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I am (honestly) thrilled that some are are making first time contributions to Obama here. As someone who never donated before, but who voted Reagan in '83, was inspired to give to Obama, oh a year ago...may I ask: are you giving now only because of Sarah Palin? Would you have not given otherwise (say if it were? Why did ypu not give till less than 2 months before the election?
I, and if I know my heart, I and not trying to be snide or condescending, I really, before Molech, am... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dawson at 5:50 PM on September 6, 2008

sour cream, can we eat the bear? Or, I guess the skin would make a nifty throw. As long as we utilize the carcass, sure!
posted to MetaFilter by dawson at 4:33 PM on September 6, 2008

people, he said.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson at 11:48 AM on September 6, 2008

Todd Palin / Debbie Richter/ SEX!!!/Adultery/whisper/gossip/snicker/some-one-who-once-met-her-third-cousin-says
Disproved as of today, at the expense of some poor peripheral fucks privacy, because people who aren't voting for her anyway have this weird 'right to know'.
as these smears and rumors are squashed, I hope people here will point them out. It must be hell to have 100 million people with an agenda combing thru every aspect of one's life and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dawson at 11:45 AM on September 6, 2008

you'd never heard of Malkin? the nice lady who had a Rachel Ray/Dunkin Dounts ad pulled because of Ray's wardrobe choice (an OMG headscarf!)
Ignorance really can be bliss I suppose...
posted to MetaFilter by dawson at 10:49 AM on September 6, 2008

I see yr point fourcheese, I guess it doesn't 'count'. Mostly it was people disgusted with the 'game' and implicit censorship of a dissenting viewpoint (one given w/o any personal attacks or belittling/harassment of others as far as I could ascertain) who were gonna give anyway. Because of Palin and the Convention.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson at 8:56 AM on September 6, 2008

So that means this thread is responsible for *at least* $1600 in new donations for Barack Obama.
fourcheese,you musta missed the counter challenge I mentioned, so that means 3200 to the GOP. What a neat way to make fund raising fun raising.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson at 7:41 AM on September 6, 2008

This thread will be so long that all others will pale in comparison.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson at 4:31 PM on September 5, 2008

trying to respond to a thought/point in this ungainly thread is like trying to talk via telegraph when you're accustomed to satellite phone.
Over.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson at 11:00 AM on September 5, 2008

spelling errors happen when you don't/can't preview.
I guess what I'm saying is veep picks in themselves don't sway me much. If they did Obama would have lost my vote with Uncle Joe.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson at 10:55 AM on September 5, 2008

I firmly believe polls are largely useless, particularly this far out, however Rasmussen:

A week ago, most Americans had never heard of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Now, following a Vice Presidential acceptance speech viewed live by more than 40 million people, Palin is viewed favorably by 58% of American voters. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 37% hold an unfavorable view of the self-described hockey mom.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dawson at 10:42 AM on September 5, 2008

I myself have annual income under $600,000.
Well under.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson at 11:08 PM on September 4, 2008

sorry about the double post of the quote there, I didn't do it on purpose, unless Calvin was right.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson at 10:48 PM on September 4, 2008

(Just getting into the cut and paste business here, seems the in thing!)
John McCain will win by making Barack Obama look un-American. That's sensitive stuff. Hillary Clinton destroyed herself trying to use it. But Palin may know how to use it. Palin's attacks are potentially dangerous because they are aimed at the crucial voting bloc of women and middle-class voters who can see their lives in her life. Obama talked about coming from a middle-class life. Palin still lives... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dawson at 10:44 PM on September 4, 2008

Mickey Kaus:
Tomorrow's Marching Orders Today: If there were some sort of tacit liberal MSM conspiracy--a hypothetical!--Plan 1 was to knock Palin off the ticket out of the box with various unvetted home state scandals. Plan 2, the plan currently in place, is to force Palin to submit to "real interviews" where she will supposedly reveal her embarrassing unpreparedness for the office.

May I suggest to my fellow conspirators that we move directly on... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dawson at 10:31 PM on September 4, 2008

thanks malpractice, I guess I'd missed that.
so, probably, I bid this particular thread adieu.
posted to MetaFilter by dawson at 7:41 PM on September 4, 2008

You're a very strange country, you know?
posted to MetaTalk by timeistight at 12:37 AM on September 4, 2008

What that thread needs is a comment-surge. If we can commit to sending another hundred thousand comments there, we might be able to achieve a victory over the trolls. Until that happens, I will not even consider any sort of decrease in effort. If you think cutting-and-running is a good idea, then you're helping the enemy to win.
posted to MetaTalk by blue_beetle at 10:41 PM on September 3, 2008

but having to download and render 3K comments every time is getting really frustrating and putting a real strain on my RAM and CPU.

Stop your complaining. Don't you know that John McCain was a P.O.W.?
posted to MetaTalk by Cool Papa Bell at 10:20 PM on September 3, 2008

I don't think anyone is taking an Obama victory as a foregone conclusion, but there's certainly plenty of reason to think the tide is turning in America, and I don't see anything necessarily wrong with believing in victory. There's a wide area between starry-eyed naivety and the Democratic defeatism that sullied the first four years or so of this century.

Actually there has been plenty of anticipatingly victorious chest-thumping going on in this thread.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by onlyconnect at 11:00 AM on September 3, 2008

ruh roh...
posted to MetaFilter by horsemuth at 2:33 PM on July 14, 2008

You can see the path to the CSS code by viewing the HTML (the link to the CSS page is in the head), but to make it fast Web Developer is the best choice.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Paragon at 2:45 AM on June 7, 2008

Mobius strips creep me out.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by jozxyqk at 9:25 AM on June 4, 2008

You know you were thinking it: Beverly Hills, 90210
posted to MetaFilter by Sys Rq at 12:57 PM on May 10, 2008

Calculator.app in OS X also does RPN (look under the View menu for the RPN option).
posted to MetaFilter by mrbill at 9:36 PM on April 25, 2008

I recently discovered that the calculator app on the mac will do RPN and show the stack. Happy day! I have a hell of a time using a hand-held calculator that requires me to use paren buttons. RPN just makes so much sense.
posted to MetaFilter by ctmf at 9:36 PM on April 25, 2008

We're all very happy for you that you have a new iPhone.

This is the sort of response that has kept me from asking a condom question on AskMe recently.
That's right, yo, I don't wanna get my new iPhone pregnant.
posted to MetaTalk by carsonb at 12:49 PM on April 25, 2008

This problem can be solved quite easily. Below this comment (and this comment only) and immediately to the right of the words "on April 25" you will see a small + sign embraced by square brackets. This small + sign is what is known as the "Pony Plus." Clicking on it will immediately grant all feature requests. Try it and see.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins at 12:02 PM on April 25, 2008

[a few comments removed - please don't derail my t-shirt]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by fantabulous timewaster at 7:49 AM on April 24, 2008

Women will often let you touch them in all sorts of interesting ways if you're not a repulsive dink who has to invent some complicated scheme of douchebaggery just to get his paws on some sacred, sacred boobies for a few seconds. True story.
posted to MetaFilter by shadow vector at 6:21 AM on April 23, 2008

Wait until you see the results of the Open Source Cockpunching Project.
posted to MetaFilter by longbaugh at 5:56 AM on April 23, 2008

Unsurprising given the context of the "project": i.e., an omphalos of hypernerdery. Also unsurprising that the guy who came up with this sports an awful little beard. We should really be putting these people in camps.
posted to MetaFilter by nicolas léonard sadi carnot at 5:39 AM on April 23, 2008

I hadn't heard of this before, thanks Rafaelloello.
Grandpa's video "A video of my father-in-laws (and the kids Grandpa's) service in the US Navy in WWII. The wreckage photos are from the typhoon off of Okinawa in 1944, which my father-in-law survived in that little YMS boat he was on. He called it a "cork in a big ocean", and said the only reason they survived was the clear thinking of the ships Captain, who's photo is in the video as well.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tellurian at 7:51 PM on April 22, 2008

790 men lost, many of them draftees, because of primitive weather forecasting, and the ill-fated decision by three destroyer captains to refuel, requiring ballast to be pumped out, thereby setting up these ships for riding high and top heavy at the start of the storm. You have to read between the lines of the log entries for the anguish of those who watched it happen. " We were escorting the Third Fleet oilers. Three destroyers had pumped ballast and were awaiting refueling at sea when the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by paulsc at 7:31 PM on April 22, 2008

LA LA LA CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA SPENDING YOUR PAYCHECK ON GLEN GARIOCH LA LA LA
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 1:30 PM on April 20, 2008

Hmm. I'm female, but not a cheater, and I have been with a cheater so I don't have a ton of sympathy for them. However, to my ears, there is a world of possible pain contained in this statement:

My wife is/was very much a caretaker and I am a real slacker and I let her carry the load.

I can imagine this feeling like a little abandonment everyday, culminating over time in the kind of rage that leads someone to do something... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Your Time Machine Sucks at 10:26 AM on April 22, 2008

And then we can read about it in the New York ×.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 7:50 AM on April 22, 2008

I should be going to bed in— oh.. uh.. two hours ago.
• An eponysterical comment by kittens for breakfast
• A comment quoting Morris Day and the Time
• An AskMe question looking for help with something that's illegal in the UK, but not in the US
• A MetaTalk callout about a problem that didn't actually exist
• A comment thread in which three different people refer separately to Digg, Fark, and Slashdot
• A member who has... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by theiconoclast31 at 3:03 AM on April 19, 2008

MeFi Scavenger Hunt

Bring me:

• An eponysterical comment by kittens for breakfast
• A comment quoting Morris Day and the Time
• An AskMe question looking for help with something that's illegal in the UK, but not in the US
• A MetaTalk callout about a problem that didn't actually exist
• A comment thread in which three different people refer separately to Digg, Fark, and Slashdot
• A... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by lore at 9:41 PM on April 18, 2008

Goodness, these caucasoids get on my nerves. They are all intelligent, hardworking people. And so privileged. Always talking about how they've got this undeserved power, like it's something they don't have the automatic rights to. What is up with that? Why can't they just slack off, be lazy, and give up hopes of comfortable lifestyles like brown and black people do?

One of my best friends is a white man. He is quite inarticulate.
posted to MetaFilter by Mister Cheese at 6:31 PM on April 17, 2008

Good old Whittier, I love that weird little place.

I decided to write that book about it in the late 1990s, when I was a tour guide based in Anchorage. Back then, the train tunnel didn't have a road, and we often had to drive buses full of passengers to Whittier from Anchorage to get on cruise ships. There is no training for driving a bus onto a flatbed rail car - you just do it. I remember being terrified, my first time was in a dark driving sleet storm and I literally... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kokogiak at 6:52 AM on April 15, 2008

Neat post.

One of the more surreal moments in my life came when I camped out in Whittier. My girlfriend and I were exhausted. We started off the gloomy day sea-kayaking around the bay (one of the deepest around, IIRC) and then hiked all day, up to the Portage Glacier and down again, out past the old building and up the switchback dirt road to where there's a neat little fishing spot if the tide is high and the silvers are running. We were even more tired after getting... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by now i'm piste at 1:06 AM on April 15, 2008

Luckily, they start at the same time, so this works.
posted to MetaFilter by flatluigi at 10:43 PM on March 29, 2008

What's a ****?

Four nudists looking for nickels...
posted to MetaTalk by Rumple at 4:04 PM on April 11, 2008

This MeTa post really chafed me in its whiny sense of complainy entitlement conveyed by its asker.
posted to MetaTalk by dersins at 3:30 PM on April 11, 2008

Oh, and since no one else has mentioned it, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.
posted to Ask MetaFilter by adamdschneider at 4:13 PM on April 3, 2008

In related news -- last month the New England Historic Genealogical Society discovered what could be the earliest known photograph of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan together, vacationing in Brewster, MA on Cape Cod.
posted to MetaFilter by ericb at 7:49 PM on April 8, 2008

Obviously, it can't become a major part of the admissions process or you'd have a school full of unqualified legacies, Yale.

Ah-hmaw-hmaw-hmaw. How teddibly clevah of me. Ah-hmaw-hmaw-hmaw.
posted to MetaFilter by shmegegge at 12:23 PM on April 7, 2008

...another place for Lincoln to land.

I propose the five dollar bill.
posted to MetaFilter by DU at 10:50 AM on April 4, 2008

I read this trick somewhere, and it works great.

On a kid bike:

- lower the seat all the way
- remove the pedals (not the cranks - just the pedals)

Now the kid can scoot along with their feet comfortably on the ground. As the do so, they'll naturally work on balance and they'll have no fear because they know they can put their feet down. After a day or two of this, they'll be scooting and lifting their feet... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by zippy at 11:33 AM on March 29, 2008