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Late 1980s or very early 1990s made for television science fiction mini-series. All I remember is that it involved some space ships that joined together to form something else, at least a couple of kids, possibly an abandoned/run-down space station or colony, and a mystery to be solved by flying all over the place. Like all such things I probably wouldn't enjoy it now, but would like to watch it again if possible.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Captaintripps
at 6:44 PM on April 8, 2007
(10 comments)
Cool Stuff Being Made:
Each week the National Association of Manufacturers posts a new, generally-lengthy video of something being made.
posted to MetaFilter by Captaintripps
at 5:23 AM on January 23, 2007
(18 comments)
The Out Club
A small business project I worked on, The Out Club is a new record club for the GLBT community and the first record club to offer full-album downloads as well as CDs. All downloads are DRM-free. It's reaching out heavily to gay and lesbian artists as well as labels who produce music by or of interest to GLBT music lovers.
posted to Projects by Captaintripps
at 9:07 AM on November 4, 2006
Conversations with Fiona Apple
Culled from about a half hour of footage, Conversations with Fiona Apple is an improvisation based partly in the comedy of Bob Newhart. It outlines some of the problems in dating Fiona Apple, but doesn't mention David Blaine.
posted to Projects by Captaintripps
at 3:34 PM on October 1, 2006
May we have a "not the best of the web" flag?
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps
at 1:44 PM on June 1, 2006
(45 comments)
I've got my DV camcorder, my big hard drive and my PowerBook all set and ready to go with Final Cut Pro. I've tinkered around a bit, but I want to really get to know what I'm doing. What now?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Captaintripps
at 4:33 PM on May 29, 2006
(9 comments)
Axes & Alleys
The 16th issue of our megazine comprises everything you ever watned out of A&A. Looking at the world from a sixty degree angle, we take you out with advice from Montezuma II, poetry by H.G. Peterson and a ton of other commentary, columns and insight from the world's best tractor publication.
posted to Projects by Captaintripps
at 2:50 PM on January 29, 2006
Sharkey's wife/friend
may not be able to do her job anymore. You remember
Jonathon "The Impaler" Sharkey, the undead, bloodsucking candidate for Minnesota governor, don't you? Julie Carpenter's association with her husband/friend and Wicca affiliation makes her unsuited to drive the school bus, according to the Princeton Schools Superintendent. [
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at 10:42 AM on January 16, 2006
(94 comments)
jessamyn: Thank You. I've been an internet forum moderator for years now and I think you've been doing a kick-ass job in my professional estimation. Kudos.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps
at 5:28 PM on December 3, 2005
(26 comments)
HELLBENT
- The first gay slasher movie. Taking place at the famed West Hollywood Halloween Carnival, there is a serial killer on the loose. A group of four gay friends will have to fight for their lives to make it through a night where flamboyant costumes, beautiful people, drugs, music, dancing and sex are everywhere.
Trailer (quicktime, NOT SAFE FOR WORK).
The soundtrack looks pretty good.
posted to MetaFilter by Captaintripps
at 12:39 PM on November 14, 2005
(65 comments)
The Best in Tractor Repair and Maintenance Information Since 1903
Axes & Alleys is the premier print and online magazine brought to you by The Royal Tractor Repair and Maintenance Society of Outer Mongolia. Featuring editorials by leading luminaries, advice from the great Montezuma II, poetry by Global Poet Laureate H.G. Peterson and much more, Axes & Alleys has gained incredible popularity outside the insular Montsylvanian community of its birth in its two years on the interconnected network. Axes & Alleys accepts submissions, letter to the editor and questions for Montezuma. We will consider other submissions on a case-by-case basis.
posted to Projects by Captaintripps
at 8:27 PM on November 8, 2005
Nebraska
has the only unicameral, non-partisan legislature in the United States. Created by constitutional amendment in 1935, Nebraska's legislature gained brief influence as a model of legislative politics after the
"one man, one vote" Supreme Court rulings in the mid-60s. Many states had not reapportioned their districts for years,
creating an imbalance in state and national legislative politics.
The Supreme Court ruling which sparked the brief campaign for unicameral legislatures.
posted to MetaFilter by Captaintripps
at 4:56 AM on November 7, 2005
(31 comments)
What's the best, free, easy-to-install web statistics/server log analyzer?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Captaintripps
at 10:33 AM on October 2, 2005
(10 comments)
Can we get more NewsFilter? Please? I really think it's the best of the web.
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posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps
at 6:44 PM on June 20, 2005
(84 comments)
I have 12 issues of an image intensive 'zine in PDF. I've slowly been converting them to XHTML by hand. I'm halfway through the 5th issue and I'm sick of it. Is there any easy, or less difficult, way to convert these?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Captaintripps
at 7:48 PM on April 1, 2005
(5 comments)
Our company recently participated in the MIDEM conference in Cannes (and they didn't take me!). We were assessed a reimbursable Value Added Tax. However, MIDEM arranges this repayment through an agency which takes a cut. I would like to get reimbursed without anyone taking a cut. Is this possible to do directly?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Captaintripps
at 7:11 AM on March 2, 2005
(4 comments)
PageMaker7 on Windows XP now screws up exported PDFs where it didn't before. [More inside]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Captaintripps
at 12:36 PM on February 21, 2005
(7 comments)
What do they put as your country of birth if that country no longer exists? [More inside.]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Captaintripps
at 9:20 AM on February 11, 2005
(16 comments)
Lithium Picnic
is one of the multitude of fetish/goth photography sites, but with a low key, only slightly snobbish attitude and many great photos.
Apnea,
Anyssa,
Domiana. (Main link is possibly NSFW, all the photos I linked to are SFW, but others on-site probably are not.)
posted to MetaFilter by Captaintripps
at 12:38 PM on January 26, 2005
(10 comments)
The 2011 post leads to a paid-subscription only article and indirectly through the comments ends up being a
self-link. I'm sure it's accidental, but it shouldn't be there.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps
at 2:43 PM on January 9, 2005
(23 comments)
I'm helping my mother move from Texas to California. Starts in San Antonio, stops once in Tucson, AZ and finishes in Santa Rosa, CA. The on-line map services all seem to go by Interstate without regard to other roads. Can you recommend a quicker route than the Interstate system or is that indeed the quickest route?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Captaintripps
at 12:19 PM on January 5, 2005
(14 comments)
John Perry Barlow's trial commences
and is commented upon by Seth David Schoen. A most interesting paragraph was:
"First follow-up question: If you think a bottle contains an improvised explosive device, is it appropriate to shake it?
No, that's almost the worst thing you can do.
Second: Is it appropriate to open the bottle?
No, that's the worst thing you can do.
The defense then argued that Ms. Ramos could not really have believed that the ibuprofen bottle in question contained an improved[sic] explosive device, because she had testified that, on removing it from Barlow's bag, she became suspicious of it, then shook it, and then opened it. These actions were the most dangerous actions she could possibly have taken if she really believed that the bottle might contain explosives..."
Followup for
this post.
posted to MetaFilter by Captaintripps
at 8:39 AM on December 17, 2004
(9 comments)
It's that time of year again.
I don't think Pearl Harbor Day is that important to most people anymore, but it was always an important part of December in my family.
posted to MetaFilter by Captaintripps
at 8:19 AM on December 7, 2004
(38 comments)
Not your smooth jazz crap!
Frank Kimbrough is part of the
Jazz Composer's Collective, a prolific and
amazing composer and one of my mentors. His music is groovy, intellectual and comes from an area that includes much thought, much playing and
being the house pianist for years in what used to be a real crap bar owned by devotees of Ayn Rand. My favourite of his many groups is the Herbie Nichols Project, which resurrects the music of a man taken early from this world, but who could have done much more for music.
posted to MetaFilter by Captaintripps
at 10:39 PM on December 2, 2004
(7 comments)
UNPO: All the flavor of regular UN without all the fat.
UNPO is a democratic alternative to regular UN. Its members are indigenous peoples, occupied nations, minorities and independent states or territories who have joined together to protect their human and cultural rights, preserve their environments and to find non-violent solutions to conflicts which affect them, with half the sugar and no fat.
List of members.
posted to MetaFilter by Captaintripps
at 10:32 AM on December 1, 2004
(11 comments)
