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Cats has one of the strangest trailers I've seen in some time. I have no idea how these people got their cats wedged into their mo-cap rigs, or why.
posted to MetaFilter by adrianhon at 4:39 PM on July 18, 2019

It's obviously an homage to that time on Cheers with the lasers in Robin Colcord's apartment.
posted to MetaFilter by Chrysostom at 12:26 PM on July 18, 2019

> Also, someone once flagged this comment from that old thread as "noise" as, they later explained to me, a protest to it gumming up the perfect call-and-response delivery of NortonDC's response to marknau. I was sympathetic but non-prescient comedy timing isn't actually a violation of the guidelines.

quietly checks

homer-backing-into-bush.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by churl at 10:15 AM on July 18, 2019

Server/hosting + misc. related costs are about $2K/mo at this point. A little less depending on what you include in "misc". AWS instances, CF + SQL Server + Apache as the core stack, a couple other AWS services filling in some gaps ...

It sounds like only a small part of that is deployed in the cloud and metered. But if a significant chunk of those costs are metered, you might find this Coding Horror experiment of interest. Jeff Atwood... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by rcade at 10:42 AM on July 15, 2019

MMMMMNNNNmmmmmNNmdhhyysssssssssssssssssssssssssooooooooooooo

That is the worst date format I've ever encountered.
posted to MetaFilter by dmd at 2:56 PM on July 14, 2019

Thank you, Josh.

I spent last night in a tent in Jessamyn's backyard. I still need a shower. I met 30-40 people yesterday, some of whom came from far away to attend a 20th anniversary of this website. I gave and got a lot of hugs. Real hugs from amazing people. This place means so much to so many of us.

Earlier this year my family had a bit of a crisis. I'm not sure crisis is the right word, but there was a THING and my wife and I didn't quite... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by bondcliff at 2:50 PM on July 14, 2019

Zippity BOP
posted to MetaTalk by gleuschk at 12:22 PM on July 14, 2019

Ron Howard is OP.
posted to MetaFilter by dances_with_sneetches at 6:40 PM on July 11, 2019

Grepped this thread for my name, leaving disappointed.
posted to MetaFilter by Kibo at 9:52 AM on July 10, 2019

Thank you for listening and for carving out a space for all of us to help make this community better. I look forward to helping in that process as well. Change like this is not easy and it takes time and energy, but it's not something this community cannot handle. We'll be stronger and better for it.
posted to MetaTalk by Fizz at 12:06 PM on July 8, 2019

Semi Automated Luxury Curious Space Nominal Fucking Determinism
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 8:55 AM on July 1, 2019

Also, over 100 comments about knitting and politics, and no mention of Madame DeFarge?

I prefer not to make everything about me.
posted to MetaFilter by Madame Defarge at 6:14 PM on June 25, 2019

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortex

This may just be the most MetaFilter thing I've ever seen :)
posted to MetaFilter by AwkwardPause at 9:46 AM on June 20, 2019

It's trochaic tetrameter
It's trochaic tetrameter
It's trochaic tetrameter
The stress is on the first bit
Tetrameter!
posted to MetaFilter by Jon Mitchell at 9:04 AM on June 16, 2019

this is where atheist-bordering-on-ontological-nihilist me talks about his favorite living christian (now that fred rogers and johnny cash are no longer with us), and about how that guy approaches faith.

so anyway, every year on the saturday before easter, fred clark (better known as slacktivist) posts this beautiful little sermon. here are some key bits, that are relevant to the quote from corinthians that thelonius quotes upthread, and ultimately relevant to the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 11:56 AM on June 13, 2019

It better.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 12:41 PM on May 28, 2019

Sadly, the education of the youth of amerika is declining in more than one way. The other day I was at the grocery store and the checker was unable to identify a Psilocybe azurescens mushroom. And no, she wasn't new...and to make matters worse the checker next to her didn't know either.
posted to MetaFilter by peeedro at 10:24 PM on May 15, 2019

ooooh... how about this and this?

I might have made this up.
posted to MetaTalk by taz at 10:01 AM on February 23, 2009

Also re: finally smart dragon use: micromanaging is hard and the AI is only so good with group attacks.
posted to FanFare by curious nu at 8:25 PM on May 12, 2019

This is magnificent. On the surface this may seem like a "why the fuck would anybody do that?" and possibly move to dismiss it as a trivial waste of time. But in its own way it's a mathematical proof and the scientific method all rolled into one experiment. He:

1) formulated a series of questions based off of observation (the copy off of a Skittles bag);
2) created a hypothesis using both his knowledge and others, as well as observation, then made a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by barchan at 3:18 PM on April 24, 2019

Hoo boy. Lot to unpack here. I don't have expertise with everything in this study, but the electrophysiological component is in my wheelhouse.

So first, my own summary of what this study is about based on my reading of it. The brain is the most metabolically demanding organ in the human body (and in that of most other large, complex animals). This makes it the most vulnerable of any organ to a loss of oxygen and nutrients, and in general after even a few minutes without... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by biogeo at 7:47 PM on April 17, 2019

Oh for pete's sake.


posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 6:25 PM on April 10, 2019

As I wind down with actively fixing things and roll toward midnight, I want to say thanks to the other staff for contributing so much work on this and making my role in this year's April 1st less fiddly than it might have been.

And seriously, thanks to you for enjoying it. Every year, somewhere toward the middle of building a silly idea, there's a bit of self-doubt that I have to work through, when I'm thinking, "I'm animating croutons" or "I'm building a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by frimble at 2:51 PM on April 1, 2019

it's pronounced "MEH-fee"

I'm 30 minutes in to this day and already I'm getting sassed by bread.
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 8:06 AM on April 1, 2019

This is the only April Fools' Joke I need, and it is INCREDIBLE.

(A few years ago, we were in the bathroom, and my electric toothbrush was dying. I think the battery was dying, so that when you turned it on, instead of spinning at its usual pace, it would operate at about 1/4th of the usual speed, then rotate back, then rotate again at 1/6th the speed, then rotate back, and so on, before sort of just sort of stopping completely after an effort. And I was about to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by joyceanmachine at 6:42 AM on April 1, 2019

I think we all know it was the facts of life. I have a new theory. the facts of life also had a theme song played over CLOSING credits. The video played during the closing theme was video from the episode in question.

As they get to work, Jo places a paint tray on the chair Blair was just sitting on...and mayhem predictably ensues when Blair sits back down and gets a paint covered ass. She remains on the chair, trying not to laugh too hard while the cameras are rolling -... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by If only I had a penguin... at 8:51 PM on March 23, 2019

Ok, well cool, here is my paper, What's wrong with being a rhotic? which was just published in famous open-source journal Glossa.

The objects we hear when someone speaks (or see when someone signs) are not what we actually have in our heads. As you don't have any blue wave-lengths of light in your head, but can still conjure up an idea of what blue is and means to you, so we don't actually have the physical objects of sound in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by os tuberoes at 12:07 PM on March 26, 2019

They already made that, it was called LambdaMOO

oh shit

you have no idea how called-out this is for me because I maybe spent like half of undergrad on LambdaMoo

It's also a huge personal failure that I did not beat you to that joke myself
posted to MetaTalk by GuyZero at 3:30 PM on February 26, 2019

Little known fact: the "P" in FPP stands for "Poop".

Littler known fact, only ONE of them stands for poop.

the other sits for it!
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 8:25 PM on February 13, 2019

Fascinating. My first job out of college was for a startup, in 1990, which was attempting to provide subscription-based access to digitized records of global art-auction sales in order to provide an analytic means of access to the data for insurers and underwriters.

In 1990, the global art market had been dominated for a few years by blockbuster sales stemming from what up that moment was a hothouse market in Japan, and both US and international insurers - and loan... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by mwhybark at 10:00 AM on January 30, 2019

So, only two books in the trilogy then?

Average trilogy contains three books is a statistical error. Spiders Dougls Adams, who lives on in our hearts and includes six books in each increasingly inaccurately named trilogy, is an outlier adn should not be counted.
posted to MetaFilter by stet at 4:13 PM on January 29, 2019

Delicious boiling earth froth! Windmills! Desert mitosis!

Can't tell if geology-themed poetry slam, or Death Metal lyricist tryouts

LASGUN REVIEWS

CRYSKNIFE -- SHIELD WALL

6.3/10

Cult-favorite Fremen band Crysknife have dropped their latest album, 'Shield Wall', smuggled through the usual channels to avoid Harkonnen censors. As with... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by curious nu at 9:30 PM on January 22, 2019

"Culs-de-sac."
posted to MetaFilter by Chrysostom at 5:37 PM on January 22, 2019

Thank you all for being there, and thanks to cortex for representing for The Internet at the memorial service. Sorry I didn't get to talk to many of you. I was pretty overwhelmed by the number of people there.
posted to MeFi IRL by gingerbeer at 11:12 AM on January 21, 2019

Also, cortex, your speech made me cry. Thank you.
posted to MeFi IRL by lazuli at 10:33 PM on January 20, 2019

I was trying to shout SUBGENIUS to you backwards in time over the podcasternet but I guess it didn't work
posted to MetaTalk by moonmilk at 9:43 AM on January 17, 2019

THIS IS THE FRIENDSHIP EPISODE
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 12:21 PM on January 8, 2019

Metafilter: Chrysostom basically has the idea
posted to MetaFilter by Chrysostom at 9:36 PM on January 6, 2019

Well, if no other good came from it at least 2018 was the year I added MetaFilter as a contact in my phone.
posted to MetaTalk by dirtdirt at 1:23 PM on December 31, 2018

Okay, okay, I made you all bookmarklets to convert to and from long s.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ragtag at 7:11 PM on December 16, 2018

Cortex, that is definitely not what I was thinking of, but I love the chain reaction: my vague childhood memory sparked elsiethel's memory which sparked yours, and I may be thinking of elsietheel's show, and elsietheel may be thinking of yours, but you and I are thinking of something different, and none of us are 100% sure that we remember what we think we do.
posted to MetaTalk by yankeefog at 2:16 AM on December 14, 2018

I accidentally the whole video
posted to MetaFilter by Secretariat at 9:22 PM on December 11, 2018

This is an opportunity for Metafilter.

veryspecificporn.metafilter.com
posted to MetaFilter by bondcliff at 11:30 AM on December 3, 2018

Charlie is a prop CEO, duped into believing he's in charge when in fact he's just the gullible, likeable face of the company.

THE GOBSTOPPER PROXY
posted to MetaFilter by the duck by the oboe at 12:52 AM on December 3, 2018

For the record: LAH-zoo-lye
posted to MetaTalk by lazuli at 9:22 AM on December 1, 2018

Here's Architects of Will!
posted to Ask MetaFilter by pH Indicating Socks at 11:08 AM on November 24, 2018

I'm incredibly grateful for my solid network of friends and community that helped me take care of rtha for the last six months and which is caring for me now. I couldn't have done this without them. I'm grateful for rtha's cadillac health insurance, which meant that we never had to make decisions for financial reasons. I'm grateful for our cats, who are handling all of this disruption and loss with more grace than I am. I'm grateful for all of the folks on metafilter and fb and elsewhere, who... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by gingerbeer at 9:26 PM on November 22, 2018

Note: there is no number of taps that will get the audio to stop.
posted to MetaFilter by hippybear at 7:07 PM on November 21, 2018

I'm a flat pack earther. I believe the earth is a sphere, but it took a LOT of work to get it that way.
posted to MetaFilter by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 3:13 PM on November 20, 2018

Long time listener, first time caller. I saw something about this anniversary online and was inspired to delete my facebook account (it was a long time coming) and (in some way that does 100% make sense to me) make a place in my life to finally join up here. So hello all - looking forward to everything with all of you!
posted to MetaTalk by matchstick at 9:55 AM on November 19, 2018