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Dr. DeBakey, innovative heart surgeon, died last night.
I actually had an aortic aneurysm repair done last year by Dr. Joseph Coselli, who is now one of the leading experts in the procedure created by Dr. DeBakey, so I feel doubly or triply or perhaps just eternally compelled to say: .
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 3:29 PM on July 12, 2008
MeFi post:
I'm not here...
This isn't sad. These people are on game shows, and want to win them. Do you folks here not have any kind of frame of reference?
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 3:25 PM on July 11, 2008
It has become the norm. Somehow this behavior is not only acceptable, but popular.
The behavior of wanting to win game shows? Was that ever not popular? Come on. These people are trying to win money. If this stuff really speaks to you of human cruelness or insincerity, you need something deeply adjusted.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 4:46 PM on July 11, 2008
And incivility as a basic staple of entertainment is depressing.
Incivility's been a staple of entertainment since before television was even a concept.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 10:22 PM on July 11, 2008
MeFi post:
The Comeback
Josh Hamilton dumped his agent, who stuck with the guy through thin and thinner, on the cusp of the huge deal he's going to get, because "Jesus told him to."
Mostly a good story, but really.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 5:15 PM on July 6, 2008
MeFi post:
A History of Techno
This is a list of the top 25 greatest electronic albums, and they include Leftfield and not Autechre or Coil or Squarepusher? Who cares about this list?
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 8:55 PM on June 29, 2008
MeFi post:
Go OKC!
This has been an interesting drama for the last NBA season and a half. Why a weak-linked scant post about it now?
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 8:19 PM on June 12, 2008
MeFi post:
Hey Jude
This was actually totally annoying. Cloying by half indeed.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 8:29 PM on April 29, 2008
MeFi post:
this has gotta the bottom of the barrel
No, this post is the bottom of the barrel. What you have done here is worse than incarcerating babies. Worse even than incinerating babies.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 4:09 PM on April 26, 2008
Jail is a better place for babies than restaurants at which I am eating.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 4:13 PM on April 26, 2008
MeFi post:
LOLMusicFans
I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 2:03 PM on April 26, 2008
MeFi post:
The Curious Cultural Journey of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"
It's just a song. If it resonates with you, it's not because of the tune or the lyrics, it's because you want it to resonate with you.
Are you suggesting that everything I enjoy I only enjoy because I want to do so, rather than it being bcause of some property of that thing? That sounds unreal, man.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 5:28 PM on March 5, 2008
MeFi post:
Roth Mountain
The Roth vocal parts don't even fit the music, with the exception of the 'woo's and 'yeah's.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 11:37 AM on February 22, 2008
MeFi post:
Boom boom bap.
Fucking awesome. Thanks!
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 7:48 PM on February 14, 2008
Some of these have really cool, murky artifacts of the rest of the track. Like this one. Double plus awesome.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 7:56 PM on February 14, 2008
Or actually that's probably more just Bonham exerting himself. Still awesome!
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 8:01 PM on February 14, 2008
MeFi post:
I'm f*****g Matt Damon
How is it like Andy Kaufman? Damon blew up, Kimmel chased after him all trying to make things good. You think Andy Kaufman does something like either one of them?
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 2:02 PM on February 6, 2008
MeFi post:
Yes, We Can.
Goddamn, I like to think of myself as a hardbitten cynic, but I'm in tears here. This man -- this movement -- is something else.
Really? Political cliches and and platitudes spun eloquently get you hot? Obama's another middle of the road politician with a gift for oratory, with barely any experience, pandering as he can.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 10:07 AM on February 2, 2008
We should all be a bit god-damned more critical than to surrender our votes and hearts after we see pop stars sing along with a political speech that contains nothing specific about anything.
Please people.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 6:08 PM on February 2, 2008
If we go on that speech we're buying a car is the point, I think. That speech is empty rhetoric designed at fluffing the left. Optimism was for sale by John Edwards long before Obama with more credentials and ideas first to back and it and no one paid attention. Why? 400$ haircuts? Who knows.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 6:29 PM on February 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Got room on that Zimmer for two?
Neither flickr nor delicious are catastrophically bad, no. But the entire time I'm using them I'm always frustrated. It's like trying to use a hammer with no handle or a telephone where the buttons are in random places. (Facebook is the same, only 100x worse--every single link I click surprises me, but not in a good way.)
Can you go into some more detail? Are you disabled in some significant way, or perhaps is this your first month using a computer?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 7:00 AM on February 1, 2008
MeFi post:
Heath Ledger dies
His role in Brokeback was so great that it was obnoxious to see Gyllenhaal on screen with him. I've never seen a pair of actors featured prominently where one is so badly out-acted by the other. Ole Jake really hurt that movie.
Sad to see this.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 2:35 PM on January 22, 2008
MeFi post:
Your move, Mr Spassky
Why are people dropping periods for a well-known racist?
People are complex. Stop living so simply.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 8:39 AM on January 18, 2008
MeFi post:
Reach For the Lasers
jonmc, just stay the fuck out of this thread, would you? We know how you feel.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 8:10 PM on January 16, 2008
Trance is to electronic music as hair bands are to rock 'n roll.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 8:41 PM on January 16, 2008
MeFi post:
Where do they all belong?
What does it really matter? She is dead. Zero, two, or four million people at her funeral will do nothing for her. We mourn for people like this and find it sad because we think of ourselves. It's that concern and that concern only that drive the people in the story to find friends or relatives. Olive Archer is gone and it won't matter a whit.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 3:14 PM on January 10, 2008
You're starting with the incorrect assumption that the funeral is "for" her.
I didn't say that. It's she that's being buried, it's her funeral. I agree with your comment though.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 3:27 PM on January 10, 2008
MeFi post:
Evolution of an artist.
This is really lame.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 7:12 AM on January 8, 2008
MetaFilter needs to Holden Karnofsky this guy over the candle picture. Get him fired, demoted, humiliated, make a lot of smug self righteous MeTa posts about it. Who is game?
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 8:21 AM on January 8, 2008
• He was not really humiliated, at least based on the number and strength of apologies made for his behavior by his friends and colleagues
• There were two Metatalk posts about Holden, neither of which appear to have been smug or self-righteous
Perhaps you and I have a different yardstick for smug and self-righteous. I am certain that this is the case.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 9:24 AM on January 8, 2008
MeFi post:
Gates farewell
MetaFilter user labels The Gates Foundation a "pretty hollow and half-hearted effort."
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 10:22 AM on January 7, 2008
The straight-up theft of hundreds of billions of dollars
Care to elaborate, or do you just like throwing that kind of claim out there and letting it sail?
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 10:42 AM on January 7, 2008
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Texas, an American Leader
I'll say it again: What do you expect from a state who's unofficial motto is a threat?
So, what, in Illinois, you just lay down and take it like a bitch from other states? We don't traffic in cowardice in Texas. You may like Ohio running roughshod all over you, but keep that shit in the Midwest.
Don't mess with Texas. Don't think about it. Don't read about Texas being messed with and smile approvingly.
posted to MetaFilter by xmutex
at 1:00 PM on January 3, 2008
