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: Thursday, May 14, 2020
Short, Words with Random, the Short One
Ned and Me are spilling over onto Thursdays because Monday just can’t contain us. We submit for your approval our 30 minute word association game! Thanks for indulging us, and wash your hands!
Podcast: Monday, May 11, 2020
How to Do a Thing, Maybe
Ned and Meg talk about their book, which you might have a chance to see soon thanks to Chris! We also chat about project stuff, explosions, growing stuff, space radiation, DIY haircuts, and where Meg's tooth is headed.
Podcast: Thursday, May 7, 2020
Short, Meaningful Play
Ned spends a few minutes talking about the idea of meaningful play in the context of video game design.
Podcast: Monday, May 4, 2020
Untitled 2
Ned and Meg meander around in quarantine and complain about some stuff. We discuss self-hosting podcasts, TP weirdness, forced heroism, cats and dogs and art, owning music, and go wash your hands!
Podcast: Monday, Apr 27, 2020
Strange Intervals of Time
Meg and Ned discuss the unusual ways in which we mark the passage of time, as well as the intervals that result. We've been thinking on this one for a long time and the Weird Now seemed like a good time to talk about it. Join us on a temporal trip without leaving your house! Go wash your hands!
Podcast: Monday, Apr 20, 2020
Death's Door and Other Idioms
In this episode, Ned and Meg discuss fun idioms and violent verses in the English Language (plus one in French)!
Podcast: Monday, Apr 13, 2020
Our Favorite Foods, Volume 1
Ned and Meg discuss all the things we love to eat. We spend some time on ice cream, discuss mac and cheese purists, and then tackle PB and J, the Pizza universe, tacos, seafood, and the nacho-ice-cream-death-spiral. Bon appetit! Wash your hands!
Podcast: Monday, Apr 6, 2020
Your Brain is a Construction Zone
Ned and Meg have a late night chat in the midst of a pandemic about our brains’ abilities to do amazing new things. Neuroplasticity -- believe the hype!
Podcast: Monday, Mar 30, 2020
The Joy of Melancholy
We discuss the joy of depression, or rather, Melancholia, which kinda sorta used to be depression, but maybe now isn’t, and for sure was the name of a movie Meg likes. Anyway! Also in the mix are rites of passage, Hannah Gadsby, planetariums, pancakes, saunas, and life saving bathrooms.
Podcast: Monday, Mar 23, 2020
No Nazis In The Sound Of Music
Until Meg reached the age of 37 she didn’t realize there was a second half to the Sound of Music and that it featured Nazis. We discuss this misconception, lies, and warped memories from childhood, plus we get nostalgic about movies with Ned and Damon and Meg.