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"I have the book and I have read his posts on the Oxford University Press blog and I'm not particularly whelmed by his undertaking. Shea shows little understanding of his subject even after he has finished his stunt, which he mistakes for a grand..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by paduasoy
5 days ago
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"Does anyone else feel a sort of light-headed exhilaration when a previously-unknown word clicks into place with a familiar concept? I get a rush of delight from realizing that "there's a word for that" after all.
Sure! I keep a list,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by gac
5 days ago
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"We had a similar situation in our house. We ended up going the traditional route: mama takes care of the baby, papa works to pay the bills but dives into caring for the boy (and the mama) when he can.
However, for the first week or so, my wife was..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by shelbaroo, altolinguistic, mismatched, feathermeat, liquorice, b33j, Joh, Monday, Twicketface, mothershock, gursky
5 days ago
MeFi post:
Duclod man uncovered.
favorited 64 times, recently by Heretic, dd42, sklero, Tube, wilde, ST!NG, divabat, suedehead, painquale, smich, Tommy Gnosis, nataaniinez, CiaoMela, jheiz, krippledkonscious, Iamtherealme, quonsar, benimoto, CKmtl, fish tick, tickingclock, internet!Hannah, padraigin, anni, curbstop, Marla Singer, Roach, jtajta, LMG, agropyron, Atom Eyes, re.becca, buriedpaul, featherboa, Frankieist, aldurtregi, lagreen, Mid, boubelium, dsaelf, davem, languagehat, palmcorder_yajna, biscotti, hilatron, limicoline, madamjujujive, alltomorrowsparties, reflection, eyeballkid, LeeJay, whatnotever, juv3nal, Colloquial Collision, RobotAdam, verysleeping, basicchannel, flaneur, dantsea, statolith, banterboy, Manjusri, interrobang, notswedish
13 days ago
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"NEVER play using the Scrabble dictionary.
Yeah, maybe, Afroblanco, but then you get the question I got today from someone: regular dictionaries don't usually include plural forms, so should plural forms be allowed if you're playing Scrabble with a..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by aeschenkarnos
2 weeks ago
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"Re marry, Mary, merry; very vary: I'm midwestern and my mind was blown when a college professor demonstrated for our class how to say those things correctly.
What you mean to say is that your college professor showed you a different way of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by ImproviseOrDie
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Too bad he (and Bush) chose to shill for invading Iraq instead of the American Cancer Society.
Even the Bush administration wouldn't sink to invading the American Cancer Society...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by wendell
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Taz, it wouldn't be the first time my stuff was deleted on Metafilter. I had the opportunity a couple of months ago to apologize to Matt personally, after nine years, because my very first post ever on Metafilter was a self-link. He deleted it and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by anildash
Last month
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"I spit before I pee because I like to think, "Here in front of me is the primordial soup, the building blocks of life, the nuts and bolts of species to come—here, in this porcelain vessel made by man, from my fluids and the fluids of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by spaceman_spiff
Last month
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"Related Ask Metafilter threads:
Will I be able to move to Brooklyn in September?
"If I can make it there..."
Where is Safe, Affordable Housing in Brooklyn?
NYC broker recommendations
How to cheaply furnish a Manhattan..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by chickletworks
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Fine, preserve it as an historical landmark. That's fine and probably a good thing. What's appalling to me is the moaning and whining and gnashing of teeth over someone renovating part of New York City. How is this a surprise, or anything even new,..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Miko, melissa may
2 months ago
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"Theresa, mentioned above, really does have the best advice, delivered with dry wit and friendliness. Her best standard advice is to avoid using self-publishing companies: don't take the success stories in this New York Times article as anything but..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Carl Mentor
2 months ago
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"The obvious answer for integration is bbpress.
I can't agree with that. BBPress has incomplete integration with WordPress, doesn't offer sophisticated administration, and is slow to be developed. It's a C- forum, and that's being generous...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by DarlingBri
2 months ago
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"There are a number of related threads here you might find useful (there are several more that I can't find, probably because they were from pretagging days).
How do you handle it when the job you always wanted turns out to not be what you want?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by yeoja
2 months ago
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"All good advice here.
I just spent two months casually looking for a new apartment and would strongly recommend you avoid brokers at all cost. I've been here for 12 years in seven apartments and have never used a broker nor paid a fee. This time,..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by GalaxieFiveHundred, cklennon, twoporedomain
2 months ago
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"In discourse linguistics, the word implicature is used to mean things that are implied and understood but not explicitly said. For example, a former employer's reference letter than says mainly that someone "always came to work on time" is..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by salvia, reebear, amyms
3 months ago
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"I think you should treat this phone as a traveling gnome. Send it to far-flung fellow Mefites. Let him track that. My email address in my profile if you want to start by sending it to Brooklyn, New York. Then I'll happily pay shipping to send it to..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by ROTFL, mimi, litlnemo
5 months ago
MeFi comment:
"In the early Eighties, my family live in rural Missouri, down a bit of gravel road. One spring it rained and rained. It seemed like days. The creeks overflowed, the ditches ran like torrents, new gullies were created in the back yard. And the ants..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by vacapinta
5 months ago
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"Damn. Sniped by Cool Papa Bell, who was so fast he could hit the light switch and get in bed before the bulb went out." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Cool Papa Bell
6 months ago
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"I hate to be blunt but how much money do you make? If you are wealthy, NYC is a wonderful place to live and it's quite enjoyable. If you are not wealthy, it's almost pointless to be there.
Winner for the stupidest comment of the thread.
You do..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by anildash
6 months ago
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"All dictionaries (I think) give phonetic transcriptions of each word at the start of the definition, if either of you can read phonetics.
Keep in mind that all mainstream American dictionaries--ALL--give short shrift to regional and dialect..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by litlnemo
7 months ago
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"no one thing i know, no one email i've ever written would be worth as much as $20 to a stranger to intercept. unless you're 007, nobody cares about your bizarre sexual practices or satanic rituals.
I suppose, then, that you do no online banking,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by peacheater
7 months ago
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"Change your operating system's default language to German.
Change your browsers' default pages to German.
Sign up for German email alerts at Google News on a subject you find interesting.
Label everything in your house in German, with..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by gttommy, zadermatermorts
7 months ago
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"If you'll excuse the self-link, in 2003 I wrote some articles about my one-man tech support practice. I offered my advice on getting started in the business. The articles received much play at the time and I still get emails about..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by entropy, sneakyalien
8 months ago
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"Despite the inclusion of "infosnacking" in the Webster's New World College Dictionary, the term has almost no use whatsoever outside discussion of that dictionary, discussion of the word itself, or blatant attempts to spread the word. It..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Mo Nickels
10 months ago
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"MacFUSE is the way to go, especially with MacFusion, which makes it easier. Instructions for installing both are here. It's quite easy and works very well...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by melorama
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Podcasting is DOA. An artificial trend pushed by people seeking net prestige. You can tell by the self-aggrandizing tone of the podcasts and the podcasters. The way they have to attach their names to everything. You can tell by the way there was..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mkb
10 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I've long held a pet theory which I call the Background Noise Theory. The background noise theory is quite simple: stupid people, violent people, and people who are emotionally damaged need to have background noise in their lives at all times to..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Pastabagel, Uther Bentrazor
11 months ago
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"Forget points on an exam. That's lame junior high school mode. You have to kick the students out. I had a thirty-year professor do that with a classroom full of unruly assholes at Columbia. He pointed at them from across the room, said something like,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by timetoevolve
11 months ago
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"Kind of a side note, but in general, while American and British English are noticeably different, there is still very little--almost nothing--that prevents mutual intelligibility as long as one is not willfully trying to confuse the other nationality..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by nasreddin, mdonley
11 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Too bad the chump didn't plan ahead so that he'd know what to do if he ever actually won. Here's the basics:
First, put the ticket in a bank deposit vault. Get a notarized copy.
Second, get a lawyer and separate a financial advisor. Ask them..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by icosahedral
11 months ago
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"Okay, concrete ideas. Please be merciful and merciless at the same time.
A little background. None of this is noteworthy but it may help explain my biases. I'm an ex-journalist, newspapers and radio. I've been on the Internet since 1992. My..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by bobobox
11 months ago
