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Paint my thumb green!
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4 days ago
Ask post:
Escape from New York!
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Last month
Ask comment:
"Even streets run East. Odd streets run West (with a few exceptions). This is often a really quick way to get your bearings.
And a correction on the taxi advice given above:
"By the way it's illegal for cabbies to ask you where you're..." [
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3 months ago
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"Just n-thing that you should double-check your work against another qualified expert in the field, as delmoi suggested. There are a few professional mathematicians on Metafilter, so its possible you could seek one of us out or post the problem in..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Solomon, missmagenta
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"But since sparse is uninitialized, it could be pointing anywhere in the "dense" array. We go to that anywhere, and look to see what is there in the "dense" array . If what's there is not the value we expect, it's not..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Monochrome
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Seriously is this just a bunch of showboating? What is so hard about reading the guidelines and flagging things when the don't measure up to them?
I don't spend enough time here to watch every AskMe thread, but the impression that I get is that..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Rock Steady
4 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Wow, what a disaster. Just echoing jessamyn, cortex, grumblebee, and everybody else who was disappointed with the responses in the AskMe thread. I feel that there's a precious gray area (no, not THIS gray area) in AskMe posts where the questioner..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by hjo3, DevilsAdvocate, timeistight, Tehanu
4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"If you favorite this comment I'll send you a mushy MeFi mail love note, possibly with integral equations in them." [
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4 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I'm wondering how many people are going to catch on that xkcd's previous previous comic made fun of this EXACT phenomenon. I'm guessing you're all being set up for epic lulz...." [
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4 months ago
Ask comment:
"Speaking of consumerist.com, start here: Complain Like a Pro in 10 Easy Steps" [
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7 months ago
Ask comment:
"Do you have Book.app or Books.app? Have you read the Installing Ebooks section on the Google Code project page for getting eBooks on your iPod touch/iPhone describing the Gutenmark application?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by woodblock100
7 months ago
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"Don't shit where you eat.
I don't think this is the same poster, BobbyDigital. But to belabor the point, if you or your neighbor are of the maturity level where the expression "Don't shit where you eat" fills you with philosophical..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by runtina, hermitosis
7 months ago
Ask comment:
""I shall spend every minute steadfastly watching AskMetafilter for chatfilter-type questions, then studiously flag them as soon as they crest the front page...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yerfatma
8 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Is it just me or does it look like the 'girl of his dreams' is 4' in relevant comparison to his height?
Get away from that schoolgirl you sick hipster freak!..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Wink Ricketts
8 months ago
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"Hmnn, Wikipedia also suggests anatopism in the See Also from Anachronism." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by kidsleepy
8 months ago
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"And further googling on anatopism and anachorism yields this blog post comparing the two, but which also makes an argument for para- and meta- as prefixes instead...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DevilsAdvocate
8 months ago
Ask comment:
"Code Complete, by Steve McConnell, is well-recommended as an introduction to the practice of software construction, i.e. actually writing code." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by jperkins
10 months ago
MeTa comment:
"In other news, the color of AskMetafilter is apparently Axolotl, can we have one as our new mascot?
Sorry andrew, the way this question was phrased sucked, and that triggered how it got answered by the Mefites and its quick deletion...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by iguanapolitico, chime
10 months ago
MeTa comment:
"As a graduate student in computational science, I'm probably qualified to lead a low-level class in Numerical Methods, Scientific Programming, Object-Oriented Programming, Calculus, Linear Algebra, or something along those lines.
Though I don't..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by orthogonality
11 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Wow, this thread is getting poisonous fast. Have we gotten to the point where personal insults and swearing in half the comments are par for the course in MeTa? OP appears to have retracted, can we close this?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I had this recipe lying around in Google Notebook (Hawaiian-style Korean Fried Chicken), figured somebody might want to try re-creating the flavoring:
A Lot of Korean Chicken
15 pounds chicken (wings/thighs/drummettes/whatever)
4 cups flour
4..." [
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Last year
MeTa comment:
"(IM Conversation last night)
7:45:37 PM onalark: hey
7:45:41 PM thepinksuperhero: hi
7:45:51 PM onalark: I got an idea from reading that AskMe about bone marrow donation
7:45:59 PM thepinksuperhero: yes
7:46:10 PM onalark: do you think it..." [
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Last year
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"I found this to be very useful: Codec Pack for all the new Mac Users!
As for reputable, best I can do is say that this blog post was linked to on digg, made it to the front page, and I didn't see any angry comments there...." [
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Last year
Ask comment:
"Alright, here are three methods for you mammary16. The principles invoked involve neutral buoyancy and all rely on you being able to tell when your head is being 'supported' while being held upside down. Results will probably be less accurate than..." [
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Last year
Ask post:
Escape from New York!
favorited 18 times, recently by sa3z, jonesor, puckish, adipocere, Divine_Wino, allkindsoftime, gofargogo, dancinglamb, kirkaracha, iminurmefi, LobsterMitten
Last year
MeTa comment:
"I can usually pick out
Miguel (self-congratulatory, cocky, foreign)
Pinks (more of the same, but decidedly female)
mathowie (authoritative, lots of anger boiling over into his comments)
quonsar (lower case, angry at mathowie)
EB (several..." [
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Last year
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"As an alumni of a fraternity (not the same one), I'm also with the advice to just let this go. I'm personally not a fan of the flaunting of the secret symbols of a fraternity, some Houses have even gone the other way to open their rituals to public..." [
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Last year
MeTa comment:
"I'm personally pretty disgusted that Metafilterians find this sort of thing entertaining, regardless if it's true or not." [
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favorited 1 time
Last year
MeTa comment:
"jon_kill: I'm likely not to use my question this week. If you'd like to try and repost a better version of this, send me an email (profile) and I'll put it up...." [
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Last year
