I ordered a ~$8 pair from Specsonthenet.com a while ago, and while they didn't fit my head or my look so well, I knew they wouldn't when I ordered them. It was a lark, and I planned only to use them for (very low peril woodworking) safety glasses if need be.

When my expensive (well, Sam's Club) glasses broke last week I had to resort to wearing those cheapie ones, and once the friendly people at Lenscrafters adjusted the temples for me I could comfortably wear them for... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 1:05 PM on October 11, 2007

Why not dress the dog up as something more animal-like, say, oh, a wookiee? Or an Ewok? Then... you could really, really hate it.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 10:33 AM on May 19, 2005

thanatopsis: I have some of those cards. It was the ugliest game I ever saw, with cards that looked like they were color copied from bad inkjet printouts. The mechanics were dull, relying far too much on trivia and far too little on humour.

To set up the game players were supposed to take a bunch of cards from both decks and put them face down on the table in a setup vaguely resembling England. What a laff riot, eh?
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 7:06 AM on April 27, 2005

I am an engineer, of sorts, and I find the tables no more intuitive than a list of stuff and an block of text explaining how to combine them.

Computer engineer, tho'.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 8:27 AM on April 13, 2005

WET PAINT!
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 8:11 AM on April 13, 2005

Isn't this what I read about in the book Blink? In that going through the list has a tendency to make me feel happier or sadder or walk faster or slower?
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 9:21 AM on April 4, 2005

By which I mean to imply that some of us feel badly afterward because of the test itself, not particularly the results.

Or worse.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 9:25 AM on April 4, 2005

devbrain: that twinoo is pretty neat.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 1:49 PM on March 14, 2005

I caught this on the way over to Hong Kong. It is a testament to my total being-out-of-it-ness that it took me watching the film at least twice before I realized it was a dub.

That, and them talking about "getting loved" all the time.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 1:29 PM on March 14, 2005

Hrm. Motherofalldeals is already shut down. Must've been really, really useful to have been slapped so quickly.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 12:24 PM on March 14, 2005

The Love Bug remake is already done, sort of. It was a Disney channel project and starred Bruce Campbell, if you can believe that.

As for a remake of Seconds, I am very, very afraid. I'm not a fan of the new Manchurian Candidate and I'd frankly just like to see those films left alone.

Then again, aren't we due for another * Body Snatchers or another... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 10:08 AM on March 14, 2005

If you strip away the connotations we've given it, the word "conservative" can easily mean "wanting to keep things the same" and to make a movie glorifying what's going on, even exaggeratedly so, could well fall under that more-of-the-same idea.

Or not, since there aren't *that* many marionette movies out there.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 10:02 AM on March 14, 2005

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posted to MetaFilter by codger at 10:43 AM on February 21, 2005

Since when has the Super Bowl been a forum for the cutting edge?

Am I the only one who remembers the 3-D extravaganza in the 80s?
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 7:23 AM on February 10, 2005

I guess I am.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 8:15 PM on February 18, 2005

I hate to say it, but that Daffy Duck looks kinda cool. Take a look at the single bad image we've seen, though, and think back on other conceptual art you've seen.

If you haven't, go check out a good animated DVD, like (not to start another war) the Clerks cartoon. Look at how the characters went from quick pencil sketches to the finished, Korean-powered animation, changing a little and a lot along the way.

Wait until they make... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 11:47 AM on February 18, 2005

I was reminded of the first game I'd played with Tyler.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 11:34 AM on February 18, 2005

The forums are indeed very comprehensive. I recall posting about a mistake I thought I'd found and spurring something of a decent conversation soon thereafter.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 4:39 PM on February 12, 2005

If they really want to do this right, they should offer a rebate of the movie ticket against the DVD price. (If it weren't such a crap movie,) they'd get higher box office and higher sales numbers.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 9:23 AM on February 10, 2005

pwb503: Perhaps they ran out of things to ship them in because they've already shipped everything out for free...
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 7:33 PM on February 5, 2005

Watching this really, really brightened my day, a couple ago, in the depths of the cube farm.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 7:33 PM on February 5, 2005

Can somebody explain to me, in words of four letters or less, what this so-called scandal is? I honestly have no clue what you people are discussing and my two second scan of the pages linked didn't give me any insight.

(It doesn't help that I'm reading this in a quarter height window at work, but it's not like I'm going to go home and fire up the good old TV and find out that way either.)
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 11:22 AM on January 24, 2005

Naturally, the star denies the allegations.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 11:16 AM on January 24, 2005

I wanted the book(s?) before, and I still want them.

And C_D, that Star Trek one is a good choice for favorite.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 9:45 AM on January 24, 2005

Noli habere vaccam, vir.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 8:53 AM on January 24, 2005

Why go buy a frozen chicken when you could throw rocks?

Is the function of government really to make us afraid of every last item in a conventional supermarket?
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 9:00 AM on December 30, 2004

kaemeril: last I checked, chickens (particularly the frozen ones) don't fly.

But yes, point well taken. Rocks at 10,000 feet could well be called, what, mountains?
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 10:45 AM on January 13, 2005

Good stuff. Too bad all but the front page link are now broken. Apparently direct linking is now a no-no.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 10:39 AM on January 13, 2005

I remember seeing this at least a year ago, but not on here, apparently. What geek rating does that earn me?

If I recall the comparisons are interesting, but, as others have noticed, the brothers Wachowski did not exactly work in a vaccuum.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 12:53 PM on January 6, 2005

bugbread - that model railroad one rocks.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 8:16 AM on January 5, 2005

Is it just me, or does the headline on the ESPN page to which gimonca links look a little too fuzzy? Is it the years of browsing sites without anti-aliased fonts that have made me accustomed to the horror that is non-anti-aliased text?

As near I can tell it's a nifty hack, but if it matters so much to the pointy haired types just specify the font and install it on their machines for them.

I of course am expecting to see people using this to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 8:41 AM on December 30, 2004

somehow, somewhere somebody's getting a free ipod out of this, I bet.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 8:20 AM on December 29, 2004

It could maybe use some moderation. I mean, c'mon, how many "Please please don't suck" comments need there be for HHGTG, the movie?
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 8:01 AM on December 29, 2004

Also, will somebody be going through and removing or archiving things once they happen/cannot happen? Say IE7.0 is released without CSS2.0 support or whatever. Will the whole IE7.0 go into "PastFeature" or some such?
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 8:03 AM on December 29, 2004

I could've sworn I saw a snopes page about the magnets fading/corroding the paint issue, but now I can't find it.

I for one welcome our magnetic ribbon overlords. Put that on a sticker, I say.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 7:17 PM on December 28, 2004

I believe there's a line in the Gospels that goes something like "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's" and so forth.

Isn't "Christian" is a follower of Christ's teachings and whatnot? They surely can't all want to wear ugly robes with commandments on them and worry about two words in the Pledge of Allegiance.

Of course, I'm not really any good at oversimplification. I don't see why a Christian couldn't be an ACLU lawyer, but I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 7:51 AM on December 28, 2004

er, as "one" not "once".
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 7:59 AM on December 28, 2004

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posted to MetaFilter by codger at 6:51 AM on December 27, 2004

My house is without power or phone and it's freezing and so on and so forth so I'm sleeping at a friend's place so thanks for the laughs, I needed them.

[this is brilliant]
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 8:34 PM on December 24, 2004

Edith Head? Coco Chanel?

And here I thought she was just a not-quite-stereotypical "designer" with a great house. Go figure.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 10:45 AM on December 22, 2004

thanks gren ... that was just what I needed.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 10:19 AM on December 20, 2004

Wasn't it Richard Belzer who explained that the whole criminalization of hemp/marijuana thing was all linked to Dow or 3M pushing rope and wanting hemp textiles off the U.S. market?
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 9:11 AM on December 20, 2004

I've been tempted to post this for a month or two. I got up to the upper fifties (with a little help from my friends) and did almost all of it in firefox. I also played with Irfanview where the others used Photoshop, I think.

If you don't believe me, when you reach 53 look in the comments for an IRC transcript of "ml". Thatsa me.

The reason DavidM (the creator) says you need IE is to play the background .mp3 tunes, nearest I can tell.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 8:29 AM on December 19, 2004

...and yet it isn't deleted. So here I find myself with a quandary. Should I click on his link? I have never, ever, ever heard of such an amazing concept. Why, if it seems to be legit, I might just sign up and get my very own ipod this very day. If only there were some way to compensate this fine fellow for pointing me in the right direction.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 8:26 AM on December 19, 2004

Funny. I never overpaid for my Magic cards, and I still enjoy getting together with my friends and playing with them. I paid retail price for pretty much everything and if I cannily ebayed them I could probably get almost all of my money back.

Except that I'm enjoying playing it still.

As for comics, well, the last one I bought was Fred Hembeck destroys the Marvel universe and after that I didn't think I needed any more of them.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 11:15 PM on December 11, 2004

I may be in the minority here, but I don't like cereal. I haven't eaten it since I was ten or so when my parents force-fed me a bowl of soggy Sugar something or others (whatever Sugar Bear advertised).

I prefer more traditional breakfast foods like flapjacks and eggs and whatnot, but anyway, this is a great idea. I won't go there, but if I could invest a tiny portion of money in a place like that I might consider it.

Just don't ask me to eat there.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 7:16 AM on December 2, 2004

"Yes, attacking spammers is wrong, you know this, you shouldn't be doing it. Your ip address and request have been logged and will be reported to your ISP for further action." From the site.

Scratch that, that *is* the site.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 7:01 AM on November 30, 2004

Timeless, you made me laugh as I sit here eating my brownies. Thank you.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 8:54 AM on November 24, 2004

Better yet to check into the possible myth, possible truth that aluminum in cans causes Alzheimer's...
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 10:36 AM on November 22, 2004

There's always the good old ACME mapper.
posted to MetaFilter by codger at 9:40 AM on November 22, 2004