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(It's a mayonnaise-based sandwich that's been left on the counter for 12 hours.)
posted to MetaTalk by MCMikeNamara at 1:25 PM on April 9, 2016

This seems like a good place to share Jack London's wonderful essay about surfing. The man had a way with words.

Where but the moment before was only the wide desolation and invincible roar, is now a man, erect, full-statured, not struggling frantically in that wild movement, not buried and crushed and buffeted by those mighty monsters, but standing above them all, calm and superb, poised on the giddy summit.

posted to MetaFilter by Nelson at 10:47 AM on February 25, 2016

Yeah, we actually got the basics up and running pretty fast, just needed a few days to iron out kinks and wait for a good time to roll it out.

The internal back-and-forth after the MetaTalk came in was basically like

pb: Really? Gopher?

cortex: Yeah, I know, it's pretty silly, but then again it might be fun if we could find a way to do it, so as a rainy day project we could keep it in mind and maybe at some point... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 1:26 PM on February 24, 2016

Have you considered a World Wide Web page for MetaFilter, pb?

Fad.
posted to MetaTalk by pb at 11:52 AM on February 24, 2016

I sometimes wonder what other members think the mods do, and what that work is like


I am reliably informed that the Xanadu poem is based on the lavish event parties that mathowie used to throw the legions of writhing mods. Now-a-days that pleasure dome is just a small part of Cortex's sprawling estate, a home to a long neglected flamboyance of flamingos.
posted to MetaTalk by French Fry at 11:13 AM on February 10, 2016

I'm going to give Mathowie a piece of my mind for not giving me the standard signing bonus of two cats and a theremin upon joining Metafilter.
posted to MetaFilter by dr_dank at 6:36 AM on February 12, 2016

I got to see this at a special BAFTA screening tonight, with a cast and crew Q&A! JJ, Harrison Ford, Boyega, Ridley, Kathleen Kennedy, Kasdan, Neal Scanlan all in attendance. Definitely an experience. Some highlights:

- Boyega is the real deal. Super-funny, charismatic, able to make the entire crew crack up. Even made the notoriously grumpy Harrison Ford grin on a few occasions.

- Ridley was rather quieter; she realised she was more of the... [more]
posted to FanFare by adrianhon at 2:53 PM on December 17, 2015

I didn't know who did it when I first saw this done-but I thought it was childish and stupid.

It's actually extremely smart. By replacing one object with another you can really see the ludicrousness of the poses. These politicians are so eager to establish their bona fides that they over play their hands. What other tool would require that particular look, that body language? Make no mistake. These posed shots are pulling... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Secret Life of Gravy at 6:14 PM on December 8, 2015

My thoughts and prayers are with any victims of a photoshopped picture of a dildo.
posted to MetaTalk by EndsOfInvention at 4:25 PM on December 8, 2015

it'd be great if we could all comport ourselves like grownups and not make silly jokes.

I do not share your view of optimal scenarios here.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 9:17 AM on December 8, 2015

"Political power grows out of the shaft of a dildo" - Mao, ze Dong.
posted to MetaFilter by Devonian at 5:38 AM on December 8, 2015

The Speaker of the NYC Council tweeted about this and I've never been so proud.
posted to MetaFilter by Mavri at 9:07 PM on December 7, 2015

a thrust of dildos, obviously.

A buttload.
posted to MetaFilter by Going To Maine at 8:04 PM on December 7, 2015

You are better than this:

8==============D
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 7:40 PM on December 7, 2015

If you rearrange the letters it spells "solidd", like a seventies detective approving of an action and really punching the last syllable
posted to MetaFilter by Ray Walston, Luck Dragon at 7:03 PM on December 7, 2015

HI I'M ON METAFILTER AND I COULD OVERTHINK A PLATE OF DILDOS.
posted to MetaFilter by eriko at 4:16 PM on December 7, 2015

I bet if you did the opposite and replaced sex-toys with guns in images, you'd have a pretty damning commentary on sexism in Western Culture as well.

Easy there, Banksy
posted to MetaFilter by emptythought at 2:17 PM on December 7, 2015

How doea presidential candidate Deez Nutz poll on this issue, and how does it play with his base?
posted to MetaFilter by zippy at 1:54 PM on December 7, 2015

"Dildos don't fuck people. People fuck people."
posted to MetaFilter by valkane at 1:35 PM on December 7, 2015

"I have to admit that I saw dildos as inherently evil ... I have learned, however, that in trained hands, just the presence of a dildo can be a real "man stopper." I am sorry that women have had to resort to this."
posted to MetaFilter by straight at 1:29 PM on December 7, 2015

"If you grow up in rural areas where dildos are accepted, are part of life, used for recreation, sports, family gatherings ... you see that there is nothing wrong with owning one."
posted to MetaFilter by straight at 1:22 PM on December 7, 2015

I hope Matt really enjoys his fifteen inches minutes of fame.
posted to MetaFilter by orange swan at 1:04 PM on December 7, 2015

If this is what life after Metafilter looks like, I'm never leaving.
posted to MetaFilter by dr_dank at 1:01 PM on December 7, 2015

Polls Positive after Pols Pet Poles
posted to MetaFilter by tonycpsu at 12:37 PM on December 7, 2015

This dildo kills fascists.
posted to MetaFilter by KingEdRa at 12:10 PM on December 7, 2015

I am just looking for a used dildo...what is all this?
posted to MetaFilter by cortex at 11:27 AM on December 7, 2015

It’s not the Twitter account we need, but it’s the Twiter account we deserve.
posted to MetaFilter by Going To Maine at 11:11 AM on December 7, 2015

we have vibrators
posted to MetaFilter by boo_radley at 10:59 AM on December 7, 2015

Does anybody read the dildos down here?
posted to MetaFilter by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish at 10:54 AM on December 7, 2015

There's a post on the blue about Matt's dildo blog too but I'm tickled enough by the whole thing that I'm just gonna go ahead and let this be here too.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 11:45 AM on December 7, 2015

Cut it out, please. We're here to argue about dildos, not about whether other people care enough about gun control.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten at 8:29 PM on December 7, 2015

MetaFilter: We're here to argue about dildos.
posted to MetaTalk by rtha at 8:42 PM on December 7, 2015

I like this a lot. It wouldn't take a lot of thought to dress this in the clothes of a Serious Art Project. It implicitly tackles the relation of the 1st and 2nd amendments to each other, deals with sex and violence, AND is a great visual representation of the old "the penis mightier than the sword" pun. This is basically what art is for.
posted to MetaTalk by Jon Mitchell at 8:29 PM on December 7, 2015

George Bush checking the battery compartment.
posted to MetaTalk by clavdivs at 6:45 PM on December 7, 2015

"... it was then that Gene Roddenbury carried you"
posted to MetaFilter by Nelson at 3:57 PM on November 10, 2015

So they're asking all attendees of SXSW to sign a pledge against online harassment, donating 1% of proceeds of the event to nonprofits supporting women in technology, hiring each of the women involved as a keynote speaker, asking VIP attendees to sign a pledge against harassment, and using their online/media presence to advertise against online bullying, right? Or am I confusing SXSW with an organization that actually cares about the health of their community?
posted to MetaFilter by miyabo at 3:51 PM on October 26, 2015

Dan was vocal aboout his past as a surfer, and knew about my northeasterner's obsession with the sport. When we met, he said if I ever made it to the west coast he'd show me how. Well, if ever do catch a wave, I'll think of you, bro.
posted to MetaTalk by jonmc at 3:14 PM on October 12, 2015

I have stage IV melanoma. The good news is that there are drugs which can actually be effective, for some people. The bad news that it's still pretty dire.

Early on, when this was discovered, I was in the hospital, a day after spine surgery, and an acquaintance visited and gave me a book called Proof of Heaven. My atheist daughter and pagan wife were there, daughter complimenting me on my restraint.

This disease may well... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Danf at 10:20 AM on April 8, 2015

He addressed his illness occassionally on MetaFilter, and it was one of his stories that came to mind just now:

I have stage IV melanoma. The good news is that there are drugs which can actually be effective, for some people. The bad news that it's still pretty dire.

Early on, when this was discovered, I was in the hospital, a day after spine surgery, and an acquaintance visited and gave me a book called Proof of Heaven. My atheist... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by maxsparber at 10:19 AM on October 12, 2015

So just today I was running screen (as you do) and tried to switch to another screen window only I only had a single one. The error message I get for this is You cannot escape from window 0!. Which is basically a nethack joke. In fact, all the error messages in screen are nethack jokes.

I was reflecting on how it's pretty bold for screen to have error messages that are cryptic jokes referencing a 28 year old game. Doing my research to post about it hereI learned this is... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Nelson at 5:19 PM on August 16, 2015

Oh this past month has been so hard. Not because of this thread, but kind of around this thread. Some of the people that I asked to read this thread got angry when I did. Some of the people responded very well. None of them finished it, or kept up, or even tried to keep up. I have read every single comment.

I now have information and need to use it to make, well, informed choices. There's definitely a part of me that wishes that I hadn't learned so much about the people... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bilabial at 2:34 PM on August 15, 2015

(I wrote the firmware for it...)
posted to Ask MetaFilter by straw at 10:22 AM on August 11, 2015

I know you already replied saying you would call the insurance, but if you're feeling guilty, imagine they left a note saying, "Hi, my daughter hit your car which is going to cause trouble and anxiety for us down the road. Instead, could we make the trouble and anxiety your problem? There's nothing in it for you, but we don't really deal with things like this. By the way, the reason we can ask you to do this for us is because we're super rich. Aren't laws just the worst?... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by easter queen at 1:39 PM on August 11, 2015 marked best answer

For obvious reasons, most platforms can’t just become Metafilter.

"If you wish to make a MetaFilter from scratch, you must first invent the mathowie." - Carl Sagan [apocryphal]
posted to MetaTalk by Etrigan at 8:52 AM on July 23, 2015

Just saw it. The fact that this is a road trip where each stop offers an education in respecting and valuing women's needs (and not just sexual needs) and that the men learn to do this by honestly expressing themselves, this film feels as feminist as Mad Max, and if it were to have a "all the lines spoken by a person of color" video, I suspect it would be half an hour of the film's running time. Hell, the climax is entirely given over to Jada Pinkett and Donald Glover's voices.
posted to FanFare by maxsparber at 5:25 PM on July 7, 2015

Note to cisgender males who might dismiss this automatically because you think hetero male culture might demand it: This is a super-entertaining movie, even if you lack the ability to be aroused by all of the male dancing. There's too much infectious positivity not to have a great time, as long as you can accept that it's basically a pretty shallow ensemble character study with almost no plot (that's really actually about women's sexuality from the perspective of men who... [more]
posted to FanFare by doctornecessiter at 6:00 AM on July 6, 2015

Sum of Den Beste Days.
posted to MetaFilter by clavdivs at 6:49 PM on July 14, 2015

We have cameras.
posted to MetaFilter by ewagoner at 1:35 PM on July 14, 2015

The fact that someone like hoder had to reach out to Matt who put him in touch with someone at medium is what chills me, personally. I don't want to over-romanticise blogs --- the power law held there too, and being early, as hodor was, was a gift beyond price --- but the fact that there was no community for him to come back to, no successors who knew about him and his story to be excited about his return and link the shit out of him and send their readers his way, so he could re-establish... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Diablevert at 1:06 PM on July 14, 2015

This is what I touched upon in my comment about The Dissolve, which shut down before I knew it was open. There's a really narrow path by which a site can establish itself a regular haunt if it isn't already one: too often you'll either never learn about it, or you'll see something you liked and forget where it came from because we don't treat websites as places to visit any more.

The muscle-memory of old practices is mostly gone. Doing the rounds has... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by holgate at 12:54 PM on July 14, 2015