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posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 6:32 AM on June 19, 2008

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posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 10:13 AM on July 30, 2007

I want to write something about Leslie, but I don't know what to write. I never met her personally and probably haven't visited her web site in over a year, but she to me epitomizes the web and creativity and just being an interesting person. She was one of the A-listers of the web and will be sorely missed.

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posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 2:18 PM on December 12, 2006

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posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 10:13 AM on November 21, 2006

Bonus points for the title of this post, Alvy. One of my favorite Basement Tapes song.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 12:49 PM on October 9, 2006

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posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 8:38 AM on July 11, 2006

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posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 10:45 AM on March 16, 2006

Heh, Sgt. Serenity, that lyric keeps going through my head as well.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 5:32 AM on November 21, 2005

That's so weird, I just got back from a Utah vacation last night.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 2:35 PM on October 6, 2005

Can we please, please not use this tragedy as an excuse for yet another argument about the US presence in Iraq? Thank you.

A causes B. Can we stop talking about A and just focus on the tragedy of B? No.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 9:02 AM on August 31, 2005

My favorite policy statement:

DE-WUSSIFICATION
Our icons are being demeaned. Cowboys are no longer heroes for our children, but subject to derision. We are being laughed at instead of respected in the rest of the country. What has happened to our glorious heritage? This is the great state of Texas! We are not wusses, we are Texans. "We will beat back the wussification of Texas if we have to do it one wuss at a time." - Kinky Friedman.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 8:28 AM on August 22, 2005

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posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 8:19 AM on August 22, 2005

Make sure you read the comments on that blogspot page. It's a who's who of indie rock royalty.

And, .
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 8:06 AM on August 17, 2005

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posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 3:00 PM on August 8, 2005

Only 31% of Americans are obese, so clearly there's more to be done by 69% of Americans. In today's blame-others-first culture it would be easy to say, well, I can't eat more today because the sections of the USDA's website telling me how to eat more aren't finished. But you can! You can eat more today and help maintain the healthy Agribusiness economy that has grown through decades of collaboration with the USDA.


Fucking brilliant.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 3:33 PM on April 28, 2005

Have you seen the t-shirts?
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 6:54 AM on April 28, 2005

Ya can't get lost in Downtown Atlanta if you glanced at a city map before going there

I've lived in Atlanta for 12 years and I beg to differ.

"Just go down to Peachtree and turn left"

"Which Peachtree?"
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 7:21 AM on April 27, 2005

And don't forget the best song written about the event, Tania by Camper Van Beethoven

Oh, my beloved Tania
How I long to see your face
Photographed in fifteen second intervals
In a bank in San Leandro
A Polaroid of you, Cinque
With a seven-headed dragon
In a house in Daly City
Don't be sad, my beloved Tania
They say your father never liked Stephen Weed anyway
Hired... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 1:09 PM on April 22, 2005

This one is awesome.

Thanks for the post!
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 10:20 AM on April 20, 2005

loquacious, it looks like he didn't have a reserve.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 8:13 AM on March 28, 2005

That upward glance on the cymbals that Rich did was HOTT.

I got to see Buddy Rich play with his big band when I was about 15. I also got to meet him backstage. I was petrified that I would say something wrong and that he'd ridicule me, but he was very gracious and gave me his autograph.

Thanks for this link, safetyfork.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 8:01 AM on March 18, 2005

I think MySpace was developed using COMA, schoolgirl.

/geekhumor
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 4:40 AM on March 17, 2005

I'm reminded of a Bill Hicks joke:

If any of you here are in advertising, kill yourself. Seriously. Kill yourself.

(by the way, I temporarily couldn't find Bill Hicks' name in my brain, so I googled "comedian, texas, dead" and the first link was Bill Hicks is dead. Thanks, google!)
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 10:23 AM on January 19, 2005

What's he doing with his hand in the second photo?

He's flinging a floppy disk at the camera.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 1:46 PM on January 17, 2005

From that Phuket video, it looks like the man was saved and his wife wasn't so lucky.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 9:23 AM on December 29, 2004

You're kidding, right?

Thank you for completely missing the point. I think the next person who says that we're piling on WalMart simply because they are successful or because we hate the poor should be forced to go back and repeat their 11th grade economics class. Or maybe we should just pull down their gym shorts in front of the class and point/laugh at them.

Please go watch this right now and then you can come back here and make inane... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 9:06 AM on December 28, 2004

Thanks for taking the time to check out that Frontline program, h00dini.

"So manufacturers move to China in search of cheaper labor and US workers lose their jobs. Big deal. The bottom line is that you, Joe Consumer, gets lower prices in the end."

So, the holy grail is lower prices? That seems so simplistic to me. It seems to me that a better standard of living should be the goal. Low prices? Sure. But give me a better life and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 9:44 AM on December 28, 2004

To bring your derail back on topic, oaf, as bad as their coffee is, Starbucks still offers benefits to its part-time employees.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 10:34 AM on December 28, 2004

unreason, can you point to a study that says SS won't last more than 20 years in its current state? The reason I ask is because I've heard that we've got about 50-75 years before SS gets into trouble.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 11:58 AM on December 27, 2004

By the way, I just read this comment on Scott Rosenberg's blog post about SS and felt it should be repeated here:

"Privatizers want to end Social Security, but can't say so. They. Want. To. End. Social. Security. You eat the last orange, but replace it with a lemon. Hey, they're citrus fruit, what's your problem? My problem, asshole, is that I want my orange. It was mine, and you took it."

(and on preview, thanks for getting back to me,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 12:07 PM on December 27, 2004

Robert Novak: Oh come on, Mr. Zappa. Do you really believe this country is headed toward a fascist theocracy?

Zappa: Yes.

The guy was a fucking prophet. I miss him. Thanks for this, miss lynnster.

(I remember a time when you would comment about the ideas contained in the post in the blue and take your bitching about whether or not it should have been posted to MeTa. Ah, the good old days. Will you people... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 6:42 PM on December 20, 2004

I wouldn't mind if we discussed this topic on Metafilter every damn day. Wal-Mart has profoundly affected the world's economy (in a bad way) and people need to be made aware of it.

If you have not seen that Frontline program yet, do yourself a favor and watch it right now. It's Christmas week, you don't have any work that needs to get done.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 12:42 PM on December 20, 2004

Did anyone else find this comment offensive?
'You read about this stuff,' she said. ''It blows you away when it's here. This stuff is supposed to be in New York City or Los Angeles.''Yeah, everyone knows that NY and LA have the market cornered on the mother-killing and subsequent baby-cutting-outing racket. Let those weirdos in the city have their fun and leave Kansas out of it!

WTF?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 8:56 AM on December 20, 2004

I feel it's safe to derail this thread at this point (understatement of the year), so I'd like to point out that the Mountain Goat's bio is the best I've read in a while. (Um, not that I read band bio's that often, but, you know: just sayin'.)

That is all.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 5:47 PM on December 17, 2004

I love Make A Shorter Link's tagline: ...it's not long now!
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 10:55 AM on December 17, 2004

I particularly liked the "any song better than “And the Cradle Will Rock” is good, and any song worse than “And the Cradle Will Rock” is bad" theory. I would have to agree with that.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 8:29 AM on December 15, 2004

I had a huge crush on that girl in the "Bust a Move" video.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 8:49 AM on December 15, 2004

I beg to differ, jscalzi.

Everyone knows that the median quality movie in the comedy category is the Rodney Dangerfield vehicle, Back to School.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 9:26 AM on December 15, 2004

I think you're underestimating the number of bad movies released every year, COBRA.

And I think that the cameo by Kurt Vonnegut was exactly what catapulted Back to School over Mannequin into the coveted statistical middle spot. But, that's just my opinion.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 9:50 AM on December 15, 2004

So, B + (d/dt) = Sorry, this site is temporarily unavailable!
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 3:15 PM on December 8, 2004

"I hate their union busting tactics. I loathe their treatment of employees. And their method of doing business is atrocious. Nevertheless, they got a lotta stuff."

You can't argue with logic like that.

Oh, wait, you can.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 9:36 AM on December 3, 2004

I can't stand George Bush and think the Iraq war is a colossal mistake. Still, I agree with Andrew Cooke that you are cheapening Branden's memory to make a political point.

Or, to put it another way, maybe Branden died for something he believed in, no matter how many of us think he is wrong.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 1:40 PM on November 10, 2004

I hope she beats it.

Imagine the publicity she could have brought to breast cancer research if her husband had been elected.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 12:53 PM on November 4, 2004

Isn't that map missing a few states?
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 12:47 PM on November 4, 2004

It's battle of the simultaneous front page newsfilter posts! Place a comment in your favorite! The thread with the most comments wins!
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 10:33 AM on September 3, 2004

I don't know. There's so much bad news for this administration, it's like shooting fish in a barrel to make these connections.
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 8:23 AM on August 5, 2004

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posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 9:32 AM on July 13, 2004

Oh . . . I used to be the captain of my own cruise ship. It was the kind of boat folks rent for weddings, parties, you know, that kind of thing. But on the night in question it had been rented for a prom. Oh, the girls looked so lovely in their dresses, the boys such fine little gentlemen in their tuxedos. They were all drinking and dancing and spiking the punch. I was dizzy with delight when suddenly - my ship sank. We all went into the water. Then came Skoora, picking us off one by one by one... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 1:53 PM on June 30, 2004

Metafilter: 15 fucking seconds on Google
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 10:43 AM on June 25, 2004

Somewhat related: the administrative password for Diebold's voting machines is 1111.
"After analyzing Diebold's software source code that had mistakenly been left on an open Internet site, Rubin wrote a scathing report, saying that anyone with a minimum of computer knowledge could manufacture "homebrew" Smartcards and outsmart the system. He excoriated Diebold's software designers, who had built passwords such as 1111 into the machines, and said he would have flunked... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by fletchmuy at 8:28 AM on June 4, 2004