MeFi comment:
"Here's another way to put it: The squirrel is not a canary because the squirrel does not have wings. You have built yourself a false premise and a logical framework from with it could (poorly) be inferred that a canary without wings is indeed a..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by loquacious, rtha
11 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"Now for the real question:
If I wear this is it considered a dress? If a woman wears it, is it then a dress?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by humannaire
12 hours ago
MeFi comment:
"I would like to say that I do make eggs in the microwave. Well, scrambled eggs, in perfect english muffin sized circle to go on my home made breakfast sandwich. It means one bowl to clean up, no frying pan, and I can warm up some canadian bacon at..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by jacalata, blue_beetle, wittgenstein
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"so question: has BB just totally lost relevance and is now a bunch of twits cackling madily as they play with their toy soldiers, with their furnaces leaking steam and their gauges shattering as their steam dirigible plummets dramatically to the..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by delmoi
5 days ago
MeFi comment:
"nomadicink- i agree, they are inflating the threat because it makes them money.
All that the increased security at the airports has provided is a bigger target: the 400 people in the security lines waiting to be screened. You can cram a lot of C4..." [
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favorited 3 times, recently by Jimbob, jdotglenn, Huplescat
13 days ago
MeFi comment:
"Update from my dad about it:
This spot is in Riverside off of Riverside LANE, which is North of the
Post Road on the way to Stephen & Sandy's, and over looks the Mianus.
Needless to say there is a great deal of debate.
I think it's..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by papafrita
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"The Fibonacci thing doesn't work past 13 miles.
Note he said approximately
21 miles is 33.79km
34 miles is 54.717
55 miles is 88.51
89 miles 143.23
etc.
1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 144 233 377 610..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by JHarris, arcticwoman, DU, emelenjr
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"More on Ada
I was home from college and stopped in to buy some soda, and she still remembered me, even though the last time I was there was when I was 15...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Axle
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"Miko did a great summary of this. Greenwich is a lightening rode for a lot of middle class / upper middle class issues.
I grew up in greenwich, I just talked to my sister who lives there still (regrettably, she is trying to move out also).
The..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Miko, Floydd
2 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"man, if there is one group of people I do not want to pick an intellectual fight with on the internet, it is the MetaFilter crowd. Reading over the new comments here is just amazing. I have no idea what Boing Boing is doing about it on their end,..." [
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favorited 7 times, recently by Rock Steady, jjwiseman, liza, krix, lunit, languagehat, grobstein
3 weeks ago
MeFi comment:
"My mother never understood the irony of calling me a son of a bitch.
Also, you can call a man a bitch, however in the context of implying his suborbinate, feminine, emasculated status is that of a woman. It demonstrates aspects of our cultural..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by snuffleupagus, Blazecock Pileon
Last month
MeTa comment:
"so miko, where do we sign up to start the grassroots swing state obama information sessions with miko tour?" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
Last month
MeFi comment:
"I spent my $600 on prepaying for biodiesel from my local cooperative. It is made from waste soy oil produced from the making of animal feed, and is carbon neutral. I picked up enough to last me until next dec.
I figure it was a worthy investment,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by five fresh fish
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Burhanistan- Remeber, a shotgun is only useful for zombies at close range, as you have to destroy the brain. So something like a M1903 might be better at medium distance, or possible an over/under rifle/shotgun combo if you really want the shotgun...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Dillonlikescookies
Last month
MeFi comment:
"> And just recently, I read about all the radioactive ants, flies and gnats that have been found at the Hanford nuclear complex. Needless to say, I try not to visit very often, it truly gives me the creeps.
I just got an email from my friend..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rtha
Last month
MeFi comment:
"(re: title)
Who would want to install a debian pre compiled girlfriend package? It would be the older version with unsupported modifications just to make it acceptable for the current running environment. So think 50 something divorcee with new..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rodgerd
Last month
MeTa comment:
"In 6+ months, when whoever (please please please be Obama) has been elected President, someone can do an aftermath analysis of the whole democratic campaign. In that post, a link to a well written article on the fallout and scare tactics of Clinton..." [
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favorited 4 times, recently by Reverend John, lizzicide, spaceman_spiff, Miko
Last month
MeTa comment:
"Burhanistan- I agree. I want my anti Clinton FPP posts to have more substance than one link. I need at least two or three angry editorials, a Daily Show clip and Keith Olbermann's special tonguelashing to call it a worthy FPP. Also, choice..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Blazecock Pileon
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"jazon: will settle on establishing that Wonkette is wrong
And along with the jokes and stories, that also makes my day." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by waxbanks
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"that wasn't really a suggestion, more of an excuse for me to copy/paste markov" [
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favorited 1 time, recently by finite
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"How about we just make the temporary filler post one full of Markov until it gets approved.
Yeah, I had three offers, one from the recordings. I am in the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Undead thread is heartwarming. Not for the last few..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by rtha
2 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I think first we might want to decide on a part of seattle, so i've grouped some places together that people have mentioned that are all somewhat in the same vicinity of each other:
Smith on capitol hill: Scotch egg, poutain, big tables, beer,..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by mysterpigg
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Miko- the same thing started to happen in my college town, once the downtown board convinced the store owners to stay open past 5pm. Most of the shops were run by couples, as a secondary income / hobby, while their partner was at the office. So..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Miko
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"recoveringsophist- Thing is, people are trying to use the Bible as the basis for a science textbook. Although it is dressed up as a book on Intelligent Design.
People such as Konolia find it hard to believe that we are related / descended from..." [
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favorited 9 times, recently by anansi, odinsdream, tachikaze, pxe2000, amyms, snwod, recoveringsophist, agregoli, bonaldi
2 months ago
MeFi comment:
"Artw- I've been told it is because our state liquor board is voted in for life, there are still a good bunch of teetotalers on the board, and the state makes too much money on the resale of liquor. There is a lawsuit that has been won, on account of..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Artw
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"depending on the dvd players at the gym, they may support the xvid/divx formats generated by handbrake, but to burn them you will need something like Burn or toast.
You can also replace DVD 2toOneX with Visual Hub, which will produce a .iso file..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LuckySeven~
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I would argue that there is a similar number of people who speak just as well now as people did then.
The difference is, more of "everybody else" is allowed on TV...." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by Baldons, loquacious
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"So I'll throw this in here, in case anyone is still reading.
Can we have "Edit Contact" Target="_self" please. It pops open a new window everytime I add someone. or edit, etc...." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by geekyguy
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Oh man, you have no idea how weird this is for me.
In one level, it was weird having to play by myself, and with wendell, and then realizing that maybe this morning I'd wake up to the thread being closed, and maybe a memail or something, and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LobsterMitten
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"oh LobsterMitten, you have returned!
in short, I ran up over 3k comments by using 8 tabs in safari, at first actually to provide you with conclusions for your students (because I thought it was a neat concept, and I had just finished drinking and..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LobsterMitten
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Damnit!
<Zenabi> one word: faith
<cortex> heh
<mrzarquon> once we hit the 1900 comment hump, its all inertia
<mrzarquon> i think we will do it
<mrzarquon> wth
<mrzarquon> why i am posting this..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LobsterMitten
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"LobsterMittens- Well, it is your spot, and it would probably be inconvienent if you had guests over and you were all like "sure just park next to us, oh wait you can't, because that girl has parked there". I have a similar situation, except..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LobsterMitten
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"I actually had an anthro professor who offered that if 20% of the class agreed to take C's and D's, he'd give everyone else a spread between B to A, and you didn't have to show up or take tests for the semester, as long as you didn't tell anyone. And..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by LobsterMitten
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"along with "i was a backtagging superstar" people get in their profile, can we get a "I was a longboating asshat" to people who've posted 100 or more comments to this thread?..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by cortex
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"> Local agriculture can easily include quality meat and dairy. The grain used for animal feed eventually goes to feeding people.
Very true, however if you are talking in terms of efficiency, if you cut out feeding the grain to cattle, instead..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Megami
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"I think this is a wrong headed argument in a lot of ways. How much grain do we in the US use for our meat and animal product, instead of feeding people?
According to Iowa's corn page, 6.1 billion bushels [pdf] of corn they produced (i am assuming..." [
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favorited 2 times, recently by flamk, [expletive deleted]
3 months ago
Ask comment:
"put it on a coolpad.
Seriously, I carry the same one i've had since 2000 with me, for use on the road and on the desks I setup my macbook pro on for any longer period. Being able to pivot the laptop alone is worth it.
It also automagically..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by extramundane
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"Ahh man I totally had that dream before.
And then I realized I was actually playing Pathways into Darkness.
I was still dreaming, but I was just dreaming about playing pathways into darkness, which was still pretty fun. And for some reason my..." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Kadin2048
3 months ago
MeFi comment:
"From 4th grade until 8th or so, I spent almost every saturday, and possibly once or twice during the weeks, at Than's Diner. It was a small, train car setup, with maybe 3 two person booths, but you pretty much had to sit at the counter. It was run by..." [
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favorited 11 times, recently by sparkletone, Wilder, hadjiboy, chiababe, Senor Cardgage, stet, slimepuppy, MrVisible, ekstasis23, The Light Fantastic, invitapriore
3 months ago
MeTa comment:
"> in frustration that it came to me. Ohhhhhhh, PLO CHOPS!
The level of innuendo this conversation has invoked is excessive." [
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favorited 1 time, recently by Pope Guilty
4 months ago
