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MeTa post:
The 2008 MetaFilter election prediction contest
Poplar - 6.3% Obama
The trees are voting now? Well, I guess they prefer Obama's environmental package...
posted to MetaTalk by crossoverman
at 9:16 PM on October 2, 2008
Colorado - Obama
Florida - Obama
Indiana - McCain
Minnesota - Obama
Missouri - McCain
Nevada - Obama
New Hampshire - Obama
North Carolina - Obama
Ohio - Obama
Virginia - McCain
Popular - Obama by 14%
posted to MetaTalk by crossoverman
at 9:21 PM on October 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Chalkerrific.
I dunno, does something I've received attached to emails several times, count as the best of the web anymore?
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 9:19 PM on September 29, 2008
MeTa post:
MeFi Personals
Could everyone else please flood my inbox?
That's what she said.
No, seriously, that's what she said.
posted to MetaTalk by crossoverman
at 7:37 PM on September 29, 2008
MeFi post:
Paul Newman is dead
Goodbye Rocky Graziano and Brick Pollitt and Eddie Felson and Hud and Harper and Cool Hand Luke and Roy Bean and Henry Gondorff and Buffalo Bill and Mr Bridge and Sidney J Mussburger and John Rooney and Butch Cassidy!
Of course, none of you were anything without Paul Newman. But I don't know what to say on his passing. At least those other guys get to live on...
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posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 9:24 AM on September 27, 2008
MeFi post:
Fiction, pure fiction.
a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. "We just wanted to choose a really large number."
Until now, I thought it was only men who exaggerated size.
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 11:14 PM on September 24, 2008
MeFi post:
There is only hope.
Major spoilers for The West Wing. No spoilers for the current election.
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 5:14 AM on September 21, 2008
Did Sorkin actually provide this to Dowd, or was that part of the conceit setting up the dialog?
Dowd had Stephen Colbert write her column once, so there's precedent for that.
And the cadence is just too close to Sorkin's writing to be anyone else. I've seen attempts at replicating Sorkin's style, but the turns of phrase in this and specific points made are 100% Sorkin.
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 2:31 PM on September 21, 2008
Oh no, he's going to get away with it. He's not even a member of the executive any more!
If Sorkin or John Wells had written that into The West Wing, we would have all said the show "jumped the shark".
Man, this President jumped the shark six years ago, but it still got renewed and won't get canceled for months yet!
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 7:38 PM on September 21, 2008
Actually, Sorkin has said that Santos was based on Obama.
No, he didn't. Santos was created after Sorkin left the series. But it is true, Santos was based on Obama and his 2004 Convention speech.
To me, Sarah Palin also seems like a character right outta Sorkin's brain.
His characters have more depth.
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 9:25 PM on September 21, 2008
I wish I could see that dialogue filmed for TV, with Bartlett and Obama having their chat as they speed-walk together around Bartlett's house.
I expect, by now, no more speed walking for poor old President Bartlett - what with having to use a cane and all.
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 11:05 PM on September 21, 2008
MeFi post:
42 + 1?
...sixth Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Can someone fix that please? That's terrible. As if Douglas Adams wasn't already turning in his grave... I can't get the name of his books right!
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 2:51 AM on September 17, 2008
MeTa post:
please delete please please
So far the discussion has been quite reasonable and the two articles, while a year old, are still interesting to read - unless you are suggesting they are somehow out-dated?
Also, isn't this something better me-mailed to the mods?
posted to MetaTalk by crossoverman
at 8:51 PM on September 15, 2008
So it seems that this thread is serazin's attempt to have it both ways - either the thread was deleted and she "wins" the argument or it's not deleted and she gets to complain about the thread itself here and argue about the merits of screening for Downs there. Two threads to make her argument for the price of one. Hmmm. Someone has an agenda and I don't think it's Brian B.
posted to MetaTalk by crossoverman
at 10:50 PM on September 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Down Syndrome Testing
On the other hand, I don't think that having an abortion is somehow "the right thing to do" if your fetus has Down Syndrome. People with Down Syndrome are people - not social burdens.
If you are, indeed, pro-choice and pro-abortion on demand, then your argument here makes no sense. If indeed a woman has the right to choose, then she should equally be able to choose to abort a fetus with Down Syndrome - as she does to abort a fetus simply... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 10:47 PM on September 15, 2008
MeTa post:
Long live, Metafilter!
That's weird, my "add to favorites" link works just fine.
Seemed inadequate. And there are so many call out threads that are simply to complain about minor things, I thought a bit of praise was called for this time.
posted to MetaTalk by crossoverman
at 8:47 PM on September 14, 2008
I'm glad the people who need or like this get to do it, but I don't think I'll ever understand the value of it.
You really don't understand the value of shared grief? Or the fact that many readers of DFW's work have been able to share anecdotes with each other on the days following his passing?
Btw, I don't think your comment was crass - and Metatalk is the place to say it. But I am interested that you found it embarrassing;... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by crossoverman
at 9:18 PM on September 14, 2008
MeFi post:
RIP, DFW
A Not Very Fun Thing He'll Never Do Again.
FUCK.
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posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 6:41 PM on September 13, 2008
I love that David Foster Wallace has inspired so many words in eulogizing him. As much as I love the "." if anyone deserved eloquence at his passing, it was Wallace. And so many people have been moved and touched by his works. Sometimes I thought I was alone in my appreciation for him. Seems not.
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 4:45 AM on September 14, 2008
MeFi post:
A damn fine cup of free entertainment.
Yes, you need to find the pilot - the TV version of the pilot. Not the "European version" which has an alternate ending that will sort of ruin surprises later in the series. It's so complicated!
Also, I can't believe those episode titles have now become accepted as "official". I believe they originated in a German TV guide back in the mid-90s - which is why they are so bland and mostly meaningless.
Great... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 9:51 PM on September 10, 2008
MeFi post:
The Eureka Tower Carpark
My wife's got these very signs tattooed on her body, and I think they're great. I hardly make any mistakes at sexy time anymore.
I particularly like her "Wrong Way - Go Back" sign.
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 11:53 PM on September 7, 2008
Ask post:
What to do when you have left someone shortly before an anniversary and birthday....?
Time and space will heal us, I am sure. But in the meantime, how do I address her impending birthday?
You answered your own question - you address it with time and space. You do nothing and you leave her to celebrate it however she wishes, without regard to you or the guilt you seem to be feeling for breaking up with her.
If you really want it to be over, let it be over. Don't torture her on your birthday or what would have... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by crossoverman
at 10:07 PM on September 2, 2008
Don't torture her on your her birthday
There - fixed it for me!
posted to Ask Metafilter by crossoverman
at 10:09 PM on September 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Republicans just can't get away from this stuff even if they wanted to
Manhunt is just craigslist dressed up with a shitty UI and artificially limited features, so they can squeeze cash out of you.
Um, cash? I've never paid to use Manhunt. Nor gaydar - although at least its pay option gives you more features. And that's the major difference between gay and straight sites - on the straight sites you pay to send messages and to get more hits.
Isn't it, in the end, all about how much you use it... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 10:19 PM on August 29, 2008
But is it half of the social interaction? Or is it mainly guys who wouldn't be at gay bars anyway? Or, at least, it's allowed the gay community to have "non scene" guys who don't have to go to bars to pick up.
I'm just not so sure the community suffers, so much as it finds a new balance. Sometimes I love going to a bar, most of the time I don't. This is an outlet for gay men to meet other gay men without having to go to a gay bar - or to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 7:11 PM on August 30, 2008
MeFi post:
Facebook the Movie
I remember the early days of "Aaron Sorking & The Facebook Movie". It was mid-August 2008 and it was such a surprise to see Mr Sorkin gracing the internet with his mere online presence. Here was the man who took a dump at TWOP (Mighty Big TV at the time) and referred to all online chatters as "muu-muu wearing, Parliament smokers" through his fictional stand-in, Josh Lyman on The West Wing.
The first of us to join the group... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 6:56 PM on August 30, 2008
MeFi post:
I'll cross that bridge when -- HOLY CRAP!
I always thought Lloyd Bridges was pretty amazing.
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 11:22 PM on August 27, 2008
I was only recently in Singapore and I am annoyed that I didn't know about this bridge before or else I would have sought it out. It's on my list of things to do next time I'm in Singapore!
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 12:18 AM on August 28, 2008
MeFi post:
No, it won't have the pirate comic...
"Lensing?" Is that real Hollywood-speak?
Nope, it's Variety's slanguage.
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 9:43 PM on August 20, 2008
The fanboy analogy is that WB's a little spacejet fighting a giant space fortress, but can't seem to find the exhaust port.
Oh thank god - I would never have understood if you hadn't made a Star Wars analogy! [/harry knowles]
posted to MetaFilter by crossoverman
at 11:27 PM on August 20, 2008
