I'd piss on the damn sparkplugs if I thought it'd do any good.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 10:45 AM on July 17, 2008

Don't worry about it. There's nothing you really need to know, and if there is, it'll come up again and you can catch up on it then (although you might not be as quick with a zinger as you might otherwise be).

Seriously, this is a website that's fun to read sometimes. It has a lot to recommend it, but one of those things is that you don't need to consider it an obligation (and you'll probably be happier if you don't).
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 12:51 PM on July 7, 2008

I'm in.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 3:58 PM on April 14, 2008

I had a bit of trouble getting mine out the door. I taught the songs to my parrot alright, but he had some real trouble training the parakeets to carry the tunes (to be fair, it was only two of the six parakeets), and then my supplier was all out of carrier pigeons. But, I finally strapped the last of the whistlers to its pigeon, and released them all into the air at lunch today. If they can make it out of Baltimore without incident (by no means guaranteed), then folks in Swapset Ninja Tune... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 10:09 AM on June 11, 2008

That's right, yours and Slybevel's. I've only listened to yours, driving back and forth to Catoctin Mtn last weekend, and I liked both discs quite well.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 7:58 PM on June 11, 2008

carsonb, the missing third disc is awesome. Disc 2 Track 2 of mine goes with Disc 3 Track 1 of yours. If this presages your discs at all, I can't wait. Thanks.

pompomtim-I gave you the benefit of the doubt, figuring yours were out on the great ocean.

god hates math-My parrot made that record! But, you're right, he does have trouble turning it over.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 4:15 AM on June 12, 2008

I've gotten pompomtom's. carsonb, have you still not received mine?
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 3:58 AM on July 3, 2008

Wait, you said you had rec'd it (and you commented on the packaging) above.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 12:38 PM on July 3, 2008

carsonb-I'll try to put together some cds for you and get them out to you before too long. Unfortunately I've had some trouble with my music backups and stuff, so it'll take longer than it should.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 3:58 AM on July 7, 2008

I might be available. Artscape is fun, but isn't really much of a meetup spot.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 6:49 PM on July 6, 2008

Great idea!
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 1:26 PM on June 16, 2008

If we accept that bipolar/ADD are abnormalities of brain chemistry, rather than personality flaws or behavioral differences, then it makes total sense to medicate kids in order to correct the brain chemistry. We don't tell adults with mental illness to just suck it up and act normally.

You do recognize all the unproven assumptions in that statement, don't you?
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 4:38 PM on June 10, 2008

I can't wait until Obama makes the rapture come!
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 1:06 PM on June 10, 2008

Who looks stupid now Omie?

Yeah, the irony is I kind of like your raptor porn. It's the stegosaurus stuff I can't stomach. Those spiky tails squik me out.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 1:51 PM on June 10, 2008

pwb503 was technically correct : NSFW means pornographic or violently gory

I don't want to be too pedantic, but "technically" NSFW means Not Safe For Work. Many things can fit that description, and pictures of cervixes certainly might. (Not for me, I work at an STD clinic, but, for many other workplaces.)

I pretty much think you messed up your own FPP, pwb503, so I don't have much sympathy for your plight.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 1:40 PM on June 4, 2008

American Heritage Third Ed gives it as from the Latin, too, but traces that to the Indo-European root ker-¹ for which important derivatives are horn, cornea, corner, cornet, migraine, cerebrum, cervix, carat, among others. II. Suffixed form ker-wo-. 1. cervine, serval from Latin cervus, deer. 2. Cervix, from Latin cervix, neck.

No connection to vixen.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 6:47 PM on June 4, 2008

Wow, I came back to this thread because I noticed that a followup was subtly further into the margin than the answers. Very nice.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 11:27 AM on June 4, 2008

Oh, for Christ's sake, stop being a whiny baby.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 7:45 PM on May 29, 2008

Sorry, in case it wasn't clear, that's directed to the OP, and anyone else who posts complaining about a deleted AskMe question.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 7:46 PM on May 29, 2008

The first question was allowed because it was talking about something politically correct, and my question was deleted because I was talking about something politically incorrect.

What's it like to be that smart?
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 7:46 PM on May 29, 2008

and as to the "first few comments" in the thread they clearly did not have time to actually read the LA Times OP-Ed that FFF linked to. There's no way they read it.

It sounds as if you're suggesting both that ten minutes isn't enough time to read an op-ed, and that the only person who has access to the LA Times is FFF, and no one could have seen this and read it before he posted it here. Not ascribing to your point of view doesn't prove mendacity.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 4:08 AM on May 20, 2008

ascribingsubscribing
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 4:09 AM on May 20, 2008

It's the poster child for unsafe sex, and EC is absolutely and immediately warranted.

You sound like a fundamentalist, because, well, you're reasoning like a fundamentalist. These folks had slightly unsafe sex. There's no aspect of it that's the poster child for anything, aside from bad judgment. The question was about probability, and you have answered it incorrectly by insisting that it's really a black or white question... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 9:43 AM on May 16, 2008

Casting aspersions about being a "fundamentalist" is completely unwelcome.

Perhaps you don't know that fundamentalism need not be merely a religious designation?

I can't help you with the relative risk thing. Binary outcomes do not obviate relative risk, even if they may change how we make our assessment. This is, in fact, how all birth control works, since almost all methods have a non-zero chance of resulting in... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 4:10 AM on May 19, 2008

The May Mefi running challenge is here. I run a lot, but if I don't take days off I get injured pretty quickly. It's self-serving, but I would argue that for running distance is a more fair metric than a streak, because the repetitive pounding is much harder on your body. I was a courier for two years, rode every day on the weekends, and never lost a day to injury. If I go two weeks running without a day off I'm pretty likely to get injured.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 4:26 PM on May 12, 2008

I've thought about this a bit more, and I wanted to comment again to say that the idea of a streak, while fine for cycling, is a poor choice of an achievement for running. I mentioned before that streaks lead to injury while running much more quickly (and regularly) than they do with cycling, and that bears repeating. Because that's true, a running streak measures nothing but the streak. If one takes the streak as a proxy for commitment or work ethic, it's a poor proxy. I could run two miles... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 6:28 PM on May 15, 2008

I also think you're overreacting. The poster wanted comment about whether or not she could make it as a lawyer, and she got it.

I'm confused about your link to the "referendum on the legal profession," which seems to be nothing like that at all. I think you're kind of thin skinned. I'm not a lawyer, but I do think lawyer jokes are stupid, and I could find nothing wrong with it.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 7:35 AM on April 29, 2008

Do not even believe in the condition.....There is the source of your judgmentalism. You think people with ADHD are retards. Nice. Frankly, you are not qualified to comment here, medical degree, specialty, or whatever; you are too prejudiced as regards this issue.

Quite aside from your rank misreading of ikkyu2's comment about ADD & ADHD, your comment makes me wonder what you think the proper criteria are for commenting on AskMe. It seems that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 5:34 AM on May 1, 2008

Viomeda--Leaving aside for the moment the extensive research on the poor validity and reliability of hte DSM-IV, my patients (I'm a psychotherapist licensed to diagnose) with either mood disorders or addictions all exhibit almost all of those symptoms. (The climbing symptom of hyperactivity, not so much.) So, I'm not sure what you mean by the DSM being "precise about this."
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 4:41 PM on May 1, 2008

I do, however, know some folk who really suffer from ADD. They are helped by their drugs, Concerta, in measures too significant to ignore, and the clinical studies for these drugs are very, very strong.

caddis-It sounds as if you're using a response to medications as evidence that a unitary disease state exists. Surely this is faulty logic, although I'll agree that it's too often psychiatric (or at least lay psychiatric) logic.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 4:40 AM on May 2, 2008

Also interesting, I note that no one mentioned anything in the thread about the difficulties of getting into grad school in the first place - having the grades and the test scores comes first before you can even get to the point of acceptance.

Getting into grad school and having untreated ADD are pretty incompatible. I won't say it never happens (and the number of people in grad school who get ADD diagnoses is certainly high), but scroll up and read... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 4:28 PM on May 2, 2008

Joel Grey is on Metafilter?!?!!

Well, it's almost impossible to recognize him since the plastic surgery. Or is that Jennifer?
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 11:53 AM on April 22, 2008

I added iconomy as a contact for exactly that reason. Although I only added jessamyn as a contact because she said she'd beat me up if I didn't.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 4:41 PM on April 20, 2008

Damn, she did it too, and all over a joke on my part. I added her as a contact and she STILL beat me up.

(Change it back jessamyn, please?)
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 6:16 PM on April 20, 2008

So-called positive racism is as-bad as negative racism. It should get NO free ride. If "that black guy is an asshole" is a racist statement, then "that black guy is really cool" is an EQUALLY racist statement

I don't think you even understand the terms here, despite your ability (and desire) to parse things to a fare-the-well.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 2:33 PM on April 18, 2008

I’d go with ambiguous in intent, though not actually in itself racist.

In order to grant the comment ambiguity, one has to forget the standard racist trope of suggesting that Africa is such a mess because blacks cannot govern themselves. Even without reading into posting history, there is a cultural history to comments like that. It's unclear why we should dismiss the years and years of history informing comments like this.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 6:33 PM on April 18, 2008

How is your position different from someone who answers a "what kind of gun should I buy [for my completely legal purpose]" question with an anti-gun screed?

Sometimes people will want to do things with which you disagree. That doesn't excuse your bad behavior, no matter how strongly you disagree.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 3:36 PM on April 11, 2008

you can think so if you like, but it's really more about my general annoyance with the pervasive sense of entitlement that people have, than it is specifically about this particular poster. his/her post was just a jumping off point for me.

It's pretty hard not to come to that conclusion given the amount of personal detail you included in your post, detail that you suggest should make you feel entitled but which failing you overcame in your own life.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 3:54 PM on April 11, 2008

Very odd, I'm not sure what's up or why he's being so weirdly obnoxious.

That stuff is actually standard paulsc fare. He sometimes posts good answers in AskMe, but they are just as often conservative, trite and based in anecdote, while savoring of unearned authority. He has frequently derided the mods here, and the community in general, especially for what he seems to believe is a lack of respect for the 'common man,' mostly as personified by... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 7:41 AM on March 27, 2008

20 December, 1983, New York:

I am reading a book on Kafka. It is a library book, and someone has marked a passage in the margin with a long, wavering line. I pay special attention without finding it particularly rewarding. As I turn the page the line moves. It is a long, dark hair.

--Alan Bennett, Writing Home: Diaries 1980-1990
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 3:30 AM on March 30, 2008

What taz said. I tried, but I'm just so bad at keeping in touch.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 6:16 AM on April 8, 2008

Burhanistan - go somewhere else ? you mean like you?

So you can figure out how to use a poster's history against them, but you can't figure out why your unanswerable, non-question is ridiculous? I think you're being a disingenuous twerp.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 3:32 PM on April 7, 2008

My comment, which isn't all that extensive, in that thread was in response to a request for this kind of information.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 10:04 AM on April 3, 2008

Isn't this a self-link?
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 11:17 AM on April 1, 2008

I'm probably going to show up around that time. I can only stay until 730 or so.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 12:31 PM on March 28, 2008

It was great, if brief. Thanks, peeedro.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 3:03 PM on March 29, 2008

So?
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 11:51 AM on March 28, 2008

I like clamato, not the juice, the word.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 9:27 AM on March 28, 2008

He did chill out for a while, pretty much enough to convince me that he wasn't a troll as such... but he's ramped it up to full strength again now.

He was given a time out. He seems to be dumb as a box of rocks, so he really does lower the level of discourse.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 4:47 AM on March 28, 2008

He was given a time out.

Sorry, that isn't clear. I mean that he was given a timeout before, which might account for his "better" behavior. He doesn't have one now, as far as I know.
posted to MetaTalk by OmieWise at 4:59 AM on March 28, 2008