This might be the first time I have ever thought, "don't eat it" in response to one of these questions. My limit is pretty high, but a whole workday at 80+ degrees? If you do decide to eat it, stop and pick up some Pedialyte and real soft 2-ply on the way home, and maybe a paperback.
posted to Ask Metafilter by uncleozzy at 2:12 PM on September 4, 2008

the DVR ... bittorrent-downloaded episodes

Oh yeah. Without these, my TV would only be for watching baseball and playing video games. I really don't understand the "TV is evil! it ruins homes!" worldview--there is entertainment out there that won't destroy your mind--but without the option of timeshifting and ad-skipping, it's completely unwatchable.

I still miss whole innings of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 9:30 AM on September 4, 2008

I listen to it all the time, it comes into my head at all hours of the day and has since I was 11, and I force myself to stay in bed most nights when an idea comes to me just before I drift off.

This.

I don't think I ever hate music, although sometimes music makes me hate myself. Sometimes there's really just too much music in my head and I can't get it out. I've got hundreds of sixteen-bar sketches lying around that I can't... [more]
posted to MeFi Music by uncleozzy at 6:19 AM on September 4, 2008

Previously.
posted to Ask Metafilter by uncleozzy at 6:01 AM on September 4, 2008 marked best answer

There's an article linked in the site 3bm links discussing why screenwriters are, essentially, taught to fail the Test. Part of the argument:
According to Hollywood, if two women came on screen and started talking, the target male audience’s brain would glaze over and assume the women were talking about nail polish or shoes or something that didn’t pertain to the story.Whe she dismisses as BS, which would be fine if writers were "allowed" to write interesting female... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 6:35 AM on September 3, 2008

It's harder than you might think to make a movie with no women at all

What about movies with no men? Before I knew the remake of The Women was a remake whose intent was, in fact, an all-female experience, I saw the trailer (before Pineapple Express, which seems like a very odd choice). Within seconds it struck me that something was wrong.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 9:17 AM on September 3, 2008

His mother lives in Las Vegas and was to star in a reality television show that would have had her date Elvis impersonators

Read that again and tell me you don't feel a little bad for the kid.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 5:46 AM on September 3, 2008

Christ, why does everybody hate fun?

Harry Potter and the Chamber of National Treasure: Book of Secrets
The Cider House Rules of Engagement
Black Hawk Down & Out in Beverly Hills
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 1:40 PM on September 2, 2008

anyone else love the mouse gestures?

Yep. I opened Chrome to see how fast Gmail would be (answer: very), and had to close it because I would really rather not browse without the gestures.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 12:39 PM on September 2, 2008

At a certain point--and with a net worth probably approaching half a billion dollars, Diddy has likely reached that point--a quarter of a million to fuel your jet has got to be worth avoiding the commercial hassle, hasn't it? Even if you're whisked through check-in and security on a rainbow-powered flying carpet that fires freshly-baked cookies directly into your maw, commercial air travel is still a pretty miserable experience. General aviation, you're probably going to leave on time, can... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 11:19 AM on September 2, 2008

I think the discussion begins and ends with the drive-up Elvis wedding. Plus, hey, you can add Grandpa Munster to the package for only $195 more.
posted to Ask Metafilter by uncleozzy at 11:06 AM on September 2, 2008 marked best answer

I'm stuck on 42 (which is made difficult by how randomly the boxes fall), but I just did 33 again for kicks. You get so many bombs, it's really not so hard. It should only take 3, maybe 4, to get to the top-right platform. Bomb yourself up and slight-right to get onto the left platform, and then from there, it's only 2 or 3 bombs to the top-right. Then you've got 6 or 7 to play with to get yourself over the ice. Might take a few tries, but it's not so bad.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 8:11 AM on August 29, 2008

Yeah, this games is great, but I'm stuck on 47 now, too. There's no rhyme or reason. I can't even brute force my way to the exit (which I've done in more than one previous level).
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 11:12 AM on August 29, 2008

Hm. Actually, that's not so hard. Just had to think about it differently. This is a fantastic timewaster.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 11:21 AM on August 29, 2008

For which one? I hinted at 33 above. In 47, I wound up blowing myself straight up off of the right-side platform with a little help.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 11:59 AM on August 29, 2008

Hm. That may not have come out right.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 12:02 PM on August 29, 2008

This is fantastic. I don't know how anyone else experiences music, but for me, I've always got a song, or part of a song, running through my head. Not a melody, not the idea of a song, but the canonical, according to my memory, recording. I don't have perfect pitch, but I can tune a guitar to within a few cents by thinking about Dave Matthews' "So Much to Say." So when I read one of these, for a song with which I'm familiar, I get the nice treat of being able to hear the song while... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 7:18 AM on August 29, 2008

Golly, that's great. At first I was distracted by the tile-y reverb on the vocal, but then I stopped noticing because the whole thing is so neat. I love the gentle harmonies and, as always, the harmonica.

As an aside, are you doing something to the vocal track that causes some of the big, sibilant esses to slide to the right? (For example, on "see" at 0'35" and "say" at 2'24".) Have I not fully regained the hearing in my left ear yet... [more]
posted to MeFi Music by uncleozzy at 11:13 AM on August 28, 2008

Picture Ozzy Osbourne--bloated, drunk, unstable 80s Ozzy--dressed in tails and a top hat, stirring a bathtub full of bootleg hooch with a rowboat oar. Uncle Ozzy's Olde Tyme Bathtub Gin will make you lose your mind and, maybe, go blind.
posted to MetaTalk by uncleozzy at 6:54 AM on August 28, 2008

Oh yeah, nobody ever parses my name right the first time around. I don't know why.
posted to MetaTalk by uncleozzy at 7:37 AM on August 28, 2008

(Also via)

I played this off and on for a few days, and it's fun for a bit, but I feel as though the game mechanics are a little bit broken. I understand making it expensive to wage war and cheap to defend oneself, but at a certain point, it becomes really difficult, if not pointless, to attack a well-defended opponent.

Plus, I realize, the accumulation of wealth and empire-building (which seem to be the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 6:02 AM on August 28, 2008

Jesus, I was deaf in one ear for a week because of an ear infection and, even apart from the pain, it nearly drove me round the bend. Sadly enough, I think I would probably just give up in her place.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 2:21 PM on August 27, 2008

A friend of mine came across this study last weekend while researching possible interactions between cannabis and oral antibiotics. I hear he felt much better the day after having had his share of a half gram or so of some very kind bud. He would like to think that it was the Augmentin, but you just can't argue with Science.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 2:10 PM on August 27, 2008

A Dark & Stormy made with a really spicy ginger beer is pretty fantastic.
posted to Ask Metafilter by uncleozzy at 9:27 AM on August 27, 2008

This is really neat, but he lost me as soon as he said "mashup." And then again. And again.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 8:12 AM on August 27, 2008

Ten years ago, they still had a plant in East Cambridge, right near the Green Line. It was pretty awesome because you could tell what kind of candy they were making by the way the air smelled. (Necco makes a bunch of stuff other than the wafers, including Clark Bars and those chalky, Necco-like Valentine hearts.) Chocolate days were especially tantalizing.

The Cambridge Candy Co. factory was still on Main St., a few blocks away from Necco, last time I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 11:43 AM on August 26, 2008

Cheerios [...] the smell of those oaty death-rings could turn my stomach from fifteen yards away

The smell of Cheerios reminds me of messy babies in church when I was a kid. Apparently, they're so delicious to babies that they'll stop screaming for three, four minutes before they start gumming a few and throwing the paste everywhere. Seriously, if you eat Cheerios and then breathe near me, I will probably retch. Just thinking about the smell makes... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 11:47 AM on August 26, 2008

Oh man, that pic of the fluffernutter did me in. I'll have to make some bread tonight and have one for lunch tomorrow.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 1:47 PM on August 26, 2008

ketchup [...] hot dogs

You are wrong, and also a bad person.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 2:12 PM on August 26, 2008

If you want ridiculous flamewars over cheap gear, go ask at Gearslutz, because that's their forte (you might get some really good recommendations, too; a few guys really love the low-priced KEL HM-1 for drum OHs).

If it were me, though, I'd spend that $400 on blocking out a day or two at a studio. Especially when you're not close-micing the snare, you want to record in the best room you can manage.... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by uncleozzy at 1:06 PM on August 26, 2008

dot-dot-dot-space. colon-greaterthansymbol.
posted to MeFi Music by uncleozzy at 12:14 PM on August 26, 2008

My good ear digs this. (I didn't even notice the buzz until I read chococat's comment; I figured it was just my head.) The repeating patterns and harmonies and off-kilter rhythms and phasey guitar are really nice. Also the bass stabs.

I'll ask the other ear what it thinks when it decides to open up again.
posted to MeFi Music by uncleozzy at 8:01 AM on August 23, 2008

He's gone too far, cos he knows it don't matter anyway.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 7:03 AM on August 23, 2008

(I should note that this is really neat. I'm almost completely deaf in one ear at the moment, so it's a bit weird listening to music, but still pretty dang cool.)
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 7:33 AM on August 23, 2008

Try it for a couple of weeks and see if you like it. On that (high-compression, turbocharged, if it's the 1.8T) engine, you'll likely experience considerably worse performance, poor fuel economy, and dirtier emissions. Is it worth the $5 a week?

But yeah, it probably won't void the warranty. My car wants 93, and I use it, but the manual says it'll take 89 in a pinch, and I'm sure it'd survive on 87.
posted to Ask Metafilter by uncleozzy at 4:10 PM on August 22, 2008

Chicken Shift.
posted to Ask Metafilter by uncleozzy at 2:00 PM on August 22, 2008

I refuse to believe that "booty" appeared in only 0.38% of surveyed R&B songs because, in my experience, most R&B songs are actually called "Feelin' On Yo' Booty."
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 5:52 AM on August 22, 2008

I feel really, really sorry for anybody who visits Adventureland as if it were an attraction of some sort. It's a little like a Scooby-Doo carnival, only with fewer ghosts, and only one or two deaths per season.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 8:08 AM on August 18, 2008

Stone Smoked Porter.
posted to Ask Metafilter by uncleozzy at 6:00 AM on August 15, 2008

Wines are truly great, but they lack range.

There is far greater variety in wine than in beer.

On the internet, everybody is wrong!

I do agree that you'll want to avoid excessively hoppy beers, though. I still stand by the smoked porter (Stone's is not excessively smoked), but you might also do well with an Islay scotch. You've got your smoky, salty bacon bouncing up against the... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by uncleozzy at 9:21 AM on August 15, 2008

This is freaking fantastic. I actually got chills when the harp came in.
posted to MeFi Music by uncleozzy at 7:47 AM on August 15, 2008

Smoke a joint, wait 45 minutes, and eat a Sour Patch Kid.

I'm surprised this isn't already printed on the Sour Patch Kids package.

But yeah, I agree with flabdablet: your salivary glands are kicking into gear hardcore and can't get the saliva out fast enough, so it tingles for a bit. You just feel it more when you're high because, well, you're high.
posted to Ask Metafilter by uncleozzy at 6:35 AM on August 15, 2008 marked best answer

This is a cool idea. I like hearing different revisions of the same song. My workflow doesn't, generally, generate multiple versions (with the exception of one song that I've recorded maybe 4 times since 2001 and still haven't gotten right), but I'd dig hearing others'. I think Jofus' spliced-together post works well (although it'd be nice to post where the cuts are, for skipping-and-comparing purposes; I'm very impatient).
posted to MeFi Music by uncleozzy at 6:09 AM on August 15, 2008

I go on vacation for a few days, give up on my MeFiMu backlog, and miss something like this? This is just too great.
posted to MeFi Music by uncleozzy at 5:58 AM on August 15, 2008

Jesus, I think I've just been hypnotized. This is mind-bending.
posted to MeFi Music by uncleozzy at 5:54 AM on August 15, 2008

I dig this, a lot. I agree that the second version is the most cohesive, but at the same time, the third one's got some charm, too.

This evolution-of-a-song thing is a neat experiment.
posted to MeFi Music by uncleozzy at 5:54 AM on August 15, 2008

"breaking news from MSNBC" [...] the link had actually loaded a Trojan horse onto my computer

Yeah, those are from the Storm botnet. (Thanks, MeFi Projects!)
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 5:34 AM on August 15, 2008

B'dum-dum-dum-dum, d'doo-d'dum-dum-dum... This is great.

Frankly, though, I'd rather not meet your cephalopod, if that's okay.
posted to MeFi Music by uncleozzy at 6:32 PM on August 14, 2008

I'm half Puerto Rican. The only time I've even briefly thought of myself as anything other than "white" was while filling out college applications. How many millions are there like me already? I'm guessing "lots," and the number will only grow.
posted to MetaFilter by uncleozzy at 6:11 PM on August 14, 2008

I'm partial to Clark's. All sorts of styles, all of which are insanely comfortable (with the exception of the Poblanos I occasionally wear even though they are much too narrow in the toes). Zappos carries these, too.
posted to Ask Metafilter by uncleozzy at 5:55 PM on August 14, 2008