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24 Hour Havarti People
posted to MetaTalk by mochapickle at 1:26 PM on June 1, 2021

Drugstore Cow
posted to MetaTalk by box at 12:37 PM on June 1, 2021

P for Porchetta
posted to MetaTalk by box at 10:50 AM on June 1, 2021

Mr Ed dawn
posted to MetaTalk by klausman at 8:15 PM on May 30, 2021

My Neighbor Totora! Tora! Tora!
posted to MetaTalk by klausman at 8:38 PM on May 29, 2021

The Killing Billing Fields
posted to MetaTalk by lefty lucky cat at 1:25 PM on May 29, 2021

Un Chien Wedding Andalouneral
posted to MetaTalk by lefty lucky cat at 10:39 AM on May 29, 2021

The Postman Always Ringus Twice
posted to MetaTalk by lefty lucky cat at 10:36 AM on May 29, 2021

Thelma & Un Chien Andalouise
posted to MetaTalk by mochapickle at 8:46 PM on May 28, 2021

What About Bobadook?
posted to MetaTalk by Mister Moofoo at 5:47 PM on May 28, 2021

Sense8 and Sensibility
posted to MetaTalk by Orange Dinosaur Slide at 4:48 PM on May 28, 2021

The Exorcist III’s Company
posted to MetaTalk by klausman at 2:30 PM on May 28, 2021

Soylent Running
posted to MetaTalk by Grangousier at 1:44 PM on May 28, 2021

Not right now, because of corona
posted to MetaFilter by Pronoiac at 1:28 PM on May 26, 2021

Who? Why? To what possible end?

Let's take a closer look at the blueprints for the Shandor Building.
posted to MetaFilter by Halloween Jack at 10:49 AM on May 1, 2021

You mean I’m not being witty when I say something must be free when it doesn’t scan?

My dad always said this ... And now I always say this.

The trick is to say it ironically, so that both you and the cashier are in on it together and can chuckle good-naturedly at the cruel "joke" that is life itself.

...I may have said too much.
posted to MetaFilter by Greg_Ace at 5:44 PM on April 22, 2021

This broom, it vibrates?
posted to MetaFilter by Foosnark at 1:38 PM on February 26, 2021

Nice.
posted to MetaFilter by iceberg273 at 9:17 AM on February 20, 2021

...soon may the Jessamyn `cast,
and shut down Cortex' puns real fast
by asking 'What?!" all flabber-aghast
`till he takes his leave and goes....
posted to MetaTalk by Mutant Lobsters from Riverhead at 4:09 PM on February 1, 2021

And now the Inauguration passes the Bechdel Test
posted to MetaFilter by jazon at 8:42 AM on January 20, 2021

I'm going to burn my yellow ties in about an hour.
posted to MetaFilter by nickmark at 8:06 AM on January 20, 2021

My son asked if "the MeFites" would appreciate the little code project he spun up, a countdown clock, which we can see as either a timer for the end of a miserable four years, or for the start of four hopeful years.

Just 7,500 seconds to go as I post this...
posted to MetaFilter by martin q blank at 6:55 AM on January 20, 2021

The sequential numbers trick is how I looked up more adult content twenty years ago. Good times.

The sequential numbers trick is how I created this account while signups were closed.
posted to MetaFilter by Ryvar at 1:04 PM on January 11, 2021

> One day's archive of Parler will easily exceed two decades of Metafilter's.

2001:
Metafilter: "We have cameras."

Two decades later:
Parler: "We really shouldn't have used all those cameras when we attacked the Capitol Building and murdered that cop with a fire extinguisher."
posted to MetaFilter by sebastienbailard at 9:22 AM on January 11, 2021

Hey, what? Here's me and my son trying to bash this song out live in the basement a few weeks ago.
Happy New Year.
#sweatpants
posted to MeFi Music by chococat at 3:51 PM on January 2, 2021

My apologies to cortex. I just flagged the Nelson Muntz image above without realising it was a moderator who'd posted it. Now let us never speak of this again.
posted to MetaFilter by Paul Slade at 12:50 AM on January 9, 2021

Guy on PBS right now is blaming this on "postmodernism" and I just want to fucking SCREAM

It obviously has Foucault to do with postmodernism.

I'll get my coat...
posted to MetaFilter by Chairboy at 5:20 PM on January 6, 2021

Hello, everyone!

The 2020 gift swap is wrapping up — we've got a few gifts still in transit, and we have a few folks in need of second chancing but I’ve got the volunteers for that and will be filling those requests this weekend.

We had 255 participants this year, mostly split between International and the US. We also introduced the new International Spirit category, and I want to thank the folks that signed up for that and tried it out this... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by curious nu at 9:10 AM on December 31, 2020

so it began
when you covered an acoustic version
of Laurie Anderson's vocoded
and sequenced
o superman

the circle is now complete

this really works!
posted to MeFi Music by umbú at 10:39 AM on December 7, 2020

Solid post.
posted to MetaFilter by carter at 9:53 AM on December 1, 2020

The dildo store and the crematorium and the Trump campaign...

Ashes to asses, bust to dust.
posted to MetaFilter by taz at 11:02 PM on November 7, 2020

I had to drop my car off for some routine maintenance this morning, and decided to walk around while waiting. The news broke and the neighborhood I was walking through busted out the pots, pans, cheering, and general good vibes. That never really feels like a Portland thing, and it felt great, this sense of community I haven't had in awhile.

I've exhaled so deeply and for so long today that my lungs have crossed into a threshold of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by curious nu at 2:20 PM on November 7, 2020

There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot.

RHODE ISLAND GOES FIRST, FOLLOWED BUY ONE OF THOSE BIG, DRAWN-WITH-A-RULER STATES WITH ~50K PEOPLE AND TWO WHOLE SENATORS.
#CaliforniaLove

Okay so hear me out.

2 leagues, 4 divisions, 25 teamsstates each, any state that wins 3 elections in a row ascends to America 2 where we start over for real this time.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by curious nu at 8:04 PM on November 3, 2020

I know this is pretty old, but I read some parts of the report last night, and had a bunch of thoughts about it, so I decided to write them up here.

I'd seen the quote in your print before as sort of a meme, but I hadn't read the actual document it was from — thank you for spurring me to do that!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by wesleyac at 6:22 PM on October 16, 2020

(also can we redo Gil Thorp now? I think we should give it to Jon Bois).
posted to MetaFilter by emjaybee at 9:05 AM on October 14, 2020

yes
YES
the fly is stuck
posted to MetaFilter by RobotVoodooPower at 7:20 PM on October 7, 2020

OK, I finally had some time this weekend to check out this song. It has lots of chords, and tasty ones at that! Now that I've puzzled over it for a few hours I intend to listen to the rest of their stuff.

However, though I am loathe to contradict our illustrious leader, my own analysis (as a keyboard slightly-more-than-beginner but dyed-in-the-wool jazzhead) including the bass lines suggests to me a different key and progression than what he commented above. Here's my... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Greg_Ace at 7:01 PM on October 3, 2020 marked best answer

Pope John Paul Deuce
posted to MetaFilter by zippy at 5:17 PM on September 30, 2020

I went to a meetup once because Jessamyn was going to be there and I stanned and continue to stan. chrismear, who organised it, sent me a selfie on his way, to help me find them when I got there, and I liked it so much I married him.
posted to MetaTalk by greenish at 3:59 AM on September 3, 2020

I mean, going by your illustration, if $700 is just shaved, then $600-$650 seems like the funniest haircut and the most bang for the buck. Kind of an extreme Moe Howard thing.
posted to MetaTalk by chococat at 5:10 PM on September 2, 2020

Finally an answer to my 2016 ask.me!
posted to MetaFilter Projects by moonmilk at 9:18 AM on August 23, 2020

orb
posted to MetaFilter by zeptoweasel at 5:05 PM on August 18, 2020

Cortex, when I saw you’d shipped yours to France I was crossing my fingers! I got two beautiful test prints of the nope and cactus linocuts! Love them and have ordered frames!
posted to MetaTalk by ellieBOA at 6:10 AM on July 31, 2020

Correct, it's a tray label. The ones in trip and a half's link are way old; they no longer use the zebra code at all, and instead of the ten digit barcode in the examples it's now the 24-digit code you see on yours (some labels may still have the transition label, which included both the old 10 digit code and the new 24 digit). Current info is here (scroll down to 4.3, the Intelligent Mail section) They're used for routing mail through the system. It was most likely printed off a Microcom 426 or... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by inigo2 at 8:35 AM on May 12, 2012

The context is a key detail that makes the Harpers letter terrible because the letter is so vague otherwise. But it's not the only thing that makes this a bad letter. There are a number of issues with the arguments themselves, such as they are, regardless of the context of the signatories.


For starters, it blames some things on "the mob" for which blame or responsibility lies elsewhere; specifically:

1. Lack of labor... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by eviemath at 8:39 PM on July 9, 2020

Blatchfest 2020 is probably not where we'll go with that,

cortex, I hope you appreciate that I am sitting here with a perfect crystalline tear on my cheek. I don't know whether to shake my fist because you crushed my dreams like a dixie cup at the dentist's office or thank you because this is the closest I will ever be to feeling like a Pierre et Gilles sailor.
posted to MetaTalk by GenjiandProust at 11:50 AM on July 9, 2020

My Dad was a man like this. Similar build, and he also had a big grey beard. He was a sculptor. He built a working bronze foundry next to our house in rural Texas when I was a kid. He always had multiple projects going at any one time. Like the guy in the video, he was very often working with some jury-rigged setup that was a little dangerous but worked. He also would very often make the tools that he didn't have. Again like the guy in the video, he had an intuitive confidence for the way that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by no mind at 10:43 PM on July 6, 2020

I know this swordmaker! He lives up island. Before the pandemic he and his family and friends would come in where I work for game nights in the function room, mondays.
posted to MetaFilter by vrakatar at 8:24 PM on July 6, 2020

This song is on the little music player I take to bed, in case I want to hear it to help me on my way to sleep. Thank you.
posted to MeFi Music by brainwane at 6:03 PM on June 26, 2020

cortex: "don't listen to signal, he's a filthy Intellivision stan"

Spoken like an Atari 2600 newb. C64 for life, dude.
posted to MetaFilter by signal at 1:44 PM on June 11, 2020