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MeFi post:
Boom!
Playing for a week? It shouldn't be that hard. I feel a little better now about the many, many games linked off mefi that I fail completely at.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 6:29 PM on August 29, 2008
MeFi post:
Oddstrument
There's an old comment of mine with youtube links to:
mouth harp, hammered dulcimer, electric mandolin, electric oud, glass armonica, steel guitar and digeridoo, hydraulophone, improvised percussion, saw and jug.
Sorry for recycling.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 5:28 AM on August 29, 2008
MeFi post:
Cat heaven
I'm amazed, I expected a crazy cat lady to be at the heart of this.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 3:40 PM on August 28, 2008
Ryvar, Upon arrival at The Cat House, every cat is given any necessary medical care, and is spayed/neutered and vaccinated.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 3:43 PM on August 28, 2008
D'oh.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 3:43 PM on August 28, 2008
MeFi post:
How Buildings Learn
I was thinking about design not living up to its purpose after watching the first episode of Architecture School on the Sundance channel or Hulu.com. They had a section where they interviewed New Orleans residents in the neighborhoods where the first two 'affordable' houses were built by Tulane architecture students.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 8:39 PM on August 27, 2008
I'm in the middle of the second part, and although it could use a little tighter editing, there are some great ideas. I think I'd prefer the book though.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 3:02 AM on August 28, 2008
MeFi post:
Their culture goes to eleven
They messed up their site design, it should look more like metafilter with a goatee.
Seriously though, worth checking out if only for some of the site features (although the flash implementation is mildly annoying).
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 11:19 PM on August 27, 2008
MeTa post:
De-eponystericalism
Canada-USA softwood agreement
Well I for one am glad that we can buy Viagra in the US over the Internet at Canadian drugstore prices. Wait, what?
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 10:02 PM on August 26, 2008
Snarling Squirrel.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 5:47 AM on August 27, 2008
But a resolution not to make uninvited sexual comments about other members would be a good prerequisite.
Maybe there should be a field in people's profile saying whether or not they are asking for sexual harrassment. I'm only being like 90% sarcastic on this point. I guess cluttering up profile and comment post pages with admonishments to behave like a decent human being wouldn't have much effect though.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 10:45 PM on August 27, 2008
MeFi post:
It tastes like burning
Foods that I liked as a kid, but now can barely eat:
I no longer have the courage to chew jawbreakers into little pieces, and the flavor isn't worth sucking on them.
Bubblegum ice cream, or any kid marketed ice cream flavor. Any cheap ass ice-cream, popsickle, fudge-pop or orange push-up that you can get from the ice cream truck excepting the rare it's-it.
Chalky/Waxy chocolate. Reese's pieces. Mexican cocoa eaten... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 6:46 PM on August 26, 2008
On the hotdog derail. I think what Cortex stated is an abomination, but apparently 23% of Americans and quite a few Germans agree with him. I will say that kosher hot dogs are not that great, and the best hot dogs have natural casings and taste more like bockwurst than baloney. Although I prefer few condiments on my hot dogs, I'm willing to entertain any but not all together of the following: mustard, onions, jalapenos, cheese, fresh salsa, curry.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 6:51 PM on August 26, 2008
YOU SAY IT WITH FORKED TONGUE, TOVARISCH.
No, I don't. It's a crime to take the great meat they put into kosher dogs and then cram it into a disgusting artificial casing or make it skinless so that all the juicy flavor leaks out when you cook it.
But then I only eat hot dogs about once a year because it's so hard to find the good stuff in the SF Bay Area.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 8:47 PM on August 26, 2008
The skydiving of candy is alternating Karikari ume or some other salty candy with super lemon (the hard candy with the lemon powder on the outside). Scratch that, it's not the skydiving of candy, it's more like riding a bucking rodeo bull of sour candy with your tongue.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 9:54 PM on August 26, 2008
I forgot one of my childhood pleasures that now disgusts me. Filling every single square on a waffle with syrup before eating. Note that this requires going back and refilling the starting squares as the syrup has started to soak through the waffle by the time you are done. Oh, and fake maple syrup, what's up with that?
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 7:09 PM on August 27, 2008
MeTa post:
What's in a name?
The only time I played a cleric in D&D the character's name was Caine.
When signing onto online games I usually use brocaine, and it was just the first thing I thought of when coming up with an alias. I didn't use my real name because at the time I signed up I was an even worse writer than I am now, and I feared accidentally offending someone who would become my nemesis.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 10:24 PM on August 26, 2008
MeFi post:
"When I get done with this they can put me on my f****** pension."
I thought about train wrecks after an automobile hydroplaning accident at 70 miles an hour, where it felt like it took three minutes to come to a complete stop (at a 40 degree angle on top of a guardrail). Being on a runaway train would give you way too much time to think about your impending doom, and make you constantly wonder whether it would be worth jumping off.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 10:53 PM on August 23, 2008
Ask post:
Too small for Mirena IUD
From Wikipedia:
Contrel, the Belgian company that developed the frameless GyneFix IUD, is developing a lower-dose (14 micrograms levonorgestrel per day) T-frame IUS named Femilis. Femilis would come in a smaller size (Femilis Slim) for nulliparous women. It would be inserted without a plunger, and it is hoped its performance would be less dependent on the experience of the health care professional.
Several trials with positive results... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by BrotherCaine
at 2:33 AM on August 23, 2008
Ask post:
I'm thinking marzipan is out.
Second liketitanic. Also, it's hard to overindulge in really dark chocolate, or something really spicy. I can eat a whole jar of jam if I'm not careful.
You could make a fourteen bean soup mix or something with a lot of fiber in it. My wife made cocoa mix with milk powder / cocoa / mini-marshmallows one christmas. The act of preparing it means he can spend a little time measuring out how much he wants to eat.
posted to Ask Metafilter by BrotherCaine
at 1:42 AM on August 23, 2008
Ask post:
How do I handle my parents who only possibly mean well?
From a western lens what your parents did was utterly wrong, and quite deliberately invasive. However, I'm guessing that this is a cultural thing and you are straddling the boundary. I can't help you with that, but I'll say one thing. If they didn't already have a copy of your key, they've made one now. They won't hesitate to use it if they feel justified. Change the locks in your apartment, and keep the old ones. If you decide to temorarily trust them to help you in... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by BrotherCaine
at 1:29 AM on August 23, 2008
MeFi post:
Where's my image?
Which will happen first, getting bought by Google, or getting a dwarf fetishist in trouble for accidently downloading child porn?
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 9:33 PM on August 21, 2008
MeTa post:
Amazed at no FPP on McCain's epic gaff
Checking deletedthread.blogspot.com reveals no one submitted this yet. So EPIC FAIL. Why didn't you go find a crappy politics of the day blog or make a decent post.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 9:18 PM on August 21, 2008
Oh, I forgot to call you an asshole.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 9:19 PM on August 21, 2008
Let me do my Fort Hayes State debate coach imitation on you, Brother Caine!
If you had put half as much wit and effort into your post as you did that comment, I wouldn't have a beef with you.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 9:23 PM on August 21, 2008
MeFi post:
Her changeable smile
I knew an artist who hand painted a Mona Lisa corpse (with obligatory worms coming out of the decaying skull) on the back of his trenchcoat. Very punk chic.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 6:43 PM on August 20, 2008
MeFi post:
Emily brings us out of the Uncanny Valley
Oh man, could you imagine the porn to be made from this technology?
Unfortunately I can easily imagine the cheesy alien/monster damsel in distress space porn that will be made with this technology. If I could erase all the bad poserporn images from my brain I definitely would.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 11:04 PM on August 19, 2008
The disturbing thing for me is the likelihood of pornographers using motion capture technology to create astonishingly realistic child pornography by mapping adult porn stars onto models of children. Given that this process can be used on existing film/video, they wont even have to hire actors.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 12:11 AM on August 20, 2008
Delmoi, I'm not sure that it needs a new video source, and one could generate a lot of permutations from each source.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 1:59 AM on August 20, 2008
Marissa Stole the Precious Thing, the Miller test may be sufficiently narrow to present pornographer's with a workaround. If they produced a film that had an anti-molestation message, and then included obscene content, I'm not sure what the courts would do with it. Especially if they were careful about distribution. I never would have guessed ahead of time that CPPA would get shut down by the Supremes, but it seems to me that defining legal limitations on speech without leaving loopholes is... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 4:12 PM on August 20, 2008
Edit: Pornographers, not pornagrapher's. I wish someone would come along and censor my superfluous apostrophes.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 6:07 PM on August 20, 2008
MeFi post:
Fighting the flu for 90 years
Brandz, I am not an immunologist, but from what I understand of the HIV vaccine efforts, it's a far more complex problem than any kind of flu vaccine. This news doesn't really tell us much about the mechanisms of the immune system for fighting an infection, just the lifespan of the memory cells. In other words, this may lead to new vaccine schedules, and broader spectrum flu vaccines.
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 4:28 PM on August 20, 2008
MeTa post:
you're not helping
We wouldn’t have all these problems if they closed new sign-ups and/or randomly deleted 20,000 or so existing accounts. MeFi would be much better off over the long term.
That got seven favorites? If I ran a site like this, I'd take 20,000 lulzy schlubs (myself included) for a new user like ornate insect any day of the week. Do you think there was some kind of magic wand that limited early pre $5 metafilter to awesome individuals? I suspect it was... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 10:43 PM on August 19, 2008
I just picked him as the newest sign up I could think of who contributes excellent posts (IMO). If bondcliff's contention is that lower user # means better quality I thought I'd pick a counterexample.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 1:41 AM on August 20, 2008
Artw, no way, that's worse than being a redshirt. Not only 100% fatal, but usually with a javelin/crossbow bold/grapnel lodged in your gut, and falling screaming to the sands/spikes/rubble below.
posted to MetaTalk by BrotherCaine
at 3:51 PM on August 20, 2008
Ask post:
Ex-criminal thinking of committing new crimes.
My limited experience in computer security is that no one wants to think about it or budget for it unless they get burned. You can't scare them into it without them fearing you, but maybe you could work an angle where you look for businesses/CEOs who've been burned recently and try to get your foot in the door while they are feeling vulnerable. The smart/paranoid ones are going to be looking very, very hard at you though.
posted to Ask Metafilter by BrotherCaine
at 2:23 AM on August 20, 2008
MeFi post:
"708ers. What do you expect?"
Pyramid termite, I get about six telemarketing calls on my mobile in any given year, but I got about one a day on my landline before I switched to VOIP, and even with VOIP I still get one a week or so. Not that I'm judging your lack of mobile phone, whatever works for you. I will say that people rapidly switch from thinking of it as a luxury to thinking it is a necessity.
As far as emergencies go, mobiles are great if you aren't hiking in canyons; even canyons in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by BrotherCaine
at 12:20 AM on August 20, 2008
