Steven Masuch is a "character actor of the web," with a variety of projects under his belt and a day job building iOS apps. He hosts the Slam for Hope Pog Tournament each year in Vancouver BC, Canada, with the 5th one coming up (and still accepting players and donations) on November 22nd. We go deep on something I completely missed while growing up (because I was 20 years old already). It's everything there is to know about pogs.

Some pogs:

The Canadian (evil) Justin McElroy:

Last tournament's surprise champion:

Links:

• Steven Masuch
• S (@smasuch) | Twitter
• s mazuk
• Sprinkles
• Peach
• The Fridge for iPhone
• echo2video - YouTube — Hi Chew reviews
• My Brother, My Brother and Me | Maximum Fun
• Spartacus Books – Explosive titles since 1973
• Slam For Hope — November 22nd, 2018 in Vancouver BC
• Pogman | Advertisements Time Forgot
• Slam For Hope 2014 Finalist Match - YouTube

Erin McKean is a lexicographer, writer, speaker, and maker that started Dress A Day about 13 years ago to chronicle her sewing projects. If you've ever seen Erin at a conference, chances are you've seen her in a really cool print fabric dress she made herself. We talk about her career, how she sews her dresses, as well as tips on how anyone can learn to sew their own clothes too.

One of Erin's dresses, complete with bright red piping:

Links:

• Erin McKean - Wikipedia
• Erin McKean (@emckean) | Twitter
• Wordnik
• Urban Dictionary
• Adopt a Word at Wordnik!
• A Dress A Day – A dress, nearly every day.
• Pockets: Articles of Interest #3 - 99% Invisible
• The perfect airplane dress – A Dress A Day
• Calling all creative people! | Craftsy — how-to sewing videos
• Patternsy — PDF-to-pattern prints
• Sewing Pattern Review Online Sewing Community — "There's a forum for everything"

Dan Benjamin is the creator of the 5by5 podcast network and the podcast hosting service Fireside.fm and he is really into mechanical watches. We talk about his career in podcasting and how he got started, when he fell in love with watches, and how he wears and collects them today.

Links:

• Dan Benjamin
• 𝙳𝚊𝚗 𝙱𝚎𝚗𝚓𝚊𝚖𝚒𝚗 (@danbenjamin) | Twitter
• 5by5 | Dan Benjamin
• 5by5
• Hivelogic
• 5by5 | Pipeline Classic #9: Matt Haughey
• Pulsar Time Computer LED Watches of the 1970s
• Watch Winders: Handmade Watch Winder Boxes & Watch Rotators | WOLF
• Seiko Quartz Astron (first quartz watch)
• Unwound Podcast (about watches)
• Seiko Men's SKX007K2 Diver's Automatic Watch
• Seiko men's Diver watch (note the tiny arrows on the inside bottom right)
• watchuseek.com - Watch you seek is Watch you get!
• Watchuseek forums
• Rolex Submariner Watch
• OMEGA Seamaster Watches
• Seamaster Watch 210.30.42.20.03.001

Darius Kazemi is a programmer and bot author and all-around internet artist that has a podcast with two fellow cohosts about an anime series they all love. Darius explains how he got into programming, gaming, bot authoring, and the social network mastodon, before we dive into the ins and outs of anime, what kinds of shows he likes and how one would go about getting started.

Links:

• Tiny Subversions | Darius Kazemi — Darius Kazemi
• Feel Train
• Metaphor-a-Minute! (@metaphorminute) | Twitter
• Ian Bogost (@ibogost) | Twitter
• Wordnik
• Roof Slapping Bot (@RoofSlappingBot) | Twitter
• ConceptNet
• Queer Eye Bot (@[email protected]) - botsin.space
• GitHub - dariusk/corpora: A collection of small corpuses of interesting data for the creation of bots and similar stuff.
• wordfilter - npm
• Glitch Logos (@GlitchLogos) | Twitter
• Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellows
• Beaker Browser
• JoJo's Bizarre Explainer
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Watch on Crunchyroll
• Watch JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Season 01 Episode 01 | Hulu
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Adult Swim
• Yowamushi Pedal - Wikipedia
• Slice of Life - Anime - MyAnimeList.net
• My Love Story!! - Wikipedia
• Love Kome: We Love Rice (Love Rice) - MyAnimeList.net
• Shirobako - Wikipedia
• The Japanese Military Is Getting Offensively Cute | VICE News
• Washington DC’s role behind the scenes in Hollywood goes deeper than you think | The Independent
• Yuri!!! on ICE Series Marathon | Fathom Events
• Too Much Not Enough by Too Much Not Enough on Apple Podcasts — (we ran out of time to talk about it, but worth checking out)

Todd Hamina has been making wine under different labels for 26 years in the Pacific Northwest, from farming his own grapes to owning his own winery. We chatted a bit about how the wine industry works in Oregon before transitioning to bikes. Todd's been riding his whole life, but in June of 2018 he decided to participate in the Trans America (self-supported) bike race from the coast of Oregon all the way across the US to the Atlantic Ocean in Virgina.

He pulled out of the race in Colorado after nearly 1800 miles over the course of a couple weeks riding over 130 miles per day all on his own. He had to quit due to cramping in his hands and shoulders that took away his ability to use his brakes. We talk about how he trained, what his setup was like, and how he attacked each day of the race.

Links:

• Biggio Hamina Cellars of McMinnville, OR
• Maysara Winery | & Momtazi Vineyard
• Trans Am Bike Race
• Todd Hamina - Trans Am Bike Race 2018 — Todd's tracker from the race, where he covered about 1,700 miles before having to quit
• Route Maps | Adventure Cycling Association

Lucy Burningham is a writer, editorial director at Cozy, and spent a year getting certified to become a master beer taster and wrote a book about it. She brought 3 beers to the Airstream trailer at Stream PDX where we recorded and we were a bit punchy and goofy by the end.

Links:

• Lucy Burningham's website
• Lucy Burningham (@lucyburningham) | Twitter
• Cozy — Free property management software | Online rent collection, renters insurance, tenant screening, credit and background checks
• My Beer Year: Adventures with Hop Farmers, Craft Brewers, Chefs, Beer Sommeliers, and Fanatical Drinkers as a Beer Master in Training: Lucy Burningham: 9781611802719: Amazon.com: Books
• Kölsch from Occidental Brewing Co. — Beer #1 (I thought it tasted like Budweiser)
• Franziskaner yeast wheat beer Naturtrüb — Beer #2 Hefe-Weissbier
• Flanders Red | pFriem Family Brewers — Beer #3 (sour cherry)
• Breakside Brewery - Breakside | Seek and Enjoy
• Apex Beer Bar PDX
• XOXO 2018
• Saraveza Beer Bar
• Podcast Hosting and Analytics - Fireside

Tiffani Ashley Bell is the founder of The Human Utility, which helps prevent water shut-offs in Detroit and Baltimore, all using a donation platform she's built. It's a fascinating project that was one of the first non-profits to go through Y Combinator.

Tiffani is also into F1 racing and as a car guy myself, I was curious to hear what makes it exciting and how one goes about following all the action.

Links:

• Tiffani Ashley Bell (@tiffani) | Twitter
• The Human Utility - Detroit and Baltimore water bill assistance
• Formula One - Wikipedia
• Lewis Hamilton (photo)
• Lewis Hamilton's website
• Nico Rosberg - Wikipedia
• F1's 2018 Cars Come With a New Engineering Puzzle: The Halo | WIRED
• Pledge your birthday to The Human Utility

Amber Castaldo is a recently retired veteran of roller derby, from one of the top teams in the world, based in Portland, Oregon. We spend much of the time getting into the nitty gritty details of roller derby rules, and talk about how much work it is to stay competitive.

Links:

• Amber Castaldo (@acastaldo) • Instagram photos and videos
• Land Gallery – Land is an art gallery and gift shop located in the historic Mississippi Neighborhood of Portland, Oregon.
• buyolympia.com - Bringing you amazing new work since 1999.
• Put a Bird On It! | Portlandia | IFC - YouTube
• Sarah Utter - Reading Is Sexy (Girl Cut) at buyolympia.com
• Yoyo A Go Go - Wikipedia
• Nikki McClure at buyolympia.com
• Endicia
• RollerGames - Wikipedia — (the cheesy fake roller derby I remember as a kid but couldn't pull the name of while we were recording)
• Teams | Rose City Rollers
• Roller Derby Rules | Rules of Sport
• How to apex jump - YouTube
• Lebowskiland at buyolympia.com
• Lost Together — Allison Cole Illustration
• Podcast Hosting and Analytics - Fireside

Dinah Sanders has been playing D&D for nearly 40 years, and has been a dungeon master going all the way back. Her current weekly game has a handful of players that have continuously played the same campaign for the past few years.

We cover Dinah's early history in blogging, her two books and her plans for a future one as well as diving into all the ins and outs of D&D with me, someone that's never played.

P.S. The week after we recorded this, I did get to join her weekly D&D night to play my first game ever, and it was a blast. The photo above is a shot from that night.

P.P.S. There's a new theme song and I added a bit of story I forgot to cover in the John Roderick episode so stick around to the end to hear it.

Links:

• Dinah Sanders (@MetaGrrrl) | Twitter
• MetaGrrrl
• Blogger
• Pyra (wayback machine)
• Books | Dinah Sanders
• Discardia
• Art of the Shim
• Dungeons & Dragons - Wikipedia
• Tunnels & Trolls - Wikipedia
• George Oates - Wikipedia
• D&D Beyond - An official digital toolset for Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) Fifth Edition (5e)
• Amazon.com: Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set: Fantasy D&D Roleplaying Game 5th Edition (RPG Boxed Game): Toys & Games
• Critical Role D&D podcast
• The Adventure Zone | Maximum Fun
• Acquisitions Incorporated
• Matthew Colville - YouTube
• Samaritan by The Long Winters - YouTube
• Podcast Hosting and Analytics - Fireside

Andy Baio is a veteran of the early web, creator of waxy.org, upcoming.org, and playfic.com. He was the first CTO for Kickstarter and went on to create the XOXO Festival in Portland Oregon.

He's also into collecting original 1980s Infocom games and still plays them today despite owning modern computers and video cards that can do so much more.

Links:

• Andy Baio (@waxpancake) | Twitter
• Waxy.org – Andy Baio lives here
• XOXO -- Portland, Oregon -- September 6-9, 2018
• Hari Kondabolu (@harikondabolu) | Twitter
• jonny sun (@jonnysun) | Twitter
• demi adejuyigbe (@electrolemon) | Twitter
• Reductress » Women's News. Feminized.
• Art by Matt Furie
• Ijeoma Oluo (@IjeomaOluo) | Twitter
• Open Mike Eagle (@Mike_Eagle) | Twitter
• Claire L. Evans — Broad Band
• Adam Ruins Everything — truTV - Official Site
• Jennifer 8. Lee (@jenny8lee) | Twitter
• Jean Grae (@JeanGreasy) | Twitter
• John Hodgman (@hodgman) | Twitter
• This Is Love
• Criminal | A Podcast About Crime
• Feminist Frequency Radio by Anita Sarkeesian, Carolyn Petit, Ebony Aster on Apple Podcasts
• Friendshipping! podcast
• Botnik studios
• Letting neural networks be weird
• Francine
• nicole he's internet realm
• Glitch - The Friendly, Creative Community
• Dorris McComics
• Zoë Quinn’s first comic leads DC Comics’ relaunch of Vertigo - Polygon
• Games by Infocom
• Firewatch
• The Interactive Fiction Competition
• Inform 7
• InfocomBot for AOL Instant Messenger – Waxy.org
• GET LAMP: THE TEXT ADVENTURE DOCUMENTARY
• Playfic
• Twine / An open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories
• Most Played games at Playfic
• Longest/most characters in games at Playfic
• Mrs. Crabtree's Geography Class by Andrew Schultz — Playfic
• Sherlock Holmes and the Indecipherable Cipher by Allison — Playfic
• Attend XOXO 2018 — XOXO
• Podcast Hosting and Analytics - Fireside