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MeTa post:
Oh shit, it's a walk-off!
A is pretty, B will expand better. Consider any of those entries with a few hundred words, in A it will push the next line way down.
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 5:06 PM on June 17, 2008
MeTa post:
Call in show needs callers
Color is as much a construct of the brain as the eye. It seems to me that you could rotate someone's mental color wheel without creating a perceived inconsistency. Opposites would still be opposites. The relationships between colors are perceived varies from person to person and how they react to color combinations also varies. People have colors and color combinations that they like and don't like.
While there is an RGB value that is "absolute red", what people refer to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 10:06 AM on June 11, 2008
MeTa post:
AskMe on Cat and Girl
I live exactly 1/2 a block from an IHOP and I eat breakfast, but never at IHOP. IHOP is the rough equivalent of a pancake-centric Denny's, with 8 flavors of syrup (that all taste like ass).
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 10:11 AM on May 2, 2008
MeTa post:
Should or shouldn't
93% of whom? If they aren't Mefites, they're just part of the great unwashed internet at large. The internet equivalent of the fly over states. All their taste is in their mouths, fuck 'em.
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 12:24 PM on April 25, 2008
MeTa post:
Underdog Victorious
This seems somewhat problematic. If you give an artist money to create work, in normal everyday life, you'd expect to own some portion of or interest in that work. So here we give Jill money to make an album to sell and to play at (presumably) paid performances. Essentially providing startup capital for limited term business.
I'm not a hardcore capitalist, so I don't really care how this works out but it seems like something you can do once because people/fans are generous, but I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 1:48 PM on March 25, 2008
MeTa post:
Discussion Point
Being big, bad and dangerous is OK for playtime, but the world is in deep shit and could do with a lot more considered discourse. This may not be the best place for it.
You mean MetaFilter won't save the planet? Matt, I want my five bucks back.
If "considered discourse" is the pious crap that's been floating in this thread, then you're right, it's not the right place for it.
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 3:13 PM on November 16, 2007
MeTa post:
Spelling and grammar guideline?
Wow. OCT, if you really have time to be outraged over stuff like this maybe you need to volunteer somewhere. I'm sure there's an Adult Literacy program near you that would love the help.
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 12:10 PM on November 8, 2007
MeTa post:
MetaFilter: The Naked Truth (San Jose, CA)
The one day in the next 2 months that I actually have something planned, you will be a mile from house. It's terribly unfair :(
That said, the Tech is across the street from the park where "Christmas in the Park" will be going in full swing. It's a weird little Santa's Village thing they have in SJ every year, that for reasons I can't fathom, is quite well attended. So street parking will suck. There is a pay lot across the street from the Tech and the Adobe... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 1:28 AM on October 28, 2007
MeTa post:
60, 000!
Who else in this thread is a November 18, 2004?
posted by baphomet at 10:12 AM on October 2
Me. I still feel like a noob.
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 1:15 PM on October 21, 2007
MeTa post:
Writing posts that adhere to MF style/content rules
Single link posts better be to a really compelling, interesting or funny link. The article you link to is another in a long line of "look, Bush is lying again". Something that anybody with a functional frontal lobe already knows.
And, yeah, don't editorialize on the blue. It's bad form.
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 12:58 AM on October 19, 2007
MeTa post:
All hail DaShiv.
So I guess the NYT trend piece means that Metafilter has been over for about six months, huh?
Nah, it means the Times has been over for about 6 years.
And don't worry Matt, nobody reads the Times, they just look at the pictures.
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 12:44 AM on September 29, 2007
MeTa post:
Schadenfreude by proxy?
I don't really care about the politically incorrect aspects of it, but it's just not funny. Also agree with soundofsuburbia, either post it where it belongs or don't post it, but kinda sorting posting it in metatalk is lame.
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 4:07 PM on September 16, 2007
MeTa post:
AskMe Follo Up
Giving is over rated, anybody with a wallet can give. Finding a truly thoughtful gift for that particular person is where the hard work comes in.
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 8:20 AM on September 11, 2007
MeTa post:
Has this 1994 Cheney interview been posted?
I hate bushco as much as the next guy (probably more), but I don't think that link adds anything new to the discussion. Yes, Cheney's a liar, that's not really news to anyone who's paid even a little attention. Let's save our collective axe grinding for something special, like when Rove announces he's going to work for the Clinton campaign.
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 6:55 PM on August 13, 2007
Has this been posted yet?
(better late than never)
posted by davejay at 9:34 PM
I love Safari Stand, driveby rickrolling is a thing of the past, all I see is a harmless, noiseless, grey box. Although I do love the way that "rickrolling" sounds like something Scooby Doo would say.
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 11:19 PM on August 13, 2007
MeTa post:
Subsites
toughlove.askmefi- Where we can drop the niceness act and tell the askers what we really think, like "how did you not see this loser/nut-job/anal retentive freak coming a mile away, much less marry him/her?" or "I really wish this wasn't annonymous so I would know to leave quickly if I ever met you in person".
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 9:36 AM on July 30, 2007
MeTa post:
Linking to Deleted Posts?
Man, I miss Alex Reynolds. That guy wasn't afraid to have his real name out there next to all his comments.
Something to think about there, so-called "Blazecock Pileon"..... (wink,wink)
Balisong, Alex Reynolds is just another fictional layer in Blazecock Pileon's stack of deceit and deception. He can't be trusted under either name.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 10:05 AM on July 28, 2007
MeTa post:
Personal Blimp Followup
Blimp crash expectation: 100%
Actual blimp crashage: 0%
Now if it was the New York Times, I know for a fact that the great gusts of hot air released from the building would buffet the balloon up and away from the building making any such crash virtually impossible.
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 1:13 PM on July 23, 2007
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Yet another why was it deleted : repulitards or kids with troubles ?
No offense to the modsquad, but it has been feeling a bit heavy handed and a bit capricious lately.
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 10:41 AM on July 20, 2007
Just to throw a little gasoline in the fire, why isn't the current Bill O'Rielly thread getting axed? It doesn't seem to offer anything above LOLREPUBLICANZ which makes it right up there with elpapacito's post (which was at least new subject matter, BO bashing is a mefi national pastime).
posted to MetaTalk by doctor_negative
at 12:53 PM on July 20, 2007
