I think you mean north, potch. East of Sunnyvale is Milpitas.

Anyway, welcome to the Bay Area!
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 1:42 PM on July 11, 2008

OK, you win, fishfucker.

I love the State Fair. I am totally planning to go. I wish I lived a little closer, actually, you can get a season box at the racetrack for something like 650 bucks for 6 people, including admission to the fair. There's glory for you!
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 3:29 PM on July 11, 2008

Tomorrow night is out for me, as I'll be going to the Crucible Fire Arts Festival, after spending the day in the City strolling the Mechanicrawl. Big Steam! Torpedo Submarine! Fresnel Lens! Should be cool.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 8:16 PM on July 11, 2008

we got our picture taken with the winning horse.

That's pretty cool.
The closest I ever got to State Fair racehorses was seeing them exercised in the morning. I was competing in the horse show, and lived for four days in a nearly empty WWII era quonset hut on the grounds right next to the racetrack. The racehorses were also stabled near our horse, so I would get to see those amazing long-legged creatures tripping daintily back to their stalls after being rubbed down.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 8:23 PM on July 11, 2008

the comments of the guys who loved the site and were noting with glee their success at judging women's anatomies

I just reread the thread and saw only one or two comments that might be construed as such. Did a whole bunch get deleted?
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 2:37 PM on July 10, 2008

I see "boyzone" as being a less mean-spirited and more unconscious thing than out-and-out sexism and so if I have used that term, that's what I have meant. It's when a group of guys get together and start acting and talking like some young guys might when there are no women present. First it's a simple little exercise in lighting farts, then the girlie mags get broken out and suddenly it's a circle jerk. And I am like, oops, this is not my beautiful house, where's the exit?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 4:10 PM on July 10, 2008

Hmm. If you had asked me if I had ever seen Wedding Crashers I would have said no, but now I remember being annoyed at the exact bit that Ambrosia Voyeur brings up. Thank heavens for that, otherwise I might have been unknowingly roped into seeing it again.

YAY FOR THIS THREAD
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 5:12 PM on July 11, 2008

Would any of the people who are "edgy" or casual about using cunt and twat use them if the discussion had taken place in real life and jessamyn, ThePinkSuperhero and other female members of mefi that you liked/wanted to like you were present?

Well, kind of the point of this conversation is there are different uses among different cultures. If one's culture didn't find the use of the word cunt to be particularly... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 2:11 PM on July 9, 2008

BTW, I don't care if or how people use the word(s). What they're actually getting at is pretty obvious from their general tone, and I'm perfectly fine with people outing themselves as Scottish, or jerky, or feminist, or whatever. I just modulate how and if I respond to them. It's much better for my state of mind than to get automatically ruffled every time the word cunt shows up.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 2:16 PM on July 9, 2008

Sounds like fun! I'm already planning to save Spain, Green Grape, Lucinda and Black Krim tomatoes and Rond de Nice zucchini. All my other curcubits are probably uselessly cross-pollinated.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 9:47 AM on July 9, 2008

Nope, jamaro is correct.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 4:45 PM on July 3, 2008

I'm with orange swan- EatMe would be awesome. A garden subsite, not so much. I make my living as a gardener, I'm a horticulture student, and I would never visit because gardening arguments are teh suck. Too much voodoo in the gardening world. Science just can't compete.

PS: Potato leafed tomatoes for the foggy Bay Area are where it's at. Less surface area to host pathogens. Baia Nicchia is a local breeder of toamtoes that will ripen and taste good in San Francisco.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 11:54 AM on July 4, 2008

Why does it bother you so much that people are weighing in to agree? It just means the best answer is apparently a really good answer, since so many people support it. I don't see a problem with people spending time typing if they feel like it, and I'm not sure how it hurts you.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 11:23 PM on June 30, 2008

OK, I can see why you'd be irritated by some of the less thoughtful answers, but... whatever. If people want to out themselves as less thoughtful, that's sort of their own problem. It's much worse when they are not only less thoughtful, but utterly incorrect.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 11:41 PM on June 30, 2008

Matt's slides are always really out of focus at the shareholder meetings, so I can't give you exact numbers, but he probably has numbers somewhere.

Perhaps you should try moving the doughnut out of the way.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 12:47 PM on June 19, 2008

Well, I like the tag cloud, because it's somewhat interesting to see which tags of the 150 are the most popular and it's a breezy and totally functional layout; but I have not and probably will not ever use this page.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 7:00 PM on June 17, 2008

Functional for the user, I should say.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 7:01 PM on June 17, 2008

"I know someone who wants a child" is probably about the least inflammatory poster that someone has help up outside a clinic.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 1:15 PM on June 7, 2008

I agree that you should post this again, like maybe the first week of August. We Bay Areans are much better at spontaneity than long-term planning.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 12:56 PM on June 6, 2008

I like that position much better. Thanks.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 7:01 PM on June 4, 2008

I don't think that too many people disagree on what school SHOULD be; it's how you handle it when school is not what it should be that is the real issue. I think there are infinite answers to this question, but I tend to believe that people who are passive about crappy classes are doing themselves no favors. I think it's naive to think that every class is going to wash over one with an invigorating wave of enlightenment, without doing any work one's self.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 2:40 PM on May 27, 2008

Maybe most of you all are fucking sick of her, but you're not in the majority.


I'm pretty sick of her, but I don't want her to drop out of the race. I want her to stay in until she has made herself good and irrelevant. Since the time to bow out with grace and sportsmanship has long past, I imagine her like the Red Queen at the end of Through the Lookingglass, shrunk to the size of a doll and running round and round... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 11:28 AM on May 25, 2008

On a less-about-Clinton note, I happy she's stayed in because way more people have registered to vote, far more state's issues are being brought up and debated in those states as they actually become sort of relevant, and we haven't had the truncated primary season we've become accustomed to. The states jostling to go first in order to be relevant have learned a small lesson, as well. In short, the process is playing out like it's supposed to, and I think that's a good thing.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 11:54 AM on May 25, 2008

Why the hell would a strong, empowered woman need Howard Dean to ride to her rescue? As Clinton herself would say: "I anticipate it's gonna get even, you know, hotter and if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen and I'm very much at home in the kitchen. So I think I'll stick around."
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 6:15 PM on May 16, 2008

Poll: McCain beats Obama in Ohio, but Hillary beats McCain. Same holds for Florida apparently. If Obama loses both Florida and Ohio, there is virtually no hope of being elected.

I'm doubtful of the relevance of a poll taken more than six months before the election and before the democratic nomination has been settled. You wouldn't look at polls from December, 2007 as a reliable way to gauge what would be going on in May, 2008. Not if you wanted to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 12:38 AM on May 23, 2008

If we want to talk of Obama's faults, that would be removing his name from Michigan and then using that fact to whine about Michigan's later inclusion as a tiebreaker,

Cite, please. Of Obama whining.

BTW, tiebreaker? What tie is that? Obama is so far ahead now that when the MI and FL delegates are seated in full (and he will seat them, natch), that he wins a majority of pledged delegates anyway. Especially since this week 40... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 1:47 PM on May 23, 2008

Well, my most popular post was Neighborhood of Make-Believe, but I don't feel like that had much to do with me, other than I liked it and posted it (with a glaring typo). It was really just a matter of timing, to be frank; I'm sure someone else would have posted it had they seen it. I'm glad other people enjoyed it, of course, but I added nothing to it, so I don't feel I really deserve any credit for it. My personal favorite is Mom always liked you best, because it was a joy to put together and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 12:26 PM on May 23, 2008

Yes, he wanted it deleted. So they deleted it. That's fine. I think people think of AskMe threads as entertainment vis-a-vis MeFi threads. While AskMe can often be entertaining, I think honoring posters' requests for deletion should trump other reasons for keeping them around. It's supposed to be a site that helps people, after all.

It's also supposed to be an archive of helpful stuff that might help other people without them even having to ask the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 9:23 AM on May 21, 2008

It sounds like the OP has a big problem with with personal responsibility, and a strong aversion to honest communication.

Yeah, that's all about not bashing the poster and answering the question.

I'd hardly call that "bashing". If you can't manage to clarify your drunken mumblings about marriage by the next day, you probably do have an issue with personal responsibility and honest communication. It's pretty unfair... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 10:03 AM on May 14, 2008

I have always wanted to go botanzing in the Caucausus. I hope you have a rewarding time on your assignment and meet some fun people.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 11:00 AM on May 9, 2008

Who knew it was so hard for people to type "thanks"? Even if no one gets it, none of the answers are right, the songs all suck or whatever, the fact is that people you don't know took some time out of their day to answer your question. Cool people respond by showing a tiny bit of notice.

And no, it's no skin off my nose if they don't, but it's five letters. It's not even so much that gratitude is necessary, as much as no one wants to feel... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 3:44 PM on May 3, 2008

Otherwise, what's the use to follow up if no one reads it? Topics usually get bumped off the first page after a few days.

Don't forget people arrive at old AskMe questions via search engines as well as the front page. Follow-ups from weeks or months later can have value to someone clicking through to a question years after it was posted.

Plus, anyone who uses their recent activity button has a good chance of seeing new... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 5:59 PM on May 3, 2008

I use it all the time. It's especially good for later additions to Ask posts that I might otherwise miss.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 11:44 AM on April 16, 2008

Actually, Recent Comments isn't useful for that at all. This is what I get for reading and listening to NPR at the same time.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 11:46 AM on April 16, 2008

Well done, HotPattata. Thanks for the update.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 5:04 PM on April 14, 2008

I guess I'm the only person here to feel disgust at the thought of actually trying to get as many dead-tree catalogs as possible. I think that's pretty fucked up.

How is it any different from getting books? You either keep them forever, give them to your friends, or leave them out on the hall table for your neighbors. Most catalogs are printed on 100% recycled paper anyway.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 7:23 PM on April 12, 2008

Catalogs are issued serially; each iteration makes the previous one obsolete as product availability changes. This obsolescence also applies to some textbooks, and in the long view, you could say, all books, but there's certainly a vast disparity in disposability between novels and McMaster-Carr catalogs.

The *majority* of 500 page specialty catalogs are sent out only upon request, and they don't just send you a new one if you haven't ordered... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 9:47 AM on April 13, 2008

MeTa: sexism and
censorship complaints. oh wait-
haiku? I'd hit it.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 11:28 AM on April 11, 2008

... no amount of searching on my part could solve, unless I had specialized knowledge of law.

So, you want people with specialized knowledge of the law to go through and sort out every possible federal, state, county, and city law that applies only to you. For free. I can't think of how that's not ridiculous.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 3:01 PM on April 7, 2008

oneirodynia: no, but I was looking for suggestions and perhpas things that might be overlooked.

Then that's what you should have asked. Asking for "How much space, if printed up, would all the laws that apply to me take up?" requires someone with a thorough knowledge of: everything pertinent about you, every federal, state, county, and city law (including civil codes, vehicle codes, building codes &c.) pertaining to where you live,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 4:37 PM on April 7, 2008

CIBC (Cannuck Bank) mistakenly loaded an ATM with Canadian Tire Money a while back, so maybe it's not just the Merkins that are taking it.

I thought Canada went off the tire standard a long time ago.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 11:54 AM on March 29, 2008

I'm not sure they were catering to white nationalists, I think they were just being dumb. About ten years ago, one of the kids in a class I taught showed up with a shirt they had recently gotten at Mervyn's. It had Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck around the Looney Tunes logo, and above all that it said "Loonies BLUNT Humor". I don't think Mervyn's was necessarily catering to dope smoking g's, I think they just import whatever t-shirts seem like they might sell from their various vendors.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 9:47 PM on March 27, 2008

Can't you just explicitly ask in thread who's going because you need a head count?
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 12:45 PM on March 27, 2008

peacay said: "I would like to see a trial of there being a 15min comment free period following a post going on the front page. It's the initial rushed one-liners that frequently set the tone of the thread so *maybe* a time-gap would help reduce the autoresponders and also promote reading of the links. Sure, it's a big maybe but it would be interesting to see if there were any noticeable effects over, say, a one month period. Any downsides?"

What would... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 4:59 PM on March 26, 2008

Also: the title of this post sounds like a serial that you'd see right after Movietone News and before the main feature. Next Week: Scrump Flies an Aeroplane!
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 5:03 PM on March 26, 2008

Also, guys, the internet isn't a hill. C'mon

Yeah. It's more like a ditch. Where teenagers hang out and leave their beer cans and used rubbers and stuff.

Don't they know that's what lawns are for? Sheez.
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 6:09 PM on March 26, 2008

I understand the call for silent favorites, but those are just nothing but bookmarks, which I feel is the least interesting facet of the system. Favorites have their problems, but for many of us, I'm sure, they're also little victories, and symbols of the community we have here.

I see what you're saying about acknowledgment, but that can be done without the favorites, in thread. I also think viewing them as "little victories" is exactly why... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 6:16 PM on March 26, 2008

Otherwisethe only point would be in quelling some sort of mob-mentality towards favoriting what others have already favorited in order to jump on the bandwagon, and I have no reason to believe that it happening.

Actually, I think the point is that people might be less likely to make favorite-whoring, attention grabbing comments if no one else can see how many favorites they've accrued. I don't know if that would really be the case, but I do think it... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 6:22 PM on March 26, 2008

we'd be missing out on all those fantastic moments when the subject of a post gets an account and comes here to way in.

That's true. But how many of those members stick around, I wonder?
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 12:37 PM on March 27, 2008

Q: What was contradictory about Bill Hicks' smoking?
A: He expressed a certain anger at the way modern life is mediated by, and saturated by, marketing, and yet did not live in a yurt.

Because if you live in a yurt, you get to smoke all the cigarettes you want!
posted to MetaTalk by oneirodynia at 11:25 AM on March 26, 2008