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Fun, Frivolity and/or Forced Conviviality?
I'm torn on the happy hour thing in my office.. it CAN be fun, as long as you know when to duck out, and free booze on the big boss's card is never a bad thing.
then again, I just like booze.
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 9:23 AM on June 25, 2008
MeFi post:
NHL Fuckers
We are stuck for now, as the NHL has exclusive rights to the Stanley Cup. and YES, that's a huge deal.
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 2:21 PM on February 16, 2005
I would like to point out that the last time no one played for the Stanley Cup happened to be the same year as the last time the Red Sox won World Series.
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 1:47 PM on February 23, 2005
MeFi post:
canada does it again
I remember having these briefly as a kid (Southeastern Michigan). I probably would have forgotten about them completely if I hadn't had an incidient after being sent up to the store on my bike.
There is nothing like seeing one of these things explode under your rear tire after dropping it in the street. I still have the image in my mind.
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 12:10 PM on January 31, 2005
MeFi post:
$4/gallon, here we come!
Sleslie, you've hit on why the SUV is so damn popular, it has merged the truck and station wagon segments (aka the Family Truckster).
Ogre, they drove station wagons... which were just as bad on gas then as SUVs are now.
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 2:32 PM on May 3, 2004
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Child's play screwed over by media.
Ptrin, I will... at a screening of Kill Bill, a mother and her four kids sat behind me. (two of them around 11 or 12, one I'd say was around 8 or so, and the other an infant).
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 10:42 AM on January 5, 2004
MeFi post:
The Old-Fashioned Cocktail
skatz, that 7up angle is *almost* as bad as adding fruit to ANY whiskey drink. People who do that shouldn't be allowed to drink.
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 10:59 PM on May 21, 2003
MeFi post:
Electric Vehicles: Back to the future?
The main problem that I see with moving to Fuel cell technologies is that the car companies are using the same frames and other technologies and trying to shoehorn the new power system in.
This is the reason that the auto manufacturers are having difficulty. They have too much invested in the current technologies. And saying that they should just do it now is more than irresponsible. Tens of thousands of jobs would be on the line, and that's just the execs and middle... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 8:17 AM on April 9, 2003
MeFi post:
Stupid baby names
Well , with a last name of Craddock, I'm thinkin of naming any kids: Arista, Demma, Buera or Otto.
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 12:56 PM on December 11, 2002
MeFi post:
For some, Halloween can mean candy, treats, and...
Recipe for this thread:
"My mythological Belief structure say that the holiday is this"
"no , you're wrong my mythological belief structure says it's this"
"Well, historically, it used to mean this, but in realtion to the first agrument I can sse how the second argument is valid"
repeat.
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 8:24 AM on October 24, 2002
MeFi post:
"Too many people don't realize that when you...
Well, RIAA has turned me off of filesharing, mainly because it's ALOT harder to find the stuff I'm looking for. AN example: A CD I love: Body exit Mind by the New Fast Automatic Daffodils has been MIA for about a year now... I still have the case, but I think the CD was stolen out of my car along with others that I know were, and have replaced via p2p.
Here's my question: If I'm replacing CDs I've already paid for.. am I stealing?
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 6:16 AM on September 26, 2002
sorry, two different thoughs intersected there...
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 6:17 AM on September 26, 2002
GhostintheMachine, I ask you directly:
If I'm replacing CDs I've already paid for... and were stolen from me, am I stealing?
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 1:16 PM on September 26, 2002
MeFi post:
CleanFlicks, a Utah (US) based company, is using...
A victory for Cleanflicks will be a victory for all of us who are concerned about the future of fair use.
Umm, why? this is obviously packaging someone else's work that's been cut, masked, or ADR'd with nothing added to it. I really don't see how fair use is involved in the least.
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 10:26 AM on September 17, 2002
Selling it or renting it creates a slightly thorny issue. Do video stores sign agreements when becoming distributors saying explicitly they can not modify the works
CleanFlicks doesn't rent the movies. When you want to use CleanFlicks' services, you joing a co-operative that owns a set number of movies that have been edited. You don't "rent" a movie... you check it out.
If that is indeed the case, and no... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 12:18 PM on September 17, 2002
that was obviously fair use
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 12:34 PM on September 17, 2002
ok, upon closer inspection of the site, they have an option to buy the edited version.
I would think that they would have to send the original (since that is what they can charge for) along with their hacked up copy. (their site only states that they maintain a 1 to 1 ratio for rentals only - I know, it may be semantics - but that may be closer to the actual issue at hand.
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 12:45 PM on September 17, 2002
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Ever wonder what it may be like to experience...
I heard this on npr on my drive home yesterday. they played a rether lengthy sample of it without warning at the end of the story. It was freaky and less than pleasant. I don't think I'll be making any schitzo jokes about anything anymore.
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 6:18 AM on August 30, 2002
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no comment from me, i'll leave that to everyone...
hello?
Tommy can you hear me?
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 11:38 PM on March 25, 2002
Hi, I'm drunk on a monday-- god I love being my own boss...
neener neener
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 11:45 PM on March 25, 2002
Dude, that is one creepy monkey.
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 1:23 AM on April 4, 2002
I quote my brother when I say "God Damn Monkey Puppets! They bring nothing but Pain, Sorrow, and horrible horrible karaoke memories".
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 8:03 PM on April 4, 2002
it took same brother 2 days to read this entire thread...he's kinda afraid of Miguel now
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 9:11 AM on April 5, 2002
CDs are going out this weekend... just got my burner back from TDK yesterday, finished burning them today. Everyone is getting two, because of the delay.
What Old Reliable badge?
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 3:02 PM on April 5, 2002
post noting that the K-man must've put some crystal meth in his coffee today
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 1:32 PM on April 8, 2002
Origami Monkey
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 1:44 PM on April 8, 2002
I'm telling you, this is turning into a religion
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 1:47 PM on April 8, 2002
as long as we're talking monkey movies : MVP
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 2:05 PM on April 8, 2002
we are now the most inane and pointless thread!!!
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 2:15 PM on April 8, 2002
we are perfectly happy to wallow in our monkey filth
ewww
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 1:56 PM on April 9, 2002
enough about bunnyfire.. more about monkeys
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 4:31 PM on April 10, 2002
Nice!
*golf clap*
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 8:07 AM on April 16, 2002
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 4:46 PM on April 18, 2002
I'm afraid of the front page, and it's smell
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 9:07 AM on April 24, 2002
no way, man
sorry, had to do it
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 1:08 AM on April 26, 2002
so let it be written, so let my pants come undone.
whoops!
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 7:40 AM on July 25, 2002
MeFi post:
Now that the Game Developers Conference is over...
ookamaka: it's not dumb... it's marketing (ok, same thing). The problem Sony is having is that there is a perception that the PS2 is not as powerful of a machine as the XBox, AND I've heard that developing for it can be a bear.
Where as companies that are already planning PC ports of console games (or console ports from PC) have an easier path and can spend more time doing optimization rather than porting.
The biggest problem in this is the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tj
at 2:06 AM on March 25, 2002
