Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@sethmlarson Like the vast majority of podcasts, I made this with a couple of episodes and then forgot about it 😛

I have a vague idea to add an episode with a transcript at some point, and when I start get around to some projects I have where I want to work with podcast feeds it will probably drive me to add more features.

I have done nothing to make the contributor workflow good at all, but if you want to make a PR the repo is here:

https://github.com/pganssle/test-podcast

Also feel free to fork it and create what would undoubtedly be a better and more popular version 😉

@webology Especially if you like sine waves!

@webology @sethmlarson I thought it was like an actual secret menu with a simple name like "animal style" or "double double" or something, so not anything where you are being weird and where it is hard to explain.

Still, I think in this case it is that people probably like the act of ordering off a secret menu that you have to know about more than they like the actual food you get when you do that.

@webology @sethmlarson I wouldn't really order a burger these days anyway, but when I tried it 15-18 years ago I remember thinking it was nothing special.

I got the impression that maybe I ordered the right thing and you were supposed to order off the secret menu to get the thing everyone likes, but I don't think anything I saw on that menu would turn a mediocre burger into an amazing experience.

@yvanspijk Ah I looked a bit for that the cross meant but I didn't notice it in the legend 😅

@yvanspijk Also I've never heard the English word "bouk" before. Seems like it is UK specific and possibly the sense of "belly" is obsolete? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bouk

@yvanspijk Did old Norwegian and Danish really lack words for eye, ear, mouth and nose, or do we just not know those words?

Also, is it true that Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish and Danish lack words for shoulder?

Or is it just that the gaps are words that aren't derived from proto-Germanic?

@Yhg1s @brianokken Wil Wheaton really is an annoying narrator. He is the only narrator where I will just not listen to a book if he is reading it.

@gregeganSF @FunkyBob @brianokken I listened to Dichronauts and IIRC the quality was very high, but also that book is not an easy one to handle as audio 😅

@brianokken What kind of sci-fi do you like? Do you want super hard sci-fi (Diaspora by Greg Egan is great, as are most of his books, including Permutation City)? Military type sci-fi on the more rompy side it would be hard to go wrong with the Vorkosigan Saga.

Rainbows End is also great if you haven't read it. As are many things by Ursula Leguin, especially The Dispossessed.

I have several dozen more recommendations of various quality if you want.

@brettcannon @feoh Did you ever figure out how to do this? Any chance if an open source or shareable implementation if so?

Been hoping to do exactly this for years and years.

@hynek I think you might have an obligation to coin such a German term for this.