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Feature Creep: Built-in Microwave
Sometimes you just want to listen to some people get off topic as quickly as possible.
Episodes
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Designing Dystopia, My Dystopia is Better than Yours
Ned and Meg discuss a letter, sent to George Orwell from his former teacher Aldous Huxley, in which Huxley both celebrates and criticizes Orwell’s vision of…
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Short, Encounter at Farpoint
Ned and Meg chat about the first episode of Star Trek Next Generation (TNG) Episode one, Encounter at Farpoint, aka the one with Q! Ned saw it as a kid and it…
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Dystopian Movies and More, but not that More
Meg and Ned discuss movies that feature dystopian themes. They don't even come close to exhausting the list of possible movies to discuss but they give it a…
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Short, Designing Dystopia, 'I have no mouth'
Meg and Ned briefly discuss the short story 'I Have no Mouth and I must Scream' by Harlan Ellison. We look at how this relates to our ongoing discussion of…
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Counting Our Electric Sheep
Ned and Meg discuss Philip K Dick’s novel (the one that inspired Blade Runner the movie) about androids and consider the core tenets of a good dystopia. Part…
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Short, Designing Dystopias with Sir Thomas More or less
Meg and Ned continue their discussions about designing dystopias. In this episode we discuss the origin of the concept and introduce some of Sir Thomas More's…
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Designing Dystopia
This week Meg and Ned discuss the ideas and concepts around designing a dystopia. Why would we talk about such a thing? Because this is an art and design…
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Short, Hostas
Meg loudly complains at Ned about hostas, the Beanie Babies of the plant kingdom, in this week’s short, that is until Ned points out that they’re not entirely…
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Louie Mattar on Designing Cars
Ned tells Meg about Louie Mattar’s Fabulous Cadillac Car, now on view at the San Diego Auto Museum! Or, well, it would be if we were allowed to go see anything…
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Short, Audio Problems
Meg and Ned complain about audio problems in this great time of uncertainty. How are we supposed to get anything done with all this chaos going on? Wash your…
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Somebody's Going to Die II
Ned and Meg discuss the more absurd permutations of the trolley problem. Quick, pull the lever!
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Short, Tao Te Ching Chapter 15
Meg and Ned read Chapter 15 of the Tao Te Ching and discuss their thoughts.
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Fun With Random
Ned and Meg discuss crazy ideas (no surprise there), giant cockroaches (or palmetto bugs if you’re one of those people), and Somebody’s Gonna Die II. Wash your…
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Short, Tao Te Ching Chapters 9, 24, and 5
Meg and Ned read Chapter 9, 24, and 5 of the Tao Te Ching and discuss their thoughts.
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Vending Machine
Ned and Meg discuss their entrepreneurial and artistic plans for a hypothetical vending machine. Wash your hands. WEAR A MASK!
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Short, Tao Te Ching Chapters 18 and 19
Meg and Ned read Chapter 18 and 19 of the Tao Te Ching and discuss their thoughts.
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Conference Quit It!
Ned and Meg discuss the abysmal state of professional educational conferences both before, during, and after Covid-19 pandemic. We demand an overthrow of the…
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Short, Tao Te Ching Chapter 13
Meg and Ned read Chapter 13 of the Tao Te Ching and discuss their thoughts.
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Distressing Definitions of Despair
Ned and Meg discuss what’s terrible about and around despair. Topics include racism, state and police violence, puke, Florida, commercial air travel, and…
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Short, Tao Te Ching Chapter 31
Meg and Ned read Chapter 31 of the Tao Te Ching and discuss their thoughts.
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Speculation
Ned and Meg speculate with Damon. About what? You can speculate, or you can listen to us!
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Short, Latin American Philosophy
Meg gives Ned a short lesson on Latin American Philosophy, or the short history so far.
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Ice Cream Trucks And Disappointment
Ned and Meg talk about a local Minneapolis hero with a special kind of vehicle that makes existential deliveries. We expound on art cars, lame covid-19…
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Short, Deesplaining Flowers
In this short, Meg over-explains flowers to Ned and Damon. We discuss Graveolens and Geraniums and the differences between them, which the British have…
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Why Broomsticks Are Not Crack Pipes
Ned and Meg discuss some of what we think are the self-evident causes of the Salem witch trials, as well as some very unlikely causes, which we ridicule. We…
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Short, Phooey Pantone Bullshit
In this short, we vent about Pantone’s hilariously terrible website and criticize the supposed utility of color matching technology. Wash your hands and wear…
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I Don't Knowwww
Ned and Meg discuss the FCBM website, our domain name collection/addiction, unscrupulous and repugnant real estate developers, ADHD, escalating dares, and…
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Short, Video Games As Expression
Ned spends a few minutes talking about the concept of video games as an artistic medium.
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Making Bread With Chet
Ned and Meg and Damon discuss making things to eat. Quarantine gave us a lot of time to make food from scratch and boy were we ever foolish for not doing this…
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Short, TRISH
Ned and Meg talk about the Translational Research Institute for Space Health! The first week of June we will participate in a series of webinars on behavioral…
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Quarantine Show And Tell With Wind
Ned and Meg visit with their friend Wind (aka Ria) over the internet while we all isolate, alone, together. We discuss how high fences make good and possibly…
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Short, Design Rant
Ned and Meg do a snack-sized Thursday podcast about Applied Arts and Design. It’s a rant really, and who doesn’t love those, especially right now. Enjoy. Wash…
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Words with Random, The Long One
Ned and Meg are back with more random word games, and this episode is twice as long, and 17 times as funny! Ned made a list of 96 words (overachiever) and used…
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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…
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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…
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Short, Meaningful Play
Ned spends a few minutes talking about the idea of meaningful play in the context of video game design.
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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…
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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…
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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)!
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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…
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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!
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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…
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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…
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Untitled 1
Ned and Meg have a very quiet podcast very early in the morning about all kinds of weird business, like how much I hate squash and wind scorpions, plus…
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How To Do A Thing So No One Asks You To Do It Again
Meg and Ned discuss how to do things in such a way that it ensures no one will make the mistake of asking you to do it again. Enjoy some examples from our…
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Two Bottles of Corona
Ned and Meg discuss their Friday the 13th COVID-19 pandemic adventures in San Diego, CA. This is the uplifting, funner, prettier, sister episode to our…
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Holy Corony!
This is a bonus episode-slash-public health info bulletin! We talk about what Coronaviruses are, what *this* particular [COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2/novel coronavirus…
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Liminality
Meg and Ned discuss one of Meg’s favorite concepts - that of liminality and existing happily in liminal spaces. Sometimes they knock you sideways and sometimes…
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Jon Hamm Can't Mime
Ned and Meg recount several vivid, hilarious, and unlikely dreams for your entertainment. We discuss the qualities and properties of our dreams, including…
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Embedding Failure
Ned and Meg discuss the concept of embedding failure, which we read about in one of our favorite books, Pragmatic Thinking and Learning by Andy Hunt (2008, The…
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Mittie Era And Other Family Stories
Our guest Damon tells stories about his family, including several about his beloved Great Grandmother, Mittie Era Blevins. She was a tough lady, and that’s…
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If Meg Were Here
Ned and Chris chat about design and walk a winding path through their own thoughts! Meg wasn’t here for this one but you’ll enjoy it nonetheless. Thanks for…
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Consider The Context
Hey! Don’t you tear down my fence, you clueless jerk! In this episode Ned and Meg discuss GK Chesterton’s Fence, the importance of context when making…
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Somebody’s Going To Die
The one where we discuss making a game about ethics, or something. We discuss the possibility of creating an ethics game where the classic conundrums in moral…
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Design Volume 4
... And the discussion from Design Volume 3 continues! Listen as we round out our conversation about design principles and challenges. We reach stunning final…
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Design Volume 3
Wherein Ned, Meg, and Chris discuss design challenges and guiding principles. Thrilling topics include the necessity for specificity—say that a few times…
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Lifetime Supply Of Things You Don’t Need
Wherein we discuss having to deal with the unique nightmare of owning a lifetime supply of stuff you probably never even need once.
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Design Volume 2
We have four folks crammed into this podcast about design, including three people who work in design and one who is just real opinionated about things! We talk…
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How to Support the Troops in the War on Xmas
For once, it actually starts with a real live anticommunist conspiracy. Yeah, for real! And then Bill O’Reilly barges in. We have so many questions like, how…
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Absurdism: Video Game Edition
Classic games are mostly absurd! We talk about video games and how fun and weird they are. It’s insane, for example, how popular Pac Man became. Then there’s…