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Those Wacky Swiss
StickyCarpet, what a great way for the metropolis to get cleaned up! Just let thousands of kids loose with their happy fun cleaning slime.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 5:29 PM on July 25, 2008
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a beautiful life
I cannot understand any young adult who is willing to live with their parents, but obviously some people have different family dynamics than I had. I cannot imagine how depressing it must be to see your 2x or 3x year old kid still living in the house, but I'm not a parent, I imagine your POV changes.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 4:53 PM on July 25, 2008
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Coal.
That paint video is awesome.
When we bought out 1910 Seattle house in Fremont, there was still a 8 x 8 coal bin in the basement with about four feet of coal in it. Now that I think about it, it may even have been mined locally.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 4:35 PM on July 25, 2008
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Do you really know who people are?
So I'm on IMDB and Criminal Searches? Doesn't that make me Robert Downey Junior? My traffic indiscretions from, er, six years ago come back to haunt. Alas.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 3:32 AM on July 25, 2008
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Mental note: Rogaine for the groomsmen.
I thought the whole point of bridesmaids was to look better than them? Maybe the botox does have a purpose.
Also: Can some of these people please give me their extra money? I have a use for it.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 2:23 PM on July 24, 2008
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Boing Boing Finds 21st Century Trotsky?
TNH gave lousy moderation.
Welcome to the understatement of the year. TNH's "moderation" was at first gasoline and then nitrous oxide on this particular fire.
I fail to see how TNH was even considered a "great moderator" before this event, and if she is indeed publishing a "how to be a bitchin' mod" guide--well, we'll have to hope the old cliche of "those that can, do, those that can't,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 11:37 AM on July 14, 2008
languagehat, for some perspective, the only exposure I've had to TNH has been through her moderation at boingboing. Perhaps she does a fabulous job elsewhere, and bb is the only crappy example of her work, but, man, is it a bad example. Aside from this particular incident, the "disemvoweling" thing alone is enough to mark her (assuming it's her "innovation") as someone not suited to moderating. (Mind, that the people in charge of bb would stand for it says nothing good about... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 1:28 PM on July 14, 2008
I graduated from high school a year ago. Only another couple of years until I drop out of college! Progress!
Also, about this time, thesuper-hot, witty and intelligent freaking former head cheerleader and I had dinner a couple of times as "friends"--or so I thought--later she told me she didn't want to see me because I refused her advances. I am essentially unable to recognize when someone comes on to me. It's a fucking miracle I ever... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 12:02 PM on July 15, 2008
This does seem a lot like GiveWell, doesn't it? A lot of stink, a bit of attention, the rug is lifted, all is swept under it, and no one notices the lump after a week or two.
Guess I wish I was Jake with that. I am Cory with that.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 7:08 PM on July 20, 2008
I know, I know, TNH rocks, is awesome, blah blah blah. But how can you look at the mess at BB and still retain a high opinion of her abilities? If I kick my dog from seven until eight every night, but otherwise treat her well the rest of the day, can you ignore the hour of kicking when you assess my ability to be a good pet owner?
There's some weird disconnect here. In any case, everyone at BB looks pretty terrible.
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at 1:19 PM on July 21, 2008
I guess at the end of the day, I'm most disappointed to learn that CD's position on DRM, transparency, etc. isn't actually heart-felt, but is more cynical marketing bullshit. "Do what I say, not what I do" and all that.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 2:33 PM on July 23, 2008
I am going to take this opportunity to lament the descent into cliche of that wonderful poem referenced by MJJJ above, "The Road Not Taken" (Robert Frost).
It's a lovely poem, a breath of resignation, regret and self-realization amid the usual evocative description of Frost's beloved New England countryside.
However, after approximately 1.7 million recitals at commencement and graduation addresses, it now evokes an automatic... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 11:09 PM on July 23, 2008
Next year I'll be two and forty.
Sigh.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 3:16 AM on July 24, 2008
prefpara, grobstein does a better job than I would have done in explaining my interpretation.
One of the reasons it's a great poem is that I, too, shared your point of view when I was a young man and have come to the one I have now I'm firmly middle aged.
I'm looking forward to discovering what the poem means to me when I'm three and sixty, assuming the consumption of tons of HFCS hasn't done me in before then.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 12:32 PM on July 24, 2008
MeFi post:
The Balcony Is Closed. (For Good.)
Ebert sold out?
I guess by this you mean "His reviews are approachable and he rates movies in their own context; Police Academy LXVIII stands a chance to get a few stars if it's a good movie compared to other mindless teenage comedies--even if it's total shit as art and has zero importance compared to, say, The Seventh Seal."
If that's what you were trying to say, thanks for your insight, I agree.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 12:05 PM on July 24, 2008
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Cops on Segways
The segway hate is fueled by:
1) It was supposed to be this astonishing breakthrough that would change the world. It was not and is not.
2) It's an expensive toy which is most often owned and ridden by people you'd rather not spend a lot of time with.
3) It's not a replacement for anything but walking. It doesn't do scooter-like stuff better than a scooter, it doesn't do walking-like stuff better than walking, it... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 4:26 PM on July 23, 2008
I should note, not that anyone cares, that I have nothing but respect for Kamen. It's just that this particular invention isn't really all that awesome in the real world.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 7:10 PM on July 23, 2008
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Urinal Bitchie - Hello
"Humphrey [B. Flaubert], what is your favorite film clip?"
"Well, Ron [Hitler-Barassi], I haven't seen a decent film clip since Lionel Richie's 'Hello' which, you know, was the 'Battleship Potemkin' of rock video clips."
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 4:34 AM on July 23, 2008
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"It doesn't really seem that long ago."
I don't take a lot of photos, though I enjoy photography--I'm too self-conscious to take many photos. I don't like to "prevent" people from doing things, which is often the case when a camera is out (they try to be polite and not get in the shot, or become self-conscious), and I've found I pay less attention to the actual event going on if I'm taking photos of it. That's OK if my main reason for being there is to take photos, but otherwise it's kinda distracting.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 12:14 PM on July 22, 2008
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Traction Park
Oh, Jeez, it sounded like three parts awesome and one part batshitinsane. *sniff*
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 7:16 PM on July 21, 2008
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Old dangerous playground equipment.
I had a friend at a large dotcom who had a tall slide put in inside.
When I was at MS, on their RedWest campus, I got to witness a bunch of dudes throwing another dude into the "creek" while a friend and I were sitting there eating lunch. Snap, broken leg. Oops.
The biggest danger with the old playground equipment, in my opinion, was what happens when you mix teenage malcontents with the little kids playing there.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 4:23 PM on July 21, 2008
Jesus, Tube, you and I--well, don't tell my wife.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 4:23 PM on July 21, 2008
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Extraordinary Renditions
So, are all punk covers of pop songs ironic? What are "serious" covers of songs that were originally meant to be goofy?
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 12:23 PM on July 21, 2008
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he could bear to wait no longer
Zachsmind, when there is nothing you can do to avoid another's death, I don't think you have killed them. The car equivalent to this would be a man dropping ten feet in front of your automobile from where he's been crouching on a low bridge when you're doing 60 miles per hour.
Yes, you're part of the resultant mess, but you're not responsible for it.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 12:02 AM on July 21, 2008
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Vanhacking
You know, I can smell those shaggy van interiors from here--Old Spice, weed, PVC and locker room.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 12:45 AM on July 19, 2008
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How do you rate as a husband or wife of the 1930s
I asked the wife, she said I was mediocre in most regards but great in bed...it took much less time.
I asked my wife the same thing, and she had the same answer: HuronBob is mediocre at most things but is great in bed. Something's troubling me about her answer but I can't quite figure out what it is.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 7:24 PM on July 18, 2008
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PorNOTgraphy, AMIRITE?
Wait, so now you're saying that the cover-up is far enough along that they're un-porning things?
(This was so meh I lack adequately meh words to describe its mehness.)
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 1:10 AM on July 17, 2008
I, for one, believe that Christ's first vintage was the best wine to ever pass human lips.
Jesus was way cool
Everybody liked Jesus
Everybody wanted to hang out with him
Anything he wanted to do, he did
He turned water into wine
And if he wanted to
He could have turned wheat into marijuana
Or sugar into cocaine
Or vitamin pills into... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 4:10 AM on July 17, 2008
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Incest: Taboo or not taboo?
I'm sisterless, and while idly wondering about whether having a horny-for-brother sister who looked like a hollywood starlet would have been so awful, I glance in the mirror and realize that whatever qualities I have as a man, I make a pretty frightful woman. So put me down as "against" purely on aesthetic grounds, aside from the squick.
Step-sisters, though. Yeah, baby.*
* Never had any step-siblings, though I have... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 11:51 AM on July 15, 2008
consensual sexual relationships with their mothers
No one wants to hear "get in line" when making ribald sexual innuendo about mother of the person you're talking to. Or the sister, for that matter.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 3:05 PM on July 15, 2008
Dear Ms. Anderson,
May I call you Gillian? It has come to my attention that you and I may, in fact, be siblings. Please note:
1) We're roughly the same age, close enough to easily be brother and sister.
2) We were both born in Canada.
3) Neither of us has naturally red hair.
Based on this overwhelming (albeit circumstantial!) evidence, we should have a family get-together.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 8:24 PM on July 15, 2008
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Defender Of The Favicon
How long before Rule 34 extend to the favicon?Pay porn sites will use the favicon to give you a 16 x 16 taste of what's inside.
Anyway, I love love love stuff like this, even if the game is unplayable.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 7:16 PM on July 15, 2008
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A Divorce Portrait
Everyone in that article comes off as pretty decent folk. Tyler has more strength than I would have had. And anyone who resents Renee for...whatever--I can't even imagine what it is you think her failing might be--read a different article than the one I did.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 2:51 PM on July 15, 2008
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Khaufpur
She's lovely, flapjax. I wish you the best.
Bhopal still angers me to this day. Just like the Exxon Valdez and other industrial accidents, it's cheaper to pay the fine than it is to do the right thing.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 4:36 AM on July 15, 2008
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Don’t ask, don't tell - gays in the US military
wrapped in a glittering mantle of successful compromise
I doubt this. Glittering mantle does not go with successful compromise.
Snark aside, it's always cute to watch the right's homophobia show itself. So, I wonder what the line is on Hunter being caught with a wide stance in a capitol rest room? You'd probably have to take the side of him not being found Craiging to get a bookie to even take the bet.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 10:05 PM on July 14, 2008
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This is how we roll
Forktine, that dude getting run over by his spinning BMW always makes me smile. Evolution in Action is always a cause to celebrate.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 11:10 AM on July 14, 2008
Camofrog, I think they're illegal here, but you can get devices which lock the twist-grip open. Essentially cruise-control.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 6:48 PM on July 14, 2008
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Espresso on Ice is Not Okay
Not to point a finger at chinese_fashion, but how come whenever folks are listing out their assets, as such, their mate is always "gorgeous." This makes me want independent verification--I guess it's from the same part of my brain that looks at a statement like "I drive a new BMW" as a measure of success with suspicion.*
Of course, eye of the beholder, one hopes that everyone finds their own mate gorgeous, etc., etc. But, still, stressing the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 1:08 PM on July 14, 2008
Vivace
Ah, the stories I could tell. Well, two stories. One involves older married man (who owns the place? works there?) hitting on an attractive 20-something co-worker, thoroughly creeping her out. Second involves an accusation of running into espresso equipment stashed in the ultra-tight basement parking garage (I mean, if it's so valuable, huh?) and then having a "bumper comparison" which makes it pretty evident that accusations are... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 4:31 PM on July 14, 2008
MeFi post:
Happy Birthday Metafilter!
Happy Birthday, you're halfway to voting...
Metafilter's been fucking me for years, and it's only...nine? I need to talk to an attorney.
Happy birthday, MF.
posted to MetaFilter by maxwelton
at 9:44 AM on July 14, 2008
