I find it kinda ironic when people say that the original meaning of a word is dead, and it now means something else, so get over it. The meaning of the word will change again anyway, maybe back into its original form, and maybe because people made a stink about it. This is part of the normal course of events.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 3:36 PM on February 9, 2008

Do you have any examples of this, or are you just talking out of your ass? Because I've studied a lot of etymology, and I don't know any examples of a word that changed "back into its original form... because people made a stink about it." And what's "ironic" about stating facts?

The ironic part is that the "usage changes" axiom is being used to browbeat people who are actually the ones who are trying to change the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 4:33 PM on February 9, 2008

Usually just the weak parts die.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 5:35 PM on February 7, 2008

Thanks for the link. I remember this strip fondly for all the landscape drawing tricks I cribbed from it. I guess class is in session again, cha-ching!
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 10:46 PM on January 28, 2008

Do you think that Noah had any creature races in those days after the world flood? I mean, did Noah play and have fun with the animals... with racing games?
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 8:44 PM on January 17, 2008

Any time something happens in the desert and there's no obvious explanation, assume the answer is ice. Someone stabbed, but no murder weapon? Ice dagger. Someone shot, but no bullets? Ice bullets.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 12:09 PM on December 2, 2007

Vecteezy and Brusheezy do the same thing, but with clearer licensing terms.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 12:41 PM on November 20, 2007

I don't think I've ever been in a library that would kick you out for doing anything short of being an utter jackass, being warned, and then being an utter jackass again. Especially now that libraries are accepting a change in atmosphere, assuming less the role of quiet temple of research and more of community meeting place / free wifi hotspot / flop house.

Perhaps there are draconian libraries out there that I don't know about. I highly doubt that, though, since I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 8:10 PM on April 26, 2005

Uhh, then I guess it's just me, Joey, and weretable that think this is a pretty awesome bit of work on the guy's part.

I imagine my own attempt to make a Doom III inspired case would probably just involve taping some screen shots printed on A4 paper to the side, maybe drawing a pentagram with red Sharpie.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 5:08 PM on April 26, 2005

The people who are proud of not owning a credit card will find it much more difficult to buy a house or a car, unless they can pay cash on the barrel head. Like it or not, a credit card is almost a requirement today, so if you don't own one, you should probably get one, and then use it responsibly in order to have an easier time of it later.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 7:17 PM on April 25, 2005

What's so different about reading the uninformed opinions of a group of rich and famous celebrities, and reading the uninformed opinions of a self-appointed hipster brain trust of yuppie tech people? The hipsters have better links about Ruby on Rails, and the celebrities have better stories about shooting heroin through a porcupine quill with the cast of Cannonball Run. Both can get old real fuckin quick.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 9:38 AM on April 25, 2005

I'll agree that TV has gotten more complex. I'm not sure how that makes you smarter, though.

My thoughts exactly. Especially considering that now, a lot of people watch television instead of reading books, it's possible that television just got more complicated because it has to fill a much larger role in our lives. I'm not saying that this is true, but it's certainly possible, and the article says nothing that convinces me otherwise.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 10:25 PM on April 24, 2005

I chose not to participate in this uproar (I stopped opting in to uproars somewhere around the time of the hanta virus)
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 5:41 PM on April 24, 2005

The word - GOD have two meanings

1. as God in pleurisy ALOHIM ...



Does anybody know what the word "pleurisy" means in this sentence? Is there a second definition of the word that I and my dictionary aren't aware of?
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 12:13 PM on April 24, 2005

Thanks for telling us about these.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 9:13 AM on April 24, 2005

One part Patton, one part A Few Good Men, but thankfully a clear-cut case to the good people at the Washington Times. Thank God there's that crisp line between right and wrong.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 12:28 PM on April 18, 2005

The Great Big Mulp -- could you explain how working on his own moral plane excuses him from the law?
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 4:06 PM on April 18, 2005

I always got Scott Baio and Tony Danza mixed up, but now I can just remember that Tony Danza is the one who is uncircumsized.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 10:18 AM on April 16, 2005

For a while I went to all the art house theaters here in Seattle, trying to get my share of independent films because I wanted to see a non-hollywood perspective on cinema, and because I wanted to support brave film-making. After not too long I realized that Sturgeon's Law applies just as well to artsy independent films as it does to big-budget blockbusters -- most indy movies are utter crap, just like most big studio movies are utter crap. It doesn't matter who financed it. Not to me, as a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 4:16 PM on April 15, 2005

Gosh, onlyconnect, I guess you'd have to do some research about the history of American music to answer that one.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 10:07 PM on April 14, 2005

That was an awful video, unless it got better after the first minute, when I fainted from hating it so much.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 6:06 PM on April 14, 2005

Why do they always have to fuck up a perfectly good thing?

Personally, I've never liked Acrobat, and this is just another nail in the coffin (note: the coffin has a lot of nails already). We come from two different worlds, my friend.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 12:05 PM on April 13, 2005

Let me just pre-emptively wager that there will be more than 50 Napoleon Dynamite quotes in the ensuing thread.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 1:58 PM on April 12, 2005

This playlist proves that Bush cannot be Satan, since Satan is known to have one of the sickest, most rad playlists in the universe.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 12:38 PM on April 12, 2005

Thanks for posting this, almostcool.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 10:07 AM on April 12, 2005

I love the shocked reaction to posting an image on the front page. Reminds me of when someone would say swear words in kindergarten and everybody would get indignant for a second and then threaten to tell the teacher.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 10:42 PM on April 10, 2005

This is how Satan gets freed from hell. Thanks, Science!
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 10:44 PM on April 7, 2005

This is just annoying.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 5:45 PM on April 6, 2005

This thread is a pregnancy test.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 9:01 AM on April 7, 2005

Maybe now he knows that Walmart is a horrible corporation that doesn't care about people?
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 3:54 PM on April 6, 2005

My interest in this story is primarily about how the New York Times, considered one of the great newspapers world-wide, in fact sucks

Then should you have posted it to Metafilter? Hmm? What do you have to say for yourself?
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 3:51 PM on April 6, 2005

Tim Wakefield isn't nearly leathery enough to be the guy in that second set of photos. It's weird that someone who spends all day out in the sun throwing a baseball would look more like a saddlebag than someone whose job presumably calls for spending a lot of time indoors.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 3:46 PM on April 6, 2005

I've never read Bellow and have meant to for a while. It's sad when some giant dies and you only know him from the obituaries.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 9:06 PM on April 5, 2005

Regarding candidates for a new national anthem, I still prefer the theme song to America's Funniest Home Videos over this one.

...You're the red, white and blue
Oh, the funny things you do
America, America, this is you
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 12:43 PM on April 5, 2005

You know, these are my people--nerds, I mean--but in this specific case I think it's okay to laugh at them, or even ridicule them with a sarcastic, cigar-smoking puppet.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 12:13 PM on April 5, 2005

Yeah, those fucking kids deserve whatever's coming to them! Enjoy losing all your friends, SUCKERS! Aaaaahahaha!
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 8:59 AM on April 5, 2005

I think the system is corrupt, and that the police are tools, and that the corporations are a self-perpetuating aristocracy, with all the powers and freedom from consequences that phrase implies. The day there actually is a revolt against the ruling class, I hope I'm right there when they storm the Bastille. On the other hand, Andy Mickel shot an innocent man with a kid at home, so he's my enemy as much as anybody else is, and fuck him. This has absolutely nothing to do with ideology, and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 3:51 PM on April 4, 2005

.

(for Officer David Mobilio and his family, since nobody else feels like taking time out from the usual righties vs. lefties food fight to bother)

As though the period meant anything, or required any sort of effort on your part. It's a punctuation mark, not a freaking statue. Discussing the issue is much more meaningful, and requires much more thought and effort. Continue the food fight.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 9:32 PM on April 4, 2005

The Ehrenreich article is much more thought provoking and, I would say, important to read than the Lucas article. Thanks for the link OmieWise.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 12:46 PM on April 4, 2005

Now I want to sing House of the Rising Sun with a group of people (possibly while drunk?).
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 9:05 AM on April 4, 2005

Anybody know someone (besides work or school) with a legitimately purchased copy of any of their core products? I do not.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 9:00 AM on April 4, 2005

You guys are all nuts if you care more about this guy than any other person who's died this week, or, for that matter, ever.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 7:12 PM on April 2, 2005

Ha. That was great.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 11:02 AM on April 2, 2005

Mitheral, as the linked article says, anywhere there are people, there are rats. Clutch your genitals tight!
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 3:22 PM on April 1, 2005

"Concede the point" isn't the right way to phrase the original meaning. In fact, it's almost opposite. The original meaning of "begs the question" is something like "assumes without proof the matter in question." It's just another way to say "you've used circular logic."

If I say "Bush is a retard, as proven by his retardedness" I have begged the question.

But I agree that the modern... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 11:53 AM on April 1, 2005

It was really satisfying to hear the 911 operator just shut her down like that. Satisfying and reassuring.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 2:49 PM on March 31, 2005

Well, it is the spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 4:35 PM on March 31, 2005

We need to take care of our own FIRST

[awkward silence]
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 9:16 AM on March 30, 2005

Saw this on Goldenfiddle -- Whether it's real or not, I have to say it elicited the most disabling fit of laughter I think I've ever seen (out of my brother). I could have probably stolen his television and he would have been powerless to stop me.
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 9:18 PM on March 29, 2005

berek has posted no links 83 comments to MetaFilter
posted to MetaFilter by Hildago at 10:17 PM on March 29, 2005