31 December 2010
HAPPY NEW YEAR! from the Future!!!
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Help me brainstorm dinner: Roast leg of lamb edition. I have a leg of lamb marinating in the refrigerator, in a paste of garlic, rosemary, sage, thyme, and minced black olives (as per a recipe by Jody Adams of Rialto). I am supposed to then roast it, without wiping off the marinade, for an hour, and then smear it with dijon mustard and 2 cups of breadcrumbs and let it roast for another half hour. I cannot, however, use bread crumbs, as my partner cannot eat them. What should I use instead?
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30 December 2010
How is General Tso formed? How does stomach get yums? →Read more...
Duuuuuuude. (Flash -- may require reloading page to work properly.)
Mefi crosspost: Om nom nom It's cabbage-eating French Bulldog cuteness!
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(Mildly NSFW) O melhor do FUNK CARIOCA 2009 link inside
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Did the earth move for you? Hoosiers! Did you feel the earthquake this morning?
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It Came From The Compost!! Paging any gardening bunnies! Pumpkin or alien egg?
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29 December 2010
THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD! I'M STARTING IT OFF WITH WORK SHOUTING, BUT YOU CAN DO ANY KIND OF SHOUTING YOU WANT!
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Tom Tomorrow's Incomplete and Subjective Look at the Year in Crazy -
part 1 -
part 2.
(Not recommended if you're in a good mood and don't want it quashed or if you're on the brink and don't want to be shoved over. However, if you're like me and middling around the same old baseline of meh-nnui, it just may suit your mood)
Photo Friday ADVANCE NOTICE: Holidays Bright lights, big city, small town, kids with Santa - holidays past & present - and future for those of you with time machines - post 'em this Friday, December 31 as we bid a final delighted adieu to 2010.
Linnea - a short instrumental I wrote just after arriving in Las Vegas in 2005. Harsh criticism welcome.
28 December 2010
Ask The Whelk Anything Writer's Block Vacation Edition.
Today's Song in the
December Musical Giftstravaganza is "
Merry Christmas, I Fucked Your Snowman" by late-90s Boston punkers The Showcase Showdown. Enjoy!
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Fresh squeezed orange juice! So when I'm working, I take an orange or two every day. For some reason, while on break, I haven't been eating my oranges and had about a dozen that were past their prime.
So I peeled them and dropped them into the blender and added a little water, then strained the pulpy result through a colander.
Fresh squeezed orange juice! Yum.
(Mildly NSFW) Baile Funk 2010 - DJ Bruno Rodrigues "Electricidade" link inside.
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The year was 1974. The Cleveland Browns received a letter threatening a lawsuit over paper airplanes.
The rest is history.
27 December 2010
Newest member of the horde I have a new Hero.
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I'm snowed in and going stir crazy. Anyone else snowed in?
"Rhody Poisoning Sidelined Goat Walker" -- Now there's a headline you don't see every day. (Never fear, all ends well for both goat and walker.)
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So many beautiful christmas/hanukkah/season cards... Hi kletspraters, I only sent out cards to my group of 7 but received so many more...
Thank you so much.
Also: what are you up to during the liminal days between xmas and new years eve?
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Last.fm's Top 40 artists of 2010 This is pretty cool: at the bottom of each artist's page, you can see your own listening graph for that artist (if any) overlaid on the graph for the public at large. And on
this page, you can see where your own most-listened artists fall in the overall rankings for 2010.
so I'm in the shower thinking about genetically modified food and I realized that for people who're big on free culture/open source there's a fundamental problem in that these grains and such are proprietary and patented.. what do I look like eating stuff that's patented?!
26 December 2010
Belated Christmas Feel-Good Video Post
Dad video tapes his kids coming down the stairs on Xmas morning (almost) every year for 25 years.
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NYC's White Boxing Day.... IT BEGINS
25 December 2010
Merry Christmas Bunnies!!! What did Santa bring you?
Merry Christmas Everyone :) Hey folks, how’re you all doing? Well I hope! I see the whole gang is here. That’s good… Stewie, Miko, gaspode, and all the rest of you guys and girls. I missed this place. I didn’t know how much until I actually wrote “Metachat” in the search bar after a year almost and came back here… I thought I could do without you guys for some reason, and I could (I was) but you know what—it’s not worth it if you don’t have people you connect with to share stuff that you care about—and that’s what I missed.
Anyway, I just wanted to wish you all, and hope that everyone’s getting what they wanted from Santa. :)
24 December 2010
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The Dog-Sitters Club: Case of the Pug-nacious Xmas Tree Bandit
(pics inside)
I'm boring. Well, I'm bored anyway. I do need to put away laundry, but help me procrastinate! I have about 23 hours to kill. Only some of that will be sleeping. Any ideas?
The December Musical Giftstravaganza loads you up today with THREE wonderful Christmas songs, because I couldn't choose.
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Home Alone My person is going away for a few days, and that suspicious character known as The Tenant is also away. I’m brainstorming some ways to keep myself occupied.
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It might be that male chorus in the background.... Does anyone else find
this version of "The Little Drummer Boy" to be rather dark and chilling, or is it just me?
23 December 2010
25 Years ago yesterday... Dennes Dale Boon had his fatal accident.
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Whatcha cooking Saturday? Looks like I'm making braised brisket and cabbage with roast potatoes.
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I am lighting my fireplace for the first time tonight. I have no fireplace experience, but will be accompanied by someone who knows what they're doing, fireplace-wise. What are your thoughts on Duraflame versus real wood?
22 December 2010
OMG CHRISTMAS BUNNY from MeFi-but-not-MeCha's Own Scalzi
Today's Song in the December Musical Giftstravaganza is
Here Comes Fatty Claus by Rudolph & Gang. This song first came onto my radar via the
John Waters Christmas CD, which is really all that needs to be said.
Photo Friday Advance: Years 1995 - 2000 A time frame suggested by rainbaby.
Kermit and Kermit sing Under Pressure This is awesome. Also, the man is not actually homeless.
If any link was a self-link.... Video for "I'm In Love With A Gypsy" featuring video by a friend, a model friend, in a friend's apartment with music by a friend and said model wearing a friend's t-shirt line.
21 December 2010
The Sims Are Getting Medieval On Your Ass - I know there's at least one other Sims player here (looking at you BoringPostcards!). I am sooo stoked about this game. Anyone else?
"If there's one thing everyone thinks of when they hear 'Cracked.com' it's 'friend of Islam'." (it's only 2 pages, Cracked has been getting more reasonable about that too)
Ask MeCha: Online Christmas Cards Got some others to recommend? Preferably not too religious or sappy.
Oh bunnies. I have not sent your cards yet. That is all. Expect them in the new year, my friends. Thank you so much for the lovely cards I have gotten so far. Lovely.
It's that time. [lifted from hermitosis]
Happy birthday, jrossi4r!
Looks Like the Safety Line Failed . .Spiderman took a real, and scary fall last night on Broadway
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Lunar Eclipse Just a sliver left
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20 December 2010
Saw Black Swan, Loved it. (spoilers) Let's talk
(SO MANY SPOILERS)
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Semi-Dismal Monday Three-Pointer... →Read more...
Have you ever made the switch? The switch to different waking/sleeping hours, that is.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISS-LAPIN!!!!!!
new fascination I've been reading up on watches and things lately.. and besides learning 'hot damn these get expensive' I've beginning to appreciate them as aesthetic pieces of craftsmanship. to that end, here's a sexy slightly exposed clock striking Westminster chimes:
youtube link
19 December 2010
Mexican Jumping Gnocchi (Youtube. Warning: highly annoying laughter)
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Another Weekend, Another Stray Dog - a rant & story So, just about two weeks ago I found an extra dog in my yard.
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Idle Opinion Poll. What do you all think about giving gift certificates (I guess they're not called that anymore, but you know what I mean) as Christmas presents?
'Little Drummer Boy' Help? So, yesterday, I was at the thrift store, and I heard the most awful, cheesegasmic, '80s-sounding fake drums and overwrought dude singer version of 'Little Drummer Boy' I've ever heard.
It wasn't Bowie/Crosby, of course, or Bob Seger. But who was it?
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Bye Bye Bayou The only word for this is "groovy."
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18 December 2010
Springfield Eternal by Philippe Blanchard
Artist's statement: "Bart Simpson grows old and dies, over and over again. Looping."
On Compassion - Single Link 2-minute video
What Did I Just Make And Can I Name it? So after a few weeks not being able to smell anything and feeling terrible, I finally feel well enough to cook! Hooray ...but because of the aforementioned flupocalypse, I had nothing in ....
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Rudolph (You don't have to put on the red light) My friend has a tradition of making a Christmas CD. This song was perhaps the funniest/most interesting.
Christmas cards with family photos, your vote: sacred family tradition, a chance for sharing cute pictures of kids and/or pets, do as you may, or not really that interesting?
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17 December 2010
Pummelvision will take ALL of your photos from Facebook, Flickr, or Tumblr, and make them into a cool music video.
Here's mine.
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It's a Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book of Questions!
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The Thread in Which I Get to Brag - I am totally exhausted but I'm totally done with
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PS 22 from NYC is going to the Oscars! The kids got the news at their holiday concert.
I had a bunch of leftover polenta from dinner the other night, and I've been reheating it for breakfast and putting a fried egg on the top, and OMG yummy. And I was sitting here thinking, "I wonder why polenta isn't really considered a breakfast food?" and then I was like, "Oh, right. Grits."
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Jewels and antlers I like this photo.
Clean ALL the things, Holiday version! OK, I have guests coming and I need to whip this house into shape. Problem is, I don't really feel like doing it.
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16 December 2010
Today's Musical Giftstravaganza has not one, but two sassy ladies giving Santa the business (so to speak) ...
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More Bayes. Sort of a follow-up for people interested in
this post on
Bayesian reasoning.
Want to see my really big blister? It takes up almost half my foot. It's been over a week now, I keep switching shoes hoping it will go away but it doesn't seem to be leaving.
"F**k off, Harrod's" That'll teach
them to mess with Father Christmas.
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Help! Someone I was talked into making a turducken for Christmas dinner. Does anyone have any wise words for me? (Like maybe "Run away now!"?)
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15 December 2010
I hope y'all have been following Slack-a-gogo's
Top 50 albums of 2010 posts. SO MUCH great stuff there!
What should I bake with some bananas? I have three bananas that need to be baked. What should I make?
Photo Friday ADVANCE NOTICE: Winter Winter winter winter winter. Brrrrrrrr. Things that are cold.
And a happy belated birthday to LriG.rorriM! Happy birthday for yesterday!
Three Point status update, omg christmas tree edition This is the first tree I've ever decorated, it's simple but purty!
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Today is National Cupcake Day and here is a link to all of the US National food days, for your edification.
Moments from feline life I find these videos to be fine journalism. No dumb outfits, no humans talking down to us, just a couple of clips showing cat life as it really is, when
hanging out and when
tripping out.
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Kackel Dackel. Watch your step, kids!
It's a bouncy catchy musical choose your own adventure! And this had nothing to do with my current infatuation with whimsical sunken-cheeked white boys.
14 December 2010
What kind of fruit is this? Or is it a fruit, even? I found it on the towpath that runs along the canal by my house in New Jersey. It was about the size of an orange.
The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords -- from the 188,279 decrypted passwords of the recent Gawker hack, WSJ posts the top 50 passwords. More than 3,000 people used "123456" as their password. Seriously?
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The Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth
Starring
Bing Crosby John C. Reilly and
David Bowie Will Ferrell
(
original)
Has eMusic gone scammy? I can't find a single mention on their site about how much it costs to join now. Looks like you have to fill out registration info before they'll even tell you how much they charge. Can anyone find anything different, or does anyone currently subscribe? (Their lack of transparency has completely turned me off.)
Santaland Diaries (and Other Holiday Job Tales) part
1,
2,
3,
4. Have you ever taken a job just for the holidays? Tales and horror stories welcome inside.
Booze-related advice for making it to 2011 A fairly throwaway article from our local alt-weekly, but this bit (about holiday parties) made me LOL:
Punch is dangerous. Rarely crafted by an experienced hand, punch tends to be the unassuming time bomb in plain view.
Jay Rosen on Wikileaks The watchdog press died during the war on terror and this is what we got to replace it.
Ask Mecha: Interview Questions I'm interviewing people today for a part-time job at a public library. Besides the usual stuff, what are some good things I could ask 'em?
Metamorphosis A really beautiful, fractal-like animation.
13 December 2010
That's right, hipster twerps, Now you get to stop pretending that you don't like
GARFIELD,
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"That's right, hipter turds. . . Now you have to stop pretending that you don't like the
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Gawker hacked, CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS! →Read more...
How deep do you sleep? Do you sleep light, or heavy?
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Christian alternative to yoga??? Whaaaa? So, the missus and I were watching tv last night, and a commercial comes on for one of our local churches...
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12 December 2010
Drug study My sister just took part in a study where they gave her the equivalent of a dose of magic mushrooms. I would be scared! Would you do it?
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metachat music heads come in here and tell me of some good instrumental guitar albums
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Wikileaks Diplomatic Cables: This is the funniest one I've seen yet.
11 December 2010
I made a new Xmas mix this year and I hope this doesn't step on the
Giftstravaganza at all, but I don't think it will since some of it is pretty obscure, and I wanted to share it w/ y'all.
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10 December 2010
I wanted you to know... ..that Mr. V passed away this past Saturday. We were divorced, but that was beside the point - I still loved that man. I was able to be at his bedside right to the end. Fuck cancer. It's been three years this month since his operation to remove his cancerous kidney and a wedge on his lung. He had a smooth passing, surrounded by his two kids, his two brothers, his girlfriend of six months, and me. Everyone here has been so supportive during all the ups and downs we've had - I just wanted you guys to know.
A Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book of Questions:
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where I grew up (this is a google maps stalking thread) →Read more...
How tall are you? Do you wish you were taller/shorter?
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Bunnybeards Alright peoples, time for bunnies to grow beards. Who's with me?
Random Ironic Twitter User Creator for you buns who are NOT Tweeting enough. I know who you are, @POST-IRONIC-SMURFETTE, @AVUNCULAR-LOLCAT, @TREE-HUGGING-BATMAN...
I've been hacked! →Read more...
Office gifts Do y'all have ideas for small, office gifts? I have to get about a dozen so they need to be cheap (like only a couple bucks ea.) Also, no sweets. That's what makes this hard.
Inception: see
all of the "levels" in real time. It's flawed but it's a cool perspective on this puzzle-box of a movie.
09 December 2010
Exercise bikes. Please tell me what you know about them.
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OMG bunny video game with very catchy music.
I got the blues so bad. Luckily, the internets will accompany me in my time of need.
Astonishing trust of a lioness Warning: Eeeeee! overload ahead.
Over and over. For some reason I keep rewatching the first two
Godfather movies. I've watched them maybe 20 times in the last 6 months. It's probably something I'm better off not analyzing too closely. Is there anything you guys watch or read over and over and over?
Virus Follow Up now that my computer is back up, I've done some digging around and it looks like my vulnerability may have been this Firefox Plugin.....
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'Tis the season for sweets. What is your recent favorite? Mine has been the simple classic lemon drop.
08 December 2010
It's a Welcome New Users thread! Here are the users who have signed up in the past few weeks. New users, come on in and say hi! Drinks are on your left and I'll take your jackets into the back room...
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Follow up to a computer/internet question (AskMe cross-post): Geeky types, please help me!
Photo Friday Advance: Key Rings, suggested by danf. "Everyone has 'em. What keys to you have, and what other stuff is on your ring and what significance does it all have?"
Make your own snowflake. Pretty snowflakes made of ticky tacky...
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"It's Always Christmas in Heaven" is the first song in the
December Musical Giftstravaganza!
Stream it,
download it, or
watch it. Happy holidays!
OMG Scientist! Researchers dress as pandas so cubs will remain unaccustomed to humans in the wild.
07 December 2010
I just saw Louis CK! Driving around like real people! I just want to take a moment to thank Louis CK. Without his brand of comedy I could not have survived this past 6 months with my new daughter.
Getting hit on by 25 year olds Aren't I too old for this?
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The National Maritime Museum has uploaded to Flickr a cool
set of photos from the golden era of cruise ships, from the 1920s to the 1970s.
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This is the first Google hit for my dentist. Now I realize why he's got a life-sized cardboard cutout of Hillary in his waiting area.
Nearly a decade ago, I asked a Craigslist forum for advice. I wanted some general life advice. They gave me
Mary Schmich. What have you learned lately?
An intuitive introduction to Bayesian reasoning. So I've been working through this -- slowly -- for the past couple of days, and I have to say I've found unexpectedly illuminating and rewarding.
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06 December 2010
New Year's Resolutions Ok, I'm gonna publicly announce mine for the sake of greater accountability in actually following through. What are yours?
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The December Musical Giftstravaganza is an evolution of the old "Musical Advent Calendar" idea (
2007 , 2009 (truncated)). This year, after some discussion
here, the plan is to bring it to you from multiple authors/posters and to extend it through Jan. 1. Please enter thread to sign up...
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Xmas + streetlight + poorly planned parade route =
Rudolph the
*DEAD* Nosed Reindeer
Al Franken Calling the Republicans on their hypocisy. . . I am so angry that it is hard for me to see straight right now. . .
Speed Painting: Pixar Remix - three artist friends re-imagined Pixar characters, but imagined as warriors. The results:
Russel and Kevin (from
Up),
Wall-E as a warrior on Trash Planet, and
Buzz Lightyear as a "knight ranger."
Stumped by Christmas shopping I am low on festiveness and completely lack inspiration for Christmas gifts. Help please (said in Leeloo voice)
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Pitchfork's Worst Album Covers of 2010 (one or two are NSFW) Some of these are hilarious.
Recovering From A Computer Virus I have a question for the technically minded. on Saturday night, my computer picked up a worm, that was a scam to get me to buy 'Anitvirus Action'.
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Apartment Menagerie - semi-exotic animals posing / staged in front of a variety of wallpaper patterns, by
Catherine Ledner.
Good morning from my new apartment!
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05 December 2010
Your Best Shot 2010 is a Flickr photo pool with a LOT of great images in it.
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Musical Advent Calendar this year? →Read more...
I don't understand fingerless gloves ... →Read more...
I wish I'd known about this years ago. →Read more...
04 December 2010
who's having cocktails? →Read more...
What do you tip for Pizza Delivery? I got 3$ and then up depending on the bigness of the order and the weather conditions. But then again this is a local place I want to keep a good relationship with, how to you tip for Pizza?
Basic cooking question I've got a pork & tomatillo stew simmering on the stovetop, and it tastes quite acidic to me.
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Yes, this is basically how the world looks when I walk around with my headphones on, too.
So last night my husband came home drunk: A FML Story FML Filter *GROSS-OUT WARNING*: So last night my husband came home extremely drunk.
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Ducks in the wind All we are is ducks in the wind....
Presenting a massive matchbox car racing track. In a warehouse.
03 December 2010
It's time for another Friday Night Question chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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Theme songs So, my former cats (whom you all named) are incredibly stripey,
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What a thread this was. Through some series of links I stumbled across this AskMe thread from 2005. It's taken me a few sittings over a couple of days to get through it all. Now I'm thinking about what experience(s) most shaped who I am. Care to share yours?
Ask Mecha: Identify that Poet My Aunt Had An Affair With in 1950s Boho NYC. So last night I was talking with my boho auntie
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OMG MOVING! So I'm finally actually moving this weekend. And boy howdy am I anxious. Happy thoughts, warm hugs, funny stories all appreciated!
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What I want for Christmas. I'm sure if everybody chips in . . . .
Photo Friday: The last photo you took. Post the most recent photo you took (One only!)
02 December 2010
And we'll have fun fun fun 'til the copyright owners take our characters away.
Saw this commercial today, and it made me laugh so damn hard.
Smugopedia "Smugopedia is a collection of slightly controversial opinions about a variety of subjects. We offer you the chance to buy a fleeting sense of self-satisfaction at the small cost of alienating your friends and loved ones."
So much to do... Things tend to get busy this time of year. What's on your to-do list?
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Trip planning/mapping question: Instead of knowing how far it is between towns A and B on Interstate X, I need to know what town on Interstate X is 600 miles from town B. How can I do that with Yahoo or Google maps, or some other online tool?
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Found this lovely cover of "The Chipmunk Song" via a friend on Facebook. Enjoy!
Snowmageddon in Bydgoszcz! (Google Translation of a liveblog from the local paper). No university classes, complete traffic paralysis, no parking enforcement, public transport free today...but I'm still going to work! :) It takes a lot of snow to keep a big city in Poland home from school.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPECKLET!!!!!!
01 December 2010
Photo Friday suggestion post
Interview with Lynda Barry in the Paris Review. highly awesome.
What three songs are you enjoying more than any others right now? My Secret Quonsar at MeFi asked me this question and I think it's a great one. I'm stumped and need to think about it. You?
Mecha Card Exchange List Sent! If you signed up and did not receive a copy of the list, please shout!
Good restaurant gift for a couple in London I have some friends in London who just got married. They specifically requested no gifts because they don't have room for any more stuff in their small flat.
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30 November 2010
Rita Indiana y Los Misterios - El Juidero (youtube). If you only have time for one hyper-merengue/electronica-ish song today, make it this one, because it's freaking great (sweet video too). (
via)
ROOOAAAD TRIIIIIP!! If you were going on a road trip in the US of A in the Spring, what would be your ideal itinerary? If you have already taken an epic road trip, what were the coolest things you have seen?
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Invitation Thread. →Read more...
Needz some halpz. →Read more...
THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD!!! →Read more...
Does anyone here use Weight Watchers Online? Am thinking of trying it for a month or two, 95% to get the point values for the different foods and 5% for recipes. But, am afraid that I'll be inundated with junk mail, electronic or otherwise, for the rest of my natural life, both from them any anyone else they may sell my credit card information to. Any tips? Thanks!
Where to buy quality bathrobes? Shhhh... I'm mulling over various Christmas gift ideas for the girlfriend and I could use a point in the right direction.
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Bunny! OMG! (Or "Gimme dat basil!")
Happy Birthday dhartung! Have a great one!
let's talk about Being Sexy I am becoming the world's most unlikely personal care product enthusiast. tell me what products you use for your skin, hair, feetz etc... beyond, like, soap
29 November 2010
must-visit places in New Orleans? →Read more...
Save my bland stew! I made a HUGE pot of beef stew Sunday night, and it is BLAND BLAND BLAND.
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Dysfunction Junction - TDay style →Read more...
"John Foster is a meticulous and savvy collector —"and I do not buy in bulk," he says. Over the years that he's been collecting personal photographs from garage sales, antique shops, and eBay...
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Feuerzangenbowle anyone had this before? Any idea where I can get it in the Midwest?
Must I needz jacket and tie? →Read more...
28 November 2010
OMG Cool Bunny Doll! Long time no see, MeCha, what's new? Has the emcee posted yet? ;-)
Are you evil? I was looking at some black and white prints I had made, and a curious kid came over and asked me:
"Hey mister, doesn't your camera do color?"
"Of course it does." I replied, "But I only had black and white memory cards today."
Let's hear your evil confessions...
The X-Files Mythology : Thanks to Netflix streaming, I have been watching the alien episodes, skipping over the Monsters of the Week. This is top-notch television that I missed the first time through. Wikipedia has a list of episodes for that story arc.
Life is too complicated. Connectivity help needed.
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Breakfast! What do you usually do for breakfast?
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Healthy food Sunday I'm going to atone for my sinful eating of the last few days. I pledge this here in public.
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27 November 2010
So Who Has Read The Magicians? I re-read it on a plane and noticed that aside from Eliot (very pale) and I think Janet (blond ponytail?) you never get any descriptions of the main character's race or coloration or what. I thought that was interesting.
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How a 15-minute writing exercise closed the performance gap between men and women in a physics class. "A small experiment at the University of Colorado was able to close the gap in performance between men and women taking an introduction to physics class - by means of a writing test wholly unrelated to science."
Portland car bomb thwarted yesterday. In this case, I'm grateful to the FBI.
This is kewl. That is all.
Birds of the World A kind of neat repository for birds throughout the world. What's your favorite bird? Mine at the moment is the Black-Throated Blue Warbler.
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A year in the life of a foster parent How does it feel, not knowing which strangers' child will come through your door next? Recommendation: before reading, increase power to the structural integrity field of the heart.
26 November 2010
Friday Night Question! Chosen randomly from
The Book of Questions...
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Happy Birthday punchtothehead! Almost missed it!
Project Neighbor I've started a new blog about working to make your life happier, more secure, and more generous. Introductory post at Tea Party Jesus here →Read more...
Awesome post contest Is anyone going to post in order to vie for the Best Post contest that MeFi is probably going to have in December? I've got a post researched, though I still have to write and tag it. It falls short of awesome though.
Thanksgiving leftovers. So, did you go for pie for breakfast this morning? I totally intended to, but I ended up making stuffing instead. The pie is still there for later. Om nom nom.
25 November 2010
Green bean casserole without green beans? I'd like to make this today, but the BF doesn't like green beans. Do you think I could substitute broccoli instead?
What are you thankful for?
MANCHESTER UTD CAN GO BUGGER ITSELF WITH A SPORK SINCE WHEN DO RANGERS ENTIRELY FORGET HOW TO DO ANY OFFENSIVE PLAYS WHATSOEVER? I MEAN IF TWO OF YOU ARE ADVANCING TOWARDS GOAL W POSSESSION OF THE BALL
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Kanye West's short film
Runaway features most of the music from his new album and is also awesome. Insane and awesome.
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24 November 2010
I got anise in my organics box. Not the dried spice, but fresh with wispy green leaves. How do I cook it? Can I treat it like celery?
Bunnies of a certain age may twitch upon hearing this
I know I'm a little early but I just stopped by to say Happy Thanksgiving to all of you.
I left the house for a twenty-minute errand. When I came back,
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Is this on your grown-up Christmas list? Be sure to check out the "customers who bought this item also bought" items.
Photo Friday Advance & Suggestion Thread: Let's do "Thankful" this week. What would you like to see as the theme for future Fridays?
The Nine Circles of Scientific Hell Neuroskeptic explains what happens to Bad Scientists.
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Give Me Something To Read's Best of 2010 The editor of GiveMeSomethingToRead.com shares a list of his favorite articles and essays from the past year.
Live crabs from a subway station vending machine. I saw it on a rerun of
The Colbert Report tonight, so maybe you've already seen it. But what the heck, we've had a shortage of posts today.
23 November 2010
What are you doing right now? I am at McDonalds eating a McRib sandwich. It is edible, maybe even verging on good, but messy. How about you?
22 November 2010
MP3 Shuffle-a-gogo anyone? MP3 on random, first ten songs, no cheating.
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Sure it might be early for some of us... but down under, it's already jonathanstrange's birthday! So, I think we should begin the celebrations!
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21 November 2010
Source Code The trailer for the new flick from Duncan Jones, who wrote and directed one of my most favorite recent flicks,
Moon. This looks amazing.
Three-pronged reno post.... I have three things I'm trying to figure out how to do for my hallway renos...
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A LUTE CAT OF YOUR VERY OWN Or: I did the stupid thing.
Or: I am now a capitalist.
Calvin and Hobbes BBC Radio 4 special streaming this week! A nice 30 minute piece from a few years ago running again for the anniversary.
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20 November 2010
Meet Chloe on youtube Chloe imitates a
Dominican Girl from Her Neightborhood. And an
Italian guy asking her out. An a
jewish aunt.
Museek is a music player for Android phones. I highly recommend it.
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Ricky Gervais sings Elmo a lullaby
I know a lot of people think the little furry guy is annoying, but I find him to be very amusing.
Elmo's pretty funny, too.
Hardwood v. Laminate I want to order the flooring for my upper and lower hallways and guest room (250 feet total, plus probably another 10% margin for wastage) within the next few days, and am trying to come to a decision about what to order.
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Love & Theft - an animation by Andreas Hykade.
Happy Birthday pinky.p! May you have a joyous one...
Hey, did anyone else notice that Twitter is re-directing to the Washington Post? What's up with that?
It's a viola! My newest possession! WOOOOOOT!!!!
19 November 2010
I had a random thought today: Picky eating could be a desirable trait,
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Friday Night Question, chosen randomly from
The Book of Questions...
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OMG Emcee! A year in the making! Dead computers and exhausted bodies littering the journey! It's here at last (um, at least two-thirds of it.*)
Behold EMCEE 9!!!
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Longshot-filter: Anyone know of a place in Baltimore (could be yours!) where a mom and an adult son could stay over Thanksgiving?
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FRIDAY MADE OF WIN 1- Not sick no more!
2- Did half-hearted cathelentics!
3-Made TWO Breakfasts/lunches - Yorkshire puddings and bacon/pepper/onion salad!
4-Tended ledge garden
5-To do this is REASONABLE!
WHAT IS YOUR WIN?!
This is inspiring me, but I have tool and material questions. Can you help?
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Spudnik! This definitely beats the hell out of the science lessons I had a school.
18 November 2010
Flossing sucks, amirite? So I was a the dentist a month ago, and she threatened to do terrible things to me and my teeth. She only relented when I agreed to start flossing every day and come back in December. So the appointment is fast approaching, but I'm still not flossing.
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Today is the 25th anniversary of the
debut of Calvin and Hobbes.
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London: the Long Goodbye Great series of posts by an Italian ex-pat in London, about all the places he lived in and what he learned in each, as he prepares to move to Berlin.
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17 November 2010
Ain't that a kick in the head? So my wife just heard the latest from home. It seems that a few day ago her 70+ dad was fixing something on the basement stairs. He fell and landed on his head. Stubborn old goat that he is, he didn't go to the emergency room.
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I have concluded our new cat Sunny was abused and requires rehab. He is just shy of 1 year old and was a shelter cat, yet declawed. He has major litter box issues. Any tips?
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Photo Friday ADVANCE NOTICE: Ancestors Not necessarily your ancestors, but somebody's although hey, it can be your ancestors too, which includes your parents in their fabulous best. Old pictures. Old old old pictures. Ancient. Antique. Aged. And just old.
I'm siiiiiick. It is now Day Three of my annual battle with the crud, and while I am no longer the Mayer of Sicktown, or Governor of New Sickington, I think I'm still Professor Emerita of Sick Studies at Sickyville State. What to do today?
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Supermarket ranting thread. →Read more...
Blown away Over the past few days I've been receiving a few automated calls from Sears saying my delivery has arrived. Which I ignored, because I didn't order anything. Then yesterday I got a call saying my new snowblower has arrived. Awesome, but I didn't order one.
Oh, Sears. I see your future and it is not pretty.
16 November 2010
Am I a bad parent? Or an awesome one?
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I'm beginning to realize that there are some people who are literally and genuinely scared of the devil.
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Ask MeCha: addressing a grad-school rec letter A former employee wants a grad school reference.
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In search of faster answers... In the spirit of this comment, in this thread we answer specific AskMe questions before they're asked.
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If you click on only one link today, make it this one. An amazingly self-assured, well-spoken and confident 14 year old gay teen defends a teacher who was suspended.
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Mother, shall I put you to sleep? Maariyamma is likely to be killed by her children because they cannot afford her. They will give her a loving oil bath. Several glasses of coconut water. A mouthful of mud. Perhaps a poison injection. She is just one of many old parents in Tamil Nadu dying in this way. But no one blinks at these ritual murders.
Veterinary Hospital: a pussycat that went to the dogs I took Trilby to the vet on Friday. Poor little guy, both the trip there and the actual visit terrified him.
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15 November 2010
The first time, I believe, that Miss Piggy demonstrates her love for Kermit. Yeah, I know, these Muppet videos are all over Youtube...but I just had to share, after a long day at work. This is SO fucking teh awesome.
Snug as a Bug in a Rug - A tiny house in Japan built on a lot the size of a parking spot.
So how many times do you wear a pair of jeans before washing it? Assuming normal wear, not excessive sweating, spills etc.
An owl and a kitten are best friends. I don't think I've seen this here yet.
How Baidu Won China: Robin Li beat Google and made his search engine No. 1 in China. Now he wants to go global, but it will take some work to get the world to trust Baidu
14 November 2010
Rocola Bacalao - Cada vez mas I heard these guys last night on Anthony Bourdain No Reservations from Ecuador and found a couple of their songs on Youtube. They sound pretty good
Leaf BlowersBlow What a horrible sound on what is a stunningly beautiful day.
The Gifted Child: at the age of seven, Jeremy Sassoon was the youngest student at Britain's newly opened Royal Northern College of Music, as gifted at trumpet and piano as he was at math, football, and anything else he set his mind to. The boy prodigy was sent out, in front of the assembled press of Manchester, to hand a bouquet of flowers to the Duchess of Kent, who presided over the opening.
I have one of these posters - does anybody want it? I'll mail it to ya.
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13 November 2010
As entertaining as "Fuck You" was, it turns out not the be the best song on Cee-Lo's album
The Lady Killer. The whole thing is pretty great, but here are two of my favorite tracks:
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End of the Road. Songs about the point of No Return.
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Bangladesh Actioner "Jekhane Tumi" Promises to be Very Filmy "Also it has a dolphin jumping through a fluttering cloud of money."
12 November 2010
This week's Friday Night Question from
The Book of Questions:
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Christmas Music is Here! One of my local radio stations has started their 24/7 holiday music schedule. You're all invited to the Christmas party currently going on in my cubicle. Click the link to listen online and join me!
Small Improvements What small improvements have you made lately? Little life tweaks that are working out well?
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Friday update: what's up y'all?
Photo Friday: Vivid Colors, memories, etc.
11 November 2010
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Hard to Kill: Houseplants for the Inept.
My Implanted Cardiac Defibrillator expired yesterday. The routine protocol is to simply replace it sometime in the next 12 weeks (no real hurry and a fairly simple procedure), however my cardiologist wants a special meeting tomorrow. The FDA has approved several new and various technologies over the last half year, and my inner gadget geek is as giddy as my adrenaline junkie at the prospect.
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This is a hate thread. I hate raking leaves. Hate. Hate.
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She wants to go to the Festival? The King's Festival? So I am going to an actual Gala, the kind the Riddler might crash. What on earth do I wear?
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10 November 2010
Hi guys! What's been happenin'? I've been out of the loop.
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For the fallen
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Lest We Forget.
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Gizmodo reviews Samsung Galaxy Tab. Money quote:
It's like a tablet drunkenly hooked up with a phone, and then took the fetus swimming in a Superfund cleanup site.
Okay bunnies, I need bunny help. Rly. So there's this tame bunny that's been living rough in a business/industrial park for a while. It's a beautiful white bunny with floppy ears - definitely not a wild rabbit. I can get within a few feet of it before it takes off. I've no idea how it got where it is - probably an escapee or a dumped pet.
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Photo Friday Advance - Vivid: Colors, memories, etc.
Thanksgiving Day is Nigh! - Need a stuffing recipe? Why don't you give
Marilyn Monroe's a try?
Must Love Pickles My friends are getting inducted into the White Castle Hall of Fame. It's silly, but quite a sweet story.
The Great Cyberheist One night in July 2003, a little before midnight, a plainclothes N.Y.P.D. detective, investigating a series of car thefts in upper Manhattan, followed a suspicious-looking young man with long, stringy hair and a nose ring into the A.T.M. lobby of a bank. Pretending to use one of the machines, the detective watched as the man pulled a debit card from his pocket and withdrew hundreds of dollars in cash. Then he pulled out another card and did the same thing. Then another, and another. The guy wasn’t stealing cars, but the detective figured he was stealing something.
The new 9/11 memorial seems so...
ominous.
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To The Whelk: Consider yourself reminded.
Oh, and have a Joyous Clusterfuck.
Ba Ba Ba. An audio/visual illusion known as the
McGurk Effect.
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09 November 2010
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Help me think of a presentation topic! Next week I have to give a 10-15 minute presentation where I teach a process. What should I teach??
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A DIFFERENT mp3 thread! (But you should totally do
this one, too.) What are your top 10 most-played tracks?
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I've become one of those people. What people you ask? →Read more...
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An mp3 shuffle thread, ten songs plus a *
*BONUS TRACK**
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Kno - The New Day (Death Has No Meaning) instrumental with vocal samples [
youtube] [
mp3]
Fighting bullying with babies A group that brings infants into classrooms to teach empathy has produced sharp drops in bullying.
Inspired By The Personal Clothing Rules Thread. What did you wear around the house growing up? Due to some strange conversations with my peers, I am led to believe my house wasn't typical.
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08 November 2010
OMG BUGS BUNNY! 1939: Warner Bros. director Ben "Bugs" Hardaway makes “Hare-um Scare-um” with a rabbit designed by Cartoonist Charlie Thorson who labels his sketch “Bugs’ Bunny”. A year later, when producer Leon Schlesinger uses the label to name the character, new director Tex Avery hates it. “That’s sissy,” he complains. “Mine’s a tall, lanky, mean rabbit. He isn’t a fuzzy little bunny!”
Bwuh? I just got results from a blood test. I, uh, tested positive for Lyme disease.
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Coat Sizes: Help? I need a coat before I go to New York this Friday or I'm going to die up there.
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Introducing: Eyehole Paintings "Your greatest weapon in the war on crookery."
Howz Yur Monday? 1. Just at a coffee place. The barista is into designs (pentagrams, anarchy symbols, etc) on the drinks he makes.
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Is there anything more frustrating on earth than a new digital camera? →Read more...
Just another day in the hospital So, I spent the day in the hospital, having had an MRI scheduled for my shoulder problems.
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07 November 2010
I walked into a diner today and someone who looked exactly, completely, down to the build and bad bleach dye job, like me. He was leaving. As he left he picked up a very sleek, easily indefinable coat. The very same coat I had talked myself into not-buying just an hour before.
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let's talk about expertise y'all ever feel slightly Imposter Syndrome-y?
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"We're going to Disney, baby!"
Mom springs a delightful surprise on her kids. It doesn't go over too well.
Extra chicken stock. My freezer is currently full with 4 million cups of homemade chicken stock.
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Common People comic. A graphic illustration (from the creator of Tank Girl and Gorillaz) of possibly the angriest pop songs ever written.
The Mystery of the Tainted Cocaine, Part II: How it's made, how it moves, and who might be cutting it with a deadly cattle-deworming drug. (
Part I)
06 November 2010
Hey USians, a special song for tonight... I owe thanks to Jessamyn for this link - a heartfelt message in song, by Dads. It's cute. Even though a lot of those guys just kind of look like my age. Anyway, sleep an extra hour tonight! On me! It's okay, really!
Two Tierd Justice A financial manager for wealthy clients will not face felony charges for a hit-and-run because it could jeopardize his job, prosecutors said Thursday.
05 November 2010
Harry Nilsson - You're Breakin' My Heart so 'fuck you'. [This is why we mine the golden oldies, boys 'n girls.]
Free Spices!! Nearly all of the spices at my Jewel/Osco are buy one get one free until 1/2. What would you stock up on?
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can you hear the difference? our mecha friend Nucleo is totally telling me it'd be hard to distinguish the difference between uncompressed AAC and mp3s on my iphone with stock earphones
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Friday night question, chosen randomly from
The Book of Questions:
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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus...but he's run off with the toys At the third Howard Zinn Memorial lecture (Zinn died earlier this year), Bill Moyers turns it on. I've long been fond of his gentle outrage and avuncular gentleness, but I think this is him at his best.
Grump! My mortgage refinance application was denied.
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Bunnies Riding Ponies... While we make no promises at this point, the Metachat Tech Admins (chrismear & yours truly) are interested in finding out what you would like to see changed or added to or what you think is borked at metachat.org
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Photo Friday: Fire & Flame
04 November 2010
A guy walks into the doctor's office. "Doc, these shingles suck." "They heal, well, maybe they heal. Besides your thyroid's blown and your liver degradation has accelerated." "Got any good news, doc?" "Yeah, your heart is in great shape for an invalid."
ba-dump-dump ;-P
What would your 16-year-old self say to you?
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Tired of arguing with climate-change deniers on Twitter, a programmer has
written a bot that does it for him.
What temperature do you keep your house during the winter?
03 November 2010
Vintage Star Wars Travel Posters because the galaxy was so much cooler before it got so popular.
Silver Beetle of Costa Rica - no idea what kind of beetle it is, except for "the silver kind, with purple feet."
Let's decide this once and for all. Which is better?
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I'm curious about the emcee we started around this time last year. I understand there were some inevitable delays and I'm not trying to criticize anyone at all. Will we ever see it, or has it been scrapped? I had fun participating, but I can let go of my curiosity if it has.
Photo Friday ADVANCE NOTICE: Fire & Flame As tiny as a candle flame or as big as a forest fire, let's have some pictures of stuff that's BURNING on Friday, November 5.
"Eleven" An animated short about a space ranger, deadly robots, and a voice mail menu.
[NYC-Filter] Boosting the signal: Anyone up for Thanksgiving lunch? tl;dr: Someone has said that they'll host a Thanksgiving lunch/brunch, but only if they get a headcount.
02 November 2010
come in here and do a terrible Drake-style punchline e.g. "It's going down.. basement." / "Hang it up.. flatscreen." / "come and find me.. Nemo"
Radio! Who remembers MechaRadio? Who wants it back?
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Pancakes anyone? What's your fav brekkie dish?
Dating update: was I leading him on? I just send
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Newspaper caption fail adding a whole new layer to Kennedy family dynamics.
A favorite book review (of a very bad book). I read this hilarious book review back in 1988, and I've always remembered it. A Vuitton ad (with Bono!) made me think of it, and thanks to the Internet, here it is for you.
NPR is streaming Cee-Lo's album "The Lady Killer" from now until it's released on Nov. 9.
(It includes the censored version of "Fuck You," so it's SFW.)
Do you read the ingredients?
01 November 2010
Fighting Haddie If you had to fight monsters deep in an underground cave, what kind of weapon would you recommend?
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Who'd have thought... A few days back I was trying to find something I'd written by googling "Orange Swan" and whatever, and I came upon a list of Civil War soldiers from New York that included a listing for "Swan, Orange S. 2 V.Cav." So there actually has been a person with the real, legal name of Orange Swan. Who knew.
New sidebar art! Thanks to our photographers gomichild, flapjax at midnite, plinth, and pjern.
A love that dare not speak its name ... This takes interspecies snorgling to a whole new level.
If I saw this while I was walking down the street I would walk into a lamp post leaving a Warner Brothers-style cartoon outline of my profile.
New Springsteen Old Springsteen this sure has that old E Street Band sound
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So I did a (lesbian burlesque) Twlight party For our first event at the venerable Bowery Poetry Club (
more pictures) I made the t-shirts and the music. [potentially NSFW]
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31 October 2010
He's Not My Brother Halloween comic for you.
Um... boo? My husband, Mr. Cupcakes, waited until the last minute to buy a pumpkin. By the time he got to the store to get one, they were completely out. Being a creative guy,
this was his solution.
End of the silicon honeymoon: The love affair that technology firms had with America’s president is fading fast
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30 October 2010
Anyone at The Rally today? We need to live through you.
OMG trippy lizards. Cool music videos from Japanese band COS/MES.
29 October 2010
Friday Night Question! Chosen randomly from
The Book of Questions:
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The Whelk's Webcomic Pastiches: Cat and Girl,
Achewood,
Dinosaur Comics (totally pitch-perfect AND
well-timed). OF COURSE, I have suggestions of others he should do...
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More costume talk So, I don't have any ideas. But I started thinking about going as a song title.
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Will Germany now take centre stage? Its economy is booming, but its strength poses new questions
Are there places that never have gloomy (very overcast) days? Like, in California or Arizona, for example, are there people who have never had the experience of looking out the window in the morning and thinking "What a gloomy day" or, if it doesn't strike them that way, at least hearing someone else call it gloomy, dreary, etc.? Especially without it being actually raining at the time? Or are overcast days just such an infrequent occurrence that it's actually a nice change when it happens? (which I can understand if it's been too hot out, of course.)
Dawn of the Ted. Warning: contains scenes of graphic teddy-on-teddy violence.
28 October 2010
Borderland: Sex trafficking on the China-Myanmar border
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What are some applications that allow to you block specific websites from yourself? →Read more...
Songs. In the key of me.
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Time Traveler in Charlie Chaplin Film? I confess I can't come up with an explanation, either. It's a trending topic on Twitter today.
Here's the film.
Thursday Kyoot. Baby lions at the zoo learn to swim. (
Video)
Watch in the video wherethe baby lion goes :-O when her bum touches the cold water for the first time. Eeee!
SUPERSTORM! A picture of the storm that produced the lowest non-hurricane barometer reading in the US.
WTF? I promise I will never be this type of FarmVille player. So sad.
Photo Friday ADVANCE: ??? I'll throw the floor open for suggestions, but I have these three to offer:
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27 October 2010
I come back to IRC after a couple years and it's dead. Come chat, if you want. West Coasters especially encouraged to apply.
Have you ever noticed a change in your voice as an adult? A few months back,I started noticing that my voice sounded ever so slightly different to me. A teeny bit lower. Very subtle, and no one commented. I wasn't sick and there wasn't any other obvious explanation. I kept forgetting the change and being surprised when I spoke.
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The 7 Most Unintentionally Creepy Places on the Internet from cracked.com. OK, it's debatable, but for sure, some of these are creepy.
Minor Identity Crisis? Since I dropped the "Wendell" alt-name last year it has felt odd to see my real name on the few pieces of writing I've gotten published or web-lished.
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Where is my camera charger? Places I have already checked after the break: →Read more...
Pre-Rally Thread The BF and I leave tomorrow on our roadtrip to DC/Baltimore for the Stewart/Colbert rally. I. AM. SO. EXCITED.
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Does everyone already know about pixlr? It seems pretty cool to me.
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I think this is fake, but maybe it's real This is chock-full of content, so if it's fake someone put a lot of time into it. Check out the Intros in "Studio 1".
(LOLflashwebdesigners)
Another good -for-one-day-only link. I realize this is a spoof, but I actually do believe this is the central R message this midterm season.
26 October 2010
UserNotes GreaseMonkey script (by jacalata) I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask this question or not, I'd guess that it's surely it's as good as any place to start.
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Cross Post for Extra Help I have put it off long enough - well, actually, the deadline's breathing down my neck - and I need insurance help. Boring! Yet crucial! Hope me.
Hmmm. I need to analyze this situation very, very carefully.
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A Protocol of Barbarity The online whistleblower platform WikiLeaks is posting close to 400,000 US military reports from the Iraq war on the Web. The logs show in detail how brutally the war was waged and the helplessness with which the United States acted.
If I can make it here... So it looks like I'll be moving to NYC. I sign
the lease tonight!
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Last chance to buy a cool T-shirt. The web page doesn't say it, but R. Stevens has received the C&D and
must stop selling this shirt after today. You have a few hours left to stand up to copyright assholes who want to kill parody with lawyers AND get something that will make smart people laugh at your chest, for 14 USbucks (including shipping).
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The Haunted House(s) on Crowley Place - Two brothers who love building mechanical set-ups and enjoy Halloween are continuing to increase their holiday set-up.
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Mayberry Overload. Those of you who grew up with weekly or even daily doses of Andy and Barney may be interested in getting all 8 years of
The Andy Griffith Show for less than 100 bucks, today only.
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"Social networking software, now there’s a term that should scare the piss out of anyone with an IQ over 40. It means the database as hive reality."
25 October 2010
When proper punctuation goes (hilariously) bad... "MERLE HAGGARD: The documentary was filmed over three years. Among those interviewed were his two ex-wives, Kris Kristofferson and Robert Duvall."
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Can I teach the star chick of everyone's smartphone to sleep in the coop? →Read more...
Take Back Halloween A site dedicated to ideas other than "Sexy _______" for women's Halloween costumes.
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Right across the street from me. (warning: graphic image) I saw the police car arrive but couldn't see what it was about.
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Total TMI about my nose problems. I think I am going to have to go back to the cute ENT. Stop here if nosebleeds gross you out.
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Dentists Husband got a raise and then we went through insurance drop/add, so we added dental.
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Speaking of personal clothing style . . . what are you wearing today?
The Online Threat Should we be worried about a cyber war?
Status 3-Pointer. Since I was late to
the last one, here's my update for today.
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MeTa Book Club Chooses Our Next Book Hi all: What shall we read next from the Open Yale syllabus?
Monster Meter iPhone app . Monster Meter puts fast, easy monster detection right in the palm of your hands. You can scan any room and verify if there are monsters hiding there, or if you and your child are safe. Just explain what Monster Meter is and how it works then put it to good use.
Personal Clothing Rules Are there certain types/features of clothing that you just refuse to wear? Mine inside.
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pix So I was arranging/cleaning out various files and I noticed some NYer cartoons lying around:
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24 October 2010
SHOUTING POST: WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE SUCH LOUD WALKERS?
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From China, The Future of Fish Meet the Chinese tilapia, a bland food product that grows fast and sells cheap. Environmentalists hate it, but Americans keep ordering more
It's raining at the airport, so that means Another round of Ask The Whelk Anything!
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What's for [insert nearest meal here]? Steel cut oatmeal with butter, brown sugar, and honeycrisp apples I dried myself.
You?
23 October 2010
Embarrassingly clueless. Hope me. A friend just gave me her scanner. She told me I'd have to go on the Epson website to download stuff for it so it would work. I downloaded and installed drivers for it, was that what I needed? Now what?
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Europe 1890 I've downloaded a selection of chromatographs from the Library of Congress. They're mostly photographs of traveling sights in Europe deftly coloured in.
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Yet another decorating brainstorm As posted about
previously, I have been planning to wallpaper the hallways at Swan's End. But idea of shelling out what I'll probably have to shell out has always made my thrifty little heart quail.
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The Golem, a 1920 silent horror classic, with a new musical score by Black Francis of the Pixies.
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22 October 2010
Trilby, Hitchcock-style You may feel a cold chill down your spine.
Friday Night Question: another random query from
The Book of Questions...
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You in SF? wanna drink at me? I'll be hanging out at Li Po in Chinatown in like an hour. Come for the cheap drinks, stay for the Cantonese pop jukebox.
Charismatic strangers: Hopper edition Seemed apropos that this showed up today in my art of the day widget. I love Hopper.
IT'S CAPS LOCK DAY AND MY BIRTHDAY. IT'S MY CAPS LOCK BIRTHDAY.
Oh, how I do miss mefi's old image filled caps lock day. SHOUT IT OUT.
Here I am. Rock you like a hurricane.
Are You Sure You Want To Quit The World? If you were desperate and hopeless enough to log on to a suicide chat room in recent years, there was a good chance a mysterious woman named Li Dao would find you, befriend you, and gently urge you to take your own life.
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Photo Friday: Charismatic Strangers
21 October 2010
My mobility difficulties will keep me from seeing David Sedaris when he does his show at the theater at Cal Poly next week...
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On Punctiation - a poem, by
Elizabeth Austen. This poem, and some recent email, has made me question alternative punctuation. Most notably, what is the use of the tilde?
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Dog adopts kitten. Does what it says on the tin.
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The recently-added caption feature at YouTube is the best thing at the bottom of a screen since Joel, Tom, and Crow.
Why can't we just copy what works? Germany, not China - is the leader in exports.
So instead of chasing this hollow 'American Dream' why aren't we embracing the virtues of work?
oops A series of accidentally dropped cameras.
Lyrics game! here we go:
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20 October 2010
I recently got this phone. I had to call 1-800-COMCAST. I had to google a photo of an old school phone keypad to figure out what numbers go with what letters. Hmm. This seems like poor planning on the part of the phone designer.
And so it begins. Got my first holiday catalogues in the mail today.
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Well hey, it's a Welcome New Users thread! Turn the page and feast your eyes on the new meat, bunnies.
what? you thought bunnies were vegetarians? Welcome to:
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How do you call people out? Piggybacking on the discussion from below, how do you ask people to stop saying or doing something that's offensive to you?
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24 HOUR CONAN O'BRIEN LIVE WEBCAM! But Conan's not on it; it's just feeding the passings-by in a hallway by a stairwell in the offices.
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Photo Friday ADVANCE NOTICE: Charismatic Strangers Pictures of people you don't know. Street photography. Sneaky crowd shots. Stranger portraits. Coming to a metachat near you this Friday, October 20 22.
I need to make lunch and dinner to eat at work tomorrow. This is a common problem I have. What are some things I can buy at the store today that involve minimal preparation but will make a good meal tomorrow? My go-to for this scenario is usually cold cut sandwiches, but I'm looking for other suggestions!
A Freebie From The Pixies to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their album 'Doolittle', they are giving away a free 4 live song sampler
Tea Party Nationalism "We know the majority of Tea Party supporters are sincere, principled people of good will. That is why the NAACP—an organization that has worked to expose and combat racism in all its forms for more than 100 years—
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Wednesday 3 point updates 1. The Chef cooked an amazing dinner for my mum's birthday. Lamb so tender we didn't have to carve it - just used a fork to serve and so many different salads and vegetables. I'm incredibly lucky to have such a great guy, and am still in the schmoopy stage of the relationship.
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Shingles sucks. I am beginning week 4 of this wretched affliction with an incredible sensitivity to light and the feeling of hot knitting needles penetrating my eye, piercing my brain and exiting the back of my skull. I do think I will have some rather distinguished looking pox scarring on one side of my nose. Well, back to my cave.
Higher, Colder, Deadlier Mont Blanc is Western Europe’s tallest mountain, and the world’s deadliest.
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Widely Venerated Pop Staples You Can Not Stand? For the purposes of this question, said music act has to be at least a decade and change old.
19 October 2010
Gorgeous painting entitled "Tabby Cat" This popped up today on my igoogle page "Art of the Day" section. I've never seen it before.
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I am thinking of signing up for metafilter again if only to help a friend find a job. Anyone know of something for a talented programmer anywhere in the world?
as a Karate Expert.. finish the sentence
Anachronisme. A brilliant "re-working" of a very familiar scene.
"Maximum: two falcons per seat." Fascinating that this is common enough to have specific regulations.
I Love My Hair! A Sesame Street writer's tribute to his daughter.
18 October 2010
How Facebook Decides What to Show You Code cracked by a 1-month Daily Beast project.
Recommend me a new book. Thanks to bearwife and gaspode, I just finished The Historian and I loved loved loved it (thanks, y'all!). Can anyone recommend something similar? Looking for something Gothic-y, intricate, long, and well-written to keep me enthralled on these spooky pre-Halloween nights.
You are allowed to adapt any literary work into a 2 hour play What do you pick and why?
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A vs. AN Question: When writing a date as MM/YY, do you use the article that goes with reading the date as numbers or the actual month?
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The MeTa Book Club discusses Frannie and Zooey -- and the
Professor Amy Hungerford lecture about it. So, what did everyone think?
Oddly popular pictures. What's your single most uncannily popular picture on Flickr?
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17 October 2010
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"This is for you, mom. This is what happens when you try to get between me and cake."
Guerrilla Trucks: why rebels and insurgent groups the world over love the Toyota Hilux pickup as much as their AK-47s.
16 October 2010
At what duration does a night of drinking turn into a 'bender'?
The Dirtbombs "Ever Lovin' Man" Damn I love this song. Here are a
couple of
videos of them playing it live.
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Guys, I need a very specific type of encouragement today . . . →Read more...
Love stories In the Guardian.
Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science Much of what medical researchers conclude in their studies is misleading, exaggerated, or flat-out wrong. So why are doctors—to a striking extent—still drawing upon misinformation in their everyday practice? Dr. John Ioannidis has spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science.
15 October 2010
Extreme Dog Facelift article brought a tear to my eye.
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OMG BUNNIES! ...you may need to see
this to explain the joke.
Friday night question! Time for another random query from
The Book of Questions:
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You do a thing and forget and then you check a Flickr feed and you're at the top The question for this evening is, of course, what music would you have for the sounder k of your teen Vampire movie.
confession I have a problem with double/triple negatives in sentences. but it's not a straightforward problem
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Class, Anger, Social Status and the Office. Disclaimer: I know the lady who wrote this, but it fits my own experience of working in an office and how I felt so out of place in there.
This is a Friday .mp3 Shuffle Thread. First ten on your player of choice, no cheating. Go!
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Drones. A 6-track drone music sampler from Free Music Archive. (The first track is sorta harsh, but the rest are really lovely.)
Colbert/Stewart + Halloween = ?Costume? i will be in dc for the Sanity/Fear, but it's also H'ween!!!
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Just finished reading Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, and I think Metafilter's own Adam Savage would be a clinch to play Walter. That is all.
Miracle Under the Alps After years of work deep under the surface of the earth, drilling on the Gotthard Base Tunnel is set to be completed on Friday. It will be years before the first trains roll through the 57-kilometer-long tunnel, but given the difficulties workers have encountered, it is a wonder they have come this far.
In case you missed it on the blue and other places around the net, you should really see
this video of a councilman from my city. (Caution: Have Kleenex handy and be prepared to hug strangers afterward.)
14 October 2010
A girl just threw an egg at me from a second story window above Buffalo Wild Wings. I am irate and have no idea what to do.
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This fate could have been avoided if you had had a
Sassy Gay Friend.
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Need worlds awesomest pdf So I signed up for scribd to test something out for work.
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This cracked me up. Happy fall, motherf@&#ers!
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Bagels, and whitefish and petit-fours, oh MY! I bitched to MeCha back in January that there aren't any old school bakery/delis around where I live. Not true, apparently!
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The Prague Astronomical Clock celebrates its
600th birthday with an amazing, illusion-filled light show.
Geocaching = heroin I don't understand this, but I have to come clean: I have suddenly, inexplicably become hooked on geocaching.
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BRAINSTORM TIME I have a friend who just started Army basic training. What sort of fun things can I send to her in letters?
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Impressive. Most Impressive. Out this month, the slick coffee-table tome
The Making of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back chronicles the complete tale—from pre-release to blockbuster success—of what’s become the fan favorite of the Star Wars series.
Every now and then vendors are invited into the office, where they set up in a conference room for a few hours and sell their products. Usually it's children's books or horrible handbags but today it was ...
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The Daily Nail completes 365 days of nail designs. Flip through, she did some amazing stuff.
13 October 2010
Just. So. Wrong. (SFW) But I lol'ed anyway.
7 Things You Really Don't Need to Take Photos of I'm sure some of our Friday Photographers might disagree!
Phil & Co sing "Tra La La" (from 1984) - if you've heard Gunther's "Ding Dong Song", you might find this Dutch group's big hit to be rather familiar. Song is in English, and is slightly risque (SFW though).
partisan rant so I've been listening to republicans on Bill Maher's show lately alright
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Photo Friday Advance: Not Yours - Your pictures of things that are not yours - not your house, not your kinds, etc.
But please no pictures that aren't yours, k?
Shooting for the Sun: from his childhood in segregated Mobile, Alabama, to his run-ins with a nay-saying scientific establishment, the engineer Lonnie Johnson has never paid much heed to those who told him what he could and couldn’t accomplish. Best known for creating the state-of-the-art Super Soaker squirt gun, Johnson believes he now holds the key to affordable solar power.
12 October 2010
Tuesday Night Lyrics Challenge. . . The only common demonimator . . .I love all these songs.
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human 8-bit video - Hollerado, a Canadian indie band, makes an OK Go sort of video for their song "Americanarama". It's cute, and also, I am tired just imagining how much they must've had to practice to get it in one take.
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The Treatment: why is it so difficult to develop drugs for cancer?
11 October 2010
Here's a chili recipe. Post yours too! We are talking about Cincinnati Chili over in IRC, so here is my recipe:
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I'm such a sucker. I now own an apron exhorting me to CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!
In the cards: how teenage poker prodigy Steven Silverman won, and lost, millions
The writer's job is to get naked. Harry Crews on writing, part one.
Part two. (YouTube, about 15 minutes total)
A stunning example of the recently-added Latin capabilities of Google Translate.
Turtles Take Brooklyn Cross-post from IRL. Hope to see some of you fine bunnies there.
10 October 2010
Mile End Delicatessen -- Flickr Set Mile End Delicatessen is a new-school Jewish deli in downtown Brooklyn where I had lunch today. I included some other shots that I took during my postprandial stroll.
Internet [Relay Chat] Forever! I am cleaning all the things. Won't you come keep me company?
The Race to Buy Up the World's Water: should private companies control our most precious natural resource?
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The Bureau of Communication handy forms for all occasions
RIP, Solomon Burke Mr. Solomon Burke, who was arguably the last living link to an age of soul music that has now passed, has just died. Rest in peace, you beautiful singer of songs.
NYT Obituary.
Wiki page.
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The Exorcist - The original trailer.
09 October 2010
AskMecha: Would adding 2 GB of memory to my existing 2 GB have any noticeable effect on my computer's performance? I don't do gaming. I might do some photo editing in the future.
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Later What does procrastination tell us about ourselves?
08 October 2010
Happy Birthday, elizard! →Read more...
Hey, it's time for a Friday Night Question! Here's a random selection from
The Book Of Questions...
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What is your favorite anecdote about yourself that you tell way too often? →Read more...
OMG! BUNNIES!! BY POPULAR DEMAND!!! Jon Rosenberg's "Scenes from a Multiverse" comic has a thing where readers vote every Friday for their favorite toon of the week and he 'revisits' the characters and locale of the most popular the following Friday. Well, the Bunnies Planet (previously here) won for this week and is running (or hopping) away with the voting again! Even in the scifi/hipster/cynical/weird world of webcomics, the Bunnies Rule!
OMGWTFROTFLMAOBBQ II: TARDIS!! Last night, I saw the Tardis for the second time.
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Hope pls - Calling all bunnies to IRC.
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Matthew And The Sleeper being the photographic tale of a young Alaskan cradling a fish of epic ugliness in his arms underneath a light grey sky. The
rest of the shots in the photoset ain't too shabby either.
Sesame Street: Smell Like A Monster - Grover spoofs the Old Spice commercial!
Talking Podcasts. Do you have a regular podcast routine? Ones that you listen to every day/week? What are your faves?
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Ask MeCha: Help me design a business card.
The Rise and Fall of Viktor Bout Viktor Bout, who has been dubbed the "lord of war" and the "merchant of death," has had his fingers in many bloody conflicts over the years. The Russian arms dealer, who has been in a Thai prison since 2008, is now likely to be extradited to the United States. Will he reveal the names of his backers?
07 October 2010
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A customer service exchange that would be a classic scene in one of those surreal or very-meta movies.
OMGROTFLMAOBBQ!!! Moment of the Day A couple just brought in a newborn for bloodwork. The baby's middle name was "Danger". One word: HEROES.
Food photos and their "secret" set-ups - a Flickr discussion with pictures of food, and the actual setting.
Home Buying for Dummies: Please Hope Me! I found a house I really like and I'm trying to figure out if I can afford it. I spoke with a mortgage consultant who pre-approved me based on my credit score and ran numbers with me for different scenarios. He keeps pushing me to complete a loan application. Is that normal? Or is it premature unless I am really ready to buy this house (which I'm not; I am going back to look at it again with my parents on Saturday). I don't really want to be applying for a huge loan until I know that actually buying the house is a realistic possibility. Can I make an offer prior to applying for the loan, since I'm pre-approved? Is that normal? Also, the pre-approval was in July, is it still good?
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$15,000 Gingerbread House by
Dylan's Candy Bar, owned by Dylan Lauren (daughter of Ralph Lauren).
I know this world is killing you... So I have Elvis Costello's "Alison" on constant repeat...
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So, I finished "Avatar: The Last Airbender" for the first time yesterday night.[Spoilers ahead!]
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The Gentle Art of Poverty: how to live in Southern California on $2,000 a year. (The Atlantic, 1977)
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06 October 2010
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Haunted cabinet door. So last night I noticed there was a scary face in the wood grain of the cabinet door. I was talking to my girlfriend, standing by the sink, about some crap or other. I turned to the cabinet to trace a graph with my finger, and just stopped in mid-sentence.
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Photo Friday Advance: Pets! No internet all day, dubious internet now, therefore, in the minute & a half I have online, let's say PICTURES OF PETS YAY for this Friday October 8.
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Hit-and-run victim was quiet and dependable, co-workers say The
St. Petersburg Times writes a quietly moving obit for a local man, in response to an internet troll.
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Censorship at its Finest: Remembering. Risha Mullins on her experiences with starting a book club in the Montgomery County public school system. (
Mirror)
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05 October 2010
we dare you not to laugh at 31 foods with misspelled names - Well, don't take it as a challenge or anything. But it cracked me up so I had to share.
The End of the Story: Robert Jordan died before he could finish his sprawling, thirteen-book fantasy epic, so his widow hired a thirty-one-year-old fantasy novelist to finish it for him.
THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD. BRING ALL YOUR RANDOM SHOUTINESS HERE.
A Race that I won't be running A five mile foot race up and down the steps of Pittsburgh's Northside including
"[t]he largest stairway, Rising Main, has 330 steps – same as a 17-story building!" Pittsburgh's steps are actually legal city streets often with houses on either side and street signs. They show on maps as regular streets which can really screw you up when you're driving around trying to follow a map or Google.
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In a couple of weeks I will have my second annual Whole Day in NYC Without Baby Or Husband day. I've been looking forward to this for a while.
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Lyrics challenge - seasonal edition! →Read more...
I'm buying a down comforter online TODAY Hopefully on Amazon, so I can get it shipped 2-day for free on PRIME. What kind should I buy?
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04 October 2010
Monday 3+ point update! →Read more...
Facebook photo tagging Do you have friends/relatives who tag themselves on photos they don't appear in?
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As the World Burns: how the Senate and the White House missed their best chance to deal with climate change.
I can't attach anything to my Hotmail emails Is something going on with Hotmail today? Or am I clueless about something since they changed the format?
03 October 2010
This is definitely in my top ten list of most surreal internet moments I've ever had A little while back I posted that the Onion's "Jean Teasdale" had gotten a Twitter account to promote her book, and commented that I "hoped she wouldn't do it forever because it was almost too much, like having Christmas every day".
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Go ahead. Drive me crazy.
The Bride got RickRolled. . . We were at a wedding yesterday,
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Not implying cause and effect of any kind, but... I'd just like to say that for the past 2 days I've had an earworm of Breaking Up is Hard to Do.
AskMecha: What sort of meat would be good with Blackcurrant Dijon Mustard? It's the
Fallot brand. What's the best choice for this? Roast pork?
Some Pig! Heritage Auction Gallery is auctioning
the original illustrations for Charlotte's Web. I want one.
Creating his 'Living World in a Box' Dave Jones, entrepreneurial game designer known for Grand Theft Auto and Lemmings, talks about getting beat up by Scottish gangs as a kid for achieving a high score in Galaga, how GTA originally had dinosaurs roaming its city streets, and his new open-world MMO game, All Points Bulletin.
Sufjan Stevens -- "Traffic Shock" I don't remember the BQE ever being this melodic!
27 December, 1943 A scanned picture of my grandfather in New Guinea during WW2.
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02 October 2010
On BART tonight I witnessed, for the first time outside the movies, a
shell game in action. It was awesome.
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Mapping Ancient Germania: Berlin Researchers Crack the Ptolemy Code A 2nd century map of Germania by the scholar Ptolemy has always stumped scholars, who were unable to relate the places depicted to known settlements. Now a team of researchers have cracked the code, revealing that half of Germany's cities are 1,000 years older than previously thought.
Nightmares I don't get nightmares often, but when I do they are super-intense and often leave me shaken for the whole next day. And now I've had two in a row.
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AARGH automatic wondows settings! Help! A friend of mine was visiting from Italy and used my laptop. Now anytime there's a link to anything vaguely Google, Facebook, Kayak, etc., as soon as I click on it, it leads me into his settings. So if I try to "like" something it comes up automatically as "Federico piace X".
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Garfield Linus Garfield... A semi-self-post and a lo-o-ong story.
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01 October 2010
Friday Night Question! Time for another random question from
The Book of Questions:
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What is the prettiest candy?
Help create a homebrew recipe book My friend & neighbour,
Scott Russell, is looking for people to
send him their favourite craft beers from all U.S. states and Canadian provinces for the second installment to his awesome book, "
North American Clonebrews." See the last paragraph in the title link for more information!
Rubber Stamp: how Charles Goodyear became the first name in rubber.
I got laid off today. In the end I wasn't ready, even though I was terminally miserable there. But now it's all over with and I don't know what to do next but at least I got a bunch of office supplies and I can look at
Daily Bunny all day. Yay?
Recurring Dialog I know someone that insists on having the same verbal exchanges over and over again. Perhaps they were funny at first, but after the fiftieth time it gets a little old.
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Waking Up is Hard to Do. . . The singing anesthesiologists.
Friday TV-talk watercooler thread. What shows are you watching right now? Are they great shows we should check out if we haven't already? Are they guilty pleasures? Are they disappointing you this season so far?
Minor gmail irritation. My gmail is set to show a snippet of the contents of the emails. It used to show a snippet of the last email in the conversation. Now, however, it's showing a snippet of the first email in the conversation, no matter how many later emails there are. I liked the other way better, but I can't seem to find a setting to fix this. I am minorly annoyed.
30 September 2010
The Cube is my new favorite game show (and I don't generally like game shows).
Happy birthday to oneswellfoop!
Help me pick paint. When I moved into my house I chose paint colors really quickly. Most were win, but one room in particular needs to be redone because it sucks.
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Tea & Crackers: how corporate interests and Republican insiders built the Tea Party monster
29 September 2010
I just watched 2012 and now I want my 2 hours back :P →Read more...
OMG! BUNNIES!
Webcomic bunnies! Multiverse bunnies! Bunnies in a place that usually does stuff like this!
Photo Friday Advance: Famous Things, people, and places that are famous.
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Another tipping etiquette question: My hairdresser left the salon where she worked and is now cutting hair out of her house. Do I still tip her?
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Chain of good fortune and warm fuzzies thread. Post something awesome, fortune-cookie style, for the next person to comment after you. Adding "in bed" is optional.
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Bookmarks: How do you manage yours? Care to share one with the class?
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The "Vdara Death Ray": new Las Vegas hotel has a curved glass exterior which, at certain times of day, accidentally
focuses an intense beam of sunlight right at the pool area, scorching hair and melting plastic.
28 September 2010
It Was Delicious While It Lasted Gastronomes have been trekking to the remote Spanish cove where Ferran Adrià has changed culinary history with his deconstructed martinis, frozen foam, and beetroot cookies. Now, to evolve his restaurant, El Bulli, the man they call the world’s greatest chef is closing it forever.
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27 September 2010
She's running for mayor of Oakland: Jean Quan
Is it wrong that I find this utterly awesome?
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Both Google and I share a birthday Happy birthday Google!
Small Change: Twitter, Facebook, and social activism.
For Those Hopelessly Addicted to Minecraft A tips, tricks, talk & general thread. I'm not the only one, right?
Inappropriate Wedding Music We went to a church wedding over the weekend.
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Kale chips, etc. Anyone have any good new recipes for healthy, easy, snacky foods?
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dealin with a Kafkaesque credit card situation and am tired as well, and well, this just makes me think
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Anyone play MTGO and want some free cards? so yeah. I'm drunk and accidentally won a couple of MTGO auctions when I was meaning to bid on physical cards. They aren't anything special, just a couple of elf cards that I paid $1 apiece for, but they're up for grabs...
26 September 2010
The music scene has got me down. Trippy little video. Reminds me of The Wall.
Tilt-shift Van Gogh: 16 paintings altered to resemble tilt-shift photography.
Why isn't there a cliche thesaurus?
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Inspiration pads. On the outside, it looks much like any other lined composition notebook – and for a moment, the lines inside might even fool you by being the classic light horizontal blues and vertical reds we are used to … but
that moment does not last long.
25 September 2010
The Unseen Sea Clouds as waves, air as oceans. Gorgeous time-lapse video.
Scenes from China: a country with nearly the same land area as the United States, China is home to over a billion more people than the U.S. (1.3 billion to be more precise), and as it grows economically, it is grappling with environmental, social and political issues that affect people and places around the world. (boston.com, The Big Picture)
Random Dick If you
scramble three panels of the
Dick Tracy comic, they turn into little noir koans, or something.
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Vegetarian barbeque tips? I'm having a little barbeque tomorrow. There will be one vegetarian there (my niece). What can I make for her?
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What should I wear to Pride today? Keeping in mind it's going to be getting up to 90ºF (32ºC) and that I'm not gonna do drag or anything, I would like to wear something kind of special. Any suggestions?
24 September 2010
I can't believe I almost missed the 10th Birthday/Anniversary of
Everlasting Blort, the blog/internet home of both quonsar and madamjujujive (also started the same day, their [and my] online friend
The Presurfer). Ten years on the Web is awesome (and I should know; I've had barely 5 active years in the 11 years since I started).
HAPPY WEBIRTHDAY!!!
How about another Friday Night Question? Time for another random query from
The Book Of Questions.
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Lady Gaga's "Desperately Seeking Susan"? →Read more...
A grooming observation: "Bristle-brushing bitches" is a really fiendish tongue-twister. I can't even get it out a few times fast, let alone ten.
Homemade is Best Gorgeous food styling for IKEA's new recipe book shot by
Carl Kleiner.
Friday 3-point update →Read more...
In Our Time is back!!! →Read more...
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23 September 2010
AskMeCha: aggregator/feedreader recommendation? Specifically looking for a web-based one that I'd set up on my computer but access primarily through my phone (BlackBerry on 3G) and iPod Touch (when I have wifi access).
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Sleater-Kinney News, Now. . . →Read more...
AskMeCha: Have you ever shipped furniture across the US?
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Time to start planning your sexy Halloween strategy! Because Halloween isn't about creativity anymore if you're of the female persuasion - unless you're looking for some seriously creative stretches in sexy costuming, such as Sexy Elmo, Sexy Ghostbuster, or Sexy Chucky Doll.
Got a bad feeling about today. Ever have one of those days where you can just tell it ain't gonna be a good one?
Death-Wish Jobs: Smokejumpers Meld Sky Diving, Firefighting
22 September 2010
I'm making Thanksgiving dinner! I'm so excited, I have never made it before. My mom is doing the cranberry sauce, everything else is on me! I want to make the classics: turkey, stuffing, gravy, pumpkin pie... What else? Anyone have any fabulous recipes for American Thanksgiving dishes? I found what looks like a
good recipe for mock mashed potatoes made of cauliflower.
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oy vey (aka the 5PM MST cannot come soon enough thread) →Read more...
PuzzGrid - I posted this at MetaFilter too but I know there are some puzzle-y people here who might enjoy it. It's a neat little game of grouping and forming associations.
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Photo Friday HEADS UP: Abandoned Stuff that is abandoned. Junk. Old battered buildings. Abandoned cars. You get the picture; put 'em up this Friday, Sep. 24.
I unexpectedly finished a book last night (there was a bunch of extra stuff at the end of the book, so it wasn't until I had read half a page of acknowledgements that I realized the novel had ended), and now I'm all out of sorts. I hate that. I want my book world back.
I think i'm ready to date where should i look online?
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Pentium III dissection: includes scanning electron microscopy.
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Exit strategies The Economist looks at more environmentally friendly ways to deal with your corpse.
How do I keep my confidence when I'm getting mixed signals? I met a girl on a social community web site (not focused on dating) and we went on a few dates.
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The exception that proves the rule: What does that even mean?! Why do people say that? I mean, an exception is an exception. Why should it be evidence of its opposite?!
What would tickle you on your birthday? I'm looking for ideas for cheap, fun things to do for people on their birthdays, so I thought I'd put it out there in this form: What sort of thing might tickle you or delight you on your birthday?
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21 September 2010
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Speaking of cleaning... what's the deal with contoured toilet rugs? (Mild but embarrassing TMI)
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gChrome question re: browser tabs.
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Cleaning tips and tricks. Time to share. →Read more...
This morning I found myself staring into the refrigerator wishing I had some breakfast mustard. What in the hell is 'breakfast mustard'?
The Daily Wh.At Random silliness.
My relentless pursuit of the guy who robbed me: A thief broke into Amanda Enayati's car. She used Craigslist, a dating site, MySpace and a fast food joint to track him down.
Swan's End: Basement Apartment before and after photos So I finally finished the basement apartment renovations this weekend, and got pictures taken, scanned, uploaded and commented on tonight. Here they
are. As a bonus (or maybe not, but humour me), you can also see pictures of my
jewelry box project, which I posted about
here.
20 September 2010
Good News, Everybody! Glad that whole recession-thingy is over! I've really been enjoying my substantive wage increases and my house is rising in value.
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Are you in Seattle? You may want to try this play. It is only an hour and a half long. My husband and I went on Saturday night and it was funny all the way, often so layered with wit that we are sort of thinking of seeing it again.
Joy Division: a 95-minute documentary on Hulu.com
(which unfortunately means it's only viewable in North America).
Boardwalk Empire. Anyone watch it?
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Maoists in the Forest: tracking India’s separatist rebels
Ask MeCha: Get rid of the Smell of Dead Mouse? A mouse died in my cubicle last week. It smelled really bad, and was removed by Maintenance, who sprayed air freshener. It still smells gross at my desk.
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OK Go: White Knuckles Clever video with dogs and furniture, via
flashboy.
So, iPad, huh? Help me make it work (for me).
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRISHALYNN!!!!!
Hop-Hop-Come and do the kangaroo hop! w/ Madeline Kahn, Gene Wilder and Marty Feldman.
19 September 2010
So I'm going to start to make jewelry I went to Michael's today and got some beads and stuff. I kept the color palette to shiny black squares and various large and small glass beads that fit what I would consider a group.
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Goes to eleven! SLYT. Not that I have a thing for Scottish accents or anything.
Can anyone recommend a U.S. power strip? I want one with a 6 ft or 10 ft lead, and where the outlets are spaced such that I can plug wall warts into all of them. Monoprice is usually my home for cheap cabling, but their power strips fail on the last count.
in b4 404 - animals with obvious captions
KMT Waterproof London I just got thru sorting a bunch of recent music downloads and i have to recommend this free album of really cool mashups .
I can't remember where i stumbled across this link, but i dont think it was from here. if so, I apologize for the repost . its just a really cool set of tunes
Autism’s First Child As new cases of autism have exploded in recent years—some form of the condition affects about one in 110 children today—efforts have multiplied to understand and accommodate the condition in childhood.
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transportation advice from Hampshire College to NYC? hello again. My son and I are going to Amherst, Mass. for his interview on Friday (getting there and staying in Hadley the night before). The interview is at 3:45PM. Should I buy tickets to the 7:10PM bus back from Springfield to New York City or should I buy them for the 9:15PM just in case?
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18 September 2010
of Montreal: I know I'm a fanboy, but damn, the new album
False Priest is brilliant.
Examples:
Coquet Coquette
Famine Affair
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Synecdoche, New York (no spoilers please) I've been watching this for about an hour. I liked it a lot at first, and now it seems to be dragging. I was dismayed to find out that there is another hour left. Should I keep watching?
solace in journaling long cycles pt 2
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Facebook weirdness. Although the bulk of my Facebook contacts are the usual family and old friends, most of the posts I get are by far from the relatively few Metachat members that I have friended.
Acupuncture etiquette My acupuncturist has prescribed/recommended three different herbal supplements to me. She is now asking me if I've finished them yet. I can get the exact same supplements (same brand and all) online for a third of the price. I feel very awkward about saying, "I actually bought them online" next time she asks me. Is that ridiculous? Or do I have some obligation to purchase from her while she is treating me?
REEELZ I'm addicted to this game lately. One strategy I've learned- work on the hardest combos FIRST.
Is there a permissible and tasteful way for me to promote my group here? I'm a psychologist and I am starting a new and interesting group, but I would not even post the url of my website here because it would probably be Wrong and Uncool. I think.
Am I right? Is there a way for me to post what is essentially an ad for professionall service on Metachat? (if not, that's fine)
Help me suggest funny videos for my 80-year-old aunt. →Read more...
The Chessboard Killer Russia had never seen anything quite like the prolific serial killer Alexander Pichushkin, for whom “life without killing is like life without food.” How many lives did he take? More than Jeffrey Dahmer, Jack the Ripper, and the Son of Sam combined. The terrifying thing is, no one — not even Pichushkin himself — really knows for sure.
Remember how it used to be? Just the thing for older folks who, as everyone knows, just can’t get the hang of these new fangled computer machine contraptions
17 September 2010
3D Printer (NYT Video) I think this is pretty amazing!
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Coyote v Acme I'm guessing this thing is old as the hills, and I've just missed it all these years. This is the first I've seen it, it was funny to me.
How about another Friday night question? Here's another random question from
The Book of Questions:
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Save the Date. What's cool on your calendar for, say, between now and Thanksgiving?
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East is east and west is west but
mama is the bestest nest.
A beiger shade of beige Some time back I
posted about choosing a wallpaper for my upper and lower hallways, which I plan to start work on in October. I was in love with
this wallpaper, and now that I am finally ready to order the wallpaper, I have found that it is discontinued [pauses to sob heart-rendingly before carrying on]. Since I must accept that my true love is lost forever, and find a new wallpaper, I’m dating browsing around looking for a new one, but I’m not finding one that has the same appeal.
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Still Cranish After All These Years The year I first noticed the cranes, we'd moved from a mountain town to a mountain valley without a town -- a little watershed that, about a half-mile below the sawmill where we were living, dropped abruptly into the Black Canyon of the Gunnison River in a lovely little waterfall.
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My lessons in photography I've picked a dozen of my favorite photos, and tried to write a bit on how or why I made them, or what I learned while shooting them. I'd like to know if you find this useful, or would like to see more, or if I seem like a fatuous, pretentious prick for thinking I'm any good at all :)
16 September 2010
Ask the birds singin' "I am The Man" This is one of my favorite tracks from the new Eels album
Tomorrow Morning. Here's another cool track (from the bonus EP that came with it) called
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Ask Mecha Flower Delivery Funeral Etiquette Help OK so my aunt died. Not my cool aunt, the other one.
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Ask MeCha I like pop. I like storytelling.
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Allsorts - SRS BZNS Please read the article and report back with your findings. YOUR FINDINGS.
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Hand dance. I'm going to start doing this on the table during meetings that I think are running too long.
Meet Dot. The worlds smallest stop-motion animation character (it's an ad, but hey it's Aardman animations so you won't even notice!)
The 727 that Vanished: a case pursued by the FBI, the CIA, the U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security, CENTCOM, and the sister of Ben Padilla.
15 September 2010
This has only 134,974 views This is basically how I want to wake up every morning
MeMix. Most folks make mixtapes/CDs for other people. Have you ever made a mix for yourself? If you were to make a mix for your situation, right now, what would you put on it?
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PHOTO FRIDAY ADVANCE: Sleep Sleeping people, sleeping pets, anything sleep related!
Axe decodes what scents turn girls on. Follow the link at the bottom of the blogpost to Axe's Facebook page and you'll see the slideshow pictures explaining what scents are the most popular in which regions.
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I have learned the deep, dark secret of how my brother met his girlfriend. And man, it just makes me love her more. The shocking true story... after these messages.
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Am I backwards? Now that summer is (nearly) over, I'm feeling more inclined to go back to the gym. I thought that people tended to 'hibernate' in the winter and be more active in the summer. You know, working off the winter weight, etc. But I think the summers in Chicago are too warm and humid for that. Am I alone in feeling this way?
Recommend me a book to read in fits and starts on my phone, please!
Back in Black (cover) Carlos Santana ft. Nas & Janelle Monáe:
mp3
The Salesman: experienced, emotional, marked by personal tragedy and political setback, Joe Biden is in many ways the antithesis of the president he serves. But his stock has risen steadily in the West Wing, and with the Democrats poised to lose much of their leverage in the midterm elections, the vice president’s unique skills and attributes may prove ever more crucial to his administration’s success.
Cool interview with Stanley Donwood, the man who's done most of Radiohead's artwork for the last 15 years.
(West coast bunnies: he has an exhibit going on in San Francisco.)
14 September 2010
Ask MeCha: Carpool Etiquette Am I being unreasonable or is she dangerous behind the wheel?
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What I Had For Dinner Tonight now has a flickr group! Come play! (And then link your pic back here as per pjern's new instructions (~_^) )
Innocence Lost: since August 23, 1992, Anthony Graves has been behind bars for the gruesome murder of a family in Somerville. There was no clear motive, no physical evidence connecting him to the crime, and the only witness against him recanted, declaring again and again before his death, in 2000, that Graves didn’t do it. If he didn’t, the truth will come out. Won’t it?
Ok, let's review. There are days, like today, when I feel like I'm the only one who's normal.
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Another great T shirt from woot.com Click today cuz it'll be some other shirt tomorrow . . .
Easy as 1-2-3 photo posting from Flickr
13 September 2010
I got played for a fool, and I liked it. So I heard this rockin' song on the radio and I thought, Wow, what an awesome band- good, hard, heavy rock built from the ground up on a solid bass line, and they have a vocalist that sounds like Tom Petty. I gotta find out who that is and get the album.
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Musical pony request I drove myself a bit mad on some of our recent threads about next 10 items on the mp3 player, trying to find music I didn't know. Is there any way on those threads to post a link to, at least, a sample of some of the listed music?
Where did I put my driver's license? This is totally serious business, you guys. What are some places that require you to take out your driver's license and leave it there?
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America Is a Joke: the worst of times for politics and media has been the best of times for
The Daily Show’s host—and unfortunately things are getting even funnier.
MP3 Shuffle-a-gogo? What's on your player?
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What's your wakeup ritual? How do you go about waking up?
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12 September 2010
Violin and Piano cover of Mr. Brightside by the Killers This kid is fantastic. He plays every part. His other covers are great, too.
New sidebar art! Thanks to our photographers mygothlaundry, pjern, NinaZer0, and Specklet!
Lost Exile: the unlikely life and sudden death of
The Exile, Russia’s angriest newspaper.
11 September 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAY COLDCHEF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I need an old worthless book. A friend of mine wants an edition of Dracula as shown in the linked picture--a massive, beat-to-hell tome.
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OMG! Baby zebra! And other babies...
Of mind and matter: David Attenborough meets Richard Dawkins
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10 September 2010
A Friday Night Question: I recently found my copy of
The Book of Questions, which gave friends and me many nights of hilarious
(usually drunk) conversation in the 90s. I'm going to flip to a random page and ask one of these questions of the bunnies.
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Going Under: a doctor's downfall, and a profession's struggle with addiction.
Fried-day n-point update! I'll start:
1) yay, happy it's finally Friday! For a short week it feels like it lasted forever.
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angst time: please explain emotional maturity to me and how i can work on mine i see and hear this term all the time.
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What America Left Behind in Iraq: It's even uglier than you think.
Kanye West - Devil in A New Dress [
mp3] mellow soul-sampling beat & cheeky articulateness that reminds me of '03 Ye
1. Leave the weird electronic stuff to the Lady Gagas I say :)
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My thoughts are with the residents of San Bruno tonight. Or they would be, but I really don't want to think about a neighborhood destroyed by explosions that may be PG&E's fault, since I live in one of the residences closest to their Diablo Canyon Nuke Plant, y'know?
09 September 2010
I haven't been here in a long time... ...so I'm going to make a request that may fail utterly, but here we go.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda, he of "In the Heights" fame, surprises his new wife with a
musical number at their wedding.
Matador Records is turning 21 and the box set they're releasing at the end of the month
looks incredible.
Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds: as Wall Street hangs on the question “Will Greece default?,” Michael Lewis heads for riot-stricken Athens, and for the mysterious Vatopaidi monastery, which brought down the last government, laying bare the country’s economic insanity. But beyond a $1.2 trillion debt (roughly a quarter-million dollars for each working adult), there is a more frightening deficit.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY LORIFLA!!!!
08 September 2010
My psychiatrist has the personality of a brick. My hipster PDA was a better therapist. I think now is the time to return to that routine. Thoughts?
Damn you and your living in the past mecha! We are gonna celebrate GOSHLING's Birthday NOW!
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Woot's that? Some cute woot today! First there's the sales pitch that goes with this link . . . spot on Tea Party spoof. Then there's
today's shirt.
Schools: The Disaster Movie A debate has been raging over why our education system is failing. A new documentary by the director of
An Inconvenient Truth throws fuel on the fire.
Photo Friday ADVANCE NOTICE: Yo' Ride How do you get around? Give us a picture of your method of transportation. Or, hell, your friends' method, your grandparents method, that funky method you spotted on the street - you get the (moving) picture.
Can I afford to live in NYC? Help me, New York bunnies!
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This is a thread for people who love autumn. It's currently 60 degrees in Milwaukee and I am loving it. Summer, GTFO of here!
So, how are ya? It's raining buckets here. Everyone arrived at the office soaking wet. Wet clothes plus air conditioner, ugh. The coffee is fresh, though, and my boss is ok with me putting on a hoodie if it gets too cold.
07 September 2010
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Brainpool - We Aim to Please is a very enjoyably pop sort of song.
This is a Bon Voyage thread! →Read more...
Just rehashing a frustrating memory from the past... →Read more...
Skin: the lampshade emerged from the wreckage of Katrina. But was it really what it appeared to be—a Buchenwald artifact made of human remains? A Holocaust detective story.
No, I don't use bookmarks. Nearly every page is dog-eared. →Read more...
"Keep Calm" poster generator. Make your own poster in the style of "Keep Calm and Carry On".
Upset Angry Resentful and Sulking. This is a whining thread →Read more...
Seen the new anti-net-neutrality ads? So, I was watching Bourdain's 100th episode last night, and it seemed that every other commercial break was filled with these very slick, industry-funded ads against net-neutrality legislation. Has anyone else seen these? Real hard-core "private industry built the Internet" stuff.
Xmas 2012: M Night Shyamalan's "Catcher in the Rye" starring Michael Cera and Lindsey Lohan.
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06 September 2010
Today is whatever you want it to mean.
Help me redecorate my office! Please hope me de-crapify my not-cube. Added difficulty: I am the not-receptionist.
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The Deal Is Simple: Australia Gets Money, China Gets Australia
Photoshop disasters These are all terrible, but some are unbelievably bad.
"Power pop is a prayer offered by atheists to a God who exists but doesn’t hear." Michael Chabon reviews last year's Big Star box set, and in the process gives the best summing-up of the joyous, tragic music (and history) of power pop I've ever read. Also, here's
a streaming 21-track power pop mix that includes many of the bands Chabon mentions. Track listing and downloadable link inside.
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what's up my beautiful people So I'm glancing at this transcript of a
speech by JK Rowling alright, check out this sentence: "Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more to me than any qualification I ever earned."
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05 September 2010
Is criminal profiling flawed and disorderly? It's a staple of cop shows, but the jury's still out on claims that criminals' identities can be deduced from their
modus operandi.
Theater of Immersion: An empty department store is turned into an incredibly intricate, walk-through set for a staging of Chekhov's
The Cherry Orchard.
The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities an upcoming book, a catalog of mythological objects, written by a several notable authors, plus a section of "micro submissions" from the general public. Here is
my questionable contribution. For the record, I love Worcestershire Sauce.
Dog Beat Dog: to pull off the biggest pit bull fighting bust in U.S. history, investigators and their dogs went undercover
Weekend multi-point updates 1. My life seems to revolve around food at the moment. I am ok with this... my increasingly tight clothing is less so.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSAMYN!!!!
04 September 2010
I still don't get facebook →Read more...
All hopped up I really like beer. I also really dig plants, and since moving to Colorado have been geekin' out over the local flora. A little over a month ago, I made a discovery along a trail that runs through town:
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In 2001 invasion, US millitary airdropped 2.4 million Pop-Tarts in Afghanistan →Read more...
SpoFi Fantasy Football Needs One More Any MetaChatizens who are also Spofites who are interested there is one space open in the head-to-head league. Click the link to get the details on how to join.
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Dateline somewhere over North Dakota Just wanted to say hello to everyone. I'm on my way to Portland for a week's vacation, and decided to try out this new-fangled wifi contraption.
03 September 2010
I'm not normally one to overplay nostalgia, but
this kind of hurts. On a broader scale, one of the few remaining urban drive-ins is now gone. On a personal scale...
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Wow, I'm exhausted from AskMe! First there was the guy with the mentally ill fiancée ...
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The slighted twisted yet super cute stuffed artwork of Patricia Waller. You may be particularly interested in the bunnies. Some images slightly NSFW.
Holiday weekend (U.S.) What's up, buttercup?
Tabloid Hack Attack on Royals, and Beyond: in Novermber 2005, three senior aides to Britain’s royal family noticed odd things happening on their mobile phones. Messages they had never listened to were somehow appearing in their mailboxes as if heard and saved.
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Vox is closing. Some bunnies used to be quite active on Vox. You have less than a month to save your stuff.
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Right-to-hunt amendments? Aren't these just transparent Republican dog-whistle get-out-the-vote efforts (like e.g. '04's 11 statewide gay-marriage ban votes)?
Why don't Democrats use this strategy?
Photo Friday: Non Mammals
02 September 2010
Ask MeCha I have a friend and her new husband who are coming to town for another wedding, and I offered to let them stay with me for four nights. They should be here in a few minutes. I just received a $100 Amazon gift card from them in the mail.
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Space organisms caused red rain? Has anyone heard anything about this before? I never knew it once rained red in India, let alone that it was some organism that caused the color.
This is a GROSS! Rant →Read more...
It's time for another Welcome New Users thread!!! woot woot! It's been a while (5 or so weeks, I've been busy and then on vacay, sorry folks) so there are a buncha new people to say hi to. Here we go...
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aaarrrgh this is a shoe-shopping rant!! →Read more...
Recommendations for books on managing people? I'm trying to find some books for a friend who wants to improve her management skills.
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Happy 9/02/10 Day →Read more...
The Fastest Helicopter on Earth: Sikorsky aims to break the helicopter speed record
Today is an "I can't decide for myself" day, and it's all Lady Gaga's fault. [This is a petty first-world problem.] I RARELY go to big concerts. I absolutely do not want to be on the floor. But I reeeeally want to go.
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Naked Came the Stranger. I can't believe I've never heard of this before!
01 September 2010
Sign of the times →Read more...
Wednesday 3-point update →Read more...
Photo Friday ADVANCE NOTICE: Non Mammals Bugs, insects, spiders, fish, lizards, clams, invertebrates, molluscs and, um, pretty much any other living thing that is not a plant, does not have fur and does not bear live young. Creepy crawlies!
I need a little portable radio. Must fit in pocket, have a good antennae, and be available on Amazon.
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Hello New York Bunnies! I am in town for the Labor Day Weekend and following week and was wondering if anyone wanted to meet up? Proposed activities include: Flight of the Conchords
walking tour, finding the
locations from Fisher King and a Metafilter
Meetup.
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Anyone coming to Ars Electronica? Ciao, I am cixa. I'll be there.
Vanity Fair: Sarah Palin, The Sound and the Fury Even as Sarah Palin’s public voice grows louder, she has become increasingly secretive, walling herself off from old friends and associates, and attempting to enforce silence from those around her......
Has anyone seen the movie Primer? Gah, my head hurts. Probably going to watch it again today in order to try to figure it out.
Been wondering something? Ask a Curator! Today is Ask a Curator today, a project where 300 curators from museums around the world are available via Twitter to answer random questions on
biology, archaeology, art, history, Vikings...you name it. #askacurator
The Pirate Latitudes: when the French luxury cruise ship
Le Ponant was captured by a raggedy, hopped-up band of Somali pirates last spring, in the Gulf of Aden, it looked as if the bandits had bitten off more than they could chew. But after a week-long standoff, they got what they had come for—a $2.15 million ransom.
31 August 2010
The Weird Book Room I must be weird because some of these seem not so weird. Also, I like typing the word "weird."
Hello all....I miss you. →Read more...
The Silver Swan, by Orlando Gibbons. I've been slightly obsessed with
this piece of music lately, and especially how it functioned as kind of a "swan song," the
very thing it was about.
Single life blows →Read more...
What's for dinner? I got a tad carried away last night...
The Covenant: Francis Collins, a fervent Christian, thought he had resolved the stem-cell debate. A federal judge disagreed.
IRRITATED SHOUTING RAAARRRRRR! IF ONE MORE FRIGGING CELL PHONE RINGS IN THIS OFFICE I'M GOING TO SMASH IT INTO A BILLION LITTLE PIECES AND FORCE FEED SAID PIECES TO THE OWNER. PUT YOUR PHONE OF VIBRATE YOU A-HOLES!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Here are a couple of tracks by
Les Aiglons (The Eaglets) 'Les Premiers Rockers Suisses:'
Stalactite and
Expo 64.
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Stay Free's Illegal Art compilation is a mix of
(downloadable) songs that have been legally challenged, and in many cases forced out of print, due to sampling and copyright issues.
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Get well soon, Scody! (cross-posted from mefi)
I fell in love with a female assassin: they met on a train and fell in love. Then Jason P. Howe discovered that his girlfriend Marylin was leading a secret double life – as an assassin for right-wing death squads in Colombia's brutal civil war.
30 August 2010
The Wilderness Downtown is an interactive "music video" using Google Earth to create a personalized music vid for the Arcade Fire song "We Used To Wait." It's amazing.
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OMG Cows (and cows and cows) - according to the youtube statistics, some four million people have already seen this, but I hadn't, so maybe you haven't either.
This is an unemployed commiseration thread. →Read more...
Letterheads! I love old stationery. Love it love it love it. This is a nice collection, some from the famous, or infamous.
My favorite.
Hey London Mechazens! →Read more...
Modern Family wins the comedy Emmy. Am I missing a great show? →Read more...
Peter Madsen from Denmark built a submarine. Peter and some other engineers plan to use it to launch
a rocket into space. Their
thread at Something Awful. via
oneswellfoop.
29 August 2010
Library of Dust. Approximately 3,500 copper canisters containing the cremated remains of unclaimed patients from the Oregon State Insane Asylum. Souls remembered in beautiful corrosion.
Cornershop: "Who Fingered Rock'n'Roll?" Not sure if the band made this or not, but whoever made it got the band's aesthetic down cold.
AskMecha twitter has dropped like 6 months of @replies to me
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Happy birthday youngergirl44! WTF, we almost missed it? Hope it's been a good one!
No Beck-Palin ticket in 2012 Oh please, please, please, can't we have this? Wouldn't it be fun?
Weekend 3-point update →Read more...
Jim Galli's Tonopah Nevada Pictures. Mr. Galli likes nothing better than buying ancient camera lenses from eBay and trying them out on his large-format cameras: the results, to my eyes, are often beautiful -
here are some examples...
Chopin's Small Miracles: despite their brevity, the Preludes loom large musically
28 August 2010
One of those ten song shuffle threads, only this one goes up to eleven.
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Why are school websites so astoundingly bad? Public schools in the U.S., anyway. Admittedly I've looked at a
very small sample, but they all seem to have poor design and make it difficult to find anything.
Where can i go to learn about current cell phone offerings and plans? I know this is probably the dumbest question you'll hear today, but I really have no clue as I never keep up with such things.
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Google's Book Search: a disaster for scholars?
27 August 2010
Stop whatever you're doing. It is time 4 cat.
No, really.
Jean Teasdale has discovered Twitter ... and I don't know how long she'll keep twittering. In a weird way I hope she doesn't do it forever, because it's almost too much, like having Christmas every day. It's especially kind of freaky how she interacts with others, like she's real.
Last day of work today. Woo hoo! (previously)→Read more...
"Avatar" re-release to feature several minutes of unseen footage... ... not good enough to make it into
the original version.
How being a dick may save your life! Personally, I was kind of dickish to my doctor the other day (before reading this) and yes, it helped.
Texas Tech Lessons: explosion highlights need to improve safety culture at university, initiates government oversight
Trip planning is not my forté Mr. Mirror's birthday is on Monday, and he told me this morning "let's take a trip to Chicago!". He wants to stay overnight and go to the aquarium and maybe the field museum. This sounds like fun, and I'm really excited! Except...
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You are videotaping two turtles. One of them lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
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Workin' on the Wiki I've been doing a little shuffling around on the Wiki, prompted by the recent book club activity. Can you help me think of currently active projects that should be listed, or notable past projects that should be listed?
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26 August 2010
A night of melancholy →Read more...
God I get pissed off sometimes!! Why are people so crazy?!
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Suggestions for an HTML editor with something akin to MS Office's "Track Changes"?
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Anyone else use LoseIt! for the iPhone? I know the larger MeFite community was using Daily Burn -- does that have similar functionality? Low-key diet talk inside.
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What are we all reading these days? →Read more...
Artist Randall Rosenthal carves sculptures from wood.
The results don't much
look like wood at all.
The 72-Hour Expert: everything you always wanted to know about Afghanistan ...
25 August 2010
Say whatever else you want about Julian Assange... →Read more...
Pimped Out Gimp! Anyone know where I can buy a really cool cane? Something classy, mythological, and Victorian feeling. I have been digging for months and can't find anything I really like (for less than $200).
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Did you know that you can change your Facebook language to
pirate?!!? Well, you can. And should. It's hilarious.
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My Boss Butt-Dialed Me That is what he called it.
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Sliced tomato and mozzarella salad. So, it looks like the simplest thing in the world to make, but I never have: sliced tomato, sliced fresh mozzarella, olive oil, oregano, salt, pepper. Is that it or is there something else I should add? Is there balsamic in there usually? Any particular kind of tomato I should use?
A question about men's underwear. →Read more...
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Sony exec returns to his old job: playing guitar with The Stooges.
Photo Friday Suggestion: Beverages & beverage containers. That is all.
24 August 2010
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Corn on the cob rant →Read more...
Misinterpreted Company Names During my commute, I keep seeing a sign for a company called "urbacon".
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Tales of Things With digital tracking, it won't be long before your family heirlooms can tell you their own story, or you can find out what field your carrots were harvested from...
Want to see a robot sorting socks?
This guy's like some kind of sock-sorting machine!
It's a big, Big, BIG day for Danf! A milestone birfday!
Are you a MeFi book club person? After a rather horrid thread experience, I'm taking emails in an effort to continue the book discussions.
You Have To Burn The Rope. Short game with a great ending song.
I have discovered the tip of the iceberg of the culture of people who collect demo sessions, live recordings, obscure remixes and stuffs like that.
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"it could end up the biggest neighborhood store ever." This article explains well why Trader Joe's is my favorite large retail company and the only one I actually trust (and you can too).
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23 August 2010
Covert Operations: the billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.
Hungover owls - Owls, that are hungover.
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Thought for the day When you feel like you give a little, then you're not afraid to call a friend to ask for something.
There can only be one liner Got any one liners you want to share?
22 August 2010
Pallet House A very cool-looking temporary building made out of shipping pallets. I love the night shots of it.
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Manifold Destiny: a legendary problem and the battle over who solved it.
#FirstWorldProblems is almost always a misleading tag I think cause it seems to be a synonym for #ICanAffordThisProblem. There's all classes of society everywhere and people who can afford a certain lifestyle always have similar concerns. True privileges of the first world are almost always structural and have diffused/general benefits;
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Got new computer! Woo-hoo! What should I do with the old one?
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One cold, sunny morning in September 1998, my mother awoke to an empty house, packed a few belongings in a pink sports bag, put on her coat and shoes, locked the front door and walked away from her life. She left a note asking my dad to look after my brother and me, and headed in the direction of the local train station.
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Hi bunnies! How's your Sunday?
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I broke my brain One of those things that makes me wish, in the wee hours of the morning, that I had the mathematical wherewithal to actually work through what I'm reading here.
Carry on.
21 August 2010
Danny and Annie — Danny Perasa and his wife, Annie, recount their twenty-seven-year romance. As they remember their life together from their first date to Danny's final days with terminal cancer, these remarkable Brooklynites personify the eloquence, grace, and poetry that can be found in the voices of everyday people when we take the time to listen. Have a tissue handy.
Robot Unicorn Attack [flash game] [with awesome song]
So I'm thinking of buying a car. I'm a little overwhelmed by the possibilities. I don't have a car at all now, so I have only a small idea of what I want.
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The "I Can Read Movies" Series: Paperback book covers of novelizations of various movies.
(Not real, just excellent graphic design.)
20 August 2010
Glacier Queen. Swedish pop turned into swooshy dramatic atmospheric music.
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Eater's Remorse →Read more...
CRAP!!! (in a nice way) I just got me one of woot.com's legendary
"Mystery Bags" aka
"Bag Of Crap"!!! (aka "Bandolier Of Carrots" and many other things with acronym B.O.C.) What does it mean?
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Golden Girls nesting dolls —That is all
Ye know on earth and all ye need to know.
Relationship Drama I'm usually against putting relationship questions out to the interwebs, but I'm at a loss for what to do.
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Super Cool. New York City really knows how to do things up right sometimes.
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Song lyrics challenge! Name that song & artist:
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Into the woods without delay: Goin' to the woods for a week! Cabin! Rustic! What should I know before-hand?
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HAPPY BELATED TO BRINA AND B-DAY TO CHOCOCAT!!
19 August 2010
Help me title this photo:
The Erosion of America's Middle Class: while America's super-rich congratulate themselves on donating billions to charity, the rest of the country is worse off than ever. Long-term unemployment is rising and millions of Americans are struggling to survive. The gap between rich and poor is wider than ever and the middle class is disappearing.
Browser wars: Chrome is clearly loading a page I want, but then it immediately diverts to myspace. Anybody know what's up with that?
"Inside Insides:" Mesmerizing Resonance Imaging scans of fruit.
For the Love of Culture: Google, copyright, and our future.
Cat concerns... Not actually sure whether this is venting or advice-seeking, kids. So, the situation is that it's somewhere between 101-105F here; my neighbors are away, and I'm feeding their cats/watering their plants. I'm feeling guilty that I'm not bringing the cats into my house... but...
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18 August 2010
PA/NJ job resources? →Read more...
Crossposted to Ask Mefi Looking for inspirational photo essays. Hope me.
TELEPHONEME Awesome, awesome sound and video editing.
(Also, nothing to do w/ Lady Gaga.)
Photo Friday ADVANCE NOTICE: Fashion Clothes! Fashion! Or anti fashion! Apparel, anyway. Be ready on Friday, August 20.
Kindle picks. →Read more...
My son cooked a pound of bacon for breakfast. I am not supposed to eat bacon. These are the moments when I question life quality vs quantity. heheh
Speaking of Etsy, I found this
sparkly gem while searching for sassy hankies.
The President in Seattle yesterday I really, really enjoyed this clip. Wish I could have seen him or his motorcade . . . he was just blocks away.
Trying to remember funny movie link about plot holes. Help?
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Allow me, please, to have a little brag. →Read more...
Cooking help please? I want to cook chicken breasts so that they will be suitable for salads or wraps. I have very little idea what I am doing.
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My ex is late. Typical behaviour from him.
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Regretsy ... I am no good at crafting but at least I didn't end up here.
Forget "Karen 26 seeking father" now Danes seek nurses ... and the viral shows a nurse performing CPR with her naked breasts.
I wish I was kidding.
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It's nice out. Perfect walking around and taking pictures weather.
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17 August 2010
If you view no other online meltdown this year, you MUST view this one. In the (sorta) style of the fake whiteboard "I quit" girl, from the 'stars' of w00tstock, MeFi's Own Adam Savage, the Web's Wil Wheaton and JoCo's Opening Act Paul & Storm.
The Fourth Kind (spoilers) Has anyone seen this movie? We just watched it and I need to discuss...
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Tom Waits performs James Brown. "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" live 1987. Youtube (but it's just the audio recording). Made my day.
Etiquette lesson, the hard way. →Read more...
Plugging the Leaks Barack Obama hates leaks, and thanks to a tenacious prosecutor, the Justice Department is on its way to setting a record for leak prosecutions.
Trip to San Juan Island. . .FWIW Added to daily. . . .It is hotter here than it is supposed to be.
Poodle Exercise with Humans So apparently this video is the fave of the patients enrolled in our teen wellness (i.e. adolescent overweight/obesity) program.
There's a very good possibility that I'll be saying goodbye to my 16-year-old cat in the next day or so. Please tell me I'm not a horrible person.
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Sadly, Google Books only offers a few pages of
Don Martin's Brain Games for Kids, a very educational and stimulating book for young minds.
*sigh* I am going wireless. Goodbye land line. More sadly, goodbye to my beloved
rotary phone.
Anti-Social engineering: Scammer creates malware that claims to be a "Dislike" button for Facebook, but actually spams a user's contacts.
16 August 2010
How secure are your passwords? →Read more...
SHOUTING: AT THE SCUMBAG WHO STOLE THE IPOD OUT OF MY CAR LAST NIGHT →Read more...
I liked this Op-Ed about the quick progress of gay rights.
This is a "Couchsurfing.org = YAY!" post! →Read more...
I really want to eat at this place. If I'm ever in Pratt, Kansas, that is.
An actual good Yahoo Answer: "What are uptake and reuptake and what is the difference between them?" Today's bit of trivia.
Well served I just received an email today from my company saying that it was time for me to pick out my ten-year service award.
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Washington, We Have a Problem How broken is Washington? Beyond repair? A day in the life of the president reveals that Barack Obama’s job would be almost unrecognizable to most of his predecessors—thanks to the enormous bureaucracy, congressional paralysis, systemic corruption (with lobbyists spending $3.5 billion last year), and disintegrating media.
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Welcome to the MeFi Book Club discussion of On the Road and of the Open Yale course lectures by Professor Amy Hungerford about the book. So, what did you think?
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Things you've owned for a long time. I just realized that I've had my alarm clock since 1989. My parents bought it for me when I started first grade. What item(s) have you owned forever?
Three plot holes that aren't Just because this bugs me.
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J'ACCUSE! I have to inflict this earworm on you because the guitars have been scratching my ear-itch all weekend now. So there.
hope you like
15 August 2010
Superpowers. This week's episode of
This American Life was exceptionally cool... it was all about the concept of superpowers, as applied to real life. John Hodgman does a great story about asking people to choose between the powers of invisbility or flight, and another story was about a woman who decided at the age of 5 to become a real-life superhero.
Okay, strange now: I have heard "
True Blue" seven different times today. From radios, from stores, randomly appearing on a TV in the waiting room showing VH1 Classic....
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Please help me make my chicken shreddy So...I rubbed spices like cumin on my chicken thighs and marinated overnight, as per usual. My standard recipe is to bake the pieces of chicken. But for some reason, I would like to find out how to cook them so that they will get all SHREDDY and I can pack the chicken shreds into e.g. a tortilla to get me some burrittoey goodness!
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Listening to MetaFilter's Own filthy light thief's Sunday Morning techno radio show (which he does under the alternate alias of
Paul the Sasquatch... he makes these amazing MeFi posts AND has a life and 17 other side activities... I can't even wake up on Sunday Morning!) and I was wondering: whatever happened to MetaRadio?
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Cucumber Vodka: I want to make it. What vodka should I use as a base?
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Brainstorming: What's the best way to make life easier? →Read more...
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14 August 2010
Tila Tequila goes to the Gathering of the Juggalos in Illinois - says " 2 thousand people ran after us, trying to kill me"
Unfunny: she looks like she got hurt. However, dude, you went onstage at a Juggalos gathering why did you think that was a good idea?
Clothing size creep! →Read more...
Don't Fear The Reaper. Since we're all admitting our uncool music crushes this week, here's mine: Blue Oyster Cult. I love them unabashedly and unironically, and have done since I was a kid.
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Happiest of birthdays to gomichild!! I know most of you are living still in yesterday, but where gomichild is, it is already 8+ hours into the day of her birthday, so HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOMICHILD!
Have a fabulous day, sweetie.
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Allll byyyy myyyyyy-se-e-elf So it's Saturday, and my partner has to work until late on a day we usually would have spent together. People are busy and I am so bad at finding things to do! What do y'all do when you are in such a situation?
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Some love for the 5th Dimension →Read more...
One of my favorite bands ever, Unrest have reunited and they played a set at WFMU. Free Music Archive has
9 MP3s available for download.
Triple MeChaBunny Birthdays! Happy Birthday Orange Swan, Nomis and DG!
13 August 2010
I like ABBA, so fire me!! →Read more...
Any recommendations for reliable gaming PCs? →Read more...
Loud cell phone assholery. I asked a guy nicely to please move away from the table where I was having a business discussion with someone because he was pacing back & forth between our table & the next one YELLING INTO HIS PHONE.
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Seized: Inside the Brutal World of America's Kidnapping Capital
Happy Friday 13th! I'm being infested with demon children. How about you?
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Inspired by LFR, a lengthy rant about my own psycho neighbors. Please join me in complaining here about your own neighbors of doom.
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Happy Birthday By The Grace Of God!
Un-Suck It. Did you get a memo full of annoying business jargon? Use this search engine to define those terms and decrease the suckage.
Lately, I like to relax at the end of a long day by.... →Read more...
12 August 2010
Crosspost from MeTa: Today at work my friend Trevor told me that on Sunday (my day off) afternoon, a man and a woman came up to him and asked for 'jonmc.' He said they had 'European accents.' He told them I was out and to come back. They haven't. Which one of you people is it? Fess up. (terrapin
told me to do this)
Anyone Own a Pair Of These ? I've recently met a couple of people who say that these are the most comfortable shoes that they have ever worn . sure they're ugly, but i'm tempted to try them out. has anyone else tried them ?
OMG want This is a thread for discussing how awesome/horrible/meh those electric massage chairs are!
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Catastrophic art! Tsunamis...
floods...
alien invasions! Artist Steve McGhee has illustrated them all. I'm partial to his
plane crashes, but this
much-smaller-scale disaster is probably my favorite one.
(artist website)
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Halfway through my first glass of wine. I need help with a food pairing. →Read more...
A Comedy of Errors (minus the comedy) June 4th I ordered a new gas stove from a certain department store. I just finally got the delivery completed August 10th. I've written a timeline breakdown of how my efforts played out. I think it reads reasonably well in a trainwreck-y sort of way, and so it's inside if you care to read it.
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If you own a car, or will be owning one, what is your next car going to be? A new car for us is about a year or more off (current one has 135K), and
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There's nothing quite like pulp novel cover art.... Next summer I am
totally getting a t-shirt printed with this image.
For Jessamyn and other book lovers Again, click today before they're on to something else tomorrow. (And I promise this is my LAST Woot T shirt post!)
Geological Time Spiral - a stunning illustration.
opportunistic anthropomorphism when some inanimate object stops working it becomes 'baby' to my interior monologue, like "work with me here baby" *turns key in ignition*. This relationship ends the second it does work though.
Do you have a kick-back stretching routine? I'm getting pretty tired of having semi-persistent low-grade back/shoulder stiffness (combination of work/aging/lifelong fitful sleeping). Anyone care to share a daily/every-other day 20-ish minute stretching routine that has made life noticeably more comfortable for you?
Vegetarianism and the environment. Just because this bugs me.
A while back the World Wildlife Fund commissioned a
study (
long PDF) about the environmental impact of the food we eat. One of the conclusions was that we could reduce our environmental impact if we ate less meat. However, there were some caveats: certain highly processed vegetarian foods require a lot of land to produce.
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We are bad bunnies! Happy belated to our #1 taz!!!!!
11 August 2010
Ms. MS I have MS. Do you think it is a breach of etiquette for me to tell people the truth when they ask me what's wrong?
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I was going to ask you all for baby shower game ideas for this Saturday's SHOWER OF BABIES, but mygothlaundry
already AskedMetafilter a year ago, and I like many of these ideas.
Hee hee hee This T shirt tickles the low punster in me. (Click today, some other shirt will be on display tomorrow.)
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dear Almond Butter... →Read more...
Photo Friday Suggestion: How would people feel about "humor" as the theme for this week?
The War for Drugs: how Juárez became the world’s deadliest city
Prison Without Walls: the Atlantic explores electronic surveillance of prisoners
"The War on Brains is still being waged today." Rachel Maddow (and the laws of physics) vs Conservapedia.
I made an animated GIF of
a cube tunneling through another cube of the same size. I find it pleasantly hypnotic.
10 August 2010
Shopping as Spectator Sport It's just buying books, really, but it's still kind of hypnotizing.
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Spots v Stripes What this has to do with chocolate I have no idea, but it's great.
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Wall Street's Big Win: finance reform won't stop the high-risk gambling that wrecked the economy - and Republicans aren't the only ones to blame.
If you eat a blue M&M on one side of your mouth, it will turn half of your tongue blue.
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09 August 2010
The Mussolini of Ass: GQ profiles Silvio Berlusconi.
I'm on my 4th listen-thru of Ray Lamontagne's new album, and liking it even more each time. Free stream via NPR.
hacker frustration So my gmail got hacked a couple days ago. I didn't have the info to all their questions (since I was an early adopter and have no idea who gave me my invite or what month it was) and I had to make a new account. But, the time between when they actually disabled my old gmail and when it was hacked was enough for the scammer to get access to my facebook, too. They noticed the scamminess quicker than gmail and disabled my profile right away.
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The burglary that wasn't This morning after I got past Trilby and left the house (he’s taken to sitting in front of the door when he sees I’m about to leave, in an effort to block my departure, to which my response is, “Dude. You weigh ten pounds,”) I noticed something awry.
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A Simple Step That Has Improved Things Y'all probably figured this out long ago but I just got it today, so, for other slow learners out there: how to block game updates from appearing on your facebook home page.
"A witness stand is a lonely place to lie." David Boies, one of the lawyers arguing against Proposition 8, humiliates a 'religious right' creep on
Face The Nation yesterday.
(video)
Monday Update- What's up y'all?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKO AND ELSA!!!!!!
08 August 2010
Manassas I can't help but be interested in Steven Stills' work despite its frustratingly uneven qualities, and I just today learned that for a short time he had a kinda funky, kinda bluesy band called
Manassas after leaving CSN. They seem like sort of a neat missing link - or maybe just an interesting eddy in the blues-rock continuum. Here are some of their songs:
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This mushroom cloud (1968) really does look like a mushroom. It's beautiful and terrifying. Also, a
less terrifying one.
Chipotle in adobo substitute? I'm making this
Chipotle Corn Soup with dinner tonight. The only chipotles in adobo that I could find, however, had wheat flour, which ikkyu2 cannot eat. What do I use instead?
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY REDVIXEN!!!!
07 August 2010
I think a girl may be interested in me romantically. She definitely seems interested in pursuing hanging out alone with me at least. But she makes lots of misandric and sex-negative comments to me.
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Free ebook suggestions? My Palm Pre now has pReader on it, and I can read EPub/MobiPocket ebooks. I went to Project Gutenberg to get some but was quickly overwhelmed by the possibilities. Any suggestions?
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06 August 2010
The wonder of Google Maps →Read more...
"I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" from the recently reincarnated Series 53: "In recognition of his contributions to dental health, the city council put a plaque on his house. He came out and scraped it off"
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So I'm about to be laid off... and I was wondering how to handle this gracefully for the next two months.
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Friday 3 point status update! →Read more...
New sidebar art! Thanks to our photographers: crush-onastick, ufez, pjern, Madamina, and Marxchivist!
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The circus came to town! There was
classic clowns, a russian couple who
changed their outfits as if by magic,
daredevil acrobatic couple, camels
you could ride,
sea lions,
strong men, jugglers,
omg elephants!, popcorn and cotton candy! What was your favorite thing at the circus when you were wee?
My advice on fixing your brakes: Lie down in the grass. Forget about the brakes and just lie there next to the car, 'cuz chances are you haven't just lain in the grass since you were a kid. Now, can someone give me advice on a SIMPLE brake pad question?:
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Live Panda Cam From the San Diego Zoo - in the upper right corner of the page.
Just A Minute... I love this show from BBC Radio 4! And it's back for the 57th season!
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looking from my window just saw the guy who went all King Kong-y on me, that I keep wondering if I should have made a statement to the police correcting the police report because it doesn't tell the half of the story, I could see him from my window burying his cat. (I knew what he was doing cos he called my dad about it that morning.) Anyhow, he was burying his cat in his back yard and loudly yelling to himself, "Don't Cry. Don't F-ing Cry."
Target CEO apologizes for donation to anti-gay candidate.
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"Urgent Assistance Needed!!!" - kellydamnit? Hello, MeCha folk! Sorry for having been a stranger, but this morning I received a rather harrowing email request from kellydamnit.
Can anyone tell me if this a spoofed spam message? Is she in some sort of mortal danger or in dire circumstances?
Thanks!
MetaShoulderToCryOn Remember the amazing elevator video
civilisation made by Marco Brambilla? Well, I learned this week that Kanye West hired him to create his
new video "Power" and I got the exclusive to show it, I had to wait up last night as they didn't dare send before the embargo was up. Posted it. I went to bed and awoke to find
it ripped all over the web (but they get culled from youtube) and nary a link or embed from adland. *sigh*
What do you cook in your microwave? It's too hot to use the oven, or the stove for more than a few minutes (like, I'll stir fry, but I won't make soups, stews, beans, etc.), so I'm using the microwave more, but I don't really have a lot of recipes because I haven't had a microwave for the last 10+ years.
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Anyone up for a little MP3 Shuffle-a-gogo? →Read more...
Photo Friday: Abstractions
05 August 2010
What are the most comfy sheets you have ever slept on? I just got a new queen bed, and need super comfy sheets. I'm totally clueless on things such as thread counts, different cotton types, etc.
Please help me navigate the world of home decor.
Also, cost is no object here.
Nas - Doo Rags [youtube link] [
mp3] where did they find this guy.
Help me watch a movie tonight. →Read more...
Something good happened to me today All sizes welcome.
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We need another one of these provided people can behave themselves outside of MeCha.
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Do steam mops really work? →Read more...
Do you like to get terrible postcards in the mail? →Read more...
CocaCola's defends their product against charges of unwarranted health claims. "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitaminwater was a healthy beverage."
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So long, net neutrality. Hello, "web priority." Silly people, the Internet does not belong to you. Just like everything else, it belongs to corporations.
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A Secretive Family's Success: What Makes the Aldi Discount Empire Tick
Watch this I've been looking for a watch pendant necklace. They have some nice ones on Etsy for not much money (I like
this one,
this one and
this one), but most of them don't run. Do you think it likely that, if I bought one that didn't work, that it could be fixed? They do seem to come from reputable brands.
Things I learned tonight at a local carnival/fair... →Read more...
04 August 2010
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Lady Gaga+US Military Seems the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.
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Been painting buns again. The color scheme of this one irks me to hell and back and it's too hot here for me to wonder why. What's your opinion? Too hot/cold? p.s. I'm thinking of finally illustrating some of my short comic scripts and submitting them to Heavy Metal or Blab or somewhere. Well Wishes and Good Lucks and Get Off Your Lazy Ass And Really Doits are all welcome. No lucky rabbit feet please, though.
Secrets of the Little Blue Box: a story so incredible it may even make you feel sorry for the phone company.
(Esquire 1971)
Why 'Yogi Bear' Makes Me Want to Retch! I love
PopMatters writer Bill Gibron, especially when he produces perfect pearls of bile like this one, about that Chipmunks movie:
The 2007 film [...]had none of the original’s retro swing swagger, nor did it try to capitalize on the Greed decade deconstruction of the premise. Instead, it went back to the buffoon drawing board, believing (rightfully so, one might add) that animals making underleg noises and referencing their own feces would wow the masses.
Car repair = $1000 less than I thought it would be. Now share something good that happened to you.
Scrooge McDuck comic book plot anticipated the movie Inception by 8 years
Some striking similarities there. (And it's a darn good comic book, to boot!)
Organization tips. Wherein we ask each other for or offer up advice about streamlining our lives.
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Photo Friday ADVANCE WARNING: Abstractions Pictures of things that aren't things. Abstracts. Blurs. Color. Shapes. Rust. What you got? Put them up on Friday, August 6.
Sometimes the real value of a movie is in making fun of it The Fug Girls have written a recap of the Jennifer Love Hewitt vehicle
The Client List, complete with illustrative screen captures. Not everyone's cup of tear of course, but it made me laugh so hard tears came to my eyes, so perhaps some of you will enjoy it also.
03 August 2010
What Do You Collect? Me? Illustrated editions. From bad to good. from mass produced to private sale. From engravings to drawings on the paper itself. Adore them, makes digging through a dollar bin much more fun. What Do You Collect?
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Webcams at the Large Hadron Collider There are currently two webcams online: Camera 7: looking at the Underground Experimental Cavern from the Saleve side; Camera 8: looking out of the window of the 1st Floor of the SCX building that houses the CMS Control room.
Dating AskMecha: because I can't find my peeps on gtalk...
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Why did the school cross the building? →Read more...
advertising rips off artist (again) They didn't even try to do anything new and different with their inspiration in this case. *sigh*
Etiquette question involving immigrant language skills →Read more...
New Yorker cartoons + captions taken from
@KanyeWest's Twitter stream =
#kanyewestnewyorkertweets
These are a few of my favorite smells... Gasoline, rubbing alcohol, those big fat Marks-A-Lot permanent markers, Home Depot, tire stores, inflatable swimming pool floats, and the aisle with all the school supplies. Yours?
[Travel Filter] Best place to get foreign money? So, I'm going to be in Toronto from August 11 to the 15th, and I have already used up my AskMe for this week (
and it was an epic one), so I'm wondering the following thing:
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Ask MeCha: book for beginning cribbage players?
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The Ghosts of World War II's Past: taking old World War II photos, Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov carefully photoshopped them over more recent shots to make the past come alive.
02 August 2010
my life has entered these long cycles now where as I slip in and out of communities the contacts/peers I had back in some era in an environment are still active contacts when I'm back at it. I guess that's not remarkable in terms of an adult life but it's a bit interesting for me, like a form of 'active nostalgia'.
Build me a great gaming machine, if you please. Here are all of the things I need, right? Pretend I know nothing, cuz I do.
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Attention Fellow Plus-Size Bunnies! I need new clothes! Where do you get yours?
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How much to charge for my tasty homemade beverages? So I've been
making ginger ale at home...
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AxMeta What software do you use to get pictures off your camera and organize them?
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I have an earworm. Would you like my earworm? Perhaps you have one already? And we could switch?
I just gave notice at work. →Read more...
There are certain things that do not belong on pizza. Chicken. Corn. Pineapple.
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Let's share our favorite anecdotes. Even if your friends and family have heard it a
million times, share it inside. Because if you've told it that many times, it has to be good.
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01 August 2010
TrueBloodWeekly: August 1, "Hitting the Ground" This week on True Blood, "Hitting the Ground": {spoilers} blood explosions, gunshots, dogs and wolves and hicks oh my, caged queens, moron interrogations, people are literally kicked to the curb, trips to the hospital, magical blood, glowy visions, the return of the Tiffany's girl, "we must talk franchising later," missed subtext, dungeon ceremonies, white dresses, and more blood explosions!
Twitter!!!!! I haven't been able to get onto Twitter since Friday night.
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Vacation Hangover I'm feeling disappointed.
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Happy Birthday, lonefrontranger!
31 July 2010
Overused movie music. This cinematical post is a little half-baked (as most of their content is) but I like the subject of movie music that you never want to hear again. What are your votes most overused music in movies?
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Saw "Kids are Alright" . . . .Spoilers A hightly anticipated movie in our household. . .
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OMG Hehehe! This is for Senyar, who's having a bad week.
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Iraq's Garden of Eden: restoring the Paradise that Saddam Destroyed
80s Earworm of the Morning: Sheena Easton's "Strut". I used to dance around to this when I was about eight. It definitely falls into the "I really had no idea what the lyrics meant at that time, did I?" category, along with pretty much anything by Madonna.
I had a MetaChat dream! →Read more...
Inside JG Ballard's archive: A
glance into the late novelist's archive, recently
acquired by the
British Library.
30 July 2010
Are we Canadians not to be trusted with razors? I was just doing some online shopping for a safety razor and blades, and ran into a problem when trying to checkout. Amazon wouldn't ship the products to my address. Has anyone else run into this?
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I want to do these things and I want to do them for free. →Read more...
What should he put in the man cave? →Read more...
Did y'all hear that Mexican drug cartels have taken over a couple ranches in Texas?
Of course, the story has been debunked as
paranoid bullshit. As usual, conspiracy-minded right wingers
remained unconvinced. But if you want some real fun...
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During which I witness the differences between the sexes, firsthand. Men love gadgets. Yes, they do.
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Road Trip Part Deux Ok, so I've gotten tanned and my hair is sun-bleached and it's time to head home.
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Dolphins blowing bubbles . . . and popping them. This may be more enjoyable on mute . . . Happy Friday, all.
Review: Juvenile felis catus. While domestic cats are a common feature of many computing environments, IT review sites have proven oddly unwilling to investigate this popular computer room accessory...
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MechaLongShot does anyone know if the lady singing "if you need me i will be nearby.. mountain high.. valley low" in the background here a sample or clone of some (traditional?) song: [NSFW language]
Royce 5'9 - Everybody Goes.
29 July 2010
Any advice on cat towers? We finally have enough space to buy one of those cat furniture tower thingies. Our cat's not a huge jumper (especially now that she's getting older), but she likes having her own spaces and she desperately needs a scratching post, because we just moved from shag carpeting to hardwood floors. Any do's or don't's?
Best. Twittermeme. Ever. Wikileaks + Star Wars =
#wookieleaks (or
#wookieeleaks for the pedantic). Explained (with some "best of")
here and
here.
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Sugar Glider Update Boo and Mya are back from the vet and things are looking up.
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Fun with Mr. Beck learning new things about PHP.
Via
Help me name my blog Hey metachatters, I decided to channel my ranty angst into a blog about education policy and teaching. There are already many such blogs about there but I find most are written in a pretty bland style. I'd like to do better.
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The Future is Almost Here - Per
Terrafugia for a mere $164,000 and the cost of a pilot's licence, you'll be able to park your flying car in your driveway by the end of 2011.
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rapportive Gmail users check this out, it (tastefully) puts extended info in your right bar for the contact you're emailing with. It's mostly underwhelming but sometimes interesting to see unfamiliar contacts' pic or linkedin
Cable Ready: Cyrus Field and the epic struggle to lay the first transatlantic cable.
Woman targets Target for supporting anti-gay political candidate Not sure what I think of the efficacy of this protest method, but we could use more of this woman's kind of voice and action.
graphic designers: design me a logo? graphic designers: design me a logo?
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Too dumb for askme filter: google docs is confusing me!
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28 July 2010
What's the last stupid thing you argued over? This afternoon, my husband and I got into a shouting match over the proper use of Portuguese honorifics.
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Texts From Last Night A lot of them are NSFW, but they still made me chuckle.
"Went to my car this morning. Found a waffle from Waffle House in the front seat. No idea how it got there. So hung over I ate it."
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What's the last thing you copied to your clipboard? (Do they call it a clipboard on the Mac?) Don't stop and think, just paste it and post it. Here's mine:
http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/r/rupert.htm
Think back to when you were 8 years old. What did you want to be when you grew up?
Congress Narrows Gap in Cocaine Sentences how're they gonna do this in 2010? wasn't the issue clear by 1990? screw govt's
I'm going to see this Dali exhibit this weekend, and am very excited about it. Also, I like the crazy interface on the museum's page about the exhibit.
The silver thief: the story of a burglar who was too good for his own good.
Photo Friday ADVANCE NOTICE: Gatherings Parties, crowds, festivals, ceremonies - big groups of people gathering. Put 'em up on Friday, July 30.
Life's little achievements I finally broke my (mainly mental) 5km barrier on my run on Monday. Yay! 5.8km in just over half an hour. If my plan works, I should be up to 10 km in about 6 or 7 weeks. Any small achievements of your own you'd like to share?
Here's a caption-generator. Find a picture and give it a witty caption. Low-brow humor forgiven.
Photobucket is fast and easy.
Fraught with anxiety: We have two sick sugar gliders. Mya, our oldest female, was the first to get sick and we took her to the vet yesterday. Now one of our youngest boys, Boo, is coming down with the same symptoms.
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27 July 2010
Looking for Robinson Crusoe "Why do I need to circle around and invent, when a list of facts could do just as well or better: On an evening in October, your father dies suddenly of a heart attack.
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Heyho bunnies! It's time for another Welcome New Users thread. If you're new jump on in and say hi. Here are our new users that have signed up in the past few weeks...
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So, last night I needed some background TV while cleaning, and...
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Invasion: You think it'd be impossible to share your house with your wife, your daughter, and fifty million or so
Argentine ants. And you would be correct.
Pithy and or Inspirational Sayings and quotes Each employee at the cooperative market where I work is given the chance to update the white board that hangs in our window for a month. Some people pick a single quote and leave it up. Others change the sayings periodically through the month. August is my month, and I am drawing a blank. Can the bunnies hope me please?
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Baby Moose! OMG!! WET baby moose, even.
See any bumper stickers you just love? This morning on the way to work, my husband and I saw a blue VW carpooling, license plate BLMEANY, license plate holder saying "Never mess with a redhead," (and a redheaded woman driving) peace signs on the red rear tail lights, and this bumper sticker.
So, have you seen any bumper stickers that appeal to you?
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Color photos of America from 1939-1943: These are absolutely stunning.
These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations
26 July 2010
True Blood Discussion Thread (spoilers) : TrueBlood. This Week on True Blood, "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues": Eric's obvious, Lafayette is hurt, Tara has turned awesome, and a certain female vamp looks likely to bite it. We come in peace, Regular Bunnies, to populate your land with blood and HBO-style "relations." Err. Well, we still come
in peace. (See, I lurked, accountless!)
Turtle + Cat = Love For the turtle anyway. The cat seems
less than
amused.
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Letting Go: what should medicine do when it can’t save your life? Atul Gawande explores hospice medical care for dying patients.
Ediza Lake Some pics I stumbled upon while surfing the web. Anybody been there?
Noggins. Infuriating little game, but fun.
But infuriating.
For Gaspode Only because I feel your pain, sister.
Hey Providence! I'm coming to visit! I will be in Providence prowling around by myself all day while the bf works if anyone wants to meet up for coffee or drinks or vintage shopping. I'll be staying in the Thayer St area.
Copy editing at The New Yorker. Apparently a lot of what I do at my job could be called "Goulding."
Daydreaming.... This place looks amazing. I wanted to go to surf camp for my 40th birthday, so I can be like
these ladies, but things went all ahoo with the job search and then moving and all. Maybe this coming spring...who wants to go?
25 July 2010
Ask Mecha: New cat eats weirdly. Is this normal for a cat?
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Deadwood Mr. gaspode and I just finished watching S2 of Deadwood. We've really enjoyed watching it, but have heard that S3 is not so good. Is it worth watching or should we just consider it done at the end of S2?
Metallica's first live performance of "Disposable Heroes" (1985) Because it's my favorite song on
MoP. And because it rocks a bit harder than Dionne Warwick.
Why do I like the song Hearbreaker by Dionne Warwick/ The Bee Gees so much? The song in question.
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Let there be light... I could use some advice about replacing a light fixture, please.
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I have decided that the amount of patience I have for computers is cratering.
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24 July 2010
Wow, they changed Google Images Like, just yesterday apparently. Still getting used to it. I use Images all the time; sometimes it's a good way to get research done backwards by looking for a likely visual to lead you to the good articles.
Last pocket: In my experience, people who play last pocket billards are asshats. Why? Alternate opinions are welcome.
Chingdogu Society. Not so useful inventions.
Lost in Translation: new cognitive research suggests that language profoundly influences the way people see the world.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY OCCHIBLU AND SAFETYFORK!!!
23 July 2010
What will I wear? WHAT WILL I WEAR? My first MeFi Meetup since leaving L.A. is 24 hours away and I'm obsessing over what kind of shirt to wear.
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Trying to find specific music "app" for iPad Hello,
I don't have an iPad. But I might get one, and so I am researching specific "apps" that I would want, if I get one. Here is the main type of thing I want:
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See this article? about how having a big head (thus a big brain, presumably) is protective against the effects of brain atrophy? I indexed this paper today. Was excitedly telling my friends about it, and they were all like "yeah, it was all over the news". Anyway, in case you missed it, here it is.
As Good as Dead: is there really such a thing as brain death?
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Is UTF-8 better than ANSI? →Read more...
I helped make this Broadway for your iPhone/iPod Touch! Huzzah!
Quick help with CSS! This should be simple but I can't figure out the search term! Bonus: you will be helping poor people with HIV/AIDS in Africa.
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Do you use expressions like "It was a year ago, ish"? Is that a thing? I used that with a client today and she kept using it back and I wasn't sure if it's because it's a normal thing or because my client was picking up on my usage.
22 July 2010
Are these shipping rates unreasonable, or am I? I was going to order some books from a small, U.S. based specialty publisher. I picked out four titles (trade size, average length under 250 pages) and was placing my order when I was brought to a screeching halt by the UPS shipping rate: $25.76 (USD).
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Photo Friday: music As suggested by pjern
here.
MP3 Shuffle inspired by the first ten sites post this morning and by my having nothing to do this weekend, lets crank out some tunes. you know the rules, post the next 10 songs that play on your tunes device .
its been a while since we've done one........
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The hard part of the vacation is done. →Read more...
God Hates Nerds? Well, Nerds have more friends, especially when you picket their own MegaConvention.
ComiCon out-signs Westboro Baptist Church.
Photo Friday Advance? I haven't seen/heard any discussion for Photo Friday yet: Is there someplace it's being discussed? If it's fallen through the cracks this week, I'll be happy to pull a theme from my deep reservoir (ha), or we can discuss it here.
(I'll be out for a few hours: meeting up with Stewriffic and DC)
Next Meetup Location? For people with too much money and friends they can stand.
Is there a formula to writing that makes people cry? →Read more...
Who else looks like they just HAVE to be related? →Read more...
Intergalactic tuneage. Scientists have developed the technology and mysteriously chosen you (yes, You!) to select the first song broadcast into space for the pleasure of whatever beings there may be out there. Whaddaya pick?
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What are the first 10 websites you check daily and in what order? →Read more...
10% discount at The Book Depository? They're doing a promo where you can send out ten 10% discount vouchers. Any ten people who want one, post your email below or mail me: snailman100 [at] yahoo.co.uk
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Baby Groundhog + Chunky Bar = Cute Sometime in the 70's, when he was 8, Michael brought his pet 7-month-old groundhog onto the set of Hodgepodge Lodge, a PBS children's show about animals and nature. There, it was revealed that baby groundhogs love eating Chunky bars.
21 July 2010
people, I have discovered POWDER for one's skin. This is the greatest thing ever. I am convinced that the moisturizer/deodorant etc. lobbies have far too long blinded us to its benefits.
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Midweek update Decide how many points you need!
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Let's talk cookies What's your favorite simple cookie recipe (as in nothing more complicated than flour, butter, sugar... and maybe milk, eggs, baking powder/soda)?
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A little nuts about my Australian Shepherd so I loved this story of loss and recovery.
Also, here are some
pictures of Aussies. AWWWWW, amirite?
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A hidden world, growing beyond control The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how much money it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs exist within it or exactly how many agencies do the same work. (Three-part series from the Washington Post)
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Crosspost from the gray Let's hold a meetup in Chapel Hill in September when the Mythbuster guys are here, and let's get asavage to join us!
Flying Bunnies ... hope me! →Read more...
Happy birthday kellydamnit!!
I Con, You Con, We All Con For Comi-Con. Anyone else headin' to San Diego today?
Free Music Archive dot org A blog of and about free music.
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20 July 2010
So my annoying and devious brain figured out a new way to give me a panic attack. Hyperventilation! God fucking dammit. I just had my first serious panic attack in a year or so because I was irrationally convinced I couldn't get enough oxygen and was suffocating.
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Just a thank you to shane (since apparently nobody else has yet) for the nice surprise in the mail: a plastic capsule with a
Miigii and two other tiny plastic alien thingies in it! I can always use more things with faces staring at me on my desk. (NOT sarcastic)
Workplace etiquette question.... →Read more...
Happy Birthday, Mr. Moonpie! WHEE! Have a great one.
More from Malmö - a police officer was dancing at Kirsebergs square, this made the local news.
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Brits Nix Simps Pix Currics
"More than 400 people have signed a petition calling for a Somerset school to stop teaching the US cartoon series
The Simpsons in lessons."
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Read this article. Heartwarming, right? Now
read this article. Do you feel any differently about the first one? (Just curious.)
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Here's a picture of me. I'm the one in the middle. In the big yellow dog costume.
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19 July 2010
I Have a Theory - When people are born the gods bless them with a
thing, a
thing being some sort of rare ability. As mentioned
here, mine is finding good parking spaces.
What's yours?
Modern mix tape solutions? Is there some service with which I could create the 2010 equivalent of a mix tape and send it to someone electronically, to be used thereafter on a portable device?
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Discographies - artistic summations in 140 characters or less.
Non-Cute Songs About Fairy Tales? Any ideas on songs about Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and the like that aren't children-focused? I'm looking for rockin' over all, but will take what I can get.
random pedantic things that annoy you I'll go first.. (1) usage of "whom" where "who" is the only possible pronoun
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18 July 2010
If you are a fan of Mad Men and haven't been reading Tom and Lorenzo's posts on the fashions of Mad Men, you really should. Lots of interesting character insights.
The Long March of the Lord's Resistance Army: reduced to wielding cudgels, the Lord’s Resistance Army is as outmatched as any insurgency could be. So why can’t it be stopped?
Lets take a stroll around Malmö i've decided to follow
jouke 's suggestion and took a few pictures as I walked around today.
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Greetings from Cincinnati We'll be at my mom's house in Buffalo later today. Posting this from the Cincinnati Red Roof Inn.
Peter Shickele is 75 years old This retrospective gives a little of the flavor of the man and his works.
Perhaps you'd like some examples?
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Help techie bunnies! think I fried my Blackberry!! Oh Noes....:( So talking with the OH recently, he suggested I get a micro USB cable to replace a broken BlackBerry charger. He explained at the time but it went right over my head why this could be a good idea and is right now unavailible. No, I didn't kill him. Yet. He's in theatre. On Sunday, but that's a whole 'nother story.
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17 July 2010
Adafruit vs. Solarbotics I'm thinking of buying an Arduino Experimenter's Kit to do some projects with my son. Both Adafruit and
Solarbotics have them for $85. Adafruit charges $9.54 for shipping; Solarbotics has free shipping. Anyone have experience with either company? Thanks.
I just got back from EuroPride 2010. In Warsaw. (Warsaw!) →Read more...
Dog Days Are Over by Florence and the Machine. It's the song from the Eat Pray Love trailer. I like it.
Accidental Life Hack #56 Our trash/recycling containers get pretty smelly in warm weather.
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The Killer in the Pool: killer whales and trainers in SeaWorld
Make a photo reportage of where you live... This is
my reportage of where I live; in the medieval city of Utrecht.
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KILL THE MACHINES! →Read more...
What to do with these notecards with envelopes? →Read more...
16 July 2010
fun. is the name of a band I've only just found out about, and
fuckin' A are they awesome.
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PJ Harvey I've only 'really' heard a few songs from her but I was looking her up on youtube and have a feeling I can really get into her work. Tell me which tracks you like from her.
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The Unthanks perform "Here's The Tender Coming". I've listened to this 22 times today. The album version is over 5 minutes long. I can't stop listening to it, this song is amazing.
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The Hunted: did American conservationists in Africa go too far?
Word Game: I don't know the name, but it's the one where I think of a rhyming two-word combo (e.g. "mad Vlad") and then give a clue (e.g. "angry 15th Century impaler") and you have to guess my word combo based on the clue. Whoever gets it correct gets to make up the next one.
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3-point Friday update (including weekend plans) →Read more...
Maori's morning Cute but mildly disturbing stop-motion video, via
B3ta.
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Photo Friday: Your Best Shots! (And tell us why you like them!)
Paging Boring Postcards! →Read more...
15 July 2010
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An Ethics Question Two months ago, we went to our neighbor's party. I took two bottles of wine, (large gathering) only one of which was opened.
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Have you ever heard of this baby shower game? →Read more...
The Social Network is for creeps. New trailer for the upcoming David Fincher movie about the founding of Facebook.
(and Trent Reznor is doing the score for the movie.)
The Turn: at the very heart of winged flight lies the banked turn, a procedure that by now seems so routine and familiar that airline passengers appreciate neither its elegance and mystery nor its dangerously delusive character.
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harry potter I finally read the first book, someone gave it to me back in the early 00s sometime. It was better than I expected.
Stoli Dolis! Have you ever had one? Ever made them?
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Ready, Set, Raleigh? Meetup meetup
meetup!
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14 July 2010
HAPPY BELATED TO PIPS AND B-DAY TO FUZZBEAN!!!!
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I Write Like - Stephen King and Mark Twain. o.O
Let's play "Name my baby" take 2... →Read more...
At a Slaughterhouse, Some Things Never Die: who kills, who cuts, who bosses can depend on race
Photo Friday Advance: Give Us Your Best Shots Let's see three of your favorite photos of all time AND let's hear why they're your favorites.
i WANT this album especially if
this is any indication . it also has a studio version of her amazing
Who Tribute that she did at the Kennedy Centre Honours
Filmic.org - MetaFilter Film Club Books are great, but do books have
stereoscopic 3D with surround sound? They do not. So: we now have the
MetaFilter Film Club! We are chatting about movies including Kubrick's
Lolita, and we are now taking nominations at
Filmic.org. Come join in!
it is a million degrees out and so I am not wearing pants →Read more...
In which we tell of our dreams from last night →Read more...
13 July 2010
*zig-zags his way through the boredom and pain*
Multipoint update! We know the drill.
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Vegemite & Marmite: Where or how can I get them in the US?
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three point status update, omg snake edition I saw a snake! He is a grass snake, and looks like he is cunningly made out of bronze. He moved very slowly and tasted the air with a black tongue.
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comic sans 2010 demo text: "let folks know how you really feel"
Let's go for a picnic! Many cool photos of picnics over the years.
(Photo #6 is just amazing.)
Flying! Or, at least, gliding.
These are there stories: samples from a gallery of Law & Order paintings.
Láadan is an artificial
language created for women by
by Suzette Haden Elgin. Some words:
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you know what is really great when you can't fall asleep? →Read more...
12 July 2010
New York bunnies! I am visiting from Thursday to Sunday. Would anyone like to hang out? :)
I got a postcard today all the way from the Azores. Here in Maine. That's all. But it's neat. Where's the last groovy cool place you got a postcard from, relative to where you are?
oh snap! I just realized that the 'urban' slang "finna" is a contraction of the phrase "fixing to"..
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How do I find a financial planner who does not get a commission for selling me products? I am lost here.
In which I totally overthink a haircut. Help a socially awkward mechazen out. →Read more...
Best meal of the day: Second Breakfast →Read more...
You ever date anyone on your sports team? I'm on a softball team and we just had our last game. I was thinking of asking out a particular team member after the season was over, but the captain suggested that we join the next league which starts in two weeks.
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What to do with mushy pickles? →Read more...
The Mark of a Masterpiece: the man who keeps finding famous fingerprints on uncelebrated works of art.
What should I look for in a bike? →Read more...
11 July 2010
Sometimes the Internet is unexpectedly informative. What have you learned from le web that you didn't know you didn't know?
It's Sunday night, and I tend to spend a lot of time on Flickr on Sunday nights. How about posting a link to your
Flickr favorites?
Tim Simmons’ haunting, ethereal landscapes examine the multilayered relationship we have with our physical environment.
free theater ticket Tuesday evening - want to come with me? I won a couple of free tickets to Tuesday evening's performance of "Mrs. Warren's Profession" by George Bernard Shaw in Orinda, CA and I'm trying to find someone to go with me. Anybody interested?
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10 July 2010
Help me name my new little girl cat... She's two, believe it or not, but is so tiny that she looks like a kitten.
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Who The Hell is this on my tee-shirt? Who is this man?? Why are we saying "no" to him? thank you, sorry he is a horizontal man.
Machete! Robert Rodriguez actually made the movie seen as a fake trailer in Grindhouse. Out in Sept. and I must see it.
Moonage Daydream: The Rock Album as Science Fiction. Interesting overview of sci-fi concepts in music. The fact that the article mentions Planet P's
Pink World more than makes up for the fact that the writer actually seems to like Styx's
Kilroy Was Here.
Smart people stay up late. I, however, go to sleep early. I wonder if age was considered in the study because I stayed up late when I was young(er.)
09 July 2010
DEVO performing "Girl U Want" & "Gates of Steel" on the show "Fridays" in 1980.
I wouldn't be who I am without this music.
Interspecies exploration →Read more...
Online Privacy Issues - There was a bit of a brouhaha at World of Warcraft regarding their forums. It seems Blizzard (the parent company) was going to (or did?) post forum users real names instead of their toon/player names. Read this
first (or maybe
this), this
second and last but not least -
this.
Alternate Lives. →Read more...
In which Sir Winston Churchill makes his first visit to the vet →Read more...
punchlines killed the hip hop star →Read more...
This is a thread for grumbling about all your minor aches and pains →Read more...
Musical rings Click a few times and listen to the chimes.
Heck Yeah Black Cats! A Tumblr devoted to... well, you can figure it out.
Mountains Beyond Mountains Did any of you read this book? What did you think? Finished it this morning. Very thought-provoking.
Time to Motivate! I've got Important Guests coming this evening, and the house is...not ready. Normally I'd do these things throughout the weekend. So this is the Weekend To-Do-List.
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08 July 2010
Photo Friday: Where We Live
Creedence Clearwater Revival question →Read more...
Help me decide if I should go to Urgent Care →Read more...
AskMeCha: Question about hard disk drive on old computer.
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07 July 2010
Anyone else watching "Work of Art?" →Read more...
Tomorrow night is the 1 hour LeBron Decides On A Team special. How do you think he fills the other 55 minutes?
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AskMeCha: Any advice for buying a new sofa and recliner? →Read more...
Life is stressful. Fortunately, I've got... →Read more...
If obsessing was an Olympic sport I would be a gold medalist. Man, can I ever get preoccupied with something. Right now it's thinking about whether or not I should buy a house. It is taking up far too much space and time in my brain.
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Cats. Gotta love 'em. OR THEY'LL EAT YOU. I hope this puts to a proper end any blasphemy about cats ever being as cute as bunnies
BlogStop. Where the last word of an entry must be used as an acronym for the next entry. Simplicity itself.
Because Soon It Will Be Photo Friday we must now get ready to post pictures of Where We Live, which can be interpreted any which way you like, from room to house to neighborhood to county to country and, thus hey, even to planet. Coming this Friday July 9 to a metachat near you!
OUR WASHING MACHINE DIED LAST NIGHT SO THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD
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Havin' a Partaay! Whew!
Finally figured out which of my million-four social networking passwords worked for "The Chat". Now it's time to see if I can get through to y'all using this so called "smart phone" without flubbin' it all up...AGAIN.
Anniewhooo..
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Preoric sentence has a aaff to realate that can ugl mbuded by the ichord of tsed with skill hacrt dbil.
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06 July 2010
Michael Jackson lives (sort of) →Read more...
Should I be proud? I kinda feel proud. My latest outline of a New Project is very gender-balanced AND I wrote a "girl realizes she's a worthwhile human being" WITHOUT taking her glasses off. Since I'm writing for mainstream media, I feel prouder than I should.
The trackpad on my laptop is crazy f'ed up. What's annoying you today?
Q. What seems like an advanced age to you now?
A. I think 90. But we’ll see. It’s a birthday at a time.
A fun interview in the NYTimes with Ringo Starr, who turns 70 tomorrow.
OMG.
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Hot Child in the City It's 101 degrees in NYC today, and I hear much of the northeast is dealing with the same heat. How ya holding up?
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NOMF!:
Cheese Dogs
SLOBBER!:
Lickeddy Split
RUN!:
Dog Gone
Tons more super-high-speed video (shot at high frame-rates, viewed in slow-motion) via
The Vision Research Gallery
via a 2007 post from loquacious
Is the Mecha fantasy football league open yet? Just afraid
I missed it, but I haven't seen any emails or anything.
A big bunny welcome to... all of our new users. Come in and say hi, everyone! (new and decrepit users alike)
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Ask MeCha: Supermarket Bags After reading Shepard's Metatalk
posting about re-usable grocery bags, I was wondering how many of you-all used them? We try to but we always seem to be the only ones in the supermarket who do. Also when we do use them, the bagger usually gets grumpy about it since they're not used to using them and it slows them down.
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Today is my 10-year MefiVersary! Sunday, I hung out at
exogenous' house with
Stewriffic and
D.C., then ran into
zennie at the park, where I played with my
laser-pointer spinning thing. Then I performed
another wedding Monday. Thanks for introducing me to so many cool, interesting people!
Dream Creatures. Mad shadows on flickr.
05 July 2010
Does anyone remember the ImagiNation Network? INN was an early casual gaming service in the 90s. I just learned that INN is available again, thanks to a hack called
INNRevival.
Who here uses RedBubble or another service to sell their photos and art? I hope many of you would consider uploading your pics.
ALT/1977: WE ARE NOT TIME TRAVELERS Awesome renderings of modern electronics, redesigned to fit into the 1970s.
At my bar, I just saw a three year old sing "Don't Stop Believin'" in Her mother's arms. It was cool.
keyboard shortcut? In Word, is there a keyboard shortcut to get rid of a dialog box - any dialog box - that popped up by mistake? (happens to me a lot when I'm trying to use another keyboard shortcut and hit the wrong key.)
Party 24 July in Vermont Turtlegirl and I are having our annual bash and wanted to extend an invite to MetaChatizens who may be interested.
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Like ventriloquists? Hate Justin Bieber?
Hate ventriloquists? Like Justin Bieber?
Then this is the video for you.
How are you? I'm slightly shell shocked today. I had an epically bad day. It's so bad that if I tell you, you'll think I'm exaggerating. I wouldn't be.
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04 July 2010
*Chair Boogie* I know theres a couple of Nouvelle Vogue fans around here somewhere
July 4, 1972 Awesome photo. Be sure to check out the
hi-res version.
"A Drowning," by How To Destroy Angels.
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03 July 2010
Walked into work this morning and... tl;dr version - squee, baby weenie dogs!
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(NSFW) Tennis -- "South Carolina" (burlesque footage, with a few seconds of toplessness here and there. Awesome song. I recommend it highly.)
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come in here and list guerrilla ways of letting people in the middle let you talk to the end client directly
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02 July 2010
Unconventional July 4 Traditions? →Read more...
New sidebar art! Also: MetaChat needs YOUR pics.
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Want a free surprise in the mail? I''m clearing out my collection of gumball machine toys. Just e-mail me your address. It'll be like Cracker Jacks, but without anything tasty to eat.
Well, that's it... American conservatives have
become parody-proof.
I Guess You'll Do A comical, cynical cartoon about marriage.
Sure, I'm a huge Cat And Girl fan But this made me laugh so hard I woke people up and then insisted they read it.
Tips for a grieving friend? I'm grasping at straws to figure out how to comfort an online friend who lost her 28 year old son in a gun accident a few days ago.
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Bump Anyone going to the
London meetup tomorrow?
2:30PM Saturday 3rd July, Chester Gate to Regent's Park (NW1 4JH). Picnic if the weather's good, pub if it's bad. I'm tempted to go along if the weather holds up.
I just authorized a sterotactic ablation of brain tissue for a guy with a brain tumor, bless him. What are you up to?
01 July 2010
Contact lens questions This is too stupid to ask at Ask, so I'm gonna ask you guys my question about contacts:
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Tomboy Style — To define a tomboy requires searching far beyond the simple notion of wearing boy's clothing. Tomboys have influenced the expanses of popular culture including fashion, film, music, and literature. Although the tomboy is often identified by clothing, what makes her wholly so is an inherent sense of confidence, rebelliousness, and adventure.
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Give us any chance we'll take it; give us all some pants, we're naked anyone going to Milwaukee Sumerfest this weekend?
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A good (if infuriating) Matt Taibbi article about the f'ed-up priorities of many (OK, most) of our mainstream political journalists:
Lara Logan, You Suck
Bunnies Forever on today's shirt.woot Nifty design, but they do look a tad creepy to me.
Lunch challenge: I left my bank card and driver's license at home. Here's how I will improvise.
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30 June 2010
In honor of the announced aquisition of Woot! by Amazon, I am currently having too much fun collecting alternate acronyms for "Bag Of Crap"
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A Very Potter Musical Act I
Part 2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7...I'll let you find the rest on your own, if so motivated.
Geeky Wedding Invites Really, really geeky. and cute.
Cell phones and bees Could cell phones be the cause for the great bee decline? What can we do if it's true, have cell phone free bee preserves?
Speaking of birthdays, Happy Birthday, Firas! ...in your timezone it has begun! Have a great one.
Birthdates with benefits A co-worker of mine is having her birthday tomorrow. I told her July 1st is one cool day for a Canadian to have a birthday.
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Merry-Go-Rounds are eternal and that is fucking awesome.
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Today marks 102 years since the
Tunguska Event.
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New Duds for the Superhero With the Lasso of Truth Wonder Woman Will Still Be Sexy -- Just in Lower Heels and a Biker Jacket
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What actor or actress can you totally NOT picture in any other role besides their signature one?
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Photo Friday Heads Up: Storms Thunder. Lightning. Rain. Clouds. Ice. Snow. Hail. Rainbows, even - why not? All the havoc that mother nature can wreak.
29 June 2010
Any Vegas Veterans here? Anyone have any experiences with Vegas, as far as staying off the strip, transportation, and $$$?
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AskMeCha: Vegetarian (not vegan) cookbook? →Read more...
Ask MeCha : I'm having a pedicure tomorrow. →Read more...
One of your recent dreams in ten words or fewer Me? Al Swearengen as a FIFA World Cup referee.
Unlikely sequels i.e. Alice Lives Here Once Again
Images from 1923 edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren
(Tenggren would go on to work for Disney, lending his signature style to the look of films like Snow White, Bambi, and Pinocchio.)
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28 June 2010
I just had a Red Stripe. Yay, beer! Now your turn: Yay, _______!
LCD Soundsystem "Drunk Girls" music video directed by Spike Jonze. Hilarious and also vaguely disturbing.
Cloud King — just some art from some people you may know.
The Twinkie: 37 or So Ingredients by Dwight Eschliman. (click on the little numbers starting with 1/21 to advance).
Someone's got a case of the Mondays and I think it's MetaChat. What's going on out there today? Show us some pieces of flair in this thread.
27 June 2010
I've always found this move from Marilyn Manson kinda funny: at the end of a song called "I Don't like the drugs but the drugs like Me", a lady does a gospel-style breakdown of the chorus
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Hate the World Cup Refs? Try the training yourself. I had no idea it was so difficult to become a member of the most hated/reviled profession on the planet right now.
Meetup crosspost Chicago! July 23rd!
26 June 2010
Dinosaur Jr. - "Just Like Heaven" Sort of a double-dose of 80's nostalgia, and also, a rockin' song.
(Bonus: puppets!)
Chicago Pride Parade, anyone? I'm hesitant to make this an official meetup kinda thing because it's so last minute.
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I'm having a party on Friday and two of my circle of friends don't get along. Mainly because he (who is engaged) repeatedly makes unwanted sexual propositions to her.
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have discovered that Axe scents break down in a sickly way when combined with formal textiles & high heat/sweat
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25 June 2010
MeCha/MeFi meetup: London. Hope to see my favorite bunnies on the afternoon of Saturday, 2 July! Location and exact time to be determined.
Reach Out (and get happy) - Happy 2 B Hardcore Ch 1, the YouTube playlist.
I love you, 1997.
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Brazil vs Portugal [spoilers within] →Read more...
Happy birthday, Melismata.
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Photo Friday: Stuff You Make Show us your works!
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Bionic cat! I cried at the end.
24 June 2010
Cormac McCarthy's Toy Story 3 by Ruben Bolling. Predates the release of
Toy Story 3 by three years.
Amateur Carpentry Hour! So the new-to-us TV takes up much more space than anticipated on the new sideboard dresser thing. Or is the dresser just too small? Never mind about that. The important thing here is this: where does the TiVo go????
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The Anosognosic’s Dilemma “When people are incompetent in the strategies they adopt to achieve success and satisfaction, they suffer a dual burden: Not only do they reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it.” Interesting article by
Errol Morris about the idea that people can be too stupid to realize they are stupid.
I had thought that
easily misinterpreted domain names had pretty much gone away, but today I stumbled over
BlindSexPress.com, wrong on multiple levels.
Fresh Kale, Fresh Peas (both from garden) and Tofu Make something great!
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AskMeCha roomate/apartmentfilter Is it just me, or is apartment/roommate-hunting in NYC like pulling your own teeth and then putting them back in with a hammer?
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Happy birthday to ufez! Hope it's a great one, buddy!
Greetings Iceland, I am inside of you. I promise not to use the word "lunar" or "magical" to describe your landscape. Thank you.
I Feel Good (NaNaNaNaNaNaNa)
Trout. I cooked a whole trout this evening, which turned out wonderfully, but now my hands smell like trout. Not in a bad way, really, more like in a mineraly babbling-brook sort of way, but it's still not really the way my hands usually smell, so it's odd.
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23 June 2010
Is beer that's been in my fridge for over a year still good? I've had some beer in my fridge since last Memorial Day weekend. If it's been kept consistently cold during that time, will it still taste good to beer drinkers? I don't drink beer so there's no way for me to tell if it still tastes good.
Tornado Sirens in Chicago I'm still at work and the sirens came on because of the storm. I had no idea what to do, so I hung out in the bathroom for a while. The sirens went off, but it's still nasty outside and I'm kinda scared. Hold me?
Postcards from Hell Images from the world's most failed states.
Good lord, check out the Wimbledon match on Court 18. Can you say "don't know how to break"?
How to make new friends and keep the old I've lived in this city for a few years and was lucky to make a great group of friends almost immediately. We share common interests and have fun. But I haven't developed the deeper relationships I want.
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I dare you to produce a more colourful plate of food! Double dare even!
I just gave notice at my job! This is scary and exciting!
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Photo Friday Coming Up: Stuff You Make We've done it
before but not for a long time as far as I can figure out. So, go wild! Artwork! Crafts! Home repairs! Stuff YOU made!
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Lilith Fair - July 1st (Canada Day) i dunno if there's enough here to get me to fork over the $250, but seeing as the venue is only 4 blocks away from me, you can bet i'll be outside dancing when Erykah Badu is playing.
see you there !
Lady Gaga wearing Wedge boots ..and falling down. This must happen on a daily basis, right? The falling down part.
Google Voice in the US. So now Google Voice is open. But the
features page is all videos. Doesn't anyone believe in text anymore? So should I bother with GVoice, and if so, why?
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Hands Across the Sand is a demonstration event happening on Saturday in coastal locations around the US and the world. It's meant to show support for clean energy and coastal protection, and ending ocean drilling.
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22 June 2010
We got lucky? So I'm watching this video, and I'm thinking about how much of it has come to pass.
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Guess what it's almost time for? Fantasy Football! I plan to renew the MeCha league this week - who's in?
My cats playing with a balloon. Dear metachat users, this is a video of my cats playing with a balloon today.
Sincerely yours,
odinsdream
night of the living Multis there's this clueless kid in a hip hop forum who's totally obsessed with the notion of multisyllabic rhyming
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The DishNetwork description of a show that aired last night: "A skewered corn cob. Thong Underwear. A five-foot leash. 27 baby pacifiers. A chew toy. $800."
Name that show! (No cheating!)
Go MetaChat! I am really pleased to see how active the site has been recently. It was a little more than half a year ago that I thought it might be in an irreversible decline. Looks like I was wrong. Thanks to everyone who has been contributing so much.
Finally a follow up to
Primer. Shane Carruth made such an amazing movie for less than my car cost, I can't wait to see what he can do with an actual budget.
We need a costume theme! My trivia team needs something wacky to wear next week. Why? Because!
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sometimes sometimes I want to cry when I see parents and children just casually acting like they love each other, and I want to say, what's the matter with you, don't you know how abnormal that is.
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FF+Google tab madness? Am I the only one who suddenly can't open google search results in the same tab?
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I have to confront the drycleaners. I hate confrontation. Tips?
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The Roots - The Day [
mp3] The new Roots album is an instant classic.
21 June 2010
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The quiet coup The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes emerging markets, and is at the center of many emerging-market crises.
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The &%@#*! EmCee →Read more...
AskMeCha: Friend needs job →Read more...
Shatner's toupee is obsessive and is also reviewed by
cinematical
20 June 2010
Maybe it's the new Devo album out, maybe it's the platinum hair... but I'm in an 80s-apocalyptic mood. What are the best examples of that particular kind of Cold War Nuclear nihilism and slick electronic end-of-the-world?
Happy Father's Day! I am making my husband a father-to-be card!
If you're a member of Last.fm, I hope you've joined the
MetaChat group. It's fascinating to see what your fellow MeChazens are listening to.
19 June 2010
Boom Lost in the catastrophic aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the gripping tale of the rig workers and the Coast Guard crewmen who rescued them.
What you up to this weekend?
Batman - City Of Scars a 30 minute fan film that isn't too bad
18 June 2010
Free MP3 from The Black Lips The webpage is kind of annoying because it plays music as soon as it loads, but hey, you can download a new song from the Black Lips, and that's cool.
Hope Me! Frozen cursor. →Read more...
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Well, I did it. I told the cute guy at work to fuck off. Why, then, do I feel so miserable now?
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The Man in the Rockefeller Suit By snatching his seven-year-old daughter from her mother’s custody, after a bitter divorce, the man calling himself Clark Rockefeller blew the lid off a lifelong con game which had culminated with his posing as a scion of the famous dynasty.
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The summer of Fail (Cheer me up?) →Read more...
Photo Friday: Refrigerators and Coolers!
17 June 2010
The cleaning lady at my office is AWESOME! She sometimes brings me flowers from her garden because I'm one of two people that's always here when she cleans at night.
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Whee! Had my fifth straight day of working out with
Wii Fit+ this morning. Who wants to swap codes and cheer me along as I get in shape?
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Boo, yay, meh. Boo: my s---head anger management needing boss cut my hours (due to not enough trade in here) starting next week! Nice, way to give me notice...
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Random fun. That is all. Carry on.
16 June 2010
My Brother is moving to Greece I am very close to my brother. He is about 19. He speaks and read Greek. He has become a very ...passionate anarchist. He's saving up his money from his job as a waiter at a local place, living with my Mom, so he can move to Greece this summer. I do not know hoe to feel about this
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Cut my hair! Or, you know, don't.
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Thank you! The MetaChat fundraiser has (already! already? amazing!) reached our target figure to keep the server up for another year.
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Mothers and daughters and knitting While sitting outside at lunch today, I worked on the sweater I’m making for my mother’s Christmas present and I thought about the three or four other sweaters I’ve made her over the last few decades.
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Touchdown Jesus struck down by bolt of lightning New York Times:
Lightning Destroys 6-Story Statue of Jesus. Some
video. Old
Metafilter thread.
Oh hey my picture is in the New York Press that is cool.
(NSFW due to photo of boobs NOT belonging to The Whelk)
No kids allowed Laura Dieckman was just 12 when her parents let her leave home to work full time for
Scientology's religious order, the
Sea Organization. At 16, she married a co-worker. At 17, she was pregnant.
Photo Friday Advance: I haven't got a clue. Any ideas?
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Everybody Loves A Lesbian! via "The Mongrels" on BBC.
(Somewhat NSFW.)
Bored at work three point status update! 1) BZZzzzzZZZZZZZZzZzzZzZzzZZZZ argh I have to watch the matches with no sound. Why can't they sing instead? How are the teams supposed to tell which side is cheering when?
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G*ddamn Lonely Love A lovely cover of the Drive-By Truckers song. Found via @JasonIsbell's tweetstream. (3.5 min SLYT)
Cons of karaoke We just got home from karaoke. The BF rickrolled the whole bar. Now we both have Rick Astley stuck in our heads. FML
15 June 2010
"The Runaways" DVD - July 20. From what I have heard from the soundtrack, Dakota Fanning has Cherie's voice down cold (especially "Queens of Noise") and Kirsten Stewart, while not Joan Fucking Jett, does pretty good.
How do you sleep? See image in first comment.
OMGWTFBBQ road trip *Deep breath* Ok, I'm going to be driving to Florida from TX in July and August. Anyone along the way want to meet up?
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Music sugestions? Hank Williams, Hank Snow, Marty Robbins.
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101 Physical Things That Can Be Reduced In Your Home. I have been feeling the weight of too much stuff lately, so articles like this interest me very much.
Whinge-y Rant-y Poor little old meeeee I am annoyed. How are you?
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excruciating abdominal cramps every morning low potassium i think (other symptoms concur with self diagnosis) don't tell me bananas i hate bananas. used to like them when i was very young, but then they just started tasting so very banana-y.
Are there any other Jean Teasdale fans among us? Because there's going to be a Jean Teasdale
book. It's to be published in October, and is tentatively titled “A Book of Jean's Own!: All New Wit, Wisdom, and Wackiness from The Onion's Beloved Humor Columnist”. It’s supposed to be all original material rather than a collection of old columns.
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This is the Meta Book Club Meeting about Lolita This is the Meta Book Club thread about Lolita, and I’m just going to start it off. Please jump in freely – I’m not looking to lead this discussion, just get us going.
Ask MeCha. . .Getting Rid of Desktop. . .WiFi Question Finally unplugging my XP desktop, to which the WiFi router has been connected. Do I need to plug one of the MacBooks into it in order to reconfigure,
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Pots & Pans We're buying new pots & pans tonight, but have yet to decide on stainless steel vs. nonstick.
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Openbook Fun with over-sharers
(and people who don't understand the privacy settings) on Facebook. Possibly NSFW since the site automatically suggests a (sometimes naughty) search term the first time the page loads.
MetaChat Fund Drive The web hosting for MetaChat is coming up for renewal, so we are running a fundraiser to help pay to keep MetaChat online for another year.
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14 June 2010
Your Advice Please: I am caring for an orphaned American Red Squirrel.
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Which words do you always misspell? Me? Broccoli. I always do one C and two Ls.
Stupid email forwards: what have you read lately?
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Perfection. This popped up on my iPod on Shuffle on the way home today. I played it six times on the subway. It may be the perfect pop song I just don't know.
Food you love, but others think is weird or gross. I like to cook elbow macaroni, drain it, add ranch dressing and cheddar cheese, and mix it up until the cheese is all melty. What about you?
Something's Got to Give All the way down the bank of radar scopes, the air traffic controllers have that savage, bug-eyed look, like men on the verge of drowning, as they watch the computer blips proliferate and speak in frantic bursts of techno-chatter to the pilots: "Continental 1528, turn right heading 280 immediately! Traffic at your 12 o'clock!"
13 June 2010
This Is A True Blood Season Three Thread As is customary in the Whelk Household, Episodes of True Blood must be eaten with classic Americanan food, tonight is burgers with tater-tots and watery beer.
Who has the most neurons? (Bunnies were inexplicably left off the list!)
My Aunt Dot She just turned 94 and is in assisted living, and almost daily she broadcasts stuff like this to everyone she has email addresses for!
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Ask MeCha: Grad school round two I need some insight into prepping for the GRE.
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Happy Birthday rmless2! Happy Birthday Eideteker!
12 June 2010
What kind of puppy is this? Ky00tness after the fold
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No Refills In 2009, only 25 new drugs were approved—less than half the number in the mid-’90s. Why are new pharmaceuticals so hard to bring to market? Overcautious regulators and profit-hungry conglomerates make easy scapegoats, but they’re only partly to blame. While we’re waiting for both sides to reinvent themselves, even little things like better monitoring of side effects can lead to big new discoveries.
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WTF. One Demand says I ordered a movie yesterday while I was at work. And watched 23 minutes of it. I am quite sure that Smooshie did not order this movie. Did someone break in my house and watch 23 minutes of The Collector?! I am really freaked out.
How to make the perfect french fry This guy takes french fry nerdiness to an extreme but achieves his desired outcome.
11 June 2010
Ask Mecha: How many times has Sandra Bullock said the line, "I haven't slept with anyone in X years" or some variant? Speculation encouraged.
What's yer home page? I'm finally ready to give up on Yahoo! after a long passionless marriage.
YAY! This is a YAY! thread.
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Putting Together a playlist for the Art Monkey's Ball, Anyone care to critique it?
Now with a new deadline.... I'm extending the deadline for the collaborative book project to October 1st. If you're interested in contributing your words of wisdom, email or MeMail me with your email address and specifics on whatever you'd like to do for the project. MeTa thread
here; project blog
here.
Grapes Is it possible to get grapes in small packages, like half the size or less than the size they're usually sold in at the supermarket? I'm not talking about any kind of mix, just grapes all by themselves.
Heartbreaking and fascinating at the same time.
Is anyone else watching the World Cup opener? SA should totally be losing right about now.
How do I captain my kickball team? I'll probably post this to AskMe but I won't be able to for another five days, and our first game is on Sunday. I met with my independent co-ed rookie league kickball team (
special rules) last night, and apparently they took one look at me and decided I was to be captain.
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have you guys seen you iphone drenched in blood? I get exited about the True Blood app-ad (cuz I'm exited about True Blood) and show it off to my webcam, wanna see? Will you watch the season premiere?
Anyone here use Fiverr for selling? It seems perfect for an idea I have but the TOS are making me wary.
Photo Friday: Beaches and Oceans
Salad days! It's almost summer. Time to fire up the grill and
grill some lettuce. Yummy
grilled lettuce sure hits the spot.
Lettuce +
Grilled = Yum!
10 June 2010
Shipping. I ordered this small battery online and
this is the box that it came in a few days ago. The nickel is for scale.
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If for whatever reason you didn't want to watch HUMAN CENTIPEDE , don't fret, these guys have watched it for you, while drunk.
Jungle Law In 1972, crude oil began to flow from Texaco’s wells in the area around Lago Agrio (“sour lake”), in the Ecuadorean Amazon. Born that same year, Pablo Fajardo is now the lead attorney in an epic lawsuit—among the largest environmental suits in history—against Chevron, which acquired Texaco in 2001. Reporting on an emotional battle in a makeshift jungle courtroom, William Langewiesche investigates how many hundreds of square miles of surrounding rain forest became a toxic-waste dump.
TravelFilter - Looking for a little help over at AskMe. If anyone without an account (or even if you have one) would add some suggestions here, it would be greatly appreciated.
I'm getting so excited! It's almost real!
Advice on drama-riffic situation? Thinking about calling up my mom and Getting Some Things Off My Chest. Is this a Bad Idea? Any advice from people who've dealt with similar?
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Cubicle Shuffle Several people in our office had to relocate their desks to the cubes around me and I'm going insane!!
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Who are some of the best living songwriters whose songs tell stories? Like, real beginning-middle-end stories.
WTF gmail? Is it crawling today for anyone else?
"S-S-S-Selma, what was it like working with Adam S-S-S-Sandler?"
Selma Hayek, Maya Rudolph, and Maria Bello receive an unexpected guest during a press junket interview.
Do you believe in taking mental-health days, Y/N? And if so, how often do you take them?
'might not be such a bad idea if i never go home again' — Gil Scott Heron [
youtube] [
mp3]
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09 June 2010
Wii! So I'm thinking about getting a Wii (and Wii Fit)...
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So, where' ya'll from? Please settle an internal arguement I am having with myself. Is it impolite to casually ask someone (clearly from another part of the world) where they are from?
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Animated Victorian etchings featuring a domestic squabble and electronic music. Also, tentacles.
Lots of tentacles.
Is your signature always the same, or do you change it up? Mine varies.
The Golden Boy and the Invisible Army When the H1N1 swine flu virus boiled up out of Mexico last year, the CDC became the epicenter of a worldwide struggle to stop its deadly march. Twenty miles north, at a brick house in Johns Creek, the virus found a perfect host.
Friday's Photo Friday: Beaches and Oceans In honor of
World Oceans Day, let's do a Beach Pictures Photo Friday this week!
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The Streets vs. The Law: Paintball, The Wire style! Play paintball and have a meet and greet with the cast of The Wire. If I had the $$$ and were in NYC, I would DEFINITELY be doing this. A chance to meet OMAR?!?! Are you kidding me?
Christmas in June After my jewelry box was stolen from my home last January, one of the pieces I most regretted losing was, strangely, a Christmas bracelet.
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Blatant self-promotion Promote yourself blatantly.
A weekend with the kid in July So my husband will be in Vegas for a weekend in July and I decided I want to go somewhere with the kid as well. Any ideas about where would be an easy trip from NYC with a toddler?
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Blatant self-promotion. The project I've been working on since December finally airs tomorrow.
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I made my first real Mac app! This has been the most aggravating yet addicting side project I've undertaken in years, and it's taken up most of my non-working/sleeping thoughts for the past two weeks. What does it do? Hold on to your hats . . . it lists tables in an Oracle database that match a user-supplied keyword! Just wait until I make an iPhone version -- it will be an unstoppable viral hit!
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08 June 2010
this is a resolved thread *stares today down*
YAY! I was wondering why people always say "yeah" on line, when I'm sure they mean to say the word that rhymes with "ray", not the word that rhymes with...
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Does anyone here write to soldiers? Whether you know them personally or not?
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Not the NRA Anthem - funny, I have never really listened to lyrics of this song before.
It's been two years since I've posted anything... I think it's time to unlurk.
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Cameroon the Lake of Death On the evening of Aug. 21, 1986, a cloud of carbon dioxide erupted from
Lake Nyos in the mountainous region of northwestern Cameroon. Heavy and deadly, the gas rolled down hills, into valleys and villages, suffocating everything in its path. By the next morning, 1,700 people were dead.
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RANTY, SWEARY SHOUTING THREAD!!!! →Read more...
This drummer is at the wrong gig Apparently this is "all over the internet" so you might have seen it. I'm possibly expecting a pink bunny for this. Regardless, it's pretty funny.
It's World Oceans Day. This thread is for saying stuff about the oceans.
07 June 2010
"[S]ince the overhead press fell from grace, I’ve never seen anyone press 75 pounds over bodyweight, or very few, for that matter, who could even handle bodyweight. Yet I know it can be done because I saw it done countless times and did it myself. It’s simply of matter of putting in the necessary work in the weight room.” -- Bill Starr
New sidebar art! Thanks to our photographers nthedgx, Kronos_to_Earth, rhapsodie, tommasz, and arse_hat!
Dear ____, I love you very much, but your tendency to _________ is driving me crazy. Sincerely, your ______.
Some cool things I found on the web today: Short CGI movie showing VR views of the
design and construction of Fallingwater.
Conflict Kitchen is a takeout restaurant serving up food from countries the US is in conflict with. Today's speacial: Iran. And
The Onion on BP (the oil company, that is).
Bernie Madoff, Free at Last In prison he doesn’t have to hide his lack of conscience. In fact, he’s a hero for it.
Summer Dreams [NOT NORTHERN-HEMISPHERIST] →Read more...
06 June 2010
Facebook is awful! Okay, so I wanted to access some information that was posted to facebook. So I signed up.
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The Vietnam Oscars Three years after the fall of Saigon, Hollywood finally dealt with Vietnam. And how. Produced by maverick talents amid creative chaos, Coming Home and The Deer Hunter split the industry, the critics, and the 1979 Academy Awards.
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Yay! For the first time, the percentage of Americans who perceive "gay and lesbian relations" as morally acceptable exceeds 50%.
"The Curse" by Josh Ritter Via
Mefi. Beautiful lyrics and melody, and haunting video.
Ruh-roh Tornado watch for my area, and the radar has a patch of storm with a dark red center that is bearing down on us. It's like looking down the muzzle of a loaded gun.
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05 June 2010
The Innocent Prisoner's Dilemma Expected to show remorse, the wrongfully convicted in America's prisons face a moral dilemma.
Tabula Rasa
I am at a complete loss for words and overwhelmed with tears.
I totally do not understand the Amazon.com algorithms sometimes.
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This is my second weekend in a row of work work work. Keep me company while I toil alone in a hot office.
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Are you the same? When there's a movie on TV I like, I'm always pleased and end up watching it,
even if we own it!
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The Southeast Washington drive-by shootings
Part one:
Prelude to a tragedy
Part two:
Deadly retaliation
Here I thought I was gonna save a little money. I just cancelled what was left of my cable tv, $25 a month, and the rep told me that the 1-year promotion on my cable internet is ending, so my total cable bill is going to . . . stay exactly the same. *sigh*
Tahini - I have a 16 oz jar of tahini for hummus and baba ganoush. What are some of your favorite ways to use it? I'm thinking a tablespoon in a batch of pineapple chutney would be interesting.
04 June 2010
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Justice: A father’s account of the trial of his daughter’s killer.
GRRR. Stuck overnight in Atlanta. →Read more...
Wow! I have spent over 100 hours over the past year playing Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook and iPhone over the past year.
I'm not sure if this is a sign of dedication or loserdom.
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Ring etiquette question There is a girl who occasionally flirts with me at work. I recently saw her and she is wearing a broad silver ring (doesn't really look like a wedding band) on the ring finger of her right hand. Does this mean she is married? I don't know whether she has worn it before. I think traditionally wedding bands are worn on the left hand, but maybe she just has a different style? Some people wear the band on their right hand anyway, right? This is in the U.S., and she appears to be from the U.S.
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Brilliantly-cute animal photos - jonathanstrange - I thought of your bet!
Which song would like to hear for the first time again? Journey - Don't stop believing just entered the Dutch charts for the first time because of somebody in the Dutch version of Idols covering it.
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I love everything about this music video: The New Pornographers, "The Crash Years."
How Would You Classify American Cusine? What are the dominate qualities of American Cooking? How would you describe it? Regional American Cuisines?
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How about a MeCha version of
FML? I'll start.
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Weekend To Do Lists This helps me so much to have some kind of place to report what I do and do not accomplish at any one time. Hope y'all can benefit from the support, too!
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Photo Friday: Black & White or Monochrome I couldn't wait any longer!
One million giraffes Now here's an effort we can get behind.
03 June 2010
Nimoy sunset pie continues to delight.
Ask Mecha: Honey Something Wheat On Saturday, I'm going to brew a wheat beer with honey and some kind of fruit. But what kind should I use?
Cute off... So I'm having a competition on twitter with a friend over who can send the cutest links. I'm not above cheating to win.
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FiveThirtyEight to Partner with New York Times Announced earlier today. I like Nate Silver's analysis - seems like this is a great fit. Also, one more chip in the 'blogs are journalism" pile. Launching in August.
Only one Golden Girl left. Rue McClanahan has died at age 76.
Reading Lolita in Bunnyland I know a few of you folks were planning to join in the MeFi Book Club
Lolita discussion. Here's a relay link to bearwife's reminder, containing an Annotated Lolita link, too.
What's so funny? This makes me wish I understood Hungarian.
I can't decide if this is a good Mefi post Mercedes Stafford is the former president of the
Cincinnati Roller Girls. She skated under the name '
Sadistic Sadie,' and won the 2009
Most Valuable Skater award. She was the
Women's Flat Track Derby Association's
Featured Skater in May 2010 (Google cache, as the link has been removed). On June 1, she pleaded guilty to $400,000 worth of airline-ticket
wire fraud. Between 2007 and 2009, she sold fake tickets to her friends and family, a group that included some roller-derby folks (she worked for United at the time, though this article from
February 2010 says she works at a bank). So the WFTDA
removed her from their site.
OMG kitteh! This cat was hanging out at my work for like 20 minutes this morning! A brief update on my new life inside.
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Happy birthday jason's_planet!
advertising case study mocks advertising case study - this is a bit of an injoke, but I thought it might still amuse you too. We are getting sick of those social-media-all-over-the-place ad campaigns aren't we?
The Dogs Of Summer Hungarian dogs storm the beach.
02 June 2010
Who sells their art or craftwork on Etsy or a similar site? Post a link! I like buying from people about whom I know a bit. (This post has been pre-approved by your friendly mods.)
Gmail help Every time I log out of Gmail and then log back in, my username and password appear.
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do any of you feel this duality not really knowing how to go about 'vibing' with a person even though you can talk to them about things, like selective introversion
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Lionel Messi: The World At His Feet With its famously erratic coach, two-time World Cup champion Argentina might be the most unpredictable team headed to South Africa, but it has one weapon every other country fears: the best player on the planet.
Photo Friday Advance: Black & White or Monochrome Or, hey, duotone, why not? Funky in the color department, as in not much of it.
Mud Stencils because spray paint is not good for your health. Neat stuff.
Ground sirloin out of sacred cows. Fess up: what universally lauded artist/work of art just isn't your bag?
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01 June 2010
You are Helen Of Tory You've been plucked from time to spend time in a bar that is out of time with a kickin' outer-space jukebox. You are a godly Spartan woman. What do you listen to?
Milo's First Word Today was my wife's birthday. As a surprise for her, I've been working with my son for the past month to say his first word tonight for her.
Milo's first word.
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Ask Mecha: Would it be out of line to ask the pet-sitter to bring in my mail while I'm away? The mailbox isn't right by my door; he'd have to walk about 30-40 feet to the end of the driveway to get it.
Hard songs I was realizing this evening that a lot of songs have the word "hard" in the title...
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A celebrity message written on the wall of our freight elevator...
Sweetest wedding proposal ever. I think I got something in my eye.
The Magnificent Migrants Extraordinary photos of ordinary Mexican immigrants.
Holy unexpected iPad Batman! I am typing this from an iPad that someone gifted me! Wheee!
One-way abbreviations: What are some one-way abbreviations, i.e. abbreviations that work one way and not another?
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We have a winner! I watched Casablanca last night. So good!
Gulf oil spill a photoset from Greenpeace. Many more from Gulf Restoration
Network.
Who's bad? Can we talk about the ending of
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans with total SPOILERS?
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A tale of two students In middle school, Ivan and Laura shared a brief romance and a knack for trouble. Then they parted ways. Now he is college-bound and she isn't. How different schools shaped their paths.
31 May 2010
Na na na na hey hey hey goodbye Courtesy of Metachat/Filter's own not_on_display
People who ____________ really make a difference in the world.
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Some elegaic music for Memorial Day in the U.S.- here's Samuel Barber's "
Adagio for Strings," which was played at the funerals of both Franklin Roosevelt and Albert Einstein.
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Piggy-backing on Stew's post... I have decided this year I am going to get myself some really decent knives. No surprise I'm thinking Japanese brands.
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Raising the Dead: The Incredible Story of Extreme Diver Dave Shaw At the bottom of the biggest underwater cave in the world, diving deeper than almost anyone had ever gone, Dave Shaw found the body of a young man who had disappeared ten years earlier. What happened after Shaw promised to go back is nearly unbelievable—unless you believe in ghosts.
June is fresh pea season!! Woo hoo! That is all.
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Fuzzy memories I just saw a picture of a Indianapolis 500 Festival Parade float with a huge blow-up Strawberry Shortcake doll on it — and it was old-style rather than the
revamped version.
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30 May 2010
Policeman rescues dog trapped in fence, then gets a surprise.
Made My First Curry Tonight using
this recipe from allrecipes.com. I'm eating it as I type this. Initial verdict: much like its cook, this sauce is in need of some refinement. It's got kick to it -- I used three jalapeno peppers in place of the two serrano -- but it doesn't have the rich, multilayered taste of local restaurant curries. Any suggestions for improvement? (Other than the obvious -- reduce the chiles.)
Wastin' away again in Brat-and-Beer-a-ville This is a whining thread. I am being completely useless. Please hope.
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Happy Birthday, Hugh Janus! May your day bring you pleasant interactions, opportunities to give to others, and good beer.
So maybe you saw my question on AskMe about my Eurovision cake... →Read more...
Random chat thread - just blurt out whatever comes to mind.
29 May 2010
Your Indescribable Media Crushes Everyone agrees High Jackman and Megan Fox are Hot, but what are your indescribable media crush objects? People for whom, despite all rational reason, make lights glow?
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AskMeCha: Feeling a little powerless here.... This afternoon, in order to replace a light switch and a electrical outlet in the basement apartment bedroom, I turned off the main power switch for the house. And now it turns out some areas of my house (my bedroom, the front hall, and the living room) are without power. I've flipped the main switch a number of times; I've flipped each switch individually. Nada. What should I do?
Wife Got an Essay in the Local Daily Today . . I think it's pretty good, but then I am biased.
Racebox: United States census forms since 1790.
The doctors didn't know, but New York is killing me. Nas raps over the best track from Gil Scott-Heron's last album.
Which Vietnam movie am I thinking of? Near the end of the movie, a North Vietnamese sapper takes a grenade into the battalion commander's bunker, killing him and making the situation even more chaotic.
The last thing I ate was __________ A cheese quesadilla with an Indian mixed vegetable pickle. A strange combination, but one I'm kind of addicted to.
via NPR, here's a chance to listen to Paul Weller's new album in its entirety. [Paging Scody, Scody to the white courtesy phone.]
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strangest current parental refrain "you'll be married and have kids and it'll still be like this" (referring to whatever annoys them about my life.)
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28 May 2010
This is a HOLY CRAP HOW DID I GET HERE? thread. I get to buy a car this weekend! As in for real, go to a dealership and buy a car, not get some beater from the want ads for the least amount of money or a hand-me-down from a family member. I am almost 40 years old I have never done this before.
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I feel like cooking. What do I want to make for dinner?
This is an annoyed, whining thread. My doctor's appointment was at 9am, and it is now 10:30, and I still haven't seen him.
A lovely ode to the unique joys of bicycling in the city.
Friday Squeeee! If I do not receive a week old baby beaver RIGHT NOW there'll be trouble.
Bunny! OMG! My friend's partner just had surgery and her hospital roommate was having some trouble because the nurse couldn't seem to insert an IV. One of the other nurses was overheard to say "Send for the bunny!" A few minutes later, this hippie dude in scrubs comes in, sizes up the roommate's arm and slips in the IV needle in one swift motion, no pain, and the patient barely noticed. What she
did notice, however, was his name badge, which said A. FLUFFY BUNNY. My friend subsequently used the google and found the link above.
Photo Friday: Telephone pics! Pull our your mobile phone and snap a pic, or show us photos that involves phones.
To Die of Having Lived A neurological surgeon reflects on what patients and their families should and should not do when the end draws near.
Atul Gawande muses on
The Way We Age Now: medicine has increased the ranks of the elderly. Can it make old age any easier?
Posting Flickr images to MetaChat: now with added smoothness. When posting an image from Flickr, you can now copy-and-paste their HTML as-is, without having to edit it.
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27 May 2010
Excuse me Sir? So I've been to Boston, Chicago, London, Prague, Berlin, L.A, Venice, S.F, Florence ,San Antonio, Amsterdam, New Orleans, Montreal, Vienna, Budapest, Manchester, Zurich and in every single city I've been in, people have asked me for directions. I have no idea why. I rarely can actually give good directions in the language they want. It happens every time I am away and I am never asked for directions in my hometown of NYC. The hell?
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The Bug Vs. Rootsman -- "Killer" Had this song in my head while hearing the recent news from Jamaica.
Photo Friday theme for this week! Just noticed that mgl hasn't been by to post a topic for this week, and I haven't talked to her to know if she's busy or out of town, so I'll jump in here with a topic for tomorrow. Here's something suitable for short notice: telephone pics! Could be photos of telephones, related to telephones, or (most likely) taken with your mobile phone.
Exquisite Comics? Like exquisite corpse but with daily newspaper comics as the seed image. Anybody interested?
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"Big Hair & Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride Through Baseball And America In The Swinging ’70s" I'm going to HAVE to read
this book. I became a fan of baseball as a kid in this era, but wasn't old enough to know (or "get") a lot of the crazy cultural backstory.
All The Dirt That's Fit To Print We're used to
National Enquirer stories on "shocking" plastic surgery, but in 2010 the rag almost won a Pulitzer. GQ chronicles its evolution from tabloid to breaking-news contender
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What did you do when you didn't have a thing to wear?
Hey bunnies, what's that book I read when I was a kid? →Read more...
26 May 2010
ARTISTS ARE PEOPLE TOO Auction for
Mefi's own Loquacious. Original Art! Necklaces! An Ann Arbor Cruise! You Cannot Resist.
This is a random music thread. I recently learned of the band Dame Pa Matala on this week's
Latino USA podcast. They blend politics with traditional Venezuelan instruments, salsa, reggae, and hip-hop. I've been digging 'em quite a bit. What random band have you discovered recently?
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American Idol Finale Who will be watching?
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So, a couple of days ago I
posted about The Swinger, a script for EchoNest that time-stretches a song to give it a swing beat. Today, we have... the
Swingaphone.
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"I don't give a CRAP about that storm... I don't CARE about those people... All I care about is seeing the season finale of my show!" An incensed fan of
Criminal Minds leaves a ranty voice mail message for her local TV weatherman.
This is a whining, sweating thread. The air conditioning is out at work, so it's climbed up to about 85F/29C in my office.
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Letters From an Arsonist Thomas Sweatt torched Washington for decades. He killed more people than we thought. (Potentially nsfw and disturbing text)
Marryin' update. It's actually been only 43 same-sex weddings, but that's a quibble.
I feel like lunch Anybody in NYC wanna grab a burger or
Malachy's? in a few?
It’s not every day you acquire a nice big chest It’s garbage day in my neighbourhood, which means that there are items to salvage from people’s curbs. Someone took the rickety old ladder I threw out last night. And this morning when I was walking to the subway and checking out people’s discards idly on the way, I came across a wooden chest that someone was throwing out.
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Man on MSN poses as Libresse, gets young girls to undress - when Libresse press releases story, anon commenters laugh at "stupid girls". Dabitch calls Libresse, hears full story, sighs deep sigh. wtf is up with blaming victims people?
Hoedown Throwdown A moment that gives a lot of insight into the way music and dance genres develop organically: an old-time trio plays in the subway. A bunch of club kids come along to pop, lock, and float. It's awesome.
25 May 2010
The Longest Night One Easter Sunday, the
Alaska Ranger—a fishing boat out of Dutch Harbor—went down in the Bering Sea, 6,000 feet deep and thirty-two degrees cold. Forty-seven people were on board, and nearly half of them would spend hours floating alone in the darkness, in water so frigid it can kill a man in minutes. Forty-two of them would be rescued. Here’s how.
A Cartoon Bluebird Day Should I trust the signs of the Gods?
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The Color Test - More difficult than expected.
We forgot our own birthday. Metachat turned 5 on May 17th. Happy birthday to us!
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Realigning Body Perception I had a flash of realization recently.
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It's a new users welcome thread! Hi Everyone. If you've just signed up then pop your head in and say hello! If you're a long-term member, then pop your head in and say hello. Our new users (signed up over the past month or so) are...
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24 May 2010
Hack Pack The biggest identity theft case ever.
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Oh, the Irony. . . Carrie Brownstein hosts a bass solo contest.
10 Things you don't know about me I saw these old threads in the wiki, and by crikey if it isn't time for a new one...
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MetaChat, MetaChat, how does your garden grow? →Read more...
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing: "The Swinger is a bit of python code that takes any song and makes it swing. It does this by taking each beat and time-stretching the first half of each beat while time-shrinking the second half." Some of the examples are pretty hilarious.
23 May 2010
Official-type MetaChat Announcement: Good gravy....guidelines! It's finally here! The new version of MetaChat's guidelines is live on the Wiki.
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So, later this summer I am going to have a bunch of people over to watch a movie in my backyard on a Saturday night (I am borrowing a portable movie screen and a dvd projector). I want to show a classic that is worthy of discussion afterward, but given the pacing of some older movies and the short attention spans of many of my friends, I want it to be something really engaging and not too terribly long. At this point, my #1 candidate is
Dr. Strangelove. Any other suggestions?
Budget Bytes I am so in love with this cooking blog.
This is a thread for Lost fans. Bring a kleenex. (spoilers are now present) No spoilers pls!
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Igor Stravinksy mugshot from 1940. On April 15, 1940, Stravinsky's unconventional major seventh chord in his arrangement of the Star-Spangled Banner led to his arrest by the Boston police for violating a federal law that prohibited the reharmonization of the National Anthem. (via the almighty brownpau's twitter-feed).
22 May 2010
Big sigh. One step
forward and one step
back. I just met this kid this week. Sadly it reminds me of something that happened back in mid March.
Updates updates. Yer updates here Why me go first?? Well, don’t mind if I do.
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Mini Meet-up NYC to Help Pool Cash for IFDS,SN9 I'm trying to organize a mini meet-up in NYC to help pool cash. If you're interested email me ASAP at misslapin@gmail.com so I can figure things out.
Unexpected finds. Speaking of
erotology, today at a yard sale I found a box of soft-core 35mm slide porn. The couple that I examined were artistically posed topless shots, nicely done. But I just had to laugh at the idea of slide porn. So archaic. So what odd things have you found lately?
I have been tasked with planning a family BBQ. I have no idea what i am doing. help.
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Happy Birthday to you, too, brujita!
I do say. Not to slight the whole genre, but this particular depiction of erotology is rather lacking in internal logical rigour.
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21 May 2010
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It's May 22nd in London, so allow me to be the first to say- HAPPY BIRTHDAY ESSEXJAN!
In case you don't MetaTalk, metachat user
loquacious is in the hospital in Seattle with a collapsed lung. His post-discharge prospects are uncertain, and donations are being taken.
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Bwocka Bwocka Bwocka - It's Pacman's 30 birthday! Google has really pushed the bar with this Doodle - it's playable!
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The Land of Perpetual Revolution: What's really happening in Kyrgyzstan.
It's almost Friday, guys. Are you ready for the weekend? BBU-
Chi Don't Dance
Three-Point Status Thread! Go!
Man, did you guys see these MeTa and AskMe threads? Got a little misty over the kindness and community and humanity. Thanks, everybody.
Photo Friday: self portraits! (because you're beautiful)
20 May 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO WOLFDADDY AND MIGHTSHOULD!!!!!
Chapped lip home remedies? →Read more...
The Sandpit ...a day in the life of NYC, in miniature.
I feel really good today, because I helped someone on AskMe.
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Look at Me! A writer’s search for journalism in the age of branding
Life as competition Do you ever feel like you aren't caught up to where you are "supposed to be" in life?
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Maine GOP Forced to Apologize after convention-goers vandalize an eighth-grade classroom
Spaghetti westerns: my favorite film genre gets a
nice, informative (and long) post over on the AV Club's "Gateways to Geekery" column.
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THIS IS A SWEARY SHOUTING THREAD! →Read more...
Awkward Family Photos Aunt Telicia took me a little while.
Good Morning! Taking breakfast orders as the sun rolls westward. For those of you whose early morning hours have passed already, feel free to place an order for tomorrow.
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19 May 2010
Ask MeCha: Why is PINE doubling my messages?
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America's Cocaine King hid from drug cartels for 25 years. It took a screenwriter to find him.
This song is like a stick of dynamite rolled in powdered sugar:
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Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Effective For Depression, Study Says "The consistent trend toward larger effect sizes at follow-up suggests that psychodynamic psychotherapy sets in motion psychological processes that lead to ongoing change, even after therapy has ended," Shedler said. "In contrast, the benefits of other 'empirically supported' therapies tend to diminish over time for the most common conditions, like depression and generalized anxiety."
Today is my Birthday! I will accept your well wishes now. A friend of mine at work bought me some
Shrek Snot Twinkies. They are snot-errific!
For dinner tonight I had Occhiblu's broccoli arrabiata, which is so delicious that I think it should be shared yet again for the new folks.
Help me decide the fate of FactsAboutYOU.com An idea I came up with two years ago to poop on the Chuck Norris Facts bandwagon.
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Do you ever work hard on something, and it seems really great, and you're all proud of yourself, and then suddenly
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What's the fly in your ointment? My big meeting today went very well, but now I want to go have a cocktail and then a shower. But instead, I must work for the rest of the afternoon and then go to another philanthropy planning meeting. What's standing between you and desire this afternoon?
I was having a peaceful morning just now, doing boring, repetitive work while listening to Copland's "Appalachian Spring" (such a beautiful piece of music), when suddenly
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Photo Friday Advance Notice: Self Portraits What it says on the box - either do a new one before Friday or summon up an old.
THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD SO MY LANDLORD ALMOST LOST MY CAT
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Today is brought to you by the letter W. Warmth
Water
Wilco
Wisteria
Wasabi
"Pensioners' playground" with exercise machines for over-60s opens
in Hyde Park, London today. However, under-60s will not be turned away.
18 May 2010
I'm a little tipsy. And happy. That's a good combo, right?
I really don't feel like going to yoga class today. Should I go anyway? I've already paid for the class, but it's only $4.
I think that my dog had a stroke today. . . Got home for lunch, and my wife was in the yard with her, and saying that she (the dog) could not get up.
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My hotmail account was hijacked. I have changed the password.
No...please...not the Peppermint Mocha... How much sugar is in sugary drinks? Flavored water? Energy drinks? This is a kinda cool visualization - for instance, you'd need 6 Krispy Kreme glazed donuts to equal the sugar in one can of Rockstar.
Best female massacrist Beatrix Kiddo, Hit Girl, or River Tam? (write-in candidates accepted.)
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The Facts in the Case of Dr. Andrew Wakefield. A (really well done, I think) comic-book take on the MMR vaccine scare, by Darryl Cunningham.
Man, do I feel tired of life sometimes Tired of the rain. Tired of forgetting to take my supplements. Tired of forgetting to request days off. Tired of forgetting things in general. Tired of things wearing out and breaking. Tired of being uninspired. I'm Just. Fed. Up.
"Married Again" I think the video for this Jim Cuddy and Kathleen Edwards number might just be one of the funniest music videos I've ever seen.
17 May 2010
I'm going to a marvelous party And what do I wear? The suits? They seem to like artistic flairs. So many suits, so many pink and green sweater vest combos, so many bright blue sneakers. It's a penthouse no less.
if this post works that means that you can post to MeCha from the Palm Pre + for AT&T.
Why are farts so funny? And why do I laugh so hard I cry when a stupid dog is involved?
Whodunnit? Criminal profilers were once the heroes of police work, nailing offenders with their astonishing psychological insights. So why did it all fall apart?
AskMeCha: Well, my nephew is disappointing us.
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The Week Without a Carb Trying a week or two of a low to zero carbohydrate experiment. My meat budget is gonna go through the fraking
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drawing a blank with ideas for a wedding gift OK folks, I would love your help and I have a few restrictions with the gift buying.
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Please entertain me I'm locked inside a corridor with a small amount of battery on my phone. In oxford. It would be bad enough back home in Melbourne, but to come to tge other side of the world to get locked in is a bit much.
In short: how can I pass the HOURS until the others get home from work and let me in?
16 May 2010
Beer Bread Biscuit French Toast
Boycott BP I just watched the 60 Minutes segment on the BP oil spill in the Gulf and I am furious. I was already pissed of but now I am intergalactic.
Here is a map of locations in the US.
Welcome home? I'm all moved in to my NYC digs! Housewarming party in #bunnies!
Ronnie James Dio Dies - The elf bites it. One of the first metal vocalists I respected.
U Lucky Dawg Hot Dog Stand in the Chicago area
have discovered 'Maury' deciding what we need is another Flood.
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I have decided that I hate the expression "partner in crime." Not sure why, but it seriously grates. What are some expressions that bug you guys?
15 May 2010
BABBY SLOTHS This is the first time I've ever posted anything cute...I'm not usually that moved by the frighteningly cute. BUT MY GOD. These sloths are 18 kinds of awesome.
OH fer fuck's sake dept. Last night I got pulled over (guilty as charged, was talking on my cell while driving- illegal in this state). But then...
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14 May 2010
Typing on the Public Internet... I am regretting greatly that I won't be able to make it to the
Typing In Public event tomorrow and feeling nostalgic because the "look through our Opening Lines, and if something piques your interest, you can type your own version of how it continues... Or start something and leave enough of a thread for someone else to pick up" part sounds like
something I have done before.
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Favourite poems? I've been invited to a poetry night and am in need of a poem to read out loud... my problem... I don't read poetry enough to have any ideas on what poem to pick.
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How Do You Solve A Problem Like Scallops? So I'm making spicy pan-fried bay scallops in panko tomorrow - I know right? - but I have no idea what to serve with them and I officially sick of salads. Ideas?
A bit on the physics of (and in) Futurama - David X. Cohen talks with APS Physics about how sci-fi comedy can get away with faked science where shows like Star Trek get flak from fans.
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From the Land of Sun and Fun Comes the Big Skin Cancer Page from the LA Times. . .
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Should I get a facial? I have been under some stress lately and my skin is showing it. I am thinking of getting a salon facial both to improve my skin and for the relaxation aspect (is it supposed to be relaxing, actually?). Is it worth the money?
Three Items for your Friday night I went to Duane Reade and bought the three things I need for a perfect Friday night
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wtfackney Laddies and genitalmen, I give you
Hackney Council!!!1111
Photo Friday - Macro: let's get small!
13 May 2010
This is a complaining post I'm not sure how much I complain on Metachat, but in real life, I only complain about half the things I should complain about,
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I watching various versions of Caravan* on Youtube..... what are you doing this evening?
*as made famous by Duke Ellington
Gomer Pyle In Love (hat tip Katullus)
Tkemali Sauce (flickr) A sweet-and-sour sauce from the Republic of Georgia. Purchased from a Russian grocery a few subway stops down from my neighborhood.
The Caged Life: is Thomas Silverstein a prisoner of his own deadly past — or the first in a new wave of locked-down lifers?
Hellhole by Atul Gawande: is long-term solitary confinement torture?
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12 May 2010
I love my iPhone. A lot. →Read more...
Dude contact juggling in a park
If they ever remake
Labyrinth, this guy should play the David Bowie role. (
via)
Previously on Ardiril's Health Drama, I had a heart procedure using some new technology. With my permission, the hospital filmed the operation, and today we did the follow-up interviews, reaction shots and other video inserts.
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Pregnancy Test Variations Hello, this is my first post on MetaChat. For a novel I'm writing, my character takes three home pregnancy tests in a row. Can you tell me if there are three different ways you take these tests, for literary variation?
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It's the First Annual MeCha ____________-eating Contest! What category would you dominate?
In honor of my comic going live .... I have decided to dress like I was colored by hand in the late 70s. Stripped lavender shirt, pale green vest, corduroy jacket, trench coat.
Reference
Photo Friday Heads Up: MACRO In Which th' Small is Made Inestimably Larger Thru th' Wizardry of Technology: You shall be A-mazed at these Detailed Views. Coming Friday to a Metachat near You.
11 May 2010
New wheels! The new EM Eco-Mobile Transportation System is up and running!
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FOOD PROCESSOR! I'm getting one tomorrow. Two questions
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#TeamChristine Who else gets mad at Pepper Potts' wisecracks at Christine Everhart (the Vanity Fair writer) in Iron Man / IM2?
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Lars Vilks attacked during art lecture today (video) - the lecture was on the theme "art and freedom of speech, where is the line?" .. I guess right about ..there?
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Love statistics, anyone? Number of people I've been in love with: 4
Number of people who have been in love with me: 2 (maybe 3)
Number of people who loved me back (or whom I loved back): 0, zilch, absolutely nada.
You?
Tuesday Tunes: Today, a few selections from
True Stories...
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Time Riddle: What do the following times of day have in common: 4:38, 6:49, 1:22, 5:11, and 8:27?
Generation Negotiation Yes, I'm an old fart, and yes, I laughed at this.
10 May 2010
I ask [Kieran] Hebden if he ever gets bored by his life. He seems shocked at the suggestion. "My basic problem is that I'm having the most amazing time ever. I lead the most wonderful life and I don't want to do anything to change that. I don't want to get someone involved to scale everything up. I want to scale things down and make them stay exactly the same."
The little pill that could cure alcoholism on Dr. Olivier Ameisen and his experiments with a muscle relaxant called
Baclofen[pdf]. A patient's perspective on the treatment, by author and philosopher
Clancy Martin.
MeCha Game Design Lab We're playing "Let's Make a Deal" at work and I need some suggestions for objects for people to find.
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Concert clip! That's me, conducting. I think all the pieces are posted, but this one is my personal favorite.
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How Much Walking Per Day is Enough? (Or Too Much?) or: how much do you walk in a day?
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The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook: an interactive visualization. (Click on the diagram to advance through the years.)
09 May 2010
Right now I'm listening to birds chirping and the wind through the trees.
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Tame Impala -- "Half Full Glass Of Wine" Early-Seventies Bong Rock. From The Antipodes.
What's for Sunday dinner? I'm having ...
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AskMecha: Need to clean some sweaty sheets. Should I pre-soak? →Read more...
Happy Mother's Day! And don't let the kids make you breakfast unless you can make them clean up afterwards.
Life in the (medium-sized) City Like most people, I am at a loss for knowing how to handle being stopped at a red light and having panhandlers with signs standing there, with variable levels of aggressiveness.
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I'll be in in a minute, dear Last night at about 11 I was up in my attic workroom. Trilby kept coming up and fussing at me like he wanted something, but I couldn't figure out what. He'd just been fed and watered and had his litter box cleaned. If I tried to pet him or pick him up he'd shy away. When I did go down to my room, Trilby was sitting on my bed, waiting. Which shed light on the matter. He'd decided it was our bedtime and he was impatient for me to come to bed so he could settle in for the night.
While talking about my bad hearing tonight at supper, the question arose "How do you say ventriloquist in sign language?"
OMG Bunny (holding a carrot the same way Betty White held a bouquet of white roses at the end of tonight's SNL, but smiling less)
08 May 2010
Sprained my ankle, laid up in bed. Won't you keep me company?
Anybody can herd cattle; holding together ten thousand half-wild short hairs – that's another thing all together.
Today at work , we were sold a book called (I am NOT kidding) "Faith-Based Fitness." I can only assume that it contains a 'Prayer for Pectorals,' or something.
Also, at 7-11, I found a bag of
these. The peak of civilization is happening right now, yo.
The election is done and I'm FREEEEE! (Relatively speaking)! and I am NEVER DOING THIS AGAIN! Tell me about your happy endings of wonderful things you will never do again.
07 May 2010
If ever an aromatherapy candle was designed for jonmc... →Read more...
Friday Flicks: Today, enjoy
Howard the Duck in its entirety.
The 5 Most Famous Musicians Who Are Thieving Bastards
The Led Zeppelin and Metallica audio snippets are the most damning, IMO.
Are you brown-skinned and living in Arizona? Protect yourself with a
Gringo Mask!
Long lost.... I was thinking about people from the past who have sort of disappeared...
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Anyone familiar with Scott Walker? I just watched the documentary that Netflix is streaming. An amazing musician.
06 May 2010
More eargasms Should also youtube General Fuzz-"Warm Steel"
In honor of the British election, may I present Monty Python's
Election Night Special?
AskMecha, UK Edition: Best sites to track election results? (for someone in the US.) →Read more...
Five Pointz is an outdoor graffiti exhibition in Queens, NY, not far from where I live on the 7 train. Here are some samples of their work.
GRAR THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD GRAR →Read more...
I got a new job! →Read more...
You got your Lost in my Muppets! No, you got your Muppets on my Lost! Okay, it's not A-list Muppets, but Rizzo the Rat and
Bobo the Bear are kind of like the Ben Linus and Hurley of Muppetdom, right? Can you think of other Lost/Muppet correlations?
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Ask MeCha: what kind of camera do I want? →Read more...
Photo Friday Tomorrow Darkness and Night This is the slightly belated announcement that the theme for, um, tomorrow is going to be NIGHT. As in, dark, you know, brooding, sinister, big jolly fun, etc. The Night.
Ask MeChat Neon Colored Electric Fun Music? Music that sounds like hot pink and bright blue and glowing laser green?
Speed-testing the Chrome browser with sound waves, lightning, and... a potato.
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IT IS NOT CHRISTMAS Do not be alarmed, MetaChat's backend is just giving me some whoopsies at the moment...
05 May 2010
It's not that I don't want to go to a meetup... →Read more...
Pipes And Cogs -- Bulgarian Weightlifting FPP Apologies for the self-link, but the recent posts feed has never included my contributions. And I think it's a cool video. So I'm including it here.
Kenny Rogers sings The Gambler on The Muppet Show Drinking, smoking, gambling, and ghosts: you'd never see this on a kids' show today. And that's too bad.
Boy, I thought I was the King of TMI. I was wrong. Soooooo wrong. A man in Alabama just seized my crown and he has his commercial on YouTube to prove it.
There's rioting in Athens... ...and I'm thinking warm and safe thoughts for taz. *hugs*
MeFi book club is set to read & discuss Lolita In case you didn't see it. The discussion usually happens over here, so I thought I'd repost bearwife's thread here in case you want to join in.
Taz - we worry. Athens on fire - I was hoping it wouldn't come to riots like these. I hope all dogs, loved ones and best friends are OK and not caught in the middle. What is it like in the city these days? Is it as tense as newspapers make it out to be?
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BBC to Beam Election Results Onto Big Ben This is not an article from
The Onion, though the accompanying photo might make you think so.
Happy Birthday, msali! →Read more...
04 May 2010
Modern relationship notes. My nephew and his girlfriend just broke up.
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Phoenix Suns wearing "Los Suns" jerseys in tonight's playoff game in response to AZ illegal immigrant law.
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Hi guys, I think this comment on Jezebel is pretty great... →Read more...
Pandora’s Briefcase: in the months before the invasion of Sicily, British spies fooled German spies with a caper inspired by a detective novel.
Double blind: the untold story of how British intelligence infiltrated and undermined the IRA.
More recently, new documents reveal truth on NATO's
'most damaging' spy.
Workday whine In #bunnies, we're discussing our "favorite" marketing jargon/business speak.
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A Project: I have posted
previously about Jack Gaunt.
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Happy Star Wars Day! May the 4th be with you
Wardrobe! Please, speak to me of alterations.
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A day in Halong Bay. Gorgeous pics via the Flickr blog.
03 May 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MYGOTHLAUNDRY!!!!
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Pope Song A scathing little song by Tim Minchin, with animation by Fraser Davidson.
NSFW due to cartoon naughty bits and rapid-fire use of the word "motherf*cker."
The Metafilter FPP Game!! Take the first sentence of one random post on the front page, stick it on to the last sentence of another random post on the front page. I find you get a two sentence zeitgeist of the mood of Metafilter that day. Post your examples
Why everything so difficult today? Clients aren't showing up, lawyers are being annoyingly contrary, medications are not working the way they are supposed to, and all in all, it's making me cranky.
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"Better Than Love," by UK band Hurts. The song AND the video give me flashbacks to 1985.
(I mean that as a compliment.)
Happy birthday to stynxno!!
Twitter bunnies - The MeChaWiki is your source for Twitter account names. To add yours, login at the top right of the page.
02 May 2010
What are some good movies for a Cinco de Mayo movie night? I rented Three Amigos! but I heard it's not so great. Any other similar suggestions? That is, Mexican-themed comedies available on NetFlix? Non-comedies are okay, I guess.
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Nimoy Sunset Pie Just what it says.
Wasn't Close Encounters wide-screen? So, I'm flipping through the channels right now and I see that TCM, normally a bastion of properly-formatted movies, is showing
Close Encounters of the Third Kind in full-screen format. It looks really odd.
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No angel, No Devil: once a wife and mother in a deceptively perfect home, Gaile Owens is now the first woman sentenced to die in Tennessee in nearly 200 years.
Part II of the report.
"Kuky Returns" Trailer for a very trippy-looking Czech kids' movie.
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More handiwork I've added eleven new photos to the "Things I have made" set on Flickr. The first one is
here.
Just watched Moon. OMFG, this film was a trip. That's all I have to say.
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01 May 2010
Swan's End: living/dining room before and after pics So I finally got the living and dining room of Swans' End about 95% done, or in other words far enough along to take the "after" pictures.
Have a look if you're interested. I posted the
bathroom makeover pictures awhile back. Next up will likely be the basement apartment pictures, but that'll probably take at least a month.
"Bigger Than Life" (1956) starring James Mason and Barbara Rush. Just watched this movie and it is EXCELLENT.
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Hey fellow Shakespeare geeks You can watch the RSC production of Hamlet with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart on pbs.org.
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Ignoramus Online Dating advice Okay, for larks, I signed up for a dating site.
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Happy birthday Richat! Have a great day, my friend.
30 April 2010
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The Better Marriage Blanket - The problem no one likes to talk about. Now wonder they call it 'silent but deadly'.
A bunch of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan interpret Lady Gaga's
"Telephone." I love this on more levels than I can count. The red-headed dude has got some moves.
the good folk at microsoft have broken down a core professional competency:
humor.
Lunch with M: undercover with a Michelin inspector.
Food pairing post....AGAIN I need help deciding which veg to cook with me new favorite Friday night dinner.
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I have been sitting here for two hours waiting for a phone call. I only just now thought to check whether I had remembered to turn my phone ringer on. I hadn't. Sigh.
Beyond books, cds, dvds and posters I seem to be just getting into the brave although not-so-new world of online shopping for things other than books and posters and the like. What are your favourite shopping websites that I should check out?
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"What'choo talkin' 'bout, MetaChat?"
This is the
Create Your Own TV Catchphrase thread.
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Meetup Crosspost I figure I should probably share this here for any Boston bunnies who avoid the Grey.
Posting Flickr photos to MetaChat: a how-to for newcomers, and a refresher course for longtime bunnies.
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29 April 2010
Uncle herbs! Vegetarian mint, parsley, rosemary, marjoram, arugula flowers and more mint ideas?
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"Me n' You" by Ike Quebec I don't know jazz. But I know what I like.
Photo Friday - Food! Well, it's Friday here!
Things That Should Exist But Do Not
University of Arizona President Shelton: "We have already begun to feel an impact from SB1070. The families of a number of out-of-state students (to date all of them honors students) have told us that they are changing their plans and will be sending their children to universities in other states. This should sadden anyone who cares about attracting the best and brightest students to Arizona."
Not rhetorical, genuinely curious: Has there been a
really good American romantic comedy in the last ten years?
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Wayne B. Wheeler: The Man Who Turned Off the Taps, on the prohibition, and
Too weird for the Wire, on the unusual legal defenses of Baltimore drug dealers.
I'm thinking about getting an iPhone. Talk me out of it. Or into it, whatever.
My cats like to be in hot sauna Oh, Finland, you and your saunas. (naked dude, nothing showing)
I need more websites that answers pressing questions - right now I need "whatthehellisthecatdoing.com". You?
28 April 2010
Frances Conroy in "Humboldt County" - a Flickr set. Just a little tribute to one of few expressive female faces still left in Hollywood.
Quick poll Have you heard of Swedish Fish?
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This is A People Suck Thread. My fiancé's son was hit by a car last night while riding his bicycle. He's okay.
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New bunnies for April! It's been a while since we said hello to some new faces around here. Maybe, if we are super-quiet and don't move, they'll show up in the thread (shh!)... say hi to
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If you'd like to listen to some bouncy, happy music, I suggest streaming the
new album from the New Pornographers.
Ad Hoc Sandwiches Or Why Those Food-Tracker Things Don't Work For Me Feelin' kinda sick and not wanting to make a proper lunch, I had some baked tofu sandwich with spinach, butter, a sprinkle of all-ready cooked mushrooms and touch of hot sauce. What are your improv creations?
Photo Friday Advance Warning: FOOD This is a PSA reminding you that Friday is the day after tomorrow and our theme this time is FOOD which I feel justly includes also the places we prepare and eat it. Which is to say, whatever and wherever you want it to be, and also, those plums? Totally gone, dude, sorry. OM NOM NOM NOM NOM OM NOM etc.
27 April 2010
Guilty pleasures What songs do you listen to as guilty pleasures?
I'm a bit smitten by the French Canadian
singer Natasha St Pier.
How do you handle criticism? Ramble →Read more...
Ask MeCha: inconsequential questions.
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"Cleanflix" is a
documentary about the trend (originating in Utah) of businesses that edit "objectionable" material out of Hollywood movies, without the movie creators' consent.
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26 April 2010
Dumb band idea #17. Richard Nixon on
piano. Bill Clinton on
saxophone. George Bush on
drums.
Free to Good Home: Photocopies of Salinger Short Stories Once upon a time, I took it upon myself to photocopy as many of JD Salinger's unpublished short stories out of magazines as I could.
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What are your favorite quotes? About whatever, by whoever (whomever?).
Monday Morning Three Point Update →Read more...
25 April 2010
HAPPY BIRTHDAY INITAPPLETTE!!!
How was your weekend? →Read more...
FINDS! That Kenneth Cole jacket you got for 10 bucks, that CP Massimo coat at the Bedford Ave Salvation Army for 20, the Edwardian overcoat liberated from the Boston thrift store - What are your best finds?
UR Doin It Wrong 30 years of consumers struggling with simple activities because they lack the next AS SEEN ON TV gadget.
Alan Davies, I love you.
The innocence with which you see others and the world has stolen my heart.
this is the Den of Iniquity thread for those of us who aren't exactly
spa thread types
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Living with a Computer from The Atlantic, 1982.
Ask LT Anything! Special birthday edition!
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new Doctor Who episode (spoilers possible I guess) →Read more...
24 April 2010
Trying not to have a spoiled North American moment here, but... I just spent over two hours picking out the perfect upholstery fabric from an online fabric store... only to find when I went to order that they don't ship to Canada. Sigh.
Recipe Challenge Hour. I have just agreed to cook dinner for someone who can't eat wheat (gluten) and dairy, and tomatoes are a bad idea too. Me, I rarely eat meat and don't feel confident cooking it. Any ideas?
I have to confess something. Warning: beardist rant. →Read more...
23 April 2010
Attention people with an EmCee slice: Please hurry up. We are waiting very patiently and want to see the results! I bet they'll be awesome. :)
Are you lonesome tonight? My grandmother always used to hum that tune.
With Bells On! (neat little song)
Have you always wanted to write for The Rumpus? Now you can!
disclosure: I wrote for the Rumpus
3-POINT WEEKEND SHOUTING THREAD WHERE YOU ASK TL ANYTHING! What can I say? I'm in a giddy mood.
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23andme deal today Personal genetics ancestry and health analysis for $99 (normally $500).
I've been wanting to do this for so long but couldn't because of the price. I'm totally stoked.
A Turing Machine (scroll down for SLYT)
The video for Devendra Banhart's new single, "Foolin'" He's a quirky fella, but I really didn't see that coming.
Can you really and truly delete your Facebook account? →Read more...
Photo Friday: Other People's Pets
Ask MeCha. Why is my cheap thumb drive telling me there's no free space on it when it's empty? It was working fine ten minutes ago!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CITRUSFREAK12! (just made it, I hope...)
22 April 2010
The Jackson 5 vs. Fatboy Slim I really like this mash-up. And, of course, Christoper Walken's dancing.
"Nobody is typecasting you" feeling misunderstood today, I googled the world for the heck of it, found epic misunderstood thread. Sharing.
"talking for one's health" are you familiar with this idiom? it's one of those rare things where googling it doesn't immediately bring up people discussing its usage/provenance etc.
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Bunny Rug . . . that is all.
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Sophie and "Finding Nemo" This is a really touching essay from a guy whose youngest child has cystic fibrosis, and the strength he gets from his older child, Sophie.
Bunny! OMG! OMG! Earsies! Mouf!
21 April 2010
This is the book club thread More precisely, the one week late book club thread.
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3-point Wednesday update →Read more...
So, my security check cleared. And I'm going to be in the 4th row at the Great Hall Of the Cooper Union for the POTUS' speech tomorrow. Dear god, what do I wear?
Good good good music (garageband.com). Not my usual cup of tea, but a rather good cup!
Tricky Skull Hamburger This has to be one of the most absurd and inexplicable "toys" ever created. The sound really clinches it.
British politics musing thread: →Read more...
Photo Friday: Other People's Pets Coming Up on Friday: that perennial favorite, pictures of pets - with a twist. Other people's pets! Your friends, your neighbors, total strangers, pets in the wild - let's see 'em all.
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Microwave madness, or, how cellphone radiation "symptoms" are all in one's head.
hey guys your energy thing must have spilled over to me because... i got a job too!
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20 April 2010
It worked! Thanks everybody. =)
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Is it time for me to get over my "affect vs effect" peeve? Is it hypocritical for me to argue on one hand that use drives grammar, and on the other hand get really irritated that well-educated people don't know the difference between these words?
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Lunchtime mini-meetup →Read more...
Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists
cutejewboys.com Yeah, I don't know either..
Need a mnemonic device Unkempt guy, hairy beard,
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Holy crap, Guru died?! I have so much love for that man's music, I can't believe he's gone. F**k cancer.
Happy Birthday to ThePinkSuperhero! Woot Woot! :D
TV/Movie quotes you use in real life →Read more...
OMG Rather Disturbing Bunny shortly after 1:20. Yikes.
19 April 2010
The Alot Somehow, this is EXACTLY how I pictured the Alot, and that fact is exactly why I had to either stop reading or spew my morning coffee all over my work computer screen.
Newton, the Man: lecture by John Maynard Keynes
Tuesdays With The Whelk My standing plans for Tuesday got canceled and now I'm all ...adrift. I should leave the house round lunchtime and provide help to my poor friend stuck in a double shift. Anyone want to join me for lunchness? 12-3ish, Midtown-West Village-UWS.
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i never really realized this until recently when I'm writing something I feel like I can 'read' a sentence like a new reader especially if I look at the draft after a while. but if there's a quote of something I've heard (song, speech, joke, etc.)
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Manga Farming: grow plants in old books. I'm going to try this.
18 April 2010
Trapped by volcano in San Francisco! So, I was in town for a conference, had couple of days afterwards, and today my flight home to London has been officially Cancelled Due To Volcano.
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The Trustworthiness of Beards. I'm happy to find that I am on the "trustworthy" end of the spectrum. Also, that second icon is a dead ringer for BitterOldPunk.
Need: short cute video to test something on my phone. I know I can slog through YouTube but I want to know what y'all think is cute.
Shall we Brunch? What was breakfast? Or rather what was the first meal you ate today?
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17 April 2010
Winscape. My thoughts: A) YES. WANT. B) This is not the right music for this video. C) The later examples kind of destroy the cool illusion, esp. the ones where your viewpoint is moving, like the train footage. A static shot that works like a real environment would be the best way to use this technology.
Thailand's succession As father fades, his children fight
OMG TEDDY BEAR your morning dose of squee
Ask MeCha: Why does a sandwich someone else has made always tastes better than the same sandwich you've made yourself, but a cup of coffee you've made tastes better than the one someone else made?
16 April 2010
Chatfilter: Art and Sex Now that I've gotten your attention...
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specialized hip hop terms that should be more widely used
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Dress Code for Women - Interesting and fairly easy tutorial from
Jezebel on how to dress for work. It's part of an ongoing
series.
Breadfruit. How to cook it?
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This is my life. One of the producers at work (I'm a video editor) showed me this yesterday while we were in the middle of a project-from-hell (and a 15+ hour workday).
It's not as exaggerated as you might think.
Gimme all your positive energy! So I just finished my phone interview for a job at the New York Times...
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Where are you from? Where were you born? Where'd you spend your childhood? Do you still live there? If not, would you go back?
Photo Friday: Soft Focus Not soft serve but soft focus which I personally am going to interpret as blurred, baby, blurred. Give us your soft and creamy photographic extravaganzas here.
15 April 2010
Fantasy Movie Trailer TIme I always thought
the first 53 seconds of this was a good trailer for some gay Fatal Attraction/Single White Female sexy thriller thing. Lots of cure flower scenes intercut with knives and boiling rabbits.
Sitcom moment You know those moments in bad sitcoms when a main character is around another, incidental character who is a nun or a criminal, and the main character “accidentally” blurts out that something is really a sin or a crime, and you think, “That’s so contrived and stupid”? Well, I had myself a sitcom moment this morning. I was talking with a co-worker about how he and his wife are discussing whether to circumcise their expected baby if it should turn out to be a boy, and I blithely said, “I know some people are virulently anti-circumcision, but I don’t think it’s that cut and dried…. Oh dear….”.
If you hid someone on Facebook, how do you find them to unhide them?
Who Wants These Book Marks? So i have the good fortune to be the son of a very crafty woman so she sends me boxes of stuff to give out and around. This time, it's book jewels-tassel-marks ...things. If you want em and are in the U.S, shoot me an e-mail and I'll shove one in the mail.
Ask Mecha: Coffee Grinder Considering that any place I buy coffee beans will happily grind them for me, is there any good reason to get my own grinder?
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14 April 2010
I'm in a random negative mood. Can we post one teeny, tiny nice thing about our lives right now?
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Fun Project for the Graphically-Inclined? →Read more...
An "Old" Playlist How may songs to you have that start with "Old?"
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One of my coworkers has just told me a very strange story. Kind of gross and possibly NSFW details inside.
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Overthinking baked potatoes Inspired by
this thread, I too want to make baked potatoes
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This week's Photo Friday theme will be: "soft focus." From merely fuzzy outlines to completely abstract blurs. Find your best soft-focus pics (or take a new one!) and post it in the thread on Friday.
13 April 2010
Blade Runner umbrella: Yours for only 24.99.
I got my Hair Cut and ColdChef Got Shaved ..and now I feel weird whenever I turn my head and there isn't the momentum SWOOSH of hair following it. I keep reaching up to pat down curls that don't exist. I have more than once tired to push away hair that wasn't in my face. This is what I get for not cutting my hair in a year.
Thanks, belatedly to LT and Miko! For various reasons, I have only now opened your Christmas card.
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I'm thinking sauteed asparagus and salmon for dinner. How 'bout you?
How to get someone to ask you out If you're not quite up for being the aggressor, modern woman or whatever and asking a guy out, or even setting aside gender roles altogether,
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Don't tell anyone, but...it's BitterOldPunk's birthday!
Just yawn and acknowledge your existence.
12 April 2010
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The lights are out in Georgia Actress Dixie Carter, best known for playing Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women, has died.
Let's have another thread to share our favorite Julia Sugarbaker rants in her memory.
Plutocracy reborn: a chart.
Ever wonder how people discover MetaChat? This video may provide some insight.
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11 April 2010
Metaradio test. More news in the coming days. Sorry to all of you I need to get back to via email. I'm trying to make radio more accessible and more frequent. Not as easy as I thought.
Treme' spoilers What do we think?
Yay, we challenged my father's racism at a family event! →Read more...
I feel as if my brother-in-law is visiting through a time warp. →Read more...
Does our universe live inside a wormhole? Bonus: science mag uses term Deep Throat to describe cosmological phenomenon.
New Lisa Cholodenko movie! The
trailer made me a little skeptical, but maybe it's edited to appeal to a mainstream crowd; Manohla Dargis
likes it anyway (bottom of page).
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Tell me what else I need to survive a week of recovery...in bed! →Read more...
Interview with Cassandra Peterson, aka "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark" about her new non-Elvira acting role.
10 April 2010
You know you're a child of the 80s if... you can tell the difference between
Audrey and Judy Landers.
HAPPY WEDDING DAY to THEPINKSUPERHERO and STYNXNO!!!
09 April 2010
Oh hey I'm in a documentary This is what I get for being shot and then forgetting about it until I do some vain ego-surfing. Huh.
Is it just me? or am I the only one no longer getting a receipt in the box with my Amazon.com orders?
What's perplexing you?
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Is there an app for that? When you see a picture you like and you want to save it as desktop background, how can you do it without getting rid of the last desktop background that you saved from the internets? Do you have to make a file of pics for desktop background? What's the easy way to do this?
Advice for a day in Boston I'll be at a loose end in Boston on the last Saturday in May.
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So I just watched the trailer for Treme And I noticed that the Bunk, Lester and Bubbles are all in the show. How long will it be before they are no longer Bunk, Lester and Bubbles?
Collaborative office stuff? Do any of you have some sort of collaborative software for your office that is more formal than plain old Google Docs? Or do you use Google Docs professionally?
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*Radio Free Rollick* I'm not sure when metaradio is set to end, but if i can get my act together , i'll do a set tonight @ 10pm eastern
This is a thread in which to ask things you've always wondered about. And to answer quetsions you have the answer to.
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Photo Friday: Chiaroscuro Pronunciation: \-ˈskyu̇r-(ˌ)ō, -ˈsku̇r-\
Italian, from chiaro clear, light + oscuro obscure, dark
1 : pictorial representation in terms of light and shade without regard to color
2 : the arrangement or treatment of light and dark parts in a pictorial work of art
My aller ACHOO - gies are so fu - CHOOOO - cking bad right - AHHHH - now i don't - CHOO - know what to - HUHUHHH - ACHOOOOO - do
08 April 2010
Under Heavy Manners David Byrne and Robert Fripp.
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For the first time in Fresno. For those who like
details. "The Impella® device is clearly more clinically effective than IABP or ECMO. It is also less traumatic and less expensive than other available ventricular assist devices."
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How to start a blog with my own domain I would like to purchase a domain and run a blog on it. What is the easiest/cheapest way to do that?
Damn fine coffee! "
Twin Peaks" debuted
20 years ago today.
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I don't know if he reads here but.... I made something for Klangklangston.
Jason Shiga is awesome. I've been enjoying his wacky comic zines for a few years, and recently came across his super cool comic choose your own adventure for kids and grown ups.
Here's a video of him explaining how it works.
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"In 2008, John Maloof purchased an anonymous body of photographic images at an auction in Chicago. After spending seven months reviewing the photographic material in his possession, he found written, almost illegibly on one of the sleeves of film, the name
Vivian Maier."
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07 April 2010
My dialogue. It's always too wordy. Any tips?
mp3 Shuffle in 3-2-1... GO! →Read more...
cunnilingus in north korea Yeah, I don't know either.. warning: high contrast flashing
CRANKY! I love my new job; it's awesome. Except now I share my bus commute with tourists and people who so rarely take the bus that they don't know how to get on and off without blocking aisles, how to move back so people can get on and off, how not to wear backpacks that hit people on the head et cetera. Also, I used to have four donut shops within half a block of my office, now I can't find even one. I just want a donut and quiet efficient commuters on my bus.
This week's Photo Friday theme will be: chiaroscuro, the interplay of light and dark (be it colors, light, whatever) in your image. Share your pics in Friday's post!
06 April 2010
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Black Prairie is a side project of 3 of Portland's Decemberists. Saw them the other night in a local dive, which they seemed to love playing at, esp. since the guitarist had spent time booking music there in the past.
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Found a Podcast for the geology nerd in me.
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Do We Still Have a Laid Off Bunnies Club? Because I would like to join.
Swans! And cows. Oh, and pigs too. So I’ve picked out my swan jewelry.
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05 April 2010
Potemkin Capitalism "An ad agency laid off a bunch of its employees, but wanted to keep up appearances when a big client came to the office. So, they posted a listing for 'fake employees' to just sit at the desks and look busy. Pay: $15 an hour."
The Paint By Numbers Museum. Some pretty stuff -- much more complicated than what I remember as a kid.
Hey! My hometown gets a shoutout on the Blue this morning. Not just my hometown, but the presiding Charismatic Evangelical population, home to many interfaith youth revival meetings when I was in high school.
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Bunny! OMG! Or should that be OMD?
04 April 2010
I just found what looks to be a small diamond wedged in the sole of one of my shoes. How the hell do I figure out if its real or not?
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03 April 2010
Macaroni & cheese help. I would like a recipe for macaroni and cheese that results in something like
Silvertone in Boston serves -- sharp with cheddar (and maybe wine?), rich with something Swiss- or Provolone-y, and
not at all soupy. It should end up with a consistency like curly pasta with melted Cheez-Wiz, but it should also be, ya know, good. Ideas?
Introducing the mascot of the National Cherry Blossom Festival, whose name is... →Read more...
Double double toil and trouble. There's a tree moving in my neighbors' back yard. It's getting closer and closer to our yard.
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02 April 2010
House! I think we just agreed to buy a house. WOO!
Have I Aquired A Superpower? Restaurants keep giving me things and it's starting to worry me. Of the last 5 times I've had to Seriously Eat Out (for work or not) 4 of those places have decided to give me free desert, wine upgrades, gratis sample platter and a visit from the owner. This has never happened to me before. What is going or what am I doing to make people think I'm important enough to impress?
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What's the last thing that made you laugh until you cried? →Read more...
Micky Rourke. Wow. Last night on TV, they had "9-1/2 weeks" and "The Wrestler" on at the same time, so I could compare the two.
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01 April 2010
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Teabonics (not an April Fools)
How to repossess an airliner without getting shot, or thrown in jail, or beat up, or slammed into a wall, or...
OMG governmental waste This is absurd.
I got a letter in the mail telling me I would soon be getting the census.
Then I got the census.
THEN I got a postcard reminding me I should have already received the census.
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The Peeps are back! It's the annual Peeps Diorama contest, and it's an especially classy and creative year.
Ask Mecha (hypothetical edition): Say a doctor like a psychiatrist refers a patient to a gastric surgeon for weight loss surgery, is a referral fee back to the psychiatrist standard procedure or is it an illegal kickback? If illegal, how often does it happen anyway in some form or other? Thanks!
three point Status Update, april fools day edition You all know I have a boyfriend right? I am going to see him this weekend and - get this - I AM ACTUALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO DOING HIS IRONING. Yes, I am this sad.
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April Fool's Day on the web So, anyone found any good April Fool's stuff online yet?
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Monte Hellman The A.V. Club has done one of their excellent "Gateways to Geekery" posts about the director of one of my favorite movies,
Two-Lane Blacktop.
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31 March 2010
dear adult swim You are evil evil people. Luv, weretable
Something is WRONG on the Internet. Happy (early) April Fools/Internet Awareness Day.
Last supper portion sizes have grown Did anyone link to this? I can't find it but I find it hard to believe that nobody did. Anyway, so this study looked at the food portion sizes in depictions of the Last Supper during history and found that they have gotten bigger over the years.
Discussion on how people wind up at events with each other If you want to go to a place or event that people don't normally go by themselves, and no one wants to go with you, do you:
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Ten cool Ray Harryhausen sequences. Man, these take me back to watching movies on TV on Saturday afternoons when I was a kid.
Goldfrapp. Head First. New Release. That Is All. →Read more...
Can you roll your tongue? →Read more...
Cheesus There was a recent spate of reports in the media about the next possible drug craze -
Stilton cheese. It might produce
bizarre dreams or
twists.
This week's Photo Friday theme is: Headgear. Any kind of head wear at all. Hats, helmets, tiaras, fascinators ... Let's see your pictures of
titfers in the thread on Friday.
30 March 2010
Two teenagers fall in love My friend told me about this...then posted a video on her bloooog. This is one of the prettiest, heart wrenching-est songs I've heard in a long time. Jesse Winchester on Elvis Costello's show, Spectacle, doing a song called "Sham-A-Ling-Dong-Ding"
Happy Birthday Tangerine!
The new music video from MGMT (for the song "Flash Delirium") is bizarre. Starts out like Wes Anderson, ends up like David Cronenberg.
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THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD! →Read more...
29 March 2010
Elementary School Scarface Production? Please tell me that this is some elaborate setup. Could this possibly be a real? I mean, sure, it's kids performing, but that can't possibly be at a real school.
THE MOCKING OWL: "jessamyn: Please do something fun with this animated owl gif I have made"
Windchimes are spooky. Amirite?
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Origamibunni! From my "Origami a Day" calendar.
Any millionaire retired types needing an occasional personal assistant with many talents in exchange for a room? No pay required; have own fixed income, suits & tux. I tolerate eccentric misanthropes particularly well. This is not a sex ad. Apply within.
Husky sings to a fretful baby. Absolutely beautiful.
Wolfdog, this one's for you.
Bunny! OMG! Someone's forgotten to use her conditioner ...
Making lemonade out of lemons It's been an interesting weekend, lemme tell ya.
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The Geometry of Circles. Cool old animation from
Sesame Street (1979), with original music by Philip Glass.
28 March 2010
How do y'all deal with strangers making objectionable comments within your hearing? I was at the gym today, and two guys in the jacuzzi got into a really obnoxious conversation about gays, blacks, and Mexicans in the Armed Forces, and I felt like any way that I handled it was going to be wrong.
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MetaCouch? So this has both a specific and more general component -- what are the specs on using something affiliated with MeFi as an analog to couch surfing? I am specifically looking for a friendly crash spot and maybe a tour companion if my partner and I went to Detroit from April 8-10 (Frozen Four), but I could see this being useful at other times. Terms, of course, negotiable; we are an awesome couple in our early 30s.
Bunny! OMG! He is very cross.
27 March 2010
I am drunk: So ask me anything. This is drunk thread.
Star Wars Cookies Pretty much what it says on the label. Warning: page is ad-laden and pretty much a web designer's nightmare. But I like the cookies.
Newborn denied health insurance because of preexisting condition This one hits me pretty hard because that could have been my kid. We have the same insurance company, and my son was born with that precise heart condition. Luckily for us, BCBS didn't choose to deny coverage. (He's perfectly fine now--TGA is a condition that is completely corrected by one very precise and very expensive procedure.)
since some of you ask occasionally here's a
sexy mp3 of how I pronounce my name
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26 March 2010
Dessert fantasy thread →Read more...
FRIDAY NIGHT WELCOMES!!! Hey bunnies! It's been a while since we had a welcome new users thread. I'm sorry to be doing this on a Friday night, but I am off on vacation tomorrow, and there are quite a few new users to welcome (some of whom have been pretty active already). Better sooner than later, huh? Step inside and say hello to:
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You know that not-quite-burned sludge that accumulates on the bottom of a too-hot pot? Anyone know how to make that in bulk? The flavors therein are awesome.
Songs with a Circus feel anyone? That aren't, like ..actually circus songs? I've got tumblers and breakfast machine, thinking more about pop-songs with that hurdy-gurdy spectacle feel?
Frog fail Watch a frog wiff his dinner.
Who Let the Clowns Out?
A children's video for parents who hate their children.
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Photo Friday : Things that make you go "Hmmm ..."
25 March 2010
The anger came from not been given a chance, from being told to shut up and sit down and act like a lady." (Joan Fucking) Jett laughs, the rasp in her voice heavy with passion and grit. "Once you start throwing that kind of shit around, it's war!" The Guardian asks "
What happened to angry female music stars?".
Ibiza, Riviera, Cancun.... ...places you want to be.
Is this really true? Are some Capitol Hill staffers exempt from the HCR bill? Media Matters says that it isn't but
Politico indicates that it is. What gives?
I met my mother today "Julie was an excentric, very intelligent, loved good quality ,she had a beautiful leather coat made for her, took months to pay for it. Same with shoes.I think she only had one pair at a time but they were of exceptional design and quality.
She had many "exotic" friends, was a vegetarian and very quick witted.A wicked sense of humour."
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What age would you be if you didn't know your age? If you had no concept of time or when your birthday was, how old would you tell people you were? Rephrased, how old do you feel you are?
Please, I need some caretaking. Distract me for the next 12 hours. →Read more...
can someone confirm for me that it's F#$@$#ING RIDICULOUS for a client to let slip in the last email before a web project starts that it's "flash"?
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AskMecha: Broke down and bought reading glasses , but apparently that isn't enough. Advice needed.
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24 March 2010
The Wolf Who Cried Boy - Angina and breathlessness while reclining, pulmonary edema, a low trending ejection fraction, low pulse pressure, rapid resting heart rate, renal failure, hyperuricemia, probable nephrotic syndrome, anemia, elevated liver enzymes.
I think it's time I threw a kegger.
Speak to me of Tumblr Can anyone explain why it's awesome?
Humpday 3-point update. →Read more...
The last days of a huge
UK housing project. (Photo essay) Amazingly, a few people still live there.
The theme for this week's Photo Friday will be: Things That Make You Go "Hmmmm" So, think about what makes YOU go "Hmmmm" and show it to the rest of us in the thread to be posted on Friday.
Work problem I've never had (angst inside) →Read more...
23 March 2010
AskMechaaaaaaa I could have sworn there was a site (it might have even been on MeFi) that let you search any query with arbitrarily repeating characters and graph the results -- i.e., "kha*an" would search "khan", "khaan", "khaaan", "khaaaan", etc., and compare the number of results for each on a chart. But I can't find it anywhere in my history/bookmarks/googles, only
one-off images done
manually. Am I imagining this?
Hot & spicy food? Love it! But... it gives me the hiccups. Just wondering if I'm a total anomaly, or if this happens to anyone else. Anything really hot, like Thai curry, or Indian curry, some Korean or Chinese dishes... I'll get the hiccups almost immediately: right after the first bite. Usually lasts for a couple minutes at most, so it7s not debilitating or anything. But, anybody else have this? Or heard of it?
I just realized that I hadn't given Slashdot a single thought or seen its mention in almost seven years. Is it even remotely relevant today?
Three Point Status Update. I have really gotten very little work done today - my head is in a swim and it is as if I have become suddenly allergic to my job.
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Ask MeCha. A lawyer friend who I have not seen since high school asked if I would donate to her boss's charity as part of their fundraising golf tournament. I had never heard of it and looked up their Form 990 on GuideStar.
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Does anyone have an APA style guide handy, or have it committed to memory?
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Come and knock on my door (because the doorbell’s not working) Can anyone make some suggestions as to how I can fix my wireless doorbell?
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Whose Food Politics An excellent article/essay about the reality gap between the "foodie" movement and the people who could be the most helped by it.
I feel a little stupid asking you guys this... →Read more...
22 March 2010
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So I saw the new Alice In Wonderland: ..and while I gots lots to say about it (good and bad, tl; dr: it was okay), the last thing I expected to come up in an
Alice movie are Scottish/Irish themes.
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Conan O'Brien's twitter feed remains hilarious
Now he's on a kick about someone or some
thing named Justin Bieber.
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Cauliflower Swan I can't resist showing off a
picture of my little grandniece, Cauliflower Swan, in the dress I knitted her for Christmas. As you can see in the picture, I overestimated how fast she would grow. I made matching slippers too but they were far too large, and probably won't fit until next year.
And yes, I actually do call my grandniece "Cauliflower" — it's a pun on her name.
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Several-point Monday update: →Read more...
Sorry guys, but I find the #cashgordon Twitter saga hilarious Originally, the centre-right UK Conservative Party put up a site called
Cash Gordon, attacking the ruling Labour Party's links with the unions. It was a social media site, offering "points" for helping their campaign.
The problem: they set it up so that
any Twitter message containing the hashtag #cashgordon appeared on the site's front page.
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According to this lovely site, there are only 3 Howard Johnson Restaurants left in the country. One of them is just an hour and a half from me up in Bangor. I think I need to make a nostalgic road trip, even if the place doesn't have an orange roof anymore.
21 March 2010
Three (or four or five, whatever) things you're enjoying lately. Could be movies/books/music/food/hobbies, etc. Totally free-form. Let's go!
Health Care Reform Vote Hug Room →Read more...
Reviews for the Zenith Men's Defy Xtreme Tourbillon Titanium Chronograph Watch #96.0529.4035/51.M
The Re-Entrants - Ace of Spades Stick a Quarter in the Uke Box
NINJA FIGHTS AT HOME This is a passive-aggressive argument thread!
20 March 2010
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*Radio Free Rollick* in 10 minutes i'm seriously running behind tonight, so just going to whip something togther
Happy First Day of Spring Motherfuckers! Who gets to be the Corn King?
Self-link I'm giving away a HYSTERICAL relationship advice book by
Keith and the Girl on my blog, and so far, turnout has been poor. Perhaps you'd like to try?
Brilliant portrait of Robert Smith made partly out of cassette tape. (Part of a
series, but this is my favorite one.)
I did not know that Joan Fucking Jett was an Orioles fan. I didn't think she could be cooler in my eyes, but now she is. Awesome.
How do I tell gmail that a regular contact is not "possible spam"? Someone who is not trying to spam me keeps getting labeled as "Possible Spam" in my Gmail account. Is there a way to let Gmail know that this is in fact a person from whom I want to hear?
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19 March 2010
I have hiccups. Make them stop.
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ASK ME ANYTHING ....ON A PLANE! That's right, I gots me WiFi up in the air and hours to go. Who wants to play?
For Great Distraction! I've enjoyed
Bizarro comic for some years, but only now
came across his blog, and the comment mentioning the
easter eggs of sorts, with the hint being the number next to his name.
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Expert Mecha gardeners! I need online seed store recommendations! →Read more...
Huh, the cardboard coffee heat sheild from my hotel has a gay couple on it I just noticed this.
Lyrics Quiz Do you know the songs these are from?
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Just call me Lazy McLazyPants So, I've been unemployed for 2 weeks now, and I just. cannot. accomplish. anything. Halp?
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My friend has started a blog writing letters to his yet-to-be-born child. I don't think I'm being biased when I say that the blog is simply fantastic.
Weekend 3-point update →Read more...
Free Energy. A blast of
power pop to start your weekend off right!
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18 March 2010
Smoosh-faced cats are extra smart. I love how the kitten is watching like an apprentice.
Today I'm thankful for . . . →Read more...
What do you do when every conversation around you makes you want to kill someone? →Read more...
The 2010 Tournament of Books closed its opening round today
with an upset victory for Victor LaValle's
Big Machine. If this underseeded scrapper can fend off
The Book of Night Women and impress celebrity judge Andrew W.K., it may have a shot at the title...
Beautiful/sad photos of the ruins of the
Six Flags New Orleans amusement park.
17 March 2010
Sous la Mer NSFW - Artistic Nudity →Read more...
THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD!!! →Read more...
I'll never cease to be interested by sudden bridgings of people's personas. Like when someone changes midway from a personal voice to something related to their competency and my mind is like "damn she hardcore."
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The Future of Publishing (Watch the whole thing)
Seeking Submissions for Hippie Band Name.... →Read more...
That's What Bea Said In preparation for Bea Arthur hosting SNL, here is a site quoting Bea's Golden Girl "That's what she said" moments.
Happy birthday turtlegirl!
The Ultimate Dubliners Drinking Mixtape. A downloadable mix of songs, each one chosen in accordance with the stories in James Joyce's book
Dubliners.
Let’s talk about sex baby →Read more...
The theme for Photo Friday this week will be : Motion Get snapping, look through your photo archives, and we'll see your photos on Friday.
16 March 2010
Angry rock 'n' roll - What are some of your favorites? Let's compile a virtual playlist.
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Muppet March Madness!!! Head-to-head competition in "the Show" "the Street (Sesame)" "the Rock (Fraggle)" and "the Rest" brackets... Please bunnies, don't let Rowlf fall in the First Round!
RIP my laptop - should I try to ask Apple for a new one? →Read more...
Today If you could shed your responsibilities, worries and health obstacles and do anything you wanted today, with the stipulation that you still have the same budget as you do today anyway, what would you do?
Loscil, "Estuarine" This is my favorite track from Loscil's new album
Endless Falls.
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Hair disaster! Home dyeing gone wrong tonight. →Read more...
15 March 2010
I just had a library patron tell me about some German computer game that costs $250 to play but offers prizes of $100,000. Does anybody know what this dude was talking about?
Dressy shoe help. I screwed up my low back, and wearing even formerly comfortable shoes with low heels tweaks it too much. Do you think I could get away with
these ballet flats even with little-black-dress level of dressiness?
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Bad day salvaged by a really nice review of our work on Angie's List by one of our happy clients. :)
Stuck in my head My God! Make it STOP!!
Ask MeCha. I have a 19-inch flat screen tv/dvd player that I don't want. It's less than a year old, works great, I just don't need it. What charities might want it, do you think? Or for that matter, do any of you want it, and live close enough to Maine to come get it?
Will I need to bring my cowboy hat? Just heard that someone from my team from work is going to be sent to a conference in Dallas, Texas for four days in May. I've volunteered to go and am hoping, hoping, hoping that I'll be selected to go.
Monsters! Old photographs with some very playful, non-scary monsters added to them.
The last photo is my very favorite.
Free form status update! Update us in your preferred style! Three point? Good/bad/awesome news? Some other format? Whatever! Just tell us what's up!
14 March 2010
Firefox PSA: They changed the way your tabs work.
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Sweet, sweet crime. I may move to Sweden and become the criminal mastermind I've always dreamed about. You can call me....The Baker.
Do any of youse guys want an Aloe plant? Now that it's finally nice enough to sit outside, I have separated the pups that had grown over the winter, and have around 9 that were pretty well established to give away.
These aren't any fancy strain (that I know of anyway), they're just from a plant my mom gave me a couple of years ago.
Fantasy sports, anyone? I've set up an NCAA tourney bracket for all interested parties.
There's also a spot open in this year's MeFi baseball league.
Please message me if you want in.
DST - hate it or love it? →Read more...
I am in San Francisco! I've been here loads before, most recently a year ago - whats changed, what's still awesome, what's even more new and awesome? (also, who wants to say hi?)
There should be a word for when you click on a link, and it is slow to load, and while you're waiting you have this moment when you realize that you didn't really want to see whatever it was in the first place and what are you doing wasting your time on the internet?
13 March 2010
*Radio Free Rollick* in 40 Minutes I'm not sure if this is the last week of MetaRadio or not , but if it is , i might as well throw a set together . i found some scraps of paper with the the songs that never made it into previous sets, so I'll play them tonight
Journey to the Center of Your Mind I've never seen this video before. In addition to being a kick-ass song, you get to see a young Ted Nugent and 1960's dancing girls! Check out the lead singer's (John Drake) outfit too. Yeah, I know they're lip-synching.
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East 100th St in 1966 Photo essay from Slate. Now I live in this neighborhood. It's a little bit different.
Empty Paris. "Here, we see Paris transformed into an abandoned maze of lifeless streets. Every building is sealed shut behind a seamless, Berlin Wall-like concrete monolith."
Letter Opener Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom
In which a grouchy old man succcumbs to Lady Gaga's earworms →Read more...
A black cat on my lap and a white cat on the back of my chair bonking me in the head. What makes life good for you today?
12 March 2010
Metaradio the I'm pissed off and just tossed some shit on edition. Starting in just a moment.
Ask MeCha: where can I get a cheap MicroUSB to USB connector in DC? Lost mine and the Palm Pre eats batteries. Radio Shack wants $20 for one, but they're $1 online. Anywhere I could pick up one for $5 or $10? (In Rosslyn or touristy areas would be easiest.)
METARADIO!!! AT THE TOP OF THE NEXT... uh... hour... sorry, thought I was still in the shouting thread... anyway, a very random set for Friday/Saturday/whenever (daylight shaving time confuses me)
SHOUTING THREAD!!! (WITH BONUS BOLD TEXT!!!) →Read more...
Friday, Saturday, Sunday 3-point update. →Read more...
go or don't go? I am invited to a baby shower for someone I haven't seen socially in a few years.
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So I'm in the shower thinking of Mrs. Robinson (no snickering) and is it just me or has her archetype totally outstripped the reality of The Graduate.
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I think I may be in love… with Etsy. Particularly their vintage section.
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Birthday celebration? I'm turning 31 in a few weeks. How should I celebrate?
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USA, CIA, LSD ETC. A 50-year mystery over the 'cursed bread' of Pont-Saint-Esprit, which left residents suffering hallucinations, has been solved after a writer discovered the US had spiked the bread with LSD as part of an experiment.
Photo Friday: Entropy. Things breaking down, things falling apart. Rust, system failure, decay, disorganization. As always, be as literal or as loose with the theme as you want.
11 March 2010
What was the last book you bought in a bookstore by happenstance? →Read more...
I may get kicked out of MetaChat (again) for this, but NSFW maybe
OMG Bunnniees!!! (YT)
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This is the 10th anniversary of the Stuck at the Prom Duck Tape Duct Tape contest. Make your own duct tape prom attire and win a $3,000 scholarship. Check out the
gallery.
I interviewed Jessamyn for Bundle. Bundle is a new-ish site where I am a community editor. Thanks to Jessamyn for making herself available.
Why can't I convince myself that... →Read more...
Following up on
this thread from yesterday, here are 33 excellently creepy
photos of an abandoned mental asylum in the UK.
Homeskillet I've been meaning to buy a
cast-iron skillet since I gave mine away during my last move, and I just watched
this video, and so I think now's the time. Which size should I buy?
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Anyone doing ScriptFrenzy? I just got an e-mail from the NaNoWriMo folks about and was thinking about it.
Tattoo ideas If you had a heart attack at a young age (29) and a definite cause was never found (no blockage, no chemical imbalance, no high cholesteral, etc) and were still kind of freaked out about it 4 years later, what kind of tattoo would you get on your chest over your heart to ward off the bad heart attack joojoo?
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METACHAT METACHAT METACHAT THIS IS A VOICE PROCEEDURE UPDATE THREAD OVER →Read more...
10 March 2010
Thank you sir, may I have another? So, tomorrow, I'm trying yet again to impose some greater discipline in my at-home work day - up early to do some writing and exercise, break for a walk at midday, cutting the number of times I look at MeFi and feeds down to twice/thrice during work - anyone whose gone down this path before have advice / encouragement / tricks?
Plates of beans. And books. And the overthinking of both. If any of you are interested in collaborating with other MeFites to put a book together, I've set up a blog for the project.
I just did a design layout using Verdana, am I going to hell? →Read more...
what protein bar or shake is the least gross? →Read more...
Best Board Games for Parties? What's your pick? Balderdash? Taboo? Apples to Apples?
THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD →Read more...
My big fat geek wedding "Organising a wedding can be stressful enough, but we had a whole extra dimension to consider. We were turning it into a science experiment to probe what happens in our bodies when we say the words "I do"."
Albertson, James... 206-555-1212; Albertson, John... 206-555-1213 My husband and I are having a debate. How much do you think it would cost to hire Jude Law to come to your house and read the phone book naked in your living room?
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Scariest setting for a horror story: old ramshackle mansion, cabin in the woods, lonely stretch of highway, abandoned hospital, isolated military base, spaceship lost in deep space, mysterious island, long out-of-service subway/mining tunnels, ancient dilapidated church, other?
Ask Mecha: Belt I would like to buy a belt. One belt, to last the rest of my life. What should I buy?
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Page 2 Panel 1: CAT jumps out the bag. So this is what I'll be slaving over for the next year or so. Now all my AskMe questions make sense.
"Mad Men" Barbie set Joan's curves not in evidence.
Our next Photo Friday theme will be "entropy." Things breaking down, things falling apart. Rust, system failure, decay, disorganization. As always, be as literal or as loose with the theme as you want, and post yer pics on Friday!
Muh muh muh myyyy-yi -yi WOO!!!!! My new neighbors have a garage band. Every song they play sounds like a really bad off-tempo cover of "My Sharona".
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09 March 2010
Stuck in my head: Blast off! (blast off) Soooo...this is a long shot, but I'm desperate:
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"I've decided to follow someone at random. She likes peanut butter and gummy dinosaurs.
Sarah Killen, your life is about to change."
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I Am A Thousand Years Old: So I asked by a friend to come up with a mix CD of the best, bounciest, danciest pop-est music for her party. I don't really listen to dance music. Help?
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Metachat algebra cheering squad - round two! You guys were so helpful
last time I panicked about my algebra class, maybe you can help again?
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What was the first job you ever had? →Read more...
This is the book club thread Greetings MetaChaters, this is the metafilter book club thread as discussed
here and
here.
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This is a whiiiiiining thread Bring all your whines to me.
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Karate Kommandos staring, umm, I don't think they mention his name. More
Craptacular 80's cartoons.
08 March 2010
Obsess Me Tender - Google now offers auto-transcribed closed captions on some videos, including
Highlights from Mondo Elvis (as
seen on the Blue in 2007).
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Hope me, technically-inclined bunnies! A PC-related question:
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Feral houses. Beautiful, melancholy photos of abandonded houses being reclaimed by nature. More photos on the
artist's website.
this is a smoldering thread →Read more...
07 March 2010
What is it with dark websites? Especially the ones with black background and small grey print? Are there really people who can read this? Am I getting that old?
Can we talk about the dresses, please?
Every year, we go to White Castle for Valentine's Day. They take a picture every year and tell us to look online. This year for the first time, I went looking for the photo.
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Bunny love, Bunny hate. It's such a dilemma.
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Metachat bed fort time... Who's in?
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Bebby Bunnies! OMG! One for every day of the week.
06 March 2010
OH MY F'ING GOD PLEASE STOP THE GODDAMNED HAMMERING! →Read more...
*Radio Free Rollick* tonight @ 10pm eastern its been a while since i've done a set, so i'll throw something together and give 'er a spin .
William Shatner has his own social network. "It’s a network geared toward people who seek a career in the creation/production of science fiction, horror, and fantasy." Watch the
video.
HAPPY APOCALYPTIC ANNIVEMERSARY! A few months ago I was pondering doing to a post to commemorate the anniversary o the Great Mefi Downage.
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Reminder for all bunnies: →Read more...
05 March 2010
BP Radio! An hour (maybe two) of indiepop, pop, bubblegum pop, and possibly other pop music. Starting at 12 AM eastern (15 minutes from now)
Taj's 70th Birthday Watch her face when her birthday cake is wheeled out.
If I'd know we were touching down on Planet Blacklight I woulda brought a poster Might I suggest you read
C. Spike's twitter feed as she watches Avatar?
фотографии Some pretty amazing photographs of the Russian speaking world. If you get an Error: 502 Bad Gateway, just reload the page and try again.
3-point TGIF update →Read more...
Crayola crayons rockets Everything about this is just so cool.
The Parent Trap I just listened to the first five minutes of this and could totally relate to the sort of sneaky trap they describe. My mom does this all the time--tells each sibling that the other sibling will be at some event, even though they've never committed. Do all parents engage in this sort of sneakiness?
Question for Chicagoland peeps On Monday, I gotta drop someone off at O'Hare at the ungodly hour of 6 am...
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Tip of the hat, wag of the finger I wanted to tip my hat to an anonymous cab driver today...
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MP3 Shuffle-a-gogo Anyone? MP3 player on shuffle, first 10 songs, no cheating.
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As the lead says, you can't make this stuff up! (Oregon-centric news within)
Photo Friday: this week's theme is "Up & Down"
So, I got some casual work. Nothing fancy, just processing photo's and data for schools. But today, it made my head explode.
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04 March 2010
Sitcom writers recycle the same jokes over and over quite purposely and somewhere on the 'Net there's a list of these jokes and, yes, their formal names. But my google-fu is failing me. And thus I ask MeCha... When you read the list you'll realize how formulaic it all is and that you've seen the same jokes dozens, if not hundreds, of times.
Lady Gaga started a Europe/Australia/Asia tour in London this week, and Twittered
this blog post which has a ton of audience videos plus photos from those first two nights in London. I don't think she could be any more thoroughly 21st-century.
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What's the first song you associated with romantic pain? →Read more...
A Lyrics Quiz of Music Favored by those God Damned Baby Boomers. . . (geriatric edition)
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What's at the top of your wish list? →Read more...
AT&T sucks the big one →Read more...
Office Dra-ha-ha-ma →Read more...
Tired of my 13 radio stations I drive a lot on my job. What's the cheapest, most convenient way to listen to stuff other than music,commercials,talk show rants,and overdosing on current events?
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Bad boys, bad boys... whatcha gonna do? →Read more...
OMG CUTE BUNNY COMMERCIALS FROM DURACELL →Read more...
This Thread Is For Anyone To Vent About Baby Boomer Bullshit Self-Aggrandizing... →Read more...
Too embarassingly clueless to post on askme filter →Read more...
03 March 2010
Radio in 20 minutes. Club, funk, ska, indy pop, classical guitar, country, ambient etc. and the 14th caller will receive 4 tickets to the Monster Truck Rally!
Who writes the MrsStephenFry Twitter account? Is it Stephen Fry himself, his partner Daniel, or someone else?
"Who threw that ham at me?" Awesome interview with Fred Schneider of the B-52s.
We have new jerseys for our softball team at work.
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DINNER AT 8 Liveblog: Lets call it Chicken Satay? Have leftover peanut sause and some stir-fry chicken. Cane we make this a big meal?
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So, how have you all been?
I need a passage for a public reading I'm being inducted into Sigma Delta Tau (the national English honor society) and for the ceremony we all need to give a brief reading from a work of literature or poetry.
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"Six Days In Fallujah" and the need for videogames to take chances if they're going to be culturally relevant.
Wednesday 3-point update. Slushy snow again here in Boston.
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AskMeCha: I need online dating advice. I recently became single again, and I'm thinking about using an online dating service. I created a profile on OKCupid, and after doing so, I saw that my ex is on there also.
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This week's Photo Friday theme will be "Up & Down." Looking up, looking down, vertical compositions, stairs, elevators, rollercoasters, however you want to interpret it. Show us your pics on Friday.
02 March 2010
wait. I have received enervatingly mocking feedback to the effect that grown men aren't supposed to be having lollipops. Who came up with that rule?! I shall have whatever I want while watching Legally Blonde who's with me?
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55 Pretty Amazing Recipes Click on the summaries to get to the recipes. (Confidential to Crush-on-a-Stick: Some yummy cocktails among them.)
Ruptured eardrum, can't hear after 1.5 weeks Wow, seems like I've needed a lot of advice lately,. So a friend of mine had a ruptured eardrum as a result of a very bad infection.
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Finally Saw Shyamalan's The Happening tonight, and.... →Read more...
is it just me, or is Tom Wolfe kind of wordy? →Read more...
It is a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's ...
I got this in 3 emails this morning. So I guess that's a sign to post it here. A little Russian singing to brighten the day.
The Muppet Wicker Man This delights me in ways I have not the words to describe. In case you're concerned, as I was, it IS based on the original.
MetaChat dream. →Read more...
Ask MeCha Does anyone remember the name of that dynamic footstool that went around a while back? It was something like a skateboard deck on top of a mini exercise ball, I think, and it was meant to keep your legs moving under your desk. I can't find it.
01 March 2010
TV on the MetaRadio (take 2) Coming up on the hour (7PM Pacific, 10PM Eastern, 3AM London, Noon Tokyo)
An hour-and-a-half of TV theme songs, all longer than the versions they do on the TV, most better than Mike Post (but there will be some Mike Post), followed by highlights from the new album of a certain musical MeFiMod (as much as the rules allow), mixed with other cool MeFi Music, including some NOT dowloaded from MeFi Music.
We're getting sued. Anyone have advice? Ask Mefi cross-post, because I'm really kinda freaking out about this.
Music! I made an album! It is called
Inchoatery and you are cordially invited to give it a listen!
Apparently, Hollywood uses green screen for EVERYTHING nowadays.
Stargate Studios Virtual Backlot Reel 2009→Read more...
The ventilation system at the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart, Germany, can be set to form
an indoor tornado in the museum's atrium, over 100 feet tall.
(Article with photos and a video)
As others see us.... This morning I was on the train near a group of six people who were talking loudly amongst themselves. From their conversation, I gathered that they were Americans, visiting the city.
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GMTV poll on Homeopathy --Register your votes, bunnies!
Radio in a moment. Trance to some oldies to some ambient. About 2 hours.
28 February 2010
Wait a minute! "Women who ate an ounce of full-fat cheese daily
gained fewer pounds over time than their less-cheesy peers".
I'm Going to San Francisco Next weekend! And I want to meet you! And I need advice on what to see and where to go and what to wear and whoa, everything. Plane advice is good too: I haven't flown since before 9/11.
That was a pretty good hockey game, eh? →Read more...
Home Sheep Home. Cute physics-based puzzle game by the
Wallace & Gromit folks.
Bunnies! OMG! These buns remind me of TheDonF and Specklet.
Some radio now. Just some random Saturday night radio.
27 February 2010
AskMeCha Where can I find a video online of Yu-Na Kim's long skating program?
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RADIO'S BACK and TV's got it! A crazy collection of long versions of TV themes from cartoons, the Brits, Mike Post, Whedon, Barenaked Ladies and MORE!
at the top of the next hour (6PM WestUS, 9PM EastUS, 1AM GB, 11AM Japan, Noon EastAus)
Sky Mall Kitties They are kitties of the air!
What persona, if any, do you take on? →Read more...
Woody Allen on Candid Camera (1963)
The secretary's reactions, especially at the reveal, are what really make this prank great.
3 songs you think everyone should have heard for musical literacy don't need to be too fussy about it; just what pops into your head.
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What do you do when you see a reckless driver? →Read more...
The Tobolowsky Files Podcast If you are a fan of TV & Movies and enjoy listening to podcasts, you should be listening to the very entertaining and surprisingly educational
Tobolowsky Files.
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Up and at em! A motivational thread →Read more...
Insomnia brigade →Read more...
I just recently turned 38. But I feel like I'm in, I dunno, my late twenties.
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26 February 2010
Rawr! Algebra is hard! →Read more...
The Pitfalls Of Fiction In light of this
Meta Post (and this
MeCha thread) I was thinking about
The Bechdel Test and
Deggan's Rule and wondering, how do you address these when you're writing a story in a period and place where women are under wraps and minorities are largely nonexistant?
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The Heavy. OMG, I love these guys. Their music is like you put 1971 in a blender, and this soul/funk stew was the result. A couple of videos:
"
Oh No Not You Again!"
"
How You Like Me Now?"
No wonder Verizon wireless is coy about when off-peak hours start. 9:00 pm? Wasn't it earlier not too long ago? Goddamn thieves. I want to kill.
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American Psycho reviewed on Reading Rainbow
Featuring a rare glimpse of a mustachioed Levar Burton!
What's for [your nearest meal]? →Read more...
The Alphabet v The Goddess Wife is reading this and sharing some stuff from it with me.
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Hoping this isn't a double! For any bunnies who need a daily fix....
Bunny! OMG! (Otherwise known as a flopobottamus.)
Can we talk about rice pudding? →Read more...
Photo Friday : Today's theme is HOT
25 February 2010
Today's good, bad, and awesome? →Read more...
nsfw-ish probably* Thank you for
shutting up. Mr. Winkleman will now look at your
art.
*due to blurry artistic nudity.
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Neologisms & New Idioms or Coinages
My mother has gone from pre-diabetic to diabetic. →Read more...
Glove box light? →Read more...
Glitch in the Grid Trailer for what looks like a fascinating stop-motion animated film by
Eric Leiser.
(Note that his personal site plays music when you visit it.)
The Day of the Detergent
John Kricfalusi presents some fabulous old skool product package designs.
And more:
Bold Package Design
Hero Dog Don't miss the last paragraph.
HELLO NEW BUNNIES Step inside, if you would be so kind, and give a rousing welcome to our new users. Pull up a chair, and can I offer you a drink?
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Sorta emergency question: How long should it take to get from Baltimore's Penn Station to BWI? (On the MARC train, I'm assuming.)
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Back...again →Read more...
24 February 2010
Heimo's Arctic Refuge "In 1980, Jimmy Carter established the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in the Alaskan Interior. Only six families of white settlers were grandfathered in and allowed to keep cabins in the refuge—of them, only one still stays there year-round living off the land. His name is Heimo Korth."
(via)
EmCee Update! You live for these. →Read more...
Sushi Cat! Flash game. Fat bouncy cats. Sushi.
Reggae(?).
I wish that some people I know would read this, including a relative of mine. But unfortunately, even if they did read it, they would conclude that it didn't apply to them. *sigh* Wish it had the sidebar; I may need to go buy the print copy.
And it TOTALLY applies to men too. I hope it'll help someone, somewhere.
Cat psychologists, please step inside.... →Read more...
Humpday 3-point update →Read more...
Urban skiing While I was hiding out in my house, some of my city's residents were doing stupid things on skis and snowboards.
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The theme for Photo Friday this week will be: Hot For the northern hemisphere, this is turning out to be a long, cold winter, so on Friday let's warm up the place with your photos depicting 'hot'.
Hey, Stephen Fry and Craig Ferguson fans! Turn on CBS right now ... I just tuned in and it looks as if it's all Fry tonight on The Late Late Show. There's no audience machine, and
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23 February 2010
Things I'm glad my pet forgives me for →Read more...
Ask MeCha. . . Yesterday I went, for the first time in years, to a chiropractor.
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True Confessions →Read more...
AskMecha: NYC bunnies edition I'll be in NYC this weekend. I've been to NYC several times, but never in the winter.
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What's the worst movie you've seen recently? →Read more...
What should I do with my many short comic and children's book scripts? I might illustrate a couple myself, but I'm not versatile enough to do all of them (anytime in the next 20 years) and would like to find an artist(s). I'd also like to find a publisher, natcherly. Somebody who's a fairly big name in the comics industry is having a look at a couple via FaceBook, and I sent one to a legendary comics artist who friended me on FB and sent me a cool e-mail as well. Beyond that, where do I go? I've been writing for years, I'm a damn perfectionist and my own worst critic, and I can finally honestly say I'm consistently producing darn good stuff. I'll post a link to an example for feedback, if anyone's interested.
This is a soothing thread. There, there, little bunnies.→Read more...
The Other 70s. A very cool
(and downloadable) six-song mix from someone whose 1970s were a lot like mine, apparently.
So I've taken to sautéing fish. And need advice from more experienced cooks.
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22 February 2010
Irma Thomas Rules!!! Ladies and Gentlemen, I present for your enjoyment Galactic featuring the
great Irma Thomas singing "
Heart of Steel."
Caffeinated Maple-Bacon Lollipops with the caffeine equivalent of two cups of coffee. Pairs well with
bacon potato chips.
IRC 2: The Re-
Bluffening!
AskMecha: round-trip voucher for free United flight in continental US. Where to go? I got bumped last year and now have a voucher for a free round-trip ticket to anywhere in the continental US that United flies. I need to book by tomorrow, with travel any time in the next year. I want to go somewhere random and new, not visit people I know. But I am drawing a giant, indecisive blank! Hope me, Metachat?
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21 February 2010
Barbara Hershey - "The Call Girl" . from the 1982 American Playhouse adaptation of Studs Terkel's
Working. (audio mildly NSFW)
Sketchy Santas is doing an actual paper book and possibly wants to put
my photo in it. Should I let them make some money off me? I didn't really think mine was all that sketchy. I'd rather have a drawing in a
Bad Spock book, if they'd do one.
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Pac-Tom is
only on level 2.
My first mashup? Okay, make sure your computer sound is on, then using the Open in a New Window option both times,
click here and then
click here. Replay the video in the second link as necessary.
Stupid technology question. I am buying some old radio shows in mp3 format. I have the option of mp3 CDs or mp3 DVDs, which are much cheaper. But will those play on my CD player? My CD player plays mp3 files but all these formats have me kind of confused, and google isn't helping.
Needed : Photo Friday Themes →Read more...
FIRE IT UP! Parliament Funkadelic in 1979. Giant skulls smoking joints, cowboy hats and angel wings. It doesn't get any funkier than this.
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20 February 2010
Hey, Flickr bunnies! You should be submitting your coolest photos to the
MetaChat Eye group on Flickr, if you aren't already.
Hey! I'm Back on the Radio! MetaRadio that is, starting in a few minutes (10AM Pacific, 6PM GMT, the rest you can figure out for yourself) until... well, if nobody else wants to 'cast, until the Arse Hat Program Diector kicks me off or I get bored... I'll be at
#bunnies if you wanna know what the @#$% I'm playing. Toon in.
Saturday 3-point update →Read more...
Internet Vacation LT and I have just moved into a brand new apartment and we have had no internet there for almost a week.
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Happy Birthday TheDonF!!!
Calling your bluff! You said on Valentines you'd like to get to know me better. Well, I'm in
IRC right now!
Ricotta Cheese is ridiculously easy to make. From scratch.
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Sometimes I think to myself, Thank Goodness for Feminism! →Read more...
any idea what this guy wants to do in
Queens (nsfw audio). He wants to get some bread and ____ ?
19 February 2010
REAL MEN COOK QUICHE: More advnetures in leftovers, will be live-blogging the creation of a ham & cheese quiche using only leftovers!
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Cat-on-cat massage
Strangely hypnotic.
Flickr set of mock covers for Nabakov's Lolita Boy howdy do some of them really miss the point of the book and land squarely in creepy grosstown. On the other hand, some are quite affecting.
What Do You Use For Photo Editting or Viewing ? I finally dug out my camera so that i could take some pics at the Olympics (i hadn't taken any pics in a year & a half)
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Would anyone care to split an anchovy pizza with me at lunch today? Something like
this? Or
this?
Been watching Torchwood (possible spoilers in this thread) Got through Children of Earth. Got several things in my eyes. Must be dust or something.
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Photo Friday : Things That Look Like Faces
AskMecha: What to print out before an international flight? →Read more...
18 February 2010
The ballbearing rolls down the shoot and clicks the toaster lever, the toast flies up and triggers the [etc.]... Help me out: What's the name of the fellow who did all these classic devices that filtered into cartoons and such?
What is your favorite U.S. state or Canadian province, and why? Because of its beauty? Culture? Politics? Skiing? Sun-bathing? Because you grew up there? All answers, with or without prejudice, are valid.
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The AV Club have done one of their "Gateways to Geekery" essays about my favorite author,
J.G. Ballard.
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17 February 2010
Mini Hello Kitty Food! I need all of these desperately. The tiny toy waffle is a perfect companion to my Hello Kitty Waffle Maker.
16 more days in Illinois and I'm outta here.
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I just did a phone interview! I thought I did well, despite my Phone Fear. Having a big black Bakelite rotary phone helps, makes me feel like I'm Frank O'Hara or sumfing.
Big scary pills. →Read more...
Tuna salad: sweet or salty? →Read more...
THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD! →Read more...
do you get this? Being nervous but not sure what about? I got a lot of things to work on, a lot of gaps to close, a lot of thinking and resolving to do but none of it is actually *pressing* so it's strange to be repeatedly in temporary states of bother about nothing in particular.
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Please rob me. (.com) New opportunities every minute!
Project brain In my quest for a new jewelry box, I’ve found myself wandering down a do-it-myself bypath and have gotten into the state of “project brain”, which is characterized by the strong desire to make something in particular, a preoccupation with ways and means, and much research-related activity. Also it is symptomized by a rash of internet links.
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The Photo Friday theme this week will be : Things That Look Like Faces You know the kind of thing - electrical sockets, taps, etc. that look like a face.
I'll post the thread on Friday for your pictures.
I now feel like a bad person for liking sports. Sometimes it like all the internet offers is more ways to be told what's wrong with me.
I need a word to describe people who obstruct pedestrian spaces by stepping aimlessly around while talking on a mobile phone.
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'Sup, Sexy People? Finally found a way to crash the party using my not-as-smart-as-advertized phone...but, here I is nonetheless.
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16 February 2010
Remembering Doug Fieger, a nice retrospective/eulogy for the frontman for
The Knack, who were a gateway drug for a lot of folks my age to the addiction that is power pop.
Stephen Colbert Rally in Vancouver !! Tomorrow and Thursday at 9:15am @ Science World . I'm going to be there and i bumped into
Nardwuar at Safeway yesterday and he's going too . come join us !
What's the name of that song? I loved this Sesame Street song when I was a little 'un, and now my daughter does too (demands "da de da de" all the time).
warning: total earworm
Happy Birthday, Terrapin! May today be as good as the best day you've had!
The Strange Tale of Solarcon-6 "Philip K Dick's FBI file and the bizarre story of a neo-Nazi plot to start a Third World War."
Antique dye labels: a Flickr set of 19 labels. Quite the charming little pieces of eye candy.
15 February 2010
My Turn To Cook Two: The :Leftovers Strike Back So I'm suffering from a strange condition, I've got to cook, I've got stuff in, but I have no idea what I want to make.
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I've been kinda complaining about the densely packed holiday/event season going on now: ValentineDay/Chinese-LunarNewYear/PresidentsDay-Lincoln'sRealBirthday/Carnival-MardiGras-FatTuesday/TED/WinterOlympics-NBAAllStarWeekend/MultipleMeChanBirthdays... But I fully endorse adding
International Grover Appreciation Day to the mix because, well, I'm a fanboy for Grover (and Scalzi).
So I'm in the shower thinking of Joyce Carol Oates (no snickering) and is it just me or does American fiction (especially in the short story form) have a unique flirtation with darkness/unease?
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SCODY AND DASHIV!!!!!!
14 February 2010
HATE ME HIT ME LOVE ME ON WHELK RADIO! More Tunes about Love and loss and all that shit. Go an commiserate on
#bunnies From now until I give up
"Your love gives me such a thrill, but your love won't pay my bills.
I want MONEY." My favorite version of this song, by The Flying Lizards, for Valentine's Day.
Today is pjern's birthday! Happy Birthday!
I'll take "Stuff that costs over $1500," please So our refrigerator compressor blew out and I finally gave up (after repeated disassembling and cleaning) on fixing our dishwasher. Now I keep thinking about stuff I could have bought with that money.
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AskMecha: Hi Bunnies! In the interest of not becoming a felon due to work related Whiskey Tango Foxtrot circus activities, I have joined a gym.
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HUGE ME KISS ME LOVE ME RADIO WHELK! The Story Of, The Glory Of Love by The Whelk on the radio. 12ish-2ish. JOin tehe Love in on
IRC
Happy Year of the Iron Tiger! It will affect us all differently. Find out your sign with
these fabulously written Chinese horoscopes. I am a Water Rabbit and the Neon and Glitter People admire me. What are you?
How to cook an omelet (part one). Too point-and-laugh for the blue, not safe for people with queezy stomachs. Make sure to watch part two. Recommended for people who like A&E hoarders and cooking.
Cats and guitars is a Flicker set (14 photos) that I happened to stumble upon, which is kind of wonderful.
13 February 2010
"Wasn't me!" [via Digg] ... a.k.a. OMG Bunny!
Bunny Love will be opening again shortly for all your anonymous Valentine's sending needs!
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Free Olympic Zip Line !! this looks sooooo fun that i'm going to have to go downtown and go for a ride . If there anyone one else who is going to be in Vancouver over the next 2 weeks and who wants to go a'zippin, let me know and we can go check it out
AskMe crosspost: I'm sick of not having my furnace function correctly. If anyone has advice I'd truly appreciate it. I'm close to being at wit's end. Blah.
12 February 2010
Oh hi! You must be new here. Otherwise you'd know that it's
IRC time.
Is there a MeCha Secret Valentine this year? I might've missed it, but thought it'd be on the sidebar.
Shortest/Longest Tracks Tell me what the shortest and longest tracks on your .mp3 player of choice are (in iTunes, just click the "time" column and it'll sort for you).
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Boo! I guess I dropped off the grid for a while. I'm back.
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3-point Friday update. →Read more...
Lincoln Portrait: composed by Aaron Copland, words by Abraham Lincoln, narrated by Gregory Peck. Happy birthday, Mr. President.
What's for lunch? →Read more...
Buster Keaton pursued by boulders.
Makes
Raiders of the Lost Ark look like
The Remains of the Day.
this guy is doing some interesting stuff.
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Watch this So I've bought two watches to replace the ones I had. A
gold tone watch (which is just like the one I used to have), and a
steel watch. I'm wearing the steel watch at the moment and keep sneaking admiring looks at it.
AskMecha! My husband hasn't found metachat yet, and I used my askme question anyway, so I am asking you!
11 February 2010
This is how email chain forwards start.... →Read more...
Who is your favorite screen actor, male or female, living or dead?
Audio hallucinations so, I'm betting a few of you here are familiar with sleep paralysis / hypnagogic hallucinations. I gots'em. The weird thing is, in my daughters room it's always a young males voice. (cue twilight zone music)
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Bad news: Rabbits are smarter than me. Good news: I am about to seriously fuck up a FaconLT.
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“Homescholer” replaces retard from now on. Took me a while to
get the Wonkette headline, but the comments helped - they are absolutely hilarious.
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3-Point Status... SQUIRREL!!!
What do you do with/for a sneezy cat? →Read more...
Hey Kids! It's time for another episode of FUN! FACTS! →Read more...
10 February 2010
I'm bored. Entertain me, ask me questions, show me cute pictures, SOMETHING.
WANT these lamps that Ardiril just showed me on Twitter, even though I don't have enough empty space in my house for them to look as cool as they do in this pic.
I am having major trouble making myself work while everyone around me has a snow day off. I hate billable hours requirements.
"A show that is so wretched, it lives up to its name: it is truly something to behold, a marvel, a wonder. It is hateful and awful, a level of terrible rarely seen for 30 straight minutes, let alone for four seasons."
Rich at fourfour's
hilarious, epic takedown of the sitcom
Small Wonder.
Help. This game is so ridiculous i can't stop. When the dolphins start going Whee! my heart almost bursts.
Windows to Mac transition Reassure me
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May I do a little "Yay, me" ? →Read more...
It is Snowing So I Am Cooking: I wanna make a traditional American Breakfast with capitol U.S.A. Got a pretty full kitchen here, what just screams The States in breakfast food form?
Sweep sings! →Read more...
The theme for this week's Photo Friday is "Asleep". Stay awake long enough to search out your best pictures on this theme and post them in the Photo Friday thread on, er, Friday.
Help me organize my Flickr Sets? →Read more...
09 February 2010
Chatroulette (randomly NSFW) Puts you into instant video chat with other people who have webcams.
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Should I buy a domain name? I just thought of a really cool domain name for someone like me. No, I won't tell you what it is unless I buy it. But should I buy it? It seems hard to justify spending even $10/year on something like that, especially when I have more reputable-seeming .edu web space, and am likely to continue to do so while I have a career in academia. Has having your own domain name enhanced your life or career in some way?
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paging miko et al. how would one find the image of a/the manuscript of Emily Dickinson's "If you were coming in the fall" like this one of
wild nights?
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World's tallest tower closed indefinitely a month after opening Though
another source says the observation deck may be open again as soon as this weekend.
The Whelk has Insomnia: And is currently obsessed with making a movie
about these guys featuring a scene with
this song (or maybe
this one or
this, for a tender scene)
08 February 2010
The one. The only. The status. The update. →Read more...
OMG! Happy Birthday Boringpostcards!!!
EmCee Update # eleventy-five quatrillion, now with broccoli rabe recipes! →Read more...
Change Change Change. What has changed for you within the past year? How'd it go?
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If you hit mute, it's like a Def Leppard video with less makeup. I'm not even sure the mute thing is necessary, actually.
07 February 2010
I can't be the only person who wants to do a Tom Waitsian cover of "
And Then he Kissed Me" ? Right?
trivial stuff that makes my mind ASPLODE! (1) when people don't realize the word "shawty" comes from "shorty" (2) when people want to reprimand you with "at least out here that's how we do it.."
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"I Survived Snowmageddon" That is, I assume at least one of you did.
Watching The Superbowl Thread This is where we talk about Sports, Commercials, and other Things.
PUPPY BOWL! Oh, I love the Puppy Bowl.
Streaming radio through a radio. I am completely fascinated by my two Logitech internet radios I bought for Christmas.
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Not Watching The Superbowl Thread This is where we talk about Not Sports, Not Commercials, and other Not Things.
What are you NOT wearing today?
Rainbows: Pancake.
Cupcake. Just
cake.
06 February 2010
THE RESIDENTS! We
saw them last night and they are freaky, amazing, disturbing, brilliant as ever. The show they're doing now is called "The Talking Light," and it features an old man named Randy telling ghost stories to the audience.
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Thems fightin' wurds! Dog ownerz not so smart cat ownerz?
This guy asks what I've always wondered- "How do you get into the luge community to begin with?"
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Oooh, sparkly (swan) things! So now that I am going to buy all new jewelry, and I'm in "ooh, sparkly things!" mode, it occurred to me that it might be nice to have some swan jewelry.
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Does anyone know anything about a milanesa cut of beef? I bought some at the market thinking I might be able to cut it up for a stir-fry, but googling suggests that one is supposed to tenderize the cut by pounding it fairly flat, and I'm not sure if that's necessary for the cut of meat or just a first step for the traditional preparation.
05 February 2010
FRIDAY NIGHT, people Don't make me IRC alone.
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Go Spidey! Go Spidey! Go Supe! Go Supe!
Bite-size superheroes poppin' and lockin'.
New Storm A-Comin' How are all of the east coast bunnies doing, anyway?
Please report an assure us you are OK.
They always get you on the tax evasion. Stolen property. If you steal property, you must report its fair market
value in your income in the year you steal it unless in the same year, you
return it to its rightful owner.
Is Blackboard as much fail as it seems to me? →Read more...
AskMecha: Got a question about the most recent underemployment figures According to the linked story, the overall unemployment rate dropped from 10 percent to 9.7 percent. But the underemployment rate dropped almost a full point, from 17.3 percent to 16.5 percent. How did this happen? Have all of those involuntarily part-time workers won full-time schedules?
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04 February 2010
These kids reeeeally enjoy tumbleweeds.
Also: WTF Mojave Desert? That's just way too many damn tumbleweeds! (
via)
Did you see the same movie that the director made? [spoilers] Amazingly detailed film deconstructions. Rob Ager shows how Mulholland Drive has a coherent, linear narrative that Lynch purposefully rearranged and how Kubrick gave visual and sonic clues in The Shining that all paranormal activities were actually dreams or delusions. Example: Jack Nicholson, waiting for the job interview, reads a copy of Playgirl with an article on parental incest. He freely admits some of his theories are hard to swallow, so he doesn't come off as a complete nutter.
You suck, and so does your writing "Writers have apparently always loathed and envied other members of the tribe: more famous, better paid, more fawning reviews, undeserved canonization."
The worlds largest super bowl commercial archive , now has 38 years of regional and national ads, and all are spiffy embeddable flashy films. That is all.
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Need Some Feedback Regarding Possible Job - I have been a volunteer moderator for a very popular game for 3.5 months. There's an opportunity to become a paid moderator and that's where it gets sticky.
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Happy birthday, Stewriffic! →Read more...
mad cause i'm stylin on you cat →Read more...
03 February 2010
This is fun. Don't plan on getting much work done.
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Stupidest copyright ruling ever. Apparently a part of the flute riff in Down Under has been ruled to be a rip off of "Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree". I have re-listened, and can certainly identify the TEN NOTES ON ONE INSTRUMENT in the whole song that may have been lifted, and it pisses me off. It's an homage, you greedy lawyer-type bastards (and one that I'd never noticed until today). Grrrrr.
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Happy Birthday fluffy battle kitten!!! May you have an excellent rest of your day!
Shameless self-link: I have a new music site! I've been meaning to do this for a while, so it's nice to finally have it more or less functional.
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Is something wrong with this photo? →Read more...
It's another Welcome New Users post! →Read more...
Guys are not going to want to f**k her
Ken Levine expounds on the trials and tribulations of the TV actor during pilot season.
Humpday 3-point update. →Read more...
Obscure and pretentious status update. Use as many points as you like and draw the allusions from whatever medium you prefer, literature, music, film, etc. But you have to be pretentious about it.
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NSFW A few weeks ago Taz asked why we use the NSFW warning. Here is an example.
This week Photo Friday will be Fence Friday! Dig out your pictures of fences, railings walls, barriers, whatever you consider to be a 'fence', and post them in Friday's thread.
PC game controllers? So I'm a PC gamer, and I just got Mass Effect 2, and I'm having a very difficult time with the mouse acceleration that you apparently can't turn off.
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02 February 2010
Blue eyes crying in the kitchen... Trilby keeps getting a crusty dark red residue near the inside corners of his eyes. He cleans it off when he washes his face, but it immediately builds up again. And I've seen him with tears coming from his eyes a time or two. Is this something I should worry about? He's had this ever since I got him at Halloween, and at first I assumed that if it had been a problem the Humane Society would have caught it and informed me, but now I'm a little concerned. YANAV, YANTV, blah, blah, blah.
Trees are neat.
Cathedral Woods c.1900 (
full size)
I Wrote To My Congressman asking that he vote for the Senate's health care reform bill. ..
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BP Workday Radio Coming up at 10am EST, 7am PST, 3pm London, 5pm Athens, midnight Tokyo.
QI on Giant Tortoises - "Now this time...
this time..."
MetaChat dream! →Read more...
01 February 2010
This is a thread for MeChazens to discuss Mass Effect 2. As such it contains SPOILERS. You have been warned officially about these potential SPOILERS.
The Buddy D Dress Parade New Orleans is a strange, wonderful town.
Of all the things I love about this video: I think I love the sound editing the best. When she just looses it to SuperCalifragolous and briefly becomes the best version of the Joker ever. (
Totally, completely NSFW seriously) Amanda Lepore by David LaChapelle
Mob rule rules! →Read more...
What are you wearing today? (Not creepy edition) →Read more...
And the nominees for Mouser of the Year.... ...don't include Trilby.
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What key are most of your favorite songs in? According to
this gadget, which analyzes your favorites via Last.fm, my favorite key is G♭ minor (29%). Mouse over the colors in your pie chart and it'll tell you some of the songs in each key.
Friend of Pho? Pho,
Pho,
Pho King,
Phở,
Pho,
Pho?
"Boys boys boys! I turn my back and there you are; slapping each other again!"
Sissy-Boy Slap-Party. Some of the best action on film since The Three Stooges.
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31 January 2010
Chicken Lamp. You either want this or you don't. There can be no in-between.
Pro Bowl, Grammys, neither or both?
Happy birthday, danostuporstar!!
Google-Fu Fail! Coming off the Bay Bridge into San Francisco you can see one of those "I'm a PC and Windows 7 was my idea" billboards. I really want to find a picture of this particular one.
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pop-up hell So I'm running Firefox v3.6 & suddenly I'm getting pop-up invasion. I'm also running ABP, there are no current updates I haven't installed.
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underdocumented phenomenon reflexive beer goggles.
W.P. Kinsella on J.D. Salinger. "only 15 per cent of the movie-goers would have any idea who Salinger was" "Many, many people [who have read Shoeless Joe] think Salinger is a fictional character"
30 January 2010
RIP Jan Gabriel, aka the originator of "Sunday! Sunday! Sunday!"
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In what order do you put on your shoes? Left shoe first? Right shoe first? Or, do you vary it?
BP Radio! Going to play some new stuff that I got this week, padded out with etc. Starting in 15 minutes!
Miss America Anybody else watching?
another one of those relative size visualizations This one is really good. Interactive, and it goes from the Planck Length to the estimated size of the entire universe. We're soooooooooooo tiny!
Trucking question. Something I ordered was shipped by FedEx ground and took about 36 hours to get from Keasbey, NJ, to Salt Lake City Utah. Google Maps says the drive takes about 34 hours, so that doesn't leave a lot of time for breaks. Did they switch off drivers midway through at some station? Someone else sleeping in the cab? How does this work?
a book by its (gorey) cover Kate Beaton, as usual, rocks my socks.
Recommend an SSH/SFTP? Pretend I know nothing. Because I do.
I do know nothing!
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Wearin' My Lucky Lavander Underpants: Bring it on, Universe.
Bringing home the bookcase This is the story of how I brought home a 6' bookcase on the TTC.
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Snow Snow Snow! I know for those of you in colder climes this would be no big deal, but we have 6" (15cm) of snow so far, and it's still coming down...
When I get that little perfectly-contented puppy sigh, I can kind of believe that I might be at least a partly decent person in some way or another.
29 January 2010
A death alone Last night, we heard knocking on our door at 11 PM. It was four strangers who had come to tell us that my wife's mother, Phyllis, had died. Phyllis had just turned 83 and lived across town.
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Words With Friends? Any of you all that have iPhones or iPod touches playing? Fancy a game with MeChatters? Add your name here, mmkay?
What's your next meal? →Read more...
It's the little things that make me happy - like being able to re-arrange program buttons on my taskbar
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Which is creepier? Dramas with a laugh track (
The Wire,
Taxi Driver,
The Shining) or comedies without one (
Friends,
Full House,
Big Bang Theory)?
Photo Friday : Reflections
28 January 2010
RETURN OF WHELK RADIO: THEME RANDOM Had a house guest who left me a USB drive full of movie. I'm playing the music unheard, based on file names alone. Seat of the Pants radio right here, RIGHT NOW (tell me how wrong I am on
#bunnies)
This is probably a dumb question but... Is there such a thing as a USB cable that would go from my computer to my TV and turn the TV into a computer monitor? So that, for instance, I could watch hulu on my TV?
Y'ins are supposed to entertain me but I'm bored. You're all fired!
Happy Birthday Rhapsodie and Meatbomb!
The Name Chain Game Combine two (or more) of any of the following to create a humorous hybrid name:
—band name
—movie, book, song, or TV show title
Example: The Unbearable Lightness of Being John Malkovich
Journal entry for the day. What's your journal entry for the day? Here's mine.
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True Story CHAPTER XI. ON THE TRAMP. The Day of my Deliverance. Out of Clothes.
Sharing with a Beggar. A Good Friend. Tramping Through the Snow.
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Homebrewer Resource I recently started helping my friend/neighbour/co-worker/mentor build his first website. He has written one beer cloning book, co-authored another brewing book, and is using his site/blog now to start collecting material for his next beer book.
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27 January 2010
Thank you so much, Sundance posers. Thank you so much for taking up every parking spot on my entire street with your SUVs still sporting their Obama bumper stickers. It wouldn't feel like January without you.
TWO AND A HALF MEN -- Two restraining orders and a hit man
"Actors feed off the energy of live audiences and showrunners really hate it when assassins spoil that." Veteran TV writer Ken Levine speculates about life on the set of a beleaguered sitcom.
Finished work for the day! I work remotely and my work queue gets uploaded every Thursday morning. It's now empty. Thus, I have an amazing 5 hours of my own time starting now! What should I do? I'm paralyzed here. (Cold sunny day in NYC)
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Signed Guitar Haitian Earthquake Relief The site may not look pretty, but I can assure people it is on the up-and-up. I used to work with Avocado Productions/ Guacamole Fund when I lived n LA--and for some events in DC. They put on concerts for good causes. They run the annual Voters for Choice concerts, etc.
Just thought I'd share.
The theme for this week's Photo Friday is Reflections. Search through your photo albums, find the pictures you feel best reflect this theme (hahaha, I'm SO witty) and we'll see them on Friday.
For new members - don't post your pictures in this thread. This is just a 'heads up' to give people time to find their photos. There'll be a new Photo Friday thread on, erm, Friday where everyone can post their pictures.
After watching this video of First Lady Michelle Obama surprising guests at the White House, I would like to apply for the job of First Lady.
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Update. As many points as it takes.
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Just saw After Last Season There's absolutely no way in hell this movie was made by an incompetent writer/director/etc.
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26 January 2010
When I heard this, it amazed me: →Read more...
Paella update: 7 out of 10 →Read more...
Yesterday, I went to the doctor for a follow-up on my recently bruised ribs.
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Tried anything new lately? →Read more...
Is there an echo in here? →Read more...
Actions vs. Words vs. Intentions etc. →Read more...
25 January 2010
OMG EmCee Update! →Read more...
Why do I feel bad about doing good? →Read more...
Give your awesome ideas for Roast Chicken Legs And Breasts! Got some niiiice chicken thighs and breasts from the market. Wanna roast them for dinner. Tips? Tricks? Awesome side dishes?
OMG!!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!
tl;dr Low Carb Diet? Hope? Quick, can you tell me the principles of a healthy, reasonable low-carb diet? Something simple and elementary? Don't make me think too much!
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Everything is Terrible ...a project of collecting 1980s and 90s VHS tapes and culling weird historical moments from them.
Found via this NPR story.
What have you changed your mind about lately? →Read more...
"Herb & Dorothy" (trailer) I watched this documentary over the weekend, about a highly unlikely pair of art collectors, and was completely charmed by it.
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24 January 2010
Help me think of an excuse to work from home! →Read more...
Choose My Next Press Photo! Or, thinly veiled excuse for vanity. You decide.
Sunday TPSing. GO! →Read more...
Tomorrow is another Eat Chocolate Cake for Breakfast Day! →Read more...
23 January 2010
3-point weekend update →Read more...
*waves to Mechabuns from Kiev/Kyiv* Finishing up a great holiday even though it's minus a million degrees.
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Dream journal I have to keep a health journal and it's become boring. So I'm starting to keep a dream journal with it.
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Small dinner party: what to serve? →Read more...
This is a thread for saying kind things. →Read more...
22 January 2010
Never Rains in Southern Calilfornia? I can't resist posting this webgrab. . .a few blocks down the beach from where I grew up.
THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD!!!! →Read more...
If you tell someone you don't feel well, and they say, "You don't look sick," how would you take that? More like an accusation of lying or a compliment about how good you look in spite of your illness?
NSFW -- Dungeons and Dragons with P*rn St*rs (link inside) I think if the 14-year-old me could travel forward in time to see this blog, his head would explode.
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'All-Weather' Radio III This should be the last day of "Storm Week"* in California and I have 3 more hours of 'weather-themed' music collected (Rain, Sunshine, Snow & Wind songs), so let's do it... At Noon Pacific Storm Front Time, 3PM East Coast US, 8PM UK, 11:30PM Tehran, 5AM Seoul, 8AM New Zealand, or just the top of the next hour.
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The Non-Kosher Couscous: So I still had some bacon left-over from Spicy Beef Curry last night, and some of the veggies ...
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vegetarian paella - how do I make it? Is it possible? →Read more...
Chicagoans! Meetup alert... with a shocking twist! I'm pretty excited, though it's entirely possible that no one's going to give two shits about the SEEKRIT OUTING but me. Whee!
Famous Last Lines? Famous final lines from stories, like "It's the beating of his hideous heart!" From the Tell Tale Heart. What are some?
Bohemian RhapsoSMACK! A funny for your Friday afternoon.
Funny WiFi Names Via HuffPost. . .(the name of my WiFi is *fluffyontheporch*)
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Movin' on Up We're moving! I've been through
the AskMe threads on moving and read
FlyLady's moving tips. What are your pro tips for moving house? Or your moving stories, successes, or agonies?
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Photobooth Friday! In a departure from our usual format, BP had the great idea to make this Photobooth Friday. Dig out that strip of photos from your teens, and let's see it.
Or create your own, using the
Photobooth Generator (needs Flickr or Facebook account).
And
here's a wonderful example of how Photobooths work their magic.
I have to buy a 50th birthday present and have no idea. Hope me! My dear friend is turning 50 and I've got just under a week to buy something. Nothing I've come up with is good.
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21 January 2010
I have to get up at 5:30 am tomorrow and I'm not tired at all. For reference, it's 10:38 pm now. Suggestions?
This is a thread for amro and I to discuss our love of MTV's
Teen Mom. Haters to the left.
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3-Point Status Update →Read more...
This song is probably worth a moment of your day.
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Grrrrr Having a Texas Hissie Fit. My ex- just screwed me for 300+ Amurrican bux.
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Ask MeCha: SHORT daily (or weekly podcasts)? →Read more...
Let's talk about pasta, too... →Read more...
"Preacher" songs My neighbour/friend, Todd Tyson, does a weekly radio program on a local station here in Vermont, and he asked me to help him think of some songs that involve preachers of some sort.
The show is primarily folk and blues though.
Any ideas? Especially you MeCha Radio DJs!
Let's talk about homemade pizza It's my latest culinary obsession. What are your hints, tips, best practices, etc.? Very simple dough recipe inside.
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Let's talk about clothes. My post about
Put This On got some lurve, and some h8, and I have some ideas about why. Please let me share them with you...
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"...my brother-in-law called me up and asked me to take some photographs of him and his girlfriend Sarah on their way to work".
Via.
Yes, I'm Quinn's father John Edwards, if I were your momma, I would whup up on your ass right now SO HARD.
Whelkly Whelkly Quite Weary: How Does your Garden Grow? Not well! My flowering maple has died, so has my basil, my lemon mint, and everything else looks kinda sickly. What can I do?
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[spoilers] I finally finished Battlestar Galactica and I am sad →Read more...
Sweet Beatles Infographs Check out the album key chart.
20 January 2010
Since we've got so many new folks, how about a round of a/s/l?
Poor Heidi Montag. She used to be so pretty. Now she looks 10 years older and like she's on her way to being the next Jocelyn Wildenstein.
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Urrrrgh!! Do not click this link. Worst. Thing. Ever.
Spoiler inside.
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I can't think of a smart way to.... sort out HOW to pick a biography of someone. For instance, it recently occurred to me that I'd like to read a good bio of Dean Martin. But...there are a few out there. Any ideas how you'd decide which biographies are WORTH reading?
Time for a big bunny welcome! After the jump, feel free to say hi to all the new users who have signed up over the holiday season. And new users? welcome! Hope you all settle in well.
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Please empower me... I'm trying to replace an electrical outlet at Swan's End. Shouldn't be a problem as I've done it a handful of times now. Except it is because the wires in the outlet are too short, and it's making it very difficult to get the wires inserted amd locked in place. What do you recommend? Should I call an electrician, or is there some way to lengthen the wires by splicing on news ones or something?
It's only two days away! What's only two days away? Photobooth Friday!!
Whoa. That's all there is to say, really.
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More 'All-Weather' Radio (previously) I just woke up to the sound of thunder, and rather than cursing the Bob Segar earworm, decided to start playing some more of the 140+ weather-related songs I've collected. The rains begin at 7:30am Pacific, 10:30am Eastern, 3:30pm GMT, 1:30am in most of Australia, etc.
Binx,
beloved friend to all, avid community activist, and local celebrity goat passed away Monday, in his sleep.
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Things to be thankful for, item #59 I'm glad I'm safer than
the women in the Broadview Security commercials.
Cat Invites Stuffed Bear Up to See Etchings. This video of Mefi member MsMolly's cat Chewy was posted in an AskMe about
cats n' their special toys. It's making me laugh.
19 January 2010
PARTY LIKE IT'S 1994 You don't need to understand the reference; if you need a musical pickup as much as I do, I've assembled my most mindlessly happy music for me AND you... Starting in a few minutes (bottom of the hour and working its way up)
Mass goes Republican? With 65% precincts reporting, Republican Scott Brown is at 53% for Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, Democratic since 1952. What a crazy world we live in!
In the year two thousaaaaand...
Robot children will tow flesh-and-blood children around in rickshaws!
Anyone subscribe to Cook's Illustrated? I would love to know what they said about the various skillets. I read somewhere else that the All-Clad won, but I don't want to spend $100 on a pan. So I'm especially curious about the Cuisinart and Miu which are a lot cheaper. If you have a 12" skillet you like I, feel free to chat about it here.
Tim Tebow, former
University of Miami quarterback,
Heisman Trophy winner and sure-shot first-round NFL draft pick, has recorded a commercial to air during the
Super Bowl.
It's sponsored by
Focus on the Family, and
it's about abortion.
Who wants to come to my house and pick up a power juicer? Random gift I got that I do not have room for. Want it before I send it off to Goodwill?
Mefite headspace got nominated for an Edgar Award! I'm too closely related to post it, but my stepdaughter Saundra Mitchell (
headspace on Mefi) just got nominated for an Edgar Award!
As you can imagine, this is a Big Deal here at chez pjern!
I had a Throwback Mountain Dew last night. It was really good.
Beauty And The Cookie Monster Woof This was, like, the hyoooge-est hit in Latvia last year.
Puppies exist. Your bad mood is invalid.
18 January 2010
MetaRadio WEATHER or Not While it's raining kitties and puppies around me, I've been going through my music collection pulling everything weather-related. DANG there are a lot of songs with "rain" in the title. Starting in a few minutes, I'll have 45 minutes of different versions of one classic blues 'Weather' song (culled from another collector's 80+ versions), then on the top of the hour (8PM Pacific, 11PM Eastern, 4AM GMT, etc etc) I'll go crazy with Rain, Sunshine, Snow, Wind and other Weather, in a set that will run a long time (and probably still need to be cut off and continued later). Tune in any time for the next mumblemumble and bring your own umbrella!
The Weird Book Room If you have a hankerin' for the seriously highbrow, for classics such as
Natural Bust Enhancement With Total Mind Power,
50 Ways to Use Feminine Hygiene Products in a Manly Manner and
Is Your Dog Gay?, this is the place for you.
winter crazies? →Read more...
MetaRadio: Music Box I'm on the radio for a little while, playing jazz, maybe some other stuff, making it up as I go along. Please join me, if you're so inclined.
Good Johnny Carson videos? During the current U.S. late-night talk show fracas, people (usually not in the Leno camp) often reverentially refer to Johnny Carson, and intimate that he was the greatest late-night talk show host ever. I wasn't usually allowed to stay up that late when Johnny Carson was on the air, so I missed it. Can anyone point me to some specific videos that illustrate why Carson was so fantastic?
The Office Park. U.K. artist Nicholas Cobb built a model of a corporate office park, then took these
eerie,
dystopian photos of it and the tiny people trapped within it.
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Hip-Hop Legend: Rock the Boat Funny how our minds work; I find it strange that so many people sincerely swear they heard this line when it was probably never said.
17 January 2010
Help me settle an argument with my seven year old: What is the back of your face?
If your life were turned into a movie, what might end up on the soundtrack?
Depressed bunny The wrong candidate
just won the Chilean presidential election.
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I can't sleep. What do you do when you can't sleep?
Monty Python Brainstorming I might be moving soon, and this means I can finally realize a dream of mine, one that I have had for many many years...
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16 January 2010
Quick, be my mom for a minute: How long should I cook this steak?
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Burgled... part deux Swan's End got burgled today. I'm getting to be an old hand at this, since I've been burgled
before.
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Etiquette issue for the modern age: yoga class, or cult recruiting? →Read more...
15 January 2010
BP Radio at midnight eastern time. (About 15 mins from now.)
PROJECT RUNWAY!!! Spoiler *** SPOILERSOMGSPOILERS ***
TABING OUT IS NOT AN OPTION: First Time! Last Time! Ask The Whelk Anyting!
I'm thinking about having an existential crisis. Any tips?
Anyone up for some MP3 Shuffle-a-gogo? The rules are simple: MP3 player on shuffle, first 10 songs, no cheating.
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Bunny Vs Kitty a medieval white out
Is there such a thing as single-trip auto insurance for a borrowed (but not rented) car?
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Coming next week: Photobooth Friday! We thought we'd give you an early heads-up that next week's Photo Friday will be a little different- the theme will be
photobooth pics! You can either post a real strip of photobooth photos, or
make your own online.
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14 January 2010
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New Improved Radio Broadcast Thing! NIRBT! Easier broadcasting is here. Lots of folks signed up for radio but only a few have broadcast. Some people said the setup of Winamp was too complicated.So,
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Ladies & Gentlemen Refresh Your Browsers MetaRadio continues almost-immediaely after Arse's set with More 70s and lotsa 80s...
Don't cry for me. All is not lost. It looks like I'm getting a (brief) contract extension.
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Radio in about ten minutes. 60's 70's 80's in that order.
*Radio Free Rollick* tonight @ 10pm eastern i've got 3 set lists ready to go . so lemme know which one you want and i'll play it
OMG LAMB BORN WITH HUMAN FACE!
Warning: If you value your sanity,
DO NOT click above link! There are no whuffles to be found inside.
Also: WTF Pravda?!
Olympics TV Schedule. If anyone is interested, the U.S. tv schedule for the Winter Olympics is online now.
13 January 2010
what do you do when you're on pins and needles? I've been waiting all week for a Very Important phone call - to hear if my husband got a job or not. I am going insane. Halp.
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Here's something fun for you to do. (No, really.)
1. Go to
gmail.com. You must be logged out of all accounts.
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It's official. My boss was "let go" and I have nothing to do til my contract runs out on Friday. Won't you join me in #bunnies?
The theme for this week's Photo Friday is 'Glow'. Search through your albums for your glowy pictures and get ready to post them on Friday.
Haiti relief I made a donation to
Haiti Emergency Relief today.
Here is a list of other highly-rated relief agencies helping with earthquake recovery in Haiti.
Doesn't the cat look egregiously photoshopped into this photo? The image is for a CSM article about E-Readers. Cat: photoshopped or not?
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What's for dinner? Bonus question: what should I have for dinner?
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Ask Mecha: Jury Duty I've been summoned to jury duty. How can I maximize my chances of actually serving on a jury?
Peeve: It's FLAIR, copywriters of the world, not FLARE. You're trying to say your boot/pants/home decor has FLAIR. A person or company has a FLAIR for design.
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Your pal, John K. Animator and mad genius John Kricfalusi's
(Ren & Stimpy, George Liquor, etc) letter (with illustrations!) to an aspiring 14-year-old animator.
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Disaster has struck. I just dropped and broke my favorite tea mug. This is now officially not a good day.
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12 January 2010
My Favorite Out of Context WTF Quotes What are yours??
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Random recipe generator - via MetaFilter, and the funniest thing I have seen this year.
Solid Potato Salad - The Ross Sisters
Is there no room in today's world for an act like this?
RIP Vic Chesnutt, who as most of you know died by his own hand on Xmas day. In case you missed it, Terry Gross did an incredible memorial show for Chesnutt last week on
Fresh Air. You can listen to it
here.
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Lyrics fun? I'm a little bored today. Let's try to have some fun...these are a little all over the place, so hopefully there's something for everyone!
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A few good songs found on garageband.com recently. The last one on the list is really awesome.
Rules of the game. Grab the nearest book. Turn to page 55. Go to the fifth sentence. What does it say?
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Anyone in Prague? Gonna gonna gonna BE there in like 5 hours.
11 January 2010
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More spoilers. Did anyone watch Big Love last night? →Read more...
SPOILER. Question about the movie "The Road" Yes, I said SPOILER.
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New mods in the new year! We have rounded out the moderator team with a couple of new faces...
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10 January 2010
Looking back ... Highs and Lows of 2009? →Read more...
Jessamyn quit her Library Job: But she still has dental (and nice hair)
Philip Johnson's Thanksgiving Chapel (built in 1976) is a strange,
beautiful white spiral of a building in Dallas, TX, featuring a spiral stained-glass ceiling that
grows brighter as it reaches the center.
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The Winter Blahs Have Set In Holidays are over.
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OMG Kitteh!!!11!! don't eat me! please!
Harmon Bethea, 86. "If [he] never reached the pinnacle of national success, it might have been some consolation that his records are today much prized by collectors of doo-wop and Northern Soul music and live on through
music blogs and
YouTube playlists."
Up and at 'em! A cleaning to-do list thread. →Read more...
I really wish someone would do a metafilter post about...
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09 January 2010
What's for dinner? →Read more...
Do you tip when you buy take-out? If so, how much?
Joyce Carol Oates reads Eudora Welty I wanted to like this but the story she selects is kinda dark... but it's still interested to see the two come together like this.
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"Here To Fall" by Yo La Tengo Great song. Nice shout-outs to early-seventies soul in this one.
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What? What? What? No, seriously. What?
Sleep Talkin' Man. A mild-mannered Englishman lives quite a colourful life in his dreams.
*Radio Free Rollick* tonight @ 10pm eastern its wet and blustery outside so i'm gonna stay inside tonight and spin some tunes . join me wont you ?
Hope Me Search - So I think it was on MetaChat that someone posted the series of pictures of ducklings that feel through a grating.
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I can't stop listening to this. Dragnet, Sam Spade, Box 13, Johnny Dollar, 21st Precinct, Broadway Is My Beat, Richard Diamond, etc. etc. etc.
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08 January 2010
BP Radio: Wintry Mix II (again) I played it early this morning, and now I'm gonna play it again. Starting right now.
In honor of Mr. Presley's 75th birthday...
Did you know about the
"Find" bar in Google Chrome? I just discovered it today, it's what I've always wanted in a browser.
Solid Potato Salad. Watch past the first 45 seconds.
Ask MeCha: gall bladder owies!
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BP Radio: Wintry Mix II Starting in 30 minutes... warm tunes for a cold day.
(Unless you're down under, in which case it's hot tunes for hot times!)
Photo Friday: Yipes! Stripes!
In case you, like me, are a giant John Sayles nerd: here's the blog for his current project,
Baryo!
07 January 2010
The woman mentioned in
this thread got fired today (for something unrelated). What goes around comes around, lady.
Next Monday is Chocolate Cake for Breakfast Day (International). You won't find a lot about it on the internets, but it is fairly self-explanatory. I will be celebrating it. Join me!
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*Radio Free Rollick* tonight at 10pm eastern i just found out that i have tonight free, so i thought i'd clear off another sheet of paper and do another set, seeing as there was no one booked on the calendar . tonight its going to be music by cool chicks
ARGH tarantula story That's all I'm saying. Story has a big-ass spider picture right up front if you don't like that sorta thing.
(via middleclasstool offsite)
Skinny Domicile and other poems, written as if the poets titled their poems with the anagrams of their names.
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This link is NSFW. My question is about why/how this is not safe, and why it might get someone fired. What happens "at work" once this shows up on someone's monitor?
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06 January 2010
Part of the reason why Keith Moon was the greatest rock 'n roll drummer ever.
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Happy birthday dear mear! Chrismear it's your birthday!
Happy birthday chrismear!
Curious: Are we going to say "twenty-ten", or "two-thousand (and) ten"? These things are important, you know.
*Radio Free Rollick* Tonight At 10pm Eastern I've got four shows prepared, but i'm not sure which one to go with . should it be #1, #2, #3 or #4 ? you decide
Edmund Blackadder turns 55 today. OK, actually it's Rowan Atkinson who's having the birthday. And BTW, Mr. Bean is the
new president of the European Union.
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The theme for this week's Photo Friday will be "Yipes! Stripes!" No pictures yet - find your stripiest pictures and post them on Friday.
05 January 2010
Chanterelles! Not to brag, but I just dug some out of the dirt this afternoon and had 'em for dinner tonight. Turns out life is not dismal and hopeless after all.
NYC people and/or readers of the New Yorker, can I please pick your brains? There was an article in the New Yorker (I think) awhile back about a guy who owns a restaurant in NYC. Not unusual in itself, but he is crabby & direct & tells people if they don't like the food, get out! (The food is supposed to be great, BTW). Anyone know who the guy is or the restaurant name?
Oh, not the Soup Nazi. This was a sit down entree kinda place.
Robot Radio: Machine Music NOT techno-industrial (think about some of the acts that used "Machine" in their song titles or band names)
Coming up next hour: 3PM Silicon Valley, 6PM New York, 11PM London, 1AM Athens, 8AM Tokyo, 10AM Melbourne...
BeautifulPeople.com is "a social networking site for 'beautiful people.'" I initially found this idea somewhat abhorrent, but that was before I found out they are now
kicking out users for gaining pounds over Christmas holidays.
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Bad egg. Happy nightmares, kiddies!
My cat is in REM sleep but her eyes are open and it's kind of freaking me out.
Hungarian Diction Lesson - just sing along and learn. (The song is titled 'Try to Speak Slowly')
When They Do The Mambo In Paris: Radio Celebration of my long-overtude trip to France 10AM New York 4PM Paris.
Hurl a baguette at me in
#bunnies
I was feeling kind of sad about drama on the Internet today and I was wondering what meaningful ways are there to communicate about triggery issues in an online setting.
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04 January 2010
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Can you make a piece of hard candy last, or do you have to crunch it?
Has anyone tried the Galileoscope? Thinking about ordering one. Is it worth it?
Ask Mecha + Rant Can I fire my furnace guy?
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Ask MeCha: What's a good wine substitute? Not in cooking, like taz's question, but for sipping.
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Who is your tribe? Do you have a tribe?
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Quick soup hope me?! Eep! I'm making a creamy chicken broth, mushroom and wild rice soup. The recipe calls for white wine, but I don't have any, and don't feel like going out to get any.
Use beer instead of wine, or just forget the alcohol? (I also don't have brandy, or anything like that.)
The things from dreams are free: So I had a nap and a dream ...a dream with what I think is a good idea in it.
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03 January 2010
Santa Fe Clam Chowder. Make this now, because it's awesome.
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Is there a way to get habenero ouchy juice off one's fingers? Washing thoroughly with hand soap does not seem to be doing it. Should I stick my hand in a lemon or something?
MetaRadio Presents: A Musical Journey: From Cleveland to San Luis Obispo (via Route 66 and various stops 'round California and L.A.)
From Frankie Yankovic to Weird Al Yankovic (with 60+ years of popular & unpopular music inbetween)
The voyage begins at 3PM in L.A., 6PM in Cleveland, 11PM GMT, 9AM DownUnderTime (about 15 minutes after this post)
Ask mecha: I got a gift card I won't use. Wanna swap? →Read more...
OMG devils! And some possible good news too.
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There will be pictures, but not tonight. I got a decade's growth of hair cut off today.
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02 January 2010
BP Radio: Wintry Mix 2 hours of music starting at 3PM Eastern, 12 noon Pacific, 9PM London, and 9AM in Pago Pago.
(In other words, in about 25 mins.)
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Your first sidebar art for 2010 is sort of happysad, sombre and bright, reflecting forward and back, inward and outward with, top to bottom on the left: a stark, contemplative window scene from Slack-a-gogo, a beautiful splash of winter color from specklet, a photo of her cat Spunky on the morning of his
last day by typewriter, and a bit of whimsical embroidery by jonathanstrange. On the right, a photo of Kaylee as the spirit of winter elegance by deborah.
"Fixed the heating!" I can't be the only one who watched the Doctor Who finale yesterday... what did we all think? (
Spoilers within, obviously.)
It was arse_hat's birthday yesterday.
26-shot panorama of Cook Inlet from downtown Anchorage, AK in New Year's Eve. 11,462px wide, 540kb. Includes Mt. Susitna (aka Sleeping Lady), a partial eclipse of the blue moon, Denali (Mts. Foraker, Hunter, and McKinley), and two tiny airplanes.
01 January 2010
The Slang Of Body Language I am reminded on this remembering eve that a a friend said I was the only person she knew who could actually could "raise hackles", a quirk of movement where I become bigger and stiffer and colder looking when threatened. I never knew I could do this, nor was I aware I was doing it. What are your odd body language quirks?
MetaRadio: Music Box It'sa me, box, on the MetaRadio. Making it up as I go along, but there will be stuff from 2009, and also from other years. Please listen, if you're so inclined.
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My nightmares have become extremely mundane and not so scary. →Read more...
Year O' Books. According to my LibraryThing list, I read 92 books this year. But there's a good chance I left a couplethree off, so let's say I read
at least 92 books this year, and probably not more than 95. My first book of 2009 was
The Gargoyle (started on Jan. 01), and the last was
The Crimson Petal and the White (finished on Dec. 31, yesterday). Tidy!
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Photo Friday. In honour of the New Year, this week's theme is "Old/New"
BP Radio: Same Old Lang Syne Going to attempt to follow up Whelk's decade-busting set! At least 1 hour of tunes.
Keep me awake. I got 45 minutes till the new year. Inspire me! Annoy me! Amuse me!
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Top ten songs of 2009 According to my iTunes. I'm using a smart playlist for this one ([Play count] [is greater than] [0], limit 10, or 25, or whathaveyou).
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NEW YEAR! NEW RADIO! Get all soppy and drunk with The Whelk and sing along in
#bunnies in about 10
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