31 July 2006
LT Spins for your sins! Or until he's torn apart by the masses! Or ignored. →Read more...
Fidel Castro steps down. In Little Havana, people took to the streets, banging pots, waving Cuban flags from cars, and dancing in joy. Cries of "Viva Cuba" rang down Calle Ocho, the virtual epicenter of Cuban exile.
Shoutouts! We had a great housewarming party on Saturday night. Shoutouts were outshouted. The full photoset is
here, and shoutouts are here:
1,
2,
3,
4. Yay!
A doctor changed my medication today and gave me an injection of something and now I'm feeling realllllly loopy and I'm watching Hee Haw and enjoying it. I sort of felt like I needed to come clean about it. That's all. Thanks.
Radio Mecha - Music Box: Letter People I'm playing some songs from artists named Z to A and, maybe, back to Z again. Come on and listen, if you're so inclined.
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BUMP! Song request. I need some lesser known, odd songs from the 80s (ok, one is late 70s). Does anyone have:
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MeFi Swapsets? Did anyone get theirs yet?
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Smile ,
Vile and
Piles.
The Lily Allen Juggernaut rolls on.
Charles Simic is my favorite poet, though I sometimes think his
prose work is even
better. Here are a few samples (all from
Hotel Insomnia, 1992).
are your registered/officially a member of a particular political party and why? Not referring to the US only, and I'm just curious... not trying to stir anything up or whatever.
You have to admit, the matching bandolier is rather jaunty.
Hedgehog! OMFG! D'at's a spiny guy with attitude.
"I've been a lover and a hater of beetroot all my life..." →Read more...
Happiness is (??) 31 July, '06. Hmm... maybe this one depends on just
how many candles there are? Nah, that shouldn't matter.
;-)
The small of my back and my tailbone hurt like hell. Which one of you fuckers has been kicking me in the ass?
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Directing traffic I've set up a LiveJournal account as a way to motivate myself to work on resolving a personal problem. But of course it's just one journal in a massive ocean of them. I'd like some traffic so I get some support and don't feel like I'm talking to myself (if that would work, I could just type into a Word file). No, it's not under the Orange Swan name and I'm not going to say what pseudonym I am using because I'm embarrassed to have a blog on such a topic - too bad, since I could easily get a little traffic that way. How do get a little attention?
Paris Hilton tells the London Times "... There's nobody in the world like me. I think every decade has an iconic blond -- like Marilyn Monroe or Princess Diana -- and right now, I'm that icon."
This Weekend I Saw Tim Fite [
No Good Here mp3] and
Tarantula A.D.. [
Stream Empire].
If you like drawling southern-influenced stuff you'll like Tim Fite, and if you like Tool, Rasputina, or Murder By Death you might like Tarantula A.D.
It's never too late... to say Thank You!, or I am sorry.
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Vidiot's Pastrami Goatse made me laugh. Thanks Vidiot. via
BoingBoing
mp3s from my blogathon Just a reminder that there are 20 previously unreleased music tracks from some great bands (including mefites Harvey Girls, Cortex, Fake, and Al_truist)--free!
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The Freeconomy has been very good to me this week. A co-worker is bequeathing me this cushy Ethan Allen couch. Sure, it's going to need a slipcover, but I'm so happy to hand the ol'futon sofa down the line to the next starving nonprofit artist.
What's the best freebie you've ever gotten?
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Paging sisterhavana: you know when I said "
damn, it's earleee"? Well, the draft date pickings are growing slim, so I take it back. Let's hop to some bunnyball.
Dear Chococat You, sir, write glorious earworms. Your songs "In the Rain" and "Light On" have been stuck in my head all weekend.
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Vegas Meetup - Sept 23 06 Good morning, sleepyheads. Just a gentle nudge to remind everyone.
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Insomnia Really Chafes - Long shot, but hey, it worked for essexjan.
30 July 2006
Garlic: really a bane to make-outs? I've got a date tomorrow --- going to a restaurant with great garlicky foods. Protocol, anyone?
Cute overload is down , so to tide you over here's
Humphrey, the downing street cat.
A whole bucketful. On a cake.
Just for you.
[NSFW]
Bunnies! OMG! Here's a little postcard from Wisconsin.
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Irc, anyone? →Read more...
Everybody, All The Time! (Your thoughts?)
Since no one else has posted them here, pictures from Friday's SF meetup:
1,
2,
3.
*my* daily dose of WTF I ran across this on YouTube and realized, holy crap, I know that guy!! (Well, he's one of my Flickr buddies, and lives up in Ontario.) This makes me laugh so much, and I love the song.
Meh. I had this great idea the other day, but then it went lost or something. Where do all the good ideas go? If they get eaten by a monster, then what is it (ie the monster) called?
CONGRATS to gaspode! For throwing an awesome housewarming party!
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I'm back, gentle bunnies! I think I love Canada. What'd I miss?
Bunny! OMG! Run, rabbit, run!
10 High Fat Fast Foods The Cinnabon Caramel PecanBon packs an astonishing 56 grams of fat. The McD's Deluxe Breakfast hits you with more than 60 grams of fat! But the BK Triple Whopper with Cheese is the "champ" with 82 grams of fat including 32 of saturated fat. Ewww!
Fuckin JRUN, man. It's down for everyone else, right?
29 July 2006
America... why I love her (recited by John Wayne) This was sent to me by my father in law. I'm not sure what to say...
Burgled Here’s the story of how my apartment got burgled last March…
Wikipedia notes The wikilawyers are out in force these days.
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Radio LT, featuring upbeat chimy rock until someone else says they want to play! →Read more...
Soul Heaven Radio Is on in Random mode until 7PM PST!!
It's been a while since we had a monster jonmc yousendit post, right? →Read more...
Yahhh! The Jews for Jesus are parading outside my window! I've already said what I think about proselytizers on mefi. What I was told in confirmation class was that Isaiah 7:14 was mistranslated from the Hebrew to the Greek--almah means "young woman" not "virgin". True Jews know that Rabbi Joshua existed, but we don't belieive he's the messiah.
Renter's insurance in NYC? Does anyone have want to recommend a company or an agent that can sell me renter's insurance in NYC?
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Tamiya RC Insect Kit A total self-link - pictures of a toy remote controlled robotic insect kit being built.
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Bumping this... Fire up your cameras!
The new Ok-Go video is fun to watch. So watch it.
(quicktime)
I'm *this* close to having a college degree in English-a biology class and two Spanish classes, to be exact.
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Revelations while moving These are the things I have discovered about myself and the world during my move this weekend.
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Paging Agropyron Just in case you hadn't already spotted this.
Is anyone coming to Moscow any time soon? →Read more...
Room for rent in Vermont Roommate a little crazy but sometimes goes to work and leaves MeFi window open, logged in as admin....
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Big Bunny Thanks →Read more...
Matteo created a monster And I just wanna shout out a
HUGE THANKS! See inside. :)
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Sardines I just got back from the SF meetup
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OCD KITTY! Stop me if this has been posted before.
28 July 2006
LT Plays With the Radio (Not as Good as, Say, A Numbered Vinyl Toy, But Still...) →Read more...
Dammit, I can't sleep. It's nearly 4am.
The kitty litter boxes were floating in the basement this a.m., LOL. That's right, I be flooded in Ohio. More inside, including an important AskMeCha question.
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Neglectful bunny resurfaces for carrots. Or something. Being that next week the city of Asheville will be flooded with bunnies, I poke my head up out of my cozy lil' hole to press my cold wet nose right into your sweaty armpit. Hello again, friends.
Archimedes... thoughts were inscribed on goatskin parchment, but the letters and diagrams were scraped off and written over...
using an intense x-ray beam... some of the original Greek text will be revealed for the first time in the modern world.
Live on August 4.
Guy finds out neighbors are using his WiFi network. Decides to mess with their heads. "Honey, why is the internet blurry?"
Pips is back home and resting on our couch and laughing at Dr, Phil (must be the drugs. She thanks you all for all your sweet well wishes. And of course we took
pictures of our travails over the past few days. There's a
former First Lady featured. I'm off to pick up her prescription and then I am going to
chill for a few days.
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I just got my eyes dilated. It's a little freaky.
Ask Mecha: How do you keep mosquitos away? I'm going on a camping trip to
northern Minnesota next week, and I hear the mosquitos there are fierce.
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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's...Jesus? (Spoiler alert!!) Now anytime i read the Bible, i'm just gonna see Jesus in blue tights and red pants!
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San Francisco Meet-Up Reminder. Tonight, Latin American Club, 7pm till late.
Senator Ted ("The Internet is a Series of Tubes") Stevens vs. Jon Stewart "Mocked by comedian Jon Stewart for calling
the Internet a bunch of tubes, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Stevens said on Thursday he is open to going on Stewart's popular 'Daily Show' for a rebuttal."
We've been waiting and hoping for this moment since 1970. Zippy the Pinhead re-interprets Jack Nicholson's scene in
Five Easy Pieces.
Imágenes con doble sentido: Pictures with a double sense, or two meanings. As ethylene would say,
dirty!
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Since you can choose, what would your drag name be?
hee. So I am bored at work and decide to idly google my summer intern. Look for any silly myspace pages or whatever. Turns out she's the sex columnist for her university paper. Hee. (what? so I'm 12). Any random things you feel like sharing?
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Simon Callow on Orson Welles: after a little more than a decade, the second volume of Callow's massive biography of Welles will finally be published in August. The first volume -
The Road to Xanadu- is my favorite book on the man, so I'm quite excited about this.
Anybody know anything about Trillian? Like, about why I'm doing everything Cerulean and Google tells me, but I still can't connect to Gtalk using the Jabber plugin?
If you could choose, what would you make your porn name? I'm Ophelia Bliss.
Primus - DMV. Because I'm furiously hating the DMV. I'm ready for the chimpanzee.
Abstractions, today's topic for photo friday
27 July 2006
How much would one expect to pay for the design of a very simple web site? Simple logo, clean professional look, simple links bar on the left. Quick and easy job. Web design is cheap, right?
Ask LT Anything! (L'amour Edition!) →Read more...
Lipstick Thespian Plays Radio Vinho Verde Until Further Notice... →Read more...
Adventures in medicine update. Pips began running a fever Thursday night.
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god bless portland So glad to be moving back. Anyone know of any apartments avaiable mid-august?
My new glasses are great but they are bruising my nose. →Read more...
Help me out - you know you want to!
Classic football (ok, soccer to just about everyone except me and Seanyboy)
How would I find out if photos of mine are currently in flickr Explore?
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This is not worth a front page post. →Read more...
B-Day Date Update →Read more...
Bump: Still looking for a freelancer in New York and Las Vegas.
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Send the Good Vibes West in 2 1/2/ Hours! →Read more...
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I just wrote a spec entitled "screw with decorative cap."
Yay, freelance! Just got offered a freelance writing gig, which sounds like tons of fun and not all that much effort. Yay!
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Ask MeCha: About twice a day, my computer shuts spontaneously shuts off.
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The night was damp, and the docks slick ... Episode II of your favorite hardboiled MetaChat drama. Jump right in.
AskMeCha: Me like the editor are they using in
this rails tutorial. What is it? Is something like it available for us WXP people?
Ask MeCha: Website shakedown cruise Can I trouble any bunnies with a few spare minutes to have a poke around my about-to-debut
Kyotown kyoto community website before I unleash it on the local yokels?
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AskMeCha - spider Can anyone identify
this critter?
Workout the Jams! What are your favorite workout jams?
Someone bring me Jobs' head on a stick, please. Arrgh. WTF is with Apple's spam filters? Every day I get tons of spam all with the same subjects and body copy. I click the spam filter button that's supposed to teach it and it never fucking learns. Just now, after a complaint of tardiness from someone, I check the spam folder and there's fucking legit email in it! From people in my address book! Answering an email I sent them!
Coming Up Soon! You asked for it, so here it is: notice that I'm doing another NYC cabaret thing on August 7th.
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Project Runway ... discussion for the addicted.
Tomorrow is Sysadmin Day. Get your admin something nice, or at least a little drunk.
Addio, del passato Violetta's aria from
La Traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi, libretto by
Francesco Maria Piave. Soprano: Tizana Fabbricini. Conducted by il maestro Riccardo Muti, La Scala, 1992. The cd is
here.
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Bump! Reminder for anyone who didn't see this - party, our place, Saturday 29th night. I know the first one I posted invited NYC MeChazens, but hey, if you *wanna* fly in from the south, the west coast, canada, greece... come on over! Email's in profile for details. Everyone invited.
Ask MeCha: Questions for Lebanese-UKians for Interview? I'm interviewing a few Lebanese locals today who are raising money for humanitarian aid and protesting with Stop the War Coalition. I'll post questions in here and everyone else is welcome to as well. Surgery update inside.
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MeFi is back up. It's probably more effective and more efficient at this point to just post when it's up rather than when it's down.
the Hoff mocks self it's an advert but funny
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Did we ever come up with a theme for Photo Friday this week?
26 July 2006
Can someone post a reminder about the SF meetup to MetaTalk? I've used up my one post for the week. Also, consider this a reminder for MeCha!
Doomed. But I want popcorn.
It's Radio Crazy!!! With side commentary in IRC... NOW.
Taco spice? (you have 30 minutes!) →Read more...
Mats is gonna move to PDX! Well, not for about a year, but I've been rolling it around in my mind for a few months now and it's finally gotten solidified enough that I feel it's OK to tell more people about it. My MeFi/Mecha social network down there is definitely going to help ease the transition, for sure!
Digg Labs visualizations --
Digg Stack shows diggs occuring in real time on up to 100 stories at once.
Digg Swarm draws a circle for stories as they're dugg.
Tell me about BBQs and Grills... →Read more...
Make (me) Money Fast! Won't you buy some porn from me?
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Greetings from Needle Park. This post otherwise titled as Non-Sequitur of the Day.
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Psst! Specklet!! hope your day's going better. if not, I found a
warm fuzzy for you.
I was in a kicking-puppies kind of mood yesterday, so I definitely relate. hope you liked the brownie :->
anyone else got a warm fuzzy for Speck? sounds like she's in need.
I'm of two minds about this. (But the predominant one says "boo hoo hoo, crybabies.")
AskMeCha: Does anybody know if there is such a thing as an extender cable for cheap headphones?
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Bunnyhead shoutout for Lipstick Thespian! →Read more...
WENDELLSDAY WADIO WETURNS with a THREE HOUR THEME MEGASET @ 9PM EST (6PM PST). The Theme? CRAZY-NESS, with Patsy Cline, Pink Floyd, the Tick, Superchicken, Prince, Nat King Cole, Crazy Drivers and Trains and Horses, Maniacs, Psychos, Excitable Boys, a Frontier Psychiatrist and way too many covers of Gnarls Barkley. Why? Because I'm Cra-a-azy!
Bumbershoot! Anyone planning to go?
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There have been many names... →Read more...
Hey, "get off" our island! I saw this earlier in the week and thought, nah, that can't be
our island.
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Lance Bass comes out --after he's reported at Provincetown with Reichen from Amazing Race.
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God DAMMIT! →Read more...
The angriest mad genius zinester ever has put some of his vintage content online (in PDF format, but what the hell)(some HTML extras
here). (not safe for work, the squeamish, or the politically correct).
Oof. Something sort of weird happened. →Read more...
Forgive me if this is out of order or a breach of MeCha etiquette ... →Read more...
Two survey questions to spice up a boring Wednesday:
1. What is your (one) favorite thing to do? It can be something you do often or something you've only done once.
2. What is the one thing you haven't done that you want most in this world to do?
If I get another filter-avoiding spam email pushing Goldmark Industries stock today, I swear I'm going to go f**cking postal. That is all.
God damnit why is metafilter down? I need my fix. Curses matt!
This post officially acknowledges that I now click MeCha before MeFi Yesterday I introduced my wife to Red Bull. Last night at 12:00 she introduced me to removing all the storage boxes and bags from the closets in our utility room to search for a kitchen floor mat. I found it at 1:30.
Today she went down to the convenience store to get another Red Bull. Lord MeCha bunny knows what she has for me tonight.
Slot A into Tab B Ok, if you were an evil scientist breeding mechas, what would the names of their kids be, given that they'd get 50% of their username from each parent?
25 July 2006
Radio Matildaben Random S Edition
Have a drink with me! All those anonymous alcoholic questions AskMefi make me thirsty. What are you drinking?
The Dove Foundation wholesome media survey Do you believe that offensive material in TV, Movies & the Internet is on the rise? Yes? No?
Take the survey! Show
The Dove Foundation that you want more tits/dicks/butts/bunnies on tee vee!
Radio Delay I got stuck at work. Radio will start in about an hour or so if no one else is on. Any other DJs, please feel free to hop on until about 8:15-8:30 Pacific time.
My Brain Is Mud anyone want to talk to me in the bunnies thing?
Public Service Announcement: →Read more...
Show us your biz card! So I'm redesigning my card and thought I'd ask for opinions here on MeCha--then I thought it would be neat to see the cards of others. Anyone else care to share? Mine's inside.
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Get your G(ranny)-String! Moderately NSFW pictures (butt cheeks.)
Radio Dibs Anyone mind if I do a radio set tonight at around 7 pm Pacific Time? (10 pm east coast time.) I'm up to the letter S so it might be pretty long.
My roommate is driving me crazy My roommate and I have been friends for 15 years. This is our second time sharing an apartment (the last time was 11 years ago). We get along well and have no problems sharing a space, etc.
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MetalFilter: Blind Guardian
promo tracks.
Can I please get a mazel tov one time... →Read more...
Who thinks we need some sort of private
Waste hub/network thingie?
Buckley gets adopted after
nine years at the pet shelter. Made me tear up a little...
Asheville down-time activities? Presumably we won't be "doing" something during every moment in Asheville. Should I bring my poker chips? Any other games and/or activities attendees should bring? How about other things, like alcohol and snacks and whatnot? I can feel my trunk shrinking the more I think about this.
THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD! →Read more...
Open Book sounds really good (also mentioned
here, via Bookslut), but we can't pick up the CBC reliably. Anyone seen it torrented anywhere?
What's with the head-butting? First it was Zinedine Zidane in the World Cup final, now a jockey follows suit and
headbutts his horse.
It occured to me today that Deep Thought lied about the answer to "life, the Universe,
everything".
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Public Apology →Read more...
All those hours drinking in a smoky bar has finally paid off. →Read more...
Asterix PDFs While maybe a little too dodgy for a MeFi FPP, this is a link to every(?) Asterix book in PDF form, which will keep me from having to run to the library to see whether the bard is Cacofonix or Malacoustix (he's both, depending on the book!)
ARG ! My workplace has blocked gmail chat!
Books with titles which are also metachat usernames, No.s 1-3 T.A.Z.;
Ethylene; and
Matilda Ben (I saw the last of these mentioned in a Swedish newspaper yesterday).
You already know about wulffmorgenthaler, right?
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I need to be alone right now.... →Read more...
Late Night Radio LT-itude - Because it's Still Too Hot To Not! →Read more...
24 July 2006
help! Would somebody be uber-cool and post a question to AskMe for me? It's nothing illegal or embarrasing, I posted less than 7 days ago and need to ask this tonight.
I FINALLY have internet in my home! So join me in IRC to celebrate!
You should read this book because it is
totally rad.
The Juggling Geniuses -- "...video clips of the brother and sister team,
Vova and Olga Galchenko, as they grow up juggling together."
Impressive!
BTW -- Vova and Olga will be featured on The Today Show on NBC this Wednesday, July 26th.
handy little software thingy? →Read more...
holy CRAP please turn off the rain already!! →Read more...
My Mecha Dream In my dream last night, Pips and jonmc were on the cover of Rolling Stone...
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Upcoming.org entry for this Friday's SF meetup. If you RSVP ahead of time, I'll take extra pictures of you. Maybe.
I am eating Fris' sausage. It's next to Mrs. Pants' Tupperware.
Afternoon tunes on BP Radio! Some music to jam to while I get our kitchen under control. Starting now!
I have a bun(ny) in the oven. Which one of you f-ers knocked me up?
The Stephen Colbert On Notice Board Generator! I could have way too much fun with this. Now I'm waiting for the "Dead To Me" board generator. : )
Eeny Meeny Miney Mo... Catch a doctor by the toe... →Read more...
Really stupid question. I know you can get a wireless thingie that lets you extend your regular ethernet without using a wireless router. I just can't google because all I get are results for wifi.
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Safetyfork & Occhiblu, Happy Birthday to you BOTH! Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear safetyfork and occhiblu too, happy birthday to the both of you!!!
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Turns out humanity's not that bad after all. Because I know some of you are interested, here's an update to the
story of my friend's attack.
Know of a good place to get film online? With free shipping and handling - that's the dealbreaker. I don't want to pay 2.99 for a roll of film and then pay 7.99 to have it sent to me. I'm looking for 120 film specifically. Any recommendations?
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Ladies & Gentlebunnies, for his 37th boitday, will you give it up for Venezuela's gift to the world, the Godfather of Cool, the funkiest man at DumbCo and the hardest working man in MeCha business- Mista JOE FAMOUS!
This tea does what, exactly? I took this picture today in my local asian grocery store.
Monday Morning Radio: Crash & Burn A little music to start your work week. Kicking off at 9 AM EST (in about 10 minutes).
Find That Movie Poster: I watched Kino's restoration of
Die Nibelungen this weekend and I love the
cover-art but can't find out who the artist was or where I can get a print, or at least a desktop quality image of this. It is probably from the original release of 1924... Any advice?
Truly, the finest AskMe I've seen and a question for the ages. How, indeed?
I suppose it'd be gauche to fave that.
23 July 2006
Drowning • Picked up by the wire services. My mom and her husband live in this tiny Kansas City community. It's one of those middle-class, built-around-a-lake enclaves where everyone knows each other and there are regular "events" and such.
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pretty please For this chrismukkah, I would like some invites to bittorrent trackers that carry (mainly) offbeat, indie or non-mainstream movies.
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Robert & Shannon: a tale of a burning love and a chilly hotel room Gather around the monitor, MetaChatters, I feel a story telling mood coming on…
AAAGGH! THE HORROR! Gotta sort thru' piles of papers that just might total 5' tall to find my tax forms and FAFSA, and I have pretty much a phobia of papers and sorting them. I'm a mess, like where I live. Any tips? God hope me! Miles to go before I sleep...
Get sucked here. We went to this place on Saturday night and had the most excellent time. It has been a long time since I really cut loose and laughed, so I was long overdue.
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Irrationally Radical Climate! (come douse LT with something of your own devising!)
A Romantic Weekend! Mr. V and I went to Caesars Cove Haven in Pennsylvania, on Lake Wallenpaupack, for the weekend.
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Hitler Pop We've already seen the travesty that is
Hitler Cats, but I guess I never considered just How. Much. Nazi and Hitler imagery is repeated endlessly in art and on the web for comical, shock, emotional, artistic, or genuinely ideological effect. This (Russian?) blog appears to collect many of these images.
Bleep Bleep Bleep Bleep Bleep Bleep Bleep Bleep Bleep Bleep
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Lipstick Thespian Is Melting into A Small, Radio-Mecha Shaped Stain →Read more...
Dear Kevin Smith: I just saw Clerks II.
And I can now forgive you for Jersey Girl.
That is all.
22 July 2006
≡Radio CARE package≡ A friend just sent me a DVD of mp3s, so I share an assortment with you, picked somewhat at random.
The Amboy Dukes →Read more...
Geologists? Geographers? Earth Science Majors? Who studies ground water table levels and summer vs. winter precipitation?
a response to the dancing all over the world guy
video--it turns out there are a whole bunch of them : >
Is YIM fux0red? it won't let me log in!
The story of Jenny, the Cornish cow →Read more...
Its Soooooo Hot That.... →Read more...
NYC Mechas You're invited to a party!
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Funny how things turn out →Read more...
OMG! Tennis bird! I wonder what they're talking about...?
Portland Hotels? →Read more...
Cole Porter! for about 30 minute or so. :p
OMG! Pi just had a really scary close call! Four gutterpunks vs one scared pi
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OMG bunny pepper mill My partner's sister gave us
this pepper mill with the innocent remark, "It reminds me of a bunny rabbit head."
21 July 2006
Paging I Love Tacos. Or is he still banned from MeFi?
I got in! After a crappy awful couple of weeks, I just found out that I was accepted into grad school, and therefore I must tell everyone! Especially you people who have been so nice and supportive lately! Yay, me! Yay, you! YAY!
iconomy is a mad
genius. It would never have occurred to me to shoot photos
through dish soap, among
other things, but you can damn well bet I'm going to try some "homebrewed filters" soon.
Lucky 13, bunnies! Music to
screw PepsiBlue to!
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Today's high? 118 degrees. Holy. Crap.
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Ok, bunnies, I'm in serious need of good mojo/vibes/luck →Read more...
Reassure Me! So...I just backed into a coworker's truck in the parking lot. There's a dent about 3"x1.5"...
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I went out on a date with this girl, and I offered to pay for dinner. She never called me back about a second date, so how do I get her to give me $50 toward her share of the dinner's cost? Should I
issue her a summons to appear in court, or should I just report her to her employer?
NoScruf -- 'National Organization of Social Crusaders Repulsed by Unshaven Faces.'
"Let's end the trend of prickly, scratchy, stubbly faces. We're not going to shave until men do."
Don't worry, Turtle Cat is in control!
Don't forget Sci-Fi Friday! →Read more...
Queens in the Stone Age Frustration mounts as I go for a fifth day without electricity or hot water. I really just want some hot water.
OMG! KITTIES! (flash 8 movie)-- My boss is kitty-sitting for the weekend, and these are her charges.
DAMNIT! HAPPY BDAY KELLYDAMNIT!
this Felix deserves its own post. but i'll post more and thank you all for your advice yesterday. and i'll ask you if you've heard of the
Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, which is "a non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to challenging [
and rating] the tired orthodoxies of both the right and the left" (!??)
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Anyone interested in starting a book exchange? I just finished this book, and even though Superman's not my favorite comic hero, found it really interesting to see him represented as a depression-era reluctant hero. Any takers?
I'm about to start reading Gödel, Escher, Bach. Is there anything I should do to prepare? Should I keep paper and pencil handy at all times? Are there any resources/footnotes/annotations/cliff's notes I should keep handy (or bookmarked)?
Ask MeCha: Is OBL an iconic figure for many in Indonesia?
Help finding a track from Connie Francis. Hey everyone. I've been trying to track down this version of "In the pines" that Connie Francis did - - also known as "Where did you sleep last night".
Her version is called "True love, True Love". If anyone could find it and post it I'd be forever gratefully grateful.
It appeared on
this compilation and
this vinyl.
Lottery List? What would
you do if you won a lottery? I am talking about a sizable win, but not so much as to make you a god or anything.
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Ted Stevens was right? "Commerce Committee staff director Lisa Sutherland said in a statement that Stevens has a deep understanding of the technical, legal and economic aspects of new technology." Massive, tangled-up tubes!
Adventures in medicine. Those of you who have been following the Jon & Pips show are probably aware that she's been suffering some really bad abdominal pains over the last week or so.
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I WANT MY POWER BACK! Thank you. (or, OMG!!! No Bunnies!)
Radio LT On Now until the wee hours for those inclined to bleep, rock, what-have-you
Who wants to be photographed by dashiv? party. San Francisco meet-up. Next week. Cuz I'm turning old, and I need back-up. Dates?
20 July 2006
OMG!!! CRUSADER RABBIT!!! If you didn't know, a VERY historical bunny. (thank you,
milovoo!)
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Ask MeCha - Etiquette help... What to do when someone sends you too many forwards?
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Radio Mecha - Music Box: Suggestions Encouraged I'm playing I-don't-know-what--songs whose titles mention insects, right now. If you've got a better idea, hit me up here or in #bunnies.
Posting Question about Hot Swan Sex. →Read more...
OMG! Cow on a guy's back! Totally SFW, if a bit... odd.
Well, we fucked up. →Read more...
So, I Heard Some Stuff, But What Do You Know? →Read more...
Decoding job listings: What does "administrative analysis" mean? Or do? Or require?
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Our Album Cover Model... ...Darla Jean is now featured in the men's mag MAXIM as a "hometown hottie" . LMAO! Nice! [nswf, but you should know that]
IrrationalAnnoyanceFilter: here's my stupid irrational annoyance of the day: oh-so-cutesy current vogue names such as 'Kelsey' 'Madison' or 'Bailey'. For girls? Ick.
bonus irrational annoyance of the day: my colleague and her rattly-ass seemingly endless bag of potato chips.
*krinkle... krinkle... snorf... munch... munch... smack... krunch... krinkle... krinkle... *
aaaaarrrgh!!!!
Has anyone ever looked closely at the Toastmasters' Logo?
Don't forget about Photo Friday, or is it Foto Friday? Or maybe it's Foto Phriday? Just don't forget. The theme this week is to post your most un/underappreciated photographs. If they get no love, post them.
Beware the Berekely paintball sniper. Don't miss the police seargent's quote at the beginning of the second paragraph.
What new thing did you learn today? I learnt why they say
STAT! in medical dramas.
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AskMecha: testing javascript in IE? →Read more...
OMG Joux-Plane! Epic! Heroic! Now, is Saturday going to be awesome or what? I know some of you know what I'm talking about.
How's my ad? Would you respond to an ad like this? And what should I look out for when it comes to responses?
Welcome To My Tron Blog. "This Electrifying Novel Shows The World of Computer Gaming From The INSIDE- Where Real People Become Electronic Pawns In A World They Do Not Understand."
If you came with "Proper Care & Feeding" instructions, what would they be?
AskMecha So I'm DJ:ing today between
4-8 pm in Malmö at amore's "bitch after beach" and want you guys to come..so how do I capture&stream video?
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When my motherboard says it supports RAID 0/1... →Read more...
19 July 2006
I can't believe it... Found this on the Web...this was posted to youtube by my son's best friend-he's the first guy in the video-about a minute or so into it my son is there with him-kid in the blue shirt-and then you get to see both of them-
This had to be several years ago. I remember them in the front yard doing this for hours.
Here's where I live. It hardly ever rains here, but the monsoon season is in full swing and Tucson is beautiful at dusk. I thought I'd share.
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Inside, Rollups, Carnage! (come talk to me for awhile before I leave again!)
Amy Sedaris pastry pouch It’s a coin purse or your new fave sunglass case. Or you can fill it with lentils, stick in the freezer & then take out to sooth black ‘n blues. With embroidered note from Amy. A portion of proceeds go to the House Rabbit Society.
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The Life and Death of the Deadliest Man Alive How a south-side Irish boy came to be Chicago’s most notorious martial-arts master
What can you do? Don't think about what you can't do. Think about what you can. Then post it. More points for the pointless.
Silly/outrageous things I have done while drunk Let's see you top this...
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OMG Bunny! This foolish young bunny let me get about 12 feet away from him.
What's the biggest thing you have ever bought online? I just bought tires for our van. It was actually scary, because I'm so used to the tire store rituals, i.e. getting ripped off, and I know nothing about tires.
The site was recommended by Kevin Kelly at cool tools. So the whole loop never left the internet. I think I am approaching the singularity here.
Whew! For a second there I thought MeCha was gone.
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Mercury nominees-- a motley crew, no?
(Guillemots are ok tho)
Say it ain't so. Viacom is maybe looking to purchase
The Onion.
Southbound Asheville carpool thread! So, as far as I know it's Dano and myself coming from Baltimore/DC and Mike and Rainbaby from Richmond, right? Anyone coming from further north? Do we want to meet in Richmond and consolidate? When are we leaving? Coming back? So many questions!
PulseWave: Chiptunes in NYC! 8-bit music represent! A self-link (I'm virt of Priestcave), but promised to
music.mefi lovers everywhere!
If you can get yourself to Tribeca the Saturday after next (the 29th), you're in for a geek treat - we write and perform with Game Boys, Nintendos, and TurboGrafx16s. (More inside)
Throw some random pictures in here. That's what I'm doing.
We've conquered space. We've split the atom. Why the hell can't we invent a vending machine that will take just any dollar bill? This seems to be engineering's last great problem.
B-Day Date Update? As the selection process gets tighter, I've narrowed my options down to three prospects:
- One is a semi-famous actress I met through a friend of mine two weeks ago.
- One is a "Tank Girl" punk cutie who loves baseball cards and rocks purple mowhawk.
- And the last is a friend of mine I've known for so many years. Almost too many.
Who should I go with?
Or should I just forget it and check my male ego at the door?
Three point update. →Read more...
I LOVE 'Drawn! The Illustration Blog'. Just sayin'. Who's the Mefite involved? He seems cool too.
The Wimpiest Musicians of All Time They shouldn't really say "of all time." Brahms isn't on here and I heard he was a total baby.
The beige sedan of eternal damnation. →Read more...
Today's morning sky not the most fabulous photo in the world but there were some cool clouds up there this morning. I didn't touch it in photoshop.
(7/19/06) Happiness is... (Personally, I like the rain.)
Ralph Reed misses Diebold payment, has electoral service
cut off.
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Manly attire A sampling of the various "looks" you can achieve with the fine clothing available at Grand-Back Big & Tall stores in Japan.
Weep for me.
Wait, how come I can post this, but not my "deprecated" post? Was the other post unworthy?
Psst! Want a desktop image? I made two recently:
albumleaf (something figurative, from
a photo of Meg Tilly - don't you love her?), and
Peacock Slaughter (something abstract and slightly gooey). 1024 x 768.
Well shit, if no one else is going to post here, I am. →Read more...
Please do not come to IRC right now. Agropyron and I are having an intense conversation. You need not interrupt.
18 July 2006
Ask MeCha: Computer advice Okay, so my computer is borked, fucked, Hal 2000ed, este computador no sirve. I need a laptop.
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Mike mine Marvel's "Ultimates" and now "Civil War" are probably the most directly political comics I've read in a long time. Erosion of civil liberties, jingoism, chauvinism, xenophobia, it's all in there.
Somebody's stepping up to the bat, and this time it wasn't musicians.
There's hope for mainstream comics yet.
Ouch. This is a sad story, but the accompanying picture is even sadder.
wtf? there is WRESTLING on the sci-fi channel
Ralph loses his big bet. God may love him, but gambling got him. Playing at the Indian casino keeps Ralphie-boy out of the Big Teepee in Atlanta.
woah. (via
MeFi, of course)
Invisible Relay Characters (no one's in IRC tonight? Should I bail as well?)
EconoSize Ask Mecha Family Pack ...a two part question. 1)I'm thinking about going to Iceland, Britain and Ireland in December/January. Is it going to be so utterly cold that I'll go nuts, or might it be an awesome time to go? and 2) Anyone know how to save iTunes videos on a Windows XP system (seems there's stuff out there for Mac users). As always, much love and respect in advance.
Whoever is listening to the radio atm, mucho gracias. Zack, I'm compiling some stuff for you soon. i didnt forget.
WuTangF? Seventies kung-fu flick is the inspiration for
Wu-Tang clan, somehow ends up as
real sport.
(via one.point.zero)
Thank you, anon bunny! I got a birthday surprise in the mail today... a copy of The Stranger and Heart of Darkness off my amazon wish list!
And I have your real name from the invoice, but can't match it to an online name!
But thank you thank you thank you! I haven't read Heart of Darkness since I went through my Orson Welles phase in high school (what? doesn't everyone go through that?), and The Stranger is one that I've been meaning to read forever!
I can't wait to get started!!
Big Brother 7 -- All Stars -- I know there's a few other people here who watch it. Initial thoughts?
Please help me find a product or solution to my wiring woes.
I have a lot of wires, boxes of them not in use, and tangles of them in use behind my home theater system, my bedside, my desk, my PC, in the hallway, you name it. Where there is power to be found, there are cables.
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Table Cat is watching →Read more...
"Perhaps you would like me to wash your dick for you ... you little shit." JT, of jeremy's special blog, finally decodes the Bush-Blair "special relationship." (Scroll down to 'graph labeled #2.)
Someone Op Me! →Read more...
It is a Mystery Can someone post that "It is a Mystery" gif with the ghost? I need it here at work.
Mythlandia is a 4x8 foot zoomable map depicting myths, fairy tales and other stories. How many can you name?
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Project Runway! I know there's a few other people here who watch it. Initial thoughts? Did Keith deserve to win last week? Who do you love and hate? (besides loving Tim of course).
This is a cheerleading thread. →Read more...
I need a date... →Read more...
Piggybacking on Shane's Peanut's post I think we can all see ourselves in one of the Peanuts characters.
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The good*, the bad** and the ugly*** →Read more...
1986 World Series Game Six Re-Enacted in RBI Baseball. "The perfect storm of obsession, geekdom, and baseball. Brilliant."
Ask Mecha: Writing Samples I have two job interviews tomorrow and one requires a writing sample. It is for a community organizer position for an environmental non-profit. What should I give them?
Jobfilter: NY, LA, SF and LV freelance-writerly bunnies, please step inside....
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Bulk Vanderhuge! Buff Drinklot! Stump Beefknob! Never fails to get me laughing.
Open it in a couple of different tabs simultaneously, too.
What the? This may be the strangest AskMe question I've ever read.
If you could eat anything right this minute what would it be? You could include recipies if you wanted to...
Q about Apple Education discount: are the student and teacher discounts different or the same? If diff, which is better? Thank you muchly.
If only all escalations of aggression
looked like this.
17 July 2006
Mother Nature is cool. →Read more...
A compulsive, exhaustive chronicle of pips's birthday weekend. Starting
here and ending
here. Featuring
shoutouts galore,
drunken Jerseyites,
pork roll,
drunken action figures and
ridiculously large seafood. Despite
this sign, NO jonmc nudity, guaranteed.
Yes, I'm compulsive, deal.
My wtf of the evening So me and the mr. are sitting watching some of
Velvet Goldmine that tivo decided to tape for us.
Satellite of Love comes on, and I start singing along, and mr. gaspode is all like "is this a real song?" And I just stare at him.
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Love Yourself, Love Your DJ: LT Spins Music to Soothe Your Inner Poutine →Read more...
I Really Can't (be the only one in IRC tonight! Come see me!)
Lucy: *HUGS!!* ... Snoopy: "WTF!?!" A role-reversal for the unlikely, always-at-odds duo, found in my basement on the musty, moldy cover of
Happiness is a Warm Puppy...
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Any crime story that incorporates the words "suspicious bulge" and "underwear" is an automatic gem.
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The Link to Doggles reminded me of "Life After God" by Douglas Coupland. It's one of my favourite books.
Here's an amazon "look inside" link. I think everyone should read it. But then, as I said before, it's one of my favourite books.
I love, love, love American Science & Surplus. Need to buy a thing? Or stuff? They probably have it.
Kaaterskill Falls. I spent this past weekend camping in the Kaaterskill/North Mountain Forest Area, between Palenville and Haines Falls in Greene County, upstate New York.
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The US is starting to evacuate American citizens from Lebanon via airplane and cruise ship.
One of the Americans stuck in Beirut is
Anthony Bourdain.
OMG Anachronism! This made me laugh.
She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
Askmecha: Non flash, non java word games on the web? Sometimes I lurk on
babble but I would like something more competitive, and finishable. Like wordracer on yahoo.
This just cracks me up. I honestly can't say it without giggling.
So. What about the kitties?
OMG Bug eyes! One of the best macros I've seen yet. So clear.
Bunny! OMG! What a velvety coat he has.
Not available in soft-serve form. Next up -- Cialis ice cream. It tastes the same but stays hard all weekend.
It's a boy. My upcoming grandchild is due the first week of January, the ultrasound pic is already on my fridge, and the second round of ultrasound has revealed that the bunny-to-be is a boy.
Twisted words of wisdom? This past week sucked, and it doesn't look like it's going to let up any time soon, and if one more person chirps "Oh, you'll be fine!" at me before immediately changing the subject, I'm going to scream. I know you can do better than that -- cheer me up, people (or at least give me some better wallowing material).
Awesome thread alert. "Be yourself"? "Know thyself"? How can one accomplish these things? What is your "self"?
fenriq! How much was there?
Wholesome wear Because it's so warm here in the northeast, I'm thinking about getting some new swimwear...
No Sleep 'Til.... for the Brooklynites.
For Specklet I can do some drawings too! (okay, I think you are more talented though...)
A reminder about this week's Photo Friday theme as suggested by danf - post what you feel is/are your most underappreciated photo/s.
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It HOT in NYC! "How hot is it?!" So hot that I am wearing shorts and NO FLANEL! I did spill some coffee on my shorts but they're khaki cargo shorts, so they seem to be drying unobtrusively.
Oh, poo. I have to have surgery and it's the one that keeps me in hospital for 3 days and out of work for a month!
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Concerts I missed this year... Dammit. I missed
The Brand New Heavies at HOB in Chicago! They have N'Dea back and sound incredible.
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Radio LT on for a short while while he downshifts from the end of his show.... →Read more...
16 July 2006
Don't even talk to me about DSL Between Sprint/Embarq screwing up my dsl and my computer messing up as soon as they finally fixed it I have been without internet for two stinking weeks.
My cat died tonight. →Read more...
Radio Mecha - Music Box: Word Association I'm playing songs with words in their titles. Well, y'know, particular words. First is 'dream.' I'd be happy to take suggestions. Please listen, if you're so inclined.
It's Sunday and I'm at work. This really sucks because my mom and brother are in from out of town, and instead of playing with them, I'm drafting.
Please send quickly-finish-the-work thoughts.
Gold Bond lotion: Smells good? Or smells mediciney/bad? I vote good, but I know at least one who votes bad. Am I at risk of being thought of as funny-smelling?
Hippie Sundae! I have nothing of value to add. I'll just let myself out.
Happy Sunday/OMG Bunny! What a Wonderful Day! (Real Video required - scroll down for other animated goodness)
Happy Sunday also-- need a smile? (amazing and sweet youtube)
Happy Sunday! We're going on a
train ride from the redwoods down to the beach and then back into the trees.
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I'm off to the cottage for a week. Try not to have too much fun without me. Also, please do not rob my apartment.
Bunny! Cilantro! OMG! Just look at that grin! He's lovin' it!
Notably missing from list: Adolf Schicklgruber. : Even more than I want to be in the room for the transformation from "Jerry Dorsey" to "Englebert Humperdink" (not on list, sadly), I want to know how you got "Cary Grant" from "Archibald Leach."
I Really Crave chat. IRC people! Certainly, there are other Saturday shutins up and about?
BP Radio A short, late-night set.
15 July 2006
I'm a big boy. I can colour inside the lines. The nonist presents
The Old Testament Activity Book!
Drunken Downloading A Night Out Drinking with Friends - wonderful.
Getting Home Safely - priceless.
Enchanted by the Spell of iTunes - expensive.
What did you/would you add to your digital music collection?
Billy's Balloon Inspired by Zack_Replica's link to so much (Canadian) animation goodness, I thought I'd share one of my favorite animated shorts ever. The subtle animated expressions, and the impeccable sense of comic timing, are brilliant in this.
The National Film Board of Canada | Office national du film du Canada has put 50 animated shorts online!
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Crazy rabbit Don't get too close....
also, hi!
Weird music video with slow-motion, flying dogs. The song is called "Birds" by the band
Vitalic.
Video made by
Pleix, a virtual community of digital artists based in Paris. (lots of other videos on the Pleix homepage) (
direct download) (
youtube)
Please be my virtual boyfriend and help me get my DVD player working I can't get my TV to go into DVD mode. The DVD seems to be playing, but there's no picture. Please help me.
Shortish (maybe) set on radio UWS Depends how much vodka i drink.
New slang term: Going MeFi on someone - for when you reflexively reply to an argument on a tamer discussion board with the kind of sharp, bloody and devastating rhetoric you honed on the MeFi battleground.
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Damn, this is sad. →Read more...
Does flickr make your photos blurry sometimes? →Read more...
Orange Swan's current nest My apartment is up for sale, and my realtor took a bunch of photos of it for use in the MLS listing.
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We opened for Soul Asylum last night. Here's some pics Got to meet most of them. They were super great guys. Michael Bland (Prince's former drummer) is on this tour with them and he has a
great little web site too.
Super Serif Bros. is a
Loderunner-meets-
Hapland-meets-
Nethack kind of game written in Javascript. If you think it's too easy to beat, you can also make your own damn levels.
Radio Things All songs with "Thing" in the title. Short set, as I overslept and have to get ready for work.
Newsfilter: Oh, SNAP! (read through the fourth paragraph)
National Guardsmen Return from Iraq photos by
Eugene Richards (WARNING: two images are quite graphic)
So I've been begging bands to donate mp3s... and a few of them have donated AAC files, which I think are the iTMS DRM'd format. Those that have have said it would be fine for me to convert them to mp3. Some questions inside.
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AskMeCha: Drying herbs →Read more...
Okay, this one is going to go... But which would you choose for yourself (adjust gender as necessary), and why?
I know my answer, but I don't want to tell yet...
Your dreamy scent makes me happy when skies are grey, surer than heavenly cheesecake. I would host your disease for a crack at that.
Millions of Random Pick-up Lines.
14 July 2006
BP Radio on now... late night rawk.
This is a longboat thread.
The dark side of Wikipedia. →Read more...
You are standing on the outskirts of a village... →Read more...
What does one wear to an art show opening? →Read more...
UWS and some dirty techno (premixes) LT, give me a shout if you want in cos i have no idea what the time is.
Your Daily WTF? I've long been a fan of
Engrish. Though of course I recognize that anybody's Engrish is wayyy better than my Japanese / Mandarin / Korean / Thai / Laotian and so on, it's still fun to see language get warped. Yesterday I was browsing in an Asian imports store and discovered this:
Peace, Mecha Babies! →Read more...
Inferno d'chewy So yeah, the backend code guy I was counting on to finish an online registration thing for launch tomorrow hasn't done a damn thing and is in London on his way to Spain.
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Romford I love this place.
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The tubes are boring me I've read everything on the internets, which means I need some new sites recommendations to add to my "daily reads."
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We're trying to remember the name of a service Around in the dot com era, it was an online service where you could order anything online, and they'd deliver it in NYC. Doesn't exist anymore, sadly. Anyone remember what it was called?
Happy Bastille Day! May your day be free of storming and full of good gooey cheese.
I'm leaving you all for the weekend. I'm going to Minneapolis. Will you miss me?
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What should I do with a free iMac? →Read more...
I love this site - the art of Serge Seidlitz. The colors and the drawings are so appealing. Some of the drawings are probably not safe for work. Like, there's penises and stuff.
Ok, Medium Large is messing with my head. This formerly innocuous web comic is trying to melt my mind.
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This IS a love thread! So make it kickass, okay? →Read more...
Hello. You're pretty. *puts on a tutu*
*runs around, bumps noses with everybody*
*runs away, laughing*
This is not a love thread!
Three Point Status Report I think I will go to the Art Bar for lunch and have mezes! this is feta, olives, hummus, salad and salami. YUM!
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From Abbott and Costello, to Catherine Zeta-Jones... Celebrities with Phones: an alphabetical database of images.
LOL! Thanks to the recently discovered
Pure Pwnage, I've started saying "LOL" in
RL. It's my new memetic curse. I can't help it. And I love it. Please
hope help me. Of course, it doesn't help that I have
Uber Micro...
LOL! Not!
Photo Friday 14 July '06: Things That Grow
13 July 2006
New DaShiv photos! Marin County Fair (JFJ!) from the July 4th weekend.
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House of Dominoes - a domino line made out of household items. youtube.
Intensely Raunchy Come-Hitherness!
Getting rid of your cell phone. The next big thing?
Viral email solves the Zidane headbutt mystery. Apparently, everyone simply saw what they wanted to see.
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The Beach is Nuthin but the Bird's Bathroom! Something triggered my memory of the old Surf Punk's song "Bird Bathroom" and now I desperately want to hear their album "My Beach" Any chance someone can help a poor turtle out?
She's looking for action... and there it is, the (mellow) music is blaring (quietly) and it's a
SLEEP-MOSH-PIT!
This thread wants to complain about the medical establishment.
Elizard's Awesome! That is all.
Is the Chicken Dead or
alive?
Scio, OR -- I heard this on Oregon Public Broadcasting this morning, about Big Red, the town rooster, who was attacked by a dog. But news reports are conflicting.
The news report said that the folks in the town would celebrate Big Red's life with a potluck.
OHHH. . .the "alive" story is archived from January.
here is some kid's LJ about it.
He's dead. Little doubt about it now. Dog finished the job, apparently.
Thanks for bearing with me. Sorry to get your hopes up.
Wanna be in my punk rock band? →Read more...
I have bubbles, and atomic fireballs... it's a good day. →Read more...
Hope is the opposite of hate; greed is the opposite of love.
One side effect of facial hair that I'd forgotten: whatever you eat, you get to taste for the rest of the day. Mmmm, bar-b-q 'tater chips.
Whenever I see this flickr group in the list of groups that someone's sent their photos to, for a nanosecond I think it says
'Look at my penis! (5 per day)'
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Rainy/Thundery Weekday Evening in DC And we need things to do other than eat, sleep and <censored>. Suggestions?
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So my dad has prostate cancer. Or, more accurately, 5% of the cells in the tissue removed in his recent prostate surgery were "abnormal".
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The Champ Went Gunning for the Man Who Stole His Water! →Read more...
What exactly is a crush... →Read more...
My comment in this thread made me curious. What would you do (realistically) to your co-workers to get their goat?
"Ken Lay was neither black nor poor, as James Byrd was, but I'm angry because Ken was the victim of a lynching," said Lawson.
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Helloooooooooooooo nurse!!! I loved this show when it was on, and sadly it doesn't seem to be in syndication anymore. I've been dying to share it with my daughter because she really likes
the movie, so I'm pretty jazzed for July 25.
Yes, for her. I'm excited for her.
Hobbette: tales of a mad co-worker There's an extremely annoying woman working at my company. I thought you might enjoy some stories about her....
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OMG Flickr Pro! Someone bought me a Flickr Pro account!
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May the sun pour rays of glistening golden upon your back, and may birds in formation litter the skies above (none of which shall be pooping on you)...
Ask Mecha: Wrestling Pics I need non-sex associated but nevertheless outrageous pics or drawrings of wrestlers or things wrasslin'. Help?
Great pet naming site. Vote on what type of animal a pet name fits. Search by animal type. Search by meanings, letter combinations, or national origins.
Life is hard for tomboys. →Read more...
My Dream About Hugh Janus I went to visit Mr. Janus in my dream last night.
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Puking and crying →Read more...
Stinkin' rich. 70-year-old Violeta de Carvalho Martinez is likely to face charges of endangering public health for filling her mansion in Sao Paulo with garbage.
Attention: NYC MeChans! This was in a show biz newsletter today. Really.
"Casting Call: Are you a NYC area resident who is having a major or a minor conflict with a co-worker, sibling, boyfriend or girlfriend? Then this new primetime reality show produced by celebrity comics show
[sic] is looking for you!
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12 July 2006
I thought this image was a weird one to illustrate the "spiritual 'shrooms" new story.
Article here
I love the internet. Pips was visiting her mom today and took the wrong exit off the bridge. She called me on her cell and reported where she was (way the fuck out in Bayside), but I calmly mapquested directions for her and she's on her way. It's a brave new world. I need to get her home since she's got double-bacon-chili-cheeseburgers from
this joint for me. and cos I love her and stuff.
I was walking down the steps on the parking deck at work when I
saw it...
Sci-Fi Friday →Read more...
OMG mouse on frog! All together... aww!
Happy birthday, sveskemus! Hope you're having a good one! A quarter century according to the wiki.
This is how I feel and my day's not half-over. *whimper*
Tom Waits in Chicago. Tickets will be painfully expensive. I'm interested. Midwest MeChas?
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Lansing-Dreiden? →Read more...
Hey ! How come no more Dumbco Updates?
Weeny War An amusing story about two sisters and a hot dog.
For years, among Springsteen fans, the song "Meeting Across The River" has become something of a parlor game, in terms of speculation about what happens to the protagonists next. Well, some authors have taken it a
step further. I gots to get me this.
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PhotoFriday theme comin' up fast: "Stuff That Grows" for this Friday, 7/14.
...You can tell just how important this cloth is because when you compare it to people, it gets much better treatment. ...
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Stuff You Are Amazed by In Dreams? →Read more...
Got back to NYC at 12:30 last night, promptly broke my key and hadda call a locksmith,
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Shane Asks: "Did you get my e-mail on this Friday's Foto theme?" And I say - wuh? what? what is it? I've been wondering what the friday foto theme is, and now discover that some people know and they're emailing each other. Can someone help me out and tell me what it is. (hops on one leg; shows Lodge ring to other bunnies)
I really wanna sell some t-shirts and stickers on the 'Net. CafePress or my own site?
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5 Things You Never Realized Were Cool Until You Tried/Did/Ate It →Read more...
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Running of the Squirrels [QT] and
Cat Herding [GV]
These are really old, but I rewatched 'em today.
OMGOMGOMG NINJA BUNNIES (with an old panda woofu master vs. an evil cockroach wizard, coming soon to Toon Disney/Jetix)
And to promote the show, the writers and animators are doing a live-action Survivor-ripoff called
RabbitTakeover.com.
"These are not fluffy bunnies!" But they're still cu-u-u-ute (in a stylized animated way)...
sorry I accidentally lurked in #bunnies! I went there and it was very quiet and then I forgot to log out.
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11 July 2006
Consuming Massive Quantities of Grated Parmesan An AskMeCha Food Special:
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Transitional Time? →Read more...
what to do for a loose tooth? →Read more...
One 4 Da Road →Read more...
This rightfully belongs in the First Baptist thread. But because I'm an attention whore, I'm putting it on the front page.
I am kind of shopping-retarded. I never go clothes shopping. I want some new cute skirts. Where to find? (more obscure places, I've looked online at major womens retailers). Tell me your shopping secrets! (I'm slightly larger than average if that factors in any).
Job? Fuck it! [mildly nsfw]
Anyone for multiplayer asteroids? Flash Game - Really noisy. Very Manic.
New, for your stalking pleasure. I finally broke down and posted some stuff to Flickr.
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This is a thread for everyone not mentioned in that other thread. I've got →Read more...
Be Good Tanyas: Someone with immaculate taste and my complete and total trust
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Horse Fanciers Rejoice! Band of Horses does Letterman this Thursday!
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Lebowski Birthday? Calling all MeChudes & MeChettes... This Friday's the Big 4-0 for me... Anyone wanna knock down a few pins (and beers) with jon and me?
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Animal and
abstract mandalas make me want a big box of crayons.
Fill in the blanks. People think I'm ___, when really I'm___
My mission is in Jeapordy! Destroy the planet! Repeat, Destroy the planet! (Kids in the Hall on YouTube) It's been 15 years since I saw this, and at the time I thought it was one of the funniest things I had ever seen.
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AskMeCha: A Moving Proposal So at the end of this month, I'll be making my sixth apartment move since November 2002 and...
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Mongolian hordes I like this picture.
SCOTCH = So Compelling (Often) To Chat Here. I'm not sure why I get the urge to post continually when I drink scotch, but there you have it.
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10 July 2006
Radio Lazy Twit now on in IRC and all points vague and wandrin'....
Need a little something to restore your faith in humanity? Nice story of how one person's ice cool
favor (literally!) seems to have inspired a new MeFi subsite.
Make Headlines Believe Them....Come Back! (to IRC....LT is there, you know!)
Is this a biased summary? Judge says mom can't move: The BC Supreme Court decision is bowing to the wishes of an ex-husband by preventing a Kelowna woman from moving to a new community with her children.
Confusing Traffic Signal. How it happened I don't know, but I'm gratefull from my Moment of Weird.
Are You Drinking With Me Jesus? In response to the
church sign generator thread, some theme music courtesy of Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon.
OMG Furries!!! Had my first Furry sighting over the weekend. In the wild, I mean. They were rubbing noses at a bus stop. Not quite sure what they were supposed to be, with the long tails and short ears. Kinda reminded me of
Coatimundis. In blue jeans. Rubbing noses at a bus stop.
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Assumptions Suck →Read more...
WARNING TRUCKERS If you visit this adult bookstore we will take your picture and send it to your employer
Who likes arugula? →Read more...
Bunnystock Updated!! Look! Actual motel phone numbers and links of interest! Also,
activities! Also,
Tom Waits! →Read more...
Does anyone understand the bank employee hierarchy? →Read more...
I hate iTunes... what should I use to podcast MeFiMusic? I know so little of this rss thing. plz hope me
Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high →Read more...
Scared cats question →Read more...
What to do in DC? I'm going to be there for work for the rest of the week and the weekend. The missus is coming with me.
Suggestions for good activities that can be done after 5, and don't involve getting boozed up would be fantastic!
OMG 'SHROOM I didn't take this photo... I just think it's gorgeous.
Repent, Sinners! You all do know about the
Church Sign Generator, right? Just checking.
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So where are the pics from the Chicago meetup? I know there are some out there! Frisbee Girl and Mrs. Pants, I'm sorry I missed you! I wanted to see you both!
Could I use more exclamation points!!!!
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there
are stupid answers. It's "Capn Gives Bad Advice Day"
again.
Post your questions!
I love this photograph. I've had it saved to a fav folder for about 2 years now, and I never get tired of looking at it.
This one is a goodie too.
May the Undead Bring You Ice Cream
09 July 2006
You know what really chaps my ass? →Read more...
Sweaty F*ck the F*ckin' Sh*t Music from LT and HE LOVES YOU ALL!
Come hang with me in IRC!
Boo! Cody's on Telegraph (Berkeley, CA) closes Monday night.
OSX Open Source Office Suite: Where?
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So, We Had a Birthday Party Yesterday →Read more...
What, no World Cup Final thread? →Read more...
Radio Mecha - Music Box I'm playing some songs. Please join me, if you're so inclined.
Back to New Orleans for me this week! Yay! Too bad it's supposed to rain the whole time.
Boo!
New cat update. I think he's happy [pic inside].
Last night I sat with a friend out on the lake near my childhood home. The moon sat almost full
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Need tickets, Yankee Stadium, anybody need tickets? →Read more...
Cricket superstitions? I have a cricket in my house!!! I found him on Friday night, I call him Fred. Fred is silent during the day, but as soon as I get into bed at night, he starts chirpping very loudly which makes the cats think there is a mouse in the house, they are going nuts trying to find him.
I question if I should try and catch him and put him back outside. I know the superstition that crickets in the house bring good luck, but they take that luck with them when they leave. He'll die in the house with no food/water or if the cats find him. Will I be tempting the fates if I set Fred free? Do I leave him be or do I try to find him and set him loose outside possibly sending my luck away with him?
Apartment hunting... the nightmare begins So, tomorrow my roommate and I are going to look at an apartment. Wish me luck!
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08 July 2006
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Where my bunniez at? IRC time! And if you can't get on,
remember...
You're a famous hiphop producer, arrested in Dubai for possession of cocaine. Who are you gonna call? Why,
Orrin Hatch, of course!
Adam Corolla hangs up on Ann Coulter after she calls his show an hour and a half late then says she's "tight on time".
Corolla: "You're tight on time? I'm tight on time too and I don't have time for bitches."
No wonder the writing on greeting cards is considered a byword in bad writing. Yesterday I needed to buy a sympathy card, so I stepped into a nearby drugstore, where they had an aisle of cards. Some of them seemed designed to make the bereaved feel worse, or perhaps just distracted from grief by the resulting bemusement.
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80s video wars-- a bunch of blogs are fighting with youtube links--
atrios, sadlyno,
liberalavenger,
the poorman, pandagon, etc...
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Radio Kelly, damnit! Since I'm stuck at home defrosting my freezer I figured I'd share a brief set of some fun dance-y EBM/synth/industrial with everyone.
Smells like teen spirit - by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain.
extra points for the headbanging done by the long haired fella
WTF? Anyone care to enlighten me?
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I Did Something Horrible to my Dog Or, Haircuts: The Perils and Dangers Therein.
Please allow me to introduce myself.... I'm
Asako Inoguchi,
Autocon,
Kikuko Nishimura -san,
Medbh Moon Ogham Reverend Tex J. Bilke, and I'm getting ready to bring
operation laser hope on tha enemy. Who are you?
07 July 2006
12 shots in 1.73 seconds. Dude takes down 10 clay pigeons in one go during this Beretta shotgun demonstration. Also some great one-handed and behind-the-back shots.
MetaChat Radio: Play+Dead ≡ Song with
play in the title, then songs with
dead in the title.
Asheville Meetup Thread! →Read more...
Loopy Loopy Love/The Brunettes from Paradise Garden--fab music blog : >
Seattle Weekend Get-Togethers Sunday: 10:00 a.m. - Brunch at the Blue Star with Mats and Croctommy and Warbaby.
Sunday: 12:00 noon - World Cup final at the Kangaroo and Kiwi pub (73rd/Aurora) with Mats and ???
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When you're drunk and bored, you can alway use my blank pokemon card and the Graphics editor of your choice to turn yourself into a pokemon.
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BOO! Short, creepy (even a lil' scary).
Adult Swim Fix! Since people seem to like this, but keep missing it, I figured I would FPP it
again—but this time
while the shows are still up. They're taken down at 6AM tomorrow, I think, but don't quote me on that. Premieres are up tonight; watch 'em now, not later! I won't post this again, I promise.
... Monkeys became friends with cats during the 40 days and 40 nights they spent together on Noah’s ark, ... (from the comments there) ; >
Write your own history. Here's for a better past!
Brown Dress A Year-long Performance Project -- wearing the same brown dress for 365 days. Tonight (at 7:00 p.m. Pacific) Alex Martin removes her dress at an "Un-Dressing" Party in Seattle.
I saw Tracy Curtis at the Royal Oak in Halifax. Her music's pretty patchy, but she's got a couple of stand out tracks. She told a great story about
John Peel,
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Allow me to wish an early happy birthday to our cetaceous friend Porpoise. →Read more...
LA writers looking for work? I just got an email with a job announcement looking for a "strong writer with a sense of humor, love of pop culture and versatile HTML skills."
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Agree / Disagree: Fluff movies should be under 1 hr, 45 minutes.
Suggest some cool Seattle sites to see! So my GF and I are heading up to visit some friends in Seattle and are looking for some offbeat things to do. I go to Seattle a lot but this is the first time with someone who wants to do more than hit the Trading Musician and Shorty's. I have already planned on going to the Boeing surplus center and could use some more suggestions.
Thanks in advance
Imminent Roadtrip Coming... I have two hours to kill before leaving town. Come talk to me.
Hope me prove a point, science boffins. →Read more...
What do you know? You know the feeling when the lighbulb comes on, you smack yourself on the forehead and say, "duh?" Share some examples with me.
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How come rivers and oceans are referred to with a definite article (the Mississippi, the Pacific), while lakes skip the article and go straight for the descriptor "Lake" (Lake Michigan)?
Wanna sign my cast? Pursuant to
this, I got my cast today. Pretty!
Pepsi Blue Nifty advertisement (QuickTime). Oh yeah, it's actually Coke, not Pepsi.
Anyone else's spam filters stop working on Hotmail? →Read more...
This Post is Very Very Tired: Wednesday, got up at 6am EDT, took the shuttle to JFK. . the driver was pretty casual and we barely made the flight to DFW
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Thoughts needed for a poll. →Read more...
Where in the world is Carmen San Diego... →Read more...
Even *I* think this is mean... But of course I'm happily posting it here anyway. Take a look at pictures from the Wedding of the Year.
Metachat turning into richat's personal blog! Oh no! Sorry, but I had to link to
this. It's Russell Crowe's first interview. And it has the world's funniest last line. I will stop now, I promise.
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Update! That's how it's done, right? Anyway, my almost 5 year old daughter is
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What you missed if you didn't hang out last night. There were caucasians! Skin Storms! Scooters! Gay Politicians! A Night to Remember!
Flickr sets organized by color So inspired by
this I organized a bunch of my pictures on flickr by color.
this one goes from violet to red,
this one is pictures which are mostly green. And so on.
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06 July 2006
SPOILER WARNING -- Why not more outrage over the big plot event in Superman Returns? I'm talking about the fact that
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Photo Friday 7/7/06! Theme: "I Am Curious Yellow." Post yer pictures here!
Beautiful Sounds of Renown on Radio KBNY Broadcasting Now in IRC! →Read more...
Ichabod Rains Chat I'm making a rare appearance in IRC. Come play?
Beep! ;-) Safe For Work. And Home. And the Kids. Honest.
Request for help from people who either work in London or know people who do My boyfriend is currently rather despondent. Having completed his second year at university and returned home to London for the summer, he had been hoping to get a job, earn some money and experience. However, the employers of London haven't exactly been very helpful.
So, I turn to you, helpful random peoples of the internet. Do you work in London, or know someone who does? Do you need a friendly and helpful 20-year-old to come and file stuff, make tea or be a general dogsbody for a few weeks for anything above minimum wage? If so, I have the man for you. CV etc is available - email lottieyoung@gmail.com. Thankyou very much.
P.S Yes I know this is a bit pimpish.
Things we need to know →Read more...
Help Helen is a wicked awesome sick flash game where you have to, well, help Helen.
Thank you Matildaben!! One of my all time favorite songs by the Jayhawks and the reason that CD was on my wishlist!
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Help me pitch a tent. →Read more...
So wait, did
Specklet get unmarried and not tell us? Or did I just miss the announcement?
Wanted: A handy boyservant or girlservant Apply within.
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RGB CMYK OMG →Read more...
Can we talk about social norms? →Read more...
July is National Horseradish Month. Sing, O MetaChatters, the praises of this redoubtable root.
A question for the hole-y in the crowd.... Sophie turns 5 on Saturday. She wants to have her ears pierced. I have questions...
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This is a weminder thread. Hopleaf tomorrow @6pm! Be there or be [].
Well gang, it looks like we have a mystery on our hands... I found something in my apartment and I have NO CLUE how it got there.
Even Steph/ven - No, Yes, No, YEEEEEEEESSSSSS For those of you who were fans of Even Steph/ven on The Daily Show, youtube has 6 episodes. (Ignore the first video, the guy tagged it Stephven.)
Back when both Stephvens were on, I remember getting SO excited during the opening when I could see that the desks were set up for this. I love the fact that they have gone on to better things, but I still long for this feature.
Summer squash recipes? Or... any vegetable recipes really? I got my first CSA box, and I'm drowning in summer squash and chard. And basil. I can probably find uses for the chard, which I love, but I'm not sure what to do with the squash, since I'm not a huge fan, or with the basil, since it's super-abundant and I hate pesto.
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Learnin' The Ghetto Kidz THE WAY
-j. famous-
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My new digs! Still a work in progress.
Gmail/Google Help Req'd →Read more...
So, is it possible to write a novel in eight weeks? Day One of my endeavor begins... →Read more...
This is a waddling thread. →Read more...
This is a whipping thread. *bends over*
Technical AskMecha: Sorry, sorry, but I'm in a bind (ha); Anyone know how to use vb.net (2005) datasets? I can't insert data easily.
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This is a whittling thread.
Childhood Dinners →Read more...
Our first baby of the season! One of our smaller sunflower plants is going bonkers.
Sponatneous Meetup Suggestion. →Read more...
'80s Ending - In case none of you hares have seen this.
This is a whistling thread.
This is a whining thread.
Fucking fuck Javascript. I hate the entire World Wide Web ....except Mecha of course.
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Ask Mecha: How did he do this. There's an art exhibit by a chap called Bill Major at work at the moment. Whole streets appear to be photographed, but in many situations, the streets are too narrow to be photographed in the way that they're shown.
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MeCha Food Advisor: Help! What should I eat now? So, I'm dieting, and I've been eating mostly vegetables for the past couple of weeks (and I've lost 6 lbs. - yay!), but today I have, um, a little intestinal problem, you know what I mean, right?
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am i rite guys I think
HiFi should have a musically themed favicon.
cortex agrees. Maybe one of you can pretty it up enough for Matt to like it? Or maybe we can pester him till he makes it so. And by pester, I mean comment on MeTa if you think it's a good idea.
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05 July 2006
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Radio Kelly, damnit! In a super-rare no EBM set!
OMG I'm joining a gym! I am going to die. :(
But I will look fabulous!
Remember the no pony pic? →Read more...
ReggaeFilter! I can't stop listening to Dr. Alimantado's
"Johnny Was a Baker". Can someone who understands Jamaican help me figure out the words?
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Paging gaspode, and other current and/or recovering D&D geeks: I saw
this bumper sticker on my way home from work today and got a good laugh. (I instantly thought of you, gaspode. I don't know if you should be flattered.) Thought I'd share.
More rockin' recommendations. AC/DC I have: Dirty Deeds. Next two albums to get? Also, for the bonus, Thin Lizzy.
Linux kernel/C stdlib question Ok, if someone thought he'd improved the time-efficiency of a C stdlib function...
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What parts would we play? Argh...if I had only know they were shooting a
biopic about Halston I would have recommended dobbs for the part, and of course, ThePinkSuperhero would costar as the ever spunky Liza Minelli, since she is a much prettier version anyway. No way can Zooey pull off the great 'Liza with a Z'!
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OMG Puppy Paws! I really like
this blog, seeing as how it's devoted to one of the best things in life - dogs. And mostly puppy-type dogs.
Ask MeCha. Why does the lock to my room turn twice? It seems to be locked after turning it only once. Is there any extra security provided by turning it twice? Yes, if I turn it twice, the bolt sticks out twice as much, but surely it is enough the first time.
My head is splitting. Wish my head well. I'll wish your [insert body part here] well.
My faith in man, such as it was, is now at an all-time low. →Read more...
Summertime Checklist →Read more...
I have a new mistress. →Read more...
OMG, they killed KENNY! You BASTARDS.
(it happened in CO, someone had to say it)
Suppositions, anyone?
Update Me! What's been poppin' over the last week or so with you guys? I've on vacation. Wann hear how everybody's doin', ya know?
Holla at the "kid"!
OMG Hot Links! Moo & Oink's jingle contest is over, and "
Shop @ Moo & Oink" is the winner. It narrowly beat out "
Put It In My Mouth," which is a travesty.
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My Space Is Evil. You know this. We all know this. But ...
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New Media &c. My wife is preparing a course on New Film & Media Trends & Technologies. I asked in the
green, but didn't really get any useable answers (I probably didn't phrase the question correctly). So I appeal to you people: what new directions do you see in the application of technologies to film/narrative media. Machinima would be a great answer, for example, if I wasn't already aware of it.
Ovarian cyst update Two lady doctors, one training the other, took my scan. The cyst is still there and hasn't shrunk at all so on the 17th we'll discuss options in dealing with it.
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Slasher films; boobs; sex; death; culture: A question: So, I've seen enough slasher films to know that if a girl shows her boobs or has sex, she's next on the menu to be sliced and diced. My question is: do these sorts of films in other countries have the same convention?
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04 July 2006
take any fireworks pictures? show me. yes. →Read more...
Random Radio Vook on now for those not venturing out to watch things explode...
Don't forget! This (Foto) Friday theme: "I Am Curious Yellow." →Read more...
just in time! →Read more...
Anyone seen the band Camera Obscura play? I have a ticket for tonight but am in an anti-social mood. Will I be kicking myself if I pass and here reviews in coming days?
Pretty Pictures I went to Orcas Island on Sunday. It was pretty. I took some pictures.
Kitten Doom Yes, from Screenhead's closure post. It's an oldie but goodie. What I want ... if you guys remember ... is the original, and back in 2000ish, a cute boy-girl couple mimicked it. Any ideas?
Hey getoffmylawn! We missed you at
JFJ!
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Autoblogger Pro - tired of coming up with stuff to post to your blog? Are your opinions, leads, images and links just not quite as cool as everyone elses? Don't fret - autoblogger pro will download it all and blog for you!
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Radio Mecha - Music Box I'm playing music on the Mecha Radio. Please listen, if you're so inclined. And please make suggestions, either here or in #bunnies, because I don't know what I'm going to play.
HD, yes, but which HD? I am looking to buy a new 200GB HD. Which of these
A,
B,
C, should I get?
Does anyone here use Alexa? ...
inspired by the digg did it thingie. I've never known anyone to use it. Is it just me?
Chatzilla hates me! "Your GECOS (real name) is not allowed on this server (Invalid real name)"
Google tells me this is a chatzilla bug? troof?
Shuttle Discovery thread. As an old space nerd (I even attended Space Academy), I'm so excited about today's launch. Follow along here with
NASA TV.
Ink Consultation →Read more...
Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) explains why he voted against the net neutrality amendment and
gives an amazing primer on how the internet works.
"I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially....[The internet is] not a truck. It's a series of tubes."
Oh my! video, possibly NSFsomeW
Put your hands in the air for Sundried Tomatoes! That is all (other than the subsequent waving them around as if you just don't care bit).
may a thousand yankee doodle dandies punch george bush above the fruited plain.
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This is the place to come for sad, sorry tales, right? →Read more...
Perfect... Tonight was one of those evenings that turned out ossem...
I rolled out of bed early and helped my mother move into a new place. It was 82 degrees today...not exactly the best weather to be moving furniture in.
But after I was done, I got a call from Frito. He turned 35 on Monday and his girlfriend was making him dinner and they invited me over! We had steaks the size of dinner plates, twice baked potatoes and braised carrots, beers and chocolate cake for dessert!
Then we piled into the his Mini Cooper, blasted The Hold Steady and went down to The Baltic Room where Kid Hops, DJ Riz, Rebecca West and AC Lewis played everything from 'broken beat' to electro and deep house. We were met by several friends and I was introduced to some really nice new people too...and though the evening started off slow, by 11:30 the joint was jumpin!
After gettin' my swerve on, we got back to the Frito's and I rode my bike home along Lk. Washington - it was peaceful and perfect, with nothing but me and my motorcycle and the lake.
I sang "That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" all the way home...'cause I could die with a smile on my face right now.
What was the funniest thing that happened to you today?
03 July 2006
Kid Icarus OR...
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Radio Mecha - Music Box I'm playing some music on the Radio Mecha, and taking suggestions (not requests) in IRC. Won't you join me?
if you're staying in, like me, all the best Twilight Zones are on SciFi now--i just watched "To Serve Man" and now it's that one where everyone's pigfaced except for that one woman.
OMG, so very, very good! Tonight I made
these rice paper wraps suggested by Alex. Bunnies, it was so delish; I'm never eating anything else, ever.
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OMG NASA!! Linked shot is posted on today's
NY Times on the Web (possibly NSFW). What is this world coming to? Must we now swath the Gray Lady in brown wrappers? I beseech you, Bill Keller, think of the children!
This song by Sparks (youTube video) sounds to me like an Oompa Loompa opera. (oh yeah: OMG Kitty-heads!)
OMG Bunny and Chicken! I saw this little architectural treasure while driving around Orcas Island yesterday and thought of you all. (I also got a
closeup.)
Bathing Suits, etc.! What are you wearing this year?
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An old woman prays for peace in the Oromo Camp for internally displaced people in Uganda.
© Chris de Bode/Panos Pictures .
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Ask MetaChat: Programming. I've got an IRC bot that I've customized a fair bit (the example bot that comes with Perl's NET::IRC module).
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Anybody else but me thinking about participating in the
Blogathon? (July 29th, 24 hours, update blog every 30 minutes for charity pledges) And what charity should I be blogging for? The Big Fat Idiots Education Fund?
Foolish things Specklet has done. →Read more...
It's a whole new world up here. So we moved to the Upper East Side (well more Yorkville, really) on Saturday.
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Is this a joke? I asked YouTube to email me my password, which I can't seem to get working.
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Who else has to work today? Besides me, of course. My train was EMPTY this morning.
Matthew, a John Denver song, as played by
Granfaloon Bus.
Thanks to essexjan. In the Euro cake competition I
(Israel) came in third with a recipe recommended by e/j. I cooked it too long. A good taste, but it crumbled. B- (Isle of man) came in second with a
victoria sponge cake, and G- (Ukraine) won with her
spicy parrot cake. But, I still came third. Thanks e/j.
Hey, why did I get banned from #bunnies?
02 July 2006
Radio Fireside Thespian - on now in Record-Breaking IRC!
Num Nums or special snacks. What's your pleasure?
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IMPENDING RECORD-BREAKING COMMUNICATION Currently 25 bunnies in IRC, the record is 28... come on, you don't have anything better to do tonight...
EconoPost: 1)
How fast can you type?, 2) I lost my wallet last night after my steamy encounter (had $100 cash in it), and 3) a
Coke/Mentos rocket.
Anyone know how I can solicit Apple to donate an iPod... In 2003 I participated in the
Blogathon and got a bunch of musicans to donate unreleased tracks which I doled out with my writing. I plan to do something similar
this year and thought it would be awesome to randomly choose a name from my donators (
Sweet Relief will be my charity) and give them all the tracks on an iPod Nano. Any idea how to get the attention of Apple?
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An update on MiHail memorial donations. →Read more...
I bought you a little gifty. You gotta love a gift shop that has categories like Bacon, Evil, Hula, and Devil Duckies.
T-Bone air freshener, anyone? No?
Cat acupuncture or
Tub O' Flying Cats then?
Carbuncle [edited to say: not safe your stomach - really (taz)]
One more reminder: Joan Fucking Jett at the Marin County Fair tomorrow, Monday, at 7:30. Come early and see the fair! The entire Bay Area is invited.
If you want to go and want to meet up with others of us going, drop me an email. I'll give you my cell number so we can coordinate a meetup time/place.
JFJ!
Space Station Sighting Alert I finally saw it, for the first time, last night. It was bright--the brightest satellite, apart from
Echo I, I have ever seen. It will be visible
here again tonight at 10:29 PM. You furriners can
look up your own times. Check it out--it's orbiting contra to the earth's rotation, so it
moves. Way cool.
Radio Mecha - Music Box I'm playing some songs on the Radio Mecha. Come on and listen, if you're so inclined.
Packing. Packing. OMG! So how do you do it?
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I think I asked a boy out someone hold me, I'm scared.
And I have a newfound respect for every guy who has ever asked me out... this shit is scary!
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Draw a pig ... and it'll reveal your personality. My
little piggie says that I'm emotional and naive, and I have great sex! What does your little piggy look like?
I went in to the club with the intention of kissing a guy, and I did. A lot. Here's to hoping that your Saturday night schemes worked to your advantage.
01 July 2006
Quick! Advice! My neighbor's dog just came over. Should I wake up my neighbor or just keep her overnight?
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I don't think any of you really understand what I'm trying to say here .
InterRupted Childhood If you come to IRC, maybe we'll watch some more cartoons....
Woody Allen Made Me Laugh I think I started laughing at the line about Clytemnestra. But then I continued to laugh.
Internet relay chat. I'm not feeling very creative. Come tickle me.
UWS, again. After our commiserating defeat, some cheer-up tunage.
Eponysterical for those who don't like seafood. Like me.
It is the year 2037, you are a valiant Chilean insurgent fighting against the coalition which has 'liberated' your nation as a thinly veiled attempt to control its fresh water resources.
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On The Radio/Regina Spektor (windows video) "This is how it works..."
beautiful, and odd in a great way : >
IRC FAQ WTF OMG BBQ TLA LOL AFK BBL The
IRC FAQ has been updated. Please take a look.
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Soul Heaven Is on until 1PM PST Thought I'd let it rip while I clean my room!
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Phone Trick , with fake caller ID!
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Some Bunnies Totally Suck: A Cautionary IRC Tale Sooo...we know that ChatZilla has been annoying lately. As part of managing the login process, many of us have realized it would be good to register nicknames with nickserv. However, a lot of us have not grown up suckling at the teat of IRC and are not all that familiar with the command systems and how it works. As a result, there have been several recent accidental password revelations.
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Happy Canada Day, Metachat! Does anyone have plans to celebrate the founding of this great dominion?
*sigh* -- I just got back from drinkin' with my friend Jake. It's his birthday...but best of all? Jesse Sykes of
Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter was hangin' out with us!
She's a really cool person and if you like alt-country, you should check her out.
I told her she needs to make the ultimate make-out record...hopefully, she didn't think I was nuts.
He did it. He really did it. quonsar does Madonna in MetaMusic. I like it!
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