Frogbrass the [steam]vent core!
posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 4:51 PM on July 23, 2008

What seems to be forgotten here is that burglary is not just a property crime. The intrusion into one's private space, the threat the burglars present to whomever might be home ("what if I had been here when they broke in?"), and the brazenness of the act and complete disregard for the sacrosanct nature of a person's dwelling, make burglary about as close to a crime of violence as a "mere property crime" can be.

I've been robbed.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 2:14 AM on July 1, 2008

*ponders 'spaceman_steve'*
*decides Steve is a stupid name*
*ponders spiffs*
posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 10:33 PM on May 28, 2008

Having gone to class for about three weeks earlier this year while taking opiates (non-recreationally), I really don't see the point. I mean, I know all drugs are not the same, but if you're going to screw with your head, why bother going to class on those days?
posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 9:14 AM on May 27, 2008

Here is where I renew my call for t-shirts for tall and/or fat short and small people. (S or smaller, please). A reasonable extra charge is not a barrier.

XS for me, though I'd be willing to cut down an S.
posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 8:53 AM on March 20, 2008

Should I X this Y?

Where {X: eat, take, travel to, accept, dump, ...} and {Y: food, job, country, internship, MOTAS, ...}.
posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 9:38 AM on March 16, 2008

Dear Metafilter: How can I/we vanquish the CoS?

Thanks,

Anon

the next day:

Dear Metafilter: How can I/we vanquish Anon?

Thanks,

CoS^H^H^HAnon

posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 9:28 AM on March 14, 2008

WTF is no one using HTML's nice pretty acronym tag? C'mon, people!
posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 10:36 AM on March 13, 2008

Grrrr... hate them SOOOO much.

SOOO? You hate them So Overly Obnoxiously Osentatiously (and) Obviously much? I'm not quite sure how to expand that acronym, even if it looks purdy on the page.
posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 5:22 AM on March 12, 2008

As one of the original complainers (and flaggers, and, oh yeah, a dwarf), I think LS has gone a bit overboard here. The post was arguably in bad taste; it got taken down; Smedleyman agreed that maybe it was a lapse in judgment. Those of us who work to change peoples' attitudes and ways of expressing themselves sometimes do latch on and not let go. In the end, though, I feel that it's more powerful to, as Wikipedia puts it, assume good faith. Everyone ends up happier that way.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 7:10 PM on January 31, 2008

And as far as "little people" being an undignified term, well, "big" and "little" are kiddy terms for "large" and "small;" I was called a "little man" all through elementary school; "little" is often used to describe small things that are also cute. I'm not saying I prefer midget. I'm not saying I'm blind to the idea that "big" is standard (though I think it's an overused and increasingly inaccurate trope in... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 10:09 AM on February 1, 2008

I thought "dwarf" referred only to one of several types of small-statured people, and that LP was an umbrella term. No?

No. It used to be - and I think someone might've mentioned in passing this above - that midgets were short-statured but proportionate, and dwarfs were disproportionately short-statured. To be honest, I'd guess it had more to do with how close someone was to being "small, but normal-looking" than with any sort of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 11:07 AM on February 1, 2008

There's a Firefox extension for that, too.
posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 1:42 PM on December 15, 2007

You: I think the biggest complain among Windows users is that Acrobat Reader sucks. As long as one has a decent connection, Preview on OS X and Evince on *nix (though not acroread) work fine, even with relatively large files. Sadly, there are some files that are so malformed they'll only work on Acrobat Reader/acroread.

Anyway, I think a lot of people only experience PDF through AR, and so they (like me, before I started using other OS' and PDF readers) assume that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 2:35 PM on December 15, 2007

Rule 34? Then again, maybe not.
posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 2:09 PM on December 11, 2007

My questions aren't all that exciting, but I've been meaning to do this for a while. Thanks for the push, Deathalicious - I'll do it this weekend.
posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 8:54 PM on October 4, 2007

the fledgling internet, which at that time consisted of seven Lite-Brites

Terrorist.
posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 1:11 PM on September 27, 2007

I also don't think it's cool to use the term dwarf or midget to disparage someone else, or to make fun of people who legitimately suffer from those conditions.

While I'd agree with the first half, it should be noted that most of us don't actually 'suffer' from dwarfism.

But seriously, I'm confused by the thread. Are you that sensitive about your height? I'd like to preemptively point out... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by spaceman_spiff at 12:20 PM on September 17, 2007