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MeFi post:
Regrets? I have a few, but then again...
When it gets warm enough to wear shorts, my tat becomes visible, and it's interesting to compare the reactions between the americans and the people from other countries.
The conservative americans I work with aren't shocked, they've seen a tat before at work, but they make it obvious that on the inside, they are rolling their eyes at 6000 rpm.
The 'hip' americans want to know what it means, how old it is, and so forth. But even they seem... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 6:03 AM on July 6, 2008
MeFi post:
Boing Boing Finds 21st Century Trotsky?
Riki Tiki, you'd be surprised what a CEO can get away with....
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 10:06 AM on July 1, 2008
I think I get it now. If you read between the lines of their "excuse", it becomes obvious that the "embarrassment" they were trying to avoid was their own. If they publicly disavowed Violet Blue, it wouldn't silence her, because people would just go straight from the disavowment, to Violet Blue's own site. But if they HAD gotten away with quietly disappearing her, she wouldn't get an on-the-way-out traffic spike.
Now, she gets the traffic spike,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 11:44 AM on July 1, 2008
It's funny. I usually read mefi in lynx, and only use a graphical/javascript-y browser to post comments, so I never realized the [del] stuff created the actual strike-through effect for you young hipsters with the modern technofied browsers.
I learned something today useful today, and of BB's willingness to work on that whole hole to china thing.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 4:37 PM on July 1, 2008
jsavimbi, huh? I can't think of a relationship between Cult of the Dead Cow, nor Centers for Disease Control, to text based browsing.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 5:12 PM on July 1, 2008
i still have favorites left, i'm so disappointed.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 9:58 PM on July 1, 2008
Pure Speculation
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there once was a website that said,
to delete without 'splaining is bad.
then someone got something
...that we'll never mention
and retaliation was achieved,
by deleting with speed,
that person
...that we'll never mention
as if being such a witch,
would really cure that itch.
there's clinics for that sort of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 11:07 PM on July 1, 2008
Then what sort of narrative would we classify this as? Pardon the sexism on that wikipedia page. Like they never heard of woman vs woman.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 8:12 AM on July 4, 2008
MeFi post:
mmmm, bacon
there are pics of past winners' creations, but I didn't see one that looked very bacon-y, so I'm guessing Bacon Boy hasn't been added yet...
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 3:24 PM on June 30, 2008
MeFi post:
BK Veg City.
I saw a description of the ads in an askme earlier this week; the words did not do justice to the images. Who knew veggies wore madonna-bullet-bras?!?
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 1:30 PM on June 5, 2008
MeFi post:
Wonderland
All his works are pretty amazing, I was exploring them over the weekend thanks to BB. The Anna clip is equally well-done.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 8:25 AM on May 28, 2008
MeFi post:
Charged
When speech kills, it's a bit more serious than "unpopular".
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 2:37 PM on May 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Playsforsuren't
There's always tunebite, which skips the cd-burning and just digitizes directly from the 'analog hole'. At least one music-subscription service exec I've spoken to felt that transcoding tracks with it, didn't violate their EULA.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 2:48 PM on May 7, 2008
MeFi post:
How to destroy 4,700 new cars?
These cars weren't just a danger to their potential owners, but to every car they encountered. If a steering rod fails due to corrosion, a tire blows out in heavy, high-speed traffic, a fuse panel shorts out, taking down the headlights...the possibilities of killing not just the driver, but other drivers are endless.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 12:43 PM on April 29, 2008
MeFi post:
America the Godly
One nation, under atmosphere, above ground, except for the sekrit railroad...which come to think, is owned by the tri-lat's, so yeah, just the above ground part.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 2:25 PM on April 15, 2008
MeFi post:
The Torture Playlist
I can't believe they don't use The Four Sergeants' Guantanamo Bay,
At Guantanamo bay,
call her gitmo for short,
not much of a base,
and much less of a port,
one look at the docks
and you know that you're seein
the hottest damn place
in the whole cara-BEE-anne.
...
So ho-rah for old gitmo
on cuba's fair shore
home of the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 3:25 PM on February 26, 2008
MeFi post:
Let me through, I'm a nosy person
When the WTO riots first hit Seattle, I went out and bought a police scanner. During the height of the bad-stuff, it made for some very interesting listening (someday I have to find the mp3s I made that week), with police officers calling out for help, sounding more scared and overwhelmed than I can describe.
Afterwords, living in downtown, I'd hear lots of sirens, but often by the time I turned on the scanner, it'd be too late to hear about whatever aid vehicle I'd... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 1:52 PM on February 7, 2008
MeFi post:
BMW M5 Crashes, Kills 5
In high school, I had a friend who's parents were in the middle of a messy divorce. Dad bought my friend a porche 911, his mom bought him a VW golf. This being the 80's, there was zero chance his dad was getting custody, and of course mom wouldn't let him keep the 911 at her house, so he only got to drive it when he'd visit his dad twice a year. I didn't keep exact records, but it sure seemed like 9/10 times he drove the porche, he got arrested for driving like an idiot. He never got... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 3:54 PM on January 29, 2008
MeFi post:
Breaking news: not all bisexuals are lying sluts.
DAQ, what defense? You attacked bisexuals as all being shallow sluts, then defended that opinion with a bunch of ignorance. The uptight person in this room is you, upset that some people are sluts. How dare they be any more shallow than you.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 4:33 PM on January 17, 2008
MeFi post:
Ballpits as office furniture
Yeah, this is another nail in the coffin which is my despisement of last.fm's developers. They took a wonderfuly simple product, and have made it less and less useful with every change.
It used to scrobble internet radio tracks just fine, but they disabled that, because they want you to only use their radio system.
It used to scrobble tracks you played off of network drives, but not anymore. They used to have a working plugin for itunes, but they replaced it with one... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 2:46 PM on January 16, 2008
eyeballkid, not to hijack this into my own tech support thread, but how? Are you on a mac?
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 3:36 PM on January 16, 2008
oh wait, nvm, it's mp3tunes.com that wrote the itunes crashing plugin, it was the refusing-to-scrobble tracks from a network drive bug that made me give up last.fm, and that was a windows media player plugin issue. d'oh.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 3:39 PM on January 16, 2008
MeFi post:
Oops
It's certainly frustrating that 10 hours into the 'crisis' they still haven't sent out a single email about what's going on. I first saw the story on digg, then got a phone call from my bank's fraud department.
Annoying as that is, I just can't see giving up the 700+gb of storage I get thanks to being with them since forever. I've yet to see another host with anywhere near as liberal a drive-space policy.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 11:21 AM on January 15, 2008
I'm quite curious how they'll handle the secondary effects. I'm not bouncing any checks, but my banks fraud-auto-detector thingy is suspending my card. I wonder if they have some sort of insurance that will cover those people with secondary fallout, or if they'll have to pay it out of pocket, or just tell people 'thems the break for using a debit card instead of a proper credit card'.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 11:55 AM on January 15, 2008
I somewhat share unixrat's amazement...not that I'm saying people for whom $200 is a big deal aren't allowed to have websites, but from the perspective that someone for whom $200 is a big deal, doesn't seem like they should be using direct withdrawls from their account. It's right in the paperwork you 'sign', that errors could happen. I know when I've been in close-to-the-wire times, I didn't let anyone auto-debit something from me.
CharlesV42 makes an excellent point, that we... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 2:59 PM on January 15, 2008
MeFi post:
Sue your dealer.
lattiboy, it starts out like this:
You're at a party, drinkin hearty, someone passes out next to you, and you start drawing a penis on his face, cause hey, it's the funny right?
But then you start thinking, hey I've had more beers than this dude, I might pass out next, and then someone will be drawing a penis on MY face. I know, I'll take some meth and keep this party going.
That keeps you up for the rest of the night, but every time you start... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 2:38 PM on January 14, 2008
MeFi post:
Project Prostitute
Call me when someone starts a project where I draw my idea of a prostitute first, then they pay for me to spend a night with a hooker, and I do a new drawing in the morning.
On preview, madame has it.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 10:49 AM on January 11, 2008
MeFi post:
"You will explode after two minutes".
To all the people claiming the video must be fake because the radio recording is seperate, I have to wonder what kind of camcorders you people see, that have military radios built into them. Of course the two streams of data are seperate, they came from seperate recording devices. Overlaying the audio on top of the video would seem to be the more fake way to portray two distinct recordings.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 1:35 PM on January 9, 2008
MeFi post:
Just Desserts
I made a pumpkin cheesecake-pie thingy just last week, and never could decide how to introduce it "pumpkin pie-cheesecake", "pumpkin-cheesecake pie", ....
Does it make a difference that I didn't have a springform pan, so went with pre-crusted pie-tins? I'll never get to sleep at night now.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 4:26 PM on January 2, 2008
MeFi post:
Many Retirees May Lose Benefit From Employers
Why do people in this thread keep saying "on medicare alone?" Did you not RTFA? It says they can offer DIFFERENT benefits to the over-65, not NO benefits. You go from a plan that covers everytyhing, to a plan that covers everything medicare doesn't. Not saying I want to have any portion of my care be Medicare m'self, just saying you shouldn't misrepresent the situation just to score terror points.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 1:30 PM on December 27, 2007
MeFi post:
OLPC
Mine arrived last week, and every time I've taken it out in public, I've ended up spending most of my time explaining the project to people. At least three people asked me if I had a card where they could donate to the project.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 8:54 AM on December 26, 2007
MeFi post:
Four out of Five People Wash Their Hands.
zachsmind, I worked with that guy too. He even once left an actual dook on the seat. Not a smear where he'd missed and done a bad wipe up job, nope a big ole log. I had to go to our receptionist to break the news that we needed a special visit from building maint because we worked with someone who'd shit on the seat.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 4:45 PM on December 20, 2007
MeFi post:
This link is parked
A few weeks ago, I'm walking to lunch, past this one parking lot that is used partly by people going to the nearby park, and partly by people who work in the neighborhood. There's a truck almost completely blocking the entrance to the lot. There were lots of notes on the window, but none of them seemed to have noticed that the truck had been RAMMED into the log it was resting against, and abandoned days before, such that my assumption was it was stolen. It sat for another couple days, getting... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 4:25 PM on December 5, 2007
MeFi post:
Entrapping a Good Samaritan or Two
It can't be entrapment because the officers never spoke to the accused. Entrapment requires a bit more than just leaving valuables in public places. Not to say this sounds like it's being done well. As one judge pointed out, the law gives you 10 days to turn stuff in. More than anything, it just seems like a massive waste of money and time. I wonder how many actual muggings take place during these stings, where the officers sitting around watching a bag could have been walking the streets... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 7:49 AM on November 28, 2007
lupus, it's that word "induce". It doesn't mean, "create an opportunity", it means "actively encourage". I suppose the active encouragement could have been written, sure, but it still requires interaction with an officer.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 1:42 PM on November 28, 2007
Sounds like a but-4.
What's a but-4?
To poop with!
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 3:10 PM on November 28, 2007
MeFi post:
Black Friday Youtubery
I'm walking into Fred Meyer's on friday morning, to see what super deals they might have on HDTVs. As I first come in the door, I notice a couple of women with 5-6 carts full of board games, in the checkout line. I think they must be buying for a charity or something, how sweet.
I look at the TVs, come close, but decide I have nowhere to put the current TV if I replace it, and head up to the toy department, to see what I might get for the nieces and nephews. I get to the top of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 8:53 AM on November 26, 2007
MeFi post:
W... T... F???
At work, they gave the costume contest's most-creative award to someone in a store bought costume. Seemed an unusual use of the word creative to me.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 9:47 AM on November 6, 2007
MeFi post:
Hollywood Kabuki
drezdn beat me to it...this just seems like a recipe for more reality dreck. Gee thanks a lot writers guild.
posted to MetaFilter by nomisxid
at 9:58 AM on November 2, 2007
