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Jonathan King Sings
[a few comments removed - omfg, wtf just happened here? please take shitty name calling outside and go for a nice long walk with it, thank you]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 8:32 AM on May 12, 2008
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Courage to Refuse
I enjoyed this.
In retrospect, I believe that my upbringing in a socialist-oriented family steeped in a class struggle view of society taught me that authorities would often have a different view of right and wrong than mine. That attitude stayed with me during my three and one half years of service in the army, in Europe, during World War II. Like all soldiers, I was taught to obey orders, but whenever we heard lectures on army regulations, what stayed with... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 11:11 AM on May 7, 2008
MeFi post:
Emotional twitter ticker
I like Twitter, it is a little running stream of other people doing their thing while I'm at work in rural noplace.
#I wish people actually built shit for solaris x86
"Your upload has taken over 30 minutes." Thanks for informing me of the slowness.
#I feel much better now.
#I love how the prospect of 23 cent pizzas can send the office into a frenzy
come on, these are my people!
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 12:43 PM on May 5, 2008
Constant connectivity across distance is, in some ways, a threat to that sort of civility, which is necessarily built on the graces needed to connect with people of whom you do not already approve or know.
Not that I disagree with your general premise Miko, and I think we're coming from the same page on that, but I don't see this as an either/or. Like many things, the mindfulness required to manage both the sort of "always on" chirping that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 12:27 PM on May 6, 2008
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money can't buy happiness? well, actually it might.
To put it in today’s terms, owning an iPod doesn’t make you happier, because you then want an iPod Touch.
To put it in today's terms, turn off the TV and stay home writing letters and see how much you still feel like you need an ipod.
This is a smarmy article. Oh look, people who don't have to worry about food and sending their kids to college are happier than people who are hungry! I'm happier when I'm not hungry too, or... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 12:51 PM on May 5, 2008
MeFi post:
Winding the May Pole
I spent some time reading up on Beltane yesterday and figuring out how much of a bonfire I could get away with this year. Probably not much of one. Those maypole postcards are really something MMD, thanks!
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 6:32 AM on May 1, 2008
MeFi post:
The Open Source Boob Project
Now I know how to be the belle of the ball at ROFLcon, thanks!
The pullquote here is actually misleading "And anyone who had those buttons on, whether you knew them or not, was someone you could approach and ask: 'Excuse me, but may I touch your breasts?'" If you read the clarification, red ("no") button wearers were not just saying "no" they were basically saying "Don't even ask and I'd prefer not to talk about... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 6:47 AM on April 23, 2008
if any shithead ever asks me, at a professional conference, if he can touch my breasts, I'll go ahead and....
You know, I think I would go ahead and let him, photograph the whole thing and then go all dog-poop girl on the whole adventure because I think there are still some people who would be surprised by the fact that there are more similarities between nerds-gone-wild and girls-gone-wild than there are differences.
Really... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 7:13 AM on April 23, 2008
The camp metaphor is really sketchy. Historically the people most accessible in our cultural memory who were put in camps were the ones who did not deserve it and who were villainized by societal forces beyond their control. They were put there by powermad fearmongers. As much as I think this experiment was weird and noxious, I'm not in the camp-putter-inner camp and I find that metaphor more than a little off.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 7:41 AM on April 23, 2008
[a few comments removed - this thread was going FINE for a really long time. please don't continue this fuckuppery by turning it into some namecalling pissing match that could go to metatalk or email. thank you]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 5:10 AM on April 24, 2008
[let me be clear - troll talk goes to meta or email starting now, thank you]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 7:32 AM on April 24, 2008
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The slap, the dance ... the slap-dance!
Something about watching a bunch of smiling half-naked Samoan men do the Charlie's Angels pose ("modernized" link) just made my already pretty awesome day just that much better. Oh, and the dancing! I see what you mean about the instructions. Can you tell which is which from these excerpts?
Step 1. Put on your lavalava.
Step 2. Take off your shirt.
1-32. Starting M L, W R, walk one step per ct, scuffing (or rather tapping the heel) on... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 12:47 PM on April 20, 2008
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South Asian Classical Music
Wow neat. Can anyone who knows more about this stuff than I do [my knowledge is limited to "I like raga when I hear it and some people have sent me some stuff before..."] make suggestions as to what's good to start with.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 5:04 PM on April 17, 2008
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i can has privilij?
there is no way that "knapsack" has a K in it in Lolcat. That said, these are amusing but I think lolcats are funny generally.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 1:16 PM on April 17, 2008
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Abortion as Art
I remember conversations like that with art students in college.
My exact feeling. Is the YDN site just completely banjaxed for anyone else? I can't even get to the site, much less the article.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 9:19 AM on April 17, 2008
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Easy money
[a few comments removed - take all the "you're an asshole" talk to email or elsewhere]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 2:33 PM on April 14, 2008
[a few comments removed - please find a room you two, if that room is metatalk, so be it.]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 10:10 PM on April 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Birthday Girl
this video makes me want to point out the unrelated fact that today is Emma Watson's 18th birthday.
Stay classy.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 5:20 PM on April 15, 2008
MeFi post:
The Re Generation
I found it mentioned as a bibliographic reference here.
That citation is wrong. The article is from March 1986 not 1985. Seeing if I can scare it up someplace, but it looks like Esquire didn't have full-text available before 1996. Here's a small excerpt.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 9:27 AM on April 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Super High Me.
[weird comment trawling derail removed - please take that to email thanks.]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 4:33 AM on April 14, 2008
MeFi post:
Free Range Kids
Back when I was a kid, I would go off into the farmer's property next door to our house and wander through fields and forest, down streams, up hills until I was good and lost. I never once imagined I wouldn't be able to find my way home eventually, and I always did. I was sometimes gone for six or seven hours. This was when I was like in first and second grade.
This was my exact life. We may have been neighbors!
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 7:49 PM on April 11, 2008
I totally forgot about my little kid in NYC story until now but Xurando's story jogged my memory. When we were little my sister and I were put on the bus from time to time to go visit friends or relatives who lived a few hours away. Often this just meant taking a Greyhound to Boston or Western MA but sometimes I'd take the bus to Port Authority where my grandmother would pick me up. I remember two OMG-in-hindsight stories
1. When I went to Boston once I got off at the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 6:17 AM on April 12, 2008
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Tilling Word and Land
Wendell Berry is one of the people I point to as someone whose views of Christianity I enjoy even though I'm not an adherent to his particular religious views. The idea that some concept of "the divine" exists and is knowable within nature is the closest thing to religion that I have. From the "conservative" link. I don't think it is enough appreciated how much an outdoor book the Bible is. It is a hypaethral book, such as Thoreau talked about--a book open to the sky. It is best read and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 9:10 AM on April 10, 2008
Oh and thanks for this post!
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 9:17 AM on April 10, 2008
MeFi post:
Homeland Insecurity
Make a beeline for Vermont, the land of milk and maple syrup.
I swear the Vermont thing only works because if you're desperately poor you move elsewhere because you'd freeze to death in the Winter, as Sys Rq says pretty much. And really we have social policies that mean that (previously) underpaid folks like myself can still get health care and an education. On the other hand, we're one of the least diverse states in the nation which points to a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 5:48 PM on April 4, 2008
Southerners are inherently racist, misogynist, queer-hating, child-abusers, and the one group that it's entirely acceptable to bash here on MeFi?
No, you have that wrong. People who are being one note jerks about "eff the south" stuff should take that crap to MetaTalk because as a constant refrain here it's tiresome and not particularly useful in a thread about education disparities in the US. The "your favorite US region sucks"... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 9:32 AM on April 7, 2008
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talk about preaching to the choir...
That was short and adorable, the View clip.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 5:49 PM on April 4, 2008
nevercalm, that was all kinds of awesome and a great addition to this already sort of quirkyweird post.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 7:02 PM on April 4, 2008
"Are you good .... singing?"
That was where I started laughing, that whole clip was great.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 8:03 AM on April 6, 2008
MeFi post:
The end of childhood
i was more weirded out at the time with the sense that the child was used to having others servicing her.
I was actually more weirded out by this being yet another thing that people expect to have to pay for others to do for them. Similar but not exactly the same thing. I mean I get that waxing your own anus might be something easier done by someone with a better view (or not?) but one of the arguments against the practice generally is that it... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 4:30 PM on April 4, 2008
Find me a text-only copy of Playboy and your argument holds a little water.
Actually there is Braille Playboy that I've seen in a few libraries.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 6:24 AM on April 5, 2008
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Dancing boys of Afghanistan
APRIL FOOLS! SUCKERS!
Pretty sure that was a joke. The account has been around since 2007. tkchrist can be weird, but not like that.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 12:09 PM on April 3, 2008
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Or party every day.
it's rare for guys to be so nitpicky about what counts or doesn't count, because they generally want to boast about how slutty they are.
Interesting analysis. I was sure that it was women who were nitpicky because there was a decent chance that the average in-and-out encounter resulted in an orgasm for him and not for her, so she was holding out for orgasms and not just pokery.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 9:54 PM on April 2, 2008
Sting deserves some credit for having loads of endless sex with this person.
I really hope your point is not that fifty-seven year old Sting should not be having sex with his fifty-four year old wife because she looks her age.
posted to MetaFilter by jessamyn
at 9:26 AM on April 3, 2008
