I'm in NO for the storm and just got back from a great French Quarter bar full of crazy locals vowing to stay and arguing vociferously about jukebox abuse. I love these people. If the city survives, I'm seriously thinking of moving here.
I was going to be forced to weather the storm in my rental car, but a random drunk girl I met at the bar hooked me up with a place to stay thru Gustav. woo hoo!

Coldchef memail me.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 10:54 PM on August 30, 2008

In my defense, I noticed the "connect I cut" in "Connecticut" when I was only EIGHT YEARS OLD.


Ah, but did you see that manslaughter is man's laughter? That one threw me the first time I saw it.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 8:21 AM on August 28, 2008

FFF, thanks for linking to that video. It was very moving. I also liked the way he talked about his dad. That kind of thing goes over with the bitters.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 9:40 AM on August 23, 2008

Interesting, XQUZYPHYR. Do you have a citation for those rules?
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 8:44 AM on August 26, 2008

I had the same reaction scody.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 8:45 AM on August 26, 2008

, I've getting really sick and tired of this "vindictive bitch" stereotype the media and Hillary-hangers-on are casting on older white females suggesting they all should/will vote for McCain out of spite. It's incredibly demeaning.


Maybe it's stuff like this?

RNC "Happy Hour for Hillary"


Many major Clinton fund-raisers skipped the convention; others are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 7:53 PM on August 26, 2008

Agreed.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 8:15 PM on August 26, 2008

And "we don't need four more years of the last eight years."

Good speech.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 8:21 PM on August 26, 2008

I really can't believe their logic amounts to "these were just a bunch of methheads idly talking."

All you need, to understand the decision not to charge these bozos with any kind of conspiracy, is to watch a bit of this jailhouse interview with one of them.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 7:13 AM on August 27, 2008

I thought I was being really, really clever.



Sigh.
posted to MetaTalk by CunningLinguist at 10:07 PM on August 26, 2008

Any chance of this coming back? I was absolutely loving it.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 11:52 AM on August 19, 2008

Okay, thanks. When I was plundering it the other day, it was up and down minute to minute. This solid absence made me think it was gone for good.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 2:36 PM on August 19, 2008

This is what the site says now:

Hello, Everyone. My web host provider (Yahoo) shut down my web site because of high volumes of data transfer. Apparently, several folks, thousands each day, were downloading the entire music library, which is over 10 gigabytes, and that was placing a strain on their servers. My web hosting program offers Unlimited Data Transfer, but the amount of data being transfered was greater than the unlimited amount I was alotted so they... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 10:29 AM on August 24, 2008

I love all things politics and I would have nuked this with extreme prejudice.

It's primarily about the links, not the chat, nevar forget.
posted to MetaTalk by CunningLinguist at 9:15 PM on August 19, 2008

I'm with DarlingBri and the others who think you imagined way more than was there.

quoted for incision: your reading of this woman seems either highly influenced by fantasy or simply inept. It's reading a lot like you are having difficulty interpreting the friendly interactions with this girl as anything except sexually charged.

Also, dude, you're not "creepy and offputting" as much as just really, really young. A.k.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist at 9:27 PM on August 18, 2008

felix, I think a lot of women are reading his list of her behaviors, seeing nothing unusual and wondering why he jumped to the florid conclusions that he did. The fact that she reacted as she did when he asked to kiss her suggests his conclusions were indeed wrong.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist at 8:09 AM on August 19, 2008

Oh please. No contest:


Stan Chin's reaction to Scarabic's bloodless and bloody minded dissection of exactly how to get rid of a body.


No contest at all.
posted to MetaTalk by CunningLinguist at 8:59 PM on August 17, 2008

Wondrous though scarabic's comment is, it only attains true greatness when you read on to Stan Chin's rejoinder.

Indeed.

As a major opponent of jokes and off topic remarks in AskMe, I don't know what to make of the fact that the comment would have been deleted nowadays. And I seriously think it's the best thing on the internet.
posted to MetaTalk by CunningLinguist at 9:49 AM on August 18, 2008

Not to be morbid or ruin the party, but a friend of mine was killed in a car crash last week and I *wish* they would take down his Facebook page. I guess that just before he died, he must have sent out a bunch of friend invites to people who don't check the site much. Because every day, he's there in my news feed "Rich and so and so are now friends." His page lists "activity" every day. It's almost unbearable. Have they come up with protocols or etiquette to deal with death... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by CunningLinguist at 7:42 AM on August 13, 2008

No, I get that the profiles become memorials and that's touching and so on. I was just talking about the inherant creepiness of the days right after the death, when residual "activity" makes it seem like the person is still alive and using the site. When I said I wished they would take down his profile, I didn't really mean they should take down all dead people's profiles, just that I personally found it eerie and sad.
posted to MetaTalk by CunningLinguist at 8:18 AM on August 17, 2008

Here's the same thing, from the same manufacturer, at organize.com. "This product eligible for international shipping"
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist at 6:07 PM on August 16, 2008

Get him this book from ebay. The description blows, but trust me. It needs to be in every reporter's bookcase.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist at 7:38 PM on August 14, 2008

This is an interesting recounting of the probe until recently by Brad Garret, one of the main agents involved.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 10:29 PM on July 31, 2008

Yeah, I wish they had asked him what he said, exactly.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 10:36 PM on July 31, 2008

I'm trying to get the link fixed. I didn't know the LAT was so fickle.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 11:52 PM on July 31, 2008

You know, this blue/white collar digression is misplaced. The real class division in this story is the scientists who (the theory goes, whether Hatfill or Ivins or whoever) wanted to scare people straight about the anthrax danger, and the postal workers and hospital staffer who died because the stuff leaked through envelopes. No one at the networks or Capitol Hill died after all, just the guys who handled their mail.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 9:52 AM on August 1, 2008

The smoking gun has a protective order his shrink filed against him, accusing him of "homicidal threats."
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 10:19 AM on August 1, 2008

The Senate Judiciary Committee will call FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III to appear at an oversight hearing Sept. 17, when he is likely to be asked about the strength of the government's case against Ivins.
A spokeswoman for Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa), a vocal FBI critic, said he would demand more information about how authorities narrowed their search. - WP
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 8:23 AM on August 14, 2008

Yeah, the big neon tipoff is the extra money. No one legit ever offers extra money, but it's a hallmark of the scammer.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist at 7:30 PM on August 13, 2008

Don't do it. The business is dying so fast there isn't time to recover from the hangover from the last layoff wake before there's another to go to. I hate to be a downer, but all it takes is reading Romenesko every morning to see the looming catastrophe. Just today I heard about a buddy in Florida who took a buyout and left a big time editing job to teach, with the accompanying giant pay cut, because he saw the writing on the wall.

Your best bet is start a political blog,... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist at 8:26 AM on August 13, 2008

and klang wins Most Gorgeously Apt Typo of the Year
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist at 6:21 PM on August 13, 2008

that thread filled up with lulz


So what? Seriously, unsnarkily, so what? It's just going to get nuked.
posted to MetaTalk by CunningLinguist at 11:08 AM on August 13, 2008

I have to agree with mygothlaundry. For spam, it's sweet.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist at 9:05 AM on August 13, 2008

Not even a link?
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist at 9:07 AM on August 13, 2008

Great links. Thank you.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 9:20 AM on August 10, 2008

At Olympics, Russian and Georgian shooting medalists share podium, embrace.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 6:00 PM on August 10, 2008

Brief Encounter is the sobbiest of all sobfests. Also, not a romance but I have never wept at a movie as I did at Gallipoli.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist at 7:54 AM on August 10, 2008

I live in georegia but i dont see rusia no where not even sound but they says theres tanks should i be worrie
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 3:36 PM on August 8, 2008

Edwards on marital fidelity, 8 mos ago, to CBS:



Katie Couric: Harry Truman said, "A man not honorable in his marital relations is not usually honorable in any other." Some people don't feel comfortable supporting a candidate who has not remained faithful to his or her spouse. Can you understand their position?

John Edwards: Of course. I mean, for a lot of Americans, including the family that I grew up with ...... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 11:32 AM on August 9, 2008

Joe Klein: It's none of our business.


Taegan Goddard: Yes it is.



also:

a woman who looks like THAT?

Nice. No doubt from a real paragon of pulchritude, too.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 2:11 PM on August 9, 2008

some magazine is coming out next week with dozens of memos filched from the Clinton campaign.


It's the Atlantic. Here's a preview. Nothing about Edwards, but everything else is political junkie catnip.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 7:48 AM on August 10, 2008

It also makes the plot point in Ocean's 11 more poignant -- the one that got his character to move from Atlantic City to Vegas, because his doctor said he needed a drier climate.

My first thought too. That scene where he's shown sniffling with big poor me puppy dog eyes as they sign his transfer papers - it lasts about 10 seconds and has no dialogue and yet was totally memorable and hilarious. Not so hilarious anymore.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 9:37 AM on August 9, 2008

Get it or not, it's still lame - and lazy as hell.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 9:42 PM on August 9, 2008

The damn dots, I meant.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 9:42 PM on August 9, 2008

Is Obama President?
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 8:07 PM on July 30, 2008

I felt the same way about the first volume of William Manchester's Churchill bio - old Winston's youth was the stuff of an absolutely gripping adventure novel.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist at 8:06 AM on July 30, 2008

Here's the LA Times story.

He's close to 100k.

My favorite line is at the end:

"Tevis sheepishly broke the news to his mother last week that she needed to step in front of a camera: Four people so far have given enough to get the DVD."
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 7:16 AM on July 28, 2008

Here's the WSJ story. If possible, they missed the point even more: no mention, unless I missed it, of the smallness of the average donation and how micro-donations can add up fast. Funny, since the Journal is supposed to be more obsessed with finance than politics.
But Sean got one of those iconic WSJ engravings, so it's all good.
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 8:22 AM on July 29, 2008

Here's another good list of Spanish sheep cheeses.
posted to Ask Metafilter by CunningLinguist at 3:48 PM on July 27, 2008

"I knew she was a virgin because she was able to ruffle the silken mane of my unicorn."

- Harlan Ellison's "On the Downhill Slide."
posted to MetaFilter by CunningLinguist at 3:21 PM on July 25, 2008