Unfortunately, it's a quiz that measures my worth in fucking goats.

Would you care to rephrase that?
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 4:15 PM on August 7, 2008

Oh, she's a privileged rich person. Well, so am I, and so is pretty much everyone else on MetaFilter.

*Looks at empty wallet, then looks at busted computer built from salvaged parts, some parts literally found discarded on the roadside in plastic grocery bags. Then looks at barely working house computers - also built from garbage. Rereads generalized comment. Decides that inventing an internet-enabled electrified stabbing machine would be a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 11:32 AM on August 7, 2008

Not long ago I scoffed and mocked at the volunteers that volunteered to travel to strange, foreign countries, meet new, interesting people and kill them.

Now I have a rather large amount of pity and sympathy for the poor sons (and daughters) of bitches (and fine, upstanding mothers and fathers) who ended up in some dark alley of their life that left them with the option that signing up voluntarily for military duty left them in.

Some chose. Some... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 7:38 PM on August 5, 2008

No. No. No.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 6:27 PM on August 4, 2008

*clicks on kittens link*

WELL HELL-O THAR NIGHTMARE FUEL I'LL BE SLEEPING UNSOUNDLY FOR MONTHS OH THANK YOU IS THAT A TWO HEADED KITTY WITH THREE MOUTHS AAAAAARGH IT HAS TOO MANY LEGS AND TEETH BURN IT WITH FIRE OH MY GOD
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 5:51 PM on August 4, 2008

Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 100%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 100%


Wait, what? Figures.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 4:34 PM on August 2, 2008

ARGOT INKLING FLATFISH BLUE, WOMBAT NIBBLES, MARINATED BOOTS.*waves hands meaningfully* CROSSED BROCOLLI! YOU EAT THE LLAMA, THEN FIND THE WOMAN THEY CALL CROW. MOONLIGHT WILL CALL. WATCH OUT FOR ORCHIDS
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 4:58 PM on July 29, 2008

Want an allsky for your planetarium? Download these 6 files created with Digidome, print them to slides and put them in your allsky system. ... Contact the museum's curator if you're interested in moist towelette content for Digistar 3 or other alldome video systems.

This has to be one of the strangest, nerdliest and most apocryphal things I've ever read on the internet.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 12:45 PM on July 29, 2008

None of your opinions about anyone's chosen or given genders matters a single fucking bit unless you're attracted to them and interested in having sex with them.

No, seriously. Why do you care so much? It's none of your fucking business, even if you think they're seeking attention from the media. No one here has the right to dictate or even define what human sexuality is for anyone but themselves. You cannot define it for others. You can opine all you want about it, but... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 6:39 AM on July 26, 2008

It sounds like you are asking people to define truth according to how it makes other people feel, rather than what they genuinely believe to be objective fact. I'm not sure that's a wise policy.

Point out obvious facts when it comes to gender identity, and I might agree with you.

But as it stands, what people like to call "facts" with regard to gender identity aren't facts at all - they are opinions. There aren't... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 10:14 AM on July 26, 2008

Oh, this isn't going to go well. A single link to a BongBong thread?

Without any steampunk in it? The bitching is going to be perverse, but dry. Mealy. Unflavorful.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 7:24 AM on July 26, 2008

HELLO THAR GENOCIDAL SPACE ALIENS!? I'M STILL WAITING. YOU'RE SO LATE IT'S NOT EVEN FUNNY.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 12:17 PM on July 24, 2008

The cups in fence one was one of my favorites, too, but I figured I'd just keep it simple as there's a bit worth exploring for.

disclaimer: I posted this knowing it was a repeat. After nearly four years it bears repeating. You really wanna wrassle with me in meta over that? Huh? Do yah?
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 1:02 AM on July 24, 2008

*speechless*
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 1:25 PM on July 23, 2008

Ok. I'm no longer speechless.

That was fucking disgusting. I think that this is the worst thing I've ever seen posted to MetaFilter. I think I'm going to be sick. Yup, going be Excorcist sick. BRB, puking.

Fucking Coldplay. Why hasn't anyone stabbed them all in the head yet? They're a fucking menace, I tell you. The dancers were ok, though. Weird, but ok.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 3:01 PM on July 23, 2008

Coldplay rocks!

Come closer. I can't seem to punch you in the junk over the internet.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 3:02 PM on July 23, 2008

I wanted to point out that the squick factor to me is entirely Coldplay + awful dancing + smarmy, idiotic hosts - and not the storied and talented dame in question. Beyond the fact she looks a bit confused and reluctant to even be doing this stage show.

Though Rocky Horror in the spandex briefs isn't exactly helping much either. He just needs a bowl cut and a little more tan and he'd be a perfect stand in for that sunless vatgrown sexboi.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 8:59 PM on July 23, 2008

tristeza: If anything quonsar is pointing out the crassness of the comment he's referencing.

'Cause the dude is like mountain-old, fat and bald as a rock and as far as I've ever read from him, he's the last one in this whole packet of peanuts I'd ever expect to make a mere, shallow observation on aesthetics.

No, seriously. Just ask him.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 9:04 PM on July 23, 2008

On a related note: are there any sporting events that reward stealth?

Well, there have been ninja competing in the modern Olympics since the start but I'll be damned if I can see them.

They don't really care about the gold medals since they could steal them anytime they wanted to and it would be totally unnatural for a Ninja to take the podium and limelight, but I've been assured by reputable sources that they're there and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 7:57 PM on July 23, 2008

I've ridden a segway. It took some getting used to, and since it was at Disneyland, it's not like I had time to anything other than feel dorky and wobbly. That, and the fact that they put the Segway demo area right next to a glass-walled balcony didn't help much.

I would accept a working Segway if someone gave me one, but I couldn't ever see buying one unless it was competitive in price with a skateboard or bicycle - both of which I already have and use.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 5:35 PM on July 23, 2008

That Space Mountain video actually had me leaning in my seat, and I know that coaster really well - particularly that last big gravity and negative-G hill right before the end. The takeoff/lift track sequence is almost spot on, and I wish Disneyland really could project little floating 3D stars and galaxies you could crash through, but it's a pretty close recreation to all the light effects and disorienting light-spot projections they use to light up the structure and track on the real thing.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 5:35 PM on July 21, 2008

Playground equipment generally sucks, even most of the old dangerous stuff.

This is why we had rope swings attached to giant trees. Usually on hill or cliffsides. Not always above water. Sometimes above a freeway or a road.

These new plasti-dipped safety playgrounds are pretty anemic, though, and they indeed lose play value very quickly. However, kids today have all kinds of features I never had. Weird geodesic dome structures built with cables,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 1:29 PM on July 21, 2008

Mom? Is that you?
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 5:08 PM on July 20, 2008

I'm still waiting for the mashup that lets you erase Starbucks location with a click of your mouse and an orbiting energy weapons platform.

Because I would totally pay to play that game.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 3:07 PM on July 18, 2008

Their actual coffee is about as good as Denny's.

Eh, as much as I loathe what Starbucks does to perfectly good coffee beans, I can't agree with this.

Denny's coffee tastes like they use bleached ground coffee that's been left to toast on the tarpaper roof of a strip mall for several years before being brewed and filtered in dusty, dirty old straw baskets bought in bulk from thrift stores. It tastes what I could only imagine... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 5:55 PM on July 18, 2008

AAARGH I WAS JUST GOING TO POST THIS ERR I MEAN THANK YOU.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 2:57 AM on July 18, 2008

Argh, I knew I shouldn't have listened to the sample clip 20 times.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 2:57 AM on July 18, 2008

I'm going to have to start eating more beans.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 2:30 AM on July 18, 2008

It's not nearly annoying enough. In fact it has a catchy beat and a soothing machine noise not unlike listening to a busy laundromat.

Granted, the experimental/noise folders of my music collection are currently roasting it on a spit over a tire fire and mocking it with expendable clones of Diamandas Galas being pureed in an industrial waste shredder, but it's a cute little thing so I'll probably rescue it before they actually cook it and eat it in a ritual sacrifice.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 1:33 AM on July 18, 2008

IN HONOR OF THIS SPECIAL DAY I WILL WEAR PANTS
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 2:33 AM on July 14, 2008

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posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 2:03 PM on July 12, 2008

It takes a proper crackpot to see the future.

Why do you think they're sometimes called visionaries?

And if a raving stranger came to you speaking of visions of the future, what would you do?

Perhaps geniuses simply keep quiet about it and take notes until they can understand what they're seeing well enough before they start raving about it.


By many... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 11:30 PM on July 12, 2008

err, "How many places does nature calculate Pi to...?"
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 11:42 PM on July 12, 2008

"Everything is advertising"?

That article is... one of the most depressing things I've read so far this year. It kind of encapsulates why our country is so fucked up. So many people are seemingly unable to frame their selves and lives outside of the slavery of money, marketing and consumption.


If you want to imagine the future of humanity, imagine a tattoo of the McDonald's logo on the morbidly obese face of a small child.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 1:44 PM on July 11, 2008

Maybe you'll watch it, and nod that yes, you understand poor people. You've seen it on television.

You can take your own sanctimonious smugness and shove it deep and far up inside your poophole. I am a poor person. You have no freaking clue where I've been, how I've lived and what I've had to do to survive. I don't have a graduate degree. Hell, I never graduated High School. These erroneous indicators of social strata are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 2:36 PM on July 11, 2008

So sad that I'm unable to frame myself and my life outside of the slavery of money, marketing and consumption.

Are you able to see yourself outside of that framework? It seems as though you're able to do so. If so, why are you so defensive about it?


The thing is, it seems to me the products chosen are thinly-veiled references to the drug culture. "Lucky charms" (marijuana), "Frosted... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 3:29 PM on July 11, 2008

First: Sorry if I offended you, plexi.


Second: I want to clarify a couple of points on my position about this.

I don't actually think out of hand that the people who are doing this are stupid, inferior - or whatever other classisms and judgements you want to wrongly read into my stance.

If anything I see these people as potential victims of a system, or symptoms of an unhealthy cultural ecosystem. But that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 1:50 AM on July 12, 2008

Smash planets together, introduce rogue stars, and build new worlds from spinning discs of debris. Fire a moon into a planet or destroy everything you've created with a super massive black hole.

Awesome. You had me at "smash planets", but "fire a moon" and "rogue stars" are pretty catchy, too.

You can simulate

Simulate? What do you mean,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 12:44 AM on July 12, 2008

I've only ever listened to dubstep through tiny, tinny, cheap computer speakers and I thoroughly enjoy it. I am a little afraid to hear it through a proper system.

If you (the general "you" - as in you, the reader reading this sentence) are in SF or Bay Area and you want to hear breakcore and dubstep-like stuff on a proper system (as well as lots of other kinds of electronic/experimental music) there is contact information in my profile. If... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 11:28 PM on July 11, 2008

A transmitter outside the body would send a coded radio frequency pulse to an ID tag inside the body, causing the valve to open and close in response to a unique code.

Yeah, that's so going to go well. I can't wait to see what the courts will have to deal with in the future.

Slightly less stupid snarky response:

Law & Order 2061: The case of the Nut Cracker.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 3:57 AM on July 9, 2008

Jesus, these get shittier every day. It's like something out of a bad Hollywood movie script written by Michael Bay.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 2:20 PM on July 7, 2008

You know, today I was suffering from nearly leathal ennui before I remembered only boring people get bored and discovering my new goal.

I want to kidnap Michael Bay and Ewe Boll and make a movie...

...of both of them cage fighting to the death.


It's going to have the sweetest, most tender love scenes ever filmed, I just know it.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 2:26 PM on July 7, 2008

Uwe? Ewe? Baaahaaahaaa.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 2:26 PM on July 7, 2008

To YOU, of course, while others fine it quite entertaining, because they're not getting hung on whether this or that is real.

THAT'S BECAUSE THEY'RE FUCKING MORONS. THEY'RE MORONS. THAT'S WHAT THEY DO - THEY ACT MORONIC AND GO SEE MICHAEL BAY MOVIES AND ENJOY THEM. THEY HAVE SIMPLE, UNSOPHISTICATED TASTES THAT COULD JUST AS EASILY BE SATED WITH A LAME HANNA BARBARA CARTOON AND A BOWL OF SUGARY CEREAL. OR A FUCKING SHINY ROCK.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 4:13 PM on July 7, 2008

If there is a Christian God and a Christian Hell - Jesse Helms is going straight there.

And by hell, I mean a particular corner of heaven where there were rainbows and unicorns and rivers of chocolate milk, and it only ever rained just enough to make the candy grass grow, and men and women (and men and men and women and women) held hands all the time and were always comfortably touchy-feely while sharing experiences with each other and communicating effectively and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 8:47 PM on July 5, 2008

Hello? I read the all of links in order you that presented them.

I think maybe did they do something to my smart. I feel very dumber. Head feels like fruit baby meat mush in blender with confusion in it.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 4:12 PM on July 5, 2008

Would rather dirty be than dumb! Dumb don't wash off! Help me eating hammer and wire sandwich! I look at car battery and wonder if good to eat! Fuck! Rocks!
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 4:20 PM on July 5, 2008

cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp

Catting weird things to /dev/audio.

In plainer words for people who don't use unix or linux: You can "cat" or "concatenate" any data file to "standard output" in Unix/Linux. It basically spews the contents of the "file" as raw data. So, for the command "cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp", /dev/urandom is the "file", and the output of that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 3:38 PM on July 5, 2008

When I read or hear the words "puppy mill" I see an exploding dog comic featuring an actual mill with grindstones and everything. Which leads to puppy bread. And puppy cupcakes.

Mmm. Puppy cupcakes.
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 4:50 AM on July 4, 2008

I asked for this massage well done! This is obviously a rare massage!
posted to MetaFilter by loquacious at 4:54 AM on July 4, 2008