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MeTa post:
So broke they're changing their name to Vanilla Iceland
Katullus, they're not philosophy profs are they? I have a good friend who really could stand to get her visiting position at U of I renewed.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 6:09 PM on October 10, 2008
:) well, even if they were in her department, I'm not sure "our son has an internet acquaintance who knows the candidate, and vouches for her scholarly merit" would be a convincing line in the renewal application. I hope all your folks at home are hanging in there too.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 10:23 PM on October 11, 2008
MeTa post:
It's not my decision...
I know a couple of people on the IAVA staff. They are good folks, and they have an enviable position among groups in DC - they're advocating for good treatment for vets, which is pretty much politically impossible to oppose. (openly, anyway). The founder, Paul Reickhoff, is going to be a big name one of these days.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 9:40 PM on September 20, 2008
MeTa post:
Long live, Metafilter!
I have been glad to have that thread, inadequate though it's obviously going to be to express any significant portion of the meaning of his work in people's lives. His death feels big, and I'm glad to see other people who feel the same way even if not everybody does, and even if his "meaning" can't be well expressed in thread.
The paradoxes and difficulty of expression and connection shouldn't make us stop trying to express or connect. (sound like a familiar... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 9:58 PM on September 14, 2008
MeTa post:
That which we call misogyny, by any other name...
Her pro-life stance and religious views directly led to to have a child after the age at which it is scientifically deemed safe. That is politically relevant because it shows how strong her beliefs in are and where she lies on certain policy lines.
Leave this aside. She can have kids after 44 if she wants to, why on earth shouldn't she be allowed to? And for all that she wanted to have another kid, she could still have been pro-choice so it doesn't... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 12:58 PM on August 29, 2008
Of course, the likelihood is that she was chosen partly because of those family decisions, and those family decisions are going to be used to browbeat or legislate other people's family decisions. And that's when we can step in to say "what a nice choice you made. how lucky it was that you were free to make that choice." etc. But without saying "you shouldn't have made that choice" or "old bags shouldn't have babies" or whatever other junk.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 1:01 PM on August 29, 2008
"if you can't see that, maybe you're not as liberal as you thought."
That's why I'm a registered independent. I can say and think whatever I want, because I don't give a fuck what you think. Hilary shits what the (etc etc etc)
I think onlyconnect was taking that underlined "you" to be directed at her personally, and then it was followed by a bunch of swearing including twat, cunt, etc. I think that's why... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 6:27 PM on August 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Here we go again....
Hi Joanie.
You can reply to other people's comments in the thread where the comment is. As long as you are logged in (you can tell by looking at the top right of the screen - does your user name appear there? then you're logged in), you will be able to make comments in threads. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and there should be a white box. You can write a comment in that box and then click the "post comment" button below it.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 8:51 AM on August 22, 2008
You can write other people private messages (like in-site email) by going to the top right of the screen next to your user name -- there is a tiny picture of an envelope. Click on that, and you will go to the mail page. Another way is to click on someone's user name -- that will take you to their profile page with their personal info. On the profile page you can click on "send this person mail". If you get mail in return, the little picture of an envelope will turn yellow.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 8:54 AM on August 22, 2008
MeTa post:
Misogyny Filter (?)
Basically what I'm saying is that a man's surrendering his choice to wear a condom *is* a big deal. I don't blame the OP for being unsure around it
I agree entirely.
I would like to state that implying that the girlfriend can't be trusted to take the pill responsibly is misogynistic as we know nothing about this woman.
I think this is incorrect. In laying out the OP's decision... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 9:52 PM on August 2, 2008
Why does one person--when both were involved to create it--have the sole ability to decide whether that child is born?
dnab, you know already why women have the sole say on whether they carry a pregnancy to term. In a situation where the parents disagree about whether to have the kid, there can't be a halfway compromise answer - either the kid will get born or no. So one of the parents must have the final say.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 12:46 AM on August 3, 2008
I hear an aspirin can be a 100% effective birth control option for a woman. She just has to hold firmly between her knees.
Side effects include walking like a penguin.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 11:55 AM on August 3, 2008
sluglicker: a few women chimed in in the original thread to say they can feel the difference and prefer sex w/o condom.
But also - the point of the comments in that thread wasn't, I think, to speculate about this specific girlfriend's motives or character. It was to spell out a general list of things that the OP should think about in deciding about whether he feels safe to ditch the condoms.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 11:25 PM on August 3, 2008
MeTa post:
Post Ident Please
Do you remember anything else at all about the actress?
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 7:43 PM on August 1, 2008
Pater Alethias's link is a totally amazing story, which I passed over when it was first posted because the description doesn't even begin to suggest what it's about. It's about the woman who posed nude for a number of famous early 20th c. public art works, went through a couple of big scandals and lived out the last 70 years of her life in an insane asylum.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 8:09 PM on August 1, 2008
carsonb: didn't mean to sound harsh. But really, that's a golden link, so cool! I missed the mouseovers, and am really pleased to have a chance to catch the post here.
About writer's block: I tend to go for just a sentence or so of plain and descriptive post text, because the link is what makes it or breaks it. If the link is great, the post will be well appreciated if you write something plain and straightforward.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 8:50 PM on August 1, 2008
A couple of longshots:
Evelyn Keyes was in Gone with the Wind; American, though
Elisabeth Spriggs was in Harry Potter among other things; British, close to the right age
wikipedia on deaths in July 08
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 10:43 PM on August 2, 2008
MeTa post:
Oh shit, it's a walk-off!
I'd be grateful if you'd preserve the tag cloud version (or some version that shows the relative popularity of these tags) somewhere. I think the relative-popularity information is probably the most interesting info a popular tags page can give, since people don't (I take it) usually use it as an entry point to the db for any specific tag they're wondering about.
Maybe a page with relative popularity info for the top 150, and then another page that can serve as... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 10:01 PM on June 17, 2008
MeTa post:
Call in show needs callers
For the philosophy-curious: the question about whether we could flip the colors is the "inverted spectrum problem" and there are lots of interesting complicated things written on it by philosophers.
...3) We know from statistical studies that the "sensation" and feeling one feels when in a blue room are similar between individuals and even different cultures. This has been shown by many peer reviewed studies....... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 11:30 PM on June 13, 2008
iamkimiam, I think you are missing the core of my objection.
I accept that:
1. we don't all name colors the same, so we shouldn't run a test that relies on language. (Let's set aside everything having to do with color words.)
2. your brain-activation and mine might be exactly the same, upon looking at a blue thing.
But I deny that we know, from this, that our internal subjective experiences of looking at... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 4:07 PM on June 16, 2008
I agree that matching self-reports and matching brain scans give us the best reasons we could have to say that subjective experiences are the same in the two cases. And I agree that for all real-world purposes we don't have any serious reason to doubt that our experiences are the same.
But, the cross correlation you're suggesting would still not rule out the scenario where I am spectrum-inverted relative to you. (When I look at the blue sky, my... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 4:30 PM on June 16, 2008
The possibility of inversion is supposed to survive a hardware check.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 6:02 PM on June 16, 2008
Here are a few other inversion arguments in other sense modalities.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 6:03 PM on June 16, 2008
Or I should say, one could hold that it would. I don't think we know enough at this time to know if it does. And probably if physicalism about the mental is true, then the possibility won't survive a hardware check performed with full knowledge of which parts of the hardware matter to creating visual experience.
I don't actually know all that much about the literature on this issue, but it's extremely well-trod ground. SEP on inverted... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 6:09 PM on June 16, 2008
MeTa post:
Education with your host, DaShiv.
it's just like god damn man, when do you stop being awesome?
I heard once, when he made chocolate chip pancakes breakfast in bed for all the users above 14K, he made kind of a mess in the kitchen.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 4:52 PM on June 7, 2008
MeTa post:
Performance art?
I said "eww" about each of those questions without even opening them, and now I feel triple vindicated. Eww.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 9:14 PM on May 1, 2008
MeTa post:
Bizarre Firefox behavior: MeFi background colors get lighter hue over time.
On April Fools' Day 2008, the background colors on MetaFilter slowly changed from their normal colors to radically different colors while people read any page on the site. The change was very slow, it took several minutes before you could even tell that something odd was going on. Some JavaScript that slightly incremented and changed the background color did the trick. You can read members' reactions in the two MetaTalk threads from that day: nice trick and Taste the rainbow!.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 3:49 PM on April 27, 2008
If you click on "Make it start" you go to a page that explains the April Fools joke, and explains what's going to happen, and then there is another link you can click if you want to actually make it start.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 3:18 PM on April 28, 2008
MeTa post:
Not funny.
Good deletion. It would be nice if the reaction "but I lof the boobies! I LOF them!" didn't strike anyone as especially worth bringing to the table. In a conversation about FGM, comments like "but I lof vulva, it is so great for meee and I thank god for eeet, how could they do this" are really not terrific for similar reasons.
If you mean it to be funny, sorry, it's not original or clever or norm-challenging etc.
If you mean it to be... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 12:38 AM on April 17, 2008
(Ubu, I think your particular joke in that thread was pretty lame and a weird choice given the subject, even though I understood your intent with it. I find it weird to defend it rather than just saying "yeah, I tried, it was a bit lame; can't win em all; sorry about that." If you're going to throw them out fast and furious, knowing that a lot of them are borderline, the only way you can be anything other than a poop-artist is to be very good-natured about admitting... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 2:17 PM on April 18, 2008
MeTa post:
Sans quoi?
I figured we could play categories. Hence: nuts.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 11:47 PM on April 9, 2008
pine nuts/ pignioli
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 11:48 PM on April 9, 2008
pistachios
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 11:49 PM on April 9, 2008
That girl drink sketch is great; hadn't seen it.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 11:57 PM on April 9, 2008
dersins, it's totally in the spirit of things. carry on, my wayward son.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 11:59 PM on April 9, 2008
good night -
we've dislodged (or are about to dislodge) Tris Speaker.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 12:00 AM on April 10, 2008
Next target: Stan Musial, 3630
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 12:07 AM on April 10, 2008
horse chestnuts? are they different from regular chestnuts?
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 12:08 AM on April 10, 2008
I'm going to have to sign off too. It's been real, and I will always think of this as our little bonus room.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 12:28 AM on April 10, 2008
wendell, you are truly heroic. If we should ever meet in real life (and realize it) I'm buying you a drink. Good luck tonight in the wee small hours.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 12:30 AM on April 10, 2008
Ok, parting shot, for all my homeys...
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: a vast and barnacl'd longboat hull
Stands in the desert. Near it on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd oar lies, whose splintered blade
And smooth-worn grip and bowed shaft
Tell that its rowers well those waters clove
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these empty oarlocks,
The waves that mock'd them and the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten
at 12:32 AM on April 10, 2008
