31 December 2011
Happy birthday to me! Apparently I don't have it written on MeCha anywhere. Oops.
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As we mark time passing... a Gallery of the Fabulously Aging →Read more...
Almost the New Year in the UK.
Preemptive strike!
Double Yolk! I maded you a video.
Seattle Move : Game over. I won! #shitgoesboom Now what?!
MetaChat, I am so sorry! I've been kind of a lame holiday MetaChatter. My cards are late and I missed my Dec 25th Giftstravaganza contribution. Inside are a few New Year's gifts to make up for it (I hope). It's been that kind of year. Sorry for all the dropped balls, just glad to have made it to tonight in good health and hopeful.
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Since I am close to 50k favorites and working on a new story And cause favorites are amusingly pointless, the username that grants the 50kth favorite will be worked into this draft somehow.
December Musical Giftstravaganza, Day 31. Some sweet sweet 70s sentiment for you from Barry Manilow. Plus a bonus.
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30 December 2011
#4, but not on the floor. Remember on Dec 8 that after I mopped the kitchen floor...
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MLP: Fighting is Magic is either a really cool idea or a really great troll site.
End of the year POINTS! →Read more...
Photo Friday: Wrapped, covered, shrouded, draped
29 December 2011
"Salesman" is a documentary released in 1968 and was the first
feature film by the Maysles brothers and Charlotte Zweirin, who would go on to make the documentary
Gimme Shelter a few years later about the Rolling Stones' ill-fated concert at Altamont. I just watched
Salesman today, and was absolutely blown away by it.
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Question in video form Answers? (Need not be in video form)
December Musical Giftstravaganza, Day 29: "Winter Love," by Robyn Hitchcock.
David Sedaris' diary entries If you want to listen to something hysterical for 23 minutes, this is worth it just for a fascinating look into heretofore unknown aspects of poop culture, at least to me.
Things are great! Really great! If you're in South Carolina! Oh, brother.
28 December 2011
Photo Friday Advance: Wrapped, covered, shrouded, draped - suggested by flapjax at midnite
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Your recommendations It's the time of year I try to make the vain attempt to catch up on everything I've missed so far: music, books, movies, comics, sites, games, food, shows, etc.
Is there a list of [blank] you highly recommend or do you have a personal list of what's not to be missed?
It doesn't even necessarily have to be from this year, as long as you enjoyed it this year. I want to hear your recommendations and bests of the year.
27 December 2011
Rabbit advocate, Amy Sedaris Bunnywise, it seemed neglectful not to have her here. So enjoy
some rabbit related Amy Sedaris fun.
Show us yer pudding then! Did we indulge ourselves over the holidays? Cook something special?
Mobile Firefox (for Android, specifically). Do people use it rather than the default browser? Do you like it?
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Just wondering about ambulance backboards Why is there, or there used to be,a sharpish thing on the backboard paramedics use that digs into the base of your skull? If it's because you're short, that makes no sense because then it should dig in near the top of your skull or above your skull if the sharp thing, whatever it is, is in the proper place for most people, which would I guess be the neck because there's less body weight there. Really, there is no good place for a sharp thing to dig in. What's that about?
Need Guinness. Could mean the beer, but I will settle for an animal status report. What be the state of the creatures ye care for? Yes, humans count. And while you are at it, how are you?
nponzi! shneggdellac hwol. kjhjdi?
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26 December 2011
DJ Earworm's United State of Pop 2011: A mashup of the top 25 pop songs of 2011 on the U.S. charts.
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Methinks Sookie and I have found a new home. I meet the owner tomorrow afternoon and we should be able to move in on Friday. Stay tuned.
for Boxing Day (a little late - hope you had a good one and the holiday spirit kept on)
December Giftstravaganza: Day 26 I don't have the most sophisticated of musical tastes, but here are 3 tracks from Trans-Siberian Orchestra off their "The Lost Christmas Eve" album.
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25 December 2011
Interrupting Mac Migration Assistant First of all Merry (holiday or non-holiday of your choice) Bunnies!
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Online holiday hooha So flickr is snowing pink snowflakes and busting lights.
Google, of course, has its animated bit that's been up since yesterday. Can we list all the celebratory trinkets and toys out there?
MERRY CHRISTMAS, BUNNIES!!! Was Santa good to you? Do tell.
Santa tracking by NORAD These folks are way cool. A few years back I posted this to Metafilter and Santa had just left Toronto
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24 December 2011
Festivus is NOT for the rest of us, but if you're looking for an alternative holiday on December 25th, there is
Newtonmas, the documented birthday of Isaac Newton*. Or...
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The Five Deadlies Grooves of 2011 From NPR, which is weird, as I haven't thought of NPR as the curator of beats. But it's not holiday music, if you need to take a breather.
White Wine In The Sun I posted
this song from Australian musician/comedian Tim Minchin last year as part of the Musical Giftstravaganza, but here it is again this year, both for those in the southern hemisphere who celebrate Christmas in the summertime, and for those of us who love the holiday as a chance to spend time with loved ones, even without religious belief.
Merry Trippy Christmas, everyone! It's already Christmas in my timezone, and this seemed suitably Christmas-y to me. Enjoy!
Santa Claus is still coming to town in this time zone And I love this 33 year old version, which arrived in my email recently.
Traditional Boys Choir - I didn't sign up for the music extravaganza but, thanks to Mefi, I ran across a couple videos that fans of childrens' choirs may enjoy:
Carol of the Bells and
O Holy Night.
Christmas Music Day 24 BONUS. Ho, Ho,
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Fireplace (beta). A cozy, 8-bit fire can fill your home with low-res holiday cheer. (Type words to interact with the fire.)
Creating the Cocktail for the New Year The Challenge - Incorporate the fig vodka someone gave me as a gift. I'm thinking Pomegranate juice aaaaand?
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Christmas Music Day 24. We're going Mid Century Christmas today, with music from an album my parents played every year.
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Today's the day when we give whuffles and hugs to mightshould - so whuffle away!
Card Love! Where we say thank-you to TPS for organizing the card exchange and say thank-you to each other for all the cardy goodness!
23 December 2011
Travelling with cat! Help? →Read more...
I just did a Google image search on "computer cat". It was fun.
Ooh ooh ooh Can we talk about all this stuff now? So many possible discussions and chats, if I can keep the Bees off the keyboard.
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December Musical Giftstravaganza! - Day 23! Getting close! I'll going to throw a few songs into the mix, so check inside
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Hope me, bunnies! Do you know of someone who'd like a quick one-off job designing/building a small, simple gallery website over the next two weeks?
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Photo Friday: Flash/No Flash
22 December 2011
10 things you (probably) didn't know about me. Bringing back another old MeCha tradition.
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The December Musical Giftstravaganza, Day 22 brings you "
Christmas Lights," by the late lamented band from Austin by way of San Francisco,
J Church.
apple cider what's up mecha! I wanted to know about this spiced warm apple cider thing. what exactly is apple cider like can it be made at home? the non alcoholic type? I'm pretty confused on whether it's just squeezed apples or something else
Animals Sing "12 Days of Christmas" Kind of long for what it is but it's amusing and Jupiter and Rory are my favorites.
21 December 2011
December Musical Giftstranza, December 21 edition My google fu failed me in finding the origin of this gorgeous piece, Nou is Yole Comen but it is sure some nice singing by the Portland Revels.
Getting in the mood Just found out
Auntie Mame is streaming on Netflix. Trying to get festive but it's a struggle.
What works for you?
Is the answer is drug-fueled orgy? Are there an assortment of twinkling lights?
The Politics of Breast Cancer. . . I have recently been in touch with someone I last knew in high school (a rare thank-you to Facebook). She is working for an organization called Breast Cancer Action,
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Photo Friday Advance: Flash/no flash, suggested by rainbaby
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A Wild Year at Banff National Park an awesome video compiled from a years worth of pictures taken by a motion activated camera out in the woods. Also, let me direct your attention to
this great post on the blue where jimmythefish
originally posted this link.
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Changed Vets. . .Old One Not Happy We have had the same veterinarian for over 30 years. She is a "housecall" vet who comes and provides services at people's homes.
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A brief holiday film My 7yo daughter wrote and directed a film about a Latin girl finding out about how Christmas is celebrated in America and she asked me to film it. It was too funny not to share it.
20 December 2011
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This is not the Christmas music you were looking for. 21 minutes of silly happy hardcore holiday songs. Your welcome, or I'm sorry, you pick.
The Rise of the Singing Christmas Tree. As someone who thinks the best part of the holidays is all the tacky, wretched excess, I'm a fan of those towering cones of singing people.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MISS-LAPIN!!!!!!!!!!!
19 December 2011
In which the December Musical Giftsravaganza gets hosed by the Int'l Date Line. Here's day 19 (hey, it's still the 19th where I am). My gift for you all today is
"I Want a Monkey For Christmas" by
The Barbary Coasters.
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December Musical Giftravaganza - Day 20 In which I act in a completely predictable manner ...
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ask MeCha - tips/ideas for small-ish solstice party? →Read more...
Youtube -> mp3 converter? Anyone know if a free service that will allow me to convert a Youtube video to mp3
and download the file? There are plenty that offer an on-line service, but I can't find one that will let me grab the resulting output.
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So, drama, all kinds of drama. Any drama you can name. It's the holidays and things are ramped up for :DRAMA!
Vent away.
Dub a dub a dum dum Dub a dub a dum Dub a dum dum dub a dub Dub a dub a dum I don't know if this song is well known outside the UK, but it's played on the radio all the time at Christmas here.
Happy birthday, amro!! Big hugs to you, lady.
The Campaign for Real Snowflakes would like for you to know that snowflakes can only have 6, 3 or 12 sides.
18 December 2011
I just have nights where I need to laugh and laugh. Thank you Robin Williams.
December Musical Giftstravaganza, Day 17 on Day 18 Ooop! Holiday brain caused me to miss my appointed day. Inside we have:
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MeFi/MeCha Fantasy NBA league We still have 3 spots left!
It's a league on Yahoo, and the draft is on Thursday at 8.30pm CST. If you can't draft in person, feel free to set pre-ranks.
The league password is green.
December Musical Giftstravaganza, Bearwife edition Because this song cracks me up every holiday season . . . despite being a bit dated now.
I just wanted to share with you a photo my friend, Jose, took with his iPhone through the sunroof of his car as he drove past 30 Rockefeller Plaza. (see inside)
50 years I'm beginning to find it amazing when people say it's been 50 years since [the civil rights act/colonialism/whatever] get over it. Damn. I'm over half of 50 and I barely have my life together much less an ability to build a society/country/etc.
More food! OK, I cannot resist sharing this easy recipe for chili-lime pecans
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"Don't Believe In Christmas" cuz I didn't get nothin' last year. - The Sonics
cat yawns the way they should sound.
17 December 2011
Final exams are all finished! Watching ponies now. Happy Hearth's Warming Eve!
Xmas Tunes I missed the sign up for songs of xmas thing, but i did stumble across this blog with quite a few zip files full of holiday MP3s
A Pair of Queens I've been watching a lot of opera on Youtube lately, and specifically Mozart's "Die Zauberflote"
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The door is ajar! The game is afoot!
16 December 2011
So our cat Guinness is going to lose one of his legs. Not a great night here.
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Who would you want to look like if you were the opposite gender? →Read more...
December Musical Giftstravaganza Day 16: The horror! The horror! Sorry so late in the game, folks (interview, which went very well!) -- here are five "classics" from my home to yours!
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Coping with Perfectionism. How do you do it? Today, I am trying to summon memories of times I've failed, but that things have worked out all right or better than I could have anticipated (especially the latter).
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Christopher Hitchens dead at 62. Damn this makes me sad in a week full of sadness.
Photo Friday: Coffee cups/mugs
15 December 2011
Why actuated signals are bad for pedestrians. I had no idea that they were called "actuated signals" until I read this article, but I have been hating them for quite a while for all the reasons he lists. There's really no reason a pedestrian should *have* to press a button to get a Walk sign at most intersections.
Everything Everything - Photoshop Handsome (Disclosure Edit) - the latest tune stuck in my ear. More variations on the song inside.
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Bless me, Metachat, for I have sinned. Come inside and confess with me.... →Read more...
December Musical Giftstravaganza Day 15 We are going back to the early '50s in this one.
Spike Jones was a hard-to-classify bandleader, known for screwing around with popular song. This screwing around took some pretty impeccable musicianship, though.
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Singing Christmas Hedgehogs! Choose which one you want to sing.
14 December 2011
December Musical Giftstravaganza day 14 Emergency stand in addition. richat is feeling really ill. Send him some warm thoughts.
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Dancing teddy bears + breakfast cereal + dubstep = this commercial.
Who are today's best lyricists? The Bob Dylans and the Bernie Taupins?
Everyone has six names... →Read more...
Shit, fan, timing. So, I knew this was coming, but where to start? Here goes
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Photo Friday Advance: Coffee cups/mugs, suggested by buzzman
The Man Who Broke the Record on 'Let It Bleed': An interesting article about the designer who came up with the iconic album cover. (The original artwork is going up for auction tomorrow.)
New Ideas for leftover steak? So I made steak last night but I made too much and now I've got a zipper bag of tasty steak bits to use.
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ONE PIG. An album of a pig from birth to food. More
here.
13 December 2011
The Skinny House - A short video from the woman who owns the narrowest house in Boston. It was built as a
Spite House.
Squirrel Jail: This is my new favorite commercial.
Led by the child who simply knew: a story about an amazing family in Maine and their twin children, one of whom is transgender.
open source intelligence & forecasting I don't have a lot of deep thoughts about this right now but after signing up for weekly emails from
Stratfor and
IHS Global Insight I find that I learn a lot more from 500-2000 words from them about geopolitical or economic policy issues than from days and days of "journalism". Newspapers seem to focus a lot more on the daily back and forth whereas there's a type of content that's a lot more useful in figuring out "hey what is this about?"
12 December 2011
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Soup of the evening, beautiful soup... So every week I take part in a pub trivia game at a local bar.
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May I trouble the you for an opinion? Tonight while talking to my brother I floated the idea of sending some of my photos in nice frames to my aunt and uncle for Christmas, and he said he'd like that too. And now I have no idea what I'd even send and what people would even like on their walls.
So if I may, I'd like to post a few pictures and get your esteemed opinions, basically a yea or nay.
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11 December 2011
Everything old is new again? After seeing Young Adult last night, has anyone ever hooked up with a high school sweetheart? Say, 10 or more years after graduation.
The 12 All Time Ugliest Christmas Sweaters Does what it says on the box. Although, I bet there are uglier ones out there.
Musical Giftstravaganza Day 11! A salacious holiday to you with
Back Door Santa from soul man
Clarence Carter. The horn section from this song was sampled for
another Christmas tune.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIkeSCIPARK!!!!!
10 December 2011
Mecha cards! i could post about so many things, and probably will in this thread, but i love the mecha cards i have gotten so far!
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I am trying to describe the crowd in my local bar... they're not regulars, but they are very uniform. It's not the Santa Con people, they're wearing outfits and playing pool...
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A brass band playing Walking on the Air Walking through town today there seemed to be a brass band at every turn!
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In honor of my own birthday (tomorrow), I ask: How do my fellow introverts and/or loners spend their birthdays?
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09 December 2011
School Portrait (video, 2 mins).
I have to bake cookies for a cookie exchange party on Sunday, but what kind? Chocolate chip and sugar cookies are verboten!
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Friday, Saturday, Sunday 3-point plans. →Read more...
The Periodic Table of Swearing. It's interactive! And it's a thing of beauty.
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John Lennon—Where were you when you heard of his death, what were you doing? →Read more...
Photo Friday: Ordinary/Mundane
So how would you indicate your movie is set in the 90s? Based on a discussion on Mefi, what would be the 90s equivalent of the
Mister Sandman Sequence (
tvtropes)
08 December 2011
Cold War neon from Poland. All photos are apparently from
this book. You can click the photos (in the original link) to make them larger, then the "expand" icon in the upper-right to make them huge. So beautiful.
December Musical Giftstravaganza Day Eight You're getting two days in a row of Stevie Wonder, because I couldn't imagine not putting up my favorite Christmas song,
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07 December 2011
This thread is about stuff: An AskMe
crosspost, a bit of an update, and some griping. Hi, guys!
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Photo Friday Advance: Ordinary/Mundane, suggested by Kronos_to_Earth
Musical Giftstravaganza Day 7! Let's take a road trip to Motown ...
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06 December 2011
Cheese food Is that white cheese they will put on nachos and fresh potato chips, etc. actually a purchasable, identifiable cheese, or a processed cheese food as I suspect?
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A segment of the 1980s tabloid show "Hard Copy" about the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, the mystery recounted in
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
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Holiday Music-A-Go-Go, Day 6: I give you THREE, count 'em, THREE works of choral delight -- two performed by yours truly!
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05 December 2011
Every year, the Calgary Hitmen host a Bear Toss at one of their games. Fans wait until the Hitmen score their 1st goal of the night and....well,
just watch.
The 75 Best Songs of 2011, according to Popmatters.com. I was happy to see folks like Washed Out, The Antlers, Girls, and M83 find a place on the list; also, I found over a half-dozen songs I'd never heard before and really liked.
Demza 5: There must be an angel The Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir throw down some angelic harmonies for your delectation on day five of the Giftravaganza. Never fails to stop me in my tracks.
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There are a bunch of movies that I want to see this season. Saw Hugo yesterday and loved it. Who'd have thought that Scorsese could do a kid's movie so well?
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04 December 2011
DMG, Day 4: Mashup Fun! DJ McFly's
Party Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree (LMFAO vs Brenda Lee) from the
Santastic Six: 100% Holiday Mashups and Remixes album. I listened to the album on my way down the interstate yesterday and it was impossible for me to not love this song.
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Question for a Sunday morning. You ain't no grammar Nazi and I'm not one too. But some things just grate on me. If your memo, or worse, your presentation uses
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03 December 2011
Sookie is back with me again after her visit with the kids. All I need now is my box of clothes.
December Musical Giftstravaganza! I almost missed my day, sorry!
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All I want for Christmas is to learn how to dance like this.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JONMC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's Like That! In Soviet Russia, you gonna get served.
02 December 2011
My Friday soundtrack is also the soundtrack to
a 2010 novel of "weird noir, set in contemporary Johannesburg, featuring an ex-junkie protagonist named Zinzi December and her magic sloth. The unconvential pair is caught in a web of intrigue involving murder, 419 email scams, and a missing kwaito/afropop teen star." I am
so intrigued.
DMG, Day 2! Today's offering in the
December Musical Giftstravaganza is "
Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On" by that drum-banging Beatle, Ringo Starr. It's a really fun, glitter-rock styled stomper. (Sequined Santa hat and light-up reindeer not included.) Ho ho ho!
Happy birfday Specklet! Yay! This year you are officially 27!
Photo Friday: Running/Walking
01 December 2011
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December Musical Giftstravaganza! It's December 1, and today's selection is in honor of the whole month - though it's titled
The Twenty-Fifth Day of December, it's also known as The Last Month of the Year, by the
Middle Georgia Four, a group assembled for a
folk festival in the 1940s at a black teachers' college. Here's a more recent version by the
Blind Boys of Alabama. It's a toe-tapper.
Seattle Move: Achievement unlocked. Now what? Gotta find a place to live, preferably just a nice isolated room in someone's basement or over their garage.
AskMe Cross Post Long Shot How can you tell where water came from?
OMG *not* a bunny, even though it's eating a carrot: "Adventurer Mark Moffett has found the world's biggest insect - which is so huge it can eat carrots."
Slayer Goes To Church [youtube, hilarious, slightly offensive to the religious]
30 November 2011
Is Adele cool? I can never tell, since I'm so out of touch.
New sidebar art: thanks to our photographers rhapsodie, plinth, youngergirl44, misteraitch, Senyar, and ufez!
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December Musical Giftstravaganza! This thread is the official info-n-archive thread
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Photo Friday Advance: Walking/running, suggested by flapjax at midnite
29 November 2011
Seattle Move: All lights green. I just have to get to the check-in gate with Sookie in her carrier. This cat's share of the plane ride came to $318. Thank you to everyone for your assistance and concern.
The cornball wholesome fun post in which we share songs that do what it says on the tin
I'll start this off with . . .
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"The trouble begins with a design philosophy that equates 'more options' with 'greater freedom.'" Brian Eno on why simpler tools are often better tools, in spite of (or even because of) their limitations.
28 November 2011
The Card Exchange is upon us! Step in if you are participating.
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so I'm in the shower thinking about King Arthur (no snickering) and I wonder, are medieval legends anachronistic?
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Candi Staton - Victim (8:35, YouTube;
1978) Random shot of disco for your whatever today is wherever you are.
Bummer. Another
Wide World of Sports superstar of my youth has gone.
Not-Worth-An-AskMe-Filter: How do I figure out what music from my ginormous iTunes supply to put on my mobile device?
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As a public service to the MetaChat community, I present a Cyber Monday rundown of (IMO) the better (and under $25US) Printed T-Shirts With Bunnies (OMG):
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So, until this year I haven't had to buy much in the way of Christmas gifts for a while, and I have a question: Are Cyber Monday sales today only, generally? Or do they last for days?
27 November 2011
It's almost December and you know what that means... the
December Musical Giftstravaganza! If you'd like to take part in a MeCha Musical Festivus, enter in...
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Let's talk about size: a cool comparison of planets near us, and some stars. Some BIG BIG stars.
26 November 2011
Alabama Shakes are completely kicking my ass tonight. I implore you to watch the following YouTube clips so they can do the same for you: "
Hold On" :: "
I Found You" :: "
You Ain't Alone"
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"Extreme Measures. With Trevor Eve. Friday at nine. On BBC One."
Some funny deleted scenes from
The Trip, with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon.
25 November 2011
Seeking Couch to Surf Early Dec. A friend of mine in Oakland passed away a few weeks ago,
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Downside of fall. Spent three hours raking and bagging leaves and then put away all the planters and wind chimes. Upside
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UK Versus US Terms - I got 42/45 and the three I missed were the last three because I ran out of time.
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Photo Friday: Hands and Feet
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24 November 2011
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Drive-By Truckers, "The Thanksgiving Filter." LYRICS DBT sing about the coping mechanisms we need sometimes when getting together with family.
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Anyone found a good place to livestream the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
23 November 2011
Food help! Does anyone know how I can incorporate
these suspiros into my sweet potato recipe?
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Photo Friday Advance: Hands and Feet - thanks to workerant!
I'm a beta tester for Diablo III! ...and here's a playlist of videos I've made of gameplay during the last week or so.
If there's any bunnies that like video games and yet don't know about
MeFight Club ... well now, you do!
Happy gobbling for those doing that tomorrow.
The Popovich Movie "Popovich is a 5th generation Circus performer living in a junkyard in Las Vegas with his 2 best friends: Rex and Sebastian, a dog and a cat respectively."
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Giving Thanks for all the folks in
#bunnies, who are awesome.
Happy birthday to jonathanstrange!! W00T!!!
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I baked my first cheesecake! What have you done lately that you're proud of? It was a red velvet
cheesecake I decided to bake for my father's birthday. I'm especially proud of it because my dad loves baking cheesecakes and thus the bar is set pretty high.
What have you done lately that you feel really great about?
22 November 2011
The History of the English Language in 10 fairly entertaining minutes.
The results of the MetaChat Minecraft giveaway are in... →Read more...
Puppies of Fire (via the fluffington post)
Thinking of doing podcasts I'm only fairly recently into podcasts and while I don't have time right now to get into the details (as I gotta run, but I'll be back soon), any one have any podcast related comments? Suggested podcasts, doing podcasts, opinions, what is lacking, what works, what doesn't-- go for it.
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David Bowie on "The Dinah Shore Show" in 1976. Part 2 of the complete show, and
Part 3. Also on the show: Henry Winkler and Nancy Walker.
via.
Inseparable: a dog's seeing eye dog.
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21 November 2011
On the Epic XKCD 'Money' Infographic, why is the "annual cost of rabbit ownership" ($730) higher than a dog ($695) or cat ($670)? (especially since 'small mammal' is just $300?) Evidence of Anti-Bunny Bias?
Pups at play (i.e., let's play with the new phone instead of being productive)
What do Bunnies do at Thanksgiving Time? (I.e., what are your plans?)
wherein my idiot harasser discovers my info look at this unrelenting f***ery
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY NICKYSKYE!!!!!!!
20 November 2011
Charlie My sister called me an hour or so ago to tell me that our youngest brother Charlie died this morning of a massive heart attack. He was 42.
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Rebecca Black's Friday meets Black Friday at Kohl's. Two terrible things that are even worser together. (with high likelihood you'll see it if you watch 'regular TV' this week. eek.)
Is it pinky's birthday too? If so a very happy birthday to you!
Poster girl I have an old chest of drawers I'd like to spruce up by painting and découpaging a poster on the front. I've chosen
"Summer" by Alphonse Mucha as the poster, but as with a gorgeous gay gay, the orientation is wrong for my purposes.
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What are you doing? How about some nice refreshing
IRC?
19 November 2011
It's civic election day in Vancover. Candidate
Harley Jaimes Rose aka dubgee makes his feeling about the local police
known. Soundcloud song NSFW.
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The Official MetaChat Minecraft Giveaway Thread. In honor of
Minecraft finally leaving beta and getting its
official release, we're having TWO giveaways on MetaChat: one for a copy of the game itself, the other for some cool
Minecraft stickers.
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To do! To do! Whatcha gonna do? Up and at 'em! What's on your chore list?
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18 November 2011
It's time once again for the 4th annual Mecha Holiday Card Exchange! Signups are open now through November 27th.
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17 November 2011
Matt Taibbi wonders 'Was Steve Jobs an asshole?' Even just thinking about posting this to Mefi kinda scares me.
New Kate Bush Album (Winter-themed) streaming on NPR first listen. I know she has a few fans here so thought I'd share.
MeFi trouble? Anyone else having trouble connecting to the
mothership this afternoon?
A Very Young Dancer. If you, like me, were obsessed with
this book as a child, you might enjoy this article about what happened to Stephanie later in life, and how tough the ballet world is.
Quince? A Turkish friend has given us a Quince fruit, with instructions to cut it in small pieces
and let it rust (?) for awhile and then eat it. "Quincy" has now been chopped and stowed in a ziplock bag in the refrigerator. Any tips to encourage me as to interesting uses, rather than discreetly throwing it away in about a week?
"Mound," by Allison Schulnik. A beautiful, crazily inventive piece of stop-motion animation.
Bunny Shirt! Woot's write-ups are the best
16 November 2011
hope this isn't abusing metachat, but very small IRL support network i think i need to leave my boyfriend and i posted about it within the last week about on askme so i can't post again. im kinda going crazy in my head and just need some friendly eyes and maybe advice
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Photo Friday Advance: Cold, suggested by rainbaby and fancyoats
Our new sidebar art... and, a giveaway! In honor of
Minecon, the event in Las Vegas where the game
Minecraft finally gets its official, non-beta release this weekend, our new sidebar art consists of in-game screenshots taken by mygothlaundry, octothorpe, and yours truly. Also this weekend, we're going to hold a drawing and give some stuff away!
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Did you really watch "The Wire?" Or did you just browse the Wikipedia entry so you could sound like one of the cool kids? The US government wants to make it
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15 November 2011
Two soundtracks, one video - Original:
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Good fences make good neighbours. And sometimes live ones. Late Sunday night, perhaps at eleven or twelve, I heard something crash outside.
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14 November 2011
Bunny sugar cubes! Eeeeeek I'm melting, melllllting...
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eBay rating advice? I have a silly question, y'all. →Read more...
musing summarizing magazine info I used to think about this (and even do it a bit) when reading Vanity Fair some years ago
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13 November 2011
Miss Teenage Riot. I love this photo.
12 November 2011
Ask MeCha: fashion question. Can I wear this shirt with poofy sleeves?
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Queen Bitch. This is one of my favorite Bowie songs, and this live version from a US concert in 1976 may be the best one I've ever heard.
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11 November 2011
yaaaaaay! what's good in your world? Two weeks of work!
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Question for a Friday Night. Who was your first celebrity crush?
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Best journal abstract ever, or how to make your ideas clear.
This made my day, which is something that I could never say about a TED talk before. (12 minutes)
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Photo Friday: Livin' The Dream
Stuck in traffic on the Major Deegan. And we both have to pee. Entertain Us.
Thank you, veterans! In celebration of Veteran's Day, here are some dogs being reunited with their servicemen owners.
24 hours of photos uploaded to Flickr, printed out and put into a single room.
update so
this person I mentioned messing with my comments
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Why can't I eat just three. Or nine. Best candy ever. Physically incapable of not eating a remotely reasonable number of them and therefore cannot buy them. Does anyone else love them as much?
10 November 2011
Bunnies like carrots So doing a lazy search to find where
this picture was from
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09 November 2011
Chatty chatty chat chat. I am in a chatty mood and my husband is not. Be chatty with me!
Bam! Kapow! Slap! - Both the mister and I have hit the other while sleeping. I smacked him in the shoulder last night waking up us both. He admitted to punching me in the back a couple weeks ago. He was very surprised I didn't wake up.
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Don't. Wanna. Work. Kick me in the ass to get to work or advocate my slack assed motherfuckerness for the rest of the day. They are equally valid choices, so far as I can tell. Tired, taxing but effective day vs. things come due. Help prod my indecision.
Photo Friday Advance: Livin' the dream, suggested by rainbaby
A Brief Rant On The Future Of Interaction Design. This is a great piece about how technology designers of the moment seem to forget about hands and how they work.
I like this guy's presentation style, too.
08 November 2011
I sold my synth on eBay for my Buy It Now price. Now planning on how best to get my ass to Seattle with Sookie. Yay!
Songs about sex specifically sexual disorders, fetishes, GID, etc. Besides Walk on the Wild Side and maybe some Pulp, what can you think of? Extremely NSFW or offensive stuff probably won't make the cut, but all suggestions are welcome.
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07 November 2011
An abundance of sharp cheddar. Made mac and cheese and froze some. Had grilled cheese tonight. Suggestions?
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Photos of the secret train platform beneath New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel.
If you're not sick to death of Muppet promotiana yet, check out
Kermit being interviewed live by some-Canadian-with-a-Greek-name-longer-than-the-zeroes-on-the-Greek-debt.
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What do you want? The me of 10 years ago had some ideas.
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06 November 2011
Considering an addition to my Geek wardrobe, as I realized I have NO Doctor Who-themed t-shirts. I want something with the iconic TARDIS/Blue Box, but there are so many to choose from...
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Oh, Andy. It's not a good week for famous guys named Andy. To this one I say: Hang in there. You're the best.
Solved a catbox mystery. Now to find a solution. [grossness spoilers]
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05 November 2011
"I've got to find the flaming nipple!" 50 minutes of deleted scenes from
Blue Velvet found, to be issued on DVD.
A Question for New Yorkers What the hell is flying through the air in this/last week's NYer cover? Tax bills?
Cage the Elephant's Aberdeen This is the most depressing video I've seen in ages. Poor misunderstood dragon :o(
A while back I heard a "New Country" song or whatever they call it these days. Shit I can't tolerate but something was off with it. I heard it again and yes it was off kilter.
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04 November 2011
Not sure I want to know. . . . . .I sent my daughter that MeFi link about the Portland artist and the distasteful thing she did with a horse, so my daughter had to send me a strange Eugene horse-related thing. . .
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Help me learn how to smile again. [Snowflake advisory.]
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The Human Slingshot. I totally want one.
Sometimes the 21st Century Mad Men come up with advertising that's just WRONG. And even worse when it's PSAs for an institution with a long but checkered history. (talk about 'photoshopped to hell')
Photo Friday: Photoshopped to Hell
So I saw M83 on Halloween night, and I'm still sort of feeling the buzz from it. It was a great show, the crowd was beyond pumped, and half the crowd were wearing costumes, which just made it that much more beautiful. During the song
"Reunion" the entire sold-out crowd of 1,000 people were jumping up and down in unison,
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03 November 2011
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Go to Google -> Type: "Do a barrel roll"
The Cooper Union Is In Trouble (NYT) The famously highly selective but tuition free institution has been hit hard by the crash. The students
printed out a list of their own ideas on how to fix the budget.
I keep seeing copy directed at men with the word "pampering". What do you guys (of any gender) think? It doesn't really resonate with me, this word
02 November 2011
How do I post my profile here? I just changed it for the first time since my sleep deprived ass asked you people to help me pick a picture. Lord, I need a better picture. I want feedback, since I'm making the effort.
Photo Friday Advance: Photoshopped to hell - flapjax at midnite
Owls can exhibit a remarkable head stability during angular movement of the body about any axis.
Christmas cards already? Marketing is on full onslaught! Wacky. I wonder how many cards I need. We are doing it again this year, right?
01 November 2011
A question for anyone with an answer. How should I go about mailing cornbread? Should I just wrap it in clingwrap or put it in a plastic bag then wrap in tin foil and put in a box? It doesn't feel like this question would fit on AskMe, so here it is. I've never mailed food before. Also, how fast of shipping does cornbread need?
JKRowling wimped out on killing off Ron Weasley. Oh, what could have been? Ron would have been my first choice to die so as to push Harry and Hermione closer. Who would you axe?
Puppy Saved from the TOP of a Moving Train - What did they name her? Boxcar, of course!
Amadna Palmer, Moby, Stephen Meritt and Neil Gaiman on Criag's Ferguston's show covering "Science Fiction Double Feature".
Rejected Halloween candy. The kids have been piling their unwanted candy on my desk, and I've been eating too much of it. Twizzlers, Skittles, Swedish Fish, Dots, Nerds, Sweetarts.
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OMGWTFBBQ! Tech moments with younger folks. Sometime after my wife left, my oldest son, me, and my younger son were at my dad's place. My oldest came to me and asked if he could call his mom.
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31 October 2011
The Last Mortician - "a stark vision of a future in which one of humanity’s oldest professions is no longer essential."
Dog Update Several weeks ago, I mentioned in one of the 3-point updates about our dog.
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Bee says happy halloween Despite the
expression on her face, she is still willing to wander around in drag for your amusement. Enjoy.
A Closed World is a Flash game.
BOO! You can send your fellow MeChazens a spooky and anonymous Halloween greeting...
(Now it's your turn.)
Your Madonna Top Three: Back during the last Dr. Sketchy Con, we came up with the Top Madonna Three, your three favorite Madonna songs and how they reveal your personality.
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30 October 2011
Anti-Theft Lunch Bags If your lunch keeps disappearing from the office fridge, this may be the solution you've been looking for.
Dawn of the Ted Happy Halloween !
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29 October 2011
Help me get over this painful breakup I'm all blue and weepy. It all seemed to be going so well when he suddenly told me that he's just not feeling it any more and has been feeling less into this relationship for the past two months. We'd been dating for six. A short relationship in the scheme of things, but it was intense and wonderful and I genuinely liked him (and still like him).
I don't know what to do with myself. And I must focus because I have a conference coming up in two weeks!
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28 October 2011
Cosby Nightmarez. Just in time for Halloween.
musing about web publishing I've been feeling inspired looking at things online and kinda wondering about what I can do (lots below)…
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Museum Poll I have two questions for all of you that will help me with a project at work. Would love any answers you are interested in providing. 1) What you do NOT like about visiting art museums? And (2) What kind of museum would you build if you had complete freedom and control to construct a museum of your own?
What's your number? There are around 7 billion people on the planet today.
According to this site, when I was born, I was the 3,308,901,131st person alive on Earth.
Photo Friday: Handwriting
27 October 2011
Cats Ready To Kill You and the inevitable sequel with
Dogs. (lots of pics, may take forever to load)
Somebody should inform the keeper of that site of OMG BUNNIES
Passive voice: did they teach you it was bad and evil? Or polite and objective?
It was 20 years ago today I first used the Internet. Feels much longer.
Ask Mecha: What's a good anonymous email remailing program?
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Wedding Photos. Since you asked...
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26 October 2011
Mini-GAGA: "Most short people are at boobie or neck range" with other patrons in the clubs, she explains. "I'm at ass range."
Ask Mecha: Are there easy shorthand ways to determine whether the employees of a restaurant or bar earn a living wage?
Photo Friday Advance: Handwriting - suggested by lonefrontranger
legal/political philosophy/policy types come in here something about this whole Occupy Wall Street thing just flummoxes me. Why do you need to disperse peaceful crowds?
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25 October 2011
AskMeCha: How long do you keep your weblogs? I don't mean your blogs. I mean the log files for a website.
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Feeling good thread! Tell me one thing you really like about yourself today.
The Best Explanation of "Bronies" I've Seen Yet "Bronies" being grown-or-almost-grown men fans of "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic".
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Ever get a call from Ashford Talk Radio? →Read more...
Let me just say this: My son-in-law is complete and utter awesome. My granddaughter has been watching old cartoons with her Dad on Netflix. See what happened next.
AskMeCha: what do you think "fulsome" means? →Read more...
My earworm of the day, let me share it with you: "
Honey Bunny," by the band Girls.
24 October 2011
This weekend I went to an Indian wedding and I participated in the mehndi and sangeet ceremony and got really pretty henna on my hand.
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My landlord just died. When Crosbie and I went out for our walk this morning there were a couple of police cars parked out front.
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My Neighbor's Cat Marley keeps bringing me rats. I know this is a sign of affection but...
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Time for another Napster names music thread! Share your hilariously mislabeled tracks here.
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Funny things are happening. A veritable pushcart war is about to erupt on my block.
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23 October 2011
Why are car colors so boring now? This is something that I've wondered about for a while. I grew up in the '70s with all kinds of green, yellow, purple cars and today's cars are all pretty numbingly dull in comparison.
"More than 200 Indian girls whose names mean 'unwanted' in Hindi
chose new names Saturday for a fresh start in life."
That shuffle thread reminds me, I haven't done any MP3Mancy in a while! You know the rules, ask a question and hit shuffle, the song will be the answer.
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22 October 2011
oh my gawd i bought some jewellery alas pretty inexpensive things but you have to start with what's practical→
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Beep Beep. Well Well. Just some amazing music from Athens, GA in 1983. (That isn't R.E.M.)
Married, Mad-style. And Boardwalk Empire-style. I thought some of you might take a little interest in seeing a set of wedding photos from August 1962. It's all about the hats, the white gloves, and the tightly knotted ties.
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I have no idea what you're talking about, so here is a man, dressed like a nun,
driving a piano.
POSTAL! I hate dealing with the lousy post office. Rant rant#%@*$&# ! Lazy a$$ mailperson, all I expect is for you to do your job and deliver my mail! It's not that hard!
IT'S CAPSLOCK DAY! IT'S MY BIRTHDAY! IT'S MY CAPSLOCK BIRTHDAY!
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21 October 2011
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Does anyone know where I recently saw a funny drawing about the serial comma? I thought it was here, but searching for "serial comma" is not helping. The drawing had, I think, a man preening in an unexpected way.
You know how when you're moving, there's a point at which you're trying to get ready to go before that last major big moving day, and 80% of your stuff is in boxes, and you don't know where anything is, and you absolutely hate all your stuff and never want to see it again, and everything you once thought you wanted looks tatty and gross, and the place is full of dust and old coins and weird odds and ends and you can no longer even make decisions about what to keep and what to throw away or possibly remember why in the hell you ever bought that crappy stuff in the first place, and you've misspent your whole life and just want to put everything out on the curb and go live in a VW camper for the rest of your life with your only possessions a tin enamelware cup, a woolly sweater, and a transistor radio?
That's about where I am right now.
Eyes for Christmas. All year Christmas. Eyes for everything.
New sidebar art: thank you to our photographers workerant, DarkForest, lysdexic, and Senyar!
SHOUTING THREAD: AUGGHH. OOOOGA. AAAAGH.
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Fictitious Landscapes: "Kim Keever's large-scale photographs are created by meticulously constructing miniature topographies in a 200-gallon tank, which is then filled with water. These dioramas of fictitious environments are brought to life with colored lights and the dispersal of pigment, producing ephemeral atmospheres that he must quickly capture with his large-format camera." The results look almost like landscape paintings...
this one's my favorite.
Photo Friday: This Doesn't Belong Here
20 October 2011
Jack Drew My Jet Pack Jackass! I didn't see this until just the other night, but my drawing went live a few months ago!
New events in SF this weekend? Unexpectedly in town for the weekend, anything fun going on?
Two cool covers from the upcoming 20th-anniversary
tribute to U2's
Achtung Baby:
Damien Rice's "One," and
Jack White's "Love Is Blindness."
Cool guitar. Also: Tetris.
I don't have answers for you dawg my re-entry into wider personal networking is being thwarted by the fact that I'm not really useful.
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19 October 2011
Wear purple tomorrow for LGBTQ solidarity and the It Gets Better project.
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Bored? Try this It will kill a few minutes. My highest score is 2400 so far.
Photo Friday Advance: This doesn't belong here, suggested by workerant
Sorry, bunny... that's a banana, not a plunger.
NYC Meetup Crosspost! Maybe everyone's just away, but I feel like we can give kjs4 a warmer welcome than this!
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18 October 2011
OMG BUNNY! WANT! If you don't quite understand the special appeal of that ball of fluff, let me explain...
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Morning mini-rant: It seems to me that if you write an article about parenting and keep talking about how "fathers" can help "mothers," and link that article to a page on your website titled "Help for Fathers," it's great that you see parenting in mixed-gender partnerships as a team sport BUT you really can't claim -- in a footnote! -- that you "acknowledge the diversity of families" because you suggest that "at any point ‘partner’ and ‘she’ can be substituted" for "father" and "he."
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The Billboard Magazine Wayback Machine. Move the sliders at the top to a beginning and end date, and see what songs were most popular in the Billboard charts during that span of time.
I knew it I called it what'd I tell you an year ago I posted Justin Bieber freestyling to a beat and said it was probably ghostwritten
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There's No Such Thing As Aliens An Alien Dr. Who-Sparks pan UK tribute.
17 October 2011
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Every Girl's Dream? Even after the correction and the correction to the correction, I don't think they got it right. But then, I'm not every girl. Any suggestions?
You ever get a paper cut? Hurts like a SOB right? Well trust me it really hurts when it's on your
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twiiiiittterr So...I'm sure there's a bunch o' you out there on teh twitterz that I'm not following, and I wanna be.
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16 October 2011
I think I just wrote a decent few female-friends have talks not about men scenes! They sound like humans! I think! Maybe!
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15 October 2011
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The Walking Dead - Opinions Please I see that AMC is running the entire first season before the season two opener . should I set up the DVR ?
Scandal! Intrigue! What will happen? So today I found out about this situation and I want all the opinions I can get on it. It involves psychopaths, universities and fraud
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Happy birthday workerant! Have a great 40th!
Bunnies! Bunny! Bunny! Bunny!
Bunny!
I also like the
gangster kitties. And
this kitty is oh so right about Neville (but I liked him before he was hot ;o). And
this is me.
Weekend plans? I'm waiting to board my Chicago flight, on my way to Ohio. How about you?
14 October 2011
Ask the Bunnies - Please help me make the right choice/decision in a complicated situation.
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First line of this story gave me sniffles: Brigham and Women's Hospital Performs Double Hand Transplant:
A Massachusetts man who had a double hand transplant says the first thing he wants to do is touch his grandsons’ faces and stroke their hair.
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Cyndi Lauper sings the theme from "
Electra Woman & Dyna Girl."
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Photo Friday: Extreme Agriculture & Horticulture
13 October 2011
Anyone else read Gibson's Zero History? Just finished it and thought it was much better than Spook Country but still no where as good as Pattern Recognition.
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Daily affirmations: You are
Good Enough!
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"The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson A brief history of how the creepy story came to be written; also includes links (on YouTube:
part 1,
part 2) to the short film version that messed with many a schoolkid's head in the 1970s and 80s.
12 October 2011
Ubiquitous Meme: Ten Years Ago, We Had Bob Hope, Johnny Cash And Steve Jobs. Now We Have No Jobs, No Cash And No Hope. But...
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Elizabeth and Hazel - A follow-up to what happened to the two women in that infamous photo.
CROSSPOST TOMORROW - JAVITS' CENTER, We should hang
something seems off to me when I see my 'online spaces' explode with stuff related to Netflix or Apple Updates etc. I'm not sure what...
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Photo Friday Advance: Extreme Agriculture & Horticulture - Suggested by taz.
I've been posting it everywhere else so why not here the Occupy Wall Street folks said they needed board games, so I got them one.
This Is Kinda Cool I just may go out and try it
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These Russian album covers are like looking into a parallel-universe version of the 1960s, 70s and 80s.
11 October 2011
two fragrance related videos Nose knows (montage of people musing the nature of scents) and
perfumer Mathilde Laurent talking about her Lily-based scent [both promotional videos but evocative and fun]. Some thoughts on fragrances below
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Snow came early this year.... I used to get three and a half channels on my TV. Recently I realized I now get nothing but snow. I'm not going to get cable, but I am thinking of investing in a cable box. I know nothing of technological gadgets. Anyone got any advice for me?
MTV's Liquid Television archives are
online! Lots of cool stuff in there, including the weird
Aeon Flux shorts where the heroine dies in every episode.
10 October 2011
Those new Hersheys chocolates freak me the hell out. Saw these on TV earlier today and the cutaway shot makes me skin crawl. (Fellow
tryptophobes beware.)
The Epic Hero Doohickie celebrating his birthday, with a chicken on his head.
What do you remember having in your lunch in elementary school? Me: sandwich, apple, carob/wheat germ cookies.
Tips for ensuring a kick-ass day? →Read more...
Ridiculous Tips for a Miserable Sex Life I'm not sure how it's taken me this long to come across these, but I have been giggling at them all day.
I've Been Robbed, a Rant →Read more...
Qwikster is dead already? "Netflix Inc., reacting to customer anger, retreated from a decision to split its mail-order DVD service from its Internet streaming and will continue to run both from a single website"
Three Ways of Looking at the 'Breaking Bad' Season Finale From
Alan Sepinwall,
Donna Bowman and
Tim Goodman (many, many spoilers inside).
BOO! A "haunted house" attraction in Niagara Falls has a
Flickr stream full of photos of visitors, taken right as they're being spooked by a loud noise or something, and the
resulting pics are
hilarious.
09 October 2011
Sunday Night Of A Holiday Weekend Three-Point Status Update →Read more...
So does anyone here remember the site that you can search for an image on the internets?
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Pick up the closet book to you and close your eyes, open to a random page and read the first complete sentence.
It will tell you your future.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELIZARD AND DOOHICKIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
08 October 2011
Colour film of the 1939 New York World's Fair set to the music of Brian Eno's Baby's On Fire.
I am Bird Gerhl. Thank you, Humanity, that will be all. You won't get much more beautiful.
Advice for selling on Craigslist If you've sold things (especially big-ticket items) via Craigslist before, I'd like to hear your positive stories.
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07 October 2011
OMGAAAAAAAAAAH!!!! RABBIDS! Coming to your non-game-equipped TV. Referring to these
Bunnies (very useful) Scientific Facts (remember #2, 'Bunnies Don't Do Vacuum Cleaning', You're welcome.)
Kitty Cat is not a happy camper, after 2 nights alone. →Read more...
How many different places have you lived? I count at least 21.
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FRIDAY DANTS PARTY IN YOUR PANTS, MARTY [McFLY]!
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damn they make leather out of anything Manta Ray?!
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06 October 2011
Everything is a Remix takes on the plot and visual influences in The Matrix I especially liked the connections with the speech by Philip K. Dick. The Wachowskis probably never saw that speech but definitely borrowed more than a few tropes from his stories.
Beauty. Richard Feynman on beauty and the scientific outlook. The video is, itself, really beautiful.
05 October 2011
Common: Blue Sky ← Greatest thing I've heard in ages. This is like beauty dripped right onto my nerve cells. I can't believe Bill O'Reilly's dumb ass was bloviating on TV trying to take this away from us
How to open a door - an educational Finnish video from 1979, with some nice music. Little did I know, I've been doing it wrong all this time.
Photo Friday Advance: Still life, suggested by ethylene
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Meetup Crosspost! I'm performing! Don't miss a chance to laugh with/at me! Especially if you're anywhere within driving distance of NYC.
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PUPPY DREAMS , for when the world is too much.
Complementary Flavors Chart via
Information is Beautiful. I think that, printed out nicely, this would make killer kitchen art.
Keep me company... So the Chef got his visa approved today! WHEE! FUCKING AWESOME! and he's coming home to me... but I'm waiting on hold for the airline to organise his flights back home to MEEEee!
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Baby Gorilla has a bath! OMG! From a Pathé newsreel dating from the mid-1960s.
04 October 2011
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New Simon's Cat video in which that annoying cat himself gets annoyed by a kitten.
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not to act like a 13 year old Jane Austen fanboy mainly because I haven't read anything besides Pride & Prejudice when I was 13, but whatever happened to Virtue?
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Photos of the Overlook Hotel, "from 1921."
Pillows! Yay, new place! Yay, room for guests! Have forest green futon and looking on etsy for cute cushion covers to go with. No idea what color would look nice with forest green. Ideas? Know any etsy stores that have cool pillow covers?
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Giant "mermaid" is creepy. Not only creepy, but not really a mermaid.
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We find a striking concentration of attention on Twitter ---roughly 50% of tweets consumed are generated by just 20K elite users
Personally, I tend to use Twitter as a read-only medium since I'm too shy to push thoughts under my own name out into the general internets.
03 October 2011
omg BABY RED PANDAS! They're having a naming contest...
Points. The special
SURPRISE GIFT edition.
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Video of a 4-year-old boy seeing
The Empire Strikes Back for the first time, during Darth Vader's big surprise reveal.
Points- TV Trope Edition: Smash All Your Pretty Things! →Read more...
Tablet owners! Tell me your experiences please... →Read more...
MetaChat Creative Power, Activate! I'm planning an event for this month which will feature many classic Surrealist games (like found poetry, exquisite corpse, and
Cubomania). But everything is pretty much 2D, and I'd like to include a 3D art form. Do you have any good ideas for a way to have a drop-in table where people can do
Surrealist sculpture?
02 October 2011
This music video by the band Five Finger Death Punch shows how hard it is to parody music video conventions in 2011.
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Trying to locate recent-ish post about Journaling techniques Hi Mefites, I remember there being a great AskMe or possibly a FPP about a blog that was chock full of great, creative journaling techniques. I've been combing the sites, but I can't find it for the life of me.
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Points! - I, somehow, managed to win so it's my turn to torture you all!
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X on Letterman in 1983 Needed something to wake me up on this dreary Sunday AM.
01 October 2011
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Skills you have that you didn't train for I am apparently good at sight detecting false jewels, emeralds in particular. I have no idea why.
We No Speak Americano as performed and choreographed by Suzanne Cleary & Peter Harding...
glitchscape: start drawing squares and rectangles to create sounds.
Question for fellow Fringe fans... I watched last night's episode, and have a continuity question...
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30 September 2011
Best object you've ever seen in a museum? I'm thinking about a Tumblrblog for this and wondering what objects you would nominate. What grabbed you on a museum visit at any time in your life?
Annoyed by Zentangle It's possibly nobody here cares (totally understandable), but I just don't understand this whole "Zentangle" thing and I wondered if anyone had any thoughts on it.
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It's the Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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Snappy the Crocodile ate something strange, and turned himself orange. OMG ORANGE CROCODILE@!
Decaying old Victorian houses built out of LEGO.
Points. 3 points for each time you (sincerely) apologized to someone in the past week. (an extra point if it was face to face.)
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AskMecha: How can I see how many wireless connections a router can handle? Hey folks. I know this is simple question but I can't seem to figure it out (yay for not knowing hardware). Is there an easy way to see if the router I have can handle 50 wireless connections? I know the usual is 25 but I don't know how to verify that or not. The router is a netgear wireless-N300, wnr2000. And bonus question: what mbps should such a router be connected to?
I'm moving to Seattle in February. That is the target month. I may have to board Sookie for the first month or so, but that seems to be the greatest unknown for now.
Puppy vs Step! OMG! (Hope this makes up for yesterday's "bunny" post.)
Sounds like the worst casserole ever? (Right there in the first sentence.)
Photo Friday: Up on the roof...
29 September 2011
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Early Rising Points! Today you can get Points! for
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AskMecha: Meeting with the boss' boss tomorrow...to talk about the boss. Advice? →Read more...
28 September 2011
The Smart Set is an art-culture-ideas site from Drexel U which has a lot to offer.
This revisiting of one of my top 5 books, Catch-22, was very good.
Ask MeCha: What the dating? As part of our
continuing series in helping social misfits understand the mating rituals of their species.
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Photo Friday Advance: Roof/rooves, suggested by julen
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I am curious to hear our collective opinions on
the first track from the Lou Reed / Metallica collaboration.
27 September 2011
Coudal Partners I had forgotten. This site is about as old as MetaFilter and was always a great place to go idea hunting.
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Highlight of today's snailmail delivery: The announcement of a one-day Social Media Marketing Conference here in little San Luis Obispo.
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Ever wondered before what would happen to legal notices once newspapers die? No, me neither. However, a discussion of King's plotting of
Pet Sematary somehow led to this question.
It's my 27th Birthday! And it's the 27th Day! That's neat!
Any plans to humiliate your dog for Halloween? The Internet can help! (Don't most of these dogs look embarrassed to you?)
Points! I'm reviving the game.
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26 September 2011
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"Escape From The Black Lodge" is an Atari 2600-style game available for free. The link also includes an
awesome video clip of the game.
I have so much to retweet! too much good stuff on the interwebz! I would just go ahead and do it but I purposely avoid the 'firehose' style. I think I'm going to start queuing them up (I already queue up personal tweets to like 1-2 a day max, lots of draft tweets/statuses sitting around)
SuperBall! Won't you do me the honor of being my guest(s) for the MetaChat SuperBall? It's a soirée par excellence...
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The World According To Maynard G. Krebs. Short clips on How To Live Life from one of my favorite early television heroes.
"The Doors of Perspection" is a cool experimental film short by Vicki Bennett. She takes scenes from Hollywood (and a few foreign) films, and rotoscopes them in a larger frame so that long pans and zooms will move the frame, instead of the viewer.
Um, it's hard to describe, but when you watch it it makes sense.
25 September 2011
Mimicry Pet Lop Ear Bunny! Much much nicer than the
cockroach backpack which is giving me flashbacks to Kafka and will likely result in nightmares tonight.
Bunny! OMG! To infinity - and beyond!
What have you forgotten to do lately? I was supposed to renew the registration on my car in August. Poopy.
MOBA - The Museum Of Bad Art OMG! The giant orange cat will eat us all!
24 September 2011
Yay me! I've been dating the same woman for five years today (and she even knows it!).
New sidebar art! Thanks to our photographers gc, eekacat, Rhaomi, and mygothlaundry! (One of my pics is in there, too.)
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Warning, me in underpants. Post pillow fight victory during the Week In Hell
What's currently stuck in your head? For me, it's
this.
23 September 2011
So good... Gang of Four playing "Anthrax" in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1980.
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I have an accent? It's been pointed out by a few people over the past year that I have slowly adopted a strange RP-British-Midwestern American accent that's thick enough to cause people to ask where I'm from.
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Ironclaw: A Bestiary Artist Chris Goodwin was commissioned to produce art for the anthropomorphic roleplaying game,
Ironclaw. He collected those works into a book called "
Ironclaw: A Bestiary." Inside, accompanying dozens of gorgeous pictures, are imaginative profiles of each species in the game.
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Watch more than 1600 documentaries. "Documentary Heaven was set up early July 2009 to provide the public with a vast collection of documentaries spanning across every genre out there."
The Friday Night Question, as chosen from
The Book Of Questions...
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When has the time come to stop looking for something you may have never owned? In this thread, we are drunks at a bar. Write the script one or two lines of dialog at a time. Stage dressing and direction welcome. Have fun.
Time for another something cool! In case you don't
remember, something cool threads are for sharing your own personal awesome with us in bite-sized doses.
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OMG HIPSTER BUNNY!
The last time Woot sold a bunny-themed shirt, I bought it and wore it to a Meetup. So I guess that means it's time for another SLO-town Meetup, right? And yet, I still don't have a car (he hinted).
22 September 2011
maybe Aldous Huxley, Edgar Allen Poe, etc were just absurdly overeducated for their eventual claims to fame in short story writing? Either that or characters in their eras/settings actually talked that way.
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Permanent Record. Report cards from a girl's trade school in NYC during the early half of the 20th century. If you like Shorpy but have wished for more background story you will like this.
In the southwestern corner of Colorado, where the Uncompahgre Plateau descends through spruce forest and scrubland toward the Utah border, there is a region of more than four thousand square miles which has no hospitals, no department stores, and only one pharmacy. The pharmacist is Don Colcord, who lives in the town of Nucla.
Maurice Sendak's interview on "Fresh Air" Did anyone else hear this earlier this week? It was very good, and extremely emotional. Sendak sounds like a guy whose emotions run very, very deep.
(If you're having trouble placing who Sendak is, he wrote this much-loved book, among others.)
It's J.F.J. Day! (warning: link has sound. Hard. Rocking. Sound. As it should.) Joan Fucking Jett is Fifty Fucking Three years old today.
21 September 2011
Stop 'Schweddy Balls' Effort Begins Really, some people have
A: too much time
B: No sense of humor
C: Need to worry about something meaningful
D: All of the above.
Photo Friday Advance: Symmetry, suggested by flapjax at midnite
Ask MeCha: How do you do dating? Yeah, I'm in my 30s and I'm realizing I've never really
dated.
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What current TV shows are you following now? (international edition)
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Human and
animal eyes in closeup.
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20 September 2011
When Kevin Wins, The Planet Loses! is a cool tumblr blog of original 8-bit and 16-bit pixel art, by some guy possibly named Kevin.
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My household Gods are nice and all, but they don't really do writer's block Suggestions on new ones to help lift the veil?
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19 September 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TRISHALYNN!!!!!
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Why does every company I like have to devolve into some evil parody of itself? Now if you want Netflix DVD/BluRay rental along with streaming, you have to have two separate accounts and maintain two different queues.
18 September 2011
Timeless Light (SLYT) My sister-in-law made this (the photos are my brother's)
Unicorny.com claims to be
the World's #1 Unicorn Ambush Site, and I see no obvious grounds to dispute that.
narratives of transformation I really think the binary “let me write a book about this” modality of “I was doing the wrong thing, then I changed, and started doing the right thing” is a somewhat lacking way to approach personal change.
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17 September 2011
Me with two friends. The running joke is that we all alike enough to be siblings and this was the first time we were all in the same room with a camera. Is it true? Is the Celtic gene pool truly that shallow?
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MeCha Announcement: Changing of the BunnyGuard Hi all! Beginning today, I end my just-short-of-2-year stint as a MeCha co-Admin, (along with my pal and co-conspirator Boring Postcards), and hand over the official co-Admin scepter, crown, and pooper scooper to the ever-lovin', ever-loyal
gaspode. BP will remain in place as the 2nd co-Admin, so you should experience no interruption in the fine service to which you are accustomed. Thanks podey, and BP, and modly crew, and everyone!
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16 September 2011
We've lost a Bunny It is with a heavy heart that I come to let everyone know that we've lost a Bunny. Puke & Cry passed away earlier in the week.
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Help me annoy my friend! I'd love some help coming up with stupid answers to the question "what do homework and hummus have in common?"
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It's the Friday Night Question! Taken at random from
The Book of Questions.
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Whatcha reading? Quote a paragraph.
NTT. Since LJ is kinda dying, I'm going to move my Name That Tune game over here.
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What nice thing can I send my aunt, who's having a bad time? →Read more...
Photo Friday: Dreams and Nightmares
15 September 2011
A roundup of, and welcome to all the new users! Summer has slunk past without me doing a welcome new users post. Bad pode! So inside please welcome the new users that have signed up from July or so onwards. And if you've signed up but haven't commented yet, then by all means introduce yourselves in here.
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"The Pig With The Froggy Tattoo" is a parody trailer for the (very real) upcoming movie
The Muppets, done in the style of another recent, well-known
trailer.
In Our Time is back! →Read more...
14 September 2011
What is the best book you have ever read and why do you like it so much?
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Photo Friday Advance: Dreams and Nightmares, suggested by Kronos_to_Earth
Film Still Field Day Does anybody else collect film stills? I watch most of my movies on my computer, and sometimes I pause a flick and take a snapshot of particularly beautiful or amusing frames.
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I'm Back! It's been a long, strange, and somewhat scary journey.
Driving back home from an overnight stay in Valparaiso, IN, I felt a sort of itchy area on the right side of my neck. I didn't think much of it, except that the next morning, I woke up with the right side of my neck looking like I was half-Cardassian. Overnight, it started to really hurt, and I got a walk-in appointment the next morning at my VA Clinic.
The nurse practitioner took one look at me and said "Oh, you must be in pain!"
D'oh! I felt like my right side was on fire.
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13 September 2011
Live in France for free? This person is looking for a cat-sitter in the south of France. For six months.
Here's info!
food and/or italian-speaking people what is
this? Billed as some sort of pesto, label says "crema de pomodori secchi", lady at the deli is like this will work if you want something spicy but it tastes overwhelmingly oily to me. Is it supposed to be a concentrate or something?
Danf and Mrs. Danf on TV Last Night We were just walking by and got caught up. Very fun. My wife will be mortified that we got on TV (a coworker saw it). Her mortification makes is all the better. . .*smile*
Anybody want a lesson how to write sitcoms? (live conference call Q&A at 6PM Pacific Time tonight - 2 hours away)
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My Grammy is the bestest!
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George Lucas doesn't give a shit about you. I'm not a
Star Wars fan, but having grown up in the whole
Star Wars era, and as a fan of movies in general, I think this is interesting. Has there ever been a successful film director who was less interested in storytelling?
What is your cellphone provider, and why? We have gone with ATT forever, since my first cellphone (the Motorola brick) was provided my my employer,
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Good Documentary of Andy Warhol available online? and not the BBC Modern Masters....
12 September 2011
Chatty chatty chat chat Fill me with the quotidian details of your day. Me, this Monday, I felt the need for a transitional cocktail.
My roommate and I decided our door needed a little something. Yes, it plays a certain favorite tune of ours when opened. I just thought I'd share. :D
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"Blue Jeans" by Lana Del Rey is a wonderful, haunting song with an equally excellent video. Her first song and video, called
"Video Games," are pretty great as well.
Happy Birthday ColdChef!!!!
11 September 2011
Hiccup cures now please help help
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The World's Population, Concentrated A cool infographic showing how large a city would be formed if the entire population of the world were grouped together at various densities.
aw man some senile weirdo has been commenting randomly on my blog for a while
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Meetup cross posts! I'm traveling to Palo Alto and San Francisco next week, and have scheduled
two meetups! Hope you can make it.
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10 September 2011
Jessie's Girl by Rick Springfield (from 1981) may be one of the best pop songs ever written, but the video is... less than great.
Back to the Future Artist invites people to recreate their vintage photos.
My New Camera!!! I ordered this direct from China, and it's all kinds of awesome.
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Recipe for Insomia Cole Slaw →Read more...
09 September 2011
I just listened to Errol Morris on the Sound of Young America and did you know he makes the worlds most amazing
commercials?
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Time for another Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book Of Questions...
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Juuust a taste, he said... →Read more...
6.7 (6.4?) Earthquake off of Vancouver Island - The mister and I didn't feel it, but it was felt all the way out where we are 343KM from the
epicentre and even farther (San Francisco?!). Did any PNW bunnies feel it?
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Weekend plans 3-point report →Read more...
Who's up for a little MP3 Shuffle-a-gogo? You know the drill. MP3 player set on shuffle, first 10 songs, post 'em here.
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Harry Winston update fail! no jewelery from them out here yet, just watches [
previous thread]
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Clever anti-alcohol PSA Mouseover for a sober view (mildly NSFW in places)
08 September 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GOSHLING AND LORIFLA!!!!!!!!
Everyone! Let's make Hateku happen A poem containing three lines of of 17 syllables at a pattern of 5, 7 and 5 containing a seasonal reference and a vicious insult
Looks like we made it! Thanks for all the well wishes folks, me and my puppy made it safely to the Southern Hemisphere!
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Drunk Swedish elk found in apple tree near Gothenburg.
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A 'Sign of Civilization Collapsing' Rant: As you may or may not know, I used to write about TV for a "major media website" but have stopped. I do still get a daily email newsletter about 'the biz' which I skim through to remind me WHY I stopped writing about TV.
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I want to do something stupid. What should I do?
Hi, everyone! I'm new to Metachat, though I've been lurking for a while, so I just wanted to pop in and say hello.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOUCANCALLMEAL!!!!
07 September 2011
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Photo Friday Advance: Friends, suggested by lysdexic
Moving countries/continents/hemispheres today bunnies. Nothing I haven't done before, but the first time I am doing it with Beloved Canine.
Some good moving vibes would be much welcomed.
Musical comfort food. Do you have songs that feel like musical comfort food to you? They make you feel warm and fuzzy even when you're down? Here's one of mine...
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Northeast corner of Manhattan St and Liverpool St., Manchester (Pittsburgh) I love the collision of place names here. Cute street too, if a little run-down.
06 September 2011
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I have decided to retire from arguing online I'm gonna be on the interwebz like
this bear.
Iggy & the Stooges performing at Farmington High School in Oakland County, MI on December 5, 1970
(photos, no video or audio, unfortunately!)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY GASPODE!!!!!
05 September 2011
"Let Me Shine For You" is a free, downloadable EP
(5 tracks) of chillwave music based on samples from/reinterpretations of Lindsay Lohan songs.
brilliant productivity epiphany i swear this sounds simple but i've been using it to motivate myself and it totally works! I'm like if I'm going to take enough time out to do something _anyway_, I might as well do difficult things at full capacity. If you're just treading water you might as well be sleeping or going out or watching TV etc anyway
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESSAMYN AND KANGAROO!!!!!!
My visit to the Shawangunks earlier this month Earlier in the month, I took a bus upstate to New Paltz and from there, headed to Minnewaska State Park where I took these pictures. Enjoy!
04 September 2011
03 September 2011
Anyone use an IWORD program with an IPAD together with an air printer? I would love to stop using my computer and only use my IPAD. But I need a word processing program compatible with Microsoft word. Also, I need a printer that would print at least 300 pages from the IPAD with 1 cartridge. Has anyone used IWORD with the IPAD?
Has anyone used an air printer?
The beer archaeologist "It’s just after dawn at the Dogfish Head brewpub in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, where the ambition for the morning is to resurrect an Egyptian ale whose recipe dates back thousands of years."
Weekend chore lists Have at 'em!
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02 September 2011
It's the Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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Bring teh funnay, pls. I'm flat on my back with the worst case of shingles anyone at the VA has ever seen. (Not safe-for-the-squeamish pic,
here)
I am as miserable as I have ever been in my life and could use some funny or caring voices right now.
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Bed Rest For Angry Ankle : Ask The Whelk Anything
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01 September 2011
This is a RANTY RANTING RANT thread! →Read more...
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January 22, 1909. Tifton, Georgia. "Family working in the Tifton Cotton Mill. Mrs. A.J. Young works in mill and at home. Nell (oldest girl) alternates in mill with mother. Mammy (next girl) runs 2 sides. Mary (next) runs 1½ sides.
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What little tricks did you learn the hard way? There are things even the magazines for simpletons don't tell you, and you learn by doing. Especially regarding simply getting dressed in the morning.
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(To) When Do You Retire? You are a time-traveler, capable of visiting any period in the past...
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Reassure me that I am paranoid! All of my stuff had to be put in a storage
pod in my driveway after the hurricane (my apartment is currently down to the studs). It occurred to me last night that maybe I should be worried about bed bugs living in the pod (before it came to me) and infesting my stuff.
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31 August 2011
Photo Friday Advance: Unfinished Thanks to fancyoats for the suggestion!
Freaking out. I think I spent the hours of 10 to 2:20 in the grips of a white hot anxiety. My god it was painful to endure, I thought my head would explode. Could two cups of coffee do this? I use to drink a lot of coffee.
Woman punches bear to save her dog. Local news for me; this occurred about a mile and a half from my house.
Has anyone ever used the live chat on
bleepingcomputer.com? I've got some virus, but even the most updated program won't get rid of it...
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How does your email closing line come off? I am usually at a loss, but whenever somebody uses "Cheers", I find it hard to resist replying with "Cheers, Frasier and The Tortellis"...
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We haven't done Two Truths and a Lie recently. I'll begin...
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If you liked MTV in the 80s, here's a fun way to spend an hour or so:
"20 Unsung Music Videos from the 1980s"
It's time again for some... OMG BUNNIES! BUNNIES! BU-uh-DUCK! (okay, the Bunny Food Tumblr has a lot of
other animals...) And
"Jus Hoppin'" has PUNNY BUNNIES!
30 August 2011
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How has your day been awesome? Pour out all your awesome here so others may marvel in its glory.
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29 August 2011
Congratulations Stewriffic! The grant came through. Whoohoo!
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Happy Birthday, youngergirl44!!
people I am going to the Harry Winston store and I don't want to be shuffled out quickly.
explain to me how to fake it so I get taken seriously (i.e. shown a range of stuff over a good half hour or so)
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The Dinner Party As Religious Ritual. Bear with me now, this is long
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28 August 2011
Another happy birthday to mudpuppie!
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I don't know why I often survey all the newspaper comics and features at gocomics.com, but then I find something unintentionally funny like
this.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRANDON BLATCHER AND IKKYU2!!!!
27 August 2011
reporting in after Irene is past here
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Stuck Inside! What's everyone doing to pass the day today?
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Weekend Swap Meet →Read more...
26 August 2011
It's the Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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PLEASE HOPE ME FIND AN EDTIOR I'm in a pickle.
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Fantasy Football Reminder: Our draft is set for 5PM Eastern/4PM Central (etc) tomorrow evening.
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Overflow (see what I did there?) Hurricane Thread Just in case you haven't had enough of worrying about the incoming hurricane.
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Hurricane Food I figure I'll go grocery shopping to supply us with food in the not-unlikely event we have a power outage over the stormy weekend. Fortunately I have a gas stove. What's some good hurricane food?
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Shake it like a polaroid picture. (warning: may contain kitties and doggies)
25 August 2011
Hooooooope meeeeeee I work in technical support. I just had a phone call with someone where I said & spelled the name of a website, i.e. site.metachat.org no less than 30 times, and the caller just.could.not get it. He brought up Bing(no, use the *address* bar, that's the *search* bar) and searched it, he mistyped it, he typed site.com, metachat.org, metasite.org and I don't know what else. I was calm, patient, and did not say what I wanted to say, which is
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A free, 3-hour mix from James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem available for download.
Does anyone have a Pinterest invite to share? I requested one from the site ages ago but haven't received one yet.
Leftover buttermilk? SORBET!!! If anyone tries this, let us know. The earliest I can get buttermilk is next month. I cannot begin to imagine what this tastes like.
24 August 2011
WTF? It's
Wednesday.
Time for
Friends.
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Lion!! LION!!! →Read more...
Was I wrong? →Read more...
Photo Friday Advance: Vivid, suggested by filthy light thief
MeCha Dream, Starring Wolfdog!
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I like you. You're important. You matter. →Read more...
Ask MeCha cross-post Tell me about your steam cleaner.
The Itsy Bitsy Spider So we have this spider that built a web on our deck. It rained and his web was destroyed. We were afraid he was gone, but he reappeared this morning.
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23 August 2011
(Yet another) blanket apology - I just realized I am having cognitive issues again related to heart failure, and this means I most likely pissed someone off unintentionally in the past couple weeks. So, please accept my apologies.
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MP3MANCY - the rules are a bit different. You set your player to shuffle and then ask it a question and then we all analyze the result
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Irene Please pay attention to this one, bunnies. Esp. DC - Boston folks - if they say go, go. It's not going to be any kind of fun like a blizzard or some such. Bad feeling. Perhaps too much weather channel, but seriously.
Look at some art. A little Basquiat is refreshing.
East Coast Earthquake! Any other bunnies feel it? Our building shook like hell for what seemed like a few minutes.
New school year →Read more...
Got a phone? Want to help me charm/annoy my aunt on her birthday?
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22 August 2011
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In response to school started today School is so crowded that my most stressful moment is finding a parking spot. 2 of my students are children of former students. When I start teaching the grandchildren of former pupils, I'll know I'm really ancient. I've started teaching literature by Native Americans and hope I can dispel many prejudices against first nation people.
What would you do if you were president of the United States?
Making jewelry? I have just semi-randomly decided that making jewelry might be a fun thing to learn. Has anyone here done so? Did you take classes or teach yourself?
What makes you feel the most free, that you can do the most often?
School starts today and I feel the need for optimism, I'm running very low. From the merely positive to the escapistly delightful, gimme what you got that can give you a moment's lift.
Imelda May - "Mayhem" ,
"Johnny's Got A Boom Boom",
"Train Kept A Rolling". Don't be surprised that the irish can rock out some rockabilly. The rock came from the blues, but the billy largely came from transplanted irish folk music as they had already settled large sections of the Appalachians well before the Revolutionary War.
21 August 2011
Orqestra Buena Vista Social Club. Which is the band my wife took me to see last night at a club in Denver. Really really great. What I noticed most is while every musician in the band has effortless talent, they don't show it unless it's their turn to shine. It's obvious that the oldsters are handing off the baton to the youngsters, but the oldsters really can knock your socks off without appearing to try.
I made this I did it! I finally finished this embroidery that I've been working on for, oh, six fucking years!
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Spoof dating
videos from all-female sketch comedy show
Smack the Pony. There are
many many more.
20 August 2011
Mad Lib experiment →Read more...
19 August 2011
It's the Friday Night Question, and also, a note about the future of the FNQ.
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It's Opposite Day! MeFi's Own Lore guy, usually a web-based satirist,
makes the best explanation for the "Patent Mess" I've seen, while serious economist guy Robert Reich sticks his tongue in his cheek and a fish in his pants to
explain Credit Downgrading.
The little things What are some little things you do that make you very happy? I'm talking tiny stuff like
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Friday 3-point update →Read more...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRINA!!!!!
18 August 2011
GRRRRARRRRRR Paperwork Shouting Thread →Read more...
jalapeno-stuffed olive pickles I just got a hold of some and they are doing things to my brain that I'm not sure I'm comfortable having foodstuffs do. i am just going to declare this a balanced meal and eat them all day
Let's Play A Game! Match the actress to her Simpsons' guest spot.
The Jokers “Bruce Davidson’s 1959 project Brooklyn Gang is an intimate photographic study of a rebellious Brooklyn teenage gang, who called themselves The Jokers.
Summery vodka cocktails Your recipes, I need them.
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17 August 2011
Photo Friday Advance: Cities, suggested by mygothlaundry
Strip-mining Nostalgia: The AV Club looks to yesterday for the potential franchises of tomorrow.
How Frank Darabont got fired from "The Walking Dead." My expectations for season 2 are suddenly very, very low.
16 August 2011
Stephanie Nielson update 3 years ago today she was seriously burned in a plane crash. Today, she announces she is pregnant!
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15 August 2011
MetaChat Raffle Winner! I really enjoyed running this raffle, and the story is contained in this linked set.
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Creepy! "Bicycle Built For 2,000 is comprised of 2,088 voice recordings collected via Amazon's Mechanical Turk web service. Workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard.... They were not given additional information."
Dear Photograph This was already on MeFi so I'm late to the party, but it's great, so I thought I'd share it here too.
Grrr. We are antsy to move and found a new place. The old landlord's hinting he's not going to work with us on prorating and so we might have to pay rent on 2 places for one month. I just want to say grrrr about that.
Self-link on the riots Wrote this 4,000 word article about causes of and responses to the English riots a couple of days ago.
14 August 2011
Self Cross Post Cause I Love It Style Like U talks about fashion and image in relation to identity and ego
The Shakes, "Be Mine" I posted this to Google+ earlier, and now I'm reposting it here, because it makes me very very happy.
Happy birthday to gomichild!
Happy Birthday Orange Swan!
13 August 2011
The main stage collapsed at the Sugarland Concert at the Indiana State Fair I'm worried about friends who were performing today at the fair. Please keep them in your thoughts. I haven't heard anything yet, and I'm feeling sick.
It is raffle time! Seeing as we haven't had one in a while and my boyfriend and I are starting a pack-up of his apartment now, I'm going to hold a raffle of the items he doesn't want to keep or sell!
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I killed a bird today :-( →Read more...
AskMecha: What does this sentence mean? - Scholarship Application Edition →Read more...
12 August 2011
Unattainable Body Ideal-A-GoGo →Read more...
Time for another Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book Of Questions...
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I've never been to a conference, is this something I should check out? I know that A List Apart gets recommended a lot, so maybe this is a good excuse to go to DC AND learn something?
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What aren't you doing this weekend? This is the post where you post your completely made-up weekend plans.
UK English question about fairground games! Your Britannic Majesties,
Do you guys have
whack-a-mole machines?
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Jesus Christ. Doesn't a burst appendix kill you? My co-worker is in the hospital.
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Photo Friday: Games & Play Suggested by workerant and fancyoats
Help desk hell. Ugh, I'm on call at work this week, and I have a call in to our IT partner.
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11 August 2011
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Georges Cziffra plays Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 8 in F sharp minor "Capriccio."
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My wife quit her job yesterday. →Read more...
Gee, how do we always know whose birthday it is? Before there was facebook, there was
the MeCha Wiki.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAZ!!!!!!!
Last day at the cabin I want a nice meat appetizer for the veggie pasta. Ideas?
Phosphorescent's "Mermaid Parade" - this record has been growing on me a lot, and I thought I'd share a song.
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10 August 2011
Photo Friday Advance: Play & Games
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09 August 2011
Live! From a New/Used Laptop in Beautiful Sam Looey Nabisco California... it's another attempt at a
Google+ Hangout! Join the fun, and don't say you can't, I've already posted
my 150 invitations, of which only 11 have been taken.
Having a brain fart, need help airing it out So, what's the name of that thing that goes in large binders that helps you keep papers from getting wrinkled?
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I like this way too much-- not to share it with you all.
New video from Cee Lo Green: don't look at the comments
(always a sound idea on YouTube) and see how long it takes to figure out who the actor in the video is.
"The need to represent with discretion" Sadly, they don't seem to make girl's shirts. Still, I'm looking to pick something out or submit designs.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIKO AND ELSA!!!!!
08 August 2011
what to do? I am upset, and am probably going to have to suck it up.
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MeCha Progressive Dinner - what will we be eating at your place?
I would like to temporarily give my black dog a
rainbow mane for racing events without actually messing his coat up and making him unshowable. Any ideas?
Rock, Paper, Scissors This gave me a chuckle
Hoppy Burfday, redvixen!!
07 August 2011
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Hey, Londoners, are you OK? Word on the Internet is that Tottenham and neighboring areas are on fire and out of control. Are you guys OK?
In the interests of food porn envy... And because it's raining and I'm alone just right now, here is everything I have eaten on my honeymoon so far...
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This is why guinea pigs can't have nice things.
06 August 2011
pearl testing [self-link] so Nucleo and I were talking about whether cultured vs natural pearls can be identified in analysis, so.. I did some research and wrote this up. Fun.
Behold! The Photo Friday Wiki Every Photo Friday from inception in 2006 through last Friday has been listed, linked, and organized for your viewing pleasure.
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G+ Hangout Time! We're not starting quite so late this time!
w00t! Free Pumpkin Any fruit or vegetables over your side of the fence is fair game, right?
Terry Gilliam's Do It Yourself Animation Show Gilliam shows how he did his singular brand of animation (briefly NSFW) (
via)
A writer for Ars Technica loses his phone in a cab, but
tracks it and recovers it from several states away, with the help of a geolocating app, the assistance of several strangers, and a little luck.
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For heard a Blood Sweat & Tears song this morning and decided to look them up. You have to admit this is an interesting band history. And look at the sheer number of names of people who have been in this band. At some point it's no longer a band, it's light industry.
05 August 2011
It's the Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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OMG Bunny Phone! Warning- autoplay techno music
Friday 3-point update. 1. I had Botox today.
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I'm thinking of posting in missed connections If you were making a fake ad for craigslist missed connections, what would it say?
I know we have video-game-playing women here on MeCha... one of y'all has to get
these earrings.
I find this interesting site SugarLaws.com while googling for a recipe.. and it took me a minute to figure out what was going on there but it strikes me as pretty intruiging
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Who's for not studying? It's the most satisfying feeling, freedom from relentless reading and reviews and exercises. Glorious time stretches before you, unmeasured and unhurried.
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Thirties's era baked goods? A friend of mine is hosting a thirties theme party to celebrate his recent acquistion of a vintage phonograph. I've offered to take some baked goodies. Does anyone have any inspired ideas as to what I could make for this party? I thought maybe a batch of mashed potato cookies would do, because people just had to use what they had in the thirties, but maybe some of you have better ideas?
OMFG BUNNY! (may be too intense for some viewers)
Photo Friday: Color combinations or pairs
04 August 2011
What are your two or three Go-To cookbooks? What do you find yourself consulting again and again?
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The 1/2 Hour Comedy Hour in 2 Minutes: Have I mentioned that one of my high school classmates/friends became a TV producer? Wonder why I never asked him for a job?
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A Buttload of Live Performances from Newport Folk Festival Mavis Staples, Tegan and Sara, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Wailin' Jennys, Emmylou Harris and this Portland band that's getting way too popular for my taste. . .
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A neat thing coming up that some of you may want to see. On August 17th, the guys from RiffTrax/MST3K are doing a live* performance beaming to hundreds of movie theaters across the country (*tape delayed on the West Coast). I think I'm ordering my tickets tomorrow. Should be fun!
cooking with rosemary A friend is going to visit and I need suggestions for something to cook using rosemary since I have lots of fresh available.
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Weirdest thing I've seen all day Legos, drugs, and Anita Bryant.
03 August 2011
Got $600 and a picture of your ass? Sylvester Stallone's mom wants to tell you your fortune. NSFW.
Never try to embarass a racist; it wastes your time and doesn't annoy the racist Long story short: Customer just came in here ostensibly looking for school uniforms, but making such strange remarks and questions about our company that I decided to stick with her as the rep handled her.
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Is it me, or is this a terrible jewelry idea? Unless you WANT people thinking about your vagina all day. In which case, cool, go for it.
Wednesday Lyrics Challenge Hint: I just ran through my iTunes alphbetically. . .(Going to lunch. .I expect you guys to get cracking on this.
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Photo Friday Advance: Color combinations or pairs - suggested by Kronos_to_Earth
Hope me, bunnies. I haz mild ethical concern. come inside, plz.
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02 August 2011
Tuesday Afternoon Question. . . I was listening to the new edition of the Dan Savage podcast today
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pondering Pasta can someone help me understand the nutritional aspects of this thing
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Google Maps went ... 3D? And it seems I'm a year behind (or I forgot about this), but I right-clicked on a Google Maps view, and was able to
enable stereoscopic viewing.
Bob Mould does a cover(?) of Sugar's "
If I Can't Change Your Mind."
clock for my bedside table Any dedicated online shoppers seen a good looking small clock recently? I am looking for one to give myself for my birthday. No ticking, no digital. Thoughts? Or suggestions for good sites to scour?
01 August 2011
Judgmental Gorilla. Courtesy of Animalsbeingdicks.com this one made me howl with laughter. Sorely needed laughter. Caveat: This page is SFW but from time to time, the site veers into the NSFW zone.
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Visiting Yellowstone in 2 weeks and it occurred to me today, I don't know what to pack.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY LONEFRONTRANGER!!!! We miss you!
The Octagon House Inventory bills itself as
The most comprehensive source on octagon houses
ever compiled. Cool photos of some of the houses, plus historical info.
Woke up an hour and a half before my alarm went off this morning, with "Going to the Chapel" stuck on permanent repeat in my head. How's your day been so far?
31 July 2011
so I'm on Christies.com, procrastinating and I'm confused about something.
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Possibilities of Spotify For those of us who still miss MeCha radio, is there a way we could use Spotify to share playlists with bunnies? I just got it and haven't figured out all the features yet, but wonder if this could happen. Not quite live DJing but cool all the same.
What makes you tear up? I can't think of the last time something really got to me emotionally. What really gets to you? Make me tear up. Give it your best shot.
Ask MeCha: Dating advice →Read more...
30 July 2011
Young Elephant Gets New Prosthesis - It's great to have a reminder that there are still good people in the world.
ROCK, HARD PLACE, SHOUTING THREAD! ARGH! INCOHERENT SOUND! UNEASY DECISIONS WITH NO CLEAR RESOLUTION! SHOUT YOUR RANDOM SHOUTINESS, FAIR OR ILL!
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Caterina Fake on the socialization level of home-schooled students i find the whole 'socialization' protest to the idea of homeschooling really unconvincing so this is an interesting post from that POV
Honeymoon Time! Going to a cabin in Maine ( with a lake! ) for two weeks soon, advise on how to enjoy an isolated cabin retreat?
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29 July 2011
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It's the Friday Night Question, chosen (again, this week) at random from
The Book of Questions...
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Quirky Keepsake or Totem? What one object do you stubbornly hold on to, even though other people dislike it, though it doesn't go with your decor, though people think it isn't flattering/appropriate, and/or though it's a little embarrassing or juvenile or not a perfect match with your usual persona?
This made me laugh. (NSFW rap parody with 362 uses of f*ck and physical abuse of toasters and other household items) Out loud. LOL. Which is a big deal because I have definitely not been laughing enough lately.
Awkward Classical Music Photos. I actually like
this one, though. It reminds me of something The Art of Noise would have done.
kindle questions →Read more...
Photo Friday: Signs and Labels
28 July 2011
The blinds are closed all along one side of the building I work in.
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Where'd I Get The Funk
Bootsy Collins talks with Tavis Smiley
Some sad, but hopeful news... →Read more...
Your Horrifying Realization? →Read more...
27 July 2011
Humpday 3-point update →Read more...
Photo Friday Advance: Signs and Labels - suggested by filthy light thief
AskMefiCrosspost: Rewiring a lamp in brooklyn? I'd appreciate any recommendations of people or stores!
Free PDF cookbook from "The Stone Soup" blog Full of easy recipes with gorgeous pictures.
26 July 2011
aw man how to prioritize tasks among multiple clients / projects? I'm thinking what happens is that I (& the middle agencies between me and the client) focus on "which client is more concerned!" but I think that's unsustainable cause we just end up lurching from emergency to emergency. I need to carve out time for things that are supposedly in progress even if they're not 'due yesterday!111'
Aliens have landed, justify your culture.... What are you playing to them RIGHT NOW? →Read more...
What would you rather be doing?
CatFilter: new friend for cantankerous kitty? →Read more...
25 July 2011
Turtlegirl gives #bunnies shout outs at the MeFi meetup in Seattle this most recent Saturday.
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MeCha Fantasy Football 2011: It's On! Since there will be football this season, the MeCha League is back!
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Identity Paranoia: a cool and creepy series of photos by Bart Pagoda.
24 July 2011
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Buffalo Wings + IPA = one of God's Own Marvelously Blessed Food Combinations. *urp*
Land Of A Thousand YouTube Videos People love this over on the Blue. So I'll share it here as well. Enjoy!
Gus v Pool I've watched this about 15 times and it's made me laugh every time.
Bunny! OMG! This is how a bunny looks if his head asplodes.
23 July 2011
PlasticLiving.com is great for all the reasons you think it would be. Cool retro scans and photos, though the site navigation is a little awkward.
Crème de glace. Um, crème de GLASS. Tell me I'll be alright? Will I be okay? I ate broken glass tonight. Finely-crushed small particles. Not on purpose -- I'm not a circus geek. Broken glass is one of a very few things that freak me out. Please tell me I'll be okay? I'm a bit freaked out. (Cross-posted on AskMe.)
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22 July 2011
The Season 2 trailer for "The Walking Dead" is out. Looks like they're leaving Atlanta in the 2nd season... good! Take those zombies with you. I'm hiding in my basement and want some air.
Anyone mind a cross post? I'm hoping for some advice by the morning!
It's The Friday Night Question, and this week it is NOT taken from a book, but from a blog post.
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Star Wars Collectibles Bonanza →Read more...
Work is overwhelming right now. But it's Friday and I'm home and my Guy just made us cocktails: the landslide, which is equal parts gin, sweet vermouth, green chartreuse and a bit of campari.
My cat is sitting in my lap. His name is Boutros Boutros Kitty. Sometimes, I call him "Bou", which sometimes becomes "Bous". So right now, I can say "soothing soothing Bous" and mean either my big grey buddy or my delicious cocktail.
What's good with you?
So very bad at math, help! →Read more...
This is a thread in which we post covers that we prefer to the original songs →Read more...
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21 July 2011
Won the NYS Marriage Lottery Getting hitched on Sunday, FYI
OMG! BUNNY! (my new desktop wallpaper)
Black Acre Brewing Company in Indianapolis has a website, and like a lot of alcohol or smoking related websites, they ask you to click a box stating you're over 21 before entering the site.
In this case, though, I recommend clicking the "I'm Under 21" button.
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Question about divorce lawyers In the event of a divorce
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20 July 2011
Photo Friday Advance: Gardens - suggested by workerant
Midweek 3-point update →Read more...
What happened to the pooper scoopers? →Read more...
19 July 2011
My mom was diagnosed with ALS today. I'm feeling kind of broken-hearted and sick to my stomach.
can I talk about my new computer I've been really wanting a new laptop for like an year so… turns out mine stopped powering on last night and forced my hand!!
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Shopping for home decor on Etsy! Share your favorite sellers with me, s'il vous plaît.
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"Suddenly, you were gone from all the lives you'd left your mark upon."
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Tease a Terrapin Tuesday I don't make the rules.
18 July 2011
Gnnnaannnagh! An Oreo with "berry ice cream" flavoring is not an Oreo, nor are they "
fairly tasty." Worst part: the fake taste lingers. So how is your day going?
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New sidebar art! Thanks to our photographers pjern, rhapsodie, and Kronos_to_Earth!
Contesting a Parking Ticket: I think I need a bit of help phrasing something in my letter.
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Quick question about the News of the World scandal. I'm not clear about a few things...
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To-Do List! What's yours this week?
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Points! Points!
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17 July 2011
Favorite fantastical beast? Besides the 400 drunken rabbits.
The View From My Window (to steal from another blogger - but actually, it's the view from in front of my triplex where I have the back unit).
So L.A.'s Carmageddon turned out to be no big deal...
I have a worse traffic tie-up right here. Good thing I'm not going anywhere.
Anyone watching the FIFA Women's World Cup right now?
POINTS! Today's categories are...
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16 July 2011
BUTTERMILK I had to pick up a HALF GALLON of buttermilk to fry the oysters in cause that was the only thing they had. What can I do with a half Gallon of Buttermilk as to not waste it?
The Young Person's Guide To The 12-Inch: Frankie Goes To Hollywood explain how to create an 80's style extended remix.
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15 July 2011
Purchases. What've you bought today?
It's the Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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Tell me your tattoo stories! I'm halfway thinking that I'm almost ready to get a tattoo - something I was certain I'd do as soon as I turned 18. It apparently took an additional ten years to get here.
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Time for a walk In less than 3 hours, it begins.
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Humorous photo of a city letter carrier with a young boy in his mail bag. After parcel post service was introduced in 1913, at least two children were sent by the service (with stamps attached to their clothing, the children rode with railway and city carriers to their destination).
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New raffle? Are we going to do
a new raffle? Who was the winner of the last one?
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This is INSANELY cool: a fly-around video shot with a tiny GoPro camera and a radio-controlled four-rotor drone. (The guy flying it makes a cameo toward the very end.)
!!!FUCK THE POLICE FRIDAY!!! That's right, it's
on. Post your favorite
FtP jams inside!
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FRIDAY POINTS! I'll be needing specifics on these. . .
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Photo Friday: Excitement and adventure!
OMG Possum! →Read more...
14 July 2011
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Tell me about your Chevy Aveo →Read more...
6 Mind Blowing Discoveries Made Using Google Earth #6 alone is worth the link. [trigger warning: Cracked]
Lipdub!? Why in my day, we could lipdub with the best of them! Super cute retirement community tries their hand at lipdub... spread the love. I love the Esther Williams bit. Grandma? Is that you?!?
POINTS! A game of points that goes in order of your day
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You know those apps and sites that help you achieve your short-term goals? →Read more...
13 July 2011
What is this I don't even ... it is an animated GIF that looks to be of a real bird with its wings flared up to look like a huge face, but where's the head?
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Neat-o Fountain I just can't wrap my brain around how they do this, it is just SO cool.
KITTEN ATTACKS! With an epic, cinematic soundtrack!
found via a post on G+ by halonine
I'm making Spicy Fried Oysters! Any tips? Hints? Should I use panko or cornbread crumbs? Good stuff to serve with it (I'm frying some cornbread but that's about it as far as ideas go)
Cats have a stand-by trigger. You just have to know where to squeeze.
Photo Friday Advance: Excitement and adventure! Also, do you have any suggestions for themes?
I have no idea what you're talking about, so here's a
picture of a girl with an octopus on her head.
I'm taking tomorrow off but I don't know what to do with myself.
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12 July 2011
help me find something to replace Jack and Ianto Torchwood scratched an itch I didn't quite realize i had...
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Anybody looking to join Zediva? I got my invitation to join Zediva six or eight weeks ago, after waiting a couple of months. It has the movies Redbox and Blockbuster have or will have but without having to go to the store for them.
I got an email this morning offering invitations to friends.
Here you go, if you want one. No membership fee, just $1.99 per movie, or $1 if you pre-buy 10.
Tuesday Points! It's a Hundred-Point Challenge!
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11 July 2011
Bunny! OMG! Specifically: 400 immortal drunken bunny gods! OMG! Found while looking for a picture of 400 bunnies for the 400th bunny post. Cheers, MeCha!
Jamais vu and deja vu When is the last time it happened to you? Let's throw preque vu in for good measure.
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Grey Bloke discovers the Manosphere "I found that I'm living under the jackboot of a misandrist gynocracy without even being aware of it."
Planet Fitness: Can anyone tell me about their experience at one?
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Points: Monday edition. →Read more...
10 July 2011
There is a mouse in my apartment Now I have an excuse to get a cat.
Give me your words and I want them fancy. Your most recondite and redoubtable words. Please use it in a sentence and tell us what it means.
This Tree of Life project branched out This weekend I made an earring frame to go with the "Tree of Life" jewelry box I made from an old thrift shop silverware chest last year. Check out the
dollar store frame and photo stand I bought to use for this project, the
finished earring frame, and
the earring frame with the jewelry box.
To those of you who find yourselves absorbed in things enough to lose track of time, would you say you were happy, contented or excited at the time, or beyond emotion? I am wonder about time, flow and absorption among other things.
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How's your weekend going? 3-point update. →Read more...
09 July 2011
Having fun with music. I was just watching the 'In The Flesh' DVD and was reminded how much I like watching
this song in particular.
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TOO DEFEATED TO SHOUT EXCEPT IN THE TITLE So I bough an ASUS Ethernet switch on line and, well, it stopped working after a few weeks (and they never sent me my rebate, now that you mention it, and sending it in required about 20 minutes of complicated reading of instructions) but I emailed ASUS and they said I could send it in to them for RMA (and sent very complicated instructions) only I have to pay to package it and send it and the cost to do that is $4 more than the switch cost me in the first place. $14 more if I had gotten the rebate (which, I'll remind you I didn't.)
Shuffle Thread! 'Cos it's 105+F (40.5 C) outside and I've got cold, cold beer inside and we haven't done this in a spell or two. Give me 10+1!
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Your Saturday's POINTS await you. →Read more...
I'm editing my first draft and having a panic sttack Basically it's "Wow if I had such BAD PLOTTING and dialogue at the outset how can I be sure the changes are any better cause I'm the still person who made the first horrible, horrible choices."
08 July 2011
Smartphone Nightmares. Literally. Ever had one? I have had several dreams in the last few months in which I pulled out my trusty Crackberry, only to find that it had morphed into some odd piece of alien technology and I couldn't figure out the buttons. In the strangest and funniest of these dreams, my smartphone had turned into an odd little Japanese Anime-style Hamster Toy. I would actually love to have one like that...if the interface hadn't been totally impenetrable.
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Couch in Baltimore MD or vicinity? →Read more...
It's the Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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Google+ Invites - G+, as all the cool kids are calling it, is back to allowing invites. Most people here probably already know this. But just in case you don't know, does anyone else want one? Post your @gmail address in this thread and I'm sure you'll be signed up in no time at all.
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Midnight in Paris In Woody Allen's new movie Midnight in Paris there is a scene in which Gil buys a Cole Porter record in a charming little booth. On the wall in back of the booth is a magnificent painting of a young boy in a sailor suit. Does anyone know who painted this wonderful portrait. Is it painting by Monet of his son?
Blood Meridian I would love to join your discussion. Mid August if fine since my semester begins August 19.
Friday's POINTS! Come claim your POINTS.
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07 July 2011
Interview Thank You Notes via email - do you start them off with Dear Interviewer or Hi Interviewer? This seems like a pretty laid back and relaxed company if it makes a difference.
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The universe hates me. →Read more...
FRUSTRATED. My ego's all up in arms about having my expertise dismissed. Trying to get it back under control. But still. Fools should listen to me, yo. :-)
Follow The Sun! An animated short.
Thursday 3-point update →Read more...
06 July 2011
Who says meh? Self link. Came across this reading to my six month old last night...
It's time for another round of POINTS! →Read more...
Damn You Autocorrect had
a particularly hilarious June.
(Lots of NSFW text.)
Photo Friday Advance: Fathers, all sorts - your dad, not your dad, animal dads, dads dads dads!!
Facebook Weirdness I received three emails from Facebook, all with the same message and stating it had sent it to all email addresses associated with my account. I've only ever used one email with Facebook. Probably needless to say, I haven't requested an email change.
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Time to figure out next book in the syllabus for MeTa Book Club And when to talk about it. Next book in order in syllabus is Cormac McCarthy's
Blood Meridian.
Animals being dicks. Pretty much SFW apart from a little interspecies X-rated stuff and a tortoise biting a dog's balls. One or two are a little gross. They're the ones I found the funniest (yes, penguin, I'm talking 'bout you).
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05 July 2011
Is this shirt too tight? Luckily, pronounced nipple seems to be diminishing but I've gotten the vociferous opinion it is far too tight. Your opinions, please.
shopping subscriptions This is apparently a monthly shopping subscription (stationery) similar to
ShoeDazzle. The quality and selections look great. But the price...yikes.
I have friends who are into ShoeDazzle. Anyone here buying from them? Are the prices good?
They Might Be Giants cover Chumbawumba's "Tubthumping," backed by a chorus of staff members of
The A.V. Club. The cover is pretty rockin' but wow, if a bomb had gone off in that little room, the earth might have suffered a decades-long shortage of ironically-dressed white people.
04 July 2011
Laptop help: About once a week, the screen on my Dell laptop gets superbright -- it looks like an overexposed photograph. Any idea what might be going on, or what search terms I should be using to research it?
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Shooting "The Prisoner": a
fantastic set of behind-the-scenes photos from the classic 1960s TV series.
Happy Independence Day, American Bunnies!! →Read more...
03 July 2011
Bored @ Work ?? How to kill time if your boss doesn't look too closely
term of the day: Broscience "Broscience is the predominant brand of reasoning in bodybuilding circles where the anecdotal reports of jacked dudes are considered more credible than scientific research."
Points! Here are the rules for today's game of
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Why We Fight: an excellent rumination on why the things we enjoy doing, are worth doing.
02 July 2011
Why aren't the magnetic fields on more karaoke lists I ask you? It's pretty much the only band I can both reliably imitate and know all the lyrics.
Gifts for new mom who had a c-section? →Read more...
Watermelon, arugula, mint and feta salad. I just made this and it was too delicious not to share the recipe with you.
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Google+ - No sense starting a social network app without a social network. MeChazens have shown interest for Google+ on Twitter and Facebook, and with the general distaste for Facebook among users and non-users alike, perhaps a little organized effort could get everyone up and running somewhere more accomodating. So, I guess we need to circulate invites? Cuz, like, I would like one, please. Anyone else?
Points! The Game Continues. →Read more...
01 July 2011
OK, Do I have Google +? Or not? →Read more...
It's the Friday Night Question, taken at random from
The Book of Questions...
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Television's first flipped bird? The Smothers Brothers Show had quite the gang of writers: Steve Martin ("King Tut"), Jim Stafford ("Spiders & Snakes"), Mason Williams ("Classical Gas") & Rob Reiner (Spinal Tap). In this video, Stafford riffs off of "Classical Gas" with the propesed historical moment that culminates at 3:30.
Headaches. The left temple of my head, she is a-killin' me. Drugs have failed. Any good headache hacks out there?
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Battle At F-Stop Ridge and oh yeah, Happy Canada Day !!
So, after pouring water into two big white bowls today, I came to the realization that my water is yellow-tinged. I poured tap water into one bowl and Brita-filtered (with a fairly recent filter) into the other, and both are equally yellowy. Should I be worried? For all I know, my water has always been yellowy and I just never noticed until now because I haven't had occasion to pour it into a white bowl.
Points! Hey, let's play Points! I've appointed myself today's whatchamacallit.
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Radio Soulwax: Crazy mashed-up streaming radio goodness. There's also an Android/iphone app of the stream available.
My Camera Broke It is a software ...thing. Refuses to boot. So I'll describe the latest theme out to you....
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Photo Friday: Public Places
30 June 2011
Is there a greater pleasure than watching your kid fall in love with your own favorite books?
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[Catholic/Religious Filter] A little bit of soul As a recovering Catholic, I find it a little ironic that my first temp job ever is at a Catholic elder care facility. And of course, I'm running into an unusual conundrum.
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"Into the Light" is a photo series by a photographer who asked people to re-create the moment they took their self-pic for Facebook, or a dating site or whatever.
The results are oddly touching.
Cool first pitch. Watch what happens when a Cirque du Soleil performer throws out the first pitch at MLB game.
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29 June 2011
Mustache protector / guard / sling / something? Help me out. I swear that I've seen illustrations of a gadget that a man would wear that covered his mustache, presumably to protect it while he slept. It was like a surgeon's mask, with ties that went over the ears.
Pranking the significant other →Read more...
Any Excel gurus here? My AskMe scrolled off the page before I got a complete answer :-(
Photo Friday Advance: Public Places, suggested by pjern
Midweek 3-point update →Read more...
The joys of new apartment living Our new neighbors who like loud music
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Points! You can get points today for:
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Wonderland, China For those who, like me, can never have too many abandoned theme-park photos.
(Navigation arrows are up by the top corners of the photos, and a little hard to see.)
"Reality" TV confession time... Since it's summertime, I've been watching Master Chef and The Voice more than I care to admit in most polite company.
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28 June 2011
Female Armor: Why it sucks
Our move went well! Now we're getting settled into our new apartment. Here's a
video tour of the new digs.
It's Time For Ask LT Anything! →Read more...
Very cool Firefox browser thing The MetaChat app tab is an adorable bunny.
Skeleton dance. Performance by a very talented street puppeteer.
Don't miss the funny bit at the end when the skeleton looks at how many tips he's gotten.
New Game. I'm starting an utterly arbitrary little game called
"Points." Here's how it works:
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What is the best, most gentle, most soothing lip balm? →Read more...
27 June 2011
Lost in translation and in wearing When I came across
this delightful AskMe earlier today, about how to dress "like a femme Indiana Jones", it got me thinking about the wearing of clothing from different cultures.
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Did you ever read Good Dog Carl? This is a real life
story of a Rottweiler taking good care of a baby.
You should read Good Dog Carl.
I'm in the awkward position of being able to briefly interview a potential boss. How to phrase the question?
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Schiaparelli Bow Knot Sweater, with variations.... The famous designer Elsa Schiaparelli designed a sweater back in the 1920s that may be one of the most iconic sweater designs in history.
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Sexism in vintage ads. These just get more appalling as you scroll down the page. A few I'd seen before, but most I had not.
26 June 2011
WHOAH! GABE KAPLAN! Apparently the former star of the iconic '70s television show
"Welcome Back Kotter" is being sued for his winnings at poker lost by a hedge fund manager. That is, his investor's money. I guess they can "invest" in anything these days being basically unregulated.
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Cat scratcher, reloaded The person spent an hour or so reupholstering my scratching post this morning with a $5 wool carpet remnant. I helped by watching the process intently and by jumping up on the kitchen counter to test scratch a piece of carpet while she was cutting it. I actually preferred the
nice, comfortably lived-with look it had before to
the way it looks now, but of course there's no need for it to stay the way it is now.;-)
Videos shot at 1000 frames per second: Cymbal hit.
Wet puppy.
Sledgehammer on oil drum. The oil drum one is kind of meh, actually, but the first two are really cool.
My mom's doggie. →Read more...
So, someone on Facebook tonight said that she had a "list of things to dwell on." And although metaphorically I can imagine a list of that sort, I thought, hmm. What would that list
actually look like?
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25 June 2011
My Toilet Is In A Movie My toilet is the first one in the photo montage that starts at 0:39. The one with the fuzzy orange seat. The filmmaker saw
the picture my flickr stream and asked to use it. I can't believe they left out the plush flowers, that's the best part of that room.
Staring into the abyss that is summer television. I've been in bed, pretty much since Monday following minor nasal surgery.
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24 June 2011
Yay New York! Now can I tell you my biggest fear?
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The Foop's Fabulous Semi-Centennial Yard Sale is Only Hours Away! Remember, CalMeChans, if you're in L.A. or S.F., the home of the foop (and the land of the knave) is straight up-or-down Highway 101 (for 200-250 miles).
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It's the Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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an Al Goldstein "Fuck You" to Delta Airlines →Read more...
Okay, you convinced me to do it. For the next week, Monday through Friday, I will post an outfit picture a day with outfit ideas suggested by you guys, here...
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Cakepops! Mmmm ... these look good.
Discover Ancient Cambrewelle (
Large pictures). Fantastic prank installation in Camberwell Green, via
@VideoNasty.
23 June 2011
Rockenwagner Apple Pancakes →Read more...
Kind of Screwed Remember the chiptune
Kind of Blue cover album
Kind of Bloop? Here's an update about the cover art.
nooooo this girl i had in a semester class i barely attended in fall 2006 deleted me from facebook! this aggression will not stand! y'all only gonna give me the benefit of the doubt for 4.5 years? are my status updates not captivating?!
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22 June 2011
The Post in which Bon Iver is Explained to DanF I had never heard of Bon Iver prior to several weeks ago
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So men usually splatter urine everywhere? I'm glad I didn't know this until now. How often do men clean the area? I thought issues of splatter had to do with hoverers.
Photo Friday Advance: Summer! Happy Solstice Everyone!
should I stay or should I go? →Read more...
Who needs some bad advice? Who's got some bad advice to share?
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This is the NYT crossword puzzle from the day before the 1996 presidential election, which Will Shortz called the most amazing puzzle he'd ever seen. (pic)
21 June 2011
Beer advice? I need to buy beer for our wedding. The reception will be wine and beer only. I'd like to buy from a local brewery for the beer, especially since we're doing local wine. The local brewery has a summer wheat beer, an amber ale/British ale, an IPA, and a "California Pale Ale." I'm thinking we could do amber, IPA, and wheat in equal proportions -- does that sound right? I'm not enough of a beer drinker to really understand what most people drink.
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Welcome to the latest round of new users! After the jump, say hi to everyone who's signed up in the past month or so
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Parrot Pictures, just because →Read more...
Are you hot? →Read more...
GoodListnr session Over the next few hours I'm trying to get a bit of a session going in the GoodListnr
mefi room . If you're free and fancy some music, come and join us.
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Netflix envelope doodles. This makes me wish I could draw even harder than I usually wish I could draw.
The Lazy Cook A couple friends are swinging through town and joining me for dinner tonight. I want to make something summery and relatively affordable. Any ideas? (I'd love to troll cooking sites like I usually do but I actually have to get some work done this morning, so I'm throwing myself upon the resources of MeCha...)
A very good interview with the writer George Saunders. I thought this idea was particularly thought-provoking:
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Have a happy to share? →Read more...
20 June 2011
Is this how a "big break" starts? →Read more...
I'm trying to find an article I read in the last year or so online. It was a study suggesting that when it comes to free time, in general, men will choose hobbies that are fun, while women will choose hobbies that require responsibility. Does anyone know the one I mean? My google skills are failing.
Watched The Graduate for the first time ever. My sympathizes are totally with Mrs. Robinson, that guy is a dick and your daughter is like 17 and dumb as a post.
Leftover chicken: food fit for the gods. →Read more...
I love this picture of a Steel Mill in the fifties. It looks more like a sci-fi movie set than a picture of a real city.
"Perform This Way," the music video for Weird Al's parody of Lady Gaga.
Joan: BOUNCY or,
Joan: ballad - Program your Monday with a couple interesting fan videos.
19 June 2011
CSS - Art Bitch I quite enjoyed this video. There's even a bunny at 51 seconds lol
So I'm Making Dinner Today Yeah, it's Father's Day and all that, but I feel like cooking.
It will be Tatziki, pita chips, teriyaki chicken on the barbecue and a lemon curd tart. All from scratch.
Anybody else making something special for a dad, or a dad making something for the family?
The song already broke every rule in the book. Now see the video. The Jimmy Castor Bunch - "Troglodyte"
18 June 2011
RIP Clarence Clemons →Read more...
Burt Reynolds, Beer Cans And Burping It was too insanely good to keep to myself. I had to share this AskMe with the world.
people, I have decided to try The Clubs. All I know about clubbing I learned from rap. Basically, if someone steps on your shoes, you break a bottle of champagne on their head—right? Anything else I should know?
Getting Snuggly with the Kittehs - I've mentioned that my cats will sleep on me two and three at a time. I'm not sure that I'd be comfortable going
this far.
Video Killed The Radio Star as played by a reunited version of The Buggles in 2004. Apparently it's even the same backup singers as in 1979.
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17 June 2011
Another Friday Night Question. When you wink, do you wink your right eye, or your left?
The Friday Night Question, as chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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Astonishing photo. Comet, between fireworks and lightning.
Redemption Songs - I picked up a Counting Crows CD today, specifically for
Colorblind. I'm not a fan of the band on the whole, but this song alone is worth it*. What songs redeem otherwise unimpressive/ questionable bands for you?
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This up to 1000 years old snow has metamorphosed into highly pressurized glacier ice that contains almost no air bubbles. (Amazing photo)
Wait a minute, Mr. Postman! The Toronto postal workers are on strike at present. I was just over at the TTC site learning how to get my July Metropass (which, as I subscribe to it so as to get it at a reduced cost of $111, is normally mailed to me).
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Mental health days. Any reason to feel guilty? →Read more...
You know a movie is bad if this is the best image the studio could find to give reviewers. It looks like they stuck Ryan Reynolds' head on a cartoon body.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOLA_G!!!!!
16 June 2011
Welcome To The Neighborhood! →Read more...
Notice something different about the YouTube page for the Nyan Cat video? Look at the progress bar. Somebody at Google used their '20% project time' to make that. I can has bettr web innuvashun?
Time for a new doctor? →Read more...
Cats are funny I have two cats, and they are indoor cats. One of my neighbors has a little white cat who is allowed outdoors. Neighbor cat seems to enjoy hanging out in my back yard, which I'm fine with.
This morning while eating breakfast...
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Everything I have tried to listen to on youtube for the last 3 days has no sound. Other audio streaming works fine. Did something happen I don't know about?
Have you ever seen this picture offline? If so, do you remember where? I know I have seen this picture many times, but I have no idea where it may have been. I can find it online but those avenues have proven to be dead ends.
15 June 2011
I Just Love this Painting. It's by
Harrison Cady and was done in 1935. I'd love to have a big old poster of it, I could look at it for hours.
I need some new music. The old is all worn out in my brain. Something fun and maybe aggressive, with energetic guitars? Nothing depressing, can't handle it right now. Thanks(?).
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BEARWIFE!!!
Irrational Fear #47: Morning Dead Arm
You know when you wake up in the morning and your arm is completely numb because you've slept on it all night? Do you ever have a fleeting moment of panic as you're trying to shake it back to life that you'll never get the circulation back and your arm's just going to *plop* fall off?
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Humpday 3-point update →Read more...
Mashed potato cookies If anyone would like a new way to use up mashed potatoes, I can recommend these cookies. They are moist, spicy and not too sweet.
Also good are these bannock bread and potato doughnut recipes, of course.
Photo Friday Advance: Blue - the color or the mood, you decide.
Uncrank me, please. I am back in extra-coping mode after a very trying few days. Any suggestions for comfort brainfood?
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Headed to Madison today for work Anyone live there and want to hang out? Any tips on what to do/see? I've never been.
14 June 2011
Puppy grows up: a German shepherd's first year, animated. Good doggie!
Want to buy a Kickstarter t-shirt? Well, you've got about an hour left.
When I saw this, all I could think was... GIVE ME A BREAK!
Killing time at Heathrow, looking at my about to be expired passport... I got it for my first trip to England which was my first trip abroad and getting all sloppy nostalgimental .." wow I was a totally different person then " and all that.
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Death of a Stick Insect For those of you following the adventures of Sticky - I'm afraid I have some bad news.
13 June 2011
World's best dropdown box.
what's this about "vintage sunglasses"? are we talking sunglasses that got sold in the 70s and are on the market for resale? or do brands reissue their sunglasses? or do people get knock-offs ("I'm trying to wear something like Audrey Hepburn or Malcolm X wore in this pic") My metachat style mavens help me out
"Single Ladies" re-worked into a Motown song. I am amazed at how well this actually works. It's not a mash-up; the folks at
Endless Noise wrote new music for Beyonce's vocals.
Monday 3-point Update Bunnies: how are you?
Game of Thrones spoilers →Read more...
Happy Birthday rmless2! →Read more...
Happy Birthday, Eideteker!
12 June 2011
"Like Punk Never Happened" is a blog which posts, every other week, an entire issue of
Smash Hits magazine, 30 years after its original publication date.
Pepito Pérez, Pinco Pallino, Ion Popescu, John Doe. Informal names for unknown or unspecified persons in various countries/regions. (
via)
11 June 2011
Synchronization of metronomes. I don't know why videos like this fascinate me so much, but they do.
I Like Turtles - Clover, a turtle who lost her back flippers to sharks, gets a helping hand laying her eggs.
I am in Liverpool →Read more...
Flat Irons? →Read more...
Happy Birthday kkokkodalk!
10 June 2011
Time for another Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book Of Questions.
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My Daddy once told me... (pre-Father's Day parental wisdom thread) →Read more...
09 June 2011
I don't mean to sound like a conspiracy theorist but... →Read more...
THIS IS A GRAR POST →Read more...
If you HAD to pick one of these three houses (NYT slide show), which would you pick and why?
Infographic Airplane Super cool! I have an assignment at work to find models for an infographic that has to track three variables. I am not having a ton of luck, but certainly having fun with infographics. Do you know of any cool examples out there?
ProcrastinationFilter What's something in your life that you really need to replace/fix/deal with but that you keep putting off because it's such a *$%@& pain?
08 June 2011
Oversharing I just thought I would join in the fun, get it over with and
post a picture of my junk. I had no aspirations to public office anyway... not that that's a deterrent for anyone else.
Rather creepy/disturbing earworm of a song - the track is "I Never Knew You" by alt/indie rapper Cage, and it's directed by ... Shia Labeouf? Weird.
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THE GREAT APARTMENT HUNT is over.
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Ask MeCha: giving blood →Read more...
Photo Friday Advance: Slow - Because this year is going too fast. Let's just slow the eff down.
07 June 2011
recommend some summer reading? →Read more...
Ambigrams might be one of the neatest one-word Google image searches you can do.
THE GREAT APARTMENT HUNT so far, is a bust.
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06 June 2011
Gab about last night's "Game of Thrones" episode [spoilers ahoy] →Read more...
Palin Fans Edit Wikipedia to Make Palin Right About Paul Revere - I try to stay away from the Palin circus, but it keeps luring me back.
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05 June 2011
Find your canine match with face recognition software. (If the "take photo" button doesn't appear, try leveling your head.)
Saw the Tom Tom Club play in the park yesterday They sounded great and Tina Weymouth still looks great. You do anything fun this weekend?
Limit One Coupon Per Customer Per Visit →Read more...
The wisdom of Craig Ferguson. →Read more...
04 June 2011
Need some help. My step-brother had a brain aneurysm burst on Thursday and has been unconscious in ICU since. This was a sudden, unexpected thing. He is only 41 and in good health. I would like to get in touch with some of his online friends and let them know what is going on.
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"Groupon is Effectively Insolvent" Is the online coupon market the next bubble to burst?
Chefchaoen, Morocco is a city painted
almost entirely blue.
L.A. Visit! Just in case any of you bunnies missed it,
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London MeFi meetups British Library 5 June,
Islington 12 June featuring Metachat's own The Whelk.
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03 June 2011
Neil Young & DEVO. I'd never seen this performance before.
Your mundane superpowers I genuinely believe I have a better sense of direction then most people. I never get lost,
The return of the Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book of Questions.
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Public Service Announcement: Before using eye drops, make sure they are actually eye drops and not super glue.
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WHAT?! NO! FOUR-O! HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASON'S_PLANET!!!
02 June 2011
I Wrote a Letter to Barack Obama In reply to my latest email from my friend Barack, I sent this.
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Ask The Whelk Anything- Absinthe Edition
stic.man - Healthy Livin just discovered this great song off an album called The Workout. goes with my mindset these days, uptempo rap song about eating well etc. (the player is the little gray strip, press play on that)
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Marvin Gaye's groundbreaking album What's Going On recently
turned 40 years old.
AdviceFilter: Producers' Dilemma If you're in an advice-giving mood, we have an odd situation that's arisen regarding an event series we produce, and aren't quite sure how to think about it.
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Interested in extraordinarily complicated jury selections? How about patients' privacy rights (the jurors', no less) in a case involving a medicinal marijuana collective? The non-profit angle is a new one for California prosecutors (actually in ignorance of guidelines written by current governor Jerry Brown when he was Attorney General), and the potential for setting state precedents is high. Speculation on appeals will be meaningless until the case terminates one way or another. This has many earmarks of being a big one if you like to get in early on these types of things. If you haven't guessed, the defendant's war chest is brimming.
01 June 2011
It's springtime and Scooby wants nookie So she likes to um... you know...
It's both creepy and funny. The noises she makes are... disturbing.
This just happened →Read more...
what song? [youtube] Asking random New Yorkers with headphones on what song they are listening to.
Photo Friday Advance: Light
Crucial fashion advice needed I'm headed to my law school reunion in NYC in a couple of weeks . . .
My snort-soda-on-the keyboard moment. "This is my one arena for high maintenance. I can be so easygoing — I just got a call from the car dealership saying my car got hit while it was there, and I said, ‘Don’t worry about it.’ But God forbid you put crumbs on my haddock. We all pick our battles."
One of my dating deal-breakers; guys who treat the staff rudely at restaurants.
Would you answer this CL ad? Because after the layoff comes the forced moving...
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31 May 2011
Bullying at work I have a friend who finally admitted to me that something is going on at work with his fellow developers. After admitting to a certain degree of bullying, he fled the chat. The thing is, I think this kind of thing is common for geeks
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Take meta, add pot You get metapot. Blessed be!
My last day is tomorrow; I am being laid off. →Read more...
New sidebar art! Thanks to our photographers workerant, mygothlaundry, marxchivist, misteraitch, and plinth.
Brent Hinds, singer/guitarist in the Atlanta band Mastodon, appears in an amusing
commercial for a local bar/restaurant.
Bandcamp! I love bandcamp. I've started buying more and more of my music here. The problem with the internet is that anyone can put their music up and it's hard finding good things. I mean, the difficulty of distribution used to sort of place a threshold of quality or novelty which surely left good stuff languishing, but it at least did some minimal quality control. I'm finding that bandcamp is good for that, plus you can hear the *whole album* before purchase, but there's still too much to sort through! Any recs from the good folks here?
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THE GREAT APARTMENT HUNT BEGINS Finally starting to see apartments for a June 15/July 1 move in. Eeeeeee so excited!
30 May 2011
Ellie on Planet X is a kid-friendly webcomic about a cute robot space-explorer making friends with equally cute alien creatures. The character design and color scheme are both awesome (is that MeFi Blue?), and the artist just did
an experiment in animation that makes me say "THIS MUST BE A TV CARTOON!" Do you agree?
Any tips for do-it-yourself cat-butt shearing?
Happy Birthday to Hugh Janus!
Mummy love This almost made me regret being neutered for other reasons than the usual one.
Edgar Oliver: Apron Strings of Savannah One very eccentric playwright describes his extremely "southern gothic" childhood in Savannah, Georgia.
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Long weekend 3-point update Apologies to everyone who isn't on holiday today. But let's have your updates anyway.→Read more...
Amazon's List of Well-Read Cities. Hey, a best-cities list that does *not* include Madison. Then I realized, in Madison they are more likely to beg, borrow or steal a book rather than buy it.
29 May 2011
Rice. In terms of Indian home food you either eat rice or you eat something with
chapati pretty much. And I'm not that into the latter; I like foods you can eat with a spoon or in a wrap. So I eat a lot of rice.
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"Literally Unbelievable": Facebook users
who think stories from The Onion are real.
This CNBC article argues that retailers and manufacturers have been reducing the quality of consumer products in order to maintain profit margins in this rough economic environment. Does this seem consistent with your experience? I've noticed that they've been sneaking more artificial fibers into clothes -- i.e. a $30 half polyester, half cotton t-shirt at Banana Republic.
"Getting it wrong" fashionwise Did you ever go to a social event, looking good, but realizing that you're overdressed or underdressed compared to almost everyone else, and then caring more about that than you thought you would?
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Monkey! OMG! Or it is quite possibly an until-now undiscovered new species, the Monkitten -half-monkey, half-kitten.
Who animates fake cellular organisms swimming around?
These people.
28 May 2011
Did I misinterpret this headlight signal? →Read more...
MetaFilter Little Ponies Okay, we've got
Favorites Pony (Firefly), her buddy Serenity, Flag Pony (Kat) and Moment of Silence Pony (Duchess, RIP).
What should I make Serenity?
RIP Gil Scott-Heron another one of the greats moves on
27 May 2011
What numerical values do you assign to these words? A couple. A few. Several.
Bonus otter video inside.
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A word to the ladies of Metachat... I was thinking about
this post today, and I just wanted to share my tale.
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Gah. I ate too much for lunch. That was a dumb thing to do. I cannot stay awake, and I have to work all afternoon. Even a high-test caffeinated drink is no helzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Teacher gifts →Read more...
26 May 2011
Finally, I can say it. We homeschooled my son (who tested at slightly than higher intelligence when he was 9--nothing special). Our reason was we felt schools in Georgia and Tennessee exposed him to too conservative an influence from other kids.
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okay, I have decided that online dating is just degrading. that whole "write to a bunch of people on the vague off chance that they'd reply in a day or two" is just absurd
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Semen Collecting Robot . . .via the awesome Mary Roach
Happy birthday to Several! May your day be full of red ducks.
25 May 2011
Personal lexicons →Read more...
Photo Friday Advance: Curves
Dear hispter parents, Every member of your family is dressed stylishly, in the way that looks casual and unplanned, but is, in fact, quite calculated, and certainly expensive. Hipster dad, the wingtip oxfords with jeans - well done. 3 year old with a navy corduroy blazer with leather elbow patches - a bit overdone. When said 3 year old had a complete meltdown, including, but not limited to writhing on the floor of the airport food court, you, hipster dad, tried to talk to him, interest him in a book, and some of the time, ran after him as he ran around, wailing. Then you got your sandwich, and you were completely unable to choose between your nice, hot panini, and your sobbing child, writhing on the floor again. Lots more in the more inside:
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Your Mission, If You Decide To Accept It, is to help me figure out a meal with pesto
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Hump Day 3-Point Update! →Read more...
My Cat Borked My Mefi, Help Completely idiotic question, but well, I am a complete idiot. Anyway, last night the cat jumped on the keyboard and now the blue - or, rather, the font on the blue - is very small. Tiny. Unreadable. Gray & green, however, are fine. What did she do? How do I undo it? HALP!!
24 May 2011
Painting Project I need some color ideas
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Micro shuffle-a-go-go! With AN EXCITING TWIST! →Read more...
Space Oddity 1974 Midnight Special - If you are a fan of Bowie's eyes, watch this. What I like about this video is it shows that Mick Ronson was Bowie's equal, and this is Bowie at his prime. For the fans of the
1970 era Bowie. Or, do you prefer
1969? fwap
23 May 2011
Indoor Chickens - Includes video of chickens in diapers and chicken who plays fetch.
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Birthdaoke Crosspost Yay, birthday! Yay, karaoke! Yay, YOU! You know, like, joining us for the first two.
At any given time, I'm sure to have a song running through my head. Does that happen to you?
Kindle? If anyone's been thinking about buying a Kindle, woot.com has a refurbished one for 90 bucks, today only.
22 May 2011
Music Videos In the last couple days I've seen some music videos worth sharing.
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Very cool things happened for me on Saturday, and it wasn't the Rapture. →Read more...
Happy Birthday to JanetLand, Brujita and me!
Lars Von Trier: anti-semetic or moron?
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21 May 2011
Metafilter is closed for the Rapture unfortunately, things really do seem a little borked... but maybe its just me.
The bitch about the Rapture is that you still have to keep an eye out for traffic In honour of today's predicted events, I offer this clip from
Six Feet Under. I'm still in awe that the show's producers went there.
inadvertently discovered an awesome trick staying up / alert for really extended periods is easier when you don't eat anything. So instead of stuffing face with stress + drowning it down with caffeine it can be better to just be on fluids and very light fruits and things.
Camera prank. This is chuckle-worthy.
Labyrinth Ear: cool band with free 5 song EP download I really like these songs! Especially Snow White and White Gold
I just finished my hardest term ever and my grades are submitted and now I'm going to watch My Little Pony until my brain dribbles out my ears. Happy Saturday!
A RAPTUROUS BIRTHDAY TO WOLFDADDY!!!!!
20 May 2011
Time for another Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book of Questions:
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It's raining and my Mom is dropping by unexpectedly, halp? Manhattan, she,s done the tourist things, and we'd like to be inside. More jeans and a t shirt then heels and pearls. Ideas?
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OMG! BUILDING! (scroll down)
Photo Friday: The Letter "D"
19 May 2011
This is both beautiful and terrifying... a
figurine decorated by bees.
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Little boy joins in with belly dancers I was at a hafla tonight, and this adorable little boy jumped in and started shaking it with the belly dancers.
Bunny! OMG! *Engage helicopter ears*
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A letter to the editor in the Erie, Pennsylvania newspaper titled "Rapture May Snarl Air Travel":
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Spring is come, the flowers is riz.... and WHAT THE HELL IS THAT BY THE COMPOSTER? So, last night I had a little window of non-raining time in which I could garden.
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18 May 2011
Photo Friday Advance: This week's Photo Friday will be brought to you by the letter D - dogs, doorways, dolphins, and everything else starting with the letter D. Suggested by gomichild.
So Why Would UPS get my package early this morning,
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Trilby vs. Raccoon Trilby tried to pick a fight with a raccoon this weekend — through a window. The coon was on the lean-to roof, just outside the kitchen window. Trilby sat on the inside sill and hissed and batted at the glass. The raccoon barely seemed to register Trilby's presence. It was amusing and surprising to watch. Trilby is a very gentle little guy who is wary of strangers and terrified of babies (hee!). But when he saw this raccon (that must have weighed twice what Trilby does) he was all aggression. I guess it's easy to be brave when you know your opponent can't get at you.
My cat talks in her sleep.
NPR Must Reads Couldn't keep my mouth shut - had to comment.
17 May 2011
Since when did it become okay to ask people's ages? I'm getting this constantly, it's the first thing out of people's mouths. I never lie, but when did it become normal to just ask people how old they are? Isn't it somewhat rude? What's with the burning need?
Time for SHOWTUNES! omg, live-accompaniment showtunes karaoke; what do I DOOOOOO?
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Grandparent Names - What Do/Did You Call Your Grandparents?
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Are any folks here Fallout fans? Anybody playing the new DLC that is released today?
GARRRR BLARRGG. People invited to our wedding are complaining to me that the hotels here are too expensive. One, what exactly do they want me to do about it? and Two, way to make me feel like an important person in your life. BLARRRRGGGG.
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Good Cary Tennis column today. I am exactly this person. But his advice seems to be like everyone else's: seek therapy.
Metachat, I have another serious question to ask you. →Read more...
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16 May 2011
Mindblowing moment for a lifelong fan - Paul Simon invites a woman up from the audience to play one of his songs, after she shouts out that it was the song she learned guitar on.
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Cephalopods in space This morning NASA launched the
space shuttle first cephalopod into space.
Anna Calvi Anna Calvi, she is awesome.
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"When we connect, reality happens. We’re all faking it to a certain degree, and all of our fabrications are realer than we know." An interesting, though long-winded,
essay about "faux vintage" photos provokes
this excellent response, which is the source of the quote above.
15 May 2011
My heart breaks every time I see Robert Downey Junior on screen. I do not, as a rule, believe in the idea of artists so talented and vulnerable that they cannot function in this society, but he is the one person to whom I feel I can give that excuse. I feel like I'm watching his heart/soul/body laid bare whenever I see him, and I am thankful for the insight into humanity that he gives.
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New-Fangled Fabricator Gadgets And Hipster-Type Individuals -- The Flickr Photoset So I'm on the 7 train, reading the Times and they had an article on this demonstration of these kind-a futuristic fabricator gadgets in an art space in Williamsburg.
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I'm 3! Post a pic of yourself (or family member) on your (their) 3rd Birthday with cake!
Gilligan's Island and the bear scene I'm glad Gilligan's Island was good for something.
14 May 2011
I don't have a wife, and I don't have cats. I do, however, have a person who I sometimes call "sunshine" and "pineapple" and who will be stopping by some time this evening to pull a spider out of the hat.
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Help stamp out hunger: Leave a couple of canned goods or other non-perishable foodstuffs by your mailbox today. Your mail carrier will pick them up and they'll be delivered to a local food bank.
Because everything in her home is waterproof, the housewife of 2000 can do her daily cleaning with a hose.
13 May 2011
Cat Gets 100 Stars You are a cat. There are 100 stars hidden on the board. Find them. (Flash, oddly soothing)
The Metachat Friday Night Question. BP is out celebrating and left me with tonight's question.
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Meet the world's most expensive photograph. All $3,890,500 worth of it. Not sure what else to say...
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The wants of butterflies. If only my own tastes were so clear cut.
Stuck at a painfully bad conference. →Read more...
Anyone want an invite to Pinterest? I have 6.
It's been a while since we welcomed new users! So after the jump come in and say hi to them. Noobs - you too!
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Eurovision cake round two/dos/deux/dwa/zwei/due/... I can't think of a design or pattern for my cake this year! The party's tomorrow! Ack!
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Damaged astronauts. Paintings by Jeremy Geddes. There are other subjects if you dig into the site, but wow,
those astronauts.
12 May 2011
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Can any golden retriever owners please help me out? Kind of an odd request. But please help me make a birthday gift for my friend and I'll donate money to help re-home dogs.
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Anyone have an amazing brownie recipe that they want to share? I am going to attempt to make brownies tonight for the first time.
"Cut the tofu. Turn the plate." Vegan Black Metal Chef: Episode #1 - Pad Thai
in this thread you will drop the sexiest songs you know (not necessarily songs to get it on to)
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Hey everyone! Let's make a Quiche! grab your frozen pie crusts and pre-heat the open! What goes into our quiche? Is less more or just less?
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Meghan McCain dishes it back to Glenn Beck. She's my new favorite Republican.
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What's on your computer desktop? Mine looks like
this.
I'm fascinated by the
SSA's website of popular baby names, but I didn't know until today that
you can download a text file of all names with 5 or more occurrences.
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Cat catches bat. After all, it's just a flying mouse.
11 May 2011
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Photo Friday Advance: ACTION!
Today's Google doodle is
animated, and genuinely beautiful and cool.
Martha Graham. They may not
archive the animation, so check it out while it's live.
As winner of the inaugural MetaChat New Raffle Tradition Raffle... →Read more...
10 May 2011
In continuing the new Metachat raffle tradition, we are also continuing the tradition of randomly choosing a winner who doesn't really want the raffle prize. Winner announced herein....
Metachat, I have a serious question to ask you. →Read more...
Sentimental song What song makes you feel sentimental?
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The Metachat Children's Book of Fairy Tales. Or -- Let's self-publish a book.
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09 May 2011
Scott Weaver's "Rolling through the Bay" Whoa:
Scott Weaver's amazing piece, made with over 100,000 toothpicks over the course of 35 years, is a depiction of San Francisco, with multiple ball runs that allow you to go on "tours" of different parts of the city.
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Barack Obama's Facebook feed from the Royal Wedding to the aftermath of the bin Laden raid.
Watch this space. Community participation opportunity. Details to come. Tomorrow. Neener.
08 May 2011
This week, This American Life played a clip from a woman whose house MOVED one-and-half blocks during the Tuscaloosa tornadoes, intact. She said she "floated across the living room like an astronaut." I may never be able to get that terrifying mental image out of my mind.
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things I learned far too late pretty much any set of transactional interactions can be conceptualized as a relationship. Once you view it with that lens you can handle things in a better way for both parties ✓ (e.g. paying attention to their emotional takeaway from things as much as just the mechanics of what you're doing)
Happy Mother's day to all you mothers and guardians out there! Did you do anything special for or with your mom this year for Mother's Day?
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07 May 2011
80s video game arcades That's my youth, right there.
Pet woes--or not! You may remember
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Up and at 'em! Wherein I attempt to motivate myself and others.
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On the road, sleepless, bleary-eyed. This post will probably make no sense, but considering my state of mind, I'm not sure I'm capable of making sense.
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06 May 2011
forvo The kid and I have been having big fun with this pronunciation guide (she's been learning Spanish and I've been double-checking my pronunciation). Love hearing all the different accents.
Time for another Friday Night Question, as chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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Foop in the Funny Papers! (in the you-probably-didn't-know-somebody-was-still-doing-it "Nancy") I wonder if I should start an online store selling shampoo. (
Here's another shampoo joke today from a comic nobody ever reads anymore... because newspapers won't print comics that use REAL poo.)
Stolen Camera Finder uses one of your photos to read the serial number of your camera, then searches the web to see if anyone else is posting photos taken with your camera.
05 May 2011
"Life's Too Short For The Wrong Job" ...for Äsk Dabitch (who has certainly seen it already). Brilliant/lol.
OMG Jumping Bunnies! If this is a duplicate... who cares! Lookit the bunnies!
18″x24″ map of the history of films set in New York ... more specifically, all the movies I could cram into a tiny 12-square-mile chunk of Manhattan. There’s exactly 91 movies on here. Can you name them all?
Twitter help? Anybody here work with/pay attention to corporate/organization-wide Twitter accounts? I could use some help.
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Calling All Little House Fans - I've found a copy of
Pioneer Girl, Laura Ingalls Wilder's unpublished base story for all of her books. I've long wanted to read it, but the LIW Home Association keeps it under tight wraps (you can't see it let alone read it) and the only way to get a copy is through requesting printouts of the microfilm. Those printouts cost about 50¢ per page which can add up.
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Encounters at Home Depot Occasionally at Home Depot I experience a failure to communicate so dramatic I question my own ability to gauge whether I’m even speaking the English language. Maybe I'm like one of the adults in
Peanuts who think they're talking but are really just making WAAAAAAA-WAAAAAAA-WAAAAAAAA noises.
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MeTa Book Club meets again on MeCha on June 21! Hope you reading bunnies will come join the discussion of Marilynn Robinson's
Housekeeping.
I think it's interesting that a lot of 'seminal' or foundational texts, speeches etc. that enter popular culture as significant touchstones of a movement are actually, in their time, specialized infighting.
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04 May 2011
"Emery board" scratching posts:: yay or nay? I keep seeing those "emery board" cat scratchers in stores. Trilby has nearly destroyed the cat scratcher I got him and I was wondering if I should get him an emery board as it would save me from having to cut his claws. Anyone tried them? Or rather, has your cat tried them?
My son continues to play the piano -- what pieces could be next? As per a post I made in January, we got a beginner's book for adults and he finished it. Then he learned the first two minuets in the Beginner Bach book (the famous one in G major and the next one in something-minor). Now he's finished learning the Chopin Prelude Opus 28 No 2. What other pieces could he learn at about this same difficulty, by other romantic composers?
"Let It Go" Cool pop song: check. Cutesy video: check. Cute singer: check. Also,
free download of song (if you give an email addy- just use a disposable one).
So There's This Family . .in my town. Got to know them because their kids were in a lot of the activities around town that mine was (swimming, drama, etc.)
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Next MeTa Book Club Book and Discussion Time? Next in the syllabus is Marilynn Robinson's Housekeeping.
Guineas! OMG! Tug of
War Lettuce.
A Question For Those With Bad Eyesight: Do those among you who, like me, have coke-bottle glasses go to chain stores like Lenscrafters and Pearle for new frames? Are they significantly cheaper than mom-and-pop optical shops? Can they make the thinner, lighter lenses that I have in my current glasses? I have this sense that they are hacks, but I think that might be wrong, and I would like to save some money on new frames if I can.
What do you call this kind of internet poster? Is there an accepted term for someone who is reactionary and ignorant yet who genuinely believes what he or she is saying, and who wastes everyone’s time by derailing what could have been a good discussion into stupid arguments? Such a person is not a troll, a troll being one who deliberately says provocative or offensive things to cause trouble, so what is she or he?
Photo Friday Advance: Food!! What did you have for lunch? Dinner? Show us your food photos!
Is there gang warfare on wikipedia's turf? In case this has been changed by the time you get to see it, it now reads:
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May the Fourth be with you Someone had to do it. When else do you get to work that joke?
Living at the Edge of the World. I have a weakness for stories about remote islands. Every time I read about one I want to go live there. This one is Foula, in Scotland.
Playboy Bunny manual excerpts. As seen on MetaFilter.
(twist, watusi, bugaloo, etc., are examples of acceptable dances)
It's HappyBirthdayMygothlaundryDay!!!!! →Read more...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MYGOTHLAUNDRY!!!!!
03 May 2011
First Lady has Moves! I would like to see her really cut loose. You can tell she knows her way around a dance floor.
Bunny Laden. OMG! Only the Daily Mail, the newspaper with the best cute animals stories and the most right-wing histrionics, could combine both bunnies and the World's Most Notorious Dead Terrorist in one story.
Louse Fiasco 2011 In which I reveal three possible entry points and my calculated plan of attack.
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Happy Birthday to my dear stynxno!
02 May 2011
HAPPY BIRTHDAY STYNXNO!!!
As the winner of the inaugural Metachat raffle, I hereby proclaim it a tradition and start a new raffle.
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Issue #2 of MeFi Mag is up! MeFi Mag is creative publication by and for members of Metafilter. With #2 out the door, we're starting work on Issue #3 with a theme of Location and Travel, due out around June 1st
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How does your household share scheduling? My fiance and I are trying to figure out a way to share our (ever-changing) work/meeting/personal schedules with each other. I just tried Google calendar and couldn't quite make sense of how to do it. I'm also open to a whiteboard calendar on the fridge, or any other ideas. How do y'all manage it?
Please, please, please tell me this is not a bed bug. Photo inside.
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Your own personal Top 40 Song list. The songs that changed your life. The songs you turn to when you're happy or sad. The songs you crank on the car stereo. Bare your soul to us.
01 May 2011
Dogboarding! [vimeo] This has made my stupid stressy too much work-y week. Basset Hound kickflip!
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Nas & Damian Marley Nah Mean video [youtube]
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MR RICHAT! Happy birthday to you!
30 April 2011
BUNNY WHOOPIE PIE PAN GIVEAWAY! Specifically, I have one of them, and am giving it away in the manner of a raffle. It is new. It looks
like this approximately.
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ST:TNG + Weird Al = Data's White & Nerdy The most enjoyable 3 minutes I've spent this month.
29 April 2011
Did I make a huge, horrible faux pas? Truth, please.
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OMG! Baby goat stampede! ...with bonus sagacious dog.
Help the Ignorant! Wireless questions.
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Time for another Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book of Questions.
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Can't. Stay. Awake. OMG. I'm stuck at work on a Friday afternoon with nothing to do and I'm dead tired. Won't somebody please entertain me? Or e-slap me or something? Huh? ZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
You've just been given a bar.. .. what are you going to name it?
Royal Wedding coverage has begun here in Aus... I'm strangely interested now, but wondering how that will hold up over the next seven or so hours.
Photo Friday: The Letter "C"
28 April 2011
Holy cow, if this guy on Fresh Air right now says "sort of" one more time, I'm going to punch my radio. Forgive my intemperate reaction.
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Best meal you've made lately? →Read more...
Pale Blue Dot An animation student's thesis project, illustrating the words of Carl Sagan. Really nice.
Urgent call to ThePinkSuperhero Pinks! Help!
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27 April 2011
What is your Royal Wedding guest name? →Read more...
Bunnies! OMG! Earsies! Mouf!
A nice story comes out of all the birther nonsense - the family of the deceased doctor who delivered President Obama celebrates their husband and father.
Photo Friday Advance: This week's Photo Friday will be brought to you by the letter C - cats, crates, camels, caterpillars, and everything else starting with the letter C. Suggested by gomichild.
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Tom Scocca: "I Know Why I Cheer for a Birther Moron, But Why Does ESPN Cheer for Him?" This is an excellent essay. I hate when sports media call right-wing athletes "challenging" or "controversial," when what they usually are is stone ignorant, just like this guy Luke Scott.
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26 April 2011
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How is your Top 40 Ever list going? One more week! You should have fewer than 100 titles by now.
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"Artificial clouds" driven by solar-powered engines might be deployed at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar to help keep the stadiums from overheating.
MeFi/MeCha NYC meetup, May 15, 7 p.m. Back in New York again and this is one of the first things on my agenda. Hope NYC bunnies can make it!
more fuck cancer My supervisor at NIH, who I love, has just started hospice care at home.
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And....happy birthday Cortex! Hope you have a great day!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY INITAPPLETTE!
25 April 2011
Subtleties of translation... I was given this super-cute set of stamps for my birthday (
Photo 1,
Photo 2).
There's just one problem:
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subcultures do you jump into or resist being pulled into subcultures?
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Previous pony trotted out again: I've mentioned this before to a good response but it was ages ago. Is their any way we could navigate metachat by days? I don't get to frequent metachat as often any more and it's hard to see what you missed or find a post previous to the listing on the front page. I don't know if our intrepid techie people have the time or inclination to add features, but I thought I'd ask.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIPSTICK THESPIAN!!!
24 April 2011
The Portal 2 Spioler Thread - EVERYTHING AFTER THIS IS A SPOILER Space space spaaaaaaace.
23 April 2011
Fisherman wake up call three point status update So, I am on fisherman wake up call.
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Where yo thermostat at? →Read more...
Happy Birthday CitrusFreak12!
I <3 specklet. That is all.
22 April 2011
anyone know someone who started a restaurant cafe/bakery/whatever? Got any stories?
This week's Friday Night Question, as chosen at random from
The Book of Questions:
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Tomato School: "As ethical tomatoes become more common, a new curriculum teaches migrant workers about minimum wage, proper conditions, and how not to be exploited."
3-Point Update! (unemployment edition) →Read more...
21 April 2011
I need Easter egg theme ideas! We're painting eggs at my dad's tomorrow night and haven't picked a theme for this year. Previous themes have included South Park characters and Stanley Kubrick movies. Your ideas, let me have them!
OMG 'bunny'! Through tomorrow, if you text 'bunny' to 27722, Energizer will donate $1 to the National Parks Foundation.
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I suck at thinking up usernames and handles. Any ideas, stories, inspiration? The latest example... I was about to register an account at FICS, a free chess server. But you have to pick a handle, you may only ever have account, your handle will be for ever unchangeable and you'll be stuck with it for life.
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Cats are awesome. But, you knew that.
Camel tickling. *Also not a euphemism.
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Flickr work around? →Read more...
Penguin tickling. *Not a euphemism.
Show of hands: So, who all is getting married? (This may have to become a monthly update for a while.)
20 April 2011
Did you have an imaginary friend when you were little? I did. His name was Walkerhooie and he was a green brontosaurus with purple polkadots. He also lived at the North Pole, had a thousand wives, and ignored them frequently to spend time with me. He could grow to be bigger than a house, or get so small that he could fit in my pocket. We quarreled frequently, but he still came whenever I called. I met him in the woods behind my house when I was 2.5 and while I know that I made him up, and I didn't really see him, I promptly took him to meet my mother, who was weeding her strawberry garden.
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Photo Friday Advance: Body Parts - people, but just parts (no whole bodies!), coming at you this Friday.
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If you like a daily cry, check out the Welcome Home blog. Today's video and yesterday's video were particularly good.
Two cool cover songs: 1. Canadian indie band
Young Galaxy do a
sweet electropop take on Madonna's "Open Your Heart." 2.
The Flaming Lips cover "Smothered In Hugs," a song originally on the first Guided By Voices album,
Bee Thousand.
Both links found via PrettyMuchAmazing.com
Happy Birthday mdonley! Happy Birthday ThePinkSuperhero!
Giant forks of lightning are ripping across the sky followed by thunder that shakes the ground. The rain is hammering the roof of the patio so hard it is all but drowning out the sound from the ear buds. I am looking at
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19 April 2011
The lighter side of my father's death (not TOO creepy) Going through my father's stuff this week, I have seen so many examples of his weakness for crappy products, questionable charities and the Old Hard Sell.
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The problem with being tall: There is no place within my home where I can hide sweets/goodies/treats and not access them without effort.
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Fuck the tsunami. I don't know the source of the pic, but I hope this is real. I really want it to be real.
Meetup Crosspost: NYC edition! Heya... just in case you miss it in the IRL page, The Chef and I will be in NYC for a couple of days. Really hoping that I get to meet y'all*!!
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Made up/heard any good new cuss words lately? My present favourite is 'shitbuttons,' last uttered when our work experience student spilled coffee all over the fudge counter.
18 April 2011
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is there a way of asking someone out that's clearly "asking them out" and not asking them to be out and about with you in that occasion?
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The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We're All Going To Miss Almost Everything. A really thoughtful essay about what it means to well-read, or well-versed in any kind of arts/pop-culture medium.
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Anyone interested in compiling and posting your Top 40 Ever song list? I have done mine, and it's not easy. So, two weeks notice?
17 April 2011
Scorched. Photo slideshow of golf balls recovered from a golf course's out-of-bounds areas after the 2009 Guiberson fire in Ventura County, California.
Is anyone else ticked about this twenty article per month limit on the NYT? I couldn't read the Ethicist this morning. Grrrr.
Long shot request I hope this is okay to post, especially since I don't have much activity under my belt here.
This is a long shot, but I'm looking for a picture out of a book called
This Train is Bound for Glory. It's a book of photography by the immensely talented Justine Kurland.
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dang someone needs to make an 'online life immediate lockdown' guide, so those of us who become the sudden target of 4chan types don't have to ad-hoc figure out the linkedin, twitter, facebook, myspace, youtube etc settings super quick!! good thing my facebook was mostly locked down though, no pics or nothing
16 April 2011
What do you call the part of the hand that is not the fingers? Not the palm nor the back, but:
palm + back - fingers = ???
How many T-shirts do you own? I'm talking your basic, casual crew-neck, got it for free at at the 5k or family reunion T-shirt. I'm in the process of cleaning out my closet for spring
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15 April 2011
Storm. Tim Minchin's tale of suffering through a dinner party with an anti-science, new-agey flake is now a very funny animated movie.
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It's time for the Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book of Questions.
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Shuffle, anyone? It's cloudy and cold outside and I'm in a procrastinate-y mood. Let's shuffle, shall we? Bonus question: how many tracks are you pulling from when you shuffle?
Google's Charlie Chalplin Logo - I noticed it first when searching for
I have no mouth and I must scream, and I thought Google was messing with me.
You have problems. You smell. Especially down THERE.
Bunny! OMG! Also, wouldn't this be the best place ever for a meetup?!
14 April 2011
XP Security 2011: the aftermath I think I managed to get rid of the XP Security 2011 virus that attacked my computer last week. However, my computer still isn't completely back up to speed.
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When you think of mashing up two decades-long-running pop-cultural entities, I'll bet you don't think of Peanuts and Doctor Who.
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H.P. Lovecraft LEGO house. Possibly the greatest thing ever.
Our new sidebar art is a tribute to the people of Japan, in light of the horrors they've been through and their ongoing troubles. These cherry blossoms brought to you by our photographers gc, flapjax_at_midnite, Senyar, and gomichild. If you have cherry blossom images that you'd like to add to the sidebar, email me or comment in this thread and I'll add them. (The blossoms don't have to be in Japan.)
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Douchebag of the year award. "Real Families" is actually a pretty good blog.
When does a dream become a nightmare? (Don't miss the song that starts about halfway through.)
If you want to be on my mailing list, send your name and address to the email in my profile. I don't have any past holiday exchange lists so I must start from scratch. You never know what you may get in the mail.
13 April 2011
Dioramas Did you have to make dioramas in school? What were they of?
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Happy birthday to BitterOldPunk! May you be just as awesome when you actually ARE old. ;)
Photo Friday Advance: Movies, suggested by Senyar. Photos that remind you of particular movies. Make sure to tell us what movie it is if it's not obvious.
Threre's something not-quite-right about this that I can't articulate. Joan Fucking Jett. Sings with Miley Cyrus. On Oprah.
It's like if we had a thread about most improbable duos in most improbable venues, this is what I would have picked.
Pop songs arranged for orchestra. These are better than they have a right to be. Click the song titles for write-ups about each track.
My father passed away today, at the age of 90-and-a-half.
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So what were you doing 25 years ago? →Read more...
12 April 2011
Can we talk about bedding? I have a question about sheets
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Dress Codes and Funeral Etiquette: An expression of shock and dismay Might use an f-bomb or two, so possibly NSFW
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MeCha Book Thread : What are you reading at the moment? →Read more...
What do you want to accomplish this week? I'll go first.
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Can you edit a flash file without having any flash software? →Read more...
David Byrne sues former Florida governor, and wins.
Someone please explain the Internet to me. What is
this site for? Why does it exist? What purpose does it serve? Who is the intended audience?
My favorite Vegas casino is closing! Now where I am to play $1 blackjack?
11 April 2011
Have Any Cutting-Your-Own-Hair-with-Clippers Tips? Shallow, self-indulgent hair details:
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LT just got me on linkedin and I don't even do facebook. Who's on it? Shall we make "connections"?
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Ian McKellan recites a Shakespearean sonnet while The Fleshtones provide musical backup. From the short-lived 80s TV show,
Andy Warhol's 15 Minutes.
Anyone in Iceland? WANT.
Seen any awesome candy/lollies lately btw?
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10 April 2011
Remember the pop-up candy-house holiday-card? My next project is about to begin.
put me onto Patti Smith so my itunes just switched to this 'Dancing Barefoot' song which I'd never heard and blew my mind
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It is 80 and damp in Angola, Indiana and it seemed like it would never get warm again. Now I'm worried about a fuming summer.
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09 April 2011
Alienation Look at this map depicting percentage change in obesity of U.S. adults over last decade:
map This is what happens when 80% of stuff sold as ‘food’ is concocted to subtly kill you
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08 April 2011
The Angel Statue in the center of Central Park was based on a famous lesbian actress in 19th Century NY and widely condemned for being "too masculine" and "peasant like"
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It's the Friday Night Question! As chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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I am glad that I read through the new recipe I want to try tonight more carefully and noticed the "Let stand at room temperature for two hours" instruction early enough to be able to do so. What are you glad about?
So, after 46 years I finally got married.
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A twitter conversation has me wondering. What is the emergency stash in your desk drawer at work?
How to make a chocolate serving bowl. What a great idea. I am definitely trying this.
This is a "wining" thread... We just unearthed a bottle of "Two Buck Chuck," circa 2001.
Is it liable to be, as David Byrne might have put it, "same as it ever was?"
So, I'm officially non-essential. Anyone else?
Photo Friday: Found Alphabet and Found Faces
07 April 2011
I know you've got great stuff MeFi Mag submission deadline for issue 2 is April 13. No theme yet for this one, but we are looking to get more visual work into the magazine. (Don't let that dissuade you from sending in written stuff).
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Paying for Dinner--What? Okay, according to a bunch of people's answers in that AskMeFi thread, dudes pick up the check all the time as part of being a "nice guy."
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Dear Urban Cyclists: Go Play in Traffic "From Dublin to Bogotá, bicycles are taking over city streets. What's next, lanes for hopscotch and pogo sticks?" [Amazing satire on the spreading threat of bicycles in the roadways]
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I want things! What things do you want?
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Curious facebookery. One of my contacts, a contributor to this site, posted
this article and its corresponding
Metafilter thread to her Facebook page. Of course, it showed up on my News Feed.
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Explain things? Let's have a thread where we fess up about things we don't know and answer each other's questions.
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06 April 2011
Photo Friday Advance: Found Alphabet & Found Faces - items that unintentionally look like letters or faces.
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The spider trees of Sindh: "An unexpected
side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders climbed up
into the trees to escape the flood waters."
Famous people singing and dancing with the Muppets. A YouTube playlist. As with all things YouTube don't read the comments.
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05 April 2011
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Crazymaking relationships What drives me craziest about my ex is his persistent delusion that he broke my heart to pieces. When I try to explain that's not how it went down, my protestations only reinforce his belief. It's like the Miranda warning where "anything you say may be held against you". How do people deal with this kind of crazymaking in relationships?
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The antidote to this.
Laughing owls.
So a meteor is headed to Earth and will destroy our ability to live on the planet any more, and so we will all be leaving to colonize another planet. The new planet will be quite different in geography and political structures from our own. But there will be a Museum of Earth there once we get settled. You've been asked to bring five items to represent your nation and its culture to put in the museum. What are you going to bring?
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news... So I have a little bit of a (true) story for you.
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04 April 2011
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Dogs as urban survivors. I just wish they all had their own home.
Seattle Notable Devil Horns. Saw a guy in Roy St. Coffee this past Saturday who had, not plugs but discs the size of coffee cup saucers in his ear lobes and teflon devil horn implants, to boot. Well, I never...
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This brightened up a dreary day. I can totally see the six year old me doing something like that.
Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky would have been 79 years old today. In the 1970s, he was given a Polaroid camera by fellow director Michelangelo Antonioni;
here are some of the pics he took.
Midwestern politeness is bringing me down. Part of me is always going to have that New York mind your own business thing going on and all this lack of upfrontness, nice to your face thing is wearing on me.
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Hives? I have a bugbite(?) that's swollen to the size of an egg and seems to be getting bigger. There's a red fingertip-sized area in the middle that I think is the original bugbite. IIIIITCHEEEEEE. Help me, hydrocortisone cream, you're my only hope!
About the Sunday night/Monday morning downtime. MetaChat was unavailable due to network maintenance from approx. 2:30 am GMT to 4:00 am GMT on Monday morning.
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03 April 2011
Nike's rah rah "we are sports" advertising leaves me cold. I wonder if they really care about their products in an honest genuine way. Like, are these mass-produced sneakers actually 'good'? Maybe it's a diminishing returns thing beyond a certain quality point cause you're talking about shoes that are made from cheap materials anyway.
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Bach-ball. This took SO much work, but the effect is beautiful.
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"There was a time when strangers were welcome here" I had forgotten this song existed (it came out way back in my College Radio days in the '70s) but when it played on the Obscure Oldies-Oriented
GreatBigRadio.com, I was surprised and a little embarrassed how much I enjoyed it...
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02 April 2011
I'm at the point in my life where JWOWW was photographed wearing a t-shirt my friend designed. My childhood reading did not prepare me for this.
On the Origin of Bunnies. Over in
#bunnies, we were having a discussion about the origin of MetaChat's obsession with bunnies...
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Do we have any bunnies who are fluent in Italian? →Read more...
01 April 2011
Friday Night Question! As chosen at random from
The Book of Questions.
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Man, I love the web. →Read more...
Who did you prank today? - please tell good April Fools stories. My first proper pranking end is under the link.
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Want to read The Woman Warrior? Then please do, check out
this lecture, and join MeTa Book Club here in MeCha on April 26.
Anyone here listen to the Caustic Soda podcast? Have you heard the
Followups/One Year Poll episode from this week?
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Go type "comic sans" or "helvetica" into Google. Do it! Then report back.
The world's largest indoor photo: A
40-gigapixel, 360-degree image of the Strahov philosophical library in Prague. Amazing.
Your random playlist, April Fool's Day edition. You know the drill.
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Minecraft Friday: Share! Not to hijack the Friday theme, and I'm sure some of you are thoroughly sick of Minecraft, but for those of you who aren't - I'm curious about your worlds, specifically those you call home.
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The idiots at Flickr have broken things again I just posted this to their feedback section:
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31 March 2011
WAIL LAMENT AND ASK ME ANYTHING Until the pills kick in at least
My Insurance Company is Playing Doctor - I need another box of insulin* and they turned me down.
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The Consumerist Gallery of Terrible Cereal Boxes Part 2.
How long has it been since you've had a big heapin' bowl of Crunchy Loggs
TM?
Well, pardner—that's toooo long!
NOt to be that guy, but has my yojurt gone bad? Greek full fat yogurt, opened once, sealed in container in cold fridge for ..oh almost two weeks. Looks like yogurt-smells like yogurt- oddly, no expiration date. How sick am I going to make myself?
I'm feeling gloomy. I would like to see some funny silly funny silly funny silly things, please. Anything goes.
How to deal with people who stare at you One day years ago I was discussing a co-worker's brutal public transit commute with him. I teased him that he should learn to knit to pass the time, and added, "But you'd have to get used to people staring at you." He smirked and said, "I'd just say, 'I'm 6'5", I weigh 225, I've done a lot of time in the military, and I'm holding two pointed pieces of metal. What are you staring at?'" I had to admit that probably would have done the trick.
Before the Hayes Code: a really interesting essay about the Hayes Code of the 1940s and 50s, and what getting rid of it did and didn't accomplish.
(Also has several Max Fleischer cartoons embedded- man, 1930s cartoons were WEIRD.)
30 March 2011
I'm going to Lollapalooza, Chile this Saturday & Sunday! With my wife & our 3.5 year old ! It will be too awesome for words.
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Photo Friday Advance: Minimal, suggested by Kronos_to_Earth
David Lynch's original map of Twin Peaks. So cool-looking. If he sold this as a poster, I'd buy one.
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29 March 2011
Welcome to the diner. I'm Helene, your waitress. What'll ya have?
Hello, internet friends. I am soliticing your opinion . . specifically, your opinion on sandals. Even more specifically, sandals on me, jason's_planet. Yay or nay?
OMG! Bunny! With a great caption! Courtesy of @kelliebob on Twitter.
Thanks, bunnies! Last week I asked for your help in taking a survey for a class and you came through beautifully. I promised I would come back with the results and an explanation of the experiment,
so here they are!
A strangely familiar face Does anyone else see a resemblance to
Paul Giamatti?
28 March 2011
Wow, how 'bout that Ursula Le Guin! →Read more...
Sightings Today I saw (1) a
fisher cat, by the side of the highway! (2) purple crocuses coming up; (3) a hawk soaring. Your sightings?
It's Asian fetish week at OK Cupid and I've been getting a spring surge of attention from those who need to know where I'm from and general sex freaks
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Fragments of nine short films by Zbigniew Rybczyński, the groundbreaking Polish director/animator who also directed several of my
favorite music videos, not to mention this extremely
cool and weird TV show (link goes to an excerpt) about
tourists being taking inside a classic film.
Monday three-point update, the LIES ALL LIES edition. →Read more...
27 March 2011
Something about carpentry always makes me resort to puns that are real groaners.... I'm hanging some freshly painted doors at Swan's End today. It's a bit of a struggle because the 99-year-old door frames aren't too straight and some of the old doors are heavy. But at least when I'm done
something in my house will be well-hung.
Sorry. I just had to. Er, check out these new Trilby pics!
I just got a Roku XDS. I like it a lot already. But I'm looking for some advice regarding Netflix, channels, etc.
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The Polysics: "Catch On Everywhere" A catchy song and a cool video, to boot.
26 March 2011
Wanna do a business card exchange? Everyone sends 20 cards and a stamped addressed envelope, and everyone gets back 20 at random?
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25 March 2011
The Aurora in the far north. We get to see good storms like this a few times a year. It's breathtaking.
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Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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Oh Beautiful Beer is a website celebrating "remarkable graphic design from the world of beer" that I thought some of you might enjoy.
so who here is on reddit? I'm just a lurker. I like IAMA and TodayILearned and also the various lulz and cruft, I admit. Any other redditors about? What subreddits do you like?
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Reload Button? New Firefox. . .lack of apparent reload button. . .it is an option on one of the dropdowns, but I can't seem to get it anyway else. Am I just not seeing it?
Telephone Man From back in the 1970s, when you could still have a "regional" hit song.
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24 March 2011
How do I keep my house dry?? Y'all, for real, I do not know how to keep my house--especially my bathroom--dry during these in-between seasons.
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So how about those four points? I'd like to start a four-point status thread, but I don't have a point to respond to, so...
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Cooking. Because I've been having trouble making myself cook, I've been fixing this a lot lately.
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Playable re-creations of handheld electronic games.
I should visit this piece of architecture in my neighbourhood It's only 18 km from where I live and I never have seen it. Do you have any amazing things in your neighbourhood that you haven't seen?
bed fort time. I want to climb into a bed fort and not come out for a couple of weeks. Who else is in and what will you bring?
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23 March 2011
Woah, This American Life guest host! →Read more...
THIS IS A SHOUTING THREAD! I AM SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW!!! →Read more...
Help me pass my class! So one of my classes is a class on consumer behaviour, and my final project involves conducting a study to test for certain behaviours. We need as many people as we can get to fill out the survey, and I was hoping MeCha bunnies can help me out.
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SO, I sing in a barbershop chorus and we need to order these ugly scarves for our competition costumes! They want to charge us 45 quid for shipping from the US!
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Costumed Fire Hydrants - just a bit of Wednesday weirdness. Or wackiness. Something with a W.
Photo Friday Advance: This week's Photo Friday will be brought to you by the letter B - bugs, bamboo, boomerangs, bats, and everything else starting with the letter B. Suggested by gomichild.
I just wanted to say that George Takei rocks twitter. That is all.
OK it's been a while since we welcomed new users! So let's say hi to people after the jump, huh? New users in the last 6 weeks or so are:
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Ecards with 50s era snotty drunk women? I saw a website a while back (not someecards.com) of funny ecards with (I think) vintage drawings of 50s era women saying outrageous things. Anyone know what I'm talking about? I can't seem to find it again.
Things seem unusually and loudly contentious in my state right now. It's not like Wisconsin, I know, but it's starting to get me down nevertheless.
Should I do something with this? Got a few memails based on the linked comment suggesting I start a blog. I'm not sure, but am open to the idea.
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If you knew there was someone better for the job... ...would you recommend them at your own expense?
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22 March 2011
New sidebar art! Thanks to our photographers Slack-a-gogo, pjern, bassjump, Kronos_to_Earth, and mygothlaundry!
Hey I Know What We Can Do. . . A Tuesday Lyrics Challenge!
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Do we like video 3-point updates? I thought it was fun to do the 3-point update in video (or audio). There were not as much responses as I'd thought.
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21 March 2011
Happiness is a warm playlist. Just wiped my iPhone before my run and restocked it from top to bottom. My list definitely says "Hi, I'm in my mid-30s," but a great many of these discs have been favorites since I was in college. What full albums are on your portable media player of choice?
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OMG! BUNNY! GIANT! PREHISTORIC! BUNNY!
OH GOD OH GOD I have never had a job interview involving anything other than a) chatting at a table or b) taking a test by paper/writing sample... until now!
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I sucked it up and went as a parent chaperone on a preschool field trip today.
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My song of the morning: My car won't start!
I'm trapped at home! (Again!)
Stupid battery!
Please send all your best thoughts and prayers to Herb, Joe and Gem! I hope it is okay to post this. I decided that since Jofus posted it on his website it would be okay to share here. Get well soon, little Herb!!!!
20 March 2011
What the heck do you call one of those drawing tablets, like a Wacom Intuos or such, but one on which you actually draw on a monitor-style screen (SXGA?)? I'm getting more into the painting (
OMG bun) and am dreaming...
IRC! Come join the fun! Or malaise! We have sort of a fun-malaise thing going on.
A tweet by Stynxno led to this Google image search. - (I almost want to register the brand: Stynxno Tweet.)
Okay, so I know that hearing about other people's dreams is boring. I won't get into the details of mine, I'm just confounded by the "why" of it. Any thoughts?
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19 March 2011
Not the Friday 5:00 Whistle - 'Bob Dylan' sings "Friday".
I just discovered that "The Joy of Painting" is still being rerun on PBS. This is rather amazing to me. That is all.
I have a precious evening away from work in which I hope to be completely assaulted by the randomness of the universe. What are you avoiding? What distracts you?
Seattle and Portland people! Can we have a check in? D.C. and I will be in Seattle the last two weeks of April, with a side trip to Portland at some point.
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Toe Help Desperately Needed So urgent I'm repeating my AskMeFi here. Yes, this is a Truly Trivial Emergency.
18 March 2011
A Friday Night Question, as chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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So today in New Orleans I saw a group of well turned out young people walking a black and white goat down a quiet residential street.
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Craig's List Pic of the Day
They Have No Mouths, and They Must Eat
Sour|Mirror A wonderful little multi-media, multi-window music video.
(Probably only works in Google Chrome.)
In which I complain about David Mitchell versus Nigel Farage on
10 O'Clock Live. Just because it bugs me. (Very boring post, don't read it).
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17 March 2011
test post - please delete
Hmph. Wombats. A very
peculiar epic has ended and I'm kinda sad. Thanks to
TrishaLynn for first bringing it to my attention. You can read it
from the beginning, but beware, it's 759 pages.
16 March 2011
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Nicholas Fisk Did anyone read his books when they were a kid? I *loved* this author.
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Your "awwwwwwww!" of the day. Her little
face! Kills me DEAD!
Turn any web page into
Katamari Damacy!
Photo Friday Advance: Green, in honor of St. Patty's Day. Cheers!
Well, that's a relief. I thought it was bad for me to be lonesome.
Happy birthday to my beloved turtlegirl! Hope you have a great day!
15 March 2011
My darling teen cousin wrote a silly song about her love for Justin Bieber.
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SHOUTING THREAD OF GENERAL SHOUTYNESS →Read more...
Can You Survive in Victorian Society? - Take a fun little test and see if you can avoid the pitfalls of the Victorian Age.
Happy library user update. I have patiently waiting my turn for
this box set from my local public library network for months.
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I can't stop listening to
Frightened Rabbit.
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14 March 2011
Anyone up for a little MP3 Shuffle-a-gogo? You know the drill, MP3 player on shuffle, first 10 songs, no cheating.
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I'm in New Orleans What should I do?
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I didn't realize I was a furniture snob until I recently started perusing Craig's List looking for some good deals and—Yowza!
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When I am an old woman, I shall wear.... I was googling one of my favourite authors, Alison Lurie, and came across this
nice little Guardian piece on how she turned her back on fashion at age 60. (Born in 1926, she will be 85 this year.) It made me think about what I'll wear as an elderly woman.
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"[T]he best childhood personality predictor of longevity was conscientiousness—the qualities of a prudent, persistent, well-organized person …—somewhat obsessive and not at all carefree."
13 March 2011
Good idea or great idea? I've got just enough room at the bottom of the last page of my Zoology lab on arthropods to print and paste
this image and write "when do we get to this chapter?".
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(Punk Rock Marshmallow) Bunnies! Finally finished with my project for the
Washington Post Peeps Show. I doubt I really have a shot at getting in, so I thought I'd share here.
Another Kitty Update So little miss Ripley (
previously 1,
previously 2) rejoined the feral colony today after one last application of eye meds. She's been in a crate for four weeks, recovering from a bite to the head that left two face punctures and an eye puncture.
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What is your cat doing RIGHT NOW? ≡ Click to see image ≡
Final Four Fantasy Just in case you missed it the
first time: I started a Metachat Yahoo NCAA basketball pick'em. Selection Sunday is today, and registration is upon until Thursday, 3/17.
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My son just asked, "Dad, which parent do you think dies more in movies?" I thought it was an interesting question and my answer keeps switching. My mind wants to make a sweeping generalization that Moms seem to die at the beginning of a lot of Disney movies with animals. Dads just sort of seem to be not there.
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12 March 2011
Have I Officially Become "Too Old For This Shit?" →Read more...
3 point update in audio? I've been wondering what you all sound like. Want to do an audio update this time?
You can adapt any book to a movie Why and how?
11 March 2011
Friday Night Question! Another question taken at random from
The Book of Questions...
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On this day in 1702, Elizabeth Mallet began publishing the
Daily Courant, England's first daily national newspaper. Today is also the birthday of media tycoon Rupert Murdoch. The juxtaposition, it hurts.
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I've had a tub of firm tofu sitting around since forever And I finally said: frak it. I'm gonna make baked sesame tofu with ....with with what? Share your awesome baked tofu tips and side dishes!
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I have never wanted to live in Australia more than I do right now. TIM F-ING MINCHIN Live Broadcast Performance from the Sydney Opera House (with Sydney Symphony) Live Live Live on the Australian ABC2, March 27th.
Photo Friday: Collections and Groups
10 March 2011
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Protestors storm Wisconsin Capitol. Since I work in a capitol, this makes me so very nervous. I am afraid of angry crowds, regardless of what they're angry about.
Crushing forces are crushing me! →Read more...
09 March 2011
Photo Friday Advance: Collections and Groups
Blasts from the past. Amusingly wrong:
Fortune, 2000: "The idea that you can develop something for the Net today and have it be commercially viable is crazy..." (
Via.)
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Kurt Elling : Norwegian Wood I love this.
I miss paulsc's jazz sessions that he used to play on MeCha radio. I miss paulsc.
Anyone else got a Listening Room beta account yet? We need a MetaChat room. I just got my invite today. I think I may have asked a week or two ago but I don't remember for sure. Go get one!
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08 March 2011
They call Jennifer Lopez "J.Lo" and Lindsey Lohan "LiLo." I say we should start calling Charlie Sheen "ChaShee."
shoe anatomy does anyone know how I can figure out if the sole on this shoe is stitched on or glued on? I'm gonna try to cut out the glued-on insole to check.
pic. there's plenty of stitching on the upper.
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Ride the Cola Cola Train. Heard about this via the wonderful
Earth Beat show on Radio Netherlands. Guy realizes that Coca Cola is shipped almost literally everywhere, so why can't desperately needed medical supplies piggyback along?
Acarus Crossii. In 1836, a gentleman scientist believed that he had created living insects with electricity and crystals.
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07 March 2011
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Metafilter magazine accepting submissions After some discussion and back and forth,
Mefites are talking about putting together a magazine and we're accepting original submissions, both in text and art. This is intended by a small 4-8 page tabloid size pub at the moment. If it takes off, we'll grow, but for now, 4-8 pages.
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Anyone want a mlkshk invite? I've got infinite invitations today only. (It's an image sharing site that's still in the early stages. Not entirely sure where it's going, but it's strangely addictive).
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Is there a tastier cookie than a soft, chewy macaroon?
No. No there is not. And if you took more than a nanosecond to arrive at this, the only possible sane and virtuous answer, then shame on you.
Seattle Me-Chites, can I crash on your sofa this summer? So I'm going to be in Seattle for a conference in July, and even though that's a ways away I'll have to book flights soon. I'm hoping to take advantage of this business trip to spend a couple of extra days bumming around and checking out the city, probably July 20-23ish.
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ARGH SHOUTING ANGER STUPID INFLEXIBLE STUPID So I have a mild dyslexia, right? It's not bad, only affects numbers, it just means that when I'm addressing things I copy-paste-and-print because otherwise they'll be wrong, and so on.
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An interview with Greg Prato, author of
MTV Ruled The World: The Early Days of Music Video.
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So I made this set...but I also like the song Plus you can totally hear me screaming in the chorus at the end. Kim Boekbinder is a treasure
Musicals you accidently find yourself in. I was drying the dishes, with the iPod earbuds in, and Pirate Jenny came on, and suddenly clean up time was impromptu Brecht-related clean up time.
06 March 2011
Human vs. machine: play "Rock Paper Scissors" against a computer opponent that is analyzing your moves to predict what you'll do next.
I talked about it once before but the plans fell apart. I tried again last year, but couldn't get enough interest to get a solid team together. This year? It's on!
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It's a rainy day, so tell me what's going on in your world... →Read more...
Happy Birthday, galadriel!
March Madness Pick'Em In the grand tradition of Mecha fantasy football, baseball, etc., I started a Metachat NCAA-mens-basketball pick'em group. I'm not a big college basketball guy, but I like picking things.
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I read this from the beginning to the current comic this morning. Now you go read it. Unless you already did. Which is quite possible.
Target Fixation on a motorbike race track video showing one of those counterintuitive conceptual problems; if you stare too much at the thing you're trying to avoid you might run right into it
I'm really tired of people calling me selfish for talking about my feelings I'm talking to you about it because I don't want to burden my partner with it!
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05 March 2011
\m/ Bunny! OMG! \m/ Finding myself going on a metal kick tonight. Throw those horns up, bunnies.
They'll be on a stamp someday. →Read more...
New favorite made up French phrase: Joie de Ville The happiness that comes from interacting with your town/city/village in the shared pubic spaces and local shops.
Famous objects from classic movies. Identify the movie from a stylized icon depicting a famous object in the film. (Some are easy, but some are stumpers.)
A dumb question about computer virus stuff hey guys. I just want to see what else I should have done here. I am clueless when it comes to most computer stuff so bear with me? thanks.
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04 March 2011
Ask MeCha: What would you do? So, I travel for work down to Satillo, Mexico (was there last week in fact). Today, a gunfight broke out between rival drug cartels in front of our office building there.
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Today I made my residency in California official. Who can guess where this is leading? (No, not voting in Cali, but that is a side benefit. After all, this is where moderate Democrats are, relatively, right of center extremists.)
It's time for another Friday Night Question! Chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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Help me with a possible askme question: The kindest way to deal with a student therapist.
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Lounging attire →Read more...
Minecraft geeks! The soundtrack album is
now available.
Speed, bonny swan boat I just bought this postcard art print on Etsy. I'm collecting half a dozen or so swan-themed postcards to frame and hang on my attic wall, and though I don't normally care for the gothic/horror style, this was too freaking creepy to resist. I would like to identify the artist and name of the painting if possible.
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Can we do another fake AskMe thread? Pleeeease? [special snowflake details inside]
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Bad news on the cancer scan Tumour is growing again...
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Everybody To The Black Sea Gorgeous old B&W photos of Russian holiday-goers at the beach in 1955.
The Daily Otter. Could you ask for anything more?
Photo Friday: Three Picture Story
I arrived back to Wellington yesterday afternoon. I guess 5 hour time difference/jetlag between Wellington and Perth helped me sleep through the minor (4.7) earthquake...I love you Aotearoa but you've had too much seismic activity lately. Nonetheless, it's good to be home. :)
03 March 2011
Anyone here want to join a baseball league? I've set up a league for MeFi and MeCha peoples on Yahoo. We're giving it a bit of a twist. It's a Hall of Shame league, meaning that you want the terrible players instead of the good ones.
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There's nothing like a new coat of paint! Scans of some American paint brochures from the mid 1950s. Awesome retro imagery. I STILL want a living room that
looks like this.
MAIL MERGE LABELS HEEEEEEEEELP Microsoft Office nerds, step inside.
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I got my own blog It's a place where I am putting things online that I want to buy but shouldn't buy.
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Live Firefox Webcam To be honest, I didn't know they were an actual animal. I thought it was something Mozilla made up. They're so fuzzy!
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Hillary... oh, snap! In fact viewership of al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it’s real news. You may not agree with it, but you feel like you’re getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news which, you know, is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners.
Salad Question So I'm making a salad of Kentucky Prosciutto, arugala, pine nuts, and balsamic vinegar. I feel like it needs one other thing ... But what?
Single White Feline And the person wonders why she's single... Bwah hahahahahah!
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02 March 2011
Happy Birthday, Special-k!!
California on Your Mind Playlist How many songs to you have on your iPod/Zune/iTunes/45rpm collection that mention the Golden State?
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Mitzoa. Just click one of the two icons. Then one of the next two. And so on.
Paging ThePinkSuperhero. Damn you, Atkins Diet, or I would be eating this right now.
Photo Friday Advance: Three Picture Story This theme has been in the suggestion section of the wiki for a while, but I have no idea whose idea it was. Three pictures that tell a story, any story.
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The Avett Brothers - Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise. Pretty song, interesting video.
Grammar check requested Calling all prescriptivists! I wanna do a Mefi post about H.W. Fowler but me grammar ain't good enough: can someone check the text below?
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Mirroring reality I’ve been looking for the perfect compact mirror for awhile now. What I’d really like is a compact with two mirrors, and it’d be a bonus if one mirror is magnifying. I keep finding some beautiful vintage ones on Etsy, but they usually have a drawback – that one side contains crusty, decades-old makeup. Ick. So what I’m wondering is, if I were to buy a vintage compact, would it be possible to put a mirror in the second side? Perhaps a framer could do it?
01 March 2011
MeCha poll. Coldness.
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The Prison Diaries: Canine Edition Liberation Day!→Read more...
Taku Wind Chimes : An outdoor art installation in my hometown showcasing the lovely winter weather we've had this week.
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Vegas for a conference. So I'm headed to Vegas next month for a conference. Where's the best place to stay for a wimp who hates to be away from her S.O. at night, and would like to sleep?
An Important Message from the Carbone Cancer Center (yt) Dr. Sam is my parents' neighbor. He is from that dangerous hood known as Green Bay.
Self Link: I have the coolest job in the world (NSFW) This Sunday I helped put on a tribute to the comic series TRANSMETROPOLITAN with Jiz Lee and Ryan Keily as Spider Jerusalem and filthy assistant to promote the upcoming charity art book of Transmetro art.
Say what you will about "cruellest", Mr. Eliot, but March is undoubtedly the suckiest month.
OMG MARMOSETS! (...there'd be days like this)
Did an etiquette maven actually advise people to say "I'm sorry, that won't be possible" or some close alternative, over and over if the questioner persists? I wanted to print out the advice for a therapy group I'm leading on setting boundaries, but when I google the phrase all that's turning up are MeFi threads. Anyone have primary sources?
28 February 2011
Kitty Update So Big Bad Kitty went to the vet today to get the stitches out, her third eyelid opened back up,and let us see how that eyeball was doing.
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Discovery's final launch viewed from inside an in-flight passenger plane. Remarkable.
It used to take so little
This turned my day around.
What a slow newsday. So Ted Kennedy went to a brothel.
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So we bought a new place and over the next few years, I guess, will be designing and furnishing it. So I'm calling on all you bunnies with actual, you know, taste and skillz (neither of which are in abundance chez gaspode)
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27 February 2011
OSCAR TIME! Who's watching?
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My Haikus Besides my goal of becoming an international spy, I also have an interest in poetry. Just as a sideline, of course. I think it works well with the gentlemen spy image I'm trying to cultivate. Anyway, I've been experimenting with some different forms. Here are some haikus I've come up with recently.
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26 February 2011
Quick Joey Small a.k.a.
Run Joey Run! Some bubblegum pop goodness from the Kasenetz-Katz Singing Orchestral Circus, a kind of
bubblegum music supergroup.
The Borzoi Wonder I learned today that Burt Ward (Robin from the classic, campy Batman TV series) runs a
rescue foundation that focuses on giant breed dogs. Respect.
(warning: website autoplays a video from a Los Angeles local news station. Also, it's not a terribly, ahem, pretty website.)
"I was afraid I'd eat your brains, because I'm evil." I love the way this line is delivered and I'm looking for lyrical content
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my interior monologue is *way* out of control I'm like did you just say "you're killing me"?
25 February 2011
Time for another Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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Cover Songs! This is a post in which we link to videos of random/awesome/whatever cover songs.
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Title Sequence to Under the Volcano.
This thread prompted me to find it. I feel that it is good enough to share with y'all. The rest of the movie, not as much.
John Waters and Craig Ferguson I like both of these guys a lot, and the rapport between them when Waters was on Ferguson's show was really hilarious. The whole interview,
part 1 and
part 2.
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24 February 2011
Show us your smart phone screen!
humans are weird. cats are awesome (long gyofb new kitty update) →Read more...
What's for dinner? I just ate
kangaroo!
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You know what I need right now? This is what I need right now.
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I aspire to look great tonight - effortlessly. Halp. →Read more...
No One's Gonna Love You is a new video from Cee Lo Green, and one of the better songs on an album full of excellent ones.
(The remix on this video isn't as good as the album version, though.)
Margarita Grilled Cornish Game Hens are super yummy awesome. We added a minced jalepeno to the marinade. Definitely recommended. Even the cat, who has never evinced any interest in human food, was trying to jump up and eat off our plates.
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23 February 2011
OMG Snail Zombies! (YouTube, roughly two minutes)
This isn't a very graphic video, but it does involve conversation about parasitic worms, so if you're *really* squeamish, you may want to take a pass.
I'm finally escaping these children! So please tell me everything you know about San Francisco.
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OMG Whale! Actual size. In your browser. (Flash. Loads slowly because it's, you know, a big ol' blue whale.)
Photo Friday Advance: Contact, suggested by tortillathehun
Cancer scan for the mr today. Its pretty scary.
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22 February 2011
The Prison Diaries: Canine Edition The Story So Far. →Read more...
Meta-Chap Not able to find any definitive information as to the origin of the phrase "that really chaps my ass." You can NOT convince me that any self-respecting cowboy
ever said this. Ever. Chaps notwithstanding. My husband says he first heard it in the military.
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Tuesday three-point status report (trivial edition): →Read more...
Did Jon Stewart just start channeling Stephen Colbert? Sure, you may think he's being ironic/satirical/sarcastic, but I hear it was under orders from the corporate offices at Viacom (apparently some terms in his latest contract he didn't read thoroughly).
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21 February 2011
Greece/Rome &c. vs Persia sometimes I hear these radio programs about the ancient world and I wonder, all these trappings about the West as masculine/free and Persia as feminine/weird/subjugated by emperor well you wonder who came up with them and whether it's really the most objective take.
OMG somebody please wake me up!!!!!
20 February 2011
We had some really odd wave clouds this afternoon.
Happy Birthday to TheDonF!
My dad's obituary. Thank you for your hugs. Y'all are good people.
19 February 2011
Black, white and extremely lucky Maggie is my doggie-sister. Miraculously she survived being lost for 12 days in rural South Australia - 8 of which trapped in a tank.
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Drinkin' On The Job - a fun Saturday night song from The Rainmakers.
OMG Bunnies! I'm thinking of getting the pink one for my niece Ashley.
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How to get Amazon to use credit card and not gift card? →Read more...
Grieving My father died last night. He had been receiving hospice care at home for a couple months for end stage COPD. He never smoked. He was poisoned by Agent Orange in Vietnam, received a 100% disability from the VA.
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It's Great! It's Big!! it's radio. GreatBigRadio.com has help me heal the wounds from losing MetaRadio...
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Does this movie exist? I feel like I've seen a zombie movie that takes place entirely in a airport. The only thing I came across googling is Resident Evil: Degeneration, but that's CG and I think mine was live action. Any ideas?
18 February 2011
Parrot sings opera. The aria is Queen of the Night from Mozart's Magic Flute.
Friday Night Question, as chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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So, what does Spiderman bring to the Fantastic Four that Rubberhead and Rockhead can't already handle? Also, the new costumes suck.
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This is a cover of Lady GaGa's new song "Born This Way." I hope you enjoy!
Lots of Love, Maria
What happens to people who are unemployable but not disabled enough to qualify for public assistance?
Anybody doing anything this weekend? It's 3-day weekend for some people in the U.S., including me, but other than sleeping a lot, I got nothin'. How about you guys?
Photo Friday: Brought to you by the letter 'A'
17 February 2011
My friend Cas is doing 30 days of waffle recipes on his blog. Day 10 and I'm already in LOVE.
"Hidden mothers" photos. In the 1800's, mothers would take photos with their children on their laps. The mothers were often wrapped in fabric. Some of the mothers were later cropped out of the photos with mattes or frames.→Read more...
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You ever have a lot of thoughts you can't articulate and don't know what to do with? That's what I got right now. Just at a loss.
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16 February 2011
Three Point Status Update I'm wondering if I should start a blog again because I want to rant about Dan Savage's show today and I don't want to do it on MeCha/MeFi/Reddit/FL/etc.
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Photo Friday Advance: A This week's Photo Friday will be brought to you by the letter A - accordions, anteaters, alligators, apples, and everything else starting with the letter A. Suggested by gomichild.
Is anyone familiar with soundproofing options? Swan's End is a semi-detached house, and there are two walls in my house where the sound comes through from my neighbours' place. I'd like some advice on how to soundproof existing plaster walls.
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Börderdämmerung: Borders has declared bankruptcy.
Happy Birthday, Terrapin!! Have a fantastic day!
Eye movement of 11 viewers watching There Will Be Blood- a clip from the film,
showing only the parts of the screen that the viewers were looking at.
15 February 2011
I'm so fucking relieved that my cat came in. How the fuck do parents do this?
IRC Server troubles Hey bunnies.
Slashnet is in the midst of some server troubles. There are no services and all of the servers are spilt.
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Meet Alice, The Dog-In-A-Box This has me shaking with rage and frustration.
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Motivation. Where do you get yours?
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MetaChat idea generator: Surrealism party Y'all were so good at finding food/sound connections that now I want to ask you what you could imagine doing at a Surrealist party.
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Childbirth and epidurals Kinda interesting post at science-based medicine.
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New sidebar art! Thanks to our photogs Kronos_To_Earth, Specklet, gc, and TheophileEscargot! (And one of mine's up there as well.)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SCODY AND DASHIV!!!!
14 February 2011
This kid built a solar "death ray." Very cool, and also sort of scary.
Happy Yet Another Veterinary Emergency Day--INJURY PICS So it looks like one of our ferals, "Big Kitty," tangled with a coyote. We're impressed; even for our bad-ass kitty, making it out alive is an accomplishment.
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Watson on Jeopardy watching? no DVR and can't find a Jeopardy torrent at ezrss →Read more...
Dinosaur sex! Happy Valentine's Day
Being Alone on Valentine's Day for the first time in nearly a decade. What do I do? WHAT DO I DO?
Happy Birthday, pjern! Have a fantastic one...
It's Valentine's Day, bunnies! And what better way to show your appreciation for your fellow mechazens than sending them a supah-sweet anonymous Valentine's message?
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13 February 2011
I got slipped a roofie last night. Random complaining and shouting. I was out with friends last night in my hometown of Austin, TX. Made a rookie mistake-left my drink on the table repeatedly while we danced.
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One Tree Hill: Dog Eats Dan's New Heart Is this for real? Did this actually air on TV? Was this really an attempt at a "serious" show and not a black comedy?
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The candy hearts for MetaChat's 'Valentines Design' are KYOOT but
Twitter has other ideas (divided into two hashtags that both made Trending Topics? Dang, that's a lot of Valentine cynicism!)
Skirt Steak I have some marinating in the fridge, will be cooking tomorrow night. Should I grill it (in a pan on the stove)? Broil it? Give me your advice.
12 February 2011
My attention span has decreased considerably in recent years. A friend suggested that this may very well be the result of flipping around on the internet all day, and said that self-imposed internet breaks had done wonders for his own attention span. Has anyone else found this to be true?
Is MeFi down for anyone else? I can't even get to status.metafilter.com, making me think there's a DNS problem somewhere along the line.
A Depressing Little Game It's just like life! Only even worse!
Philistine confessional Which of your preferences show evidence of a lack of good taste?
11 February 2011
Um Writers or creative types out there, this ever happen to you? I had an editing meeting and ending up changing up the story and removing 3 characters and several side plots and now I'm paranoid that the rest of it is just. as. bad.
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Time for a Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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"Atlas Shrugged" trailer . Never thought anyone would actually do it.
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OMG Wol! OK - I have to admit it's not a bunny. But who could resist?
A Guide to Pursuing True Love I enjoyed this column. Life and love work out (or don't), in a lot of different ways.
Help me watch more TV I've just finished watching Boardwalk Empire. What should I watch next? Shows I've loved: Mad Men, Six Feet Under, X-Files. I don't like a lot of violence (BE was brutal, so definitely something less violent than that) and/or shows where everyone in it is a horrible human being, i.e., The Sopranos. I love period pieces and solid writing. Funny is also good. What do you recommend?
The new Mogwai music video features hundreds of people's faces, seen around a city in the UK, and is really mesmerizing.
GPS units: Do you have one? Do you like it? I'm thinking of getting my first one and want to know what I should be looking for. P.S. I'm a cheap-ass skinflint so I'm likely to forgo bells & whistles for a low price.
Cartwheels: Too eccentric for the office parking lot? →Read more...
Photo Friday: Cars and Trucks
10 February 2011
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Don't bother reading the article. Just scroll down and read the comments.
This thing looks AWESOME. I don't even care that this guy seems like a total twit. Grownup treehouse, anyone?
Being a revolutionary I've been watching the events in Egypt, and at the same time, coincidentally, was reading
Reading Lolita in Tehran, and so I've been thinking about living in revolutionary times...
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Hi bunnies! Got camera recommendations? Like maybe a digital that can also be used as a webcam and that has a good zoom function (or can be used with an additional zoom lens)... for under $300? Is that even possible? I don't these things.
Albums: Greater than the sum of their parts In light of
this thread, I was thinking about albums that have to be listened to as albums.
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Photo Friday ADVANCE: Cars and Trucks
09 February 2011
The Shuffling of Music Has Diluted Its Cultural Impact I'm not 100% on board with this argument, but I do think it's an interesting discussion.
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Something cool! I need to be uplifted. You are awesome. Yes, you! Share your awesome!
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Let's talk Tumblr Do you have one (if so, add it to
the Wiki), what are your favorite Tumblrs, etc.
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[Warning: self-link] In January 2002, I wrote a diary entry called
The Fat Bloke's Guide to Becoming Less Fat about my efforts to lose weight through moderate diet and exercise.
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Oh dear. So I'm back working at the photo place and I run across the worst name on record.
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When science fiction becomes (pseudo-)science. A Self-Help scam based on Multiverse Theory? Or viral promotion for next week's episode of "Fringe"? Who knows? Who cares? I ROFLMAOed.
While searching for photos of cheese rinds (I blame
jonathanstrange), I came across this Flickr stream where someone
documents all of the family's trash: date, weight, and who it belonged to. I was a little concerned about the documenter at first (surely this is a sign of OCD or possibly hoarding?) but page after page of photos and I find all of them very comforting. I'm tempted to photo-document a day's worth of garbage, but I couldn't do it long term.
08 February 2011
So what type of footwear would you wear with a very plain, chocolate brown sweater dress?
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The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator!
Ask Mecha: Long Text I like
longform.org and
txtpost.com. What else will I like?
Welcome to our most recent new users! Just in time for Valentine's Day, let's say welcome to the following new users who signed up in the past month or so:
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Tips on switching a cat to wet food? Our cat has early signs of kidney issues, and so we're supposed to switch her to a low-protein food, which apparently means canned food. She hates canned food. Tricks or tips? Or any suggestions for dry food with less than 20% protein?
What an odd story. It's like a cross between the Truman Show and those Big Brother shows. What else?
Two-fer Tuesday....Updates? I'll start...
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07 February 2011
This is a mild jealousy thread. Have you been somewhat jealous lately? Come share.
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My favorite online source for current weather data is
Weather Underground, named ironically after a '60s terrorist organization. Currently, it's serving ads for "Young America Foundation's" Reagan's Birthday Celebration at the Reagan Ranch 90 miles from me (your ads may vary). Deep Cynicism or Irony Deficiency?
Next book for MeTa book club? Next on the syllabus is Toni Morison's
The Bluest Eye.
Judgmental Bunny. "I saw what you did there"
Streaming audio, redundant storage After my external harddisk that stores my pictures and audio failed I became more worried about the reliability of my data storage. Just the thought of losing the pictures of my daughter....Argh.
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Email pet peeves! I'm sure we've discussed this before, but I gotta say it again...
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vegetarianism update [
previous thread] it's going like gangbusters..
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What would it look like if famous film directors
directed the Super Bowl?
06 February 2011
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Cutest Super Bowl Ad Ever! I don't think it has aired yet.
We were out at lunch today, and they were playing lots of 80s music over the PA. New Order's "Temptation" came on, and a little 5-year-old girl at the next table kept singing along to the "
ooooo ooo-oo ooo-oo" part. This made me very happy.
Has something made you happy today?
What are you eating today (either related to the Super Bowl or not)?
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Two Things Currently Taking Up Too Much Space In My Head Thing One:
The most teenage, pop-y, neon lit goofiest video ever. It makes me proud of be an american.
Thing Two: Another sparkly colorful music video with a good beat,
all about pubic hair.
The Law of Conservation of Hipsterism For every hipster there is an equal and opposite yuppie.
Sex Dwarf. This song is pretty much everything that was awesome about 80s synth-pop.
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05 February 2011
This is a pouting thread. It is a beautiful sunny day, even warm, relatively speaking, and I have been called in to work for goodness knows how many hours. *pout*
T.O.R.N.A.D.O. by The Go! Team is like caffeine for your
ears.
04 February 2011
A Royal Antelope Calf is born at the San Diego Zoo. He's adorable!
Link is to their facebook photos, but you don't have to be logged in to see it.
Friday Night Question, as chosen randomly from
The Book of Questions...
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Put Me In The Zoo -- I am about to put Boss in the zoo!
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Harris Tweed Jacket Free to a Good home I have had this jacket for years. I bought it used and it has always been a tad small and it really does not work for me, sadly.
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"Ridiculous speed signs." A man here in my county takes to Youtube to explain why he thinks these law enforcement signs are a waste of taxpayer money.
HAPPY 30 (plus 10) BIRTHDAY STEWRIFFIC! →Read more...
♥ MeCha valentines this year? ♥
One of the top items on Reddit right now: "Found a bunny bunny with a broken back. I made him this for $20. My vet approved.
BEHOLD ROBOBUNNY!"
03 February 2011
I guess I asked badly So, anyone here care to tell me your favorite blogs, especially of the politics, history and/or literature variety?
Anyone here shop at Cydwoq? And if you do, do you know what's going on with them?
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Proof that I'm a monster. What's something horribly wrong about you?
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OMG bunny new year! Happy Lunar New Year.
02 February 2011
This earbuggy Lisa Mitchell song has been stuck in my head since I heard it on an episode of United States of Tara yesterday. Enjoy.
Reality cheque This morning I discovered that I was completely out of cheques, except for one that had the address of my former condo on it. Which I used, being in a pinch, but of course I have ordered more. The polite young man I spoke to on my bank's customer service line told me they will be $36 for a lot of 100. Good grief.
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Beautiful Vermeer I had not seen this painting before.
I want to see the most beautiful photos of winter weather to get me out of my funk and to appreciate the beauty of it (I have to admit that the ice-coated tree branches I saw today on my way to work were lovely). Got any good ones to show?
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The movie "Broadcast News" is probably the most popular movie about TV news among people in the industry. It's also fairly accurate in its depiction*, even today. Is there a movie, TV show, or book about your job that you feel captures it pretty well?
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Photo Friday ADVANCE NOTICE: Kitchens! Inspired by
this thread, let's see what's REALLY on those counters.
01 February 2011
Ingrate: A story about a cat Here's a story told to me by Sean, a friend of a friend. Sean had a cat. The cat needed life-saving surgery that would cost $1000.
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It's sooooooo coooold in Fort Worth but if you skip ahead to about 2:30 into the video, you'll see some of the guys I ride bicycles with. =)
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parents: at what age did you stop giving your kid milk before bedtime?
Shuffle-a-go-go the "screw it, I'm snowed in, what else am I gonna do?" edition. You know how it goes.
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The Dems chose Charlotte for the 2012 convention. This makes me feel good for a reason that I cannot pinpoint.
Someone else always has it worse. Trying to remember this as I dig out from under a massive snowpile today and tomorrow, yet again.
I did it. I'm the proud owner of an HTC Evo Shift. Now what?
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Google voice transcript of a message from a recruiter: →Read more...
Would you call my feeling that I HAD to own this shirt... cupidity? Because I just broke the last of my New Years Resolutions (#47: No more funny but obscure t-shirts)
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31 January 2011
I am in search of an object. Something that will delight me with its presence. Something that I can hold or sit with. Something I will come to cherish. I have no idea what it is yet but I'll know it when I see it. Suggestions?
Violent, politically subversive bunnies "Beijing recently removed from the internet an extremely violent cartoon called Greeting Card for the Year of the Rabbit, in which a group of oppressed rabbits overthrow an abusive government of tigers."
Brainstorming Session! Food + Sound →Read more...
Faceplant Kittehs!! Including one or two kittehs you might know.
Hey, midwestern and northeastern bunnies: Where you gonna put all that snow? You've got so much already, it's not like you need any extra, amirite?
Revolting Cocks cover "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" to good effect Not a new song, of course, and most of you may have heard it before, but I dared to presume you hadn't seen the video. The guy on percussion at 0:09 rules.
Happy birthday to danostuporstar! Have a good one, mate.
Scale: a short animation showing what some of the other planets would look like if they were the same distance from the earth that the moon is.
30 January 2011
"You might as well give a mime a cellphone." I haven't been a fan of "Get Fuzzy" for a long time, but today's comic (in a newspaper I got for the coupons) tickled me the way that Satchel casually explained why that cliché no longer applies in the age of smartphones...
It followed me home....can I keep it? So while out walking Coya tonight, I saw that one of my neighbors had put (what appears to be) a pretty damn fine bike out with their trash. A Trek 3900, to be exact.
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Ask Mecha: so, what exactly do you DO with a weird crush, anyway?
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Musical Status Update In which we post the songs that capture where we are right now, at this point in time.
Mine is in the link.
Crockpot/Slow Cooker? Was gifted a slow cooker for Christmas. My aunt sent me a PDF of 720 slow cooker recipes, but I'm having trouble finding good ones that don't include (a) a can of soda; (b) large amounts of cheese, or (c) cans of cream-of-somethingorother soup. Any help?
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I’m either in love or it’s something I ate... Dean Friedman's The Deli Song, only because I can't give all of you a corned beef on rye with a tomato and some coleslaw on the side.
29 January 2011
DEVO- keeping it weird and wonderful.
The call you don't want to get →Read more...
What's on your kitchen counter? What stuff do you keep out/accessible in your kitchen? What do you wish you could but don't have a solution for (and its converse, what did you figure out an awesome solution for so the thing is always at hand?)
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Thousands of bunnies →Read more...
Saturday Motivation Thread, Random Crap Version OK, bunnehs, wake up (Or stay up!) and Get Things Done! What's on your to do list? Hold me accountable for mine, and I'll reciprocate!
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I was a teenager in the 1980s, and I think if I'd heard the song "
Ultimate Satisfaction" by
Bear In Heaven back then, I might have exploded.
28 January 2011
Time for another Friday Night Question, as chosen at random from
The Book of Questions...
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"Understand At All" by
Cloud Nothings is a seriously sunny piece of jangly indie-pop goodness.
Pake: a pie inside a cake
Favorite ecard sites? I gotta send a birthday card to my brother.
Sort of a double Scratching Coya
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Happy Birthday Valette!! Happy birthday to my favourite Alaskan!
xxx
Photo Friday: I tawt I taw a puddytat!
27 January 2011
In what part of the body do you physically feel nervousness?
Bought a Kindle! Now I'm looking for stuff to put on it. Free (or at least cheap) and old is what I'm after. What classics should I look for? You guys have some of the most eclectic and interesting tastes - what does it for you?
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Soda madness So, what little things do you do different at the self-serve soda fountain?
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In a move that probably presages the End of the Internet As We Know It: The folks over at Make Magazine have dredged up my very first published Web article, on How to Boot a Steam Locomotive. Eep!
come in here and do a Mitch Hedberg-style joke skydiving is like an accident. Just really extended.
Has Metafilter been bought out by Google?
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26 January 2011
Photo Friday ADVANCE: I tawt I taw a puddytat! Kittehs!
I just realized that my niece, whose diapers I used to change, is about to turn 21.
People who were born in the 1990s aren't supposed to go out to bars and get drunk legally. They're supposed to watch Barney tapes, and play with Power Rangers, and shit. WTF, space-time continuum??
So my curiosity got the best of me in the liquor store today and I bought a bottle of ginger flavored brandy. Unfortunately, I got home and realized I have no idea what to drink it with. Any ideas?
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FALTIUTGTBE is the new GYOB A very important multi-tweet story from Merlin Mann.
See them now at
@hotdogsladies or click the link for a collection.
Quick, what are you listening to?
Wednesday 3-Point Update 1. The latest Spring Awakening tour came to my burg last night. The list of cities includes mostly tank towns, other than a few days in LA (at the Pantages). There seemed to be a LOT of young sorta affluent types that seem to be following the show around the country. I could be wrong, but the audience was mostly in their 20's and I have never seen any of these people before. TPS, anyone you know in this cast?
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What's Your Thing? Do you know? Would you want someone to tell you?
25 January 2011
The Four Icon Challenge Sorry if it's been around, someone just showed it to me.
For dg and likeminded petrolheads.
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Do you identify more with where you grew up or where you currently live? Both? Neither? Why do you identify with that place?
24 January 2011
"Notekeeping" Application This post got deleted on Ask Mefi, and jessamyn said it would probably be a better fit over here, so... my first post :D
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I'm with Olbo Plus, there's a site called drinkatwork.com/, which I find inspiring.
This is another pronunciation thread pjern's
comment in his
post the other day about pronunciation reminded me of one of my favorite things: local pronunciations of names and places that seem wrong, wrong, wrong, but have been mangled over such a long period that the local version is the only way to pronounce it, forever and ever amen.
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Gail Davis' daughter downloaded an app, she got $10k in iTunes credits Kind of like the time your kid pulled the handle on the slot machine and won, except this time you keep the winnings.
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Thinking of BoringPostcards with love and sympathy. We're all here for you, I know
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Blade shavers: old or new blade after several days of no shaving? If you're lazy like me & don't have to leave the house, you sometimes go 3 or 4 days without shaving. I can't decide if a fresh blade or one with less of an edge is a better way to go for that first shave.
What do you think?
Full Metal Disney: Serious Movie Scenes With Disney Voices
The Admirality Citadel. Just because it stuns me that they would build such a thing.
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so we agree Rosemary's Baby = top 20 all time (from hollywood)?
23 January 2011
Well, we made it, but not without a little drama
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Give me your best! Inspired by HuronBob who had a similar
question on Ask deleted, what one song (and even one album) is a must when starting a playlist or storing music on a laptop. Best of any genre.
Please calm my anxieties. My partner and I are planning a wedding, at the location we currently live, which means it's going to be 3-4 hours away (by car) for about 80% of our guests. We are trying to figure out what to do about inviting children. In an ideal world, children would not be invited; in the we're-asking-a-lot-of-people-to-travel-kinda-far-for-a-whole-weekend world we actually inhabit, we're thinking that inviting out-of-town kids but not in-town kids might be a viable compromise.
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22 January 2011
This is a pronunciation thread: I have been pronouncing the word 'Himalayas" as
him.a.LAY.ahs for 50 years.
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Say I was going to cook dinner for a date... What should I make?
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21 January 2011
The Friday Night Question (or, the Saturday Morning Question, since I'm so late), chosen at random from
The Book of Questions:
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My Boy Jack The other night I caught part of a movie on TV about Rudyard Kipling’s family, and which specifically focused on his son Jack’s war service in World War I.
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Flash Friday: Liquid Measure 2 Move around the pots and pipe attachments to accurately distribute the water without spilling any.
I've taken to eating coffee beans. Is there any reason I shouldn't, besides it being an odd habit?
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It's a Song Lyrics game thread →Read more...
OMG, Brazilian bunny! - not
that kind of Brazilian, but rather the
saved-from-landslides kind of Brazilian. WARNING: not happy pictures.
It's time for The Speling Bee! What's the funniest misspelling you can come up with? Must be used in a sentence for full credit.
Tatooine's twin suns: coming to a planet near you just as soon as Betelgeuse explodes.
20 January 2011
What musician am I thinking of.... Some months ago I saw a musical act on The Colbert Report, which involved an overweight black man who wore a retro-style double-breasted suit and fedora. His band members were all female and they were all kitted out in retro skirt suits and fedoras as well. I am sure I've heard his music on the radio too but have never managed to catch the name. Who is this singer?
Oh hai, spooky monkey -
the Golden Snub-nosed Monkeys live in northern China are adorable (or adorably alien) in appearance.
Is MetaFilter down? I haven't been able to access any part of the site for a while, maybe an hour or so. But the
MetaFilter Status Blog has no mention of any problems.
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IANAL, certainly not her L We'ev seen the dangers of texting while walking, but whose fault is it? Can you sue?
Blog Finds What new (or new to you) blogs have you started reading lately?
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The Economist has published an
interactive map of the United States which shows how each state compares to countries around the world in terms of both economy and population.
Pressing philosophical question of the day. Why haven't they made a documentary about Casio (musical instruments) yet?
3-point midweek update OH HAI - long time no see, strangers. Let's catch up
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19 January 2011
Out of the nest →Read more...
Photo Friday Advance: Small That's about it.
Ideas for a football fan war in our office? This aggression will not stand, man!
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What does bad breath smell like to you? →Read more...
Raid on house of ill repute, Los Angeles, 1948. (photo)
From my new favorite blog, Frog Blog.
18 January 2011
Hi, Can Haz? (do we still do that one, here?) →Read more...
What Places Have You Lived In? I imagine this has been done before, but with such a turnover, I thought it might be fun.
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The SLO Experiment Tilt Shift comes to my area, making it look like the toy town it really is.
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Kindle Users: I do not have a Kindle, but my sister does. Is it possible for me to buy a specific book for her Kindle, as a surprise? Or am I stuck with the usual boring gift certificate?
Pixar's Zoetrope: an animated, 3-dimensional sculpture. Clip also includes shots of a
Zoetrope built by
Studio Ghibli, which inspired Pixar to build theirs.
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17 January 2011
Miss Alaska, yodeling ventroloquist [youtube] Alyse Eady performs for the talent portion in Miss America .. strangely captivating
This is just so great. A charismatic ASL signer delivers her final exam in the form of Cee Lo's "Fuck You".
The Hack's Handbook: A Starter's Kit by Andy Kindler (
National Lampoon, 1991)
"Whoever said 'Dying is easy, comedy is hard' never went to a comedy club!"
House artifacts While 'breaking up Christmas' and doing all the sweeping and cleaning that comes with taking down the tree, I came across a little old round cardboard disc with "BUD" written on it. It reminded me of the many little discoveries that have popped up in houses past. What have you found in your abodes?
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Then and Now Last week I was reminiscing about a high school memory.
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You and I just need to drop the "you and" I expect everyone except me already knows this
tip...
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What is the easiest way to make a ringtone? I want to make a ring tone as a gift for someone. It's a song that I can't find online anywhere as a ring tone already.
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Plastic is closing down 2/15/11, if anyone cares.
so we agree this comparative-punchline cliche needs to be retired? e.g. "The difference between a cliche and a bomb is that one drops and creates dismay.. the other is a bomb."
16 January 2011
GOLDEN GLOBES Anybody watching? We are!
Did you know:
The song "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover" lists only 6 ways to leave your lover?
I contend that Paul Simon is the laziest songwriter ever born.
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The Incomplete Manifesto for Growth. I just heard this guy on CBC Radio. Lots of fun things to think about on this list.
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15 January 2011
Email signatures I needed to use this today to respond to an email, and it took me a while to think up the search terms to find it. So here it is, in case you'd been needing it, too:
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Ask Mecha: How Do I Shake This Guy? I do not want to be his friend but he will not leave me alone. Help.
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Wikileaks vs. Facebook, told in
one image.
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Oh hey remember how I said more people should hear Kim Boekbinder? She just posted a
Love Song For Twitter.
Bunny! OMG! Because we all need a Saturday Squeee.
Frictionless wheels in
Grand Theft Auto 4 means
hilarious car-flying action.
14 January 2011
Portlandia is here! Pretty spot on, for the most part.
It's the return of the Friday Night Question, chosen at random from
The Book of Questions:
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This week in HEIOLL!! Because I'm the Anti-Eide, vent about all crap that sucked about your week here.
What's the most meaningful compliment someone has given you, recently or otherwise? I loved Eideteker's "good things" post from the other day. Up with good!
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Do bunnies like eggs? I did not know that the incredible egg had its own website!
Weren't we talking about creating this website not long ago?
the little f**got with the earring and the makeup Hope they go after that Archie Bunker dude next.
Photo Friday: Old Man Winter
13 January 2011
Eggs Sothoth I have eaten an eldritch horror - neither squamous nor rugose - and I fear my time is short.
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Aspirational Celebrity Hair Gallery →Read more...
Bailey update →Read more...
To the googles! How to share cool stuff found on the internet.
Something cool? Something cool!
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Photo Friday ADVANCE: Old Man Winter Winter pictures!
12 January 2011
NPR has put a bee in my bonnet again! →Read more...
When I started my job in 1998 →Read more...
Anyone know how to change an image from color to black and white and grey in Photoshop?
Australians have a good sense of humor even when faced with impending dire adversity.
A half-caf skinny venti, with the words "U R AWESOME" on the foam of my latte, thanks.
Fill in the blanks of this story. I was on my way to pick up lunch when I heard one of the Jehovah's Witness ladies who man the Free Literature table on campus say to the other Jehovah's Witness lady: "Isn't he a good-looking 80-year-old? The women in the trailer park can't get enough of him." No joke.
What the full story here?
CrossAsk - Can you help me? I really want to shoot pics inside where it's warm and dry, instead of on my porch, where it's freezing and there are spiders.
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It's a Welcome New Users thread! Hello to new users who have signed up in December and early January! If you haven't jumped in, this would be a great thread to say hi!
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11 January 2011
Kitchen bugs! Eeeuucchhhhhaaagh! Successfully battled the indianmeal moth all last fall, and was starting to again feel complacent about the pantry, returning stuff from quarantine in the fridge and freezer to the shelves again. Then, tonight, I met a new enemy. Did you know there are
bugs that specifically like to live in paprika? Neither did I!
Streaker fail. (nsfw but not very graphic)
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Previously unknown Chicago street photographer Vivian Maier... Amazing story. Thanks to those of you whom I stole this from on FB...you know who you are! ;) Couldn't resist sharing more widely. Excellent tale.
Logistics Advice Sought - Last Will and Testament. . . I am going to die - no time soon, as I am pretty healthy
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OMG BUNNIES a definitive list, IMO, but if you think others should be included, bring them on.
Also,
OMG BAD BUNNIES.
Ask MetaChat: your best lowish-carb meal ideas, please? →Read more...
10 January 2011
What music to help my 17-year-old son learn to play the piano? He plays jazz guitar beautifully by ear and with fake books. He knows basic music theory. Now he wants to learn how to read music (finally) on the piano. But he doesn't want to learn via a "baby book." What should he start with? I just ordered a book of simplified Bach pieces. Anything else? I play the piano at the level of intermediate Beethoven sonatas but I started at age 6. I need "cool" stuff for him that isn't too hard for a real beginner at piano. Thanks.
Television show that was totally awful and rightfully only lasted a few episodes, but you couldn't turn your eyes away? We're on a theme here...
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I made some... er, dunno really what, so let's call it "Drunken Vichyssoise" and we're good. Because it was. Actually, it was awesome. GYOFB rambling + recipe below the fold
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Television show that you wish had ended (at least) one season sooner? I had to ask.
Television show that you wish had been on for (at least) one more season? Any era.
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I don't have MOFB I would like to formally lodge my complaint about the path the last few weeks have taken.
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An important message from Ringo Starr to his fans
(It's a couple years old, but it was new to me!)
09 January 2011
Bubees move over, WTF kitty is here: First there was
bubees, now there's
WTF kitty who shows us that dramatic chipmunks got nothing on
scottish folds.
Nom nom nom nom... WTF?
THIS IS A SHOUTING ABOUT THE WEATHER THREAD! THERE IS COLD WHITE STUFF FALLING FROM THE SKY AND I DON'T LIKE IT ONE BIT!
New sidebar art! Thanks to our photographers arse_hat, Kronos to Earth, DarkForest, ufez, and -t! All pics this time around came from the Photo Friday thread
2010 Favorites.
update. so glad to see the end of 2010.
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08 January 2011
The Pink Moon Problem. In which the singer from The Long Winters spells it out: "There's No Shame In Admitting You're Hearing Something For the First Time"
Escapa! a frustrating little game
Sparks play "I Predict" and "Eaten By The Monster Of Love"
on American Bandstand circa 1982.
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A case of Penicillin-Resistant Nostalgia as the "Great Big Radio" oldies web radio station tonight played a 1977 aircheck of "Beaver Cleaver on The New 10-Q!" (to be repeated about 45 minutes from now)
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Regretsy Christmas 2010 Special This is a little late for Christmas, but you have to see this. It's just so... so...
je ne sais quois.
07 January 2011
Picky or just following the dictates of his nature? Trilby has a odd little preference I've been wondering about. If I put his cat bed on the kitchen floor, he never, ever uses it. If I put it on one of the kitchen chairs, he will use it fairly regularly. Is there some cat behavioural psychology reason for this, or this is just a little idiosyncrasy?
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criminals from the 20s in Australia Ya'll might have seen this, I found it on Redd... I think I love all of these photos, I want to know all their stories!
Why Hollywood keeps making crappy action flicks: Because they make money internationally, and American comedy doesn't always translate overseas.
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Fridge cleaning... I need either a forensic pathologist or an archaeologist to determine exactly what the fuck I just pried out of a bowl from the back of the fridge.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISMEAR!!!!!
Photo Friday: 2010 Favorites
06 January 2011
Guy doing chin-ups while dangling unsecured from a crane atop a skyscraper.
Helpful tip: Mute the sound on your computer and fast forward to about the 1:45 mark.
Wait is this a real thing? Someone told me I "Put on lotion like a girl" (Less creepy then it sounds)
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Grammar question →Read more...
Books of 2010 So what books did you read last year? Going through my list, I see that I probably read the fewest books in any year of my adult life.
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Why Cecco Beppe Does Not Die I'm not quite sure what to make of this video lol
05 January 2011
Huh. Just figured out that you* can
watch a bunch of recent concerts from Austin City Limits (the TV program, not the festival) online from PBS Video. 46 of them, actually, including Elvis Costello, Alejandro Escovedo, Steve Earle, Wilco, etc. Jeepers.
*Sorry if this "you" is only US "you"s.
Someone Else Will Put it Back Depressing evidence of the lousier, lazier side of humanity.
Photo Friday Advance: 2010 Favorites Which of your 2010 photos do you like the best? Post them and tell us why you love them!
This fan-made trailer for the game
Minecraft has made my day.
Also, OMG the amount of work the guy put into building all that stuff.
MP3 Shuffle-a-gogo anyone? What comes up on your MP3 shuffle?
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04 January 2011
A Thank you Thread: Thank you, dude playing the Legend Of Zelda theme on your ocarina in Union Square. You made my day at least 20% better.
Wow... that's slippery! turning up the sound is essential, but there is some borderline NSFW language
Homeless man with golden radio voice. Friend of mine who's a professional radio announcer posted this earlier today. It's amazing. Hope he gets a job soon!
I am on day 3 of successful vegetarianism woo! alas as I try to look critically at midrange priced buy-for-lunch/dinner food out here I realize that you can easily get heart disease from vegetarian food in India, I'm gonna have to do more buying/preparing myself
7 best and worst science movies - chosen by NASA and the Science & Entertainment Exchange. #1 worst movie?
2012. NASA has heard enough noise about 2012 that they
wrote a "the world won't end" FAQ.
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Knitting agenda 2011 I've misspent today so far happily broswing through my stash of yarn, pattern collection, and the free patterns available on Ravelry, planning my knitting projects for 2011.
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On the internet, no one wants to hear your dreams →Read more...
I have a small (~1 lb) pork tenderloin roast that I forgot until now that I was going to cook this evening. What's the best way to cook it?
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03 January 2011
1922 Kodachrome Film Test "A sample of some of the earliest color motion picture film you will see."
Ask MeCha: License to Meow Hi, I’m a housecat named Trilby and I want some advice about how to break into the international spy business.
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OOooooooo Osechi! I was pretty pleased with how the New Years food turned out!
Monday 3-point update →Read more...
Coffin & Cradle, 2011 *whispers* Are we going to do coffin and cradle this year? I really liked this the last two years' threads.
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Pulp fiction goes pop-up: old paperback covers cut out and
reassembled into 3-dimensional scenes.
If you believe that we make our own luck, then it's time to get to work.
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02 January 2011
New computer! What should I do with it?
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Chuck Berry collapsed in concert last night but left the stage doing his duckwalk. Includes a great old video of "Roll Over Beethoven".
So, how's your new year been so far? Ninety-five percent chance it's been better than mine....
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Alphabet Autofill! →Read more...
A very belated offering in the
December Musical Giftstravaganza:
White Wine In The Sun by Tim Minchin, a funny (but ultimately sweet) holiday song for the non-religious.
Video.
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01 January 2011
As I hear all the buzz about "decade retrospectives" (and whether the decade ended with 2009 or 2010) I remembered something I wrote 6-and-a-half freaking years ago:
SELF-LINK.
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Happy new year! Drama reduction plan continued, →Read more...
Partied too hard? Post a pic from the morning after :)
What's the best picture of you from the last year? Show it off now.
Here's mine
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