Yeah. It shits the bed on Mac.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 9:10 PM on December 18, 2009

Wow. You have to be a major-league dipshit to do this.

There was widespread speculation over who might have been behind the robbery, with investigators looking into suggestions that it could have been anyone from scrap metal dealers to Holocaust deniers, from rightwing collectors of Nazi memorabilia to pre-Christmas pranksters.

Collectors were my first thought. Although are collectors of Nazi memorabilia predominately right wingers?
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:51 PM on December 18, 2009

I'm thinking that an appropriate punishment for when the thieves are caught, would be to spend their time incarcerated watching the videos of the lives and deaths of people who suffered under this sign.

--

You really advocate imprisoning scapegoats until death? The sorrowfully poignant irony does not escape me.

Where does quin say they should be imprisoned until death? He said their time incarcerated... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 3:26 PM on December 18, 2009

tkchrist: "You know once I was at this cocktail party describing a particular meeting at a High Tech firm. Doing my impersonations of all the people at the meeting. I described it like being the only fully functioning person at an all Asperger syndrome Star trek Convention. Everybody laughed. However later my wife told me that one lady there had one kid who was Autistic and another with Aspergers."

I feel your pain. Much like the time I told... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 9:01 PM on December 18, 2009

Neat!
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:42 AM on December 18, 2009

I, too, approve of lifey. I'm going to start using it.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:56 PM on December 18, 2009

Abe Vigoda is lifey.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:00 PM on December 18, 2009

.

Thanks for posting this, Artw. I was hoping somebody would. What a loss. He was the mind behind some of my favorite movies.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 8:19 AM on December 18, 2009

clockworkjoe: "(Gordon Stuart was scheduled but he canceled)"

Do you mean Stuart Gordon?
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 10:47 AM on December 18, 2009

Oh, excellent! I'll keep an eye out, Artw. Lately I've had separate itches to re-watch both Re-Animator and King of the Ants.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:13 AM on December 18, 2009

Oh, I meant to include that I found this via the discussion list of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, where there is an ongoing discussion of related issues.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 5:24 PM on December 17, 2009

*stops chewing*

*slowly, carefully puts down salad*
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 10:53 AM on December 18, 2009

Obligatory.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 8:27 AM on December 18, 2009

Yeah, I was surprised to not see Rising Sun in there.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 8:29 AM on December 18, 2009

Great idea, clvrmnky. Also, when you open any file you see a bunch of equations and ones and zeros floating around in 3D space.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 8:40 AM on December 18, 2009

And when they get it right a soothing female voice says, "Access granted."
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 10:29 AM on December 18, 2009

I'm going to say "creepy." What doesn't help is that he and his wife are actually pretty much clothed. And, yeah, the "quirky" preciousness is pretty irritating.

Seriously: fuck Juno.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 10:37 AM on December 17, 2009

CheeseDigestsAll: "There's no legal reason for them to not print the card, they should print it."

There's no legal reason for them to print something they don't feel comfortable with.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:15 AM on December 17, 2009

CheeseDigestsAll: "If you are happy with this, do you also support pharmacists who don't "feel comfortable" giving out birth control pills, or RU-486 or anything else that goes against their personal beliefs? What about apartment managers who refuse to rent to inter-racial couples?"

Are you really comparing those things? This wasn't discriminatory and did not affect the health and well being of anyone. He couldn't print his fucking... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:36 AM on December 17, 2009

CheeseDigestsAll: "Kinko's is a corporation. Corporations don't feel."

Also: this was the decision of one employee, not some bizarre corporate borganism. Hell, last year he got them printed at another Kinkos.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:40 AM on December 17, 2009

CheeseDigestsAll: "So, brundlefly, if it's simply arbitrary and no one is harmed, there's no problem? If I give bad service to every 13th customer, or only on Wednesdays then it's OK?"

What? It isn't arbitrary. An employee of the company made a judgment call regarding the content of what this guy wanted duplicated. Disagree with it if you want, but nobody was harmed.

"Of course it is, and such an... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:07 PM on December 17, 2009

wierdo: "Unless he's flat out lying about this being a yearly thing, you're probably wrong. But hey, he's either a pedophile or a pedophile-enabler, so why not pile on?"

Except that he had the same experience the previous year. I don't think it's unreasonable to think he expected this response.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 2:09 PM on December 17, 2009

wierdo: "I thought I read that he had the photos printed at Kinko's last year. I was just scanning the article, though."

His blog isn't loading for me now, so I can't check, but as I recall he was working two days a week in San Francisco at the time, so he went to a Kinko's location there, which had a pierced and tattooed guy behind the counter who was, like, all totally down with printing them.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 2:21 PM on December 17, 2009

Sidhedevil: "And given the lack of a sarcasm mark in English"

HAMBURGER
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 5:13 PM on December 17, 2009

More evidence that critical consensus and I are not exactly bosom buddies.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:46 PM on December 17, 2009

.

(amen, Talez)
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:56 PM on December 16, 2009

On second thought:

ºOº
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:57 PM on December 16, 2009

"Lilo & Stich" is more of a cult film in the US.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 9:46 AM on December 17, 2009

empath: "My back of the envelope calculation on this is that a 175 lb person standing on this planet would weight about 265 lbs."

So that's why all those "90 lb weakling" ads in the backs of magazines had a GJ 1214 mailing address.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 4:26 PM on December 16, 2009

"Not Kansas"
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 4:27 PM on December 16, 2009

I know! Planet Koozebane!
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 4:48 PM on December 16, 2009

Just tried to submit a name and got:

you broke reddit

looks like we shouldn't have stopped using lisp...
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 5:19 PM on December 16, 2009

Pretty sure this is a double.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 2:44 PM on December 16, 2009

That is, the same video. Different link.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 2:44 PM on December 16, 2009

It wasn't framed with the "English as heard by Europeans" thing... more of a, "HOLY COW, LOOK AT THE BATSHIT INSANE VIDEO" thing.

(It's still awesome, btw.)
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 2:48 PM on December 16, 2009

Thank you, potch! Actually, I was trying to describe this to someone the other day and failing miserably. I couldn't remember what it was called. So... I guess thanks for the double, empath!
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 2:52 PM on December 16, 2009

Quite the collection of tags on this post.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 10:58 AM on December 16, 2009

The Light Fantastic: "Wasn't this in a movie? It sounds really familiar..."

Seems like something the Farrelly brothers would have come up with, if they had no subtlety.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 11:02 AM on December 16, 2009

My grandmother hung me by my ankles and took my picture, once.

*holds up index finger*

Once.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 9:00 AM on December 16, 2009

Avenger: "Assuming they had any desire to talk to us or say anything other than SEND DELICIOUS CRABS."

See? Some things are universal!
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 8:54 AM on December 16, 2009

molecicco: "I don't see any reason for higher order thinking to evolve in a species that cannot use tools."

I don't see any reason for thinking this other than the fact that we're the only example we have access to. Not snarking, just curious.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 8:56 AM on December 16, 2009

*Nelson laugh*
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:20 PM on December 15, 2009

boo_radley: ".am ? What the fuck, that's armenia's tld. Maybe it's a confused play off of Will.i.am, but i.am was already taken?"

The association with AM radio? That seems a bit off. Maybe it's supposed to suggest "Amurica."
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:27 PM on December 15, 2009

mccarty.tim: "Michael Steele decided he would treat Americans like they were adults"

Mistake.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 1:35 PM on December 15, 2009

The Kiss Players article is insane.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 8:48 AM on December 15, 2009

Did we kill it?
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 10:57 AM on December 15, 2009

My Grandmother: "So how did you like your Transformers movie?"

Me: "It was really good but... [whispers] Optimus Prime DIED! [/whispers]"

My Grandmother: "Oh, my God. [whispers] You're kidding! [/whispers]"

Me: [shakes head violently]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 12:25 PM on December 15, 2009

I'm embarrassed to admit this, but here's something that didn't hit me till just now: these critters were wandering around during the Cretaceous period, right smack in the middle of *dramatic chord* WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH. I assumed at first that these were from the Permian or the early Triassic, before the Dinosaurs had cemented themselves as the go-to guys as land vertebrates.

I know it's cartoonish to think of Dinosaurs stomping around with everything else a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 10:57 PM on December 14, 2009

Sounds like that's up there with the giraffe's vagus nerve.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 10:32 PM on December 14, 2009

That is a ridiculously sweet letter. Wow.
posted to MetaFilter by brundlefly at 10:28 PM on December 14, 2009