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

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

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

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

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

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

DU: May I ask which is your library system? I'm curious about regional investment in libraries and there's no location info in your profile. Your blog is awesome, however.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 10:30 AM on May 30, 2008

Thanks for posting. Good stuff.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 7:16 PM on May 29, 2008

Wow. That CNN interview. Jimmy Kimmel was a condescending prick,...

Wait. Full-fucking-stop. I don't watch CNN and haven't for years but the only way I can parse this sentence is that Jimmy Fucking Kimmel is now pretending to be a fucking journalist on CNN. I know that the mainstream media are shit, and I know that TV news is a fucking wasteland, but you can't actually mean that Jimmy Kimmel is performing a job that was once the purview of an actual... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 5:02 PM on May 22, 2008

Man, I was all excited because I just placed a hold on Beans: A History at my library. Maybe I'm overthinking things?
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 5:31 PM on May 21, 2008

Cut corners.

Because removing the corners from all pieces of paper is the first step in the Cylon invasion. It prevents us from poking out the oscillating eye of a centurian.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 5:02 PM on May 20, 2008

Ribbons? You people are dumb. The post is clearly about violin bows.

Wait... What?

[This is an awesome post]
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 7:16 PM on May 15, 2008

Do you think they'll pay us to rebuild the railroads we've let rot this past century?
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 6:53 PM on May 7, 2008

"Soapbar" is what UK users are used to smoking...

Jesus fucking christ! That's absurd. It's beginning to look like bad British weed is going to replace Bad British Teeth and Bad British Food as the stereotype du jour.

Of course, if it turned out that's what the French smoked, we'd call it doobie pate and be all over it.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 6:31 PM on May 7, 2008

Women should taste their own menstrual blood to reconcile themselves to their bodies, declared Germaine Greer in the seminal feminist text of the 1970s.

Wow, "seminal" is *so* not the word I would have chosen there. Patriarchisterical!
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 9:37 AM on April 26, 2008

Hobbit 2: Second Breakfast
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 11:45 AM on April 25, 2008

Throw molotovs, not pies!
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 7:34 PM on April 23, 2008

Woo Seattle! If you need seeds, Librarina and I have a mess of extras, mostly from territorial and some saved from last year and the year before. In particular, I've got more seed potatoes than I can use (lousy 2# minimum order!) in lots of delicious flavors. We might have extra starts as well. Not sure how that'll shape up as we get the garden in.

Also, this time next year, we expect to have khaki campbell ducklings as well. Poultry are like mega-gardening and nothing... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 7:08 PM on April 20, 2008

I'm unashamed to say that I have taken no steps whatsoever.

I am unashamed to say that you are a worthless and morally bankrupt person. You have every bit as much respect for your fellow inhabitants of the Earth as you do for metafilter. I can only assume that you speed blindly through crosswalks in school zones while complain about the "echo chamber" of people who have enough respect for their neighbors to not kill their children.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 7:08 PM on April 18, 2008

Not too surprising really, after all you never hear people complaining about how the piano ruined music either.

Actually, people argue for hours about the ramifications of piano tuning on Western music. I have some extremely strong feeling on the matter myself and basically consider pianos out of tune and Bach's equal temperament scheme to be an affront to musicality and expression. The ubiquity of autotune in the studio and the relentless use of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 11:43 AM on April 13, 2008

Christ, what an atoll.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 8:09 AM on April 7, 2008

Man, who'd have thought we'd see the day where a cephalopod enthusiast put his foot in his mouth?
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 10:14 AM on March 21, 2008

paulsc!
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 6:27 AM on March 14, 2008

Double, but more worthwhile than this!
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 4:54 PM on February 2, 2008

I fail so hard. I meant to link to the ten things environmeddlerz need to learn thread. I quit the internet.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 4:55 PM on February 2, 2008

An elderly woman has been arrested and charged with fraud after she tried to sell a large corundum stone for $20 million, passing it off as a giant hunk of ruby crystal,

Corundum and ruby are the same mineral
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 8:03 AM on February 1, 2008

*considers effect on community*
Yep.
[This is good.]
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 6:29 PM on January 21, 2008

Apropos of very little, my final presentation in Management of Information Organizations consisted of a version of 'El Paso' performed on the ukulele and lyrically adapted to tell, instead of a tale of love and death in the old west, the story of successful library outreach programs targeted toward migrant worker populations in the San Juan islands of Washington. That this was well-received (standing ovation and all) and that I received the highest grade possible in the class... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 9:03 AM on January 20, 2008

As for Tex - that's just Tex being Tex MPDSEA. FTFY.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 8:55 PM on January 18, 2008

I have a tattoo of a trilobite on my right deltoid muscle. It's directly above my archaeopteryx. This means that, for all practical purpose, I am your new god.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 9:31 AM on January 17, 2008

last?
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 3:17 PM on January 15, 2008

WOOOOOOO!!11!1 i always wanted to b e a dick in a thread that'S ABOUT TO BE DELETED.

HOW BIG OF A FAILURE AM I? I CAN'T EVEN WORK CAPS LOCK.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 3:17 PM on January 15, 2008

I can only assume that a supermodel first lady would pose less of a problem that a vice president who seems, by all reasonable measure, to be some sort of supervillain. I have been wrong before.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 7:33 PM on December 17, 2007

The blue ghost was clearly metafilter.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 2:57 PM on December 16, 2007

FIRST!!!

As a card-carrying member of Slow Food Seattle and imminent market gardener I am entitled by law to make this joke
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 3:35 PM on November 26, 2007

It's like throwing salt over your shoulder when you spill it. Pointless, but who does it hurt?

That's why I buried several bags of salt in the garden prior to putting my house up for sale. What could it hurt?
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 9:16 AM on November 19, 2007

Also on Detroit Blog.

I don't know what it is about Detroit, but it really makes me think we might avoid the apocalypse or, failing that, that the apocalypse might not be so bad.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 11:39 AM on November 8, 2007

You know who else supported a war criminal in invading sovereign nations on false pretexts? That's right, the Vichy French.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 11:53 AM on November 7, 2007