Podcast 43 Transcript

A transcript for Episode 43: 10th Party Memories (2009-08-06).

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Unknown Speaker 0:07 Justin, welcome to the metal filter podcast.

mathowie 0:12 Episode 4343 is my favorite magic number. How come? It's an old BMX running joke? Number just kept coming up all the time and stuff and people thought it was spooky. So, so I thought for this podcast, we would just talk about like, what were our favorite memories of the medical to me, because I'm dying to know what the New Orleans one was, like Jessamyn. And then I guess we just segue into the calls. And that's pretty much it. So. So what was New Orleans, like?

Jessamyn 0:50 New Orleans was totally great. Like, it was like 60 people. And I think we figured out it was people coming from like 15 or 16 different states. And we rented a function room at this hotel, which was cooler than you think it would be. Because the hotel's got kind of a lively bar downstairs. And then we got the room that was kind of across the room, across the hallway from the bar, and so called chef and radio, Amy did all the scheduling and basically, it was like, cover charge. And then there was open bar for four hours and like pass around snacks. Cold chef brought a radio Amy I don't remember which one like, like party favors. So there was like Mardi Gras beads and like, little like plastic skulls. And as someone who's never met culture before it can I just say he's as wonderful as everybody thinks he is. And radio Amy, who I'd also never met before and didn't have a you know, predetermined idea of how wonderful she was, was also wonderful. And she has a she brought her boyfriend who was really nice. And after he mentioned that he hung out on the something awful forums, it became this like topic of conversation for the entire thing. But it was actually not just the one meetup. It was a succession of meetups. So the night before, a lot of people got together at a bar and kind of hung out and did had drinks that were like, you know, meetup kind of things. And that was about 2025 people. And so some people only came for the party, which was the next night, which was like 60 people sitting out in a fancy room drinks. And a lot of local people came, like people that weren't that active on the site, but just lived in New Orleans, which was super fun. And then the next morning, and then I guess after that party, other people went out and did like after party activities, which you know, me I'm old, so I just not on display. and I were staying upstairs. So we just like crawled upstairs and went to sleep. But then the next morning, there was like a kind of a brunch, also, which was that one of those places that look really close on the map, but was actually like two miles away in the blazing sun. So I walked there from the streetcar like an idiot. But then everybody had brunch at this place that had like pray Aileen bacon, among other things on the menu. It was like, it was like a total huge range of people, there was this really young kid who had driven all the way from Alabama, and I'm going to forget everybody's name, CMF, chap, CFM, chap, whatever, who kind of seemed to hold down the young end of the room. And then the older end of the room was like, you know, older people like me, like we didn't have like a huge range of ages. They were probably like the 40s to 50s were the were the oldest ranges. And it was a lot of like, you know, smokers in the outside drinkers on the inside, we signed up Blurr, who's our newest member at that meetup, who was cabin girls, husband, partner, whatever. And it was great, because it was kind of built in like, oh, where the hell are you from? You know what I mean? So like, people sometimes worry, I think that there's not going to be anything to talk about besides Metafilter. And I found that that is absolutely never the case. And in this case, it was like, where did you come from? How did you find out about it? And of course, I showed everybody the admin panel. I let people ban themselves, which was like a real party game. Who would have thought right, like Sarcos. And somebody else were like, oh, middle class tool. We're like, please let me banned myself. So I was like, are okay, people like seeing how many times they've been flagged that new thing PB made was like really entertaining, but then, you know, I felt like I was pandering and then just decided to, to go, you know, hang out. So it wasn't like there was no party games. The fact that it had kind of a start and end time for the main meetup. We took a zillion photos, which of course you can all see. But it was kind of a standard as meetups go kind of standard. We didn't do a street party like Amon daily. We didn't do like a locked party like the New York meetup. We didn't do a beach party like San Francisco. We weren't three people hanging out in in a sort of lunch bar place like the folks in Singapore when I went home after I finally got home because then I stayed for extra day and Greg and I went to went to the zoo, which was really fun. I sat and looked at like all 1400 At the time metal filter meetup photos. And the thing that was so interesting is how many different types of events there actually were, you know what I mean? Yeah, like, it wasn't just everybody got went to bars all over the planet. It was a bunch of sort of different stuff. And even in New Orleans, there was a bunch of different stuff kind of depending, depending what you were interested in the don't stop believing journey sing along, people pointed to as the as the high point, but really, it was just just getting to meet a bunch of people from all over the place and have like some people with people you knew and some people be people you didn't, you know, getting to talk to like cunning linguist and Wolf daddy, people. I've known the site for forever. And, you know, just having people get to be like, Oh, I know, you've met a filter, but I didn't know you were also into some, some some some really, really made the whole thing. incredibly, incredibly fun. And I don't even think I wore my metal filter t shirt to the party. So some people, some people did, and I saw the Portland pictures and PBS video, especially how talented is

Cortex 6:22 he? Maybe he's a talented guy is what I've determined. It was

Jessamyn 6:26 like System Administrator Appreciation Day and I really felt bad that I tried to noodle to detail cortex and making a song for him. Oh, and then there was this old Portuguese man wandering the hall because I think he owned the place. And so I got my picture taken next to him with that. I'm like,

mathowie 6:46 Oh, I saw that. Well, apparently Miguel

Jessamyn 6:49 himself emailed cold chef to say he had appreciated it and he was happy that we thought of it Oh, and just ship was there taking photos but didn't want to make that big a deal of it because I don't think they've surfaced yet on the on the internet. But hopefully there'll be lots of photos of us looking at our are attractive drunken best. One of these days. It's really hot there. So a lot of us are very sweaty looking. What What I realized for my photos, of which there are not that many oh my god laundry, took some she took the I'm with Miguel photo, as well as a lot of other ones they drove from North Carolina, her and moonbird. So there were a lot of like epic travel stories that were incredibly entertaining, in addition to, you know, epic nerd stories and, and all the rest. So totally happy. I went cold Jeff and radio. Amy, you are wonderful for putting the whole thing together. And yeah, letting PN Anbu Anbu. And his wife who has the username I don't remember. Put me up the first night I was there. And they are incredible, wonderful people too. So not on display. And I'm booga to sit around in the kitchen and play Velvet Underground covers for the first afternoon. We were there, which was a nice way to get oriented to the whole, you know, big easy thing. What about you guys? I heard you hung out late. Matt didn't just show up and have a drink and go home?

mathowie 8:13 No, no. Oh, got to the end dish. I did the same thing you did Justin. But earlier in the evening, because it was West Coast time. The Flickr tag for metal filter and there were like 1500 new photos on likes by Saturday afternoon or something. Right, right.

Cortex 8:33 Yeah, the final count, by the way is that we have 1912 Flickr photos take with MEPhI 10 At this point,

mathowie 8:40 holy crap. So yeah, I just went through them, you know, thank God for the J and K key and Google Reader. But you can just fly through them really quickly. And that Yeah. Solly zillion. And, you know, in London, zillion on New Orleans, the pre party, the party, the post party. Yeah. That was awesome to see how people celebrate all over I can't believe Mr. Daley did a block party. Like could you imagine living on the block? I mean, like you're closing the street down for what but halfway across the country.

Jessamyn 9:16 They did a sock puppet show I think we signed certificates. I don't know if that wound up in any of the photos but even daily faxed around certificates that he then that me and cortex and Matt how are you? I think

mathowie 9:32 Pete Yeah, Paul's also

Jessamyn 9:35 signed that he then filled in at the party and gave out all I thought it was like to show up.

mathowie 9:43 Yeah, I think I saw your picture of someone being awarded a certificate, but I was just thinking of like a random passerby or your neighbor three doors down, going. Can you explain to me why you're putting googly eyes on a sock? And how this has something to do with closing the street? With a website like I'm sorry, ma'am, you wouldn't understand. Right now shut up. So yeah, the Portland was great. I had like my own personal culture and radio, Amy derson set up the whole thing. Like, I mean, I just wants to

Jessamyn 10:22 know what happened. Like he wasn't even there, right? Yeah,

Cortex 10:25 got a town and he wasn't able to make it back in into town in time for the party.

mathowie 10:31 He had originally planned to be there, but work popped up. But he like scoped out. I mean, there was a lot of discussion about where we could hold it. And then we honed in on this place, and he visited and talked to the owners and like, went through beverage selection and food selection. And every I mean, I just showed up and paid the bill like that was really, like I did nothing except enjoy it. And it was like, so perfect. It was just awesome. We were like in a converted house. But it was attached to a bar. It was like literally the old bar owner used to live behind it. And this was her house. And her family. I heard the whole story or family or like some famous construction people in Portland. So it was a really nicely built like little bachelor unit house.

Cortex 11:17 That makes a lot more sense. Because yeah, it's got it has like a little kitchenette. And it's got its own private bathroom. And yeah, it was like, Wow, this place is great. But why does someone specifically build this but knowing us?

mathowie 11:25 Yeah. And as it was kind of warm ish. And homey, even though it had a very wide open tile floor, you know, you could fit 50 people into it was just like, super, super awesome. And, yeah, the beer might have ordered too much food, but like, the beer was good. The food was good. Everyone was nice. And like there was this moment. And I think Paul captured it in his little movie. Like, I didn't know what to say. I mean, probably. I should have probably thought of it all day. All day.

Cortex 12:00 Like that. Do you show up to the the 10th anniversary party? I know, giant community website. And then a microphone gets handed to you. And you're like, I didn't see this coming

Jessamyn 12:13 in at the eighth anniversary party that we were all standing there like after we've been drinking for hours.

mathowie 12:18 Yeah, well, I literally didn't think of the eighth one. There would be a microphone. Yeah, I guess I should have. I mean, I seriously I sat on my bike for six hours that day. And I could have

Jessamyn 12:29 the crazy the crazy. The 65

Cortex 12:31 miles.

mathowie 12:32 Yeah, it's usually six hours of boredom, like so you have lots of time to think for yourself. So I should have come up with something. But now Josh, luckily drunkenly swooped in and saved the day. He's Yeah, yeah, he was a great emcee on the fly. Now, there's this moment that Paul has it on video or man, I was just looking around the room and like, people were just, you know, like, all eyes on whoever had the microphone at the moment. And there was just like, so much like, love and admiration. And like, everyone was connected for a reason in that room. It was truly like, awesome moment like, that you could feel in the room, you know, like everyone was, was great. Yeah, so yeah. And after that, you know, it was just like, that was super awesome. It was a little distracting to be running funny photos behind people saying,

Cortex 13:30 Wait, what? I did just a flicker Tag Search on meta filter, and just ran that in the background through my laptop into the projector in the room. So that was just like running the whole time in the background? Oh, I did see that. Yeah. Which, yeah, it was it was kind of odd. But I think it worked well, to have sort of, I was just thinking like, sort of a random stimulus for anybody who's wanting somebody to look at for a moment or want to get something to point at and laugh at, you know, just sort of a little bit of background noise, like putting music on but, but different.

mathowie 14:03 But it would, it was kind of distracting. When you say like, you know, Metafilter actually changed my life. You know, you know, I was I was trying to get off of alcohol and aren't going away. I was trying to buckle down and like do some projects. And I was really motivated and all sudden there's like a goat anus next to their head or something. And everyone's like, there's like laughter for no reason the person gets confused while they're pouring it out. Like yeah, it was great.

Cortex 14:34 Yeah, that was that was an unanticipated side effect of that whole slideshow thing. Yeah, it was. Yeah, no, that was really great. It was it. And yeah, everybody seemed really sort of, you know, it seemed like a big Portland meetup. Because you know, everybody was really chill and laid back the way Portland meetup usually are and having a good time and lots of conversation and people having frenetic conversations about God knows what I got Non merci and jaunty Jaga or jaunty? Iago I don't know how he pronounces is usually the Iago right. Yeah, they were up there and, and she was trying to get me to explain to him the Portland hipster phenomenon, which is like one of those how the you can't even start that conversation. It's terrible when it happens on Metafilter trying to do it in person. But you know, it's like, that sort of thing. Like all these random conversations that were like some of them were sort of meta filters. Some of them were completely random. Some are sort of greater internet. And yeah, we had a we had a bunch of people in from out of town to I don't think we as many sort of far flung as New Orleans, but

Jessamyn 15:38 ginger beer and Ursa RTA?

mathowie 15:41 Yeah, yeah.

Cortex 15:42 They came up from California. We had a bunch of we have

mathowie 15:45 every Seattle, Seattle. Yeah, no one in Seattle through the meetup, which is weird. They didn't have a Seattle meetup. There was no Seattle meetup, which is funny because when, like Andy Bayeux did the research and figured out the Seattle meetup in spring of 2001 was our very first meetup ever.

Jessamyn 16:02 Was that the one that I was at? I think that one

mathowie 16:06 like March or April of 2001.

Jessamyn 16:09 I'll go check my blog. But keep talking.

mathowie 16:13 Yeah, so zillion people from Seattle. So I'm from San Francisco. And what's his name? Icelander from? Catalyst? Yeah.

Jessamyn 16:23 Hey, I just had a meet up with him two days ago.

mathowie 16:27 guy gets around.

Jessamyn 16:29 He's got a Yeah, sorry. I

mathowie 16:31 don't want to know, I don't want to know what his carbon footprint is. So anything else, Josh? Sorry.

Cortex 16:41 Well, my favorite thing, probably my favorite sort of like, moment, bringing it all together for the meetup was the asked Metafilter question from two unicycles and some duct tape, where he asked like, maybe it's the day of or maybe the day before the party is like, hey, how do I make myself a t shirt that says Lurker on short notice? Or barring that, how do I deal with feeling socially anxious about going to meet up because I it's not really my thing. But I want to but one time I went and I wandered around for a few minutes, and then I left without talking to anybody and, and you know, help. And a bunch of people just really sort of jumped in with really useful constructive advice about how to sort of deal with it and their experiences with meetup stuff. It was something that's like borderline meta talk, but it kind of worked, in this case for AskMe Metafilter. And also, people had suggestions about the t shirt thing. So that all went down. And everybody was super aware of it. And he made a comment in the thread like, well, now instead of being anxious about showing up, I'm gonna be anxious about showing up and having people be like, Oh, hey, it's that guy. And now I feel weird about that. But but we get to the meet up and I'm standing around was talking to God, I met so many people. I can't remember his name. It starts with an M. But as I was talking to another guy, I hadn't met before. About that, and we sort of started talking about this in the third guy was standing there was like, Oh, yeah. And I was like, yeah, so you know, blah, blah to unicycles and feeling anxious, and nobody shows up. And, and the other guy's like, yeah, no, he seemed pretty freaked out. I don't think it's like, yeah, no, i That's why I hope he shows up. Because I think you'll have a, I think I'll have a good time. If he just shows up. He's like, Yeah, you know, I bet he will. And somehow, in the next 30 seconds, we established it, that was two unicycles, in some duct tape was telling me that he thought that guy was really anxious. And so he showed up. It was it was really pretty fantastic. And he had a great time, like, by all accounts, so. So it was a it was a very nice resolution to a nice sort of little community, personal crisis, you know, thinking and action. As far as meetup goes.

Jessamyn 18:38 That's terrific. I thought so.

mathowie 18:44 Yeah, it was fun as fun and money well spent. I sent out pay pals to everyone. And then. And then like a few people, quite a few people gave it back who's basically through house parties and stuff. They're just like, like, there was no, you know, sort of debt from the party. Everyone's are chipped in five bucks, and we covered our own party, and we're fine. And that was nice. But yeah, it seems like it worked out really well. The whole worldwide thing.

Jessamyn 19:12 And you saw our South Pole, homeboy, right? Yeah, that

mathowie 19:15 was picture Nephi 10

Jessamyn 19:17 at the South Pole. So great. Thank you. Yoda voce, or however you pronounce his name.

mathowie 19:28 Don't stop believing.

Jessamyn 19:30 It was so fun. I have my own video of that exact same event and sodas cold chef. It was just a spontaneous. Don't Stop Believin Oh, and I do have to give a shout out to subs who managed to plug in her phone to the iPad that was running the festivities and Rick rolled the entire room by playing you know, the Rick the Regza. And everyone's like, ah

Unknown Speaker 20:59 Hey Moz we had a great time in Philadelphia and we have even planned another meetup for sometime in August. But things have gotten a little awkward since the last meetup. And maybe I guess I should take this to ask me. But so how do you? How do you navigate kinky sex roles with all of your new internet friends? I don't know. Give me some answers.

Unknown Speaker 21:25 I remember this one time, when I called you up to tell you my favorite memory of how this one time I called you up to tell you about the favorite memory of ever had which happened is one time when I called you up to tell you that favorite memory I ever had was how I called you up that one time to let you know about favorite thing I could ever remember as being this one time.

Unknown Speaker 21:48 This is Julia banana, and I want to thank metacoda for giving us access to a $100 tab for the Columbus EDA. I'm a cheap drunk and generally I'd be drinking tap blue ribbon and garnering derisive hipster comments. But thanks to the generosity of Matt Howie and his wacky gang, I was able to discover the shady lady at the surly girls lose. Its Captain Morgan's tattoo, spiced rum top with pineapple juice and seventh up and it is delicious.

Unknown Speaker 22:16 And now a dramatic reading of the reasons for the biggest threat and would be good to a provide some context for the majority of people who don't know what this is all about why is interesting and be isolated to anything other than a freaking bomb property. I wrote this deletion reason on a soapstone model and keyboard. I'm flattered to be sure, but a short summary of a journal article is way too thin for a solid post. Please find the stronger links and take the time to catch your typos the next time around.

Unknown Speaker 22:52 Hello, Matt. And there is to me. Hi, this is John MC. I know that for the past like four months or so I haven't been around all that much. But yeah, y'all really didn't think I was gonna let this all happen without me. Anyway, the party was really good sticky carpet always shows good parties, usually in some illegal location and usually some weird shit happens. And there were a lot of people did or some people hadn't seen in a long while. They're actually two people who were at First Nephi meetup I ever went to MDN and swift and it was kind of good to see them again. I got a couple of guys from the place where I worked at a good time. Eric and Billy and Marcos. They seem to make a few friends. And many reunion of people I used to work with. One of whom drummed me by there'll be traditional in and a couple of people who were only on metal chat can be my friend Joe famous. And of course me and my wife tips. The only person missing was my good friend Devine, why No, and gasped, oh, that would have made it a great old home week. But it was really cool to see them. And it was really cool to meet a lot of people who I only know by the face. So anyway, I hope you enjoy this by

Unknown Speaker 24:11 when I called you up. Tell us about my favorite memory, which happened to be this one time when I called you up and told you about my favorite memory, which was this one time.

Unknown Speaker 24:22 So it looks like USC is a production of one of the clients. And now it's the time that I post subject of the PR firm for what you want. That's pretty shitty stuff. And you are now bad.

Unknown Speaker 24:36 Hey folks, this is ogre Drake of New York City. Here's my favorite metal filter memory. Last April I posted this to the front page of MI fi nerd herd. A group of middle school aged self proclaimed nerd from Sheepshead Bay Brooklyn who won the New York City FIRST LEGO League Robotics Championship with their motorized robot called thingamajig are embarking on a trips festival in Atlanta after a lack of funds nearly scuttled their journey they've been bailed out by British vacuum cleaner exec James Dyson and have been given the kind of send off most young nerds can only dream of an all school nerd cheering pep rally. A few comments down clearly said, you had good material to begin with, but hear this excellent cadence. And so began a game in which I reconstituted the original post and whatever meter was thrown at me from my appendix in diameter. A group of kids from Brooklyn Sheepshead Bay, have won the tournament for Lego League to guide zero suggestions for cake to try amateur kid from Brooklyn made with Legos robot that then made them heroes of the New York City boroughs FIRST Robotics competition, and anapestic tetrameter. So they call them the nerd herd with young Brooklyn crew that makes robot from Legos and wins attorneys to with their big sales and patriots, they're ready to go all the way to Atlanta to show off once more.

Unknown Speaker 25:51 The one thing I'll certainly remember about the tents was actually missing the one Chicago but then like a waiter at night, completely unrelated just going to bed, getting a weird feeling, logging on to metal filter, and just seeing someone that had posted in the thread, mentioning the place that they had gone through before the meeting that I was at earlier, and I was not then I remembered I'd seen that person. And then I realized, wow, I could I saw something from helter skelter in real life and didn't even realize it. kind of lame but you know, creeping that weird way to thanks. When I called you up and left you a message about how my favorite memory was this one time when I called you up to tell you about the favorite memory of ever had. During into

Unknown Speaker 26:39 the darkness. He saw it last a glimmer of movement, up from the depths of the shadow crept up just in Flash racing toward him was unspeakable movements. His mind a set of us was rent and split is wonder and terror doubling, diffusing into madness.

Unknown Speaker 26:57 Hi, this is Jeff Clark and no non metal filter is net bros. Probably my most amazing memory from the first 10 years of metal filter wood has to be on February 28 2001, when Mars Saxman posted about the big earthquake that hit downtown Seattle, it's thread number 6093. And it seemed that metal filter had news about this earthquake during the first hour after it occurred more than the real mainstream media. It was quite an amazing day in the history of metal filter.

Unknown Speaker 27:45 Which was one time that I called you up to tell you about his favorite memory.

Unknown Speaker 27:48 At that point, like Barr said, over Draco, are we playing stump the chump because I'd like to see a Villanelle. And this was the result.

Unknown Speaker 27:58 I hope the metal filter trends party remembrance line is still up. The New York party was really really quite good. I helped set it up my reflections were not being ready the night before and kind of the day off, and then having everything work. Partly because the first few dozen people who showed up were really nice and really understanding and helped out a little bit definitely put a brave face on the fact that like it was too bright in there. Working with sticky carpet on the space. I think I mentioned this to a couple of people the night of working with sticky carpet on the space was like working with 1/3 Dr. Frankenstein 1/3, that older brother or sister who can just like make you feel bad about yourself, and you don't really know why. But it's kind of nice to you, but always like you know, knows how to do it better than you. And 1/3 Hunter Thompson. It was really, really quite nice. I wish we could do it again, like in six months instead of 10 years. And to everyone who stayed late, thanks for your help with cleaning up I guess that's what the kids are calling it these days. This is rock guitar and I hope it made the cut for the big podcast. Medical has been good to me. Hope everyone was good to it and good to each other that day. Bye for now.

Unknown Speaker 29:23 I'd like to apologize to my wife are non existent children, the people of the great State of Oregon, my two cats. Matthew, how is the world and the self, indeed the biggest self cause by pointing to the open thread

Unknown Speaker 29:37 that happened this one time when I called you up to let you know about the favorite memory that I've ever had, which was just one time when I called you up to

Unknown Speaker 29:47 a Metafilter. I am a colleague. I'm going to start trying to again,

Unknown Speaker 29:53 tell you what the favorite memory that I had ever had, which is this one time that I called you up to tell you about Favorite memory, which happens to be about

Unknown Speaker 30:03 a metal filter. I'm a student from a small Midwestern University. And I never thought that I will be writing to the U.

Unknown Speaker 30:09 U, is so bad.

Unknown Speaker 30:13 But really my favorite memory of the New Orleans metal filter meetup was actually culture bursting into my hotel room. Only five minutes after I had arrived, telling me that I was going out to dinner with him. And basically kickstarting the entire afternoon, and the entire long weekend. A lot of other things happened, but I can't really remember many of them. This is, oh, I remember I rickrolled people. I think other people might remember that too. Anyway, happy times Metafilter. And I feel very lucky to have been a part of the celebration and to have met Jasmine and roll on 15. A Villanelle. For the nerd heard of Sheepshead Bay, they made something for all the world to see. So the world did not notice it to start it word and ticked and strutted. It was free. They set out to win without guarantees, ignored, who couldn't see in science art. They made something for all the world to see. When they won a few saw their victory. The robots blind gears, notice not the start it word in ticked and threaded, it was free. Their means were small, unlike the contest fees, a shame they'd missed the next the global part. They made something for all the world to see. A gift would save them from a devotee, it warms the robots, brainless Lego heart, it word and ticked and strutted. It was free. So now to send them off a jamboree that honors how they've set themselves apart. They made something for all the world to see it word and kicked and shredded. It was free. Thanks for everything that a filter, but especially for giving me excuses to write poems about kids doing robotics for fun and profit. Cheers. Hey, I'm calling for the meta filter meetup podcast. This is Chelsea PEFC 2000. I think that by far my favorite moment of the Medeco put metal filter meetup was meeting canine epigram. As it turns out, he and I met a couple of years ago on the 96 bus. When he scared the living daylights out of me, I was going to spare but decided against it. And while I was meeting, and he almost tells me to jab a knitting needle through my hand, and I was very happy that I could meet him again. And, you know, let him know that I'm not always that crazy. And Qaeda in the background and the other people in our table if you're listening to this. Hi there.

Unknown Speaker 33:06 Like, you have confused this website with one word crap like this isn't totally against the rules.

Unknown Speaker 33:13 Hey, Metafilter This is Radio Amy from New Orleans. And just calling to report from last weekend's authoress, I had a really good time. And that's probably my best memory was the journey singalong which was instigated by a pair of married lesbians from San Francisco who were totally awesome. And they're here for a little bit. So hang out with them more. I have a really good time working with cold traffic, limit it last year to meet up and also got to work with my friend Dustin, who is usually number 139. and loves to remind everybody of that. And it was great. How many Metafilter people came out of the woodwork here in New Orleans and how many people came from out of town. And Metafilter has been really great to me. And I'm really glad that I could give back a little bit. I forgot to pitch and party and I hope they will do it again. So thanks Metafilter and Rock on 10th anniversary.

Unknown Speaker 34:04 Hi, this is Adam Akunis also known as rack Daddy, my favorite medical memory is the fact that netfilter finally explain why my website is so popular in Korea. Thanks medicines. I can sleep easy at night now.

Unknown Speaker 34:18 The one time that I called you up to tell you hey, medical author, my favorite memory of the meetup last weekend now Friday is being the last people to leave our meetup me and my wife and a friend of ours and a guy who I'm pretty sure was trying to sleep with my wife. And my absolute favorite memory of metaphor for the past 10 years is the one time I have been quoted in the format medicals or colon. What I said and obviously I'm not saying who I am because I mentioned the guy but I'm pretty sure it was trying to sleep with my wife. So my favorite memories.

Unknown Speaker 34:58 Dude, you were hooked on Santa Let me send this out for you. You

Unknown Speaker 35:05 banned I think you're gonna cut off there but anyway, the only people missing were my buddies Divine Wind oil and gas bowed and it would have made a great old home reunion. But as I said in my posts, my toast and my friend Jimmy being with me up there in the pictures and I think fuck took a picture of me holding a bottle of whiskey. But when I first started posting me if I was working a shit job in a strip mall, still working shit job, but I'm doing it in a more interesting place and more interesting stories to tell and the place to tell them if people don't mind. So anyway, here's the own news. Good to be back and a little bit mellower and calmer and less insane than I was three months ago. So anyway, happy 10th And thanks a lot Matt Jess, PB cortex and the rest of you fuckers by

Unknown Speaker 36:01 now, the description of the reasons the clips, dramatic reading of comments by suburbs the Wonder chicken if I can find any place on the goddamn that telling me what time is happening here.

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