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MeTa post:
I refuse to call this place BrisVegas
Hmm... I'll be passing through on October 30th or 31st (although I haven't yet made up my mind). Is there any interest in meeting up on the 30th? This way I'll make up for missing the SF meetup while I'm down under!
posted to MetaTalk by ooga_booga
at 10:36 PM on October 6, 2008
Hey dg - it sounds like you'll be in Cairns around the time I get back from my liveaboard!
turgid_dahlia - thanks for the offer! If I do end up spending more time in Brisbane than to go through transit on my way back South I'll take you up on it!
posted to MetaTalk by ooga_booga
at 1:56 AM on October 8, 2008
MeTa post:
Suddenly Nicky
Wow, that is really great news. I'm really happy to hear it - welcome back Nickyskye!
posted to MetaTalk by ooga_booga
at 12:10 AM on August 3, 2008
MeFi post:
They were applying his own paradigms for learning
Wow, this is tragic. Logo wasn't the first encounter I had with a programming language - it was far more simple than the BASIC I'd been exposed to at that point. I could still see the value in it to introduce a lot of programming concepts and I certainly absorbed something while using it.
Get well and good luck, Mr. Papert. I hope you find your way back.
posted to MetaFilter by ooga_booga
at 10:52 PM on July 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Now, here's the way I work...
Yet another self-styled "Pick Up Artist". I remember reading about him on Metachat quite a while ago and someone just mentioned this link to me at a dinner party earlier this evening. Quite weird to see him pop up here on the blue.
He seems more like the kind of guy who propositions every woman he meets with the expectation that at least one out of the many he asks will relent. It also seems that he's trying to pimp his services as a pick up artist guru, so... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ooga_booga
at 1:36 AM on June 27, 2008
MeFi post:
Slow Motion Punches to The Face
Boot Sock to the head!
High speed camerawork is always fun to watch, especially when it exposes weird phenomena which isn't apparent to the naked eye. In this case I didn't expect *that* much facial deformation, no matter how momentary it was. Makes me wish Ali/Foreman was captured using high-speed film.
posted to MetaFilter by ooga_booga
at 4:28 PM on May 21, 2008
martinX's bellbottoms, I'm not quite sure what you mean - you're linking to this post, which is exactly what I'm referring to in my comment.
posted to MetaFilter by ooga_booga
at 6:04 PM on May 21, 2008
MeFi post:
Dollar for Dollar?
Way back in the 80's the Malaysian government decided to add indicator dots to the Ringgit notes in order to make them more accessible to blind people - one dot would indicate 10 ringgit, two dots would indicate twenty, three would be fifty, etc.
They just forgot to make the dots tactile.
posted to MetaFilter by ooga_booga
at 11:27 AM on May 20, 2008
MeTa post:
New Overlord!!
Aww man! This reduces my mod-met ratio from 2/4 down to 3/5. Curses!
And congratulations, Vacapinta! On the move, getting married, and newly-minted modship!
posted to MetaTalk by ooga_booga
at 2:12 PM on May 18, 2008
And apparently I can't do math, so the joke's on me.
posted to MetaTalk by ooga_booga
at 2:13 PM on May 18, 2008
MeTa post:
Anyone running Bay to Breakers?
B2B is the third Sunday of May, every year. I'm abashed that I hadn't heard of oysterfest, but then again I just left my cell phone in the back of a cab so I'm not getting much word from anyone right now.
posted to MetaTalk by ooga_booga
at 3:53 AM on May 17, 2008
MeTa post:
Self-link/Spam fighting
This suggestion may sound unsavory but perhaps there could be a fine associated with linkspamming? Make it clear, in big bold letters on the signup page, that if you are caught self-linking you will be charged some large amount of money? Considering that the spammers are giving up their paypal information in the first place, might this not be a deterrent?
posted to MetaTalk by ooga_booga
at 12:35 AM on May 13, 2008
MeFi post:
Lesbians vs. Lesbians
There's similar outrage in Ecuador and Peru where the rainbow flag has traditionally been used to represent the native peoples of the Andes. They, too, are quite upset at the widespread association of the rainbow flag with the GLBT movement. I was eavesdropping on a local tour guide as he was giving his spiel in a museum down in Cusco when he became nearly apoplectic with rage explaning the significance of the rainbow flag and how it had been co-opted by "filthy types of questionable... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ooga_booga
at 3:20 PM on May 1, 2008
MeTa post:
SF > LA
I believe they've been "making it" for a while now, rtha. Scandalous!
Sorry I couldn't join you guys that night - sounds like it was a good one!
posted to MetaTalk by ooga_booga
at 2:15 PM on April 22, 2008
Ask post:
best unknown places to eat in SF
What? No love for Tu Lan or Shalimar? The former's a true hole-in-the-wall of Vietnamese persuasion, once visited and recommended by Julia Child herself! The latter's Tenderloin location epitomizes the hole-in-the-wall experience with fantastic Pakistani food served in squalor. Squalor I tell you! Shalimar also has a couple of other locations, but they are definitely lacking in the squalor department. I also have to wonder if having a website detracts from a restaurant's hole-in-the-wall... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by ooga_booga
at 1:57 AM on April 19, 2008
MeFi post:
Perhaps the end of the hype cycle?
citron - I think that the issue with MetaMan is not so much that he is a Clinton supporter, if that's what he is in actuality, but that he resorts to ad hominem, is dismissive of others' opinions, comes across as condescending, and argues poorly.
Not to mention that this is a thread about the media manufacturing nontroversies, and MetaMan's comments in here are pure derail and should be flagged as such. Sorry to contribute to the further derailing.
posted to MetaFilter by ooga_booga
at 8:55 PM on April 17, 2008
MeFi post:
Brain Cake.
The recipe says to repeat for each cortex. I guess we only have to do it once, then!
posted to MetaFilter by ooga_booga
at 3:56 PM on April 14, 2008
MeFi post:
Hate's Haberdasher
Countess Elena - the KKK wikipedia entry states that the Klan was active in resisting reconstruction by going after "carpetbaggers, scalawags, and freed slaves", but it suggests that it was violence perpetrated upon white northeners and those who were perceived to be representatives of Northern Oppression. I haven't really found anything which corroborates Ms. Ruth's statement that the Klan were more of a moral police force on the local community, though.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ooga_booga
at 1:39 PM on April 13, 2008
MeFi post:
Dancing boys of Afghanistan
I wonder if it's relevant that Death by Ugabooga's username is a reference to a joke about butt rape.
posted by Pope Guilty at 7:18 PM on April 1 [+] [!]
Hey!
Can't be. Becuase the actual punchline of the joke is "Unga-BUNGA." Which is funny. Obviously.
Whew!
"Ugabooga?" Pfft. What-the-hell? That doesn't even make any... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ooga_booga
at 9:04 PM on April 1, 2008
Weirdly enough, I was putting together an FPP about a closely related subject - homosexuality in Afghani/Kandahari society - a couple of months ago but lost it when my laptop fan went kablooie and I never got around to recreating it.
posted to MetaFilter by ooga_booga
at 9:28 PM on April 1, 2008
MeTa post:
metafilter will kill us all
Ha! When I first clicked on metafilter.willkillusall.com, it had a photo of an obese man alone in a room someplace. But when I reloaded the page it used this photo instead, which was far more appropriate in my opinion. Butts lol indeed.
posted to MetaTalk by ooga_booga
at 1:23 PM on April 1, 2008
