These are nice! Thanks!
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 10:52 AM on September 8, 2008

This is a great find, flapjax!
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 8:16 AM on July 15, 2008

Thanks kirkaracha. Wow.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 9:56 AM on July 9, 2008

I never thought of scanning my sticker albums before. But I definitely still have them. This is nice.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 9:12 AM on June 26, 2008

My English name is not the same as my Chinese name. This was for integration... "avoiding racism," I guess. My boyfriend's name is South Asian and one mailing list changes it a little on each piece of mail, until now it seems he's a Latino Englishman.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 10:07 AM on April 24, 2008

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posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 8:11 AM on April 14, 2008

I can remember the copy of 2001 I read in seventh grade. It was an old, yellow, paperback in library binding. The cover was white. You could see dirt, smudges, and scuff marks on it. It was well-read. I brought my questions about it to my science teacher and we had such a grown-up conversation. We talked about primate and human society, human nature, and human impulsion. I remember that discussion's excitement.

What passion, precision, and reverence I learned from... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 10:47 PM on March 18, 2008

Ooh, this takes me back to the good old days in the early '90s. I also remember the hundred-dollar-plus local phone bills and identifying connection speeds by ear.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 9:25 AM on February 16, 2008

Great post hadjiboy! I didn't know about these at all. Thank you.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 11:21 AM on January 17, 2008

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I'm using Netscape 8.0.3.4 right now. It works well, and I like the Passcard feature. Netscape did not work well for a long time, so this surprised me. I'm sad that it's going because it's such a big part of Internet history.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 12:00 AM on December 29, 2007

For myself, I love it when a flan comes together.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 7:39 AM on October 12, 2007

I am having a fantasy of playing White Chalk back-to-back with Nick Cave's The Boatman's Call. Mmm...
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 9:54 PM on October 7, 2007

Thank you Kattullus. This post is great.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 8:35 AM on May 29, 2007

Thank you infini. Georgette Heyer deserves to be better known!
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 8:15 AM on March 12, 2007

These videos were fun. Thanks!
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 4:00 PM on December 21, 2006

I like Savage Chickens, Natalie Dee, Married to the Sea, and Copper. Leisure Town is legendary.

Get Your War On started out on the Web and is now in Rolling Stone and some weekly papers.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 5:30 PM on October 9, 2006

That's pretty cool Astro Zombie, but when you woke, were you a crow's foot or a grub? ;)
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 1:23 PM on September 10, 2006

PDD-NOS: I'd never heard of that...what an absurd catch-all. You've got the "Not Quite Normal But We Can't Tell Why" disease. How sad and demeaning...

Perhaps, but it is better than pushing a person into a diagnosis that doesn't fit their symptoms. Sometimes a catch-all diagnosis is a way to dismiss examination of a person's problems (for example, the defunct diagnosis of "female cancer," used to describe any cancer a female had),... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 6:38 PM on August 13, 2006

Happy birthday Metafilter!
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 1:08 PM on July 14, 2006

Metafilter: Where do I get a copy of nutjob.css?

I just opened a pack of Peanut M&Ms and one is bulbous like it has a half-formed twin on it. SATAN!
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 3:03 PM on June 6, 2006

Fantastic comments everyone! I always regretted not taking any music classes past Beginning Composition.

Eideteker, do you know of the Japanese band Pierrot? Do you think they got their name from Pierrot Lunaire?
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 11:51 PM on May 30, 2006

It's about saving face. The bowing to one another and all that. It's all about choosing to show respect to elders and authority...

Is this a sign of old traditions not being upheld by younger generations? Or is this a part of the tradition? An example of it in practice? Is the kid (purposefully or inadvertently) choosing to lower this man's rank in society by disrespecting him? Does this in turn increase the younger man's rank in society by that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 8:38 PM on May 28, 2006

My condolences, Jade5454.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 11:30 AM on May 13, 2006

If anyone's still reading... :)

A major flaw in Zellweger's argument is that most logical operators are actually unnecessary, because they can be expressed solely out of combinations of NANDs, or NORs, or NOTs and ANDs, or a number of other smaller subsets of this 16-member operator set.

From the article:

"The standard notations are analogous to the Roman numerals and mine is like the Arabic system,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 10:12 AM on April 19, 2006

I've read it twice. I've read about half of the Marx-Engels Reader also. Marx's commonly read works are a foundational framework for modern social analysis. But they're not the be-all and end-all.

Actually the concept of alienation is an extremely psychological one. The phenomenon that Marx tries to explain with alienation seems to me to be better explained with psychological concepts.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 12:01 AM on February 26, 2006

This is a great post! Great photography!
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 12:14 AM on February 13, 2006

Closer...
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 5:41 PM on December 7, 2005

This is a great discussion. There is a lot here I wasn't aware of before.

I hadn't realized the term mulatto was offensive, either. Being in Los Angeles, there are a lot of offensive terms that one has to avoid using, but a lot of Angelenos wouldn't even know what mulatto means. In any case, I'm glad I know now that it's offensive.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 11:50 PM on July 12, 2005

Thanks! I loved this post!
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 11:19 PM on July 12, 2005

Kalessin, your experience sounds so festive. I've never been able to do this at any actual gravesite because all the sites are overseas. My immediate family celebrates at home... the "hell money" is definitely peripheral. Your ancestors and your living family are what it's about.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 9:54 PM on May 5, 2005

TheGoldenOne: I wonder if there's a term for this symbiotic relationship between fluff news and the news media along the lines of the military industrial complex. Thoughts?

This might not be exactly what you're looking for, but some people think there's a "military-industrial-entertainment complex." YMMV, as I first heard of it on the X-Files.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 12:19 AM on May 2, 2005

I just saw Ms. Bostwick on an episode of Nature. It's part of the Deep Jungle series... link here. There's a writeup on her segment here, which includes more video. What a coincidence! In the show, she demonstrated the dance herself. It was great.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 9:41 PM on April 29, 2005

I haven't seen the original, although I like watching British shows. I saw the Diversity Training episode and it made me cringe, too. The boss reminded me of people I've actually worked with, so I guess that's good... for the show!
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 10:03 PM on March 31, 2005

This is a good find! The FAQ on the site says this about traffic sensors:

Q. There are no speed dots for a stretch of freeway I use. Why?

A. The speeds that you see on our site come from sensors Caltrans has buried in the freeway. For freeways in less populated areas, these sensors often don't exist. For freeways in heavily traveled areas, the sensors are usually there but, for any number of reasons, Caltrans may not have speed... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 10:14 PM on March 12, 2005

I would like to second veronitron and deborah. The days that I was hospitalized in a psychiatric ward and the months afterwards were terrifying. Digaman, I hope you may forgive your friend some day. I believe that he didn't mean to hurt you.


Thanks, Sijeka, for posting this article.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 12:45 AM on March 6, 2005

Abitrary rules teach disrespect for authority

Goofyy, that's a very good point.

My high school had females wear a low-cut shrug in their senior photos also. I remember that I wasn't comfortable putting it on, but I did it anyways. My mother would not have let me buy clothes with a similar cut.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 12:42 AM on March 2, 2005

This is great. I hope Jorn stays awhile. I am very happy. Thanks for the alert, portage!
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 7:11 PM on February 23, 2005

y2karl: The University of Southern California is a private school. They have a misleading name.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 1:48 AM on February 20, 2005

Yes, it is the only chess move I know, aside from losing....

I love it. Me too... in Western chess anyways. I'm just a little bit better in Chinese chess.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 11:34 PM on February 8, 2005

Thanks arto! It's neat to read about this stuff. I didn't know about any of this, even though I was into alternative music and grew up just nearby in Alhambra. Hello Mr. Bali Hai, from the good old SGV!
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 9:49 PM on January 30, 2005

I grew up in Los Angeles and have heard of a few times where one student in a classroom might jump under their desk right before an earthquake actually hits. I also remember one morning when my family's pet birds suddenly got in a huge panic and my youngest sister (then about 18 months I think) started fussing and crying even though she usually woke quietly... A few minutes later, there was an earthquake.

Of course these are just stories. They've always made me wonder, though.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 8:51 PM on January 3, 2005

Hi all, I apologize that I didn't realize bash.org had such a slow server. It held up well for me even though I looked through the contest entries three times... it must be a load issue. Thanks so much Civil_Disobedient for temporarily hosting the linked shots! I couldn't check this post until now because I can't get on the Internet at work.

Maybe I'll post on a weekend next time.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 8:27 PM on January 3, 2005

This murder and the debate here remind me of a conversation I had with an ex-boyfriend once. One of his high school classmates was in jail for murdering his (the classmate's) father after his father beat up his (the classmate's) mother. To me this sounded like a thing a person could plausibly do in the pressure of a situation, if they had been the object of years of abuse and witnessed years of domestic violence. My ex was scornful of the incident and said it was a "stupid thing to do,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 2:11 AM on November 30, 2004

Thanks for the heads up. So much for not him not blogging while working on books... unless he isn't working on a book!

And here I was waiting for a new one to come out before I checked the blog again. His September 11th quote is excellent, though.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 10:10 PM on November 13, 2004

I've noticed Jewish people not spelling out the word "God" since high school. In college I did HTML coding for a Jewish student magazine, and the staff used "G-d" when writing, also.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 12:40 AM on November 3, 2004

I thought it was wierd that she called this person "A-Man," when he'd supposedly meant so much to her. Why not a better name, you know?
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 9:49 PM on October 18, 2004

Wow, and I'd just been thinking that it's about half a year until the 5-year anniversary of my Blogger weblog. Ev has lead Blogger/Pyra well all these years while other dot coms have floundered. I second the big thanks, and I can't wait to see what he does next.

And insomnia, I've used LiveJournal for nearly as long, and I've always also been very impressed by it, even if populated by angsty teens, and by its leadership.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 11:00 PM on October 4, 2004

Great post.

Regarding back pain:

I agree with Tubes. I've dealt with much back pain. All his advice is good; don't listen to your doctor. On preview: Stavros's, too.

Melissa May, how truly good are the people which you mention, if they are short with a person who is suffering?
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 12:20 AM on September 21, 2004

Thanks, melissa may, for your very thoughtful answer. It saddens me to see how extensive the problem is, but perhaps all the research on pain will keep teaching us more about the rest, too.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 1:21 AM on September 22, 2004

I met Anne Rice in high school when I went to get my copy of The Witching Hour signed. I haven't liked everything she's written, but some of it is pretty good, and usually alright as genre fiction. Sometimes she does seem hissy and/or eccentric, but she was very sweet to me on that day. I say, go her. She's doing her thing and she's not hurting anyone.
posted to MetaFilter by halonine at 12:53 AM on September 22, 2004