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No son of of my is going to use a popular dynamically typed languages! This is an ANSI C household!

Python's written in ANSI C, though, so you can always treat the runtime as a pure C library and the scripts as configuration files for that library.
posted to MetaFilter by effbot at 9:31 AM on February 22, 2010

I mostly smash my forehead against the keyboard and hope whatever is broken falls into place.

You wrote this application I've been hired to fix, didn't you? Admit it!
posted to MetaFilter by ook at 10:32 AM on February 22, 2010

I really don't get what the fear of cloning is. Vat-grown organs that can replace my own, with zero chance of rejection? Cheap, vat-grown meat instead of feedlot farming? Research that will eventually let me regrow severed fingers or limbs?

An entire other Me minus one brain stem, in a jar somewhere for spare parts? A deeper understanding of biology and the means to actually make profound changes to people's bodies, so my friends don't die of things like cancer, liver... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mhoye at 10:05 AM on February 22, 2010

This awesome article tore apart my view of reality and gave me such a fiscal hard on that I knocked over my laptop stand and spilled my red bull all over. The spill pattern and tumbled laptop on my beige carpet resembled a fucking nativity scene in one of those desert countries and I realized that Tabbi was going to go raging through the temple toppling over the money lenders tables all the while collecting doubleclick ad impression payments like some modern day profane top 40 messiah with... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by srboisvert at 3:18 AM on February 22, 2010

The worst part is, he wasn't even supposed to be there that day.
posted to MetaFilter by Ratio at 4:04 PM on February 14, 2010

Man, I bet the hookup scene at that thing was fucking insane.
posted to MetaFilter by box at 11:18 AM on February 14, 2010

You know JimmyJames , as someone who was a member of 4H and seen stock killed and even helped a little, I cannot understand why anyone would get attached to a chicken. Cows? I can see that. Pigs? In a heart beat, they have personality, even Ducks are kinda cute, but chickens? Really? They're mean dumb nasty birds that only get good when they get dead. Fuck chickens, seriously.
posted to MetaFilter by The Whelk at 5:47 PM on February 3, 2010

Yes let me run out and buy a new camera to put in my Timbuk2 right next to my Android and my iPod and my ePC and my Blackberry and my Moleskine and my Space Pen and my copy of Getting Things Done so that when I am out and about people may look upon me and whisper to one another "There walketh he who hath been marked upon his soul with the sign of Massive Cunt."
posted to MetaFilter by turgid dahlia at 3:04 PM on January 18, 2010

This is interesting, thanks.

August 2008 - Sarah Palin is both governor and running for VP, so the emails go for $15 million.
February 2010 - Sarah Palin quits her post and is no longer running, so the emails go for $323.58.

That's amazing. Also? Sweet Jesus, even if one is not a huge Obama fan, how can one not see the enormous bullet we dodged by not electing that woman to office.

"The governor... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Sticherbeast at 8:25 AM on February 5, 2010

Raise your hand if you think Mrs. Clinton didn't do even worse when she was the not-exactly-elected wife of Bill.
posted to MetaFilter by bukvich at 8:22 AM on February 5, 2010

The first dude does not abide the rules of the Governor's office, man.
posted to MetaFilter by sallybrown at 8:18 AM on February 5, 2010

enhance images
posted to Ask MetaFilter by leotrotsky at 7:40 PM on January 24, 2010

Why aren't their johns being cited as sex offenders?


Because every now and then, the police arrest a powerful man for solicitation of prostitution.

These rich and powerful fellows who occasionally get caught with drugs and prostitutes are actually good family men: they're regular churchgoers; they're our state and local politicians; they're our highly successful businessmen. We can't have them face a lifetime of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lord_wolf at 12:41 PM on January 19, 2010

I hear they got a Mexican to do his job for way cheaper.
posted to MetaFilter by hifiparasol at 6:50 PM on November 11, 2009

oogy?

"Oogy." From the Latin "oogrus," I believe; "generally uncomfortable despite being unable to pinpoint the precise cause of one's own discomfort." Less severe than "disgusted". Common synonyms: "Icky", "squicky," "having a wiggins."
posted to MetaFilter by EmpressCallipygos at 8:18 AM on October 15, 2009

Well, I can tell you that I have never stopped being turned on by women my age, even as my age has increased. On the other hand, I have never stopped being turned on by a hot 20 year old.

I assume this trend will continue.

So there's a data point for what it's worth.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by pixlboi at 8:58 AM on September 25, 2009

It probably says something about my family that my father regularly refers to me as "a one marshmallow kind of guy".
posted to MetaFilter by Justinian at 9:58 PM on September 18, 2009

This is not a mockery of the health care reform bill/debate/saga* or is it?

*First marshmallow is reform, second marshmallow is the public option...
posted to MetaFilter by JoeXIII007 at 9:11 PM on September 18, 2009

E.B. Farnum: Some ancient Italian maxim fits our situation, whose particulars escape me.
Francis Wolcott: Is the gist that I'm shit out of luck?
E.B. Farnum: Did they speak that way then?
posted to MetaFilter by rokusan at 5:40 AM on September 1, 2009

Anesthesiologists jokingly call Propofol their "Milk of Amnesia."

Not so much any more; it is now being called "Michael's milk" or "Jackson juice".
posted to MetaFilter by TedW at 10:06 AM on August 25, 2009

Can the people who want to talk about their computers instead of Healthcare please take it to PMs, MeCha, or MeTa?
posted to MetaFilter by Pope Guilty at 10:12 PM on August 12, 2009

Or is it some sort of dog whistle that you have to belong to some fringe group to understand?

I think that describes about 75% of Palin's vocabulary. She's a master of right-wing steganography; her speeches may sound like incoherent rambling to us but to the "Our Sarah" crowd, they make perfect sense. I think that you're being tripped up by your belief that she's even trying to speak English.
posted to MetaFilter by octothorpe at 1:14 PM on July 28, 2009

Metafilter: Doesn't it Split the Cheechakos from the Sourdoughs?
posted to MetaFilter by sour cream at 1:05 PM on July 28, 2009

More Palin, please. She's a simulacrum, created by the media to be a nearly pure embodiment of The American Ideal.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon at 1:01 PM on July 28, 2009

She's from Wasilla, doesn't truck with knowledge
She gave a speech at Patrick Henry College
That's where I
Caught her eye

She told me that her state was loaded
I said in that case, I'll have some crude and Coca-Cola
She said fine
And in thirty seconds time, saidI want to lead the common people,
I want to speak like common people do,
I want to stand for the common people,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Spatch at 12:51 PM on July 28, 2009

I heard this is much more useful if you have SongSmith installed.
posted to MetaFilter by dersins at 1:42 PM on July 13, 2009

I weep for this country. I really do. Well, I tell a lie. I weep for those of us who have to pay for the gold rimmed plates of the uberclass while praying our kids don't fall off the monkey bars.

My family lost our insurance last year. We cross our fingers, and hope for the best...because we don't have any other choice.

Obama bowing the medical profiteers and taking single payer out of consideration has probably lost him my support.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dejah420 at 7:58 PM on July 11, 2009

You know, this has to be the first beer ad I've seen that proclaims the ISO9001 certification for the brewery.

I think you're forgetting the short-lived Schlitz Sigma campaign. The DMADV slogan (Design, Measure, Analyze, Drink, Vomit) didn't go over as well as they had hoped.
posted to MetaFilter by burnmp3s at 7:19 AM on July 7, 2009

I think the point of this thread is for a bunch of female mefites to let us know that they all have boyfriends.

I bet they planned it in the bathroom.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by bingo at 7:24 PM on May 10, 2004

Could be worse. they could be Verizon.

Hey, Verizon, FUCK YOU.
posted to MetaFilter by Artw at 2:06 PM on June 9, 2009

Wake me when they can be worn on your wrist like the future told me they would.

Depends on the size of your wrist, guv.
posted to MetaFilter by Kyol at 1:05 PM on June 9, 2009

My local curry house has been making genetically modified e-coli in its kitchens for some years now. I think they are unaware they are, in fact, biohackers.
posted to MetaFilter by MuffinMan at 4:49 AM on May 19, 2009

It's amusing to see comments on a social name labeling nature in order to feel nationally secure on a Social Security topic.
posted to MetaFilter by alteredcarbon at 8:31 AM on May 17, 2009

They should test the air in Washington sometime.

Different white powder.
posted to MetaFilter by gman at 4:32 PM on May 14, 2009

Does eating a strip of crisped meat and fat that you found wrapped in colored plastic in a refrigerated grocery bin make you in any real sense familar with what a pig is? Hell, you don't know anything more about a soy plant after eating a Clif bar than before you ate one.

Um, what? I mostly buy my meat at the local market, and if I want to see what a 'real pig' looks like, I just have to turn up on a Thursday afternoon when they get whole sides... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Sova at 7:39 PM on May 8, 2009

Just being there is more important than what you say or do.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by malocchio at 7:35 PM on April 21, 2009

i've always thought that an ayn rand - ann coulter - nelson mandela threesome would make for the best porno video in all of history.

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
posted to MetaTalk by Bango Skank at 5:05 AM on February 26, 2009

Do it the old fashioned way like I do.
Every morning at 7.30am, my assistant runs a script which sends every unread blue, green and grey thread to the laser colour printer. He collates them, punches holes in them, and puts them in three folders, one for each subsite, each discrete thread kept separate with a numbered carboard divider. These are couriered to my house for reading in the car while I'm being driven to work. By the time I get into the office (via four laps of the pool,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Fiasco da Gama at 3:18 PM on February 25, 2009

Pay him thirty bucks for the coins, put them away, and then give them to him as a gift in twenty years. He'll tear up, give you a hug, and tell you what a wonderful parent you are.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by incessant at 3:37 PM on December 13, 2008

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit!
posted to MetaFilter by AwkwardPause at 9:08 AM on December 9, 2008

Have they found the link to Avon Barksdale yet?
posted to MetaFilter by macadamiaranch at 9:05 AM on December 9, 2008

I wonder what DU stands for.

"Utterly Dyslexic."
posted to MetaFilter by Pronoiac at 2:21 PM on December 2, 2008

This is what happens when you nick a freighter full of gas?
posted to MetaFilter by Durn Bronzefist at 12:51 PM on November 21, 2008

TSA seems to be operate as though they are answerable to NOBODY.

I'm American and have lived in Europe for about eleven years. I work in banking, and depending upon the job I'm doing at the time, there have been years when I'm in and out of the US for meetings as often as several times a month. Business Class flight to New York, Chicago or Washington, stick around for one, maybe two days, and then home.

But there have been times when I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Mutant at 1:57 AM on August 20, 2008

Well, Bush put a lot of people in detention, is that close enough?
posted to MetaFilter by jonmc at 6:23 PM on July 29, 2008

Find yourself a pig farm.

See that chink cocksucker called Wu, has a place just opposite The Gem. He'll take care of that for you.
posted to MetaFilter by PeterMcDermott at 10:38 AM on July 8, 2008

I'll title this one "Death of a Middleman"
posted to MetaFilter by eclectist at 10:25 AM on April 2, 2008

Were the five passengers a brain, a beauty, a jock, a criminal, and a basketcase? And, despite their various backgrounds and prejudices, did they come to appreciate each others' perspectives and break free from their preconceptions? Did any of them fall in love?

If so, you can hardly call the flight a waste.
posted to MetaFilter by Iridic at 4:58 PM on March 6, 2008

If I recall correctly, the US version of this is called a Certificate of Freedom to Marry (it's just a witnessed sworn statement by the future Mr. Dada that he is currently unmarried) and you can get one from your local US embassy. That's where I got mine -- it's extra fun when you get one for a gay marriage in a country which allows it, and the US embassy staff goes through all the stages in grief right in front of you while they try to figure out if there is any way for them to get out of... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Your Time Machine Sucks at 12:10 PM on January 22, 2008

Adding one more vote to the over thinking. The stigma is way worse than the reality - you don't have a secret, fully loaded monster-turd hiding around the corner just out of reach of your finger. Seriously.

Shower, relax. BumPoke. Shower after. Done.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Brockles at 5:37 PM on January 9, 2008