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He went the Thursday before Easter and we think we can get through two weeks based on that stock-up (because we have a farm box subscription that keeps us in produce). The ham was like one entire week of meals for it. Next week will involve a lot of frozen chicken and beans and rice.

This is the part that is killing me. I live 284 steps from a large grocery store but am trying to go only every 10-14 days. It means dealing with more slightly... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by srboisvert at 7:05 AM on April 16, 2020

I got my ass kicked today, almost 100 orders in 4 hours again. Sold out of fried chicken again. Amazing support from the community. Amazing guests except the ones who park in the gravel parking lot instead of getting as close to the front door as possible. I break into a trot and advise them to pull up to the door next time. Of course now my left knee (smashed open in 2001) is feeling a wee twitchy so tomorrow we are roping off the lot.

Tonight I brought home an order of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by vrakatar at 7:58 PM on April 15, 2020

I stopped going to the grocery store. It's stressful to go. I have a good friend who does a once-a-week shop and she'll pick up a few things for me... half gallon of milk, can of tuna. I don't eat a lot when I eat at home so the food I was buying early for "just in case" is mostly still here. I am managing some food boredom so I've been looking at some recipe sites and making some weird (for me) stuff: chia pudding, peanut lentil soup.

We've got a lot of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 10:12 AM on April 15, 2020

Yes!!! Please support your local chicken farm ranch outfit!

The farm I work on is in the Hudson Valley, and I've been (wo)manning our farmers' market in Brooklyn. When All This hit, we were right at the start of planting, lambing, and calving season. So our busiest time of the year, other than haying. It's also the time of year when... we don't have that much to sell.

We also can't exactly backtrack on our forecasting and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by functionequalsform at 7:59 AM on April 15, 2020

My husband's freelance work has dried up entirely and he's a very good cook who likes to keep busy, so as a result we are eating like Versailles royalty. Our last grocery bill was so insane that when it hit our account, I thought it might be an error in the store's payment system.

The ridiculousness acquired during that shopping trip included a fresh bottle of absinthe, so last night's at home happy hour featured The Root of All Evil (1 oz Absinthe Verte, 2 oz artisanal... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by merriment at 5:34 AM on April 15, 2020

Not so much my food, but as a couple local Mefites can attest, I've been running an underground meat club* for the last couple of years after my restaurant closed. Enough former customers kept asking if they could still buy my homemade sausages and bacon. Unfortunately, the licensing requirements to do anything like producing cooked meat products to sell to home consumers make it nigh impossible to do above board. Because of that, for the last couple of years, I've been... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Ghidorah at 1:13 AM on April 15, 2020

I do a lot of stuff on Wikipedia, usually in the winter months, but the main thing is either write or help other people write small articles. I saw that Josh Kantor, the organist for the Red Sox, didn't have a picture on his page so I added one that I found and then contacted him on Twitter to see if he had a better one. He's a nice guy and we swapped a few messages. Then on Friday, a library professor I know was working on (coincidentally) an article for Matthew Kaminski the organist for the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 7:50 PM on April 11, 2020

A personal favorite: List of classical music concerts with an unruly audience response
posted to MetaTalk by Ahmad Khani at 6:06 PM on April 11, 2020

for "the BIGGEST THING THAT FLOATS" is my house.
posted to MetaTalk by Just this guy, y'know at 6:10 AM on April 3, 2020

does bong hit exhaust count as things?
posted to MetaTalk by clavdivs at 7:11 PM on April 2, 2020

I hope you'll accept without photographic evidence the biggest thing that floats in my house.
posted to MetaTalk by Westringia F. at 5:42 PM on April 2, 2020

oh yes one second let me untether my dirigible
posted to MetaTalk by poffin boffin at 3:44 PM on April 2, 2020

cycling back and forth

Cardio is good for anxiety-management! You’re ahead of the game.
posted to MetaTalk by curious nu at 11:01 AM on March 12, 2020

I'm still figuring out what my shit is and I don't feel like I can really confidently name-check the concept of dissociation per se but...that's kinda been my whole last year, is sort of where I've been at? It's a weird aspect of how much what a lot of people are dealing with right now in terms of anxiety and executive dysfunction and, for that matter, the weird adjustments of work-from-home lifestyle being kind of my normal for a while now. Which feels like overstating the case somehow, but... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 6:30 PM on March 22, 2020

Anyone wanna dig out their Zaireeka! CD and do a Google Hangouts?

As long as everyone else has disc 3...
posted to MetaTalk by hwyengr at 1:35 PM on March 17, 2020

Jackbox Party Packs are where it's at y'all.

For the uninitiated, Jackbox games are these fun party minigames that you play with friends and your phones. For each game, you open a "room" on the jackbox website, and people play by signing into that room and playing the game on their phones/tablets/whatever. As long as everybody can see your screen and sign into the room, you're in business! I had a riot last night playing long-distance jackbox with some buddies... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by snerson at 6:24 PM on March 15, 2020

In the 80s, when I was about twelve years old, I got the phone number of NASA from the back of a book about the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy (of which I was obsessed).

I worked out the time difference and phoned NASA a few times from the UK. I loved the unfamiliar ringing tone and then the receptionist answering and saying 'NASA, how can I help you?'. My parents would have killed me if they knew I was calling the USA. In fact, they'd have been... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by einekleine at 11:18 AM on January 17, 2020

GROW A BRAIN MORANS
posted to MetaTalk by klangklangston at 6:38 PM on December 16, 2019

Give a man a fish & feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, then buy up all the riverfront property & rent-seek for a lifetime.
posted to MetaTalk by Devils Rancher at 4:57 PM on December 15, 2019

Likes: White, Super Sticky Post-it notes or bust. Gray de-lighters, for the opposite of highlighting. Used to be hard to find in the U.S.; don’t know whether they still are since I’m still working through the box of de-lightful Staedtlers that a U.K.-based colleague sent me years and years ago. Enough colors of roller balls for all color-coding needs. Wide-ruled, hard-backed double notepads. The simple, stick-style staple removers, no hinge.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by daisyace at 8:23 PM on January 11, 2020

All your Bass are belong to us, no treble, amirite?
posted to MetaTalk by theora55 at 9:15 AM on December 11, 2019

I never outgrew Bugs Bunny's declaration in cartoons older than I am: "What a maroon!"

Actual Maroons have a genuinely fascinating, and inspiring, history.

Edited to add the link I forgot the first time!
posted to MetaTalk by tavegyl at 12:47 AM on December 11, 2019

I just joined (yesterday!) but have been lurking for a few years. I heard about MetaFilter from a friend about 15 years ago, but never read much until 2017. The megathreads drew me in when I no longer liked consuming US political news through radio, tv, or newspaper sites with images. I could keep up with the news, but on my own terms. Now reading MetaFilter (and AskMe) is a part of my daily routine, so I wanted to make it official.
posted to MetaTalk by catdapperling at 9:21 AM on December 4, 2019

Welcome to all no matter how you got here. 19 years
posted to MetaTalk by bjgeiger at 2:44 AM on December 5, 2019

Not sure if it qualifies, but I'm sure that's okay:
I love tea. I like putting a pot of tea on a tealight, the classic type with a small candle, to keep it hot. I dislike the aluminium cups that those candles come in nowadays. I don't need them because I have glass cups made especially for that purpose, just like my grandmother used, and my mother uses still.

So I bought a silicone mold with 15 holes of the correct size to make 15 tealights at a time. And I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Too-Ticky at 6:59 AM on November 18, 2019

Heh, I mostly didn't get much weed in the sketchy-dealer days but now we grow our own in pots on the back deck and man oh man was this year's crop fabulous. We can get seeds mail-order from a local business and their selection was great and we picked some good ones. So that's... even more basic, maybe?
posted to MetaTalk by restless_nomad at 4:57 AM on November 18, 2019

I think I might have invented a new (vegan) food thing. I've been trying to figure out how to get nutritional yeast to stick to popcorn better so I've been experimenting with spritzing the popcorn with some kind of liquid before sprinkling the nooch. I've tried a bit of oil or melted coconut fat. I just randomly tried pickle juice because why not - and it was pretty good, pickle chips and salt/vinegar chips are a thing already - then I had a better idea.

Rice vinegar. It... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 9:13 PM on November 17, 2019

Happy Birthday, loq! The world is so much better with you in it.
posted to MetaTalk by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 7:29 PM on November 17, 2019

Yes, and it's fantastic. Once again, I now buy my weed from a sketchy dude in a grocery store parking lot.

I'm honestly jealous.

I also don't miss sitting on some dude's grody couch pretending to care about playing X-Box for an hour just to buy an eighth of whatever they happened to have at the time. Or worse, dealing with the fact that they might be an opiate or stims addict and dealing with that sketchiness.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 7:28 PM on November 17, 2019

I am out on the ship at my undisclosed location running tests while multiple cold fronts come through and batter us. We peaked a couple days ago at 16-ish foot seas and around 45 knot winds; we've been moving back and forth between sheltering behind an island and testing out in open water as the weather ebbs and flows. No cell service and (almost no) internet - there's a very small pipe for twenty or thirty of us, so it's restricted mostly to work email. Metafilter is one of the few websites... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by backseatpilot at 5:15 PM on November 17, 2019

Yesterday I made this excellent-tasting, super-straightforward Leek'n'Cheddar frittata, apropos of little more than the fact(s) I'm having a use-up week plus 2019 is totally The Year Of The Egg for me. Or eight eggs in this case. Dug out (and washed because cupboard-yuck) a different, deep pan for it and everything. The most frustrating part of proceedings was having to regularly dirty-handedly turn on>unlock>scroll my phone for the (admittedly basic) recipe while brain-juggling between... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by I'm always feeling, Blue at 3:54 PM on November 17, 2019

Something I do that's super basic and I'm really happy about is that I finally gave up shampoo and conditioner entirely.

I used to use a lot of shampoo and conditioner and thought I needed it. I really liked fancy modern silicone-based stuff like Pantene or generics of it, and had a pretty strict schedule of wanting to fully strip wash it and condition it every few days.

What I use instead is just hot water, sometimes a vinegar rinse. I also use... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 12:40 PM on November 17, 2019

I did have to smuggle my girlfriend of the time out of the church belltower several winters ago. It was her idea ("that belltower is very big and strong-looking"), I had a key and we had gone up there for {redacted} but I did not realise there was a evening carol service that day (I thought we were in the clear).

We were, um, rudely interrupted by the sounds of many people singing "Oh Come All Ye Faithful" from beneath us, which... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Wordshore at 3:10 PM on November 9, 2019

I think one or two little updates if you think the answers are going in the wrong direction are fine. Continually either adding new information or arguing/responding to answerers is not that helpful and not really within the site guidelines. I haven't looked specifically at your questions but I think if people are telling you to see a therapist, you can look at that as supporting your decision to find one (or maybe they can point to resources which could potentially help you find one). Its also... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by jessamyn at 2:00 PM on November 7, 2019

Building Hypercard stacks.

I really miss HyperCard.
posted to MetaTalk by kristi at 10:51 AM on November 2, 2019

Everyone's hardest struggle is their hardest struggle?

That's the quote I have tattooed on my neck, anyway.
posted to MetaTalk by bondcliff at 11:43 AM on November 1, 2019

Yeah TBH "made the internet what it is today" is hardly a compliment. Metafilter is what the internet was supposed to be.
posted to MetaTalk by Mr.Encyclopedia at 6:08 PM on October 30, 2019

I feel like metafilter is one of the sites that has done all it can to prevent the internet from becoming what it is today.
posted to MetaTalk by skewed at 6:03 PM on October 30, 2019

(That's because <acronym> is deprecated. If you use <abbr> it might work better. Stats from caniuse show almost everything supports it, save IE6. And if you are using that, you have other, larger issues. Here is a test: laser. Title/hover states on phones can be tricksy, though.)... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit at 3:18 PM on October 15, 2019

So rethinking where we surface them is a next step now that we've got them in place

Here's one way among many. I don't know, this might be a bad idea, but as soon as I saw the guidelines and microaggressions pages my mind immediately went here:

If each bolded list item in the guidelines got an ID in the DOM, then it would be possible to link to individual list items. So the markup would look like... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by a snickering nuthatch at 6:55 PM on October 14, 2019

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the ice
box, the red
wheel barrow,

and each
cackling chicken,
then drunk
all the rain.

Forgive me,
Delicious,
for what
I do now.
posted to MetaTalk by pracowity at 4:24 AM on September 11, 2019

I first heard this at 7 or 8, and it took me until embarrassingly long to get this:

Which dog has more legs, one dog or no dog? No dog, because no dog has five legs.

I would sputter in bewilderment, "But no dog has five legs!! How can that be the answer??"

I mean, I spent whole summer afternoons at 9 and 10 having mini existential neurolinguistic meltdowns over this "joke".

Ah, childhood.
posted to MetaTalk by riverlife at 10:22 AM on August 9, 2019

I've kind of pulled back on my megathread participation in general as of late, and some of that is just being busy, a lot of that was figuring that this metatalk post was an inevitability sooner or later so why bother, but it's also increasingly felt less like home. Things inherently got a lot less funny after the election, and continue to do so every day, and then the "resetting expectations" thread, in the service of trying to make the threads more manageable and less of a burden,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by zachlipton at 9:21 PM on July 23, 2019

Q: How's your head?
A: Haven't had any complaints!

That reminds me of a (less suggestive, sorry) story Jack Lemmon once told about Matthau hurting himself on a movie set:

Matthau and Lemmon were supposed to slide down a laundry chute, which had been rigged so that they would tumble out onto a platform cushioned with mattresses. But when Matthau rehearsed the stunt, he fell backward off the platform, crashing to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Greg_Ace at 9:26 PM on August 2, 2019

Great minds stink alike.
posted to MetaTalk by y2karl at 6:10 PM on August 2, 2019

Sometime in the 1990s, I was a tourist in NYC buying a treat at Veniero’s, a bakery. Looking for help, I asked a woman behind the counter, “Excuse me, are you free?” She said, “No, I pretty much have to stay here.” It took me years to realize she was making a joke.
posted to MetaTalk by dywypi at 6:07 PM on July 27, 2019

We've got a handful of technicians who can't seem to stay out of trouble, which usually results in them being administratively disqualified for some amount of time. They then have to jump through all the hoops to get qualified again. As if every time you got a moving violation in your car, you had to go take the driver written and skills test at the DMV again.

I like to refer to them as our "most qualified" technicians. By number of times qualified, that's... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ctmf at 12:07 PM on July 28, 2019

oh, now I find it.
... the other day, I remarked that I feel privileged to have grown up with A, So Many Books, and B, dinner table conversations that were interesting.

My sister stuck with the piano. There's a classic piano tune Long, Long Ago, (and Far, Far Away). I can't tell you how many times my Dad said to her Play Far, Far Away and how we all said Dad, it's Long, Long... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by theora55 at 11:50 AM on July 28, 2019

Thanks to Twitter my friends no longer have to put up with the stupid jokes - often terrible, complicated, puns - my brain gives me (and I have to tell someone just to get them out of my head). Thanks to Google, I can see how many people have thought of it before, and often I realise they're so unfunny I lose interest altogether. Which is good.

One I remember is when I was walking down the street and we pass a baker's shop with a sign in the window that says "Fresh... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Grangousier at 11:47 AM on July 28, 2019

In Douglas Adams' book So Long and Thanks for All the Fish ("the fifth book in the Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy"), there's a minor character named Arcane Jill. It wasn't until the, it don't know, fourth or seventh time rereading it that it hit me - archangel! Gah.
posted to MetaTalk by Greg_Ace at 6:12 PM on July 27, 2019