I think we should cut TtD a little slack as it appears that English is not his first language and he may be having a hard time expressing himself.

wait... what?
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 10:28 AM on September 5, 2008

I would recommend against eating zucchini this time of year. Reason being, gardeners sense people who are willing to eat zucchini at, as the time that zukes overflow gardens rolls around, they are likely to accost you and force ever larger zucchini upon you. Eventually, and I've seen this far too many times, you will be unable to leave the house lest you come home and find every available surface covered with zucchini. Fear this.

Other than that, you should be fine.
posted to Ask Metafilter by stet at 9:49 AM on September 3, 2008

Smedleyman! Glad to see you back.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 4:43 PM on August 29, 2008

What would you prefer people say?

Me too!11!!!!1!
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 3:10 PM on August 29, 2008

I think we should all just face the fact that this site belongs to the moderators, and we're only here to give them stuff to moderate.

Jesus christ, dude. Just start your own fucking metafilter and moderate it however you want and stop bitching that people that aren't you have a site people give a shit about.
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 3:09 PM on August 29, 2008

I'd like to comment that the word 'cleave' is its own antonym. It means both to split apart and to keep together. My wife taught me that. It's why I cleave to her.
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 8:47 AM on August 28, 2008

I think I might have this one figured out.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 10:43 AM on August 26, 2008

When I was in middle school we visited the university where they had cattle with little holes in their sides where the vet student could remove a rubber plug, reach in, and grab a handful of cud piping hot from the rumen. And then replace it. Certainly inserting a magnet via this access panel would be a cinch. Maybe something similar for your cat?
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 12:44 PM on August 26, 2008

Non-heteronormative version: You've never even gotten to first base, have you?

That ain't cricket.
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 8:21 AM on August 25, 2008

4Chan, dude. 4Chan.
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 4:28 PM on August 25, 2008

"motherfuckers"

Either that or "Metafiltroons." Whichever.
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 2:47 PM on August 24, 2008

You know, when I read that he'd done five-and-a-half years in prison, my first thought was mild surprise that one of the Keating 5 had done time.
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 3:05 PM on August 22, 2008

What's the stage volume going to be like? Nationals *love* to feedback when it's loud. Based on my experiences with my Estrallita and sound systems and sound people ranging from awesomely good to total crap (I'm looking at you, Blue Moon!) Id try the following.

For solo performers in the blues tradition, a 57 at a 45 degree angle to the cone works lovely. That might not fly in a bluegrass situation where higher fidelity is expected, though. In that case, use the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by stet at 1:42 PM on August 22, 2008

I recommend Bijou at Vain in Belltown. I never learned how to specify what I want my hair to look like and generally go about six months between shearings. Despite my communicating to her in grunts and vague gestures she managed to put an utterly normal haircut on my head, which is precisely what I wanted. Nice work.

Her style, as you can from her photo, is rather on the vibrant side. I expect she'll figure out what you're after just fine. FWIW, I no longer go to her.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by stet at 4:36 PM on July 26, 2008

Sometimes I see a truck around town with and Obama/Hypnotoad sticker on it. It's pretty awesome. That's all.
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 9:18 AM on July 24, 2008

Born in 1976 and I remember salt licks in the supermarkets of southcentral wisconsin.
posted to Ask Metafilter by stet at 8:11 PM on July 23, 2008

Can one be steampunk as fuck? Or does it not work that way? I'm confused.

*sets down glue and typewriter keys*
*resumes destroying society*
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 3:02 PM on July 23, 2008

instead you'd rather post to Metafilter from the safety of your 9 to 5 job.

Screw you. I weed my garden with a flamethrower, raised a flock of ducks in my freakin' living room, and have a forge in my backyard that can fucking melt steel. *and* I eat ice cream for breakfast on a regular basis.

Fuck childhood, I can do whatever I want whenever I want and, more or less whenever I want, I get to see a grown woman naked.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 3:50 PM on July 21, 2008

They'll release it as soon as the finalize the product placement for the second season of Firefly.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 1:41 PM on July 18, 2008

See? This is why I go by taxonomist. Everybody knows what that is.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 1:52 PM on July 17, 2008

So sayeth David Allen Coe.

No. No he didn't. The entire point of the song Take this job and shove it is found in the line "When I get the nerve to say." The protagonist never quits his job, never tells off the boss with the flat-top hairdo*, and never gets his wife back. That's what makes the song so fucking tragic. This continued belief that the song is about quitting your job displays the same sort of facepalmic... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 7:34 PM on July 11, 2008

Yeah, if only those damn women would shut up and let the real people talk in whatever way comes naturally.

QFT
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 8:51 PM on July 10, 2008

(By QFT I mean I endorse LH's sarcasm, not that I consider this to be literally true. IOW, grow the fuck up.)
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 8:53 PM on July 10, 2008

That's it. From now on I'm telling people that I'm an undertaker.

ColdChef will pwn you, dude. There can be only one Undertaker to teh Intartubewebz®™.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 2:30 PM on July 10, 2008

The gardener Elliot Coleman would say that you are not suffering from an excess of grasshoppers, you have a deficiency of geese. A friend of mine keeps his vineyard (~3/4 acre) free of grasshoppers with the help of a single goose named theo. He eats about a grasshopper a minute all day, every day.

The downside is that they're cantankerous bastards. I don't have recommendations for where to purchase a goose in your neck of the woods but I'd check craigslist and local feed stores.
posted to Ask Metafilter by stet at 8:29 AM on July 10, 2008

You fail at life. Take your viral bullshit and get cancer and die slow.
posted to Ask Metafilter by stet at 5:32 PM on July 7, 2008

Steve Solomon's Gardening When It Counts is a manual dedicated to this proposition. It's worth looking into because the author is not a (total) crackpot and has a good degree of credibility in the gardening world.

In terms of self-sufficiency, do not neglect the woodlot on your farm. You'll need it for firewood, mulch, free leaf litter, and construction material. Also, you can run pigs in it.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by stet at 7:04 AM on July 7, 2008

I am in favor of this. I wonder, however, if it's something that should be taken off site in the manner of sportsfilter, metachat, and travelfilter.

Did I do that? Ooohhhh, snap! Seriously though, what does it cost to host either of these sites?
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 2:13 PM on July 3, 2008

Valleywag's renaming of their post from something along the lines of "Boing Boing loses credibility" to Did the Internet's free-speech guardians try to hush up a girl-on-girl love affair is shitty

Fucking A. I had the vague impression that valleywag was a sleazy worthless gossip blog but hadn't thought too much about it either way. This sort of move renders the blog worthless either through homophobia or just plain stupidity.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 6:33 PM on July 1, 2008

Thanks, jessamyn. *is humbled*
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 6:10 PM on July 2, 2008

Ajax thread viewer. Whip up a simple paginated view that takes an offset and a number and returns the posts in HTML or even JSON. Writing javascript to smooth-scroll and load on demand given that would take a competent javascript programmer a day

Please don't do this. It breaks things like scroll wheels and space bar paging. Besides, you know who else did that?

Actually, they've since fixed it a bit, but when Live... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 12:39 PM on July 2, 2008

Everyone's all happy about this bear getting saved, but nobody cares about Bear Stearns.

That's because at least this bear shat in the woods. It helped cover up the smell wall street left.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 6:21 PM on July 1, 2008

A while back I made this comment about pre-nups. It doesn't address all the aspects of your question, but there some helpful background on pre-nups.
posted to Ask Metafilter by stet at 3:08 PM on July 1, 2008

Fishkill makes more sense when you realize that "kill" is the Dutch word for creek.

Oh.
My.
God.

We've added over a million irrigation ditches in Iraq! Osama merely wanted to create recreational fishing opportunities for Americans! Forget 9-11, this changes everything.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 5:26 PM on June 28, 2008

The Zap! is vapor? I see a guy driving one of these on a regular basis. Seems perfectly function, though I do break out in giggles every time I see it.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 2:54 PM on June 26, 2008

—and all the way into her brain ...with a beehive!

Later, he fights a yeti.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 5:02 PM on June 24, 2008

Ua mau ke'ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono.

No easy solutions, but I've got a niece who's growing up a native speaker of Hawaiian, another niece and a stepfather who speak it as a second language. We're looking at the first generation in I-don't-know-how-long that are learning Hawaiian as a first language. Seems like a good thing to me.

They are all, of course, fluent in everyone's favorite creole, Pidgin.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 9:54 PM on June 23, 2008

Nature's Avenger is an organic herbicide made from citrus oil. It's certified organic and loses it's herbicidal properties in about four hours. The way it works is by breaking down the waxy coating on plants that helps them retain moisture. The plant then dehydrates and dies. Simple and effective, eh?

My own experiences: Less effective than the catalog claims, but that's to be expected. I was killing off a mixture of grass, blackberries, ornamentals, and scotchbroom.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by stet at 11:41 AM on June 22, 2008

Marxchivist, I removed you as a contact to take you back to thirteen, but that left you with fourteen contacts. I am sad on account of I wanted to involve you and jonmc in some sort of gift of the magi like contact adding and removing scheme but, as so often happens, my romantic notions ran afoul of cruel reality.

Stupid reality.
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 12:25 PM on June 20, 2008

The London Mayor Thread is one of my favorite threads. It was great because I learned a shitload ablout local London politics by eavesdropping on a conversation that I never would have heard otherwise. Local posts can be great if they're, you know, great posts.
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 9:48 AM on June 19, 2008

Fuck. Good luck Ms. Macefield, whereever you are. Seattle is better for the likes of you.

And if someone wants to put their money where my mouth is, I'm happy to donate if I don't get laid off on thursday. Tearing the house down and erecting either an enormous middle finger or a community garden would suit.
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 7:00 PM on June 17, 2008

A is prettier and seems easier to read but there'll be scaling issues if certain letters get gobs more tags. B makes it faster to page down to the letter I'm looking for and scan to find a tag. I will not, however, be satisfied until it's standards compliant.
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 4:18 PM on June 17, 2008

I fail at the internets. I was going to link to the ISO standard for controlled vocabularies and imply that the tags should be replaced by trained indexers but I didn't preview and I'm very sorry and I'll never to it again.
posted to MetaTalk by stet at 4:20 PM on June 17, 2008

aka MeFi's own r-----

Um, I don't see a full name in this user's profile so I reckon associating username and real-life name might not be cool. Unless, of course, the user in question has already done so. Sorry if I'm uptight, but I value the non-googlability of my username and real name and am sensitive to possible violations of other's pseudoanonymity.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 9:49 PM on June 16, 2008

Rogers Cadenhead is a celebrity blogger...

Cool, thanks. I recall some Meta-drama around a user, a meetup, and outing so I'm cautious.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 10:30 AM on June 17, 2008

American soldiers herded the detainees into holding pens of razor-sharp concertina wire, the kind that's used to corral livestock.

That's fucking insane. No-one would ever use concertina wire for livestock. Livestock are valuable and you don't want them getting injured.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 10:14 AM on June 16, 2008

Boy, it sure as a good thing there are no environmental consequences to the uranium extraction industry! And that there are no social ramifications to creating fragile, vulnerable, and centralized power plants with their attendant effects on the built environment and need for physical security!
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 6:11 PM on June 13, 2008

I think you mean, Metafilter's Own KimChi.

Also, I love kimchi and will no doubt to make my own if this year's cabbage crop turns out.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 11:40 AM on June 12, 2008

>>XKCD's Rule 34

>xkcd is great but the Rules of the Internet predate it.

But not by much. Rule 35 is that, if a thread goes on long enough, someone will eventually link to XKCD.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 3:54 PM on June 10, 2008

The thrill show is gone.
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posted to MetaFilter by stet at 7:23 PM on June 9, 2008