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"He makes Gozer look like little Mary Sunshine."
Oh my god did I love that cartoon...and for its realism no less. I was devastated when it was revamped for a younger audience. All of a sudden it was full of softer lines, inane plots, more goofiness, and an idiotic ghost. What a tragedy.
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 4:35 AM on June 25, 2008
MeFi post:
Farm life in 1910
Our old neighbor growing up was missing an eye and three fingers from playing with blasting caps as a child. So needless to say, I steered clear of them and favored, instead, glass baby food jars packed with black powder and a waterproof fuse. I don't think it's fishing though if you throw them off of the top of a train trestle into the river.
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 11:26 AM on June 16, 2008
MeFi post:
Rethinking Literacy
Being somewhat familiar with the entire spectrum of language and cultural literacy arguments, I think the more moderate perspective of "the dark side of literacy" is that in certain periods of time and in certain cultures, literacy education has operated somewhat like a re-education camp for colonial powers in a way that destroys pre-existing cultures and languages (sometimes purposefully so). This still does not speak as to whether those being "educated" are better or worse... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 6:07 PM on June 13, 2008
MeFi post:
10th July 2003
Well, now it's settled in my mind, my garden pond will be a foot thick epoxy concrete, generously laced with rebar, with a couple of metal fence posts driven down a few meters as pilings. I think I'll weld the rebar while I'm at it.
This reminds me of a story my father told me of an acquaintance of his who was an often drunk college dean. This dean had, once before, hit and destroyed his neighbor's mailbox coming home from a party. The neighbor, an... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 3:16 PM on May 31, 2008
MeFi post:
Hierarchy of Disagreement
Ad Hominem (literally translated meaning "to the man") forgoes the logos (or logic) of the argument and addresses the ethos (or character) of the arguer. It's only a logical fallacy in the most rigid sense of the and one is ususally only accused of it in extreme or unwarranted uses. Rhetorically speaking though, it is an often evoked and often effective maneuver of persuasive reasoning. An example might be, "Why... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 12:15 PM on May 21, 2008
MeFi post:
Apple cloner or scammer?
Metafilter's own Woz, on the other hand, says he might get one.
Quick, someone get Obama to post a single response here so we can lay claim to him too!
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 5:05 AM on April 19, 2008
MeFi post:
“An Efficient Representation for Sparse Sets”
Russ Cox Translated:
1. Russ Cox, Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit, and The Oppressed: Re-marking Univocal Community
2. The Silence of Capitalism and the Phallic in Russ Cox's Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit
3. The Labial (Re)producing The Other: Russ Cox, Using Uninitialized Memory for Fun and Profit and Collusion
4. Voicing the Deviant Legacy in Russ Cox: Using... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 8:38 PM on March 15, 2008
Mythos as Gentility: Dismembering Existential Opposition in orthogonality's “An Efficient Representation for Sparse Sets”
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 12:42 PM on March 17, 2008
MeFi post:
Learnding
but how juvenile is it
Juvenile in that it is an overt learning tool with questions that correspond to specific educational outcomes (looks like something around 6-7th grade). What I find surprising is that it is also charming and interesting.
I got a few questions wrong
You aren't drilled on this stuff until it makes you weep with rage.
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 8:23 PM on March 16, 2008
MeFi post:
The Atheist Delusion
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang, but a whimper.
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 6:27 PM on March 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Lawmakers consider outlawing 'next marijuana'
Since we are all waxing eloquently about our salvia experiences...I will say that it is definitely not an "abusable" drug in the traditional sense, but that doesn't express the only way that it threatens our fair republic. As for it's abusibility, I would rather smoke a pack of Marlboro Reds than do salvia twice in a day. I do remember experimenting with it for a few months about eight years ago, though. I had wanted to find some DMT, but didn't seem to have the right friends.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 6:50 PM on March 11, 2008
I've already met the self-transforming machine elves
And this is why I was looking for DMT.
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 5:12 AM on March 12, 2008
MeFi post:
Evil email and intense investigation
Like Spongebob Squarepants teasing Sandy the Squirrel about the inadequacies of the State of Texas, Rachel Guyon messed with the bull that is a state attorney general and, unsurprisingly, got both horns.
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 5:03 AM on March 2, 2008
Bottom line: DA is using Willem Dafoe's sledgehammer to crack a nut that actually came pre-crushed.
Beautiful...just beautiful.
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 7:34 AM on March 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Negotiation stories
I was expecting some curvy advice on negotiating six figure deals. I got some cad guffawing about how he beat his ex-wife out of a pool table.
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 4:47 AM on February 28, 2008
MeFi post:
Comics are funny when you change them (sometimes)
These comix are the empty lasagna pans of my soul.
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 2:09 PM on February 26, 2008
I can't wait for the day when we can digitally remove Woody Allen Spike Lee from all of his movies.
I can't wait for the day when we can digitally remove Woody Allen Kevin Smith from all of his movies.
I can't wait for the day when we can digitally remove Woody Allen Quentin Tarantino from all of his movies.
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 5:04 PM on February 26, 2008
MeFi post:
The Soul of France
I'm feeling a little snacky. But really, I'd prefer the oats, millet, and figs I think.
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 7:28 PM on February 20, 2008
Metafilter: Filled with high school debate champions.
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 5:18 AM on February 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Double Nickelled & Dimed
"I didn't use my college education..."
I didn't use my stay-at-home mother who devoted every waking hour to her children.
I didn't use the lessons about crafting opportunity taught to me by my hardworking father.
I didn't use all of those incredible life-skills, like knowing how to grow and preserve your own food, by my Depression-era grandparents.
I didn't use that experience of moving... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 7:20 PM on February 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Just put down your camera. Game over.
Wahhh! Not authentic! Wahhh! Saccharin! Wahhh! You've got no taste! Wahhh! You've been fooled, tool! Wahhh! Wahhh!
Oh wait...I like them. They are better Hallmark than Hallmark.
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 4:26 AM on February 12, 2008
Those who can, do. Those who can't write snarky messages on the internet.
And those of us who can't do anything else get really, really sublime at it!
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 12:31 PM on February 12, 2008
MeFi post:
Paeykillers
MeFites: First against the wall when the revolution comes.
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 6:29 AM on November 21, 2007
MeFi post:
No dearth of mirth today
I think the silliest notion is the the one that there is some powerful rationality that propels or should propel any sort of advancement in "civilization." Clearly, we can only manage that for 2,500 years maximum at a time or so before things go bonkers and we're back to eating crap and beating each other with pointy sticks.
/pictures God's calendar much like my Farside desk calendar.
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 11:09 AM on October 23, 2007
MeFi post:
Iraq was just the beginning.
Previously on metafilter: Plans for the invasion of Canada.
I would like to be a military planner just for the sheer mental masturbation involved.
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 6:20 AM on October 14, 2007
MeFi post:
Digging in the Back Yard
What a nostalgic trip down memory lane.
Thanks Stynxno!
P.S. Don't let the inevitable haters who are going to tell you this thing has been on the Internet longer than their teenage child has been on the planet get you down.
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 9:10 AM on April 19, 2007
MeFi post:
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Hitting something the size of a human torso less than 15 feet away with a 9mm semi-auto is very, very easy - even one handed. At 25-plus feet it requires a practiced aim to do so consistently. To do so with any regularity at 75 feet requires a good weapon with which you are familar through consistent practice.
Though a .22 caliber pistol cartridge is not really an effective round for dropping someone on the spot it is still deadly, particularly in the hands of an... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mrmojoflying
at 9:06 PM on April 17, 2007
