Taco trucks are yesterday's news anyhow. What you really want is a cemita poblano truck.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 12:01 PM on May 4, 2008

I rarely see a bacon wrapped hot dog much westerly, but at the Thursday La Cienega Farmers' Market there is one stand that sells them. But then you can't have the Hawaiian BBQ Chicken Burrito.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 12:03 PM on May 4, 2008

Dang. Derivative work foils occasional poster.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 10:03 AM on March 2, 2008

One bone to pick about that SFGate article - It may be news to people outside the guild, but there isn't a single thing in there that would surprise the writers. They knew they were putting their jobs on the line, and shows get cancelled in the middle of every season, strike or no strike. If the strike ends it will be because the contract is good enough for more than half the membership (maybe even just half of those that submit ballots, I'm not sure), not because anyone needs to get back to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 10:53 AM on February 11, 2008

MegoSteve, people looking for return on investment do not put money in documentaries. People funding docs want a specific story explored, and generally with some degree of journalistic standards.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 10:50 PM on February 9, 2008

Well, the spoof website is already unresponsive, I'm only sorry I didn't check to see it was available myself.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 5:28 PM on December 10, 2007

There is a bunch of Leonard Cohen on youtube, including a stupendous version of "Who by Fire" featuring Sonny Rollins.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 8:06 AM on August 28, 2007

Though I don't love von Trier's work, this looks good. But more importantly, in David Bordwell I finally found someone else who thought "The Departed" wasn't edited particularly well.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 8:20 AM on July 4, 2007

Yeah, power a laptop with a huge magnetic field.

I can't think of anything that could go wrong.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 4:27 PM on June 10, 2007

And it's foh-oh-foh. How am I supposed to snark when the single link is busted?

What the hell, I'll give it a go!

This is good news for free-source zealots who happen to be home-studio tinkerers and for no-one else. And it's probably not even that good news for them! They already found the apps they need to do their artistic work.

If you're serious about media production, you want the most predictable and comfortable... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 7:33 AM on May 11, 2007

I hate Mac fanboys telling me this. I can't afford your beautiful and overpriced hardware.

Do you hate that you can't afford it? Do you hate that there is a lot of design work put into Macs as compared to grey-box PC's? You can buy an expensive but ugly Windows machine to do a lot media work if you prefer that, I guess. Or you can pretend that the tools available on Ubuntu Studio afford a creative professional (or even a hobbyist) a comparable... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 12:13 PM on May 11, 2007

Actually chrominance, I didn't say it was better designed than anything - I said there was a lot design work put into them. And I'm actually not talking only about the aesthetics. I've been inside of computers for twenty years, and I've always found that Apple does a hell of a better job for access to components (on the systems with expansion capability, anyway - the iMac is another story) than any other case I've had the displeasure of cracking.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 12:29 PM on May 11, 2007

This is pretty cool - They don't seem to document the step of adding media, though - Seems like that would be one of the more difficult problems.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 3:01 PM on May 9, 2007

Very cool! I grew up in DC, and have probably walked by one of the markers literally thousands of times on the way to the Metro station closest to the house where I lived. Never saw it.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 11:14 AM on May 9, 2007

You know, you don't have to read anything.

I'd be pretty surprised if the 400 page abridgment is of any more use in terms of "cultural literacy" than a 70 page Cliff Notes (or even a wikipedia precis). So anyone defending these abridgements on the grounds that longer==smarter is a fallacy is probably falling for the same fallacy.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 9:21 AM on May 8, 2007

"We" don't get mad because a director doesn't have final cut, "we" get mad when commercial considerations trump artistic ones. It's a fine line, and plenty of people like the originally released version of "Blade Runner" more than the director's cut. But there is a reason for the phrase "Hollywood Ending." When the studio cut versions of films are more interesting and satisfying than what the director wants, more power to the studio. The idea that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 10:36 AM on May 8, 2007

Meh.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 4:39 PM on May 1, 2007

I was born in the leap month of Adar II, so my birthday only comes around every 6 or 7 years. Also, blech, Chabad. They're like the fundamentalist Christians of Judaism in terms of retrograde gender roles.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 8:38 AM on March 14, 2007

He didn't name the magazine, NekulturnY, he just works there. Saveur is one of the premiere food magazines in the US... If he declines to declare a per word rate, it will have zero effect on the number of writers pitching him ideas.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 7:21 AM on March 1, 2007

Heh - I guess I should have checked out his bona fides before making that flip remark!

The list does come off as pretty douchey, but after that first reaction, I sat back and wondered if I believed that he could have received so many poorly though-out proposals as to make such a list meaningful. I decided can believe it, and it makes me more sympathetic to a prickly demeanor.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 1:51 PM on March 1, 2007

... is interesting to a population beyond simply the "conspiracy crackpots"

That's, uh, not really true.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 10:24 AM on February 28, 2007

This is cool - Anyone know if the torrents from 2005 and 2006 are being tracked anywhere?
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 8:12 AM on February 21, 2007

Found 2006 here but nothing for 2005...
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 8:19 AM on February 21, 2007

the sobsister, the link to the actual torrent file is dead on that page.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 8:38 AM on February 21, 2007

I had no problem downloading both 2006 and 2007 overnight, but I do see that the tracker has been throwing errors.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 8:03 AM on February 22, 2007

*blink*
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 7:10 PM on February 9, 2007

These guys are heeelarious live. Catch them if you can...
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 7:55 AM on February 7, 2007

That is truly slick. My guess upon seeing it was in the order of $30,000, but I'm not surprised I guessed low. Is it worth it? To the folks who buy it, I guess. If the tables move as smoothly and the tops fit as tightly as they seem, I can't imagine it being truly mass-produced. I'm sure you have to tune the mechanism of each table individually.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 9:26 PM on January 6, 2007

Did you read the article you linked to?
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 12:07 PM on January 5, 2007

Hit me now.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 8:22 AM on December 29, 2006

I made a huge pot of turkey broth from the remains of the 21-pound bird from Christmas Eve. I am thinking I'll make about a third of it into a thick stew by adding about a third a cup of rice and simmering until that's mostly dissolved, adding some sliced chicken sausage and maybe some canned tomatoes towards the end. That still leaves a couple quarts. If I were at home instead of out of town at the inlaws, I'd freeze half of that and leave the other half in the fridge to be eaten slowly over... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 10:05 AM on December 26, 2006

StickyCarpet, that's an incredibly strange assertion to make. How often do you make anything besides a roast turkey out of a raw one? Besides a deep-fried turkey, that is...
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 12:15 PM on December 26, 2006

I saw La Jetée on a double bill with 12 Monkeys at the excellent Castro theater in San Francisco. I'm a little surprised that no one has mentioned Terminator - I've read that the writer acknowledged the French short as a direct inspiration as well.

I think you overstate the case, koesilitz. I didn't love 12 Monkeys, but the shots of the human-less future are pretty sweet, and while... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 2:51 PM on December 24, 2006

SOP is to post this in the existing thread...
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 3:55 PM on December 22, 2006

I wasn't able to get myself through all ten parts without skimming, but it seems to me that the journalist failed to conclusively prove the source of the chocolate, rather they found that one of their speculations jibed with the taste test. And even if they're right, who cares? What exactly is the fraud being perpetuated?
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 7:32 PM on December 20, 2006

So you're saying my impression is incorrect, Alex404? Newflash: People pay more money than they should because of marketing.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 7:43 PM on December 20, 2006

Maybe Noka is lying about the countries of origin...

Maybe they buy from that company, but get a special batch made just for them, and its indistinguishable from the regular stuff.

If someone from Noka or the supplier confirmed their relationship because the journalist brought enough pressure, that would be one thing. If the journalist had dug up import paperwork or a customs declaration or any actual proof it would be different. Instead you... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 8:03 PM on December 20, 2006

languagehat, I have a great respect for your postings generally...

But... That excerpt contains every single thing I disliked about the article.

No one with half a brain would take the Noka marketing seriously. The people who are buying it do not want the best chocolate. They want the most expensive.

There's a little research, but not too much, or he'd know you can actually sample those beverages today, in such remote... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 7:29 AM on December 21, 2006

Mazel Ruff.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 3:24 PM on December 11, 2006

metatalk
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 9:14 AM on December 6, 2006

Or,

I see what you mean now, grouse.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 9:15 AM on December 6, 2006

fenriq, call your cel phone provider and tell them you don't want SMS. They should be able to disable it.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 9:13 PM on December 2, 2006

Unclench, people. Randi is awesome. This is a puzzle about that ad image. He knows it is a photoshop, and he is saying there is something wrong with it. In the last paragraph, which starts with the word "incidentally," he gets into some silly speculation that the whole thing is a hoax, but that's not really the crux.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 10:10 AM on November 15, 2006

How do you know he's wrong? He hasn't said what he believes is wrong with it yet. There is speculation about what is wrong with it, but nowhere has Randi said what he identifies as the problem.

Do you think that image is an unretouched photo of the actual watch? The four images you linked above aren't even identical to each other in the details on the watch.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 10:18 AM on November 15, 2006

The challenge is 100% to spot the parts of the image that are inconsistent with it being a photo of an actual object.

For the record, here are the things I think he is referring to:

1. The second hand fails to cast a shadow consistent with the other shadows in the image.

2. The bezels are inconsistent.

3. The shadows at the top are inconsistent.
or possibly
3. What... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 11:02 AM on November 15, 2006

Straight up - He's lying to avoid admitting he was wrong.

*blink*
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 9:21 AM on November 17, 2006

One-link newsfilter.
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 5:24 PM on November 1, 2006

He's a fricking United States Senator. Who the hell are you?
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 6:42 PM on October 31, 2006

Huh?
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 9:07 AM on October 15, 2006

petsounds, not only do you not value the industry of art, you don't even value the art. If the writers of the works you want to read in the New Yorker were not paid for their effort, you would never see them. Because in 99% of the cases, if they could not actually earn money creating it, they would not have time to perfect their craft. They would be too busy earning their livings. There are already distribution channels in place for authors who have not been accepted for publication in The... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mzurer at 12:08 PM on September 26, 2006