I never bought a 45 single that I could only play on a few record players, or that disentegrated after X listenings.

Hey you remember dub plates too? of couse they were never commercially marketed, they were pre release fodder..

but who remembers the first DIVX standard?
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 8:11 PM on March 23, 2004

Bio: Kent is an unemployed "rave scene god" who lives with his mom in the suburbs.

I am glad he is giving back to the world.
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 1:18 PM on September 26, 2003

no substrate described this
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 1:28 PM on September 23, 2003

Its great, its unsettling because it *makes* you remember what those planes looked like before they struck the buildings. It evokes strong emotion, feeling... thats what art is intended to do. I love it when people dismiss things because its not to their liking.

This is raw nerve remberance, you can see them in the air when you read it. If you don't like it and you want to go back to the sugar coated media spin of uplifting nonexistent minorities raising flags from the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 5:35 PM on May 15, 2003

my favorite part is the logo for the abatement company....
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 4:41 PM on March 26, 2003

Majority rules. I don't think anyone is arguing for car-priority, rather some separation of bikes and cars. It's like fire and ice. You can't mix them together and hope it'll work out. Either one gets melted, or the other burns out.

I love this mentality, despite the fact that if people obey traffic laws people don't get killed when people mess up, usually cars, and kill others on bikes, on motorcycles, walking, or smaller cars, there is this great... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 5:49 PM on October 1, 2002

I have hit this one twice, I was 21 they were 15 and 17 respectively, both were dropped as soon as the age became known. When a younger girl decides to adopt an adult demeanor and pick up a older man all rules are off. for a long time after each one I felt like I needed to card girls I met. Or in the least take them on dates to places that were notorious for spotting fake ID.

Its a tough world for the guys out there, if they decide to pursue a relationship and the girl... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 11:56 AM on July 25, 2002

Given the chance, I would immediately opt out of 90% of the government 'services' I receive if I had the chance to also opt out of the taxes.

you can, its a long drawn out process of paperwork and all kinds of crap, you basically lose all your rights, you cant vote, the bill of rights doesn't apply to you anymore, you can be jailed for any reason, and lose access to all public services.

and you can at the US' discretion be... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 10:24 AM on July 24, 2002

Wireless is digging its own grave without encouraging security. I wonder what % of these wireless owners have no clue anyone with a wireless card can use their connection.

I doubt it, most of the free services around here (seattle) offer only a limited amount of ports, http, https, telnet, etc...

wireless is like anything else, you could cut and paste any thing in your statement from the computer world and it would still be... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 11:18 AM on July 9, 2002

*Yawn* This article is a rehash of old news that's been talked about for years.

This seemingly arrogant statement speaks volumes about electronic music being unapproachable. Its also a great social commentary on those who have been involved in electronic music for years.

They are soo five years ago.

The boom is gone, stained by drug use and apoor demographic, american electronic music scenes are not... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 2:07 PM on June 20, 2002

Its Kung fu Chicken Soup, get with the Kaiju jargon!
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 2:37 PM on June 11, 2002

some people see buying starbucks coffee, or nike shoes as cashing in a a national tragedy. How is this any different than earthquake shirts in California or anything else that commemorates a disaster?

Its a pretty a typical american response to hide in the dark things that make us afraid of the real world. Is a staunch reminder that we are now really a member of a world polictical situation (terrorism toward the west) that has been going on for decades really such a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 10:40 AM on May 24, 2002

I use XP all day at work, supporting it amoung other things, Active Directory is a pain in the ass and XP is really just a 2k client spruced up to hog more memory, its still the same old windows OS, albeit it one that isnt a horrible obomination that say 98 was.

OS X lives on my ibook, and I couldnt be happier, anything that isnt handled by the bright my mom could use it with no training interface can be handled with the lovely terminal application.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 4:02 PM on May 15, 2002

I am a little irritated with all these programs at this point, I have used Limewire, bearshare, gnutella, morphous, kazza and soulseek on my windows machine in the past. Now that I have a mac running OS X how many options do I have? one, limewire

boo hoo, my life is so hard
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 11:21 AM on April 19, 2002

Malternatives are disgusting rippoffs of what could be a really good product. In canada these products do not contain the flavor of hard liquor in them, they contain HARD LIQUOR. Canada also has a new breed of beverages that combine hard liquor and stimulants for a real rush.

If I wanted a nasty malt beverage I would start drinking Old English 800, malt is pretty much the cheapest grossest thing you can make liquor out of. aside from wood.

As far... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 5:09 PM on March 29, 2002

NortonDC, your one of the worst kind of people in this world, a piss ass self rightous whiner, look up the meaning of the word felon for me idiot boy.

at least coldchef did something, what do you offer the world other than a chastising and lame mommydearist remark? I laughed at the screen saver trick its worth a dollar

oh yeah, macs...

I dig my 600mhz ibook, but it was a pain to buy and even more of a pain to find... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 7:36 PM on February 21, 2002

you have to wonder if the missing canadian snowboarders who openly admitted smoking marijuana and were banned from entering the US, would have made any difference in the outcome.
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 7:19 AM on February 12, 2002

I am having a party, at those hours its hookers and blow for everyone!
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 4:02 PM on February 1, 2002

I am starting a campaign against this dumbass, see for people who know nothing about Seattle, we have these great laws called "civility laws" which make it illegal for people to sit or lay on the street, they have a nice name but they basically make it illegal to be homeless in our most worldly of cities....

so I am going to call the cops on this guy till he gets arrested, or give a star wars ticket to every homeless person I see downtown and instruct them to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 4:44 PM on January 5, 2002

I am sure MiguelCardoso and fold_and_mutilate would have no problem rectifying all US hunting issues with supporting the re-release of wolves into your local national forests, greenbelts and parks.

So we loose a sheep, cow, dog or small child every week or so.. at least we aren't savage hunters!

I think all the so called animal lovers in the world need there facts straight before they go off judging situations on face value. Hell if I did that I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 11:35 PM on January 1, 2002

britney is nast... add ten pounds to her and she becomes an instant brem-a-lowe...

boo to micky mouse club rejects
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 4:17 PM on December 12, 2001

grammarian

featured my ass...
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 11:55 PM on December 4, 2001

krisjohn said: " Leaving something out in the rain, even something you claim to care about, is incredibly normal behaviour. "

I think they were referring to flag code which is a documented set of rules of how the US flag is to be cared for flown and even disposed of. its adapted from rules in the armed forces and became part of Federal law just after the first flag day..

disobeying said code isn't just being lazy, to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 12:39 AM on November 26, 2001

pics are here

I wanted to win, but I fucked up my odds by having a tee shirt land on me. It was kind of messed up to see that many freaks beat each other up over tee shirts, yet no one beat anyones ass for the prize. sissys
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 3:59 PM on October 12, 2001

I think its because it really justifies our grief... it reminds us how bad we have been hurt, and how much we need to go to heal...

as much as it made me cry as well, I was touched by how people ever where care just as much as we do

america didnt just get injured on tuesday, the whole world did
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 2:04 PM on September 14, 2001

well themikeb, its good to see that censorship is alive and well in your mind

I dont like idiotic baseless banter anymore than the next guy but that doesnt make me better or there opinion "abuse"

your attitude is wholly unamerican and it sickens me
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 12:43 PM on September 13, 2001

whatever, reactionary attitudes like yours are exactly what people who commit crimes of terrorism are after..

I never advocated any violence or physical action by anyone, I simply made a point.

it seems like in the wake everyone is breathing this side with the majority or be the enemy attitude..
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 1:05 PM on September 13, 2001

the first picture is fake, there are a lot of teens with photoshop out there that really need to find better things to do at a time like this...

you can tell because the person is much to large in comparison to the building detail... compare the column width with that of the second picture.

A horrible horrible thing happened today, I hope we remember that in some way we are all responsible for the actions of our government, and for that reason we... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 7:17 PM on September 11, 2001

its just a bot, you can break smarterchild or any of them with poor grammar, bad questions or something out of its knowledge base.

Active agents are neat as long as you take them at face value, think of them as a CS rep that you don't have to sit on hold to talk to
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 12:08 PM on August 30, 2001

ever try to warn one? it does nothing.. which should be the biggest clue these are licenced from aol..
posted to MetaFilter by vincentmeanie at 12:57 PM on August 30, 2001