I totally fell for that. I was like, whoaaaa shit...here we go. And bummed cause I'm leaving town and would miss all the ensuing festivities. But I much prefer this! Happy Birthday Matt!
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 9:03 AM on October 10, 2008

I want to hear somebody stand up and ask both candidates what their thoughts are on race relations and minorities in the US.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 8:05 AM on October 7, 2008

Also, how many Joe Sixpacks ya think we'll be seein' come Hollerween?
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 8:07 AM on October 7, 2008

They make those now?
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 8:11 AM on October 7, 2008

If you're gonna be the kind of person adamant about drawing lines, you gotta pick a side. So Sarah, are you one of (folksy) "us" or one of (elite) "them"?

Because after November 4th, if she gets her way, she'll be considered one of them. So she shouldn't be surprised if others put her on a side how they see fit until then. Then again, her take, if she'd give it, would make all the difference here. If she publicly took a stand that said, "Hey,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 8:34 AM on October 9, 2008

Rereading that, I realize it comes off very "she asked for it" and that's not what I'm intending here.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 8:36 AM on October 9, 2008

I love the "EPIC FAIL" sign, from Obama supporters, about McCain. (EarBucket's video link, above)
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 9:42 AM on October 9, 2008

Secret Life of Gravy: "Obama is psychic ....or just very smart."

He's not psychic, he just knows which way the wind is fucking blowing. And McCain is neither smart, psychic, or aware of the damn weather.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 9:01 AM on October 10, 2008

I think this is really hard to do with faces we recognize...those come pre-loaded with judgments. For the data point, I thought all the afters, except Cera, were better. (I like Cera all 'messed up')
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 7:13 AM on October 10, 2008

I drive a Mazda MP5 Wagon. I can fit a longboard inside without a passenger. And I've had up to 4 shortboards (longest was 6'6") with a passenger. You can also do one 6'4" or smaller (in a board bag no less!) with two passengers. The new Mazdas are even roomier in the back.

Honda Civics work too (back seats down, boards through the trunk).
posted to Ask Metafilter by iamkimiam at 5:23 PM on October 9, 2008

Hopefully the necessity will inspire some creativity in the form of an awesome FPP. This is what I keep coming back to this place for. You guys never fail to deliver. During the staggeringly long Palin thread, I remember wondering if there would possibly another one like it to discuss politics. Look where we are now...so many threads, so little time!
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 5:20 PM on October 9, 2008

For those of us missing the joke, why did jack disable his account?
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 11:41 PM on October 8, 2008

Haha. No shit. That's pretty funny, but yeah, shouldn't be encouraged, for obvious reasons.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 8:46 AM on October 9, 2008

Fyi, Bridge School Benefit concert is that weekend. It is at the Shoreline, but everything else makes up for that. I've gone year after year and thoroughly enjoyed myself. Bonus: it's a really excellent cause. If anybody is going, I'd love to meet you there!

If this meetup ends up on a Friday, I'll try to make it too!
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 10:39 PM on October 3, 2008

Berkeley would be awesome. We always talk about the EB meetups, but they never happen. :(
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 9:16 AM on October 4, 2008

I'm down for Friday and Sunday! Can we get this on the Meetups list now?
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 9:05 AM on October 8, 2008

Hell, it takes multiple clicks to find your old posts that DON'T get deleted. I'd love to have a MeFiMail every time I posted something. But I love getting Mail from Metafilter anyway!
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 8:28 AM on October 8, 2008

Now comments would go a little too far. I'm looking at YOU cortex! ;)

Should I be expecting another notice in the next minute?
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 8:42 AM on October 8, 2008

That was powerful.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 1:03 AM on October 8, 2008

Oh my god. Do you take everything in life this seriously? What happens when the tag over the butter on the shelf is ripped off, obscuring the *real* price? do you scream for the manager? I bet that parking meters really get you too...the government is blatantly STEALING my money!! And I shudder to think of the hate that must be unleashing upon me as you read this and discover TYPSO!
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 12:31 AM on October 8, 2008

The first thing I thought when McCain said that is "you put the jello in a cup, stupid!" Then the second thing I wondered is who would win in a fight between a hatchet, a scalpel, a pipe and some jello. I think that Obama would win, metaphorically speaking. A-ha would be the first loser.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 10:36 PM on October 7, 2008

I'm sure part of the reason it stayed is because it prevents the mods from having to endlessly delete a B.O. comment every time the joke occurred to somebody. That is to say it's true, answers the OP's question accurately, is well-intentioned, light-hearted and lastly, damn funny.
posted to Ask Metafilter by iamkimiam at 10:12 PM on October 7, 2008

This is awesome. I feel like all of my favorite things are coming together.
posted to Projects by iamkimiam at 10:59 PM on October 6, 2008

Wow that other blog linked to this one is pretty phenomenal too. Check out this pic. Or this one. Or this.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 10:03 PM on October 6, 2008

This is so weird. The other day the knob on my car stereo broke, and in the midst of trying to wrangle it into submission, the settings got stuck. So now the only song that plays from my iPod is A-Ha's Take on Me. On repeat.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 7:42 PM on October 6, 2008

fourcheesemac: "Seriously, in her answer to Couric's SCOTUS question, she blithely shot the legal foundation for the anti-abortion movement out from underneath her own legs. And the bullet passed through her foot."

Best mixed metaphor since I heard "beating my head against a dead horse." Seriously, how does one shoot a metaphorical foundation...with a gun.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 6:51 AM on October 2, 2008

Last night, in my Sociolinguistics/Narrative class, we analyzed a bunch of transcriptions from recent political speeches. We were looking for patterns and more subtle linguistic features that help to build a narrative, through identity construction via the establishment of coherence, authenticity, etc.

One particularly salient piece of text was an excerpt from the Presidential Debates last friday. The last line from a McCain turn, in response to Obama is:... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 2:09 PM on October 3, 2008

I was totally against arugula before I was for it.
(Ironically, I ate arugula last night, while watching Stephen Colbert. Or maybe I should say, "While watching Stephen Colbert last night, I ate arugula ironically.")
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 2:21 PM on October 3, 2008

"The Sarah Palin in those interviews was a little bit annoyed because no matter what you say you're gonna get clobbered."

I love this line. She's trying to disassociate...from herself.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 2:26 PM on October 3, 2008

Also, interesting switch from past tense to future, with respect to situations they're referencing.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 2:30 PM on October 3, 2008

Palin disagreeing with the Michigan move, to me smacks of "See! SEEEE!!!! I am an independent thinker! Look, I am publicly disagreeing with John McCain when it's safe to do so! We're Mavericks! Lalalalala!"
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 2:33 PM on October 3, 2008

There is something (dare I say "fundamentally") wrong with this country when both the Presidential nominee and the VP nominee from the same ticket will lose their jobs and be forever banned from the field if they don't win the election.

It reminds me of a phrase I heard a while back, "When somebody is falling off a cliff, you have to ask yourself, 'how close do I want to be tied to this person?'" But in this case, I think we need to first ask... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 12:37 PM on October 6, 2008

You know what I want to see? A list. I want a big fat long list of names and titles, with links on the names*, of every public figure that endorses Obama. Bonus if its organized by field (ex. Entertainment, Science, History, Politics, Art, Healthcare Professionals, etc.)

I bet that would be, oh, just a little impressive.

*Preferably the links would point to their actual endorsements, and not their bios.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 3:50 PM on October 6, 2008

AwkwardPause: "Reading about the Great Vowel Shift always makes me wonder: how on earth do they know how English was pronounced before 1600? I doubt any podcasts are extant."

Comparative/Historical Linguistics deals with this directly. You can learn a lot by studying written texts, but there are many other ways to figure out the sound inventory as well as the patterns and alternations (phonology)...even for languages of the oral traditions... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 6:46 PM on October 4, 2008

I think its interesting to note, and I didn't see explicitly stated in the article link, is that the English spelling system was mostly solidified just before the language underwent its greatest and most mysterious sound change of all, The Great Vowel Shift. This is the equivalent of finally finishing archiving your entire hard drive on a Syquest, only to discover that everybody else decided to start using Zip disks, and eventually CDs and DVDs. Souch is lefe.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 6:58 PM on October 4, 2008

Also, the Origins and Development of the English Language is quite an excellent reference.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 4:44 PM on October 5, 2008

Also, not to add to the debunking pile-on, but the whole 'different words for pig vs. pork' thing is a pretty common one in a lot of languages. It has less to do with outside influences or word borrowing, and more to do with a the taboo-ness of conflating the concept of 2-and-4-legged living animals with the meat we cram in our maws. We create euphemisms for things when we want a sort of distance between a connotation that would imply something unintended (faux swears, clinical words for body... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 5:00 PM on October 5, 2008

Posts deleted about Sarah Palin:
This one.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 9:28 AM on October 5, 2008

Great recent NPR segment on fungi.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 8:41 AM on October 5, 2008

Great recent NPR segment on fungi.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 8:41 AM on October 5, 2008

Start out under the covers. It will get hot under there and you will kick them off. Trust me. Also, there's nothing that says the covers need to start out on the bed.
posted to Ask Metafilter by iamkimiam at 12:48 AM on October 5, 2008

Private or non-favorite favorites. I often favorite things as examples of some thing other than my endorsement of what they've said.
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 12:25 AM on October 5, 2008

Please take a listen to this episode of This American Life, The Breakup. Especially Act III.
posted to Ask Metafilter by iamkimiam at 6:01 PM on October 4, 2008

You should add another swatch of felt to the inside of the card. Something completely random and irrelevant, like a giraffe or a lamp. They will ponder for days, and then will absolutely have to ask you about the joke they're not getting.
posted to Ask Metafilter by iamkimiam at 11:06 PM on October 3, 2008

Off topic, but relevant to the above comment about food service and shitting blood. Most kitchens, at least the respectable and safety-compliant ones would absolutely NOT have a person with diarrhea come into work. That is a health violation that can lead to serious food-borne illnesses.
posted to Ask Metafilter by iamkimiam at 10:59 PM on October 3, 2008

The post date on that article kirkaracha linked to is 13 days from now (Oct. 16, 2008). Weird.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 1:17 PM on October 3, 2008

iamkimiam: "The post date on that article kirkaracha linked to is 13 days from now (Oct. 16, 2008). Weird."

Good Lord, I am a dum dum.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 2:57 PM on October 3, 2008

Plutor, that script is perfect! I was looking for a solution that didn't necessitate me leaving the site or doing a bunch of thread maintenance (subscribing, tagging, unsubscribing, etc.)
posted to MetaTalk by iamkimiam at 7:46 AM on October 2, 2008

sien: "It's time to see some accounts of getting over internet addiction."
That's like walking into a bar looking for the recovered alcoholics.
posted to MetaFilter by iamkimiam at 5:35 AM on October 2, 2008

What makes your newsletter unique? What's special about your analysis? How is it different than your average stock investing blog/site/brochure/group? Tell us that, and we'll come up with something non-generic to call it, I promise.
posted to Ask Metafilter by iamkimiam at 3:39 PM on October 1, 2008