krautland writes "that baby looks like tim russert."

Happens all the time.
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 10:29 AM on June 20, 2008

matteo writes "See how easy is it? The tragedy here is that Hillary Clinton, for once, and it's clearly not a family tradition, told the truth -- there are people who just won't vote for a black person, period, not even if Jesus came back as a black guy, much less for Obama. It's a very impolite thing to say for anybody, and a terrible mistake for a politician, but it's the truth (truth is not politically correct). Of course she made a mistake because she should never ever say... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 5:57 PM on May 19, 2008

XQUZYPHYR writes "People suggesting that 'McCain is too old' and 'Obama is too black' are comparative arguments offend me far more than either of those two notions independently. One is about the actual physical limitations a person might have that could affect their ability to perform their job."

If McCain can't lift 50 pounds over his shoulders for eight solid hours, then we have to hire someone else to load out the delivery trucks, and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 5:34 PM on May 13, 2008

Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America writes "How is it trolling to encourage people to respond to the arguments that other people actually make, instead whipping themselves into a frenzy over something no one actually said? That's a very strange definition of trolling."

My grandfather used to say things like, black people (well, that's not the term he used) are better athletes because the weak ones died off on the boats coming to the US.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 1:26 PM on April 19, 2008

exlotuseater writes "And I still feel the same way. I understand the joking, but I can't see it as anything other than a coping mechanism. I mean, no-one could ever really make an honest joke about something like that, right?"

I'm still trying to figure out what "honest joke" means. Anyway, I can appreciate gallows humor, but the trick with it is that it has to be done artfully and/or to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 10:10 PM on April 16, 2008

I thought my boss had figured out what was getting the most pageviews on my machine and had set up some hack.
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 8:35 AM on April 1, 2008

Hmm. Just noticed something. On Firefox 2.0.0.12 on FreeBSD, projects with more than a few votes causes the usernames to run into the comment box, like this.
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 12:27 PM on March 29, 2008

cortex writes "I can agree to disagree with you on this; honestly, 'visceral' is not a word I think of as having anything to do with what the blue does well. I'm not imagining that a time-delayed, more reflective post about the speech would be wholly free of snark or lazy/snipey rhetoric or any such thing, but I do think it would be less, and less welcome, and it's precisely the lack of hot-on-the-fire viscerality that would help on that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 12:14 PM on March 20, 2008

felix writes "t's good to provide a clear, documented counterpoint to such nonsense, lest people get scared and dump all their money under the mattress."

Whew!

*pulls out $9.18 from under the mattress*

Think I'm gonna buy some gold with this!
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 12:14 PM on March 17, 2008

dios writes "Why would the mods allow anything be on the sidebar which might--even in the remotest sense--negatively effect some members or drive others away?"

Because you can't please everyone. Truly.

I second what loquacious said. To all you conservatives and neoconservatives: grow some thicker skin. I'm about fed up with the whining from so-called offended conservatives. All I heard for years and years is the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 6:25 PM on January 29, 2008

jonmc writes "Now I know you're insane. I'm a liberal and I hate that guy."

I agree, but Good Night, and Good Luck was excellent.
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 6:29 PM on January 29, 2008

I'm sorry I caused all that cancer.
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 8:42 PM on January 28, 2008

Yep.

# vim /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 fmpub.net static.fmpub.net dynamic.fmpub.net

:wq
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 4:57 PM on January 22, 2008

The gmail spam filter works very well. What it really needs is a whitelist. That would be just about perfect.
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 12:26 AM on January 19, 2008

pyramid termite writes "if people want to spend their spare time laying around on a rug i don't know why it would be anyone else's business but their own, as long as it's their rug and their house"

It just goes to show you, it's always something!
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 7:30 PM on January 6, 2008

mathowie writes "Oh snap, good eyes. The question and 'answer' were posted from the exact same IP. deleted, banned."

Whoa ... how did that become 363 posts? This writers strike is really wreaking havoc.

Joking, of course. Now I'll shut up and read some of it to find out for myself ...
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 11:30 PM on December 31, 2007

Mmm ... well, now I see. Maybe these guys aren't ready for charity work yet. The fact that they put it on the table when called on their game tells me that they're more green than diabolical. But they still talk like they're pumping up the hype machine for a business rather than an ostensible force for good in the non-profit world. There's a reason that Buffett gave so much to Gates and not to some inexperienced former hedge fund managers in their 20s with little more than a website and raw... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 12:14 AM on January 1, 2008

ikkyu2 writes "magine the headline: 'Harvard hedge fund jock turned charitable fundraiser hyperlinked to his own organization on popular weblog!'"

How about, 'Harvard hedge fund jock turned charitable fundraiser astroturfed popular weblog!' Or, 'Hedge funder turned charity analyst revs up hype machine on weblog'. This is sort of inside baseball, web-culture centric, but so is the foundation. Astroturfing has been reported in the mainstream... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 12:21 AM on January 1, 2008

five fresh fish writes "It's bad enough that there are already popular charities that spend more on their own executives than they pass on to the poor and suffering. Take the Red Cross and its outrageous $2 million compensation for its past CEO, for instance. That kind of money could have saved tens of thousands of people from suffering, but the selfish bastard would have none of that."

Hmmm. Seems most of their CEOs in this century have... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 11:22 AM on January 1, 2008

vacapinta writes "So, no, I dont think Holden has behaved arrogantly. A bit of youth and reckless ambition perhaps but thats not an entirely bad thing if it can be harnessed productively."

If you look more at his activities, this is less like a fluke than a pattern. It speaks poorly to his self-appointed role in this endeavor.

You know, if I were going to hire someone as a tech where I work, those qualities might... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 11:55 AM on January 1, 2008

wendell writes "(Please please please, let's replace 'This will wendell' with 'This will GiveWell'...)"

No, no, no. You're just trying to pass that off on someone else. It's not very eponysterical.

Anyway, GiveWell should become its own word now. Like, when you're describing an organization founded in the spirit of business designed to compete with altruistic enterprises in order to grab a piece of the pie, such as... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 3:40 PM on January 1, 2008

delmoi writes "krinklyfig: What accuweather was trying to do was called Rent Seeking. What GiveWell is doing seems close to rent seeking as well, but not precisely, because they weren't trying to get laws changed, just public perception."

Yeah, I know. I was just being a bit silly.
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 4:33 PM on January 1, 2008

fourcheesemac writes "Across all sectors, not just philanthropy. There have been many prior Holdens, waving stopwatches and sliderules and books of rational choice theory and quantitative methodology at us and telling us that being 'good' and being 'competitive' are the same thing."

That's actually what I was referring to when I mentioned Accuweather upthread. Accuweather were involved in rent seeking in trying to restrict NOAA data, which... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 1:04 PM on January 2, 2008

mrserkan writes "its still not worth all this vindictiveness. go look at the comments on blog.givewell.net. people are posting penis jokes now. does that sound right to you?"

Nobody here has directed it. It's unfortunate, but it's not terribly unusual, but that doesn't make it right. However, anonymous juvenile blog comments don't quite rise to the level of misrepresentation by a nonprofit founder and executive. But, yeah, it's not what... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 2:03 PM on January 2, 2008

"Tex" Connor and the Wily Roundup Boys writes "To play football? I don't understand the question."

It means maybe $5 isn't a good reason to get hung up here, if you really don't like it.

OTOH, I find that avoiding the political threads (and Metatalk, for that matter) is less aggravating. There's a lot more on the site.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 11:07 PM on December 27, 2007

LordSludge writes "I actually rip on him for his lousy tempo/meter more than anything"

Dude, my complaint is that he plays perfectly, like a robot. I'm a drummer, trained formally, and I've never met any drummer that said what you did. And chances are someone else has already said this, but I don't have time to read the entire thread ...

/derail
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 1:29 PM on December 12, 2007

bugbread writes "As far as Springsteen fans...well, I dunno. I've never met a Springsteen fan."

You have therefore never been to New Jersey.
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 3:54 PM on December 12, 2007

LordSludge writes "I learn nothing from 'BORN IN THE USA!!!' x 20. I learn a LOT from DT, Symphony X, Flecktones, etc."

Well, honestly I'm not the biggest Springsteen fan, but I can see what he's doing and know he's better than you give him credit. Music doesn't have to be complex to be good. At the time, I thought very much what you do now, and of course I didn't really listen to the lyrics at first. But as time went by, I could hear his... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 10:12 PM on December 12, 2007

Evangeline writes "Google 'success rate' and 'Alcoholics Anonymous' and you'll find a lot more. Of course, take them for what they're worth."

Yes, which is about the same for most forms of treatment or recovery. The stats reflect the fact that people will not get better unless they really want to. If they really want to, there are many paths available.
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 10:38 PM on December 4, 2007

mathowie writes "I'll see if I can get it to stop doing that, but you can still login successfully and it's probably a bad idea in the first place to save our logins in login forms forever. I mean, it's nice and all but it's bad security practice."

Yeah, but like you said this isn't a bank. I only store passwords for sites like this. If someone were to get this password, there's not much they could do but ruin my reputation here, and that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 7:27 AM on November 9, 2007

Always "count down" change, starting with coins. So, if the item was $2.37, the customer gives a $20, the change is $17.63. You count, "Your blasted trinket was $2.37, (hold out hand) .63 is $3, $4, $5, five is ten, ten is twenty. Now get out of my store! Have a nice day!"
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 7:03 PM on November 1, 2007

mathowie writes "It's not part of a huge right wing noise machine,

Actually, the way this appeared in the media through various key figures, as well as on the group's site, I'm pretty sure it is. The Republicans have made an art of this.

it's a little goofball bunch of dorks that don't want to pay tax.

Right. Well, the president of that bunch of dorks was from the AEI, which... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 8:15 PM on February 26, 2007

jessamyn writes "I've always felt that bitch more frequently had overtones of a female that wasn't acting the way you wanted her to ... I equate it with the adjective 'bitchy' which clearly has a more transitive sense, that there needs to be a bitcher and a bitchee."

What? I always thought it referred to the fact that a female dog with pups is probably going to be very protective. Isn't female dog the original use?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 10:16 AM on July 9, 2006

Yes, yes it is. Isn't that what this site is for?
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 6:49 PM on June 14, 2006

Sounds like astroturfing, and for some MLM scheme hawked by a dude named "upline." Smells like success!
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 11:07 AM on March 13, 2006

dios writes "As a hypothetical matter, if I was advising someone in Matt's shoes, I would tell him to keep the server logs."

Even though up until a few minutes ago, you had no idea what server logs were. I would advise the opposite, or keeping logs for a minimal time like three days (which is plenty long enough for a site with traffic like this one gets), knowing the technical details intimately as well as the legal history. Having the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 11:01 AM on February 9, 2006

Frank Nelson
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 10:57 PM on December 17, 2005

yerfatma writes "I was recently involved in a discussion of the merits of Arrested Development vs. King of Queens."

Sounds fascinating! One can only pray you recorded it for posterity.
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 3:41 PM on November 27, 2005

RustyBrooks writes "I took 6 or 7 chile pods (probably anheim?) and de-seeded them, and food processed them into a paste with some olive oil and water. A consistency somewhat like tomato paste, and a similar taste. These really are not that spicy but taste great."

I wish I had seen this before. Here in New Mexico, nobody eats Anaheim green chile. We eat hotter varieties, but they also have more flavor and are usually roasted right after... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 1:50 PM on November 27, 2005

languagehat writes "No, wait, wait, I've got it: 'Metafilter has a higher frequency of over-the-top TP users ...'"

No kidding. Just because someone uses toilet paper does not give them the right to lord it over us as if they were superior or something. Even if the non-toilet-paper-using crowd is less hygenic, at least they have some humility.
posted to MetaTalk by krinklyfig at 1:52 PM on November 26, 2005