Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave; The Podcast
With a loose focus on design, and a heavy dose of absurdity, we discuss a variety of topics that we hope you will find relevant to your own life. Or, at least you might find them entertaining. Please enjoy.1
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With your consent, of course. ↩︎
Podcast: Monday, Nov 2, 2020
Hyperbolically Dangerous Domestic Inventions
Ned and Meg discuss 'really good ideas!' the likes of which may require inebriation or worse. Try our dishwasher-pressure-cooker-autoclave-garbage-disposal-mulching-mower in one. Feel impervious as you hurl cruel insults at your neighbors from inside your personal moat. It’s going to be great. Watch out world, here come the best domestic inventions that just might kill you.
Podcast: Thursday, Oct 29, 2020
Short, Halloweenies!
Ned and Meg discuss Halloween. Why is it so great? Because it’s a creepy liminal space and there’s nothing we like better than upending all the rules and starting things on fire, plus candy. We talk activities, favorite costumes, and ask what is scary anymore? Happy Halloween, from a couple of Halloweenies. Wash your hands, wear a mask, use a candy chute, celebrate while you can, no one gets out alive!
Podcast: Monday, Oct 26, 2020
Hexes for the Modern Day
Ned and Meg discuss crafting contemporary hexes. So far we have hexes for butts, elevators, peeling skin, and more. If you would like us to craft a bespoke hex for YOU, we can do that. In the meantime, wash your hands, be nice, WEAR A MASK, don’t be a fascist.
Podcast: Thursday, Oct 22, 2020
Short, The Role Playing Game Quest
Ned talks a little bit about role playing games. He gets a little off track and gets into the weeds with Dungeons and Dragons, but ultimately gets back on track and talks about the game Quest. A role playing game that everyone should try.
Podcast: Monday, Oct 19, 2020
Gnome-More Pain Surgical Rehabilitation Clinic, Statuary Orphanage & Puppet Burn Ward
Ned and Meg discuss Classical Mythology and garden statuary of Bavaria plus American traditions in art-based humor. This is a weird history lesson with some detours. THANK YOU for listening while the world burns and sinks and wash your hands and wear a mask and watch your butts out there.
Podcast: Thursday, Oct 15, 2020
Short, Fyootility
Meg and Ned briefly explore futility. Talk a little bit about solar powered toasters, and maybe even think about kitchen gadgets!
Podcast: Monday, Oct 12, 2020
Designing things not usually associated with design, like ennui
Ned and Meg discuss ennui. Mostly this conversation circles around designing a sleepaway camp that ensures max boredom by the end of the week. Highlights include saying ‘no’ a lot, and dialing down enthusiasm for any kind of self-expression. Fun is also disincentivized and you’re gonna hate the food. Welcome back, campers! Wash your hands, drink your milk (not the chocolate kind), wear a mask and be nice even if you’re miserable.
Podcast: Thursday, Oct 8, 2020
Short, Openface Sandwich
Ned and Meg discuss sammiches, but ONLY the openface kind. We like turkey dinner hobby kit, eggs, fruit, weird items, and curry. We chat about the various iterations of openfaced sandwiches. Openface, for what it’s worth, is apparently not a word but it is now, and thus goes the entire conversation about sandwiches here. Enjoy. Wear your mask, wash your hands, don’t be a dick.
Podcast: Monday, Oct 5, 2020
That One About The 80s Cartoons
Ned and Meg discuss 1980s Cartoons and Saturday morning favorites. Lots of the ones we looked up we never even saw, or it turns out are just complicated ads to sell crap to kids--hooray vertical marketing! Somewhere we lose the cartoons and switch tracks to Alice in Wonderland. Enjoy this nostalgic trip! Wash your hands. Wear a mask. Don't be a dick.
Podcast: Thursday, Oct 1, 2020
Short, Logical Fallacies 2
Ned and Meg attempt to redeem the first episode on our series of shorts on logical fallacies by turning to a better source of definitions and examples, the Purdue Owl. We talk about slippery slopes, genetic and either/or fallacies, begging the question, circular arguments and straw men. Please allow us to edify you a little less clumsily this time. Thank you. Wash your hands and wear a mask and don’t swallow BS.