikTok Video Maker — Clideo https://clideo.com/online-tik-tok-video-maker TikTok Creator Marketplace https://creatormarketplace.tiktok.com/ Síguenos en Twitter @haciafalta http://twitter.com/haciafalta

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 podcast, it's about 90 minutes, and it involves me and Jessamyn getting off on at least a couple different tangents on the subject *of* getting off on tangents, so it's a very MetaFilter podcast indeed.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - look at this pretty and invasive Emerald Ash Borer - I still think Louis DeJoy sucks honestly - the kids on TikTok have been confounding me lately with what, it turns out, is audio of Adam Driver saying "good soup" - I feel like jessamyn's sister Kate isn't contributing enough - at some point we said something about librarycarpentry.org - also I am supposed to watch The Unbelievable Truth but I do not remember which one now - a flowchart of distractible storytelling Projects - 1,228,178 genetic variants, 2 million years by clawsoon - Datasette Desktop (macOS application) by simonw - Copying a mid-century stool....mid-14th century BCE by brachiopod (MeFi Post) - Wildcard Bicycle Novelties by adamrice - Invisible Sun by cstross - A channel vocoder walkthrough by ignignokt MetaFilter - What I learned about my writing by seeing only the punctuation by eotvos - "Also would've accepted Nine Inch Oates" by carrienation - DO YOU REMEMBER - Can someone explain how this video has 4.1M Views but has 200 likes????? by theodolite - "If we make more angry content, we get more engagement." by They sucked his brains out! - Rewild Your Attention by MonkeyToes - One Woman's Mission to Rewrite Nazi History on Wikipedia by cgc373 Ask MeFi - Can you help find the current location of this old Vienna address? by Miss T.Horn - Can you solve this mystery about a book? by grumblebee - a comment by pocams - Should my child's school's PTA accept cryptocurrency? by Toddles - Nervous system hacks/resets by danceswithlight - What's the oldest thing I can buy, just to have? by tiamat - "Y'know, this stuff is kinda wasted on just ponies..." by Wordshore - Preventing maggots in trash by Anonymous - a comment by Jack Karaoke - Looking for 90s sci-fi story about a librarian & all-knowing computer by kaisemic - Please help me solve a VERY DUMB plumbing emergency. by centrifugal MetaTalk - Metatalktails: Must be the season of the ... which? by taz

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

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

It's not mind reading, but a man's ability to convey words is partially restored through electrodes and machine learning; NASA carefully prepares to press Control-Alt-Delete on the Hubble Space Telescope; look to the skies, the Perseids are coming; inexplicable black ice worms emerge by the billions from glaciers; and happy 22nd birthday, MetaFilter.Sponsors:Credit Karma, creditkarma.com/podcastIndeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnewsLinks:Tapping into the Brain to Help a Paralyzed Man Speak (New York Times)‘Neuroprosthesis' restores words to man with paralysis (Science Daily)Neuroprosthesis for Decoding Speech in a Paralyzed Person with Anarthria (New England Journal of Medicine)BCI milestone: New research from UCSF with support from Facebook shows the potential of brain-computer interfaces for restoring speech communication (Facebook Reality Labs)Operations Underway to Restore Payload Computer on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (NASA)In praise of celestial mechanics (The Economist)James Webb Space Telescope (Wikipedia)Webb Space Telescope Launch Delayed (EarthSky)The ‘Best Meteor Shower Of The Year' Is Happening. Here's How You Can See It (NPR)Perseid Meteors 2021: All You Need To Know (EarthSky)It's Summer, And That Means The Mysterious Return Of Glacier Ice Worms (NPR)Happy birthday, Metafilter! (MetaFilter)Glenn on Twitter (Twitter)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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 Jessamyn saw a bear outside her window. Also I fixed my goddam GarageBand, so we have music tracks again. I missed those.Helpful LinksPodcast FeedSubscribe with iTunesDirect mp3 downloadMisc - i made a podcast spider friend and Jessamyn made a podcast bird friend - of which, Michael Fogleman is a bird nerd AND a math nerd - Find out ahead of time if the dog dies in the movie, or various other content warnings, at doesthedogdie.com - we mentioned user soy bean's 'Change the Subject' Documentary at one point - of which, see also the Conscious Style Guide - more like LAST aid kit amirite Job(s) - Technical Project Manager by ochenk Projects - Penrose tiling quilt by ubermuffin (MeFi Post, and see also his excellent Penrose quilt roundup) - A couple of utilities for PICO-8 by Mister_Sleight_of_Hand - NPR's Joy Generator by Four String Riot - object: murder is a hand-drawn comic about objects with murderous intent by obliquicity - My attempt at the Trans Am Bike Race by adamrice MetaFilter - The Moving Finger of WhoWunIt by jenfullmoon - The Errand Friend Hang/Date by ellieBOA - 'The Broken Earth' to be Adapted by Quonab - The Tactile Beauty of Buttons, Meters, Knobs and Dials by chavenet - look out for fast mimes by cortex - patron records and circulation privacy in libraries by brainwane - Tubes consume a lot of electricity, as it turns out by They sucked his brains out! Ask MeFi - Pasta Sauces Wanted - One-time fees that are worth it? - What song is this? by Trespassers William - Can one practise to be patient? by Nieshka MetaTalk - Metafilter Pride by zamboni - Summer book bingo! by The corpse in the library - Ways to make posts more accessible for neurodivergent folks by Sheydem-tants - Do we really need to use the m word? by lemur - What's Wrong With The Guardian? by CCBC - Metatalktail Hour: I'm Gonna Do Something With It Eventually by cortex - Rosemary's Baby's Day Out by DirtyOldTown FanFare You know what's pretty good? That Loki show is pretty good. Music Featured tracks in this episode: - Io Buggy by ignignokt - Seven Up / Old Sledge / All Fours by hades - Guardian by q*ben - That's The Story Of My Life by MajorDundee

We're joined by Josh Millard from MetaFilter who tells us about drawing horses and sponges and cubes, and trying lots of things.

We're joined by Josh Millard from MetaFilter who tells us about drawing horses and sponges and cubes, and trying lots of things.

We're joined by Josh Millard from MetaFilter who tells us about drawing horses and sponges and cubes, and trying lots of things.

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

A teenage girl established a strong online presence as she journaled her experience with leukemia. When she passed away, her supporters were grieving. Another blogger published a post questioning Kaycee's legitimacy, sending many into an outrage. But as time went on, more and more questions were being raised. What was actually going on with Kaycee Nicole?This episode of Mugshot was co-created by Wendy Scripps. Visit Patreon.com/mugshotpod to find out how you can support the show and get early, ad-free access to episodes as well as bonus episodes. Any donation is appreciated and goes right back into helping produce the show. Mugshot merchandise can be found at mugshotpod.threadless.com. Get shirts, mugs, and more!Music by:Swelling"Night II"Meydan"Insomnia Pt. 1"SoundCrate"Squad"SoundCrate"Shady Dealings"This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Sources:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factitious_disorder_imposed_on_self#Munchausen_by_Internethttps://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Entertainment/manti-teos-fake-girlfriend-bizarre-online-cons/story?id=18239232https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaFilterhttps://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/31/technology/a-beautiful-life-an-early-death-a-fraud-exposed.htmlhttps://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kaycee-nicole/https://books.google.com/books?id=c5BEJ0nug7QC&pg=PT56&lpg=PT56&dq=kaycee+nicole&source=bl&ots=2huSUNWJKS&sig=ACfU3U1uKxnzevqlyPsPIQqjFBMbR8NKyQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjz8du0mZTuAhWSjlkKHf1yBYQ4ChDoATAHegQICRAC#v=onepage&q=kaycee%20nicole&f=falseThe short life of Kaycee Nicole | Media | The GuardianWired Women: Beautiful Cancer Victim a Hoax - ABC News (go.com)Is it possible that Kaycee did not exist? | MetaFilter

We're joined by Metafilter's Josh Millard to talk the Canon Musical PUSS IN BOOTS starring Christopher Walken as a talking man-cat.

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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.)