Sodomy really is a habit, just like smoking. When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I reach for is a big, juicy cock. I don't even think about it anymore, it's such a habit.

If a hundred people quote this, I'll send everyone in the thread a dollar.

Okay, I won't actually send anyone a dollar. That could be a lot of people. I'll bake you all cookies instead.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 11:37 PM on September 3, 2008

MetaFilter: THIS PLACE SUCKS. YOU FUCKING DESERVE IT. ASSHOLES ASSHOLES
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 5:47 AM on August 31, 2008

so now that the story has come out, think we'll get to see the hack?

Pretty sure the answer to that question is "no" unless Discovery gets magical unicorn funding that isn't in any way tied to the credit card companies. They'd probably also need enough of this pixie dust cash to support doubling their legal team when said credit card companies take them to court for disseminating information about how to circumvent (the extraordinarily weak)... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 5:41 AM on August 31, 2008

* by "these companies", I mean the credit card companies, not Discovery
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 5:43 AM on August 31, 2008

Very, very cool. Reminds me of the Voynich Manuscript.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 1:10 PM on August 30, 2008

Ha ha, my roommate curses the day Johnny Cash covered Hurt--when he hears this he's going to tear his ears off.

Your friend should have his ears revoked.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 8:24 PM on August 28, 2008

Well, he does front the most.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 6:56 PM on August 26, 2008

MC Frontalot is more than a one-note act... Floating Bridge (warning - MP3 link), for example, is witty and fun and has nothing to do with computers or "nerdiness".

Except, wasn't that song inspired by a show on bridge engineering Frontalot saw?
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 11:49 PM on August 26, 2008

Oh, I get what he's saying now. It's still a nerdy song, but not about being nerdy.

lO"$
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 1:47 AM on August 27, 2008

Well i'm not sure if pixlr is open source or even if i fully understand what open source means

If you don't know what something means, you probably shouldn't ask for it without finding out first.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 4:19 PM on August 23, 2008

that's what happens when you take a minute or two to actually work at crafting a beefy post.

The great thing about MetaFilter, though, is that the better, beefier post will stick around unless the other one has a massive amount of comments already.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 11:30 PM on August 22, 2008

"an economy-sized peanut butter jar" (evidently one can't extract such an object from one's rectum without creating suction that risks pulling one's guts out -- they finally worked a flexible hose past the jar and were able to insufflate the cavity while removing the jar).

"You think you have it bad, kid? When I was a young man, not too much older than you are now, I almost had my guts sucked out of my ass by a peanut butter jar.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 11:10 PM on August 20, 2008

. . . .

(staccato dots)
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 8:50 PM on August 19, 2008

Here's a great performance of "Warehouse", one of my all-time favs, from the Gorge that shows how great they are live, with Moore basically owning the song when his solos start:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8rdsBUuxd4

I got to see them a couple of times when I was younger, on the opening show of the Crowded Streets tour and once again when the tour was wrapping up. Hearing "The Last Stop" for the first time live was a WOW... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 9:39 PM on August 19, 2008

I know MetaFilter's usually dying to declare how boring, unfunny, or substandard something is, but is it just me, or is everyone on a particularly snarky tear these past few days?
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 9:34 PM on August 16, 2008

I thought the "loose" thing, at the very end of the introduction and the beginning of Staci's terrible email excerpts, was intentional.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 3:17 PM on August 16, 2008

Seems thin for a FPP. Couldn't have fleshed this out?
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 5:26 PM on August 15, 2008

a pig

in a cage

  on antibiotics.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 9:38 PM on August 12, 2008

Look, Kim Kommando is a computer expert, not a brain wave expert.

Credentials on that "computer expert" thing, please. She sounds like a fucking idiot across the board.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 2:13 PM on August 9, 2008

I like McSweeney's, but this fell completely flat. Way short of its potential. Bold words, bubbles, meanwhiles . . . so many ways to make this a classic bit, so many ways it didn't even try.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 4:31 PM on August 7, 2008

I read this and started giggling, because I live in NYC and know the feeling:

Man, you ain't never felt the force of the Panopticon until you find yourself needing to pee in the middle of the day in Manhattan. Then you suddenly realize Society's like a Jeremy Betham wet dream straight-up pointed at your crotch.

Then I read this and stopped giggling, because there's no way I'll ever know how difficult some have had... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 8:55 PM on August 6, 2008

Thinkpads at least have hard drive passwords that can't be circumvented

No security exists that cannot be circumvented, via algorithmic flaws, implementation flaws (which lead to side-channel attacks), or systemic flaws; in the end, you are dealing with a system designed by humans, and eventually every human system fails.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 7:28 PM on August 6, 2008

Also, I love how most American papers reported the story, complete with horrified reactions by all denominations of rabbinic authorities that someone would steal, let along publish a private prayer form the wall. But the NYPost decided to show the ACTUAL LETTER on their front page!

There's a mistake in your reply. The NY Post isn't an real newspaper.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 12:17 PM on July 27, 2008

an newspaper?
. . . and i'll never write for one
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 12:19 PM on July 27, 2008

Hey guys, two people who love each other and work honest jobs got married! Man, what pathetic hicks!
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 3:04 PM on July 26, 2008

Sure because no one ever advises you to skip the first gen of any Apple product. And there weren't any reports of the last OS X update bricking Macs or anything. Right.

I don't think you know what the word "bricked" actually means.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 9:10 PM on July 24, 2008

Also, this thread sucks.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 9:10 PM on July 24, 2008

Make sure you grab that copy of You Eediot! if you haven't heard it. There's an instrumental track called "Space Madness" that really is an amazing piece of spaced-out guitar work.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 4:39 PM on July 24, 2008

Best advice I have received is to use a pneumonic expression: "I have 7 sisters and 0 brothers," yields Ih7sa0b, which is also a strong password!

If the system is capable of long, complex passwords, just use the original phrase. If the system isn't, uh, run away.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 6:04 PM on July 20, 2008

I'm pretty sure all or most of these came from a couple of Something Awful "make porn work-safe" threads.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 7:26 AM on July 17, 2008

The Lebowski stuff is funny, but I don't get the weird "social action" stuff.

Obviously, you're not a golfer.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 4:22 PM on July 15, 2008

I was under the impression that right-wingers wanted us to believe that if you got a bunch of gay soldiers together, you'd get a group of very hardened warriors.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 7:33 PM on July 14, 2008

Last year during Manhattanenge, it rained for a few minutes without a clouds blocking out the Sun falling across the east-west streets. I've never seen anything like it.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 6:31 PM on July 11, 2008

Manhattanhenge, even. And now that I think about it, it might've been two years ago.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 6:32 PM on July 11, 2008

10 for 10.

I am the titty king!
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 6:56 AM on July 10, 2008

"Screw you, long-standing community with deep roots! I spent a million dollars without doing any research on what I was buying or where I was buying it! That entitles me to change you!"

These people will never do for a community the kind of selfless good that this circle has done.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 3:18 PM on July 9, 2008

What detractors of gentrification fail to realize is that people are free to choose and support whatever type of culture they want to live in.

And the rich, white yuppies complaining about the community chose to live there. I just don't see how this is the burden of Harlem, which seems content with and appreciative of the drumming circle. If the financial district crowd doesn't like it, they can leave.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 4:36 PM on July 9, 2008

I live close to Marcus Garvey (and am white) and the great thing about Harlem is the vibrant culture.

I live out in the middle of Brooklyn, and sometimes on Sundays, there's a corner filled with local storefront churchgoers who sing gospel until they get tired. I imagine the same people complaining about Harlem would complain about this, too, and that's just a damn shame. Those whining are the same people who never contribute personally to their... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 4:43 PM on July 9, 2008

I think languagehat is a spy.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 8:11 AM on July 9, 2008

Moderators: Unlock this article at once, so that it may be amended to cite critical Popular Culture reference in xkcd.

AT ONCE! OR I'LL MAKE WEBCOMIC AND COMPANION CUBE REFERENCES UNTIL YOU DIE OF FACEPALMING YOURSELF TO DEATH.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 11:15 PM on July 7, 2008

:gb2gbs:
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 4:15 PM on July 5, 2008

The last girl in the video got whipped around like a fucking rag doll. I guess what I'm saying here is, "Count me in."
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 1:46 AM on July 5, 2008

Jesse Helms was a hate-filled human being in the deepest, most sludge-filled sense of the word "hate". Bona fide disgust at other parts of the human race. He gets no respect from me on his passing because he never earned any from me.

If we are to speak of a man's life when he dies—if his actions in life define his legacy when he's dead—what else are we supposed to say about Jesse Helms?
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 6:07 PM on July 4, 2008

this is a Glenn Beck type of show where bias is not only expected but is the entire point of the show.

Then maybe it shouldn't be on a dedicated news network.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 8:18 AM on July 3, 2008

Seems like a good place to post this:

BATMAN & ROBIN WORST MOVIE EVER
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 4:04 AM on July 2, 2008

New York mourns a chronic masturbator.

I'm sure there'll be another one on the C train tomorrow morning, anyway.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 10:38 PM on June 28, 2008

Weird Al also goes out of his way to ask the original artists if they're okay with him parodying their songs, even though he knows he doesn't have to, legally. He's class.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 10:23 AM on June 26, 2008

it seems like something a good programmer could sit down and write in a couple of weeks, including the ability to handle millions of messages a day on modern computers.

Things always seem simple to those who don't have to worry about them; just because a problem has been solved doesn't mean it's effortless to implement.

Two weeks and one person is not enough time to design, implement, test, fix, test, and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 9:53 PM on June 24, 2008

Note that I'm not saying Twitter didn't fuck up when they first designed the system. They clearly made some bad decisions at the starting line. I'm also not making any statement about Twitter's usefulness, either. But it's too easy to take shots at the challenges they face without stopping to attempt to understand them first.
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 9:56 PM on June 24, 2008

It feels like their runway has a conveyor belt on it.

Given that, will those little birdies ever get the whale off the conveyor?
posted to MetaFilter by Mikey-San at 10:12 PM on June 24, 2008