28 February 2007
Need non-girlie pics in the margin. You can definitely see the woman's touch around here, especially the user art pics in the margins.
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Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? I don't know if this show makes me feel good or really, really sad.
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FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK I missed my flight and when I called the hotel at the airport to let them know I'd be coming in tomorrow, they said they had no record of me. When I came home, it turned out that I had forgotten to reschedule when I decided not to take the train-- a roundtrip roomette would have been $800+ . I'm really upset about this--Atlanta is one of my favorite cities, I'd been looking forward to seeing people I know and I had been planning to roadtrip through Georgia and the Carolinas after AWP (writers' convention) was over.
Fuck mathowie. Fuck cortex My comments keep getting deleted in the blue. I'd post about it in MeTa, but I can't. I'd email whoever's doing it, but I don't know who. So instead, I'm going to bitch about it here and try not to flame out on the blue.
TheDonF and I at the meetup. Seriously disappointed that nobody else bothered to turn up. Where were you guys?!
Cat communication is apparently quite sophisticated. For about a week a black cat has been coming around and sleeping on our fence.
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Joost, anyone? I have two invitations for Joost if someone is interested.
Seattleites - wanna go to the opera? I'm listing these tickets on CL for $100 but I'll offer a bunny price of $80.
Dating is Hell - Update... →Read more...
Things I swore I'd never do but did anyway →Read more...
Damn you, Pagerank! [cursing at Google inside]
A few weeks ago, my nephew took my dad through the Joseph Cornell
exhibit at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC.
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Down comforter distress Bunnies, I need some advice....
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Name jrossi4r 's baby! Inspired by a comment in another thread, what would you name Baby jrossi4r if you had your druthers?
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In a few hours, I will have my *third* interview of the week. This is, of course, after having moved on Monday. I am so very, very tired.
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jrossi4r is bored with her bedrest and we need to, um, entertain her. I, for one, think
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Lucinda could tear both my arms off, stick pins in my eyes, chew my up, shit me out,
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SHOUTING THREAD! →Read more...
Metachat/Metafilter remixed? between here and music.mefi, we've seen that there are many talented musicians among us. What if we swapped tracks with each other and remixed/covered other people's works?
Crazy Japanese online game involving Easter Island heads. Run your cursor over at least 100 of the heads per level, shooting-gallery style.
(Note: has embedded music)
Caption this! I am all out of ideas today, but I know the MeCha wits will be able to make me giggle.
Ghost Rider? I've loved various incarnations of the comic since I was a tot. I'm not always a Nic cage fan. But I guess I'd better see it? Not expecting a
Hellboy or a
Sin City, though. Speaking of which:
300? Your thoughts? [A vaguely comicbook movie thread...)
AskMeCha - Tax withholding →Read more...
A song for those in IRC... →Read more...
iSketch. I have been away, and I want to play with you. Room: Mecha.
Help me w/ a project? Every day for a year or so (starting last Jan 14th) I'm posting a photo to a website (usually a pic taken within a day or so of posting, but occasionally a revamped img from my photo "archives" raw material.) What can I do to improve the site's looks? And why does my mouse-over link text cut off instead of going on and on like Y2Karl's over on MeFi (the source of dozens of MeTa call-outs, LOL) ? Tks!
27 February 2007
For essexjan, scody, and others... ...The Style Council.
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Tu Cidad Any LA metachat members get this magazine? There's an article in the Feburary issue, about racial issues in LA written by Marcos McPeek Villatoro that I would like to get a copy of. Can anyone help me out?
I don't if I'm the only one who's noticed, but the Kool-Aid man now
wears pants. I don't know about you, but I think it's a sad day when we can no longer view naked glassware.
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Attention IT industry experts - I need your help!
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This just makes me happy. . . . I know, a pedestrian link, but new to me, and I enjoy it so. . that's all.
LIFECHANGE ! : Check out my new "desk" ! After ten years wasting away in cubicles, stressed to the max, overwhelmed with more work than a person can do, never able to leave it behind at the end of the day...
I chucked it all. Went to work in the warehouse. Moving heavy objects (with or w/o a forklift), fixing and building things, etc.
OMG BUNNY! I HAVE A BRAIN AGAIN! I CAN WRITE AND DO ART AND BIKE AND, WELL,
ANYTHING I WANT AFTER WORK!
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More Adam (If you know who Handy Andy is, you'll maybe enjoy this more)
Party in #bunnies Come on, you know you want to!
There once was a web site I read
It kept me from going to bed
A bunny I sharred
And then I declared
"Let's start a limerick thread!"
Hope Me, Please! - PSP 7 question(s) inside.
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Sigh Let me preempt this with: yes, the title of the story begins with "Christian" but I'm "person-bashing" here. What sort of person denies treatment to a kid based on whether their parents are tattooed or not?
and yes, I'm aware that he's within his rights to do so
We're moved! And the cat's missing. Like, seriously missing. I'm sure she's curled up in a corner somewhere, but I'm starting to worry.
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Tell me this isn't really true In this article about an American Idol scandal, there's a quote I refuse to believe
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A nice, long video interview with Lisa Kekaula, lead vocalist for (IMHO) the best currently active rock and roll band out there, The Bellrays (
pix from a gig I attended last year). Some
live Bellrays on YouTube to go with it. (and a silly bunch of
bunny Bellrays, coincidence? I think not). Enjoy.
A neutron walks into a bar... →Read more...
Foreign countries and weight loss →Read more...
Things I am more interested in than I used to be →Read more...
Bump - Things I am not as interested in as I used to be I think this thread is awesome and I'd love to see more responses.
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Anyone watch The Black Donnellys last night? What were your first impressions?
I liked it, but I am reserving the right to hate on it later.
What about you?
OK, about this "forever stamp" that the U.S. Postal Service is proposing- a stamp that you can still use even after the postage rate goes up again- has anyone heard how they'll prevent people mobbing the post office as soon as word of the next rate increase gets out?
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well, Better Half's accepted an offer and we're moving to Glasgow.
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Say Woo! Say Yay! I'm eight years sober today!
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Al Invades NYC! 16 more days until spring break, which means 16 more days until I come to NYC to start investigating the housing/job possibilties.
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26 February 2007
Ideas for this coming Photo Friday? Someone mentioned PhotoShopped pics, or maybe (also?) PhotoShopping our faces. Any interest? Plenty of time to prepare...
Holy CRAP. Heroes is so good tonight! →Read more...
I'm BAAAAAACK! Expect quite a few posts from me forthcoming. You've been warned. Explanation will follow. To begin with,
Amanda (youngergirl44): YOU ROCK! How cool!
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The unbearable sadness of the internets. [more inside]
45 mins of radio. Give or take a few.
Style check, please. I've been growing out my facial hair, and someone informed me yesterday that it's not trendy. Opinions, please!
Better like this?
Or better like this?
Headline-style update, please.
Soup du jour. We made this for dinner last night and it was wiggifyingly yummy.
Truck: A Love Story One of my favorite books from last year is being read on Chapter A Day this week.
Animated Soviet Propaganda. A
four-disc set of animated Soviet propaganda films, coming March 20 from Kino.
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Name my album Please submit album title suggestions for my RPM Project. Song titles inside.
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3 Wisdom Teeth Later, any tips on food for my SO? →Read more...
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This thread got me to thinking.. There seems to be so much 'run away now' in context of people with Borderline Personality Disorder. Probably for good reason. But what is someone who has the disorder to do? They've got the right to seek companionship, family life and success as much as anybody else - and, ironically, therapists and counselors are quite discriminatory against people with this diagnosis!
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Surgical success linked to skill at video games
Dans le Noir? Can't decide whether this 'dinner in the dark' restaurant is neat or lame.
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Barely Remembered Early 90s Song Okay, mechadetectives, I present a puzzle that has bothered me for years.
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25 February 2007
Hey, you know what's funny? Making fun of the millions of people whose excitement and devotion to you fund your art, your trade, and your Armani.
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Okay - I wanna be the first person to say this.... →Read more...
I have harvested the following links from AskMe and I am going to learn how to program.
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Radio kyleg makes a triumphant return at 8:30 Eastern. Screw the Oscars, I'll be in irc and djing.
Black Book Art Circle Project I have a book from the Mefi circle that has been sitting on my desk for.... far too long. Anyone want it?
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For a friend I never knew. →Read more...
What's for dinner? →Read more...
I love LA Things to do today: Museum of Jurassic Technology and the LACMA.
Things to do tomorrow for cheap or free?
Asked here because y'all are cooler and more arty than AskMe proper.
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Bummer Mix I have forgotten how to DJ or lost my technological ability or something so instead of boring you with 21 mostly depressing mostly kinda old songs, I uploaded them!
Ice fish, many-limbed sea stars and a colony of sea squirts. Just a few of the amazing things found on the Antarctic floor.
Hummingbirds are awesome. Wait, that one's
a moth or something.
Hummingbirds fight over a feeder.
This guy gets them to drink from his cupped palm. This lady's
helping an injured hummingbird drink from a flower.
Mmmm, Tasty Chemicals -- A new
book 'deconstructs' a Twinkie and analyzes all 39 ingredients.
Industrial-strength junk food, anyone?
The speed at which the things I'm leaving outside my apartment to be released into the wild are being picked up is astounding. I set out three six packs of Diet Coke; I think they were gone before I went back inside.
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Journeyman soul man Andre Williams covers a Johnny Paycheck honky-tonk classic. Result:
utterly twisted perfection.
webthingies you hate - list'em!
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Curious Bunny: Where was
this photo taken?
People who fall between friends and lovers: drinking buddies. →Read more...
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Smells that make you go… ick. →Read more...
The spork graphic on the right there links to something thats 403, http://metachat.org/skins/zombie/
Just figure I'd mention that.
BP Radio Will definitely feature a song LoriInFLA mentioned this evening. Will probably also feature a Lily Allen song. Starting now.
Awake? Like Screensavers (and/or Nautilus steampunk thingy)? You can get a $15 Nautilus 3D screensaver for free here...
but only for the next three hours. You need to activate it and install it before the offer time runs out. (You can't download the zip and activate later) [
note: this now over]
24 February 2007
OMG! TOYGERS! From the cover of the latest issue of the mere shadow that used to be
Life Magazine.
Documentary double-feature! We just spent the evening watching
Shut Up And Sing, the Dixie Chicks documentary, and
Jesus Camp. Both were excellent, though I thought
Jesus Camp was the better-made of the two. It also disturbed the crap out of me.
I really love this song. Mainly cause it sounds great, but also because it takes a lot of typical love song ideas and stands them on their heads.
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Nice article about how things are getting better for everyone.
So the doomsayers are wrong. Educated men and women are more likely to marry and less likely to divorce than others. And guess what? They have better sex lives, too.
Sorority Evictions Raise Issue of Looks and Bias -- "Delta Zeta’s national officers....judged 23 of the [DePauw University] women insufficiently committed and later told them to vacate the sorority house.
The 23 members included every woman who was overweight. They also included the only black, Korean and Vietnamese members. The dozen students allowed to stay were slender and popular with fraternity men — conventionally pretty women the sorority hoped could attract new recruits. Six of the 12 were so infuriated they quit."
Priceline has managed to combine all of my marketing grammar pet peeves into a single tagline: Save up to half off on hotels! Grr.
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Hey guys! Miss me? →Read more...
Radio_Replica: Some downbeat stuff to start your Saturday. Starting at 9:00 PST / 12:00 EST
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Happy Birthday to warbaby!
Happy birthday Fish. 25 years after People magazine
reported him dead Abe Vigoda turns 86.
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Have you ever been "that guy"? →Read more...
This interested me: last.fm and the Stones I discovered that you can see charts based on the listening habits of
last.fm users and the countries they live in.
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Sometimes life holds sweet surprises. A
BP Radio set starting right about now.
Update. Me, pips and the Janus went to see Joe Famous tonight. He's looking pretty good, all things considered, even though he's on a lot of pain meds. Takes more than some sissy-ass car to knock out my main man. He thanks everybody for all the cards and kind words and hopes to see some of you all soon.
I'm having a party, and I need help! We're having a dance floor...
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23 February 2007
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Is Flickr melting down for anyone else tonight? I keep getting timeouts, errors, etc. while trying to upload and sort some pics.
I want muddgirl to rant about declawing I have a 12-year old furrpurrball who in the past years decided that leather couches are his scratching posts, and I nearly bough the seating group linked.
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Was there just an earthquake (minor!) in SF? And what's the website where I can check these things? (And if it wasn't an earthquake, then I'd like to go on record as saying I'm *so* looking forward to no longer having my living room share a wall with my neighbor's garage.)
Why is my nipple so manly? No, really.
How would YOU cast MetaFilter The Movie? Or MetaChat The Movie? Or the TV Series? (one of my favorite 'what if' games)
Ugh, dramarama! I just signed up for an email list for a local knitting group
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I have a Nielsen diary through Wednesday. Any recommendations? →Read more...
Avril Lavigne has a new music video and it's so bad/awesome I feel the need to share it. Keep in mind, she's 23 years old and MARRIED.
Radio TheDonF Two hours of music for those who want to listen to it. This time it's organised!
O'heard in NY gem. I found this quite hilarious.
This is a cheering thread! Yaaaaaaay!!! →Read more...
Urinalfilter: A question for the women of Metachat: Do you use these things?
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I devoted the last 24 hours to the fine art of Not Throwing Up. I think I'm getting good at it, I didn't throw up at all. Stupid stomach virus.
Did you see the office last night? If so, I have question for you... →Read more...
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If you spent a whole day acting like the most annoying person/people in your life, what would you be doing?
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Photo Friday 23 Feb '07: "Things I Made"! Suggested by fluffy battle kitten. Things
you've made. Things
we've made.
You know.
It's Friday and you might need to waste time at work. So here's an incredible MeFi post that will link you to a world of beautiful, amazing Flash art presentations called 'Organic Flash'.
/disappears down rabbit hole
Week-end Plans? →Read more...
Say what again. TypographyFilter, NSFW, QuickTime.
sidebar art update and invitation: Our current sidebar art is an emcee exquisite corpse panel by iconomy, top left, deborah's lovely tootsies from a Photo Friday post in the middle, and, at bottom, from master gardener weretable and the undead chairs, one of his beautiful flowers.
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Keeping my fingers crossed! →Read more...
22 February 2007
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Happy new phone time! So I'm on Cingular/ATT and it's finally time for me to upgrade my phone.
I was thinking of either the
Samsung Sync or
LG CU500, anyone have either? Anyone have a better suggestion?
You know how sometimes you can read a word and know on some level it's right but on another think it's completely wrong?
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Damn, electricity in Texas is expensive! -- Richard Redden said he had a good laugh when he received a monthly bill for $24,200,700,007.
Any Times Select peeps out there? Wondering if I could sneak a peak at
this NYT article on the Prius.
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Interpret my fortune cookie fortune: You will make many changes before settling down happily. I thought I was settled. I thought I was happy. What does it all mean?!
Suuuuuhweeet Steampunk Keyboard and I want it badly! More
Steampunk goodness (eventually since the site got beat down by Digg earlier today).
Dammit. I just noticed a typo in something I sent off as a writing sample. ARGH.
Some kind of music video deeley Pretty cool, with scrolly things and the like.
Radio TDH Hope this helps!. As this is an impromptu set, what we have here is two hours of iTunes on random play. Results could be very varied.
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What is tomorrow's Photo Friday theme? I promise I'll be "back" this weekend. And tonight I'll explain where I've been. It's almost entertaining.
THIS IS A PRE B-DAY THREAD!!! And this is my present for ya'all!!!
“The only thing Truman Capote and I have in common was Howard Hunt beat us out for a Guggenheim” -- Gore Vidal
Your Semi-Daily Joe Famous Report The first thing I noticed was that he looks very different without his glasses on.
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Arethra Franklin getting her awesome on. Arethra Franklin makes me proud to be an American. (Via MoFi.)
You know the simple, pure joy that brings a smile to your face? →Read more...
When T-shirt slogans are better than any picture-text. warning: britney shot. First time I saw this was ages ago, but her shirt really does say it all. I just
can't wrap my head around why someone worth 150 bazgazillions would have a nanny
feed her child as they ride an escalator. What kind of low-price nanny is this to allow such idiocy? Can't they find a dang chair somewhere?
If anyone is curious as to how the detox story progresses:
WARNING: Might be longer than OrangeSwan's great stories and not nearly as humorous.
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21 February 2007
Mounties always get their man um, can. "One of our guys was able to actually wrestle this doe to the ground, enough to be able to pry the big coffee can off of its face,"
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My sister's financial aid woes... I'm so frustrated over this I'm crying
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iSketch: music edition! room mecha as always. Guess the artist name, I guess.
How can you sentence a child to 35 years in prison? Please help me understand. →Read more...
Wedding night miss Here are two stories of wedding nights gone horribly wrong for the very reasonable admission price of one click.
Yay, my (English) bank paid back all my credit card arrears charges from the past 6 years; yay. You can get your charges back too, if you have an English or Welsh bank account of any kind.
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I am alive. In the Independent and Sovereign Nation-State Citadel known as San Francisco.
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Mr. Sulu would like to say something to former basketball player Tim
"I hate gay people" Hardaway.
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day Remember that book? It's really about me, and today. They just printed "Alexander" instead of "Amanda" to protect my identity. Shhhhh...
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My First Time It's been roughly ten years since I first "experienced" the internet.
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reccomend me some of those recipe-filled book things →Read more...
In an attempt to beat the winter blues, dame and I are going on a Spears spree.
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AskMeCha: What's the hex color of MetaFilter? THE blue? I have no idea how to find it (it appears to be hidden in css styles), and I'm colorblind so can't pick it out by eye. I'd appreciate any help.
Tarsiers! OMG! Mostly Awww-y, sometimes Eeew-y. Weird eyes. Amazing hands.
Awesome thread alert. Loads of interesting stories in the "examples of ethical situations at work" thread.
I'm eating homemade collards for lunch. That is all. (Well, a chicken leg too, but you get what I mean.)
fenriq, WTF? Why is it not a rhetorical question?
Hooray for 45°F temps! I rode my bike to work today for the first time in more than a month. It made my morning oh so much better.
How fast can you type? Just a straight on typing test to gauge your wpm. Mine was 73. When I first became addicted to the internets I could only hunt and peck, and now I'm typing pretye dran faats!
Emcee artistes! I have what might be a fun idea... →Read more...
This AskMe turntable question got me thinking. What records did you steal from your parent's record collection?
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Just released ... →Read more...
Aren’t mothers the greatest? →Read more...
Blue or not blue? I was talking with dabitch about the MeFi possibilities of her
blog post revealing some of the making of
this ad, and we want your opinion...
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Another update on Joe Famous He's out of the ICU and in a regular hospital room, so that's good!
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Alternatives to Thunderbird for email? I decided I don't like Thunderbird for my email. I'd ask on AskMe, but MeFi/AskMe is down at the mo. I use Gmail for personal stuff; is there an easy way to sort through multiple Gmail accounts w/o signing in & out all the time?
Three Point Status Report 1) Better Half finds out if he has a job at BIGCORP in Glasgow today.
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another cell phone bites the dust →Read more...
This is a bad idea, but BP radio is going to be on for at least an hour.
Hey, where'd my other chin go?? If there's a finite amount of weight in the world maybe Jon caught what I dropped in the last two months...
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20 February 2007
I'm putting on weight. →Read more...
Emcee Squared 2 is done! So beautiful. So fun. As good as a toad lily!
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Retro wallpaper (The kind for your walls, not your monitor)
“much more dangerous than al Qaeda.” Worse than the terrorists is the new Godwin.
Oh dear God, no ... This will be a train wreck.
America, Day Four Well, we got in to Destin last night, too late for me to post anything (Sheesh!) about Day Three...I'll tiredly try to recap inside.
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Chicago Meetup Reminder: Thursday, 7:00 p.m. →Read more...
OMG I. am. so. hungry! And it's at least half an hour before I can leave to go get something! And WHAT to get? I'm just sitting here drooling.
Kids' drawings as interpreted by artists. Grown-up artists. I'm totally in love with
this one.
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Toad lilies! My new obsession. Coolest flowers ever?
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yay for crazy weather! →Read more...
Howdo bunnies! →Read more...
All the layers of me (youtube). I don't have sound at work, but this was pretty cool even without music or comments.
The Monorail Cat Express Next stop: Happiness! Everyone jump on!
Rabbit Island for sale. It's already got it's own
power and water and pot-growing hippies for neighbors. What more could we want?
Why are tealights called "tealights"? Truth, bladerdash or good guesses welcome.
zib noxalp? ladda morfikk nuno bettenz koort. unglic?
It's Pancake Day! What are you putting on your pancakes?
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I needed a smile today and this is what I found.... →Read more...
Self Link: A bare sketch of an unfinished song. Recorded on the digital recorder I use to get interviews sorted for transcription. Just a bare vocal track on a noisy recorder. Poorly sung, too!
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Use it up, wear it out. I've realized I have a shed load of perfectly good products around, which I've only partially used, and in trying to use them up, I've re-discovered some good stuff.
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Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday to you, Happy Birthday, dear
TheDonF, Happy Birthday to you!
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19 February 2007
Whoa, happy birthday, mullacc!
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Emcee Squared Team 2 needs a volunteer to complete the final square. You've been lamenting the fact that you didn't join. Step forward!
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Newly discovered film of JFK before assassination -- Home movie shows presidential motorcade in Dallas just before shooting.
Man Sues IBM Over Adult Chat Room Firing - A man who was fired by IBM for visiting an adult chat room at work is suing the company for $5 million, claiming he is an Internet addict who deserves treatment and sympathy rather than dismissal.
THIS IS AN ANTI-CELEBRITY SHOUTING THREAD! I AM
SICK OF ANNA NICOLE SMITH AND BRITNEY SPEARS!
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Conveniences that are starting to annoy me. →Read more...
I've just self-diagnosed shin splints. Hope me.
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I usually have a strong aversion (however illogical) to HBO series.
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My google groups mefi universe search engine Searches metafilter, metachat, other related sites, and any other sites in the metafilter universe submitted by users. With tabs for refined filtering, and a firefox search extension.
Not too popular on projects, but maybe some people here will care.
The whole concept of custom google search engines fascinates me in general. Just think of all the custom searches that will soon exist.
Is Bloglines Broken? I haven't gotten one feed all day. Just me?
There are actors, very few of them, who are so good that, to me, they make an otherwise bad movie worth watching. I'd literally watch them read the newspaper aloud, they're so good. In my (short) list of such actors, there is
Jim Broadbent (and I watch that lame Tv show about cops looking for people who disappeared just because
Marianne Jean-Baptiste is in it): do you have one "I'll watch him/her in anything" actor, and who's in your list?
Household tips and tricks! →Read more...
"This is the best Pizza in a CupCone ever. This guy is unbelievable. He ran the old Cup 'o Pizza guy out of business. People come from all over to eat this."
Sad Love Gone Wrong Monday Music Rhett Miller, Come Around, theme song for my life lately. Enjoy! Or, uh, actually enjoy is probably not exactly what I mean here. Mope. Obsess. Whimper.
I got TWO thank you notes! It was really nice. One thank you note was effusive and beautiful and promised prayers for my success in this life and the hereafter!
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SHOUTING THREE POINT STATUS REPORT!
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It's on like Bunny Kong isketch, room mecha, bitchez.
AskMeCha - Chicago style. Fireside Bowl...is it as crap as it seems? →Read more...
Travel literature & movies? Anyone have any good resources for finding good books and movies about particular destinations? I don't want travel guides, more like
A Year in Provence or even
Les Miserables (but I have a list of 30 countries I need to deal with).
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omg, I'm home. Feeling so happysad, in so many ways.
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Anyone here live in or have lived in Olympia WA? I'm applying for a job there and as it would be a major move if, on the off chance, I got the job I was curious what the place is like to live in.
Bookstore love stories. I'm still reading, but the first two were so lovely I wanted to share immediately.
18 February 2007
America - Day Two We are in Memphis tonight. We didn't drive as far, but, we are REALLY wiped out. Sun Records is cool, really cool.
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Mashup: MetaChat through Flickr... You may have to go to yahoo first for this link to work. This is still in beta and far from what I would call perfect, but it's still fun.
Morbid thoughts. →Read more...
"It's got a good beat but can you dance to it?" →Read more...
Howdy from Nashville, Tennessee! We're in Nashville for the weekend. It's been great so far, but SO DAMN COLD...
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British Adverts about drinking: [
1], [
2], [
3]. Because we seem to be showing adverts at the moment. Not for the squeamish.
Another rip-off. I bought some of
this, but it doesn't work. i am still waiting for
this to happen. I want my money back.
a nice bit of commercial choreography - for some telco called Orange in the UK. I like it. (quicktime)
Gillian McKeith banned from calling herself a Dr I don't know if Gillian McKeith's
health regime malarkey has escaped from the UK; if not, you can thank your lucky stars.
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Bicycle help? How do I get the grips off my handlebars?
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Gung Hey Fat Choy or Gong Xi Fa Cai if you prefer, to EveryBunny celebrating Chinese New Year today!
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Radio TDH Some tunes for Saturday night/Sunday morning. Bring tissues and anti-depressants
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17 February 2007
America - Day One With a bit of time and energy left in a hotel room in Bowling Green, Kentucky, I offer my transcribed journal notes from today. This was written as Adam drove along...
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Do as I say, not as I do. You know how your parents are always telling you what to do for your own good?
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Media overload Proof that the media is waaaay over-covering the death of Ms. Anna Nicole.
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My Subway Valentine Here's a little story that played out this past week...
Grrrrrrrrrr What is wrong with the post office?
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Ducky! OMG! "He's had so much attention he is having a power nap at the moment because he's exhausted..."
Britney Goes Bald Yes, you read right- last night, Britney Spears SHAVED HER HEAD. Pictures included in the link.
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Gifts for Joe Famous! Didja know that they're selling large plush bunnies at Duane Reade for $15?
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Another Update on Joe Famous I talked to his sister myself this morning:
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Horseshoes and Hand Grenades Gizmodo editor emeritus Joel Johnson Returns - To Spank Us All for Supporting Crap. (via
Christopher Locke [aka RageBoy])
MetaWhat? I'm listening to the MeFi podcast, and Jessamyn has just brought something to my attention.
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Andersonville Prison Playset It seems wrong, but I like this thing. I collect plastic toy soldiers and it was so unusual and "off" I had to have it.
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16 February 2007
Dear Bunnies in the Northeast US... I'm a-coming!
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I do so love the Travel Channel's paranormal programming. "These three cities," they say in ominous tones, "create a triangle" (cue spooky triangle music).
Earworm ...but one that I like.
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THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD! →Read more...
I had cereal for dinner. And it was everything I thought it would be.
A story about cats and bureaucracies. Yes I'm self-linking, but you know you want to see kitty pictures. Yes, you do.
Things to do in Chicago near the Art Museum? →Read more...
My neurologist, while wonderful herself, seems to have a spectacularly incompetant office staff. I am tired of fighting with the insurance company because their billers coded the thing incorrectly. ARGH!
dammit, mefi seriously, wtf
Any last minute advice? I'm heading down to Toronto tonight, and we're hit the highway Saturday morning. Itinerary inside!
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There Must Be a Better Way The terror of the talking urinal.
Can we talk for a moment about US immigration? →Read more...
Update on Joe Famous My supervisor just got off the phone with his sister:
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Your favorite recent spam e-mail poetry? I justr received:
good americanism Jeopard knew socialism. smoking their gonzalez→Read more...
Flowers to themselves ...is the only link so far that I've found. I'd mentioned
here that I'd heard a snatch of something on CNN about this, but I thought the phenomenon was here in the States. Anybody else know anything germane?
Photo Friday 16 Feb '07: Weather(ed) (...as per eth!)
Sad news: Poughkeepsie did end up in the headlines. The upper parking deck of the local mall collasped, as it was being plowed. Snow was diverted to a load-beaing point, which fell on at least 6 cars.
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Turn that down! *Shakes fist at Mohammed Fayed* I don't know which is more bizarre - 2,000 guitarists playing "Smoke on the Water" or Rick Parfitt giving a masterclass.
London Me[Fi|Cha] Meetup Venue:
White Swan
Time: from 6:30pm
(crossposted from
The Other Place
The Storz and Bickel Volcano. h3h best 4erb vapori3r fur suz yah!
Come inside and nerd out with me Heroes watchers. Don't come in if you haven't watched this week's ep.
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OMG Bunnies! To balance out my previous post.
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15 February 2007
I am NOT a bad mechazen. There's just been a ton of crap going on.
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Bokgo Dance Party Different Korean dance trends performed by one girl.
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some weirdo that looks like president roslin is harassing me in irc →Read more...
Care to join me in isketch.net? Room is MeCha. This is damn fun. Like pictionary for nerds. No login needed. Just pick a name and join the Mecha room!
Serendipitous literary mappings. Yesterday I read dios's fine post in the blue
about a Map of Charles Dickens's London. Today I stopped in at my neighborhood bookseller and found
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Tonight the slugs will die. →Read more...
Vanity plate that made me laugh earlier today: W8N 4 GDO. Who says there's no culture in L.A.?
My V-Day - reverse annonymous valentines inside - plus Boring Postcards! →Read more...
I can't believe I'm the only person who's noticed this. If you live in the UK (and Italy, supposedly), and you're campaigning for a father's right to see his child then the best fictional characters to model yourself on would appear to be orphans who, despite having no access to a father, show a deep moral sensibility.
Don't believe me? [Images half way down page] also, [IronyFilter]
Mixsion Impossible: Week Four. The assignment was: Angry love songs.
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AskMeCha: I need math help... →Read more...
Check out this track I'm writing for a remix contest Composed of "bicycle noise" samples and drumsynth. It's for a new label called
Peloton Musique.
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Maybe cuz 2EZ4U was taken.... →Read more...
This is one of the funniest Sedaris pieces of all time. That is all.
Help me find socks. →Read more...
As Promised - A photo of the turquoise cast.
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Photo Friday theme for tomorrow?
How many of us actually have jobs we love? →Read more...
Gym gross-outs The gym is a weird place. What icky/annoying behaviors do you witness at your gym?
I'm back in the saddle! My new(ish) job requires me to teach classes on using the library's resources.
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Same Sex Crushes Yesterday, in the crush thread I knew I had a same sex crush to share but couldn't remember it...
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How I Spent Valentine's Night I spent Valentine's Day evening alone in a pitch-black room
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I had a very Larry David incident this week and could use your advice. →Read more...
You get three wishes. What you gonna do with them?
I Don't Want to Stay at Your Party, I don't want to talk to your friends
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Mama Cat Adopts Rottweiler Puppy -- 6-day-old canine at animal shelter was rejected by its mother.
Look out NYC, essexjan is on her way! I just booked a flight to New York, arriving at JFK on 5 June, going home 12 June.
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My Valentine's Night Wife took me out to dinner at one of our regular spots, but
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Breaking News Joe Famous is in the hospital after being involved in a hit-and-run accident last night.
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Lessons we have recently learned through experience. If you have low will power and are cooking dinner for
two the night before you're going to be working alone from home all day, don't make a ridiculous chocolate trifle that is designed to feed
eight. Now I feel owie. But
so chocolatey.
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Orgasmic headache and
their treatment. But if blood vessel constrictors are taken before sex to treat, isn't that like the opposite of taking Viagra?
Anyone else up on Windows VIsta yet? →Read more...
it's snowing It wasn't supposed to, but it is anyway.
Anonymous Valentines update: I'll be turning off new messages tonight at midnight GMT (since I see some of you are still having fun with it), but you'll be able to view your messages until the end of the weekend. After that I'm going to clear the database, so if you want to save your messages, make sure you do it this weekend!
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Rounded off. Sculptor Lars-Erik Fisk has made spheres out of streets, a John Deere tractor, and even a VW bus. (
More pics here.)
This blog that I found on a MeFi post somewhere yesterday is awesome. It's the blog of a working psychiatrist, with psych and lay readers. Incisive, funny and clear.
Happy Lupercalian Birthday to scody and DaShiv!!
88 Lines About 44 Mefites I can't believe I actually did this. Good night.
14 February 2007
excuses, excuses I received this email from one admissions committee member two days ago:
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My Valentine's Day with rainbaby Yes! We just said goodnight to rainbaby. The three of us (my S.O. plus ranbaby and me) went out for barbecue, hung out and overall had a grand time on her last night in Atlanta.
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Valentines Day is not over! →Read more...
OMG!! POLICE REUNITE!! Aaaaagh! Must find tickets! Can't pay $174!! Help!
Vasectomy: $400. Speechless look on her face: priceless. This was kind of a mean read but its a decent little story. I don't think the guy had to be such a jerk about it but that's just me. It seems like he really enjoyed being a jerk.
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My shack in the woods. Yes, I am a whirlwind of mess. I've since cleaned up and moved the boxes out of sight, but I don't have a digital camera, so this is as good as it gets for now.
Favorite Bathroom Graffiti →Read more...
Firefox question →Read more...
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AskMecha: Find me a funny picture on the internet that personifies "to the Max!" We run a forum at my job to keep in touch with all of our employees and my boss just changed my title from "Office Personnel" to "Office Specialist to the Max!" I want to post a funny picture in tribute to this. It totally caught me off guard this morning and I just about fell out of my chair laughing.
Good News/Bad News My office is closing early due to "inclement weather".
I have class at 6pm. So, I have to stick around anyway or skip my photography class that I love.
This is an "oh, pooh" thread. My (unmarried) daughter just found out...
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It's Raining Cupidarrows! Orgy in #bunnies RIGHT NOW!
OMG!!! BUNNYYYYY!!!! This is sooooooooper CUTE!!!
Hopefuly no one posted it before... My first bunny!!! LoL
Being a married guy on Valentines Day rules. Eating Athenos Spicy Three Pepper Hummus with a Jalapeno Cheddar bagel chip rules.
Utz Crab Chips rule. A-Team Reruns (and Reservoir Dogs and Rocky and The Godfather) on a brand new big screen rule. Beer rules. Southside Johnny rules. Vox being down apparently dosen't rule. But Mecha Rules.
I got a full-time (temp*) job through a friend at his place of employment. But I have kind of a dilemma.
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One of the many things I enjoy about parenting My nearly-4-year-old daughter has "discovered" the Muppet Show (we have a collection on DVD). This was one of my favorite shows up until 8th grade, and it really tickles me to see her getting the humor of it. She especially loves the Alice Cooper and Vincent Price episodes (she also calls the show "Scary Frog").
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OMG Sewing Machine! A friend of mine just gave me her old but very spiffy sewing machine.
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Best of Pamie Don't.
No.
No, I mean yes.
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Happy V-Day Not so good with the personal notes. So here's a sort of collective valentine in musical form.
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Since it's a day for looooooove, let's talk about embarrassing celebrity crushes. I'm sure we've all had a few. 'Fess up!
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My new dress is... dirty! So, I decided to spend my entire tax refund on new clothes, since I haven't really bought anything nice since dropping weight.
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chrismear's anonymous Valentine sending website. Send valentine messages to your favourite metachat bunnies.
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Albums You Go Back To Over and Over? List some CDs that you're still listening to regularly - five, ten, fifteen, twenty or more years later.
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White Out! We are having a lovely snowy Valentine's Day here in Vermont!
It's Valentine's Day. I swear I won't be disappointed if we don't do the secret Valentine thing again this year. I swear. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
In case you need somewhere to put all those cards tomorrow.
How many famous/infamous people are in your mobile phone's Contacts list? I count between three and five, depending on value of famous/infamous. Usually when they call or I am calling them it is not a good thing.
SHOUTING THREAD THAT ACTUALLY GOT SOMETHING DONE INSIDE!
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13 February 2007
Help me decide on a side dish! I'm making filet mignon with brandy cream sauce for Valentine's dinner tomorrow night. But what to go on the side?
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Radio Mecha - Music Box: Jazz Remember when I started playing that chronological set of '
rough jazz,' 'Crazy bebop, artsy composition, improvisation, skronky freakouts, that kind of stuff'? Seems like a good time to pick it back up. Please listen, if you're so inclined.
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Perez Hilton stole this from ME! I made that post on ONTD hours ago- and Perez couldn't resist
talking up his exclusive sources, yea right!!! I expect to get paid for this, Perez!!!
This is the time of day when the posts and comments really slow down. But this is also the time of day when I'm most bored! I neeeeed you, bunnies! *whines*
Dog Hugs Baby Thousands go "awwwwwww" at same time
THIS IS ANOTHER SHOUTING THREAD WHY WOULD YOUR OLDEST AND SUPPOSEDLY DEAREST FRIEND KICK YOU WHEN YOU'RE DOWN?
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Calling all former bridesmaids! I have been directed to purchase a pair of silver, open-toed, strappy heels as part of my bridesmaid uniform (a close friend is getting married in April). As this seems to be a standard directive for bridesmaids, I was wondering if any of you former brides and/or bridesmaids and/or shoe experts could recommend a shoe that fits the requirements and is both comfortable (always a stumbling block for my shoe purchases) and not too expensive! Everything I see looks painful and costs too freakin' much for a shoe I am only likely to wear once.
I hate shoe shopping.
bumper sticker sighting. Silence is golden. Duct tape is silver.
(new to me)
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The Last (I promise!) of the Red-Hot Weller Posts: in which a
picture is worth a thousand words.
Sake Make Better A Cheering Thread for Beverages!
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OMG basset hound puppies! This link is in honor of the Westminster dog show, which I will be attending tonight. Went last night as well. So much fun! So many cuddly dogs to play with!
Giant funnel-like "morning glory spillway" drain thingy at a dam. Now that, that is the stuff of my worst nightmares. Irresistable hydraulic forces. Creepy black-hole event horizon effect. Shit like this and maelstroms and whirlpools tornados freak me out.
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Two Book Raves →Read more...
I retract my whining thread!! My day just got amazing. My dream is coming true.
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Who (or what) do you know? Settle something for me, would you? Is it more important to know who an actor or other entertainment personality's familial relationships are or what films they've been involved in?
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whining thread My eyes hurt. I'm surrounded by morons. It's cold and raining. It's only Tuesday. There is nothing interesting on the internet.
Married folks: What do you call your parents-in-law? Mom and dad? Their first name? Mr. and Mrs. In-Law?
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Hee. My boss said yesterday that she would be out today. I got to work at 11am, and was the first one here.
Useless Account "Because you're addicted to signing up to account-requiring websites the moment they're released just so no one else takes your usual username."
AskMecha: Grief Help. Yet another friend has died from cancer
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What do you look for in a man? →Read more...
12 February 2007
This is why I don't skydive as a hobby. Disturbing fall from over 2 miles and surviving video from the viewpoint of the victim and the rescuer.
Dice-K Has Landed -- Daisuke Matsuzaka, the $100 million pitcher, makes it to Fort Myers for
BoSox spring training.
Happy Darwin Day! And watch out for those thermonuclear pugs!
Chicagoland meetup. Thursday, February 22.
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I went to Denmark and didn't get married. I suck. :(
Who makes a boxer brief that does not completely lose its shape after being worn just a few hours, leaving one wearing what is essentially a ridiculous-looking pair of pseudoboxers? If I wanted to wear boxers, I'd buy them. Hope me, Mecha.
freeindie.com MP3s and, apparently, whole albums to download.
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Save Baltimore's Historic Senator Theatre! The Senator Theatre has been showing movies since the '30s, but it's in foreclosure, and if it can't get $90,000 by next week, it's going to go dark! Please make a donation to save one of the world's greatest old movie palaces. Thank you.
I went all career woman this weekend. After realizing that I was dreading having a third (!) interview with a company only because I had nothing appropriate to wear, I took myself to Ross discount this weekend.
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OUCHIE!!! (Link to photo of a wound on my hand. Processed in photoshop to look slightly less icky).
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THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD! →Read more...
Shitty wireless For unknown reasons, nearly all my lady prospects of late are freeloading off of other people's wireless.
This means that IM conversations are ... sporadic.
How annoying.
Poughkeepsie, NY's lasest crimewave may be the nation's next Slow News Day feature.
OMG baby pandas! The very last pic is my favorite one.
I'm will no longer be able to watch : Lost, 24, BSG, SG1 & SG Atlantis. Let me make this perfectly clear. Despite the attack ads being run on Sky 1 at the moment, I in no way blame Virgin Media for this. Right now, I really, really hate Rupert Murdoch.
Fresh techno mix straight from pirate radio Ripped not just more than an hour ago from a pirate broadcast/netcast from SF, CA. DJ: Solstingr
I need your good thoughts. →Read more...
11 February 2007
What did you actually do this weekend? →Read more...
I can drink you under the table, I can drink you out of town, I can drink you off of the planet, drink myself into the ground. . . someone
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Someone's knocking at the door, somebody's ringing the bell Except no one is. Tonight the doorbell of Swans' End has rung three times. The first and third of those times I was in the living room and looked out the window. The second time I came running down the stairs to the front door almost before the Westminster chimes had finished their tune. And all three of those times there was no one on the porch who could have pressed the doorbell. Eerie...
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May I have a moment of your time? That is, if you don't think Google should be supporting hate crimes; otherwise, just pass on by.
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Any London-based web-types going to Feb's WSG meetup? Feb 28th, tickets free, the subject is accessibility and there's only 200 places.
Help me think of something to cook! I would like to cook a (vegan) meal tonight that involves both a) avocados and b) broccoli. What would contain both of those ingredients? All I can think of is some weird white person fusion burrito and I dunno how I feel about that. Broccoli tastes great on pizza, but would avocados? The world may never know.
Harvard Names First Woman President -- 371 years after its founding,
Harvard names Drew Gilpin Faust as its 28th president.
I hate cleaning. Especially when it's not just cleaning, but also picking up and straightening up. Sigh.
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Radio Dodgy Probably a bit shit. Starting in a minute...
She Went One Way, Her Knee Went Another -
Kaylee is in surgery at the moment.
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Metal OMG! Actually, I'll be playing a lot of noise rock masking itself as metal. In two minutes.
What say I do a short radio test before the big Safetyfork metal show? My first time!
THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD I RESERVED A ZIPCAR BUT HAD TROUBLE GETTING IT OUT OF THE VERY TIGHT PARKING SPOT. A DUMPSTER WAS IN THE WAY, MAKING IT ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE TO GET OUT. AS I WAS TRYING TO MANEUVER OUT OF THE SPOT, I HIT THE DUMPSTER AND ONE OF THE WINDOWS SHATTERED. NOW MY ACCOUNT IS SUSPENDED AND I CAN'T RUN MY ERRANDS.
Radio_Replica :: Early Morning Dub Mix. Starts in about 5 min.
Etta James sings The Eagles And makes the song totally hers.
This is beautiful. I love Keb' Mo's voice. And this is one of the greatest songs ever written too.
"The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry"
this is a whining, annoying, funny, weather, ask-mecha, decorating thread... add all your whining, annoying, funny, weather, ask-mecha, decorating questions and comments here!
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BP Radio A late-night set.
10 February 2007
Radio Mecha - Music Box: Rough Jazz I'm on the Radio Mecha, inspired by paulsc, playing what I'll call rough jazz. Crazy bebop, artsy composition, improvisation, skronky freakouts, that kind of stuff. Making it up as I go along, though I will probably aim for chronological order.
Please listen, if you're so inclined. Or, if you'd like me to get off, just say the word.
I had to run the AC today. Welcome to LV! heheh
Playtime! People keep asking me how the foster dogs are doing. "
THEY're doing FINE," sez I. Me & my furniture, not so much.
;-)
My last week was FROM HELL. What did I miss here? Was there a Photo Friday?
Are there any Portland folks interested in a pro Nikon manual film SLR? I'm selling my Nikon FE2 35mm film SLR w/ zoom lens. Related, do any PDX folks know of a good used shop that offers good prices?
Help Me Fill My Audio Player Thingy! →Read more...
OMG JFJ <3 HFH!!!111!!! LOLZ →Read more...
I'm still siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick. Shower this big baby with sympathy, plz? TIA!
TheDonF radio Mainly rock-type stuff, but not all.
A long, long list of internet radio stations, in a range of different genres and styles.
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Help me become a man magnet I just rewrote my Lavalife profile for God knows what number of times. Now I'm posting it here for your review.
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Radio_Replica: an odd mix of stuff, because I'm sick.
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Victor Lewis-Smith Some radio comedy for your pleasure. This show contains:
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Do you like Soul Music? The story of Northern Soul. (mp3) Because no-one liked the Detroit sound more than working class kids from the North of England. (Apologies for the quality of the recording)
Bunny Sudoku via randomination
Tell me your weekend plans. →Read more...
Smells you remember from your childhood? →Read more...
Backing up my musiiiiiiick ok, so what's the best way to virtually backup my music collection?
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I just got THE WORST celeb pick team →Read more...
09 February 2007
Black Metal Idol It's a Youtube video of some black metal kid audtioning for the German version of one of those pop idol shows. Then someone else came along and did a
great remix of it.
A small rant →Read more...
Those clever spammers! So I just had the best piece of junk mail in a long time
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Wanna talk about movies? →Read more...
Because I know you care, here's an audit of what I ate over the past week:
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OMG bunny jumping show! Thanks to cuteoverload.
Today I signed a lease on the new apartment, found out I've lost about 10 pounds since the first of the year, and am about to go get really good free wine at a reception at the Ritz Carlton. What a completely lovely day!
AskMeCha: I'm a packrat, both in the physical and digital world. I've got 16GB out of 87GB free on my hard drive. HELP!!
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Croctommy is moving house this weekend. This is a big upheaval for him, and it wasn't his own decision to do so. Please wish him luck. (Luckily, it's an in-city move.)
Good News / Bad News thread →Read more...
Number 1 ...on the not-recommended-activities list:
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A short-ish BP Radio set because it's Friday! Starting now.
Emcee Squared Team 2 update: Initial squares are done!
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Any Slade fans here? Ignoring the more "comedy"/commercial singles, I've heard tale that Slade produced some exceptionally good, classic rock. Is this true? If so, which albums do I need?
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Project Runway Fans: So my sister (the model) was in Malan Breton's fashion show this morning...
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I have condensed the entire political and artistic history of France into 750 words. I have been told this is too long. Sigh.
Why is Texas A&M hosting a Google spammer? ccag.tamu.edu/web/?Foo/ is a page full of random spamlinks that reloads based on the keyword replacing
Foo. There's no point linking to it from here: The page is 403 Forbidden unless the referrer is Google or certain other linkspammers (try getting there from
the fourth link here). The page is footnoted,
© PharmDigest Inc. All rights reserved. Is this really the best way to raise money in an era of research cuts?
Digital camera and trip to get chinchillas: my girlfriend is going to get chinchillas tomorrow at Marc Morrone's store Parrots of the World. What kind of neat online thing can we do with a bunch of photos of the experience?
What pets do you have and what are their names? →Read more...
Why oh why do I let myself fall in love
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I think I am going to put something on Mefi Music. It's a friggin' Christian song I wrote for the choir I was in a few years ago! Now I just have to find the .mp3.
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Yes, Kevin Barnes has lost his mind. But yes, his band, Of Montreal, has just made the
best album of their career so far.
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Leaving today. →Read more...
I met a crackhead at the bar tonight... →Read more...
08 February 2007
....EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPS! →Read more...
The cold weather is making me gain weight. →Read more...
Much More Shamless Pander ]oh the Shame[ I say copyright infringement. It's much too similar. Well done though.
UR All Japanese./
Mixsion Impossible: Week Three. The assignment was: Girls with Guitars.
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Steve Jobs on Apple's DRM So, what do people think? Is this corporate nonsense or should I take this at face value?
I just heard some sad news on Metafilter -- famous actress Anna Nicole Smith was found dead in her Florida hotel room this afternoon. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the community will miss her - even if you didn't enjoy her work, there's no denying her contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
I am cross-posting my AskMe question in case the lovely bunnies have words of wisdom or advice. (Looking for a retirement community for my father, and a bit lost as to how to proceed.)
Update. I am now hung over.
Sorry, my compatriots of dryness.
I carried an avocado in my pocket today Because I didn't want it to get smashed in my backpack, and I didn't want to carry a separate grocery bag. It survived the commute well, and soon it will be part of my lunch.
Free Ozzy! No, he's not in jail... Ozzfest 2007 is going to be free, as in beer.
I really wish the weather was warmer. →Read more...
I have this friend... who talks about her cold sores all the time (she has had two in the last couple of months).
It creeps me out. Is that wrong?
Firefox extension gurus. I've been looking for a way to share a whiteboard online without buying software to do it. There are lots of demos that expire out there, but this is a long term need. I found an
open source option, but then I thought maybe there was a plug-in or extension for Firefox already out there. I've poked around on the
Add-on page and I think I'm all around it but missing it. Hope?
Emcee Squared Team 1 Update. 4 down, 5 to go.
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Best Wikipedia vandalism ever - scroll about halfway down.
Plots with Guns: Online Noir Via the Wayback Machine.
More
here.
I thought some of you would like
these scans from
The Grammar of Ornament.
Happiest of birthdays to BoringPostcards! Have a wonderful day, my friend.
and NOW, he wants to get a job in London. Bus update: Half the people fricking cancelled, am cancelling bus this morning and ordering mini-van.
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07 February 2007
Can I just say that the wiki is looking HAWT?
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terror alert: brown →Read more...
Soft Sounds For Gentle People. I'd love to know what the music on this album sounds like.
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Just Hanging With My Boys (NSWF!) I don't know who Mischa Barton is and I don't know who this guy is. But my world is so much richer tonight after having seen this picture.
Use extreme caution. (Oh, and be sure to read the comments.)
Does anyone else use the Camino browser? →Read more...
Radio GNFTI - Covert operations.
Canucks Only, Pls. Excuse me while I steal your attention for a selfish moment:
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AskMecha: Seriously is there a script somewhere out there that can register on all big networking-doo-dahs and community websites for you? My typingfingers are getting tired.
O.M.G! Look at the crazy bunny toys!
Frisky Dingo Makes Me Laugh. I know it probably shouldn't, but it does. Why? (Besides, of course, 'because I am a moron'. Tell me something I don't know, OK?)
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OMG, apartment! Eeee! I'm so excited! Remember the place
I told you about, but hadn't seen yet? Well, I've finally seen it, it rocks, we're taking it.
Did I mention that it rocks?
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Update. It's getting worse. I need to vent.
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I am a fugitive from the law. →Read more...
"I don't know why we put cows on the roof, but I kinda like it." Molly Ivins talks about "fine art" in Texas (from a 1986 PBS Newshour segment).
Free legal music! Nettwerk records has compiled a Valentine's Day complilation of music from their artists for download. Huzzah!
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Watch me3dia on "Chicago Tonight"! That's tonight, Chicago! 7pm, WTTW.
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New Music Review Plus! Wednesday Here's what I thought of some of the tunes you uploaded to me yesterday, plus some others I hadn't listened to yet from previous uploads.
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FireFox, Tabs and MetaFilter So I learned something about how MetaFilter and FireFox tabs interact this morning.
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The guy who wanted to propose during the Super Bowl got his TV proposal last night during Veronica Mars.
This is the commercial that aired, and
this is her reaction, filmed as she saw the commercial.
I think they turned the heat up in the office... because when I got to my desk this morning, I noticed that the air had that musty smell you get when you turn your heat on for the first time. It's stuffy and stale and I'm feeling sleepy.
Jennifer and Jim kept getting huge water bills. They knew beyond a doubt that the bills weren't representative of their actual usage,and no matter how they tried to conserve, the high bills continued.
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Some people need protecting from themselves. →Read more...
One of my colleagues said a funny thing today,that I just had to share. And, because I am a jerk, I will put it inside, so EVERYONE will click on my thread. Please derail, talk amongst yourselves. I like the company.
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Hey, can we have a
music video thread?
Say it with chocolate: in this case, it's a charming heart shaped box containing chocolate... that happens to look exactly like poo.
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OMG live tentacle! OMG. (disturbing food content)
Ideas for this yadirF otohP? Baby pics? Or post yerself,
PhotoShopped or not? If you're shy (like iconomy!) you can always partially obscure your face, or PhotoShop a Zorro mask on yourself, or such...
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06 February 2007
OMG! PENGUINS CHASING A BUTTERFLY!!!
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What can I use for a Sculpey clay core? →Read more...
before the record company decided to turn them into linkin' park... →Read more...
Reporting back as requested. Sorry about the one day delay - had to work out of the office yesterday so couldn't make it here. Reporting back about the Roger Waters concert, for those who can't be bothered to click the link (and why would you).
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How do you get over someone? →Read more...
Quick! Gimme three titles for an old honky-tonk country song! →Read more...
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mmm....pork belly Lengthy disquisition AND question inside...
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Cat w/ IBD vent. Mrs Chewie acquired a cat several years ago - at least 8 or 9. The cat belonged to a woman who croaked. Disgusting story inside.
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Firefox Preloader. Does anybody use it? →Read more...
Las Vegas, beer, and....beer. A question! Do Las Vegas casinos -- particularly ones on the strip -- have a no-outside-alcohol policy?
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Help me calm down. →Read more...
Living-together-for-the-first-time-Chat Come inside and help me figure out this sleeping-together-nightly-ettiquette.
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Ask MeCha about my new work machine.
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How would you explain to a dog that it's too cold to go outside?
Are we doing anonymous MeCha valentines this year? Please please please pretty please with a cherry on top? It was so much fun last year!
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Talk me through an apartment dilemma? In the midst of sleep-depriving confusion about where to live.
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New Music Tuesday! Listening to the same tunes over and over again at work is doing something unpleasant to me. This is where you come in!
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Last night I dreamt up a new cover for Elvis Costello's "Armed Forces". Today I tried to recreate it in Photoshop.
This is the result.
Fun with bacterial culture I bought a yogurt maker at my neighbourhood Value Village last Saturday night. It wasn't something I'd ever really thought about doing before, but what the hell, I am a wild and crazy and yogurt-making swan, and it was $6. I've been looking up recipes on the net. Does anyone here make their own yogurt? Do you have tips, recipes, stories of wrestling yaks to the ground for their milk or of incubations gone horribly wrong?
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Metachat Muzeek Challenge! →Read more...
Peeing not fun enough for you? I wonder
how why Amazon
knew thought I'd be interested in these.
Well, my life is pretty much complete. Just got back from the Paul Weller concert after-party... where I got to hang out... PAUL WELLER.
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05 February 2007
The First-Name Basis Signage Project From
Aaron's Antiques to
Ziggy's Game Room, this Flickr group collects signs where people's first names are part of the business name.
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Have you ever done something sketchy at work? Dreadfully boring story inside. →Read more...
It's 2007, and I should be using an RSS aggregator. Shouldn't I? I mean, everyone I know I has a blog now, and while I enjoy Open In Tabs in Safari, all the MySpace and Facebook users can be a bit tiring. What's a good aggregator for OS X?
AskMecha: How much, approximately, does it cost to send a CD from Britain to America?
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Calling Wii and DS owners. Please to be my Nintendo pal thank you?
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Chicagoans: Meetup? Save the date...→Read more...
April 17th. New Nine Inch Nails album. W00t! Hopefully it'll be better than With Teeth.
MetaMix! For MeFi, MeCha, and Mofi members to hang out and swap mixes.
The Great Lost Band Of The 1970's. →Read more...
I whuffle you. Esp those in the shouting thread.
Share your experiences about going to work with your parents. →Read more...
OMG! orange →Read more...
THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD! →Read more...
My Zen weekend →Read more...
Things that make me sleepy. 1. Cats bathing. 2. People humming. 3. Heavy lunches.
Hi, I SUCK AT THE HOLIDAYS. To everyone I owe a holiday card, and there are LOTS of you: you will get one. I swear. I flaked on the holiday card swap, and I am a bad person, and I am so going to hell for it.
But, by God, if you sent me a card, you're getting one in return. I swear on my mother.
This Cute Overload guy has a baby bird in his stretched earlobe piercing. Commenter opinion is divided.
My Beeping Giggle Monkey a video shot yesterday during our gorgeous Sunday. So funny I had to share it with MeCha. Watch, laugh and enjoy!
It's someone's birthday... C'mon people, let's put our hands together and wish a big Happy Birthday to our very own Queen of the Cam....Matildaben!(Sorry, I just watched a video of Jon Spencer with Matt Verta-Ray and the Sadies...that guy really knows how to work a crowd!) Happy birthday Matildaben!
My great-uncle has just been diagnosed with brain cancer. And it's inoperable.
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OMG! Aphrodesiac! Better Than Oysters! →Read more...
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I am stuck with a huge, honking massive bill and I am not working. Because someone told me that a bus-booking was HALF of what it actually is.
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Marvels! Man-made, celestial, terrestial.
AWEsome!
Now, That's my marmalade... Yay, Star Trek (the Original) is on late night tv. Better than any so called "Super" Bowl
04 February 2007
Dream a dream dream... Tonight at the Remote, jonmc and I were talking to a sports junkie who, while worrying about his point spread and looking after his fifteen year-old kid (a vocal Jets fan who loved his Colts), told us about a dream he had this week.
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Your Task: Come up with a dish to bring to a Slow Food potluck, theme being "Foods of Love." Should contain ingredients considered to be aphrodisiacs.
Prison Infomercial An informational encouraging California inmates to volunteer to transfer to prison in another state.
I guess things are difficult when you lock up a seven out of a thousand of our citizens but, sheesh, I can't believe how blatantly commercialized it all is! What a weird friggin' country all y'all have.
The Toms: (I Wanna Be A) Teen Again Insanely catchy power pop from the excellent "
Yellow Pills: Prefill" compilation.
(I remembered, Wendell!)
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MetaChat - The Musical →Read more...
Thread for people who DO care about the Superbowl →Read more...
Thread for people who don't care about the superbowl. I mean, I hear those football guys really, uh, play a good game. Or something.
What are you most afraid of? →Read more...
Songs you've downloaded lately Because nobody goes around humming albums.
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Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? →Read more...
I'm going to be Super Bowling with rainbaby in a matter of hours. Post your jealous rants here.
shhh An hour of quiet music for Sunday.
JFJ: The New York Dolls are on PBS!
ROBOCOP defeats cold, lonely and naked man.
03 February 2007
BP Radio starting right now. Come huddle by the fire and warm up.
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I just applied to my first job through MeFi Jobs! (well, sorta; it technically hasn't been posted yet) Wish me luck!
Ask Mecha cooking/food poisoning question: The egg in spaghetti carbonara may not be entirely cooked, right? So does that mean that it must all be eaten fresh or tossed out? Or can leftovers be refrigerated and reheated the next day?
I might have to break up a 14-month love affair between two kids. They grew up together as abandoned orphans on a farm. Suffered together through loneliness, starvation and the cold. They're bonded and play constantly. I don't know if I can do it. But all of my rescue group friends are finally breaking it to me that adopting two big dogs together into one good home with a fenced-in yard is pretty much a pipe dream. I'm sad.
I would like to have a word with the inventor of vodka, and the inventor of double-shot glasses, and kill them
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This is cool. A smoke signal message, which is coming from my house!
Man, I love the web.
Three Point Status Report →Read more...
"It's a lifetime together - d'ya know what I mean?" Interview and snippets of Paul Weller in New York a couple of days ago... in honor of the first of three performances
(four if you are among the maniacs *cough* who will be sitting through the taping of the abominable Jimmy Kimmel show to see him as well) in Los Angeles. OH MY GOD, WHAT AM I GOING TO WEAR?!
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Already, a song about the Mooninites invansion, courtesy RPM. (Direct link to streaming audio player. Recorded in 1 night. Not bad!
Yellow mangoes! →Read more...
Happy Birthday to me and smich. →Read more...
Paging jonmc ...and all them what like punk. Ran across this - boingboing's "
9 great old punk videos", and "
7 punk and post-punk female singer videos".
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02 February 2007
#bunnies. Beer's on the house.
OMG kitty! Okay so the meme is played out, but still.
I like (The) Bees. Perhaps you will, too.
Whats on your run-off groove?? and who is writing all those funny little words on our LPs anyway?
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W is for Wendell, M is for Music The Alpha Experiment Continues...
A Story Behind Every Ring Bling, bling! The stories of 40 Superbowl rings awarded to winning players and coaches.
BP Radio A short set to (hopefully) brighten a rainy Friday evening.
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This song is dedicated to ... →Read more...
Porterhouse, t-bone, ribeye, sirloin or filet? I'm going to a steakhouse tonight. Decisions, decisions...
Your day in headline form →Read more...
Mmmm... I made curry tonight. It was very good. →Read more...
Let's Play "Three Truths and a Lie." →Read more...
Autobituaries! Inspired by
jrossi4r, write your own obituary here! Or another bunny's! C'mon, it'll be fun!
Wet cellphone Is there any hope?
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My idea of heaven would be to live
somewhere that looks like this.
New Techno Mix: Raincry This one is pretty damn solid and I'm pretty happy with it. Please enjoy. (Eideteker: Consider this my late submission to Mixsion Impossible 1)
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This thread has 156 comments. Let's try this again.
One the Scale of Bummers, This One is on the Mild Side, BUT →Read more...
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How much to charge to design a webpage? A friend of mine is doing a VERY SIMPLE webpage for his boss, who is so technically illeterate (sic, heh) that my friend has to show him how to play a DVD on the computer. It would be a simple three-column main page with maybe a couple linked pages. Boss has plenty of cash. How much to charge?
Yesterday afternoon, I watched some of my DVD's of
The White Shadow.
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Here is a very short interview from 1942 with Czech composer Bohuslav Martinů. I found his first reply almost heartbreaking.
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Stalking me just got a whole lot easier, thanks to BuddyPing, a social networking site (UK only) that tracks your location using your mobile phone.
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Today is Groundhog Day Today is Groundhog Day, today is Groundhog Day, etc, etc. I'm only posting this as it allows me to mention Gobbler's Knob!
So what would you do now, if you were Yahoo? Pardon my fascination with this Yahoo/Flickr thing, but on the off chance anyone else is equally intrigued by the whole debacle, please do step inside...
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Schoolyard penis seen from space Now I wish I'd left a legacy like that at my school.
The things I find on the intarweb when I've a big scary deadline to meet this afternoon...
Anyone else call them 'deadly lions'?
Friday Flash Fun: Castle Smasher. Your goal? Throw rocks at castles!
Mixsion Impossible: Week Two. The assignment was: Winter songs.
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01 February 2007
OMG! Bombs! No wait...it's just the
pumpkins Rich and I carved for Halloween in 2004.
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I am rereading The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
I first read it back in 1989 and loved it. I started rereading it tonight on the bus, and I'm loving it again.
Anybody else having a Super Bowl party? I'm having people over on Sunday and I'm trying to find the most economical (and tasty) pizza solution. I figured places would have lots of specials advertised, but can't really find any. What's the best place to order 3-4 pizzas and not pay through the nose?
Radio Mecha - Music Box: Jazz It seems like a jazz kind of day. If someone else would like to get on the radio, please please please just say the word.
Did any of you just watch Scrubs? Did you notice the "unique" use of a bunny?
Dating is Hell...Updated. →Read more...
I have never crapped a watermelon but ... →Read more...
How to handle a press conference The Aqua Teen hunger bomb guys, tell the press what's up!
After I'm elected President of the United States, I'm going to put more emphasis on White House Dinners. You see, due to some mistakes I'm planning to make, I'll need to rein in the power of the Cabinet. I plan to plumb the minds of my dinner guests for policy advice and ignore those carelessly appointed idiots who will crowd the Oval Office with their howling idiocy.
So, who should I invite? How can I capitalize on the great opportunity the US taxpayer will afford me to carefully select smart people to share a dinner conversation that will benefit my Presidency and my country, and keep the wolves in the Cabinet at bay? Who would you invite, for the best dinner conversation in the world?
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This is a sighing thread. *sigh*
I'm freaking out. →Read more...
Peeve of the Day: The vast and thorough misuse by the popular media of the term "Generation X" to refer to people in their twenties.
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A promise, some information and a request... →Read more...
When cats attack. [NSFW] The last second of this will give you nightmares.
Please to help. Need game suggestions.
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Bunny! OMG! February's picture on my 'Ohio Nature' calendar.
Emcee Squared Team 2! Now hiring 9 people with limited artistic talent. This square will be done completely using MS Paint.
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I've got old-fashioned Christmas candy and a chisel. Want some?
Radio Mecha - Music Box There's about a quarter-inch of snow on the ground, and so my workplace is closed due to the weather, and so I'm playing some jazz on the Radio Mecha. Please listen, if you're so inclined.
It's the first day of February and we are in Amsterdam (rather than our usual Santiago, Chile), and a few days ago we found out my wife is pregnant! (our first)
It's a lovely winter day, the sun is shining and there are ducks fishing and racing in the canal outside the house we are renting.
Does life get any better?
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I'm selling a bunny on eBay, OMG! Except that I'm not entirely sure that's what it is.
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Diana pics! I bought an old
Diana camera off eBay, took a test roll of pics, and a few actually came out!
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Let's forget yesterday. Anybody up for another emcee squared?
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It's time for another "Capn Gives Bad Advice" day. Go ahead, ask me anything.
ie7 question →Read more...
I'm feeling yummy head to toe →Read more...
What is the name of your computer/network/private parts. →Read more...
Death to Meh: an essay. In Boston, Time Warner deposited LED
Moomins across town and the town was shut down for terrorism fears. I don't approve of the overreaction, but I think that the BoingBoing crowd is a bit harsh in their mockery of the genuine alarm of Bostonians.
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Curious about what metachatters think/will do about the Flickr changes? I'm thinking I will let my account go because I'm pretty sure it's going to be inevitable anyway; I don't use Yahoo mail, and if I create an account I'm not going to remember to sign in, and they'll dump me. [
update: maybe not - current info seems to say "no"]
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I'm so confused about the aquateen movie terrorism in Boston. What were the light emitting magnetic boxes? How were they involved with promoting the movie? Why are Bostonians so ignorant as to not know the difference between a magnetic flashing movie promotion device and a Bomb?
Music from the UK vol.2 Another hour of stuff from UK artists.
Argh where is MeFi I have a post to research aaargh belgium joo-joo swut.
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