0-tears in 3.2 seconds.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 11:43 PM on July 23, 2008

have we tried reversing the polarity?
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 10:47 AM on July 17, 2008

if you subscribe to the RSS feed of a thread (I do it all the time for my AskMe posts) then the new comments would show up as new items in your reader. It's pretty handy, in my experience.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 1:15 AM on July 14, 2008

furthermore, what's with breathing?

it's... prehistoric. come on, people; you're better than this.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 1:03 PM on June 5, 2008

or mathowie with his London Fog bag.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 4:29 PM on June 4, 2008

You will not be getting any. Action.

however, you will get served.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 11:25 AM on June 3, 2008

on meatcake: a friend of mine made two nine-inch round meatloaves, then used mashed potatoes as icing, down to piping it out of a star tube for decorations. I didn't have any (no beef for me) but it got raves from everyone who did - so much so that it is slated to become a Victoria Day tradition.

why yes, my truth is stranger than my fiction.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 3:07 PM on June 1, 2008

[hurriedly registers recursive-sidebar.com]
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 11:41 PM on May 30, 2008

misdirection
hipsterection
plantarflexion
heat convection
love connection
meat injection
brain infection
botched election
vivisection

this feels like The Truth Wears Sideburns*; I was half-expecting it to end with "Celine-Dion-athon", jessamyn slapping a watermelon and then shouting "PAELLA!!"

*Joan of Arcs student film from Clone High
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 6:04 PM on May 13, 2008

interesting that they put stuff in Music - I hadn't seen that before with the spamlinkers.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 3:51 PM on May 12, 2008

cortex: At the risk of spoiling dry humor with earnest explanation...

oh dear gods how did we end up inside a garfield comic
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 1:12 PM on May 11, 2008

loquacious: I just daisy-chained it off of my liver.

somehow, it makes total sense to me that livers would be FireWire devices. I wonder what would happen if you ran Mini-DV footage through it or used it as an input for GarageBand...
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 1:10 PM on May 11, 2008

If you thank google, it doesn't even blink; just keeps on searching. Amazing.
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posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 12:08 AM on May 3, 2008

in happier news, I answered this question from jadepearl and she sent me a thank you MeMail note, which was above, beyond, and delightful of her.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 5:09 PM on May 6, 2008

I had the same problem as mattbucher; it wasn't just Google Reader - I use NetNewsWire so I think the entire RSS feed system sneezed.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 2:41 PM on April 18, 2008

jessamyn: I am also a librarian. I am not a full-time librarian.

wait wait wait. I know I'm late to the thread, but I thought you were full-time awesome, and the rest were things you did on the side.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 10:14 AM on April 14, 2008

well, konono no.15959, your presence isn't going to set me off.
you're no Vincent Connare [nsfw, language/webcomic].
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 10:38 AM on March 17, 2008

Sadly, I have read this whole thread.

So, TPS, you like big threads and you cannot lie?
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 10:51 AM on March 17, 2008

LobsterMitten: I think the best/worst name I've seen was that time I was in Portland and we saw Hung Far Low. Sadly it was a long weekend and they were closed so we didn't get to eat there. My PFO-originating friends tell me it's great when you feel like Americanized Chinese food.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 5:37 PM on March 25, 2008

mumkin: PDX = PFO; one of my friends has a shirt that reads "Portland. Fucking. Oregon." and thus we started calling it PFO. Also, good to know.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 10:57 PM on March 25, 2008

people like you, s_m

er, make that, s_r.

...paging Dr. Freud!
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 10:04 AM on March 27, 2008

Speaking of more awesome than is strictly required... who's excited for BSG tomorrow?
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 10:35 AM on April 3, 2008

corpse: Ni Hao, Kai-lan

I mis-parsed that as Ni Hao, Gai-Lan, and wondered why there would be a show about dark leafy (tasty) greens. I mean, I love me some gai-lan in oyster sauce... but as entertainment?
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 12:48 PM on April 3, 2008

I thought we had 30 days before this shuts down automatically which should give us... 80-something more hours of chicanery.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 5:15 PM on April 6, 2008

There was, in fact, never a real Peter Parker. It was all false memories implanted via a move by Thanos (explained in an upcoming arc).

WHAT. THE. FUCK. MARVEL.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 12:18 PM on April 3, 2008

oh, also: Batman or Superman?

Batman with preparation rolls Superman, as seen in The Dark Knight Returns. Batman unprepared would certainly lose to Superman, but - as we find out in Hush - Batman has a kryptonite ring in his belt at all times and is able to take down Superman with only a short time to strategize and well outside his element (the fight occurs in Metropolis) and so we can safely assume that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 12:41 PM on April 3, 2008

I have a beverage of my own for these chemists of the profane - a 20 ounce bottle of my utter contempt.

That didn't make it all worthwhile, but it did bring it a fair bit closer.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 10:01 AM on April 3, 2008

$20, same as in town?

getting them to stop being crassholes... that will cost you.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 9:51 AM on April 2, 2008

[deletes post he was in the middle of, hurriedly changes WHOIS info on cheese-of-the-month.com]
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 10:41 AM on March 26, 2008

haven't made it home with my copy of Brawl just yet (damn you, people who buy books on Sundays!) but I'll post it when I do.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 2:42 PM on March 9, 2008

2835-9835-7686

me-mail me if you add me; I haven't added anyone yet but will go on a bit of a spree.
flatluigi's definitely first.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 8:58 PM on March 12, 2008

out of curiousity, how are people finding online play?
I put my Wii in the DMZ on my router, and I can connect to WFC just fine (and use the Internet Channel) but can't get a game going that doesn't lag hugely.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 10:04 AM on March 24, 2008

What about Spreadshirt?
I thought its whole rationale was that designs were provided and then shirts were flexible.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 10:20 AM on March 20, 2008

An American would typically say "gone to college" or "gone to school". "Gone to university" sounds British to American ears.

Colleges and universities are very different institutions in Canada, as well. It makes for fun conversations with American relatives, who ask how college is treating me and are puzzled at my momentary scrutinizing (figuring out if they've got me confused for someone else again) before answering.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 10:27 AM on March 17, 2008

This presidential candidate... it vibrates?
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 2:11 AM on March 15, 2008

I stumbled upon the usability book mathowie wrote a chapter for, and found it pretty interesting. It's a little dated now, and for a book on usability I thought some of the (book) design choices were questionable but overall it was good.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 10:53 AM on February 25, 2008

I should mention I stumbled upon it in the Vancouver public library, should any local MeFites want to take a gander at it.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 10:54 AM on February 25, 2008

Fucking hypocritical liberal atheist solar-powered gay aborto-bots.

I see your strawman, and raise.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 9:58 AM on February 18, 2008

at the Vancouver meetup, which was in a hipster-y bar, myopicman and I definitely took to calling people "fedora cases", after the infamous AskMe/MeTa thread kerfuffle.

also, I almost made a sign for the meetup that would have said "NOT MATT HAUGHEY? YOU'RE IN THE RIGHT PLACE" but didn't have time after work.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 7:27 PM on February 13, 2008

jessamyn: the only repeats from that meetup were me and myopicman, who, in a series of strange coincidences, I had run into numerous times that week. I thought I had hallucinated earlier in the week (I hadn't) and it turns out we share a number of in-person acquaintances, including radiocontrolled, who works at the radio station where myopicman has a radio show (two floors above where I work on the student newspaper) and who only found out about the meetup because I ran into her at a beer garden... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 11:44 PM on February 13, 2008

I thought I had hallucinated seeing him on campus earlier in the week.
Bah.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 11:45 PM on February 13, 2008

DNAB: I'm definitely boned by that distinction, as I would end up as

[ ] U CAN NOT HAS CHEEZBURGER. COWS B HOLY.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 11:59 AM on February 11, 2008

I'm in; might bring a friend.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 11:27 AM on February 4, 2008

I'll be there with camera; there may well be bells on, too.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 2:08 PM on February 6, 2008

my photos are up on flickr.
there's adjustment of white balance (badly, to be honest) and a little sharpening but not much otherwise.

I had a great time meeting you all (and seeing myopicman for the third time in a week, bizarrely) and look forward to doing it again.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 2:14 PM on February 10, 2008

it was blurry, so I didn't bother with it.
I can, if you reeeeally want.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 7:39 PM on February 10, 2008

I'm going to post a link to this OverCompensating comic before the name puns and boyzonery start.

I hope they don't start.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 6:28 PM on January 30, 2008

I've had pb build me a bunch of tools to watch suspect users and new users in general, and I sweep through the tools every day

So, pb is the Harold to your Batman?

[this would mean that cortex is Robin and jessamyn is Batgirl, but I can't bring them up without making reference to The Killing Joke and I like jess too much to allude to that sort of thing happening to her.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 6:05 PM on January 30, 2008

and, yes, before you ask, it's a slow night in the bookstore and I have DC's Summer 2008 Graphic Novel catalogue in front of me.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 6:05 PM on January 30, 2008

i <3 hi-dephalopods.
posted to MetaTalk by heeeraldo at 4:35 PM on January 30, 2008