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What songs make you wonder whether humanity should even bother?
Feelings.
Anything by Barry Manilow.
Anything by Neil Diamond.
Honey.
Knock Three Times.
I refuse to link to any of this shit.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 9:52 AM on July 25, 2008
Oh, and fucking Michael fucking Bolton! I hate Michael Bolton!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 9:54 AM on July 25, 2008
chudmonkey, I am proud to say that I did indeed mention the despised Mr. Diamond upthread.
She got the way to move me, Cherry!
I got the way to hurl, Neil!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 1:01 PM on July 25, 2008
If you play a CD of this swill tonight, Beardman, you will not be alive to see any more of your friend's birthday celebrations because you will be beaten to death by enraged party-goers.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 1:18 PM on July 25, 2008 
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Beyond the Brain Eaters
octothorpe, Alien is a lot more similar to It! Terror From Beyond Space (written, interestingly enough, by Jerome Bixby) than to the Van Vogt book (the opening line of which I quoted over in the sf-opening-line thread in the blue).... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 9:13 AM on July 25, 2008
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Switzerland in 1817
John McPhee's book, La Place de la Concorde Suisse, might be helpful. It's a study of the Swiss Army. I read it quite a while ago and liekd it but I can't recall how much of it is actual history. There is a lot of fascinating stuff in it, no question. Should be readily available from any good library.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 6:54 AM on July 25, 2008
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Apocalyptic Music?
Some of the game's original soundtrack music, by Garry Schyman, is available as a free download. Link is in my review on SciFi.com, here. Short, only 18 minutes, but I thought it was damn good.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 6:37 AM on July 25, 2008
Oh, shoot -- that's Bioshock I'm talking about. Sorry.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 6:38 AM on July 25, 2008
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Why haven't I been hired?
What everyone else said, pretty much. I am a designer, web and graphic, nominally employed as a "web content designer" these days by a pharma firm of which you have heard. I've been doing this work for more than thirty years. All I have to add to what has been said was that I was highly annoyed that the larger image that appears after I click on a thumbnail is partially obscured by the cute menu to the left. Why did you think that was a good idea? It isn't, and... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 6:18 AM on July 22, 2008
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What song lyrics define wordless emotions?
Strawberry Fields Forever -
"No one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low.
That is you can't. you know, tune in but it's all right.
That is I think it's not too bad.
"...Always, no sometimes, think it's me, but you know I know when it's a dream.
I think I know, I mean 'Yes,' but it's all wrong.
That is, I think I disagree."
Well put, John.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 8:17 AM on July 18, 2008
Oscar Peterson Trio, with guest Clark Terry "singing:" Incoherent Blues
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 8:23 AM on July 18, 2008
Maybe this? Laurie Anderson, Let X = X. Hey, at least it's funny.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 8:28 AM on July 18, 2008
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Who are you? Just the highlights, please and TIA!
I never know what to say when confronted with this sort of thing. All I ever try to do with my writing is to entertain and tell a good story. And make a buck! Anything else seems to me to be the triumph of style over content, i.e. pretentious. But hey, I write genre fiction, so what the hell do I know. But if you have a vision, or want to work out a manifesto or something, then go with what xod and FauxScot say.
I think the whole idea is... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 2:06 PM on July 9, 2008
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Star Wars did a pretty good job at this too...
Wow, what a great thread! I am a writer and I've worked this theme. nthing Campbell, of course (though he has his critics) and nthing Sauron as the prime motivating factor of LOTR. Without him, what? Nothing. Buncha kids with hairy feet running around.
Also, Tyrantkitty has it right. Reader learns as the n00b protagonist does. Excellent way to work in your "galactic history."
I myself find that getting the hero to be interesting is... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 7:01 AM on July 7, 2008
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How would a time-travelled economy work?
I think this is too open-ended a question. The first thing I can think of is, going back in time and investing in the nascent doings of Gates, Wozniak, and Steve Jobs in order to make my 2008 self a multi-billionaire. So how would the "economy" protect against such abuses?
There's no paradox there, no history de-railing. But it's clearly an abuse.
Woud there be Time Cops to prevent such things?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 9:11 AM on July 3, 2008
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To inifinity and beyond!
I'm still trying to figure out what space and time are expanding into. Pre-Big Bang, there was no space and no time. What does this say about the environment into which they are expanding? Clearly it is able to contain space and time.
But why? What is it?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 8:16 AM on July 3, 2008
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Help me bring my comic to life.
If it were me, I'd probably go with Flash, but I know the program fairly well and have animated in it before. The limited animation idea might work for you... I used it when I did a twice-weekly vector-graphics feature on Prodigy back in the day. I haven't used toonBoom so I can't speak to that. I think that a single-panel would be easier to animate than a multi-panel, for what that's worth. I've also scanned in "cells" and strung them together in Flash but that's a fair bit of work... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 7:21 AM on June 30, 2008
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Where can we find an hibachi?
I had no idea the damn things were so expensive. The Lodge ones are pretty much what we were thinking of, although I once had one that was a tad smaller with two adjustable grills whose height from the coals could be easily adjusted.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 11:58 AM on June 24, 2008
I had not even seen the ceramic ones before. Interesting!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 12:00 PM on June 24, 2008
Fuzzy Skinner has it right -- that's what we want. Now: where to find in Bucks County, PA?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 12:07 PM on June 24, 2008
That might work... there's an EMS around here somewhere. It just puzzles me that the things can't be found.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 12:37 PM on June 24, 2008
Thanks, mkultra, but no cigar there -- those are all gas jobs. Not an hibachi in the lot.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 12:39 PM on June 24, 2008
Lazlo, that's perfect. There's an Ace about 6 miles from my house. You rock!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 1:22 PM on June 24, 2008
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My life is a blues song.
Your girlfriend = manipulative self-centered bitch. If she cheated once, she'll do it again. Why do you need us to tell you this? And you are considering marrying this chick? Bad idea.
And you live with her? And you, with a broken leg, are doing the housework?
No offense, but are you out of your mind?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 10:44 AM on June 23, 2008
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How can I stop thinking about the nasty?
Having a prostitute isn't really sex; it's more like mastrubation with a second. It isn't very satisfying. Plus it's risky. Try to hook up with someone through craigslist, maybe, as hellojed suggests.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 12:37 PM on June 18, 2008
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Riverfront Scrub-a-Dub
Doesn't sound like deer; I never heard of deer doing that. They do the "shit in the woods" thing on their own trails, mostly. Besides, they leave "beans."
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 12:19 PM on June 11, 2008
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Why are there so many dead deer bodies on the Merritt?
I have hit three deerzie-weerzies over the last four years. I fucking hate these creatures. The first one was small (fawn, still had the spots) and caromed off my car like a billiard ball off a felt cushion. I actually saw the little bastard scampering off into the woods apparently unhurt. My car (1992 Saturn) was essentially undamaged. This was near Woodstock, NY.
Hit number 2 occured along Roite 202 just outside of New Hope, PA. The deer teleported out of nowhere in... [more]
posted to Ask Metafilter by Guy_Inamonkeysuit
at 7:07 AM on June 10, 2008
