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Something to make the
inner geek that is inside your
inner geek do the
boogie-woogie: "
Weird Al"
Yankovic announces that thanks to digital distribution, he will begin releasing songs as he records them, while the parodied song is still fresh in the public's mind, instead of waiting for an album release every three to four years. The first one will come out on October 7. iTunes will have first dibs on the new singles for the first 14 days, after which they'll go to other online music retailers.
(via /.)
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 12:07 PM on October 3, 2008
(70 comments)
You've moved to a town very remote from any of your established social circles: you have no best nor casual friends nor any romantic relationships. You go into one or more meetings of utter strangers with whom you know you share some common interest (OneBrick, a Mefi meetup, a Meetup.Com thing, or something else entirely). What do you do — specifically, pretend I've got Asperger's here (no offense to those who do) — to take things from the level of "just an amiable conversation" to an actual friendship?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 3:47 PM on September 25, 2008
(25 comments)
BBC: Hadron Collider forced to halt.
An underground tunnel fault released one ton of liquid helium, which had been acting as coolant, into the tunnels of the Large Hadron Collider, causing 100 supercooled magnets to heat up by an extra 100°C and then fail. Vacuum was lost as well.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 7:46 PM on September 19, 2008
(50 comments)
One of the most discouraging trends I see in Metafilter as a whole is this
very widespread tendency for
Mefites to focus to a fetishistic degree on bureaucratic policing rather than content. I don't think the tendency makes someone a bad person, nor do I claim I've been immune to it. But it's a variation of ...
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 8:54 AM on September 17, 2008
(110 comments)
I am looking for someone to alter via Photoshop a photograph I will provide to them, and make the photograph reflect a large weight loss. I intend to use the end result as a motivational tool. I can provide numerical values upon hiring, but it would not be a small adjustment.
I would ask anyone responding to this advertisement to include either an attachment with, or a link to, some Photoshop work they've done on an image of a human being. It need not be weight-loss Photoshopping.
I unfortunately do not have access to a modern-day-pixel digital camera; my digital camera is 1.3 megapixels (yes, it's an ANCIENT Olympus digital camera). But I understand that might affect your ability to accomplish the task; please let me know if it would make it impossible.
I am looking to pay in the vicinity of $40-60 for this. Anything above $60 is unfortunately out of my budget range; an ideal price would be $50.
(If that is an utterly unreasonable price for this kind of assignment, please let me know ... I'll probably nix the job then ... )
posted to MeFi Jobs by WCityMike
at 12:43 PM on September 11, 2008
You know, there's been
fiction about
Mefi post-apocalypse. But if you look at
this thread and at the
9/11 thread, it'd be 180° from what's been (jokingly) suggested:
man, do we pull together. (I see visions of us geographically gathering together post-apocalypse and being the only functioning society on the planet ... )
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 8:22 AM on September 5, 2008
(39 comments)
What are the underlying processes occurring during an orgasm that are the biological causes of the pleasurable sensation we associate with it? Is the sensation of orgasm a function of the nervous system, or is it something neurochemical in the brain, or both, or neither? Is the reason that certain masturbatory and/or sexual acts feel good because of nerve concentration in the erogenous areas, or is it something different or more in nature?
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 5:46 PM on September 2, 2008
(9 comments)
I'd honestly like to know why half of America voted for George W. Bush in 2000: what their reasoning was.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 9:38 AM on August 25, 2008
(100 comments)
Privileges:
Gender: 10 things only men can do (Askmen.com),
male privilege (wiki),
21 Things Women Can Do That Guys Can't (Cosmo),
female privilege (2 3 4 5).
Race: white privilege (wiki).
Sexual orientation: straight privilege (2) (wiki),
cisgendered privilege.
Body: able-bodied privilege,
non-fat privilege.
Money: non-poor privilege (2),
class privilege (PDF).
Demographics: Christian privilege,
American privilege,
adult privilege,
black male privilege,
Muslim male privilege.
Combo: gamer privilege,
male programmer privilege.
Criticism and essays: victim privilege, "
Point of Privilege", "
We can't be equal while ... ", "
Where's My Extra Piece of the Pie?". And, lest this become too serious:
pirate privilege and
lolcat privilege (the latter via).
(Covered in smaller scope previously.)
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 9:41 AM on August 15, 2008
(162 comments)
Apology (too).
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 9:15 AM on August 7, 2008
(270 comments)
I am a Mac owner who bought
Hazel, an application that will do a number of different tasks to your files based on certain rules. (Think of it as Outlook rules for your Mac desktop.) However, I've really found myself stumped as to what to
do with it, and it's basically just been sitting on my machine unused. If you have it, what do you do with it? If you don't have it or have a Windows machine, do you have any good ideas for rule logic, or automated rules, to apply to files on your desktop, anyway? Looks like it'll auto-run AppleScripts and Unix shell scripts, too. Basically looking to tap other people's minds on this one since my own seems to be balking at this particular mental problem. Thanks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 1:42 PM on July 31, 2008
(8 comments)
Roger Ebert reflects on "Siskel & Ebert", its origins, and his departed friend and enemy, on the occasion of his show's ending (after many permutations and forms). And they're taking the thumbs with them.
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 9:55 AM on July 24, 2008
(92 comments)
Consistently, every single time I come home, my cat will come over to a particular corner of my desk -- I need not be sitting at it or indeed be anywhere near it -- and meow while
faux-scratching it. He occasionally will stretch his back after the scratch, but not always. It's extremely cute, and he's such an affectionate cat that I'm even kind of touched by it. But I suppose I find myself curious as to what the gesture breaks down to. I'm assuming it's a greeting, since he repeats it without fail every time I come home after being out for more than a few minutes, but I suppose I'm curious as to what the action signifies. I doubt it's totally random, but I can't quite figure out what "animal world" thing he would be doing by that particular pattern.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 11:25 AM on July 23, 2008
(11 comments)
Your feel-bad story for the day: as a follow-up to
this,
true love evidently doesn't conquer all. That having been said, your feel-good story for the day: this guy has freaking amazing powers of emotional recuperation ...
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 1:15 PM on July 15, 2008
(70 comments)
Former White House spokesman
Tony Snow developed
colon cancer in February 2005 thanks to having suffered from
ulcerative colitis for much of his life; he died today from that ailment. Snow was a "Fox News Sunday" anchor, a Fox News Channel political analyst, a guest host for Rush Limbaugh's radio program, the host of Fox News Radio's "The Tony Snow Show", and a NPR commentator. Chief of Staff Josh Bolten told staffers that unless they could commit to staying the full remainder of Bush's term, they should leave by Labor Day 2007, prompting Snow's resignation (due to what he said were financial reasons), where he was succeeded by
Dana Perino. He played the guitar, saxophone and
flute and was in a band called Beats Workin'. "Bush's wavering conservatism has become an active concern among Republicans, who wish he would stop cowering under the bed and start fighting back against the likes of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi and Joe Wilson," said Snow in a column. "The newly passive George Bush has become something of an embarrassment."
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 8:06 AM on July 12, 2008
(125 comments)
I recently switched over to a plain text file as my to-do list; I can structure it the way I want, it is an absolute cinch to access in any one of a hundred zillion different ways, it's crossplatform, and so on. However, I am running into one methodology I can't figure out how to translate into the "plain text" world, and that is repeating tasks.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 10:46 AM on July 7, 2008
(23 comments)
I would like to know a few things about withdrawing (not loaning, but flat-out
withdrawals) from 401(k) funds.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 11:21 AM on June 26, 2008
(4 comments)
Mefi's Own Baby_Balrog: "Stephen and I traveled to Bilin, near Ramallah, on Friday. [...] IDF soldiers began firing CS gas canisters and rubber-coated steel bullets at the marchers [...] here's a video of me running away when the soldiers started firing gas canisters [...] I had my jump kit with me and tried to help a few people [...]" He's writing a pretty fascinating blog.
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 12:56 PM on June 24, 2008
(14 comments)
How can I best set up a question regarding furniture rearrangement (in terms of spatially rearranging things, with measurements) on the Internet, and is Ask Mefi the best source or are there other communities that would be better? Are there Flash tools that let you post furniture floorplans and let others come and rearrange things? Alternatively, for advice simply on arrangement of furniture, how much might a professional's advice be, and would an interior decorator be the profession to turn to? (Do they still call themselves interior decorators? It seems a '70s term.)
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 2:08 PM on June 11, 2008
(12 comments)
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
"My mind now expects to take in information the way the Net distributes it: in a swiftly moving stream of particles. Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski."
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 9:37 AM on June 10, 2008
(86 comments)
Please for the love of all that is holy, can we stop?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 6:24 AM on June 4, 2008
(1 comment)
Website help: I'm asking for some input on (1) straightening out a problem with Google and its "description" for each page of my blog; (2) constructing a robots.txt exclusion for certain types of archive pages; and (3) the reason why something is looking for page URLs that have "function.fsockopen" at the end of them.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 12:38 PM on May 30, 2008
(10 comments)
Jack Chick and his cracktasticness has certainly
been covered on Metafilter before. However, in one fell swoop, his cracktasticness has not only squared but cubed. Chick's pamphlet,
Lisa (curiously absent from the
tracts on his site), features a father who gave herpes to his little daughter and then pimps his daughter out to his similarly pedophilic neighbor (who thinks the "pretty juicy gossip" is "pretty kinky") in exchange for the neighbor's silence. Two months of abuse later, the family doctor discovers Lisa's herpes, and does not report the father to the police, because ... well, you'll see. (Makes
the Old Ones look better and better.)
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 8:06 PM on May 24, 2008
(49 comments)
I'm a very overweight man in my early to mid-thirties, and I would appreciate your advice as to how to dress in a way that's complementary to me for social situations (such as going to clubs, bars, lectures, etc.). More inside.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 12:37 PM on May 23, 2008
(27 comments)
Is there a way that I can access some very old PDF files that are encrypted with a password I cannot remember any longer? I have a system running Mac OS X (Leopard), and I do need to do the decryption myself.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 8:57 AM on May 16, 2008
(12 comments)
A woman walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a double entendre, so he gave it to her.
Ba-dum dum.
What's green and has wheels? Grass. I lied about the wheels.
Ba-dum dum. A baby seal walks into a club.
(pause) Ba-dum dum. How many kids with ADD does it take to change a lightbulb? LET'S GO RIDE BIKES!
Ba-dum dum. A priest, a rabbi, and a minister walk into a bar. The bartender says, "What is this, some kind of joke?"
Ba-dum dum. Instant Rimshot. For all those times you need a big red Flash button that'll give you a well-timed rimshot.
(Jokes courtesy of Ask Mefi.)
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 7:10 PM on May 12, 2008
(250 comments)
I recently bought a Sonicare. I like how it makes my teeth feel cleaner than they had been, and anecdotal evidence from others suggests it's going to help my gums. But I really can't figure out how the toothpaste works with this thing.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 7:32 PM on May 7, 2008
(10 comments)
Would it be possible for someone -- admin, volunteer, or even I could take a whack -- to develop a print stylesheet for Metafilter?
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 10:52 AM on April 29, 2008
(140 comments)
Are there alternatives to the lotus position for classic meditation that don't leave the back unsupported? I've found that sitting in an unsupported position, or in a chair that doesn't have a seat back, ends up making my back ache rather strongly. I've thought about investigating meditation (and looking into the more classical, early practices), but have wondered if there's a "kosher" (accepted in the discipline) way of doing the more classical meditations while having your back completely supported (by lying on the ground, or doing it in a chair, or what have you).
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 8:16 PM on April 24, 2008
(15 comments)
Just a derail-preventing idea ...
posted to MetaTalk by WCityMike
at 10:50 AM on April 22, 2008
(60 comments)
I have an ethical or logical quandary that I'm trying to puzzle out.
posted to Ask Metafilter by WCityMike
at 8:34 AM on April 17, 2008
(33 comments)
"Bruce Springsteen" sings the glories of Vista SP1. I wouldn't be surprised if the real Springsteen leads a strike force into Microsoft headquarters when he sees his duplicate (complete with faux Courtney Cox in the audience) singing "See what's on employees' desktops / with AIS and M-DOP".
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 5:10 PM on April 16, 2008
(67 comments)
The antidote to LOLbushsuxx0rs.
Over the course of the past week, Slate ran a ten (10!)-piece series, "Fixin' It", in which various writers postulated how the course of various aspects of the United States' military, culture, and policies could be redirected for the better. Although the articles are not entirely devoid of Bush criticism, there's mostly a fairly rare focus on the positive actions to be taken from here onward by the next President (whether it be McCain or Obama or Clinton).
posted to MetaFilter by WCityMike
at 5:54 PM on April 10, 2008
(33 comments)
