30 September 2006
Wicked!!!!!! Did anybody else see the broadway musical Wicked? Me and my gf saw it at the Paramount here in Seattle last night and thought it was amazing.
Simply great!
I took a
picture with my sidekick3 before the show started (shh!) but it didn't turn out so hot.
I'm back! What's new? So the mrs & I arrived home this morning from our jungle hideaway/Euro holiday...
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Sir kindly to hope me, I am researching internets folklore. There was this thing whereby people would go to MeFi (or maybe MetaTalk) posts that had numbers that were multiples of a certain number added to either 1142 or 9622 or one of those quirky thread numbers, and make them into a quirky thread, with much frivolity/gifs etc. Does this ring any bells? What was the system and where are the threads? ta
So I order far too much food from Magic Oven (pizza joint in Toronto). They have a $3 delivery charge no matter how much you order or where you live which is really lame but the food's real good. Do I have to tip the delivery guy or is that $3 like a built in gratuity thing at fancy restaurants? I normally tip $2 or $3 for food delivery but $6 is absurd and I'm sick of paying it. Thoughts?
Today's animated gif pile-on ...in case you're into that kind of thing.
Moose eats a grape : Moose eats a grape
Ahoooooey MeCha: Looking for search terms for a particular type of academic study. I need cites to justify my cool project to funders. I KNOW it will work: how can I show it?
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no way, baby Hey kids! I'm getting my tubes tied in less than a week! How awesome is that? I'm having a cookout on the 9th. Wanna come?
I registered my tubal at Target's baby registry. Little Tubal Ligation is due 10/5 and wants stuff. Oh, I amuse myself.
I have to work all night overnight tonight for a release and helped someone move today. I'm already lit. Hooray.
Crafty things to do with an old, dead keyboard? It was great until I spilled cereal into it. Now, it looks like a tempting art project waiting to happen. Any ideas?
Pinball Hall Of Fame - Why, oh why, didn't I know about this before the LV meetup?
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It's scientifically proven. It's a known fact. (
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Letters from America. So all my deliveries from the US arrived at once. I got the superb
Mrs Pants badges (thanks me3dia!) which I've given to Mrs Geezer. She loves them. I got my box of 100 flickr cards from
moo and they look great. I also got the new
Nines CD from CD Baby. Today is a good day.
Flickr and Firefox Anyone else having this problem?
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Hey, whadya know? Another SHOUTING THREAD. (Not so heavy or serious this time.) →Read more...
29 September 2006
Yo! Word is, (from the man) it was Divine_Wino's birthday yesterday. Happy birthday, sir. Many more.
Did anyone see nip/tuck this week?
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Gimme some Games, Girls So I have a chance to review this book for a folklore journal. Exciting! The author basically argues that it's girls' street games - the rhythm/dance/handclapping games - that are largely responsible for carrying on and teaching the musical ideas of African American popular music.
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Radio Mecha - Music Box I think I'm getting a cold. Oh, also, playing some songs on the Radio Mecha, and sitting in an IRC channel by myself. What's the word with you?
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BP's going to DC! Following up on
this post: I'm going to be in Washington DC from Oct. 2 thru 22! (Staying at
this place, which is about 3 blocks from the Capitol bldg.)
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Happy Birthday, quonsar! He is, by his own admission, 53, which is older than I am. Whew. [pantsfish inside]
Will the wedding video be available online? I've checked the chapel website and haven't been able to find it.
hi from home. Until Monday, anyway. Then it will be hi from Toronto.
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I'm freqing out: Dealing with recruiters and exclusivity Sorry to keep pounding this drum, folks, but I need advice, especially from IT folks.
OMG! DaShiv is posting Vegas pics!
My best regards to all of you You're all uncharacteristically nice people.
Sick. Make me feel better.
Another "I wish I had my camera," moment. I just went to get lunch from one of the steam table buffets in the area, and the handwritten sign over a tray of roast beef read "Beef in Grave Sauce."
Mmmm.
Anyone here ever done any hiking on the Pacific Crest Trail?
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Ask mechachack: What's going on in the minds of most onions?
Anyone remember this hilarious advertisement? There was an ad I saw online a few years ago where an office drone suddenly decides to quit his job and go live his dreams. He says to the hot office girl, "I'm quitting my job and going to live my dreams. Come with me." And she says "Ok, but only if we can have lots of babies."
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Robert Downey Jr Is Iron Man
Interesting casting, no? What do you think?
Any tips to help me drop these last 10-or-so pounds? I changed my diet at the end of June to lose the middle-aged weight I've acquired, and I lost a little over 15 pounds pretty quickly... but it just seems to be sticking there, and I'd like to get rid of another 10. Lots and lots of details (too many!) inside for anyone who happens to be oddly fascinated with this subject and might have some advice.
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WTF? I used to have a blog about 2 years ago, but I let the domain lapse, so it was consigned to oblivion. Today I idly clicked on an old
link to it and a page of old entries popped up. None of the hyperlinks work, but it's there. How the hell did this happen?
Photo Phriday. The theme for this week, as suggested by Shane, is Found Art: "I like that. Stuff you just, um, found. Tripped over. Whatever. And it's, like, 'art.' "
28 September 2006
OMG! IRC! From the new apartment. Woohoo!
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I'm freakin' the fuck out! I have a fish offer smock spork dongle! Wading into the slithering eels neck deep my blade goes snicker-snack against the flying blackness of the bats! Ho! And Forth! Peel back the night and cover the day on this endless parade of ill-conceived freaks and let the twilight hide them all!
I'm freakin' out. I have a job offer at a 15% raise, and (much) closer to home. But I really like the site I work for, and it looks like it'll be getting more funding in the near future...
I'm freaking out. I found out TONIGHT that my job is going to send me to Washington, DC for three weeks, starting Monday! One of many issues is, I need to buy a laptop computer ASAP.
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The Illusionist is a very fine movie, and I think you should go see it. Based on
this story by
Steven Millhauser, whom I now want to read. Philip Glass score, set in
fin de seicle Vienna, filmed in Prague...
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DOG Radio on momentarily.
AskMecha: S.O.A.P. (The Other Kind) So, I want to create a cool
SOAP application for work.
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Robert Half Sucks Inc. So against my better judgement, I go to an "interview" with the temp/recruiter firm Robert Half Inc.
Amazon A9 Discount question What's the trick to getting the pi/2 discount at Amazon.com using A9? I've been using the search engine several times a day for the last day or two, but so far the discount hasn't shown up yet. Any successful tips from someone who's gotten it? Or pointers to a good discussion thread the answers the question?
It is turning out to be a crappy day (This is a whining thread).
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Ask Mecha: Photo Credit? So I'm sending out press releases & I'm including pictures I took. Do I append a photo credit and if so, how do I phrase that?
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Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76 under the command of Captain George S. Nares and the late Captain Frank Tourle Thomson.
Project Runway MAJOR Spoiler - don't peek unless you want to see all of the final designers' Fashion Week runway collections.
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Ashlee Simpson does Chicago! and Bob Fosse rolls over in his grave.
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Attention Olive Garden. Cascadingbreadsticks.com domain is still available -- the perfect domain from which to wage your Hospitaliano 2.0 campaign.
If you had 500 billion dollars to spend on improving the lives of Americans, how would you spend it?
I'm effed Hot new job, right? You'd think they'd tell me in advance
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ooooooooooooh shit. Shithockey shittles with shitstains on their pants....!!??? I came up with a project idea at work and now they are going to make me do it. I am posting to metachat instead of writing a grant at the moment.
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I'm loving this right now. (mp3 download of The Harvey Girls cover of "White Wedding").
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The Feeling - Sewn. Seventies sounding pop.
27 September 2006
radio plumbing the depths of the playlist until bedtime
I Really Can't survive in #bunnies without you :-D
Official DaShiv Nagging Thread :)
Art got pwn3d in Texas! There's nothing I can say further on this, but I feel a little nauseous. Dammit, Texas! Knock it off already!
4 x Nina Nastasia Because I feel like sharing.
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Help, I need a job! How do I deal with recruiters?
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"Archives open up centuries of British sex ...deemed too shocking for publication at the time." I dunno, the RSS feed title just caught my attention. Then there was the picture. That led to fun quotes like "Britons 'tended to pretend they were drunk or playing a joke' in order to get away with sexual behavior in public." How many innuendos, like "attitudes to sex in Britain will be
laid bare for all to see," can you find in the article? Positvely tittillittillating.
Ask MeCha - Photoshop Question
Turbulence. So, don't ask me how, but I acquired an FAA in-flight manual for flight crew and reading it makes me want to drink beer.
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NYC meetup tonight Double down saloon, ave A and Houston.
Heaths and heathers! Landscape design! MetaChatters, you've helped me choose paint colors for my house. Who wants to help me design a heather bed for my front yard?
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Ah! Ich Habe Deinen Mund Geküßt... La signora
Birgit Nilsson in Salomé, Sir Georg Solti conducting
Probably really dumb question... But where do you buy those little rubber feet that go on the bottom of furniture that has steel tubing for legs?
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Heh! Bookshelves! ...from
thisintothat.com, via those everlovin' "targeted" Gmail ads that torture me with offers of big game safaris and canned hunts everytime I send out a NOT pro-hunting e-mail ($&#@! bastardos!)...
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My neighbors killed a puppy. I'm feeling very raw about this.
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Annie'll Get Your Guff. I know it's not sporting, but Miss Coulter makes such a tempting target.
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26 September 2006
It is blowing my mind that the president of Pakistan is on the Daily Show right now. That is all.
What do your sneezes sound like?
What did I miss, anyway? As some of you know, I didn't have internet or a computer for about three weeks...
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Test Your Civics -- America's top students
struggled to
answer these questions. Can you do better?
A black family has moved into my neighborhood What's the best way to greet them?
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Noah Kalina makes a video pastiche of self-portraits: Brooklyn-based photographer
Noah Kalina has been
taking a picture of himself
every day for the past 6 years (taken from January 11, 2000 - July 31, 2006) & (which is not particularly special on the internet), but I found stirring his recent creation of a
lovely video comprised of his daily stills.
I just found out we have an excellent group coming here to perform the complete cycle of Bartók quartets in the spring. This is what a very excited Wolfdog looks like.
On the Internet, Nobody Knows You're a Toddler -- Jack Neal briefly became the proud owner of a pink convertible car after he managed to buy it for Ł9,000($17,000) on the Internet despite being only 3 years old.
Mefi down Expect influx of refugees here.
Osama for Levitra This little ad/video mashup is tasteless, very well-edited, hilarious. Audio slightly NSFW, video is clean.
I need some help automating sdelete once a week on XP.
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Prussian Blue on the Billboard Top 40! This is disgusting... NSFHumans
Joe Famous put this in the three things thread, but I think it needs an FPP.
Updated: A Hoax, read inside.
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I just found these in the office vending machine. They taste a bit like a crunchy slightly 'off' Bloody Mary. I'm saving the bag for my Museum Of Weird Ideas.
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So, I'm back at work. What is it I do here again?
25 September 2006
The things you learn in IRC! It's Trondant's birthday. Thanks for the laughs and the tech support, trondant.
tone loq experimental/noise explorations (no techno/ambient/8 bit this time. noise. experimental.)
I'm so sorry. I'd like to apologize to you all.
Grand reopening at #bunnies! (I have no idea what the link is since I use mIRC)
Some of you may remember my little puppy Silver. He turned 6 months old on the 22nd. This is him on today's hike.
Help me religiously observant people. Is this meaningful, or just old news? United Methodist Church leaders helped launch a week of protest and civil disobedience against the war in Iraq by signing a declaration of peace urging President Bush to pull U.S. troops out of the country.
hi from Minneapolis. Waves at the gang, wherever they all are.
Equinoctical. Do you feel something? The great wheel turns.
Vegas Photo Metatalk Thread In an attempt to keep all photo posting streamlined.
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I just noticed Hi, panoptican! Yay for being back!
It's a girl! Atlantapandababyhphotos!
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Ask MeCha: Life as a buddhist vacuum cleaner. What should I do next?
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Photo Phriday's Theme for this week, as suggested by Shane, is 'Found Art'. With the best description ever: "I like that. Stuff you just, um, found. Tripped over. Whatever. And it's, like, 'art.' "
Vegas pix repository I know most have already seen
mine, but I got around to labeling and creating the set this morning for easy slideshow viewing.
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So, about this coconut cream... What about this coconut cream? Does anyone know? I bought something called "Coconut Cream" (or actually, "kokoscreme, "creme de noix de coco", or "kokosnusscreme" - which I pretty much figure is "coconut cream")... Now what can I do with it? And how do I keep it?
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I'm sorry for the front-page NSFWness, but...
FUCK. THEM.
24 September 2006
AxMeCha: How should I quit my shitty retail job? Also, what is the minimum notice I can get away with giving?
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Katie Couric does not belong on 60 Minutes. Thank you.
i will write flickr testimonials tomorrow! maybe 'cuz i spoke 45 minutes at a public thingy yesterday, i slept all day today. how are you?
Shark! While all the A-Listers were off enjoying the hedonistic delights of Vegas, I went for a
swim.
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milliondilbygoogledollars8tannokiafreemail Remember that guy who self-linked on Metafilter last week?
Yeah, the one being bitched about here. There's more to him than just spamming. More inside.
Jonmc & Pips have probably just been pronounced husband and wife. So let's make this the official congratulations thread!
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23 September 2006
OMG! Fox On Fire! (self-link because I'm apparently the first to notice)
OI! So I'm sitting at home drinking wine and watching the orioles lose baseball. Come talk to me... I can't be the only one with nothing on for the next few hours...
These are the coolest Tarot cards I've seen in a long time. Click on the "Tarot Reading" tab to see some of the cards, or you can see a few more
using Google.
Maybe In Keeping Out Watch Here Everyday, Realize....Enough! →Read more...
Another Spine-tingling, Enthralling Emcee Status Update! →Read more...
Hey bunnies! I am back... →Read more...
Attention box, interrobang, and Shane. →Read more...
Please copy 100 times: Correlation does not imply causation Could someone please inform the
anti porn resource center of the ideas of research methodology,
peer review, and the
correlation implies causation fallacy? And then ask them to rewrite their brochure (
pdf). Mm'kay?
Listen up, men (and Paula Poundstone)! If you're home a-chillin', but oftimes must look like a million, the business bib's for you. Slip it on for those impromptu teleconferences. Perfect for early-adopters who simply must have the Picturephone. (
via)
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22 September 2006
INVISIBLE SANDWICH More pictures of cats. (btw, a lot of the other galleries on that site are very NSFW)
Can you help me find the post with the question about latrines in India?
an invalid tangram is what happens when you aren't nice to jack. jack'll say, "hey buddy, watch your head."
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BP Radio playing now.
Come hang out and talk about your week.
I am NOT on my way to the L.A. Meetup at the fabulous Sportsman's Lodge. I feel as crappy about it as the crappiness I already feel that's keeping me away. Feel free to post how much fun you're having so I can feel even crappier.
Radio MetaChat starting momentarily... mood: whatever I want to play (that is legal). suggestions may be sent via google talk; edgeways(at)gmail(dot)com
This is very serious. The reader should be careful to observe that, insomuch as the roadmap relies on Blogs, network philosophy is the clue to the potential of business models. In view of these considerations, I assert that interactive content exists in the members. The Concept/Beta, in other words, proves the validity of Web 2.0 technologies.
In my present remarks I am referring to a roadmap only in so far as it is founded on hypothetical principles.
Yesterday I stood in the middle of the intersection of Whitehall and Pearl, in lower Manhattan just above the Staten Island Ferry terminal, and repeatedly stopped traffic.
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I left my heart (and housekeys, grr) in San Francisco To all those who came to Zeitgeist on Sunday, thankyou.
As you would probably have realised I wasn't on best form at the beginning, but the Poppy Whatsit sorted that out. It was great to meet all of you. 'Pupps, the cilantro, I believe, is probably still sitting in Tangerine's (phenomenal Zen motorist) car. It was a lovely gift. Small_ruminant, Tangerine, Occhiblu, Triode + Jenny(?) and, eventually :), ikkuu2, it was great to meet all of you.
Fris gets my special shoutout for being a spectactular host and friend on many days and nights around the city.
I will be coming back soon.
Hidden Cameras - "Boys of Melody" You can catch a bit of this song in the trailer for the upcoming John Cameron Mitchell film
Shortbus. Beautiful.
OMG! I got a raise! My boss just told me that human resources approved a pay raise for me! This is the first time in my proffesional career I've got one! w00t!
ooh, ooh! The Harvey Girls site redesign! By me! Also posted at
Projects. Have a look and let me know if you run into anything that doesn't work or looks wack.
Attention Users If I am able to find the answer to your question through less than ten seconds of googling (literally), you probably should have googled it yourself before calling me.
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Pigs Have Flown and I'm going to be a Flybrarian. This week, I gave notice at work and accepted a cool, big girl job at another company as an Insurance Forms Librarian.
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Photo Friday: Pictures that Evoke an Extreme Emotional Reaction.
Dad Tracking a Deer , Voltaire, ND, 2003 Minnesota photographer Brian Lesteberg is currently working on a three-year series titled "Raised To Hunt," which focuses on his family and friends during the hunting season in North Dakota.
We introduce a new exponential family F
3 as follows: first, for each n≥1, in the deck D
n there is just
one card of weight n. On that card there is a picture of a smiling rabbit
*, and there is the label set [n].
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Does MetaChat still have issues? Or has the cloud of depression been lifted by some therapy, exercise and whatever is the newest fad in the big pharma SSRI research sales divisions?
21 September 2006
Client just gave me a new Macbook... any software that's specific to the Macbook that I should check out? I seem to remember video of people slapping the sides of their laptops and apps changing or something like that...?
Orange Swan does Elvis Are you lonesome tonight?
Is your brassiere too tight?
Are your corsets just drifting apart?
Are there holes in your vest
Where it touches your chest?
Is your spare tyre reaching your heart?
Are your stockings well laddered and shoes wearing thin?
Do you keep up your knickers with a safety pin?
Are your teeth old and worn?
Do they slip when you yawn?
Then no damn wonder you're lonesome tonight.
Thank you very much [lip snarl].
I have a hard time believing that
this is an air-brushed picture.
If that's real, it makes my brain hurt.
A Little Bit of Vegas at DumbCo In five minutes, I'm playing in the "after hours" semi-regular poker game here at work.
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Student loan question. I just received a check and I'm not sure what to do with it.
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Almost 2,700 Texas prison inmates are HIV-positive. But the Texas Department of Criminal Justice refuses to distribute condoms. Why? Because sex is against the rules.
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Any Native Americans in the room? I have a question for you.
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Crazy Sparkle! X-Post from AskMe. I'm glad I clicked on this thread; it looked only marginally interesting, but actually encapsulates a fascinating idea.
So, what do you call
your Crazy Sparkle, your Imp of the Perverse, and what does it make you want to do?
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Hey Mac users! I don't know if you remember
My Dream App from
the MeFi post by filmgeek but anyways. The first round of voting for which three apps are going to be made and which ideas are scrapped is going on now. And as an added bonus there are free
pzizz (Mac or Windows) licenses for all who vote.
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Someone Zabasearched Me and came up with where I live, phone #, etc. It got me thinking about someone from my past, and
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ABBA music, swastikas, and creative substitutes for toilet paper For those of you who can’t go to Vegas I offer you… a few stories about hellish roommates. Okay, so it’s no substitute whatsoever. But try to mop up your tears and enjoy anyway.
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Looking for Hard Problems What is one of the hardest problems in your field of work or study? Why is it so hard?
(I’m looking for specific problems like protein folding in biological science, not day-to-day challenges.)
We're at the airport! We got here wicked early. Ain't airport wireless grand? Vegas, here we come!
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haha! Your temperament type is undetermined. I'm either a hedonistic rationalist, or a rational hedonist. All I can say after considering the issue carefully is... let's all have another drink!
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20 September 2006
I know flower pictures are cliche, but I like this one from today's hike.
Next Photo Friday is coming up fast: 22 September "Pictures that Evoke an Extreme Emotional Reaction," suggested by Zack_Replica: "Everything from wonder and fascination to awe and horror. There doesn't have to be a specific reason behind the emotion (as it's all subjective anyway), just the picture triggering something in your grey matter that goes 'Yow!' "
yeah yeah, so dooce.com, blah blah. But her entry today is super-cute. And I just
know that my putative future spawn will be equally as withering.
countdown to carnitas! I'm skipping out of work early to go home and get gussied up for dinner tonight with
essexjan!!!Whee!
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6pm radio gonna try and do a Radio MeCha session (my first)at about 6 pee em (CST), if ya got suggestions for mood or what kind of artist you'd like to hear lets me know in the next 1/2 hour or so.
dj edge
More fun with quizzes! What kind of office supply are you?
Clothespin People! One of the cutest flickr photo sets of ever.
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Chilean photographer Tomas Munita has won the 2006 Leica Oskar Barnack Award for his photo report "Kabul – Leaving the Shadows."
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Kick ass concert last night, and I got an acceptance letter this morning for an article I wrote. I even made it through my morning class, albeit in a basso profundo sort of way, on - let's see - no sleep. Oh yes, I'm wired!
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celeb run ins So, I've been told to f*ck off by John Lurie (The Lounge Lizards, Fishing With John, Down by Law etc...)
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anyone want to try this out (parquet deformation)? i just stuck this on the net and i need to some willing vict^H^H^H^Hbeta testers to see if it works.
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Hope me, bunnies! I need some bunny love and advice.
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Closing in on Zero Hour. essexjan is (presumably) already in Vegas. Other folks are getting revved up. And I have to leave early today to go pick up my wedding band at Futurama. I'm psyched.
Well Shit! I'm just sitting here bawling like a baby. I was channel surfing and happened across the Crocodile Hunter's memorial service on Animal Planet.
I never knew how much i liked the guy till he died.
Goddammit! What a baby!
19 September 2006
Ask MeCha: Suggestions for a memorial location in SF? →Read more...
AskMeCha: Can someone legally quote on their blog e-mails sent to them... →Read more...
Transitions, Goodbyes, Traveling Man Music....suggest some tunes for LT? →Read more...
It's Relatively Calm here, and I have a few minutes before I have to head back over to work. Pop in and keep me company for just a little while.
For those going to Vegas, a little Dread Zeppelin. Elvis impersonator lead singer with dreadlocks, Led Zeppelin songs in a reggae style, a little dub, and a segue into an Elvis song.
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Wowsers. So, 4 months or so ago I booked the next week plus one half off
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One of the few truly selfish things you can do that doesn't make you an asshole is to make yourself happy by making someone else happy.
Conjecture: Despite being a passably decent band in its early years, and a completely shitty sell-out band in its later years, Metallica absolutely outdid itself with the song "
One". There are scores (hundreds?) of bands better than Metallica, but "One" is still the greatest heavy metal song ever written. Discuss.
Where can I learn about what it's like to cope with grief? This is for a writing project, not idle and morbid fascination with the dark side;-) I've had the good fortune never to have anyone close to me die, or at least not have their lives tragically cut short (i.e., my grandparents Swan died of general health failure at 87), but I need to learn about it if I'm to write about it. Where on the net could I find (ideally) teenagers or adults blogging about the loss of a parent?
Frank Lloyd Wright's only building in Oregon is the
Gordon House, located at the
Oregon Garden. I spend last sunday volunteering down there, planting native plants around the house. I took some photos!
Top Gear - Fastest Stupid Cars (youtube). So, bunnies, what kind of car would you design?
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I'm back from vacation. What did I miss?
Here Comes The Spun New techno mix online.
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18 September 2006
Fantastic!!!! Hehe...I get my birthday twice because MetaChat still thinks it is the 18th September due to time zones! How cool!
I am drinking lots of chamomile tea and I miss Korean food... what are you drinking/missing?
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Willie Nelson Busted for weed and shrooms. How sad :(
Kinderen voor Kinderen - 'Two Fathers' -- [YouTube video]. Terrance sings about his two gay dads.
"We're the once kissed, unmissed, and always refused..." Anyone read the new
Danielewski? I find the web site pretty fascinating but haven't actually seen the book physically yet.
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Dammit I just installed the "Yahoo Toolbar" in IE, somehow. Gross. How do I turn it off for good?
Kiai! I've been invited to test for promotion to blue belt in karate. I'm both excited and nervous at the same time. The test is a week from Wednesday, and I really need to get to learnin' my Japanese terms because the instructions will be given in Japanese only. Suggestions for being less nervous leading up to and during the test?
Crazy-talk study claims women have "orgasms" I thought everyone knew the female "orgasm" is a myth. Study also claims Lebanese women have more of them.
Stupid Mafia Nicknames Ever pick up the paper to find one of those lurid stories about The Mob? Ever notice how a lot of the dramatis personae have these really goofy nicknames?
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Bump! The more the merrier...
moving unexpectedly So my apartment was somewhat flooded yesterday...
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I have a really, really stupid math question. →Read more...
Last night I dreamed that I found a nickel with an image of David Lynch on the back of it.
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I just cut my finger, quite deeply, really, on the back of an old Polish refrigerator.
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"You see," he begins, "80 percent of people die naked and 70 percent die in the toilet. That means most people die naked in the toilet. I can’t explain it. It’s like Elvis."
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Hey, you! Janice! What fun is disappearing if you never reappear?
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Vegas Mailing List For whatever might be helpful, but mostly I had in mind contact info because even though we know where people are staying, we don't (in many cases) know real names.
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Vintage Supermarket Photos . There's something comfortingly wholesome about these pics, both the setting and the era. Although as a historically aware person, I'm aware the ear was a sham, and as a former grocery employee, I realize that supermarkets are dens of insanity.
So my Vegas flight and hotel room is booked... .. and my inner adolescent is plotting a tiresome and juvenile prank. I haven't told my (very conservative) parents I'm going. I thought I'd send them a postcard from Vegas saying, "I'm in Vegas experiencing an Elvis wedding. Who knew!" or words to that effect that will leave them with the impression that I'm the one getting married. My mother will have the freak out of her life. Bwahahahahahahah!
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Political Rant. . . I just got a spam from the Traditional Values Coalition, and
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WTF? there are SO MANY STUDENTS! Mod, prep, trad, punk, goth, hippy, nerd, and more! With insipid dialogue included!
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THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD!
17 September 2006
Papercuts! (Not the ouch-y kind.)
I revile Carthaginians. Hey--they killed my ma!
First round of the first round of Bookmark Swapsets have been sent! Elsewhere online it was established that you have about 5 more days to get in on the first bookmark swapset. October 7th is the mail-in deadline.
Please send me something interesting I will return this favor someday.
So. Long time lurker, tried to make friends in bunny chat a while back, now sick at home and DP. I made every stop on my short list on the WWW today, and nothing cheered me, not even vintage videos of Yello on YouYube. Please send me somewhere, nubbies. Oh, and I whuffle strangers when I'm drunk. 'lo.
My corner store has an excellent beer selection. Tonight I purchased a beer called
Three Philosophers. In my fridge, I have
a beer that's a tribute to Lenny Bruce who was something of a philosopher himself. If I drink them both, that's
four philosophers down the hatch. And with all my talking online, I'm something of a philosopher myself, so that makes five philosophers.
Makes you think.
SO HOW DID THE WEDDING OF THE CENTURY GO???????????!!!!!
The Aristocrat We were shooting ‘The Stranger’ in Africa, and in one scene Marcello Mastroianni’s character had to walk on a beach strewn with flowers, and Visconti insisted on a special type of lily, so we had to send someone to Paris to find what he wanted.”
The New York Times on Luchino Visconti's style
Radio comedy: Genius A show where members of the public suggest ideas for making the world a better place. Very funny.
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I was just watching a segment on
Sunday Morning about a 28-year old writer
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16 September 2006
I had goat stew for lunch today. Later in the evening, I had a bacon martini. My stomach is like Noah's Ark. That is all.
BP Radio: non-mellow, Saturday night kinda music playing. Come party with us in IRC, dammit.
This is a bouncing thread. No, really. I've had a really wonderful day today, everything kind of went right, just when you least expect it. *boing*!
i r confused Is anyone in IRC, or am I in a defuncto place? It seems like I couldn't log in normally, my password didn't work. Oh well.
Instrumentally Gnarls? Quick ... to your respective audio stashes!
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Sunset at Herring Cove, Provincetown, MA -- one of the few places on the East Coast of the U.S. where you can
watch the sun set over Atlantic waters.
[YouTube videos with music]
God is a DJ! A nice piece of artwork. In honor of the MeCha radio DJs.
"For 500 pounds, what do you think it is?" An awkward moment on the British game show "Catchphrase." This completely cracked me up.
Don't forget: SF meetup tomorrow, 2 pm, at Zeitgeist. Starring urbanwhaleshark, from all the way across the pond.
Elmo and the Power of Love How the popular Sesame Street character makes the world a better place.
15 September 2006
Radio LT has issues and is slightly depressed. But it still rocks and so do you!
Radio Mecha - Music Box: Hip-Hop I'm playing some music, very possibly DJ/hip-hop stuff, and lurking in #bunnies. Please join me in one or the other, if you're so inclined.
Another year older ...and you're all invited!
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There are already sites like this one about Zune. Since it is a Microsoft product (OK made by Toshiba but still),
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She's my Betty now — and a Betty I never could have imagined. She's got sad eyes and hopeful eyes and a run in one stocking. She's in over her head and holding back tremors. She's working hard at poise and coming up with hurt and bravado. Her line "I can do that" broke my heart.
James Ellroy's Love Letter for a Dahlia. (
bugmenot)
Er...huh? Today on the BBC World Service,
"David Hasselhoff talks to Owen Bennett-Jones about being the most watched TV star in the world." Next stop: Nobel Prize for...um...well, they'll think of something. Don't miss it. Unless you've got something better to do.
Hey BoringPostcards! Just wanted to let you know the computer has evolved since Kratfwork's Computer World.
My computer is depressed and lonely. Also, just for some Friday fun,
included this remix off of the same album.
Mozart on skates youtube How do people ever get these ideas in the first place?
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You could call this a miniature bachelor/ette party if you want. Me & Der Pipster will be at Bull McCabe's from about 6pm on today. Some of y'all owe us bon voyage/congratulation drinks. Plus, you'll get to see my splendiferous wedding shirt. No strippers will be provided, unless any of y'all want to take it upon yourselves.
Photo Friday! The theme is Alice in Wonderland, as suggested by lonefrontranger.
Vegasm Aw yeah. I will be there on Saturday the 23rd. I will forever hold my peace at Jon/Pips wedding. I will be ridiculously trashed the whole time. I may share what I know about the strip a little bit. It will be good to see you all.
Keith, you are not getting off the hook at any point before dawn, no matter what you or your friend is going through. I intend to see the sun rise through the bottom of a beer bottle with you near at hand. Sunday you're on your own. Hopefully I can find someone to drive home while I'm all shitty and hungover :)
I got mugged tonight. Do you ever feel like all your bad karma is coming due all at once? Cause mine totally is.
Bunnies, tell me something good about Chicago. I need to feel like there's good stuff in the world.
14 September 2006
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You'll probably get hyped boy 'cause you know you can't, can't touch this
Ring the bell school's back in, break it down!
Stop!
#bunnies time!
Charlie Brooker: You Tubeaganza. Probably the best TV critic on at the moment. Start with the disturbingly unwatchable
Baby Mindreader clip, and then get sucked into the rest.
The Branding of MeChazens No, not that kind of branding. The revolution will not be televised; it will be sponsored! Place your bid here for naming rights to MetaChat's users.
The Only Gay in the Village Committed 'homosexualist'
Daffyd Thomas lives in the Welsh mining village of Llanddewi Brefi.
I had a fabulous time tonight ...
Beers, bloodies and burgers with uws, this Sunday @ 2pm.
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SF Meet-Up on Sunday? Bumping. More thoughts or interest? Random things you'd like to share? Bueller?
Ask Mecha: free ERD diagramming tool? →Read more...
hope me metachat - thunderbird refuses to load my inbox file. anyone know anything about Thunderbird refusing to load inbox files?
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Sex-Toy-Ware/Lingerie Party →Read more...
What do these things have in common: Toyota Prius, McDonald's french fries, Motorola Razr, Starbucks coffee, New Balance running shoes?
Bunnies, hope me - Mozilla to Firefox →Read more...
OMG! The Evens! for kids. Via bardic's comment in
metatalk.
Load html page, then watch the Quicktime movie of the evens or ted leo for that matter.
Weekly Project Runway Thread - Final Five (and a twist) [spoilers inside]
OMG! KIRK/SPOCK OTP!!! (video SFW, audio NSFW)
This Thread is Therapy for MetaChat's Issues and Mild Depression
Vegas, baby. Vegas. So, I'm planning on going to Jonmc and Pip's nuptials. Just put in for a couple of vacation days (preparation and recovery time, respectively). Am researching flight/hotel room packages and thinking "sparkly outfit". And wondering... whom shall I see there besides the happy couple?
The Museum of Scientifically-Accurate Fabric Brain Art The museum exhibits the world's largest collection of anatomically correct fabric art, inspired by research from neuroscience and dissection.
This thread is for goofy pictures of llamas and alpacas.
So, I'm hitched. Feel free to congratulate or offer condolences...
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church of the communication here's a little something I found on my ride yesterday. I'm not sure what pool I want to post it to in flickr but I thought youall might appreciate the irony of this.
or is it too subtle? discuss.
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I'm on hold. My call has been first in the queue for 10 minutes. Maybe I should take my clothes off.
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Mefi is up, folks... If you are getting the old message, force the refresh (press control and click the refresh button).
Photo Friday reminder: Tomorrow's theme will be "Alice in Wonderland". Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!
13 September 2006
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bah, macromedia / firefox Anyone got a quick answer why an inserted Image viewer acts weird in Firefox?
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Radio Mecha - Music Box I'm playing some songs, probably African, on the Radio Mecha. Please join me, if you're so inclined.
P another D I T J, B? Abbreviated lyrics! Identify them!
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Continued from here, Part II follows inside, in which our hero
Little Nemo marches on...
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Sandwich art I will never look at luncheon meat in the same way again.
Happy Birthday.... →Read more...
Another tale of woe from the Apple store Got my iBook back today, from another repair (the second in recent months, after a first repair didn't fix the problem of it randomly going black). They erased it. I cried in the Apple store. With AskMeta down, I need your help: I need to get the music off my iPod onto my iBook. Hackers, hope me!
Just playing Where is my MetaChat!!!?????
I don't want to see all this "PHP test" crap or "iindex of ..." garbage. GIVE ME MY METACHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Site Information: As you may have noticed, The site has been offline / very slow recently.
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Please hope me. My fu is weak.
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Ooooh! Aaaah! Wonderful! Just a little update, since I'm not in front of a computer all day anymore.
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Weird Al's White and Nerdy Could be the theme song for this site ;-)
Inkoate's CDT Net Democracy Guide makes dailykos frontpage, congrats
Dumbco Update: For some reason, it is incredibly dark in here at headquarters today. I dunno whether this is an energy saving thing or they're trying to get us all so depressed that we'll committ suicide, thus saving on payroll.
Why is Metafilter down every morning? Is it post-partum depression?
MeCha suggestion box? I had a notion, and it's something that might really improve the quality of life here.
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"Hairy toes and feet are a distinct advantage..." You just don't hear that often. On what other occasions are hairy feet a big plus?
Set the Controls for the Nearest Home Depot The former home of Pink Floyd founder Syd Barrett, who died in July, has attracted huge interest from potential buyers undeterred by the reclusive singer's patchy home improvement efforts.
Dozens of people have viewed the 1930s house, which in the delicate words of the estate agent "provides an excellent opportunity for sympathetic improvement and updating".
HEY everybody! Nothing. Just Hey.
12 September 2006
Hey, seanyboy... I'm getting parsing errors... I'd mentioned this before, and I think Specklet was having a similar problem.
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Princeton, New Jersey Meetup Reminder →Read more...
I need some ideas for a stained-glass window design. I'm taking a stained-glass class where I'll get to design, cut, and construct my very own stained glass window, and I want it to be beautiful and different. I'm leaning toward doing something like this Natasha Wescoat painting (see inside), but I'm looking for other options to consider. Any ideas?
Songs that are happy but... NOT →Read more...
Have you ever wondered...? →Read more...
Net Democracy Guide I've been working on this site for about a month now in the context of my job. It's a guide for American citizens who are politically active online, or who think they might want to be.
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A VERY HAPPY UN-BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!
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Absolutely bizarre. Watch him cop a feel at 1:55
Further Shamless Boating I had a short vacation visiting longtime friends in Eastern Washington and I took some pretty pictures.
More Shamless Boating! I also want to boast in a sham-free manner.
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Shamless Boasting Post! Accolades!
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AskMeCha: Stupid question about editing a couple graphics →Read more...
Any details on the SF meetup this Sunday? Inquiring bunnies need to make a plan.
One of my favorite sequence puzzles: 1, 3, 7, 12, 18, 26, 35, 45, ... what comes next? Yes, you can find the answer on the web, but that's no fun. Also, yes, I'm aware that sequence puzzles don't have unique solutions.
Humor, a la Mother Nature. This freaky silly thing is growing by our sidewalk out back. It makes us laugh.
IMDB Morbidity. →Read more...
Is anyone else having trouble with Pandora? It's buffering/dropping out on me constantly... Completely unusable. Only me? Or is it them? (This has been a very frustrating week for internet... and it's only Tuesday.)
"Nobody changes anyone's mind anymore. People strain facts through their own ideology and ignore that which is happening before their eyes. Alive in this millennium, Orwell would be embarrassed for having so grossly understated his case."
A really interesting Q&A with David Simon, creator of
The Wire, before the start of the current 4th season.
We have a war on terror, and a war on drugs. Looks like the war on Stingrays has begun.
Music as Poetry What favorite songs of yours work either just as good as poetry, if not better?
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My favorite blues guys; one dead and one still kickin' →Read more...
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I saw a wood pussy this morning. →Read more...
Show us your Bloomers! Fun, fun Zefrank flowermaker. If you don't feel like making a bloomer yourself, go to the
build a garden page and choose from other people's flowers to create a vine or tree garden. Or go to the
community garden to see various random flowers, different each time.
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Flash Fuseday: Monkey Kick Off. Kick the ball, not the Monkey, as hard (and as far) as you can.
The Dogone A thong for your gassy dog. But does it come in spandex to accentuate his lovely neuticles?
11 September 2006
Annals of Journamalism. Sunday, the Bears blanked the Packers 26-0.
Monday, September 11, my hometown paper headlined the story:
Starting at Ground Zero.
It's been a long time I shouldn't have left you
without a strong rhyme to step to
The Emcee Ok here are the two line-ups for the emcee.
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IRC, URC, WEALLRC. 'Cuz I haven't been around much lately.
Warp Records are on YouTube. Only two videos at the moment but they're both great (lovers of the cute might appreciate the one with the cat).
More 9/11 hysterics: Armed police lock down high school after passerby sees students re-enacting a scene from Vietnam for an art project.
In the town next to the one where my parents live.
Dear Shane and the Toronto bunnies... →Read more...
More reasons to get fire insurance A photo set from the aftermath of
Lea Hernandez' house fire. Warning: Some pictures are not for pet owners.
Gay Americans & 9/11 Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, speaking about terrorism against the United States, asked:
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Punchlines to jokes. Tell me the punchlines to some common jokes. Or make some up.
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This is a shoe thread! I bought some absolutely groovily gorgeous shoes for The Wedding Of The Year. As I'll be wearing lilac sequins, the shoes are also lilac and have sequin hearts on them.
You people are boring me today. Come on, how can I be expected to procrastinate efficiently when it's so quiet in here?
Love Stories. Yesss, love is in the air, with Elvis bunnyweddings and suchlike goings-on. Lately I've been running a little project of asking longterm couples of all ages and backgrounds how they got together. This thread is for same! Tell your love story or that of someone you know. (The more improbable, the better!)
Two rabbinders! EmCee and Photo Friday. →Read more...
I met a bunny yesterday and thought of you. Yes, you.
His name is Lou and you can see him
here. We had a play date in the park. He lurrrrves it when you pet his ears and rub his nose. He really is the bestest bunny ever.
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September 11th shock horrow I'm in a plane over the NW Territories. Shocked and horrored that you can send email and surf the web from up here. Gotta get out more often. So far no hijacking but I'll let you all know.
Portugal was wonderful, hot, good wine, fish, beaches, stuff.
That's all I got.
My new internet bank welcome page looks like an IKEA commercial! Sitting at that desk just reminds me how much money is going out of the account...
Nerd Book Worry →Read more...
Is this site's slowdown related to that other site's slowdown? Is metachat slow today because the metachat server is trying (and timing out trying) to get something (an RSS feed, whatever) from metafilter.com? Probably not, but I thought I'd at least raise the question so it could be shot down.
Free Web 2.0 Ideas First in a series.
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What is the music in this commercial? Anybody know? I've been searching for it for a few days now, but can't seem to find it credited anywhere.
This is a hugging thread for those who need it. →Read more...
10 September 2006
Come to IRC! I have some pizza left from my big Football Laziness Day! →Read more...
WTF?? The intro to NBC's brand-new Sunday Night Football features some blonde bimbo covering a Joan Fucking Jett song.
*throws penalty flag*
washington, washington six-foot-twenty fucking killing for fun (NSFW, youtube).
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I'm back! Did you miss me?
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This is a happy day. I just found
Shock Treatment on DVD. (At the grocery store, of all places!!)
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The long-awaited and much-anticipated emcee is one step closer to reality! Honest.
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Best "contact" page ever? - we've done the 404's, now lets see the contact pags.
This is My New Total Favorite Song I think I only want to listen to African pop now and forever because of this song. But I know nothing. Tell me of more such wonders, oh bunnies, and YSI them too please please!
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"He was disappointed in what America has become as opposed to what it could be". James Fee, whose photographs of abandoned factories, lonesome highways and disjointed human figures express his sense of loss for what he remembered as better times for America, has died. He was 56.→Read more...
The Time Fountain Scroll down and watch the video. Be amazed!
Radio Replica ...and also, now in IRC!!! Come on in, the pool's warm.
Wired on Metafilter: Unhelpful
link text. Extra
links added for
padding that have
little to do with the
main topic of the
entry. Are extremely loaded rhetorical questions the only thing that can save us now?
09 September 2006
Some late-night sounds are playing now on
BP Radio. Come hang out in
IRC if you're still awake.. or even if you aren't!
Blatant Self-Link Where I play the part of your host, ThirteenDamnDollars
Flickr question How are Flickr tags organized, related, or put into hierarchies?
ow ow ow nothing earth shattering but, I twisted my ankle pretty severly today, if it wasnt for the hiking boots I suspect Id be in the hospital today. So now I'm stuck indoors with the foot up and a buncha ice. *ssssssigh*
Return of the return of the return of the SHOUTING THREAD! J_P: Why can't you hire me?
Employer A: Because you're a temp.
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The food engineers are resting on their laurels! Last night, I dreamt of the mighty Scallapeno! (a bivalve mollusk crossed with a chile) If you could engineer any combination of plants, animals, or basically any physical matter for eating by just the power of your imagination what would it be?
Bunny Nuptuals Update! The date and time have been set: 9:30pm on Saturday, September 23 at the
Graceland Wedding Chapel.
The King will be in attendance. All the bunnies are invited and urged to attend.
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This was going to be a shouting thread ... →Read more...
Site News: Reorganized Sidebars. I've finally moved my ass to re-order and prune down the sidebars, so that (I hope) they will be more helpful and pertinent to timely projects and events. More on that inside.
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Site News: New Rule. Please see inside for our new policy regarding gifts, wishlists, and contributions.
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Someone mentioned Bunnies? Time to get Scooby and the gang on it!
WHERE THE FUCK IS MY METAFILTER!??????!?!?!? I wake up this morning and metafilter is down. Damnit. I need my fix!
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08 September 2006
Here is Harold Faltermeyer's "Axel F" played entirely with samples from Herbie Hancock's "Rockit". Constructed by the almost always brilliant
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essexjan, the United States Treasury Dep't. Would Like a Word with You In an effort to allow its citizenry to appear less threatening while traveling abroad, the United States government has washed its currency with pastel posturing. We hope you will enjoy our upcoming AromaMoney which will be, ahem, minted in the spring.
Now that I'm getting married, by the king, I need to pick the perfect rockabilly shirt to wear to the wedding. In my online shopping, I've narrowed it down to
these three shirts. You tell me, bunny brethren. (as an alternative, anyone know any boutiques in NYC that carry this kinda stuff?
Chihuahua Warning! "Don't Make The Same Mistakes I Made With My Chihuahua!"
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AAAARRRRGHHH! A SHOUTING THREAD! I AM STILL IN THE OFFICE AND I AM COVERED WITH TONER!
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Greetings from California! Hi bunnies! I'm on vacation! In California! I drove! From Houston! I left early Wednesday morning! That day I drove 1000 miles! Yesterday I drove 500 more miles! I never want to drive again! But I am on vacation! And I love vacations! Hi bunnies! I'm just a little punchy 2nd-day drunk right now! But I am on a driving vacation!
What's the longest distance you've driven in one swell foop, and how did it affect you??
Calgary Meetup The Calgary and area MeFis are having a meetup and you are all invited.
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No news is good news, right? So how
do you spell double partial nephrawhateverit'scalled?
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Someone Somewhere within the last week or so posted a request for a link to make a little book out of one sheet of paper. I cannae find it now and I'm dying. Can You Help?
Make Your Own Copy of My Metafilter Swap CD! →Read more...
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Screaming Bunny No bunnies were harmed in the making of this video....
The bunny is out of the hat, as they say. Yes, Pips, (with help from the king of Rock and Roll) will be making an honest man out of me in Vegas.
Happy Birthday! Welcome! Congratulations! Good Luck! →Read more...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to YOUCANCALLMEAL!!! →Read more...
The one's for Specklet Direct link to .avi file You've had a rough couple of days. Let this little guy bring a smile to you.
"Panda inconsolable after crushing cub" easily qualifies as the saddest headline I have ever read in my life.
So LunaticFringe and I had a discussion last night. If
Emmanuel Lewis and
Gary Coleman had swords and fought a score of
bear cavalry, who would win?
VEGAS Let's get the details for that Saturday night meetup set in stone, shall we? I want to cross post those details to Metatalk.
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Stupid Vegas-trip-related question →Read more...
I got hired and fired this week. What did you do? :)
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Foto Phriday 8 September '06 "What's Wrong With This Picture," suggested by WolfDaddy, no PhotoShopping allowed: "...pictures that at first glance look 'ordinary' but something's subtly--or not--wrong..."
I dropped the ball! I should've been reminding you about this all week. Does this theme require preparation? Don't forget next week's Alice In Wonderland.
Sigh. Metafilter is still down in the morning for everyone across the pond... Productivity 1, Intarwebs and Servers 0
07 September 2006
Here's my problem with NBC's The Office: Okay, first off, let me say that I really enjoy this show (and the original BBC series)...HOWEVER...
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Everybody flip your keyboard and give it a good shake. Report your findings, please. - Brownie crumbs
- Something that appeared to be pasta
- A small pony
- A pop top from a can
- Something slightly oily.
Also, laptop users are discouraged from shaking their laptops.
OK San Fransicoins! I'm coming over next week. i vote we meet. And I vote we meet Sunday, cos I know that Fris is free then.
Questions are: who's free, and where do we go?
This is a whining thread. →Read more...
Whoa, mango sour altoids Although, wait, I've never been a fan of sour mangoes.
Or mmm,
10! lbs of watermelon jelly belly jelly beans
But they don't have
mango jolly ranchers ...
Which is what I was looking for. humph!
*lashes metachat to the mast*
Anything fun in NYC tonight? okay, i know this is late notice, but anyone know of anything fun going down in nyc tonight?
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Radio Dodgy On the air. Now.
"Craig Moore, 28, took his revenge on the camera, which had flashed him in the Hyde area of Manchester, in August 2005 ... Although the camera itself was badly damaged, images of him speeding and returning to destroy the evidence were stored in recording equipment in its unscathed base."
I too need some advice, MetaChat. →Read more...
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David Lynch's INLAND EMPIRE Along the way we meet a desperate, homicidal woman (Julia Ormond) with a screwdriver embedded in her stomach who later turns out to be Billy’s wife; we keep cutting back to the family of rabbit-heads (one voiced by Naomi Watts) who spout annoying Pinteresque non-sequiturs; and we are introduced to some girls who later turn out to be hookers, and who dance in formation to The Locomotion
Starcade! 5 full episodes online and they promise to have all 133 episodes eventually. Break out your Mister Disc and enjoy some classic gaming goodness.
Holy shit! OMG bunny!!! Has anyone seen this?!@?
Free Beer! It's a beer. It's, um...
Free Beer.
It's confusing the helloutta people.
Added link for padding is
here. MeCha doesn't allow unhelpful link text, so it is here:
Beer is one of the world's oldest alcoholic beverages. It is a fermented beverage made from malted barley, hops and water, and is carbonated in almost all cases. A wide variety of adjuncts can also be added to beer, either to achieve a particular flavor profile, or to lower the cost of production.
"Free Beer" is reversed back again
here as a cool (I like it, anyway) synonym for "open source." Free Beer! I think that was a band name once. It fooled plenty of people into going to their shows.
Weekly Project Runway thread, with spoilers Debuillez-vous! (sp?)
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Feel free to effervese here
I am Coveting Shoes. I really, really, really want some Starbury Cyclones.
Has anyone heard from arse_hat? He's been on my mind.
imagine your parents having sex
06 September 2006
YSI request ?
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Tell me about your collections. →Read more...
THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD! →Read more...
Stupidest menu ever. Let's make fun of it.
"She's got these long clothes on and an old-fashioned hairdo," he said. "You know it sort of makes you real mad."
Help for a comics artist American comics artist and former U.S. Gainax employee Lea Hernandez has suffered a terrible blow. This morning, half of her house burned down, including several of her original art pieces and six of her eight family pets.
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Please do not flash the octopus.
Reminderfest! The NFL season kicks off tomorrow night!
(Charlie Batch!) Don't forget to make your picks in the
pick league and to set your lineups in the
fantasy league.
It's not too late to join the pick league! See
here for signup info.
Can I get a hell yes?
the glitch browser cooooooooooooool... (works great with flikr)
Pi's Kumoricon Report! Last weekend, I attended my first ever Anime con,
Kumoricon. And yes, cmonkey, there were girls - I have the
pictures to prove it.
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Querelous Quentin, Clueless Job Hunter needs your help!
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I need some support. Unbiased opinions and observations are welcome.
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A Pondered Life Sixteen years ago I was in Jackson, Mississippi, and the owner of the bed- and-breakfast at which I was staying gave me Eudora Welty's address at 1119 Pinehurst Street, across from Bellhaven College. Miss Welty loves visitors, I was told, and I should feel free and welcome to go knock on her door.
Lorrie Moore on Eudora Welty in the NYRB
OMG Bunny (Dunny) with Deep(er) Issues ! . . . (an expensive "art toy" from
here.)
p.s. C'mon, you Toronto canuckleheads! Confirm you're coming to the meetup! I won't be begging for your couch, fer fiksakes! jonson was kidding! And I showered. Just for you.
Notorious FAT - Things Done Changed. Not one of my favorite songs, but the video's pretty good. More Fat Albert inside!
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15 aliens arrested in roswell, nm (aliens in roswell? i don't believe it!)
My Montgomery Biscuits hat just arrived. It looks great. But I already have my
House of David hat on today and I love that, too. So here I sit, paralyzed by choice.
Wheel-less... for now So after months of procrastinating and finding out that my tire went flat last night, I took action
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY GASPODE!!!
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i am the only boy in texas who says go bucks. uno) when during the year do i fork out for a new macbook? do i need 'pro'? probably not. mi, as the kids say.
two) we're starting a magazine! we're like 1993 all over again!
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what happened to the site yesterday? mefi was down too. i almost got some work done. and i won't stand for THAT shit.
Question about estate agents and ethics Is it ok to ruthlessly edit the copy (full of typos and inaccuracies - 'top floor' when it's second floor of three, 'this apartment comprises from two bedrooms...', 'eclectic heaters') that one's estate agent has already put online to sell your flat?
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Thanks for fixing MeCha ...whomever you may be. ;)
05 September 2006
New policy at work →Read more...
eBay question: Is it possible to put a link (a url) in eBay feedback?
Yay! I'm home from work, sopping wet because I forgot an umbrella, grumpy and tired. But at least mecha's back up.
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Flickr, the Musical (Google video)
[via my cool friend S.]
Josh Marshall's eulogy for his father. From one viewpoint, of limited interest. From another, it seems to me to have a poignancy that makes it larger. Both my parents are still alive. I can see the time coming when this won't be true. I wish people didn't die.
I just put my daughter on her first ever school bus. →Read more...
Last night I watched Spike Lee's Katrina documentary, all 4 hrs of it.
My House Of David cap arrived. It fits perfectly and looks great. I'm so happy.
Cheer me up or I'll rain on you. Or, alternately, get out MS Paint (um, heh... remember MS Paint?) and post your own
Exploding Dog-inspired simple, quick art and caption describing your mood or feelings.
"Silent Shout," by Swedish duo The Knife A cool, creepy music video to a song I've been listening to a LOT this summer. The whole
album is excellent (and can be
streamed here).
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Ask Mecha Downloading MeFi Music?
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Calling all Boston bunnies? I shall be visiting your fair city soon for my birthday weekend; care to get drunk with me?
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It is pissing out - Three Point Status Report a) I am sitting in my office w. fluorescent lights off and nice incandescent lamp on.
b) I don't have any activist stuff to do till Thursday! Yay! And I had hummus, olives and bread for lunch, yum!!
c) My brother called drunkenly the other day and Didn't Listen One Bit.
I just goatsed a hotlinker.
Happy Birthday Jessamyn! →Read more...
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04 September 2006
"Star Trek: The Voyage Homer" (Youtube, natch)
What if two of our fave theme songs got all puréed together in a transporter accident? (
via)
What Jason had for dinner tonight It's rent time and I'm kind of bummed because I have no money. I can't afford to eat at the places where I normally eat.
So I threw together a pork chop, some of last night's red sauce, and a big, runny pile of polenta.
Now I am no longer bummed.
Polenta is good food.
New thing I learned today: There exists an official Star Wars
story in which Darth Vader's
glove surives the explosion of the death star and gets sucked through a wormhole to another world.
A night (timezone dependent) with Steven Jesse Bernstein in
transcription:
Come Out Tonight,
More Noise Please (which also became the name of an
EMP exhibit) ,
Morning In The Sub-Basement Of Hell and
Art or Anarchy?; in
memoriam: his son's tribute
page to him, and the musings of a
friend.
I'm sorry I can't upload any of the recordings themselves. :(
LOL, MA im in ur state im killin ur d00dz
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Dumb question time: Bought a new bathrobe... it has no washing instructions on it. WTF? I assume just throw it in the machine but what about the dryer?
The cotton/poly blend pulpit on your chest. I'm talking about the t-shirt, a garment near and dear to my heart. Clothes are often about identity, but none so much as the tee. Here's
all of mine and the stories behind them. I'm sure you got yours too. (let's see 'em.
I Need To Be Attacked! Gather Your Minions And Launch An Anti-LT Blitzkrieg!
I saw a flamethrowing car this weekend. Also, a bunch of cool
bands (jonmc, I recorded
this one with you in mind), a
ton of
sweet cars,
rollergirls in a
dunk tank, and some good
bad movies.
It's always my favorite weekend of the year, Atlanta's
Drive-Invasion. The rest of my pics from the day are
here (plus pics from last year
here).
Are you German and Don't think you need to learn English? Hysterical German TV advert for an english school. Warning -
NSFW soundtrack. My labor day gift to you.
Take me to the river and drop me in the water. via neatorama which was via viachicago. (Game instructions at the neatorama ref if you need them). Links have nothing to do with Mr. David Byrne.
This is the best church sign I've seen in a while and I didn't even need the Church Sign Generator, it was right there on 79th & Broadway.
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Lots of talk about the "Global Obesity Pandemic" in the news today, but we've been hearing about this for a while. Sort of. What struck me was the much more explicit, specific explanation of the role of fast food (and processed foods) in
this article. Some excerpts inside...
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We're Not Worthy! Cortex has done it.
*Bows, Worships*
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03 September 2006
Steve Irwin dead Vale the crocodile hunter.
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The internets are boring me! Fix it?
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Re-Move... Interactive. Flash. Sound.
60 GB Video iPod OMG! →Read more...
if you could have one superpower, what would it be? just thought I'd ask...
as for me, it would be psychokinesis (a la "Carrie")... I wouldn't hurt anybody, but I would love to sit in public places & just fuck with people by moving things around with my mind... heh heh heh... I would also use it to clean the house...
The truth about TiVo's origins revealed Dry, retro, amusing employee training video, about 4 minutes.
New friend. So, I've finally plucked the courage up to point friends towards metachat. And one of them has joined. I have questions though.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEADCOWDAN!!!
Hi MeCha, I Have Not... forgotten about you. My new job is going great but it keeps me busy during the day and my two little boys keep me busy at night. But I try to read the feed as best I can.
And today we're headed up to the Highland Games for some good Scottish fun!
Did I mention that things are going really well with the new girl? Thanks once again for all your help, MetaChatters.
Hard Times Here are two versions of the Stephen Foster song. One by
Bill Frisell, the other by
Syd Straw. Enjoy.
02 September 2006
I Am Always Hungry's Katrina pages are worth some clicks, imo.
Heavy: The Story Of Metal is on right now. They're getting to Iron Maiden as I type. I'm
feeling very metal right now and I've just opened a bottle of
Terrible. Lock up your wives, daughters and farm animals.
I'm runnin' free, yeah, I'm runnin' free...
Birthday Calculator: General facts about the day you were born.
Me? As of 9/2/2006 6:30:56 PM EDT: You are 1,251,657,056 seconds old. Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 5.66966731898239 years old. (You're still chasing cats!)
Your date of conception was on or about 13 April 1966 which was a Wednesday.
You were born on a Wednesday
Also, this blog's's neat too:
Indexed. A series of index cards showing the relationships of various things.
via Web Zen
Heading out to the post office with my CDs Gotta get those MeCha CDs out the door.
If you're in my group, they should be getting to you in a few days, with a track listing coming shortly thereafter in the snailmail.
Hope you like them!
OMG Really Dumb Yet Addicting Doggie Flash Game! and, uh, that's about all you can say about it.
Where Church and Commerce Collide Part of me wishes I actually had an inkjet printer now...
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"Mamaaa, it's me — your little lamb! Would I lie?" This is the OMG-SO-CUTE face (and body) of deception.
01 September 2006
Radio Mecha - Music Box I'm on the Radio Mecha, and I'm all over the place. Please join me, if you're so inclined.
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I moved today and it was PAINLESS! Now begins the hell of trying to decide where to put stuff.
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Yes, it *is* all about me. I have a
new haircut! I have bangs! I am freaking out! (yes, it really doesn't look that different. But it does to me!)
My Furry Friday doesn't like mousetraps. This little baby wasn't much bigger than the last digit of my thumb.
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Anyone for a bit of #bunnies?
The Soul of Punk Ramones:
Little Bit O' Soul and The Jam:
Sweet Soul Music. Enjoy!
I am now a MOTHER-IN-LAW Daughter got married this afternoon!
Finally! Yay!
What's the hottest news in the world of cured meats? Finally
Jamón Iberico is coming to the United States. One of the treasures of Spanish gastronomy, jamón Iberico is made from black-footed pigs (hence the alternate name pata negra) that have been raised on acorns and wild plants.
Though it has been made in Spain for centuries, only in July was a producer certified by the Department of Agriculture to ship the hams to the U.S.
Doggies! OMG! Pages and pages of cuteness.
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Weekend: Long. Up to: What are you?
Dave Grohl contributes to the delinquincy of a miner.
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Guess The MetaChatter! (based on a playlist)
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Hypothesis: There are more songs about September than any other month.
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Political villains like the villains in a genre novel I guess it had to happen: a false-flag operation on Youtube.
Somebody (Republican operative? Nihilist? Skinhead?) creates supposedly Democrat-affiliated YouTube group called "UtubeDemos", and fills it with videos calling Rumsfeld a Nazi, the US Marines a Nazi cult, and celebratory montages of US troops being killed.
anybody else going to a college fb game tomorrow? if so, what game? →Read more...
Seattle Local Interest: 2018 Nob Hill Avenue North Or as we--at least some of us locally--call it,
the Oz House. And here is the
mapquest. Also of current local interest is the Henry Darger exhibit at
Frye. This has been a public service announcement.
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Just Curious →Read more...
Busted! So I'm walking from my car to my office this morning, later than usual due to a trip to the bulk mail office and
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Is life like a novel? Are our political villains like the villains in a genre novel? I’m frustrated and sad—not just in my personal life, but also in my sense of the world around me. [More Inside]
dg, I owe you a debt of thanks!
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Three Things →Read more...
Classic Hip Hop mp3s! Found this through the
altavista audio search, for which I
still owe mgl for discovering.
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Foto Phriday It's 'furry friends' this week, right?
Flash Friday: Clack is the
winner of the First JIG
Casual Gameplay Design Competition (all the entries can be
played here).
Greece is so happy. I don't think anyone went to work today. From the screaming and cheering I heard from all the cafes and tavernas surrounding my building, everyone but everyone, except me, was outside sipping coffee frappes and watching the game. If we win on Sunday it will be insane.
A question of feline and entomological ethics... →Read more...
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