You rotten old bastard. What the fuck, man?
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 8:56 PM on February 20, 2005

God dammit.

You old bastard.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 8:43 PM on February 20, 2005

It's like wrestling but with skates and teamwork.

That, and it's not fake. There are a few bits thrown in there solely for the crowd's entertainment, but believe you me, these girls compete for real, they compete hard, and they break real bones. It's an actual sport with actual rules, and it's still pretty fun to watch it from that angle, once the initial shock of "OMG catholic school girls look panties!" wears off. Disclaimer: a friend of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 8:43 PM on February 17, 2005

I also remember the "I AM THE BEST ARTIST -Rene" murals from when I was a kid in SoHo.

These?

That Rene guy was a hoot. I remember he also tried to do some guerilla art opening at the New York MOMA, where he put together a little (unofficial) party to announce his new work, which was just one of the air conditioning units in the museum. I think they got thrown out, but not before he put a plaque up under the air... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 2:10 AM on February 15, 2005

Chalk full of...

No, no, dear god no.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 11:00 AM on January 28, 2005

If I have multiple wives I have to time-share my emotional relationship time with them. Don't see how this is especially good for the wives.

This argument could also be used against having more than one chilld. Seems kind of weak.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 10:47 AM on January 28, 2005

The argument against having more than one 'l' in 'child', however, is a completely valid one.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 10:48 AM on January 28, 2005

Always.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 3:29 AM on January 27, 2005

Meth! Ooooooo, meth!

I just can't stop singing that song.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 9:54 PM on January 26, 2005

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posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 1:38 PM on January 23, 2005

Miseryyyyyyyyy!
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 7:31 PM on January 19, 2005

Somebody please call me when we can start easily discerning which headlines are from CNN, and which are from the Onion. I'll be over here playing flash games or something. Thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 7:23 PM on January 19, 2005

Shit. I mean here. See, every second I read the news, I get stupider. There ain't much more stupid to go before I hit bottom, either.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 7:25 PM on January 19, 2005

It seems pretty unfair to be angry with people who want to share what they think is the most important thing in the world with other people.

You know, you're absolutely right. That guy down on the street corner has been screaming all week about how the aliens are talking to him through his fillings, telling him who was really behind the Kennedy assassinations, and I've just been writing him off as a crazy person. I should really have a little more... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 2:13 PM on January 17, 2005

I can write "JESUS FUCKS MEN UP THE ASS" in big letters on a sign and walk around my town with it without a problem. I'll even do it and take pictures if you would accept that as proof.

I will PayPal you a dollar if you do that and send me the pictures.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 2:39 PM on January 12, 2005

I'm absolutely not a mac guy - I've got an old blue g3 collecting dust in the closet, last turned on to play Escape Velocity - but these look great to me. The iShuffle 1gb is exactly what I've been looking for, at a decent enough price. I've been wanting to play around with OSX development, but I haven't been able to justify the cost - the mini is also just about ideal for me, there. I've got no end of old peripherals lying around, so a cheap headless new mac is great for me. Once the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 2:07 PM on January 11, 2005

Hey, Majestic wasn't horrible.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 6:41 PM on January 10, 2005

I think that my favorite moments on metafilter are when someone posts a link, all the usual cranks come out to lay down a carpet of snark bombs, and then the person who was liked to turns up with an account. An old account, even. Love it.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 12:04 PM on January 9, 2005

does anybody know what happened to Speed Levitch?

Speed was just down here in Austin last year. He did a bunch of improv/spoken word shows with our pal Jerm, and then headed back to New York. He's still around doing stuff, as far as I know.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 8:56 PM on January 7, 2005

Pick up that can, citizen.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 8:26 PM on January 6, 2005

[This is maybe the raddest thing ever]
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 12:29 PM on January 6, 2005

There's a new Mike Judge movie coming out this year, in August, I think. It's about some future society where everyone is even stupider than they are now or something. I worked as an extra on the set one day, and they were filming a "church" scene, where Jesus was having a wrestling match with Satan. Just sayin'.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 11:26 AM on January 6, 2005

I had the Marx Prehistoric Playset when I was a kid, which not only mixed dinosaurs and cavemen, but had pretty much every random dinosaur and prehistoric mammal from every epoch, whether they could have co-existed or not. (Being a huge dinosaur nerd when I was about five years old made this painfully obvious to me back then.) Of course, it made up for the historical inaccuracy with a badass plastic stone arch that went from one mountain to another. It was probably my favorite toy as a kid,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 10:50 AM on January 3, 2005

You people would bitch if you were hung with a new rope.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 1:26 PM on December 29, 2004

It's a terrible game. There's very little opportunity to make interesting choices - you just have to grab the ones that come up, or wait for it to run out if there's nothing to do. It would be so much better if there were some way to move pieces, swap them with adjacent ones or something. As it stands now, it's just luck and abuse.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 5:32 PM on December 22, 2004

Hell, I've seen black people down here with Confederate flags on their cars — why, I can't imagine

Not that anyone cares... here's one of those "black shills".

I'm amazed at the responses here so far. jonmc seems to be the lone voice of sanity.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 7:12 PM on December 21, 2004

And there's davy, wrong again.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 7:17 PM on December 21, 2004

Who's to say what is offensive and/or sexually harassing? The victim.

Really? Because I've got a long list of offensive shit I'd like to see banned. Just tell me who to send it to, and we can get right on that.

davy: "The Lincoln administration regarded Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri as border states." Make with the clicky-clicky.

In closing, I took my... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 10:41 PM on December 21, 2004

Is that in reference to the recent press-staged incident?

See, kids? Propaganda works!
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 1:06 PM on December 11, 2004

Oh, hey, Krrrlson, just, you know , FYI.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 9:06 PM on December 20, 2004

This is just one baby step above comment spam. Disgusting.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 7:45 AM on December 19, 2004

Off your meds again, Paris?
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 7:39 PM on December 15, 2004

Man, you guys sound like a bunch of grumpy old people. Remind me never to play on your lawn.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 7:38 PM on December 15, 2004

Man, he totally cheated, using gears and stuff. That's not Lego, that's just Lego-branded machine parts. What would be cool would be if someone put together a set of rod-logic gates using only regular bricks, or maybe even tinkertoys. That'd be a pretty big pain in the ass, though.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 5:16 PM on December 14, 2004

I read about a hundred feeds through Bloglines, some that update constantly, some that almost never update. Like dmd said, if I wasn't using a RSS reader, I would probably do nothing all day but click through bookmarks. There are still a few sites that I check daily that don't implement RSS for one reason or another - it's kind of a pain, but it reminds me how much time I'm saving by using an aggregator.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 9:54 AM on December 14, 2004

And those reasons are... ?
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 3:56 PM on December 10, 2004

see also
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 10:03 AM on December 10, 2004

I just wanted to say that anyone who calls getting showered with bullets from a .50 caliber machine gun by your buddies 'friendly contact' has serious issues. That is all.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 10:41 PM on December 5, 2004

I hear that there are all these websites that use images to convey important information. I am a cantankerous jerk who uses lynx exclusively, so all these websites are useless as far as I care.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 9:43 AM on December 3, 2004

Why dont we just let them teach creationism along with evolution?

Because it's a made up fairy tale, and has no place in a science class. I mean, if you want to go ahead and teach all the other creation myths from all the other religions along with it, sure, give that a shot - but you're going to look awfully silly when the kids see that your little story has more in common with the Enumia Elish than with anything that has a basis in reality.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 11:40 AM on November 25, 2004

Electric Sheep Thanksgiving story

I know that this is supposed to be some statement about how bad genetic engineering is or satire or something, but that just sounds AWESOME.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 8:21 PM on November 24, 2004

Wow, that's a lot of skulls.

Someone near where I live has been collecting shoes to keep up with their project - putting a pair of shoes on their lawn for every American soldier who has died over there. That's a lot of shoes.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 12:27 PM on November 19, 2004

Q: When did you originally think of the idea for this? What made you decide to do what you're going to do?
A: I wanted to make something that I didn't think would exist anywhere, and that nobody would ever make, that I couldn't go anywhere in the world and see it.


Gosh, he could have just come down to my buddy's house here in Austin. He's had his bookshelves arranged completely by color like this for at least a couple years. Looks pretty cool, too.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 8:22 PM on November 16, 2004

Even if it weren't part of a relatively well-known song, is "I hope that you die" really even a threat? I mean, sure, there's a few people that I wouldn't be sad about if something terrible happened to them, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to take any action against them myself. What a stupid, collossal waste of time and resources.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 12:48 PM on November 15, 2004

Never heard of it before, counted 14 passes, wondered why they would put a guy in a gorilla suit in the video, and tried to figure out if they were going to ask a question about the Ss on the wall. Heavy video game user. Knew that had to come in handy one of these days.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 1:41 PM on November 14, 2004

I feel sorry for all you hardcore gamers who have lost the ability to filter out irrelevant information.

I dunno, being able to notice when a big hairy animal, which may or may not be a predator, comes into view while you're busy concentrating on some other task seems like a pretty revelant piece of information, and probably a pretty useful survival skill.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 8:29 PM on November 14, 2004

I'm shocked that such a respectable, sober weblog as Metafilter would have this on its front page.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 2:48 PM on November 12, 2004

There's a whole bunch of suggested actions over here.

Am I wrong to like the chicken better?

Call me back when they put something in for "growl at blender".
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 12:27 PM on November 12, 2004

That fight doesn't even exist. The problem with: "liberal elitism" or "blue state elitism" is that it is a figment of the Republican imagination.

I just wanted everyone to read that again.

Don't let them play you.
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 9:46 AM on November 12, 2004

Listen, aaronshaf, get your thinking right, or I'll eat the moon again, like I did couple of weeks ago! Boooga!
posted to MetaFilter by majcher at 12:30 PM on November 10, 2004