Shows / Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Sometimes you just want to listen to some people get off topic as quickly as possible.
Episodes
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Watercolors, Watercolours
Ned undertook a new hobby and tells Meg about his recent experiences with watercolors. Meg is a huge fan, so this was an easy podcast this time! We talk about…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Mason Bees
Meg tells Ned all about the sleeping bees in her refrigerator. Join us for a discussion about the fascinating creatures known as Mason Bees! Solitary nesting…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Verisimilitude
Ned and Meg discuss verisimilitude in a number of contexts ranging from philosophy to art and in the experiences of everyday life. We talk about capturing and…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Dungeon 23
Ned and Meg discuss the #dungeon23 project. Which Ned is undertaking a long with multitudes of other people. Come join us for an interesting intersection of…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Living in Koln as an Expat
Moriah tells Ned all about life in Koln, Germany. Life as an expat!
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
DIY City Megalomaniacs
Ned and Meg revisit a topic we love as we discuss the sheer madness of some of the proposed domestic mega-projects around the world. We’re talking about DIY…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Backhanded Compliments, Just Like Grandma Used to Make
Ned and Meg give each other some familial support in the form of backhanded compliments. You know the ones! Why praise someone when you can infantilize them as…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Carrot Cake and Murder Hoboism
Ned and Meg get Ned’s take on reducing sugar, Christmas food cravings, YouTube videos about cake and theater set design, the history of DND, the revival of Old…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Steamed Hams But Not Yet
Ned drops some edification on Meg (aka Egg) about Steamed Hams, the Simpon’s episode. Rather, ostensibly it’s about Steamed Hams, but REALLY it’s about the…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Germany Super Friends
Ned chats with some new characters, or new to listeners anyway, in Germany, on a fabulous trip, with super friends. This episode sort of comes full circle for…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Forced Fun for Everyone
Ned and Meg take a proverbial poop all over forced fun (aka mandatory fun). In this episode we also talk about Meg’s mall-induced pavlovian panic attacks…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Halloween 22, A Visit from the Barf Fairy
Ned and Meg chat about how Meg was a casualty of the Barf Fairy on Halloween morning in the year of oh lord 2022. In light of the fact that it is summer…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Bookstore
Ned and Meg expound on bookstores past and present. There are 2500 independent bookstores in the US apparently although that seems like a lot. It’s up almost…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Designing Dystopia, The Prisoner 3
Ned and Meg talk about the final two episodes of The Prisoner (the American series version) and explore the outrageous design elements present during the grand…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Alternative Takes, The Poisoned Carrot
Ned and Meg dissect some common buzzwords and talk about exit strategies, quiet quitting which our generation basically perfected and owns forever, mindshares…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Designing Dystopia, The Prisoner 2
Ned and Meg continue their discussion of design elements from The Prisoner television show. Why is Number Six in black? Why does everyone in town have a cape…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Short, The Prisoner 1
Ned and Meg start to talk about design elements from The Prisoner television show, which is very dystopian in nature and thus sparked another Designing…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Third Wheel on a Shitty Ice Cream Date
Ned and Meg discuss Ned’s adventures in Germany. We discuss the differences between ice cream and gelato. And then, we get around to THE LINE, which is…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Rat Dad
Ned and Meg talk about movie reboots and propose a TMNT offshoot wherein Master Splinter is the focus of the story. Did you know that German TMNT fans are much…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Curing Feet with Hammers, Ein German Medical Stuff Podcasten
Ned and Meg discuss healthcare in the US and in other countries, because we have lots of injuries in lots of geographic locations. Also on the menu is curing…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Is There an Echo In Here?
Ned and Meg gripe about the problem of echo chambers, those ubiquitous spaces that come in literal or figurative form, and share in common the utter lack of…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
How to Talk to your Cat about Industrial Design
Ned and Meg discuss industrial design, ringspun cotton, data ownership, right to repair, how alexa is always listening, persistent flops, and the amazing book…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
A True Story
Ned tells Lauren and Meg all about a funny ancient story he read a while back that he’s been dying to share with us. We have been waiting a long time to hear…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Immediate Cries for the Suspension of Disbelief, RIP Dan Graham Conceptual Artist
Ned and Meg have a lovely chat about lovely Dan Graham, a lovely conceptual artist. Or was; he was an artist, but since he is now deceased, RIP Dan Graham. We…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
The Cheesecake Factory Bankrolls a Cult
Ned and Meg gang up in Southern California for a discussion of Northern California Cults and the restaurants that love them. If you are a fan of the dessert…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Go Play 1000 White Blank Cards Right Now!
Ned and Meg take you on a leisurely tour through card game design, with the usual pit stops for distractions along the way. We talk about games that shed and…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Serious Discusion of Serious Sculpture
Ned and Meg have a serious discussion about serious sculpture so strap in! We side-swipe James Grashow, Max Zorn, Andrew Erdos, Henry Moore, Peter Draws…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Terror-Based Child Rearing
Ned and Meg discuss Brandolini’s Law, also known as the BS asymmetry principle, and how it relates to current events. We also discuss the Panopticon, we mean…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
The Hidden Gem of Pencilphilia
Ned and Lauren tell Meg all about their coping mechanisms, managing tools, successes,experiences, strategies and trials with ADHD. Also we collectively declare…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Industrial Strenght Emotional Blender
Our tale today begins as so many have, with a gargantuan misunderstanding between friends followed by a backchannel conversation followed by unintentional…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Dr. Nutt, the Nutt Job, and the Nutt Case
Ned, Meg, and Lauren talk about a scientific and cultural hero, Dr. David Nutt. Like many people who speak truth to power, his attitudes and research into…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Candy Vanning
Ned and Meg get together after a protracted separation over the holidays and new year and record a similarly protracted podcast about the goings on! First…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
The Depressingly American Story of the Monopoly Board Game
Ned and Meg revisit the historical waypoints along the existence of Monopoly, our favorite polarizing game. If you are lucky enough to have people in your life…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
War on Xmas 2021
Ned and Meg revisit what has become an annual episode topic! Oh, the differences in nomenclature between Xmas and Christmas. We discuss the current status of…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Fistfull of Peppercorns
Meg and Lauren discuss their favorite peppers and birds who steal fruits. We get into a long discussion about food dehydrators and mushrooms as well. We…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Design Methodologies, and a Surprise
Ned and Meg discuss design methodologies and the people who made some of them famous. We also talk about Futurama, rational design, engineering and art, making…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
So Easy a Baby Could Do It
Ned and Meg talk about their podcast production process and the potential for streamlining it because right now our process is a clunker! We also discuss the…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Dystopian Dorm Design, Charlie Munger the Architectural Menace (Dwarf Fortress)
Ned and Meg talk about a terrible idea.
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
The Book of Books
Ned and Meg talk about a new book idea. We lay out the case for why we think it’s inspired and then get off track pretty quickly, which is exactly the point of…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Slippery Sophistry
Riddle me this? What happens if Ned and Meg and Lauren record a podcast episode where we make up garbage philosophy and pass it off as wisdom? Find out. We…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Vacuum Cleaner Design
Ned and Meg talk about the wide world of vacuum cleaners and how special some of them are to us. For example, the only heirlooms Meg’s family passes down are…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
The Big Bad Context
Ned and Meg revisit one of their favorite books, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, by Andy Hunt, and they discuss the concept of an expansive context. Also…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
He Was Like, WTF is FCBM?
Ned and Meg confuse Meg's dad over text messages and then talk about it. We reassign the rings of hell and remind people that deterrents are not really useful…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Nodus Tollens and the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
What’s your sleep plan? Ned and Meg push their bedtime with a late night podcast recording, just like old times. Today, or rather tonight, well, really the…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Myopic Design
Ned and Meg get miffy about myopic design, a phenomenon that occurs when people design things for all the wrong reasons. The dumbest invention, a shining…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
These Two Fabulous Books
Ned and Meg have some book recommendations this week, and also the general recommendation that you do a foot peel, stat. Our book recommendations and…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Zooming at the Dentist
Ned and Meg and Lauren discuss dystopias again, and this time we fuss over details like the difference between a once-great community after the fall, and…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Paper Plate Design
Ned and Meg investigate the origins of the ubiquitous paper plate. We compare the pros and cons of paper plates. We compare old inventors to new ones. We talk…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Color Palettes The Podcast
Ned and Meg get together after Ned’s birthday to talk about colors! People use colors for all sorts of stuff and how they combine those colors matters a whole…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Disappointment Reliquaries
Ned and Meg have a semi-absurdist conversation about a new thing we invented, sort of. We talk about traditional reliquaries, which are gorgeous mini buildings…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Your Idea Pile Does Not a Philosophy Make
Ned and Meg and Lauren talk about metals, like steel and it’s even cooler friend nitinol. We also talk about how a philosophy is more than an incoherent jumble…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
The Cycle of Discomfort
Dana and Ned and Meg and Lauren discuss the pain avoidance cycle and adapting to discomfort, patterns of behavior, how kinks are more common than not, how…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Design Is Not Art
Ned and Meg and Lauren talk about the differences between art and design, both of which we love. We also discuss girding loins, medieval torture devices…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Polarizing The Lawn Sign
Ned and Meg and Lauren talk about the possibility of Meg having new neighbors to the West and what she’s prepared to do to ensure that only people she likes…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Ned's Nautical Nightmare
Ned and Meg and Lauren and Ben from Bisexual Orgies listen to Ned recount a harrowing tale of high seas adventure and high drama aboard a dysfunctional vessel…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Buyers Remorse
Meg tells Ned and Lauren the story of Buyer’s Remorse, which leads to discussion about Lauren’s work as a sexuality educator. Sex ed and sexuality education…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Even Though Art Can Go South Sometimes It Doesn't Mean That You Shouldn't Try
Ned, Meg, and Lauren converse about the relationship between art and money, art successes and failures, creating art with others and making lots of art in lots…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Anxiety in a Cup
Ned and Meg chat on Mother’s Day about how much caffeine makes us psychotic. Meg gets hyperactive depression and Ned has been rabbit-holing an espresso machine…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Trendliest Tech
Ned and Meg discuss more digital gobbledigook and cryptography, but this time it’s in the context of art! Jim Sanborn made a trio of sculptures that utilize…
- Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Step Into Our Wardrobe
Ned and Meg talk about their innate ability to bend and dilate time, Ned's chronostasis affliction, distorted perception, how awe is essentially the experience…