Birthday Periscope Streams All Day!

@JonT Wow. I can see you on Periscope and read your posts here. So meta

@JonT Good Job. That was nice. I really enjoy the sound of your voice as it reminds me of a smooth talking late late night radio host.

@studerc Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Streaming and "hosting", for lack of a better word, are still new to me and a little outside my comfort zone but it's been a blast and I hope to keep doing plenty more in the future.

@JonT Wish I could buy more X-Minis...can I buy yours? =)

@Teripie Not like all day but more like for 15-30 minutes every hour or so.

@curtise @JonT Definitely. This, I suppose is on Twitter, but their PC client should be more functional.

@Thumperchick I had a good connection throughout....sorry that it sucks to suck :)

@studerc You're fiesty today.

@Thumperchick Charlotte was in an especially good mood today and I was able to get so much more accomplished including some nice forum lurking. Haven't been able to do that in quite some time! I miss it.

@Thumperchick It often cuts out for me too. This morning was better.

@studerc Speaking of birthdays and Charlotte – isn’t she turning 2 soon??? Hope all is well.

@JonT oh god your dad is younger than me

@Kidsandliz The streams can be watched live in any modern web browser. However, there is no way to comment or send hearts unless you use the Periscope app for iOS or Android.
Which is a huge flaw, in my book, because I would much prefer to just watch and interact on my computer, like with the live YouTube streams.

@curtise Thanks. I would agree with you. Also if we have to interact to win contests then I guess only those with smart phones can play and of course not all of us have smart phones. Some who have smart phones may have data limits that will prevent them from watching/commenting/playing. Seems to me meh needs to think through the unintended consequences of some of their decisions and not make giant assumptions about their user base.

@Kidsandliz But if I missed the Lab Stream and I wanted to watch it after the fact, YouTube made it all choppy and almost unwatchable. Periscope is way better on that front.

@Willijs3 I watched it after the fact on my computer but I have no clue what the host was. Since periscope is an app for a phone I was presuming it wasn't usable on a mac laptop. Using my mac after the fact I watched it but have no clue where it was (eg the host site for it - maybe not youtube since it didn't look youtube). I was more thinking about the issue if the contests required interacting on the host site and those on laptops couldn't do that and we, for whatever reason couldn't use a smartphone/didn't have one, we'd be left out of everything other than being a silent onlooker who couldn't enter contests, make comments, etc.

@boc We'll have some up and running in about an hour most likely but stay tuned. We will post it here when we are ready to go.

@MEHcus Cool! Hoping to see Irk today!

@boc Here you go:

@MEHcus LOL. I mean on Periscope (but you knew that.)

@boc Oh, next time be more specific.

@ChadP Is there a direct Periscope link that doesn't go through Twitter? Twitter is blocked on my work computer (and I'd bet that's the case for many others) but Periscope still works until IT discovers it's streaming.

@cinoclav https://www.periscope.tv/w/aG6G6DM5NzUwfDM2NTk0MjA4J3ky-bBTTSAsZALUtYqLQQJgMJdxLtPEAW0UJ3z1GS4=

@ACraigL Thank you! That's much better. Lousy work wifi won't even keep the stream going on my phone.

@ChadP Ended 6 minutes ago. Yup, pretty much just like last night. FML

@pepsiwine If there are some planned..Hopefully Jason Pierre Paul isn't their special guest that's coming up.

@pitamuffin Aw, thanks!

@JonT TOOOOOOOOOOON!

@JonT Jason, have you ever put in secret codes, words, phrases into your write ups?

@JonT I bet I know him from the internet.

@JonT how about "@jasontoon: You once ate an entire sheet cake for Woot's birthday. Won't you please do it again for Meh? Or at least a small pie or something?"

@JonT
What are your favorite words?
What words annoy you and/or do you think are way overused?
Who's your favorite writer (and feel free to expand into particular genres--but especially poetry and fiction)?
Do you write other than for meh and Mediocre (and other than this sort of writing; but answer as broadly as you're willing to too)?
What do you think of grammar nazis? (Please hate them what they do.)
What grammatical error really bugs you?
Which grammatical error do you think isn't such a big deal and people should just shut the fuck up about?
Do you have an editor at meh? (Feel free to layer this: for content, tone, grammar etc.)
Grammar: prescriptive or descriptive?
How do you feel about the proliferation of neologisms? (Please mostly love it, except for the lame ones.)

@jasontoon Do you feel old? Are you sad you don't have a staff badge in the forums? How's that whole working arrangement working out for you?

@JonT blue or black ink? Or pencil?

@JasonToon A few writeups have offended people to the point that they have said they are leaving and never coming back. When this happens, do you laugh about it and tell them to get over it, or do you question if you took something too far. Personally, I just grab the popcorn, sit back, and watch the show.

@lichme I wonder if they take lost customers out of his paycheck...

@connorbush Or keyboard: phone (soft or hard), tablet, PC (ergo, etc.), Typewriter (electric or manual), etc.?

@JonT Do you ever get writer's block and if so, what do you do to get through it?

@JonT Thanks for asking for me :D

@JonT Is there anything your regret writing?

@JonT You and @JasonToon are rock stars. Thanks for asking and answering so many of my questions. Hope I wasn't too obnoxious to ask so many.

Good answers, btw.

@connorbush I should have known. >.<

@connorbush @hollboll I didn't get it at first. I thought for sure it was going to be beef jerky. Took a moment to process.

@trlenoir I had to refresh the page like 7 times before I actually saw anything. It was audio only for me for quite a while.

@ABitterWoman Unfortunately no. The only way to comment is using the Periscope app. For whatever reason, Twitter has not enabled commenting or hearting from the web streams.

@curtise Gotcha! Thanks for answering me. :D

@curtise Wait, how do you heart from the app? I just assumed that it was people joining

@bruceoite Touch the screen.

@JonT Goodbye productivity for the day.

@ACraigL we are supposed to be productive?

@JonT you picked up lunch right?

@studerc Wasn't he just gonna get them a breakfast burrito to share?

@JonT For the upcoming lunch stream:

Hotpockets - Yes or no?
Lunch Bandits - Every place I have ever worked has had them. Do you ever have your food go missing?

@nalesean

@JonT

@connorbush archive.org

@connorbush Here you go: archive.org/details/oldtimeradio and oldtimeradiodownloads.com will keep you busy for hours. Days. Weeks. Years.

@connorbush 764 episodes of Jack Benny here, for instance: http://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/comedy/jack-benny-program

@JasonToon Thank you very much! I am looking forward to it. Right now I am listening to Yulenet and Dragonnet by Stan Freberg. Two of my favorite bits ever.

@connorbush If you have or ever get a Roku, there are a bunch of OTR channels there. Varying quality (honestly, I think a few of them are just front ends to different directories on archive.org), but worth exploring if you've got one anyway, like I say.

@JasonToon @connorbush I like variety, so I subscribe to podcasts. Relic Radio has some great ones- The Horror, Relic Radio Suspense, and Relic Radio Thrillers are my favorites. You get a couple every week in each category. I listen to them in the car and on random speaker docks all over the house (ipod nanos with bad batteries are cheap on ebay and work great with the docks). And of course on my Sylvester and Tweety mp3 players. I have a Speedo Aquabeat (Meh should totally try to get some of these) that I use while swimming- I listen to the 30 minute shows to time laps. Escape is my favorite for that. Sometimes the ads and news are still in the shows which can be really interesting. I've been hearing Watergate unfold on CBS Radio Mystery Theater. My very favorite of all time was the Zombie Astronaut's Frequency of Fear- old radio shows with new material in between. Episodes still live somewhere on the internet but it's no longer a podcast.

@JasonToon It was great. I posted about my daughter -- she's in a pre-college summer program for creative writing at Emerson College in Boston this summer. I'll tell her we spoke ;)

@ACraigL Hey, Emerson '80 here. It's a great place to be. Or it was in the late '70s when the drinking age was 18, every substance was readily available for cheap, and your classmates were people like Steven Wright and Denis Leary. I'm sure it's good now too though. (Seriously, though, it's a great place to be.)

@JasonToon Love your wordsmithing, here is to another year!

@afwaller Every time I refresh the Android app, it just keeps saying "No one you are following is LIVE." The only one I'm following is Meh.com. I hate the Internet.

@KDemo i thought periscope was only on cellphones/ipods/android tablets?

@hawklet00 -well, maybe that's why it doesn't work for me :-)

@KDemo Worked fine on PC for me while I was using it there.

@lichme - Started out working for a couple of minutes, then every time I refreshed it got shorter and shorter.

@KDemo i couldnt even get it to work on my laptop. i had to install it on my ipod

@KDemo Did they offer the URL. Never saw it.

@ACraigL Sorry about that, wasn't able to post the URL since we were streaming from my phone.

@ACraigL - It's here: https://twitter.com/wearemeh

@KDemo Thanks!

@KDemo Only works on chrome for me. Safari and Firefox just show "Connected." and nothing else.

@einrad -Thanks, I'm on Chrome. Still not working, but now I have it on iPad. Very convoluted process and had to update an old unused Twitter account.

@KDemo i was able to get it to work via chrome, but i cant comment from here. would still need to open it on my ipod

@lichme

@katylava Yesssss

@JonT @matthew

1. When will there be more possum head chronicles?
2. How many dum-dum suckers can you enjoy at a time?
3. What is your favorite doughnut?

@JonT Really liked this one! Now, about those dumdums, @matthew !

@matthew dum dums, the most mediocre of the suckers*.

*root beer excluded

@JonT now you're killing me! stupid indoor 4G reception!

@JonT Awesome! I totally missed the last stream. Stupid work. Hope to catch this one.

@JonT peek?

@JonT Can't wait to get a peek at @MEHcus' secret sack!

@JonT #spoileralert?

@JonT tease

@mehcus @moose love how you faked out the connection issues etc to keep us from seeing anything useful about the fuku at all, very tricky.

@thismyusername faked? No @moose just has a crapy phone

@editorkid I'm watching on my PC, mostly. I'd like to comment, but I need to get some work done today.

@editorkid Agreed. My phone is now tethered to my computer.

And... apparently it was too low to keep up and died mid-stream. Probably shoulda turned down screen brightness...

@sp3ar I was having the same problem. Tried it on both Firefox and Chrome here at home. I could see the stream on Chrome on my work pc.

@sp3ar - Try a different raisin?

@sp3ar the mediocrebot and fuku secrets one (the two shot on android?) only work for me in firefox... in chrome I get no video.

@JonT like a crackling campfire, I'm super stoked.

You're doing a great job, @JonT. Are you tired yet, or is the birthday excitement keeping you going?

@JonT So where do I find it from the computer? url please

@Kidsandliz it's here: https://twitter.com/wearemeh

@KDemo Thank you.

@JonT "For the least amount of moderation that I've ever had to do." Sounds like a cake job :-)

@JonT go home!

@JonT you are amazing

@JonT caught 4 'scopes, fun times. Feel like I know you all now.

@JonT I said something related to this in Periscope, but want to make sure that you got it--and, upon reflection, kudos go to everyone from @snapster on down (and, seriously, there are too many people to name).

Much of the genius of meh is that it has a human face (spokestroll notwithstanding). Y'all are the humanity we see and engage with that keeps us here. I don't think just anyone could pull that off and, as many of us have commented, I don't think many work environments and bosses would tolerate, let alone nurture and promote, the sort of authenticity and transparency that we see from meh on a daily basis.

I like giving some of you shit, but I only do that because I like you. Thanks for being you. Keep up the good work. And I hope you're turning a profit; honestly, that whole profit thing isn't so much where my head's at, but I just want y'all to stay in business so this community goes on.

@medz @ZombieWrangler @Joelmw Aww...

@joelmw well said

@JonT I caught up on them tonight and loved 'em. MediocreBot made me laugh so hard my cat jumped off my lap and ran into the other room. And I loved the shoutout about the box of paper bags in the "favorite momehnts" 'scope. Although that kind of went in another direction pretty quickly. Sigh. Anyway, nicely done... a great addition to the Meh toybox.

@JonT I had a great time watching today. Thanks!

@sammydog01 how are you viewing the recordings, please? When I go to periscope, it says no recording available.

@mikibell I clicked on the links JonT put on the board. https://t.co/iEeNLgNpXt is one. Some of them yesterday were audio only on my desktop but worked on my ipad (I had to download the app and create a twitter account so that was a pain). The screen says the event ended however may hours ago but the play button shows the recording.

@sammydog01 Thank you, I was using my phone.. works on pc beautifully!