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Oy, oy, oy...
It would be cooler if the croc had a laserrrr on its head, but otherwise this is just sad.
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 6:52 PM on October 3, 2008
MeFi post:
φαινομαι
I live in the valley on the East side of the Shawangunk (pronounced "shon-gum") ridge. I can see the tower (called "Skytop") from my terrace. If it's hotter here, it's just me.
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 6:59 PM on September 17, 2008
MeFi post:
Corn and You
It annoys me to see an ingredient list that looks like this: "WATER. HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP. CITRIC ACID. PHOSPHORIC ACID. SUGAR ALCOHOLS (SORBITOL). ASPARTAME" &c.
They already have sugars IN there. Why add aspartame? It reads, to me, like this:
"WATER. CANCER. HIGH CANCERY CANCER SYRUP. LEMON CANCER. MATCHHEAD CANCER. VOLATILE CANCER. (CANCER). ARTIFICIAL CANCER." &c.
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 3:35 PM on September 9, 2008
GuyZero: of course not. Neither does phosphoric acid. They provide a little bite, is all. But. My underlying point is that ingredient lists are ridiculous. I'm all about better living through chemistryTM, but when there's thirty ingredients in a food item, I tend to try to avoid them. I can deal with methylethylisothiazolinone or whatever in my shampoo (it's not actually in mine) but twenty compounds including two... [more]
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at 5:10 PM on September 9, 2008
cornholing is funny though.
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 5:13 PM on September 9, 2008
MeFi post:
That's Dum
The Chaos (by G. Nolst Trenité, a.k.a. "Charivarius"; 1870 - 1946)
Dearest creature in creation
Studying English pronunciation,
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse
I will keep you, Susy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye your dress you'll tear,
So shall I! Oh, hear my prayer,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 9:43 PM on September 6, 2008
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St. Paul Police say Democracy? No.
I don't think anyone is advocating for free reign to do whatever they want (i.e. splash bleach/urine/ink/whatever, break windows, overturn garbage cans/kiosks/cars/people, but instead simply asking for their right to assemble peacefully and air their grievances. For my own part, having been a peaceful protester, I understand why the police react as they do, but that reaction is akin to swatting a gnat with a buick. When the first (very large) anti-war protest took place in NYC, I was there with... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 1:55 PM on September 2, 2008
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It tastes like burning
Boy, I sure loved CheeriosTM as a kid. But then one morning I poured a bowlful for myself, added the milk and a teaspoon of sugar, and sat down at the table to eat. I ate almost all of it and then noticed something odd. What the heck is that? pokepoke. poke poke. poke.
Worms. Freakin' MEALWORM GRUBS. In. My. Cereal.
I have never eaten cheerios since. Though I have been known to eat much stranger... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 5:26 PM on August 26, 2008
Bananas = white turds.
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 8:14 AM on August 27, 2008
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WashPost on graphic novels
Teaching Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis in my Composition class in a few days. It was picked as the class-wide summer reading for the entire incoming freshman class.
Graphic novels are accessible but complex, "fun" to read but demand a great deal of mental energy to really understand. Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is still one of the best resources on this.
Anybody who simply dismisses the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 7:32 PM on August 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Moby Dick? Middlemarch? Jane Eyre?
Work "weltanshaung" into your paper = instant A.
and A+ if you spell it "weltanschauung."
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 7:22 PM on July 28, 2008
Being an English student, I realize every day that I will never manage to read all the books that I want to. I'm particularly interested in poetry, and one summer I was hanging out with friends at a cafe at a state Uni. (not mine). We were drinking coffee and hanging out, and there were a bunch of Greek students that were taking summer classes, and they ended up joining us. The conversation turned to favorite poets, and one of the women asked me whether I liked "Kavafis," and I had no... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 7:33 PM on July 28, 2008
MeFi post:
Wine Jelly!
I just realized the other day that yog(h)urt was "milk-jelly." Fruit and fruit juice + pectin = jelly. Milk + pectin = yog(h)urt.
Little perspective shifts can change your whole outlook.
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 6:18 PM on June 7, 2008
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Slipping towards the Singularity
I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 7:01 AM on June 3, 2008
My mommy doesn't hate me! Because I'm special! And unique! Because there's never been anyone like me before, ever! Mommy loves Martin because he is real, and when I am real Mommy's going to read to me and tuck me in my bed and sing to me and listen to what I say and she will cuddle with me and tell me every day a hundred times a day that she loves me!
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 10:19 PM on June 3, 2008
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Now, Get Off of My Lawn!
I have the privilege of teaching First-year Composition, and I have to agree wholeheartedly with Dizzy's first comment, as well as the rest of them. The kids are alright. They just need a little help, perhaps, to view the world through some other lenses than they've been given. Public (and in some cases private) education is deeply flawed in many ways, and it does not prepare students to think critically about the world and their position in it.
It's... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 6:47 PM on May 14, 2008
MeFi post:
Waits for Nonsequitors
Well it's Ninth and Hennepin
All the doughnuts have names that sound like prostitutes
And the moon's teeth marks are on the sky
Like a tarp thrown all over this
And the broken umbrellas like dead birds
And the steam comes out of the grill
Like the whole goddamn town's ready to blow . . .
And the bricks are all scarred with jailhouse tattoos
And everyone is behaving like dogs
And the horses... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 6:56 AM on May 8, 2008
MeFi post:
Boris is GEIL
Lord, what fools these mortals be! (both stateside and in yr green and pleasant land.)
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 11:04 PM on May 2, 2008
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Verdict in Hans Reiser Murder Trial
Soooo, wait. OJ gets acquitted, and this guy gets convicted?
BLACK IS WHITE. UP IS DOWN. CALIFORNIA IS FILLED WITH PEOPLE I WOULD TRUST ON A JURY.
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 5:27 PM on April 28, 2008
(I'm not saying that this guy isn't guilty. At all.)
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 5:33 PM on April 28, 2008
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V is for Vegetable
Ok, listen. Peas SUCK. They're all mealy and pasty inside, and they are one of the Creator's few mistakes, the other one I can think of offhand being bananas (white turds). I don't CARE about your potassium needs, eat a gotdamn kiwi.
I apologize for not reading this thoroughly, but I was that kid who bargained over a pea or two. I remember sitting at the kitchen table, my mother and father telling me that I could leave the table when I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 12:04 AM on April 27, 2008
Yeah, ortho, I thought he might be a supertaster too. I love a lot of veggies now, just . . . not . . . peas.
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at 12:26 AM on April 27, 2008
MeFi post:
The Pie is Flat
Listen, Friedman may be a sh|thead, but some moe that hits me in the face/arm with a pie is gonna get his/her ASS kicked, that's for sure.
Everybody here looks like a jerk. (I probably would too, after kicking a pie-thrower's ass, breaking their fingers and tearing off their clothes to clean the cream off , but you gotta pick your battles.)
what.
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 5:03 PM on April 23, 2008
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How to catch and eat a rat
Wow. The expression "ratly feast" just became my new favorite phrase.
P.S.: invest in a good sturdy full-tang knife, a multitool, and a decent firestarter (magnesium block, flint striker, similar item) and with a little know-how, you're fairly well-off.
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 8:34 AM on April 23, 2008
rat-lee feest!
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 8:35 AM on April 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Avoiding death by plastic
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
it felt appropriate.
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 4:21 PM on April 22, 2008
MeFi post:
Zut alors!
They look like French Bratz. That said, they're kind of cute. "Cheeky" sums it up nicely. Thanks for the post.
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 8:11 AM on April 22, 2008
MeFi post:
...
I don't need to click the link, I unfortunately already know about this. Sometimes, you hear or read about things that absolutely pull the breath right out of your chest, make you feel like screaming 'till your voice is gone. For me, FGM and this are two of those things. I'm tearing (TEERing not TAREing) up just allowing my consciousness to approach the borders of these thoughts; if I go too much further in to this post, I'll have a meltdown.
Ignorance isn't bliss.
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 7:23 PM on April 16, 2008
MeFi post:
Take it to YouTube
How come they didn't video the cohndohms, the pawn, and the viagrah?
Video or it didn't happen. (also, it's ridic anyway, 'cause it would be so easy to just buy that shit and put it in his drawer/closet/etc.)
posted to MetaFilter by exlotuseater
at 2:32 PM on April 16, 2008
