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I really like cannabis plants. I tried growing them a few years back, and was able to get big sticky buds to grow. Cloning is fun and easy! It is interesting to watch them grow!

I bought a jeweler's loupe type thing to analyze the THC crystal formation, and then when the time was right I cut the buds off, let them sit for a while in a dark and lightly aired box.

HOLY SHIT then you can cut it up and smoke it! Cannabis plants are literally made... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Meatbomb at 7:55 AM on October 6, 2018

I love anything Amber Ruffin does, but this is the greatest.
posted to MetaTalk by lauranesson at 5:33 AM on October 5, 2018

Craig Ferguson interviewing Dylan Moran

The Mountain Goats song No Children set perfectly to a Moral Orel episode.

In my life,
I hope that I lie,
and tell everyone you were a good wife and I hope you die

posted to MetaTalk by bendy at 9:53 PM on September 30, 2018

My plan for the week

does summary work?

Those things being <details> and <summary> tags.
posted to MetaTalk by zengargoyle at 8:44 PM on September 30, 2018

"BUT AT WHAT COST??"

$20 SAIT
posted to MetaTalk by Greg_Ace at 8:18 PM on September 30, 2018

a;lsdkjf this audio post just came back up on my Tumblr dashboard (the OP deactivated their account so this is linking to some other reblogger) and I forgot how fucking funny it, and the commentary below it, is. This was recorded by the Portsmouth Sinfonia in an experiment where all the members of the orchestra would swap instruments with each other and attempt to play them to the best of their ability...

“pffffttt??? pFFFTTTT???? PFFFFFTTTT I SAID... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by btfreek at 6:11 PM on September 30, 2018

sometimes I think about how none of the animals on the internet have any idea how famous they are, and are exactly as happy as they would have been otherwise
posted to MetaTalk by Countess Elena at 4:49 PM on September 30, 2018

CEASE AND DESIST
posted to MetaTalk by Metafilter: at 10:22 AM on September 21, 2018

I sound hella california so if like anyone wants me to record a message I could like do that for you?
posted to MetaTalk by Reclusive Novelist Thomas Pynchon at 12:46 PM on September 14, 2018

"I ate my vitamins in the privacy of my aluminum garage on schedule."
posted to MetaTalk by paper chromatographologist at 4:33 PM on September 13, 2018

After my first few months working in wireless, I became incapable of not noticing antennas everywhere, no matter how tastefully disguised. It's a really boring superpower, but kind of fun in what it tells me about places I visit.

Problems with bicycle infrastructure are really easy for me to spot, but I'm working on improving my ability to spot problems with pedestrian infrastructure like poorly-designed curb cuts. Once you start looking for beg buttons that require you... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by asperity at 9:24 AM on September 10, 2018

Really fun topic!

Since I discovered the Thomasson a few years ago, I've delighted in finding them. I've always been keen on finding video cameras and photographing hostile archetecture, to a degree that probably annoys my friends.

As a working scientists and science fiction fan, I love seeing lab hardware used weird places in film. The undiced silicon wafers (probably photovoltaic cells) in TNG's Eye of the Beholder, and the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by eotvos at 11:05 PM on September 8, 2018

It's mostly due to growing up in an agricultural community where water is a really big concern, but I notice water waste everywhere all the time, especially people "watering" the sidewalk because they couldn't be bothered to set their sprinklers right or watering their lawn in the middle of the day. It drives me bonkers. I fear in my older age I shall become that person who leaves really passive aggressive notes on their neighbor's doors. I always notice the water levels in streams and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by barchan at 8:58 PM on September 8, 2018

Ok, I'm back at a real keyboard, and here's some bike trip debriefing and stats:

Pic dump!

First, I can't recommend the Dungeness River Audubon Center enough. It's really amazing and a hidden gem right off the ODT. There's not a whole lot to do in Sequim on that side of town, and it's really special. The river bridge and park is just stunning. They're getting ready for a huge remodel and expansion, too.

I can also report... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 2:26 PM on September 6, 2018

When trying to swat a fly in the absence of a flyswatter, wait until the fly has settled on a wide, flat surface (like a tabletop), and then instead of bringing a hand down on top of the fly, clap your hands together just above the fly. As it takes off, it will usually fly directly into your hands.
posted to MetaTalk by Spathe Cadet at 8:28 AM on August 10, 2018

When you make a peanut butter & banana sandwich, don't slice the banana.

Open a full banana, break it in half, and cleave it into thirds by pressing your thumb gently into the broken end. You'll end up with 6 equal strips of banana--5 strips arranged side by side will fully cover your bread, and you have a sixth for snacking or as a treat for your dog. No dirtied knife, no banana discs slipping out the backside of your sandwich, and no uneven unbanana'd pockets.
posted to MetaTalk by phunniemee at 8:09 AM on August 10, 2018

video for your cat to watch

I know you figured it out but I wanted to post this protip - keep your cats out of your hair while you're working by running this video on a tablet or other screen.
posted to MetaTalk by AFABulous at 3:33 PM on August 6, 2018

"Uber, but for helpful MeFites."
posted to MetaTalk by Chrysostom at 11:57 AM on August 9, 2018

Not gardening as such, but my garden moth list is up to 442 species.

Now 443, after some very fiddly work taking macro photographs to check the shape of a moth’s forehead. And it looks like good conditions for moths tonight (i.e. warm, mainly), so fingers crossed for tomorrow morning.
posted to MetaTalk by Bloxworth Snout at 1:43 PM on August 6, 2018

cooker girl--so very sorry. Difficult news. I wish you and your family strength.

It's been a strange, delayed garden sort of year--I waited until March to start tomato and pepper seedlings, and got them into the garden in good time, but...things have been slow (I drove all of those T-posts myself, with my magic whanger, and then caged and staked everything. 48 tomato plans, and an embarassing number of pepper plants). That's been compounded by the enormous amount of rain... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by MonkeyToes at 7:14 PM on August 4, 2018

Programmatically changing the site's functionality to benefit one use case that only continues to exist due to the benevolence of the mods seems like a very large ask.
posted to MetaTalk by kimberussell at 2:53 PM on July 28, 2018

Boo!

I say there's no way in hell Brandon wrote that typo-free post. Although maybe —you did miss my 4:20 by a minute!

Burhan sent me this last night. I was wondering how it would go; it's been surreal, to say the least. I wasn't always the most liked person in the room. A lot of hate him or love him, but I loved it that way; worked like a filter (I truly hope this makes sense because opiates are a helluva drug).

I’d... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by gman at 4:40 AM on June 27, 2018

Mission accomplished. This one's for you, Gabe! Bike ride, basking on the beach and chilling out and intentionally doing not a damn thing at all for the first time in like 2 months. I even got clocked and waved at by some totally random transfemme person with their friends/family on the beach as I was chilling out, and it was good and a simple "Hello, I see you, and see you seeing me and it's a lovely day, no?"

I really can't quantify how much this nice bike... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 8:57 PM on June 26, 2018

If we’re talking hot dogs, I like to think of myself as the great unifier. I lived in Chicago, and had a deep love and appreciation for a Chicago dog, or a Polish with onions and sauerkraut.

But I also have family from NY, and I love a NY style dog, with ketchup, mustard, and relish. Sometimes just mustard, or just ketchup.

Chili dogs? Please, any time. I am from an area with famous chili dogs. Truly they are a blessing, for they are not one... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by shapes that haunt the dusk at 9:06 PM on July 21, 2018

I put pepper on cantaloupe and strawberries, my father put pepper in buttermilk... ewww. Take a lot of showers in the dark mostly with my eyes closed. I put some sort of vinegar on green beans, broccoli, and ham (there was a squeeze bottle of white vinegar at the table as a child). I make my hamburgers (well more of a patty melt 'cause who has time for buns over slices of toast) with a bit of S&B Curry Powder, yum.

Mostly the past week I've been performing a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by zengargoyle at 7:29 PM on July 21, 2018

I eat peas with honey
I’ve done it all my life
It may taste kind of funny
But it keeps them on my knife
posted to MetaTalk by zamboni at 6:24 PM on July 21, 2018

Not making much of anything lately, unless you count food. But I did make new hummingbird food yesterday, got dive-bombed by a male hummer as I was putting it back up. Came inside, and got a picture of the little bugger (by holding my thumb down on the photo button for burst mode). So I guess you could say I made a hummingbird happy.
posted to MetaTalk by Marie Mon Dieu at 2:29 PM on July 11, 2018

Thanks carsonb!
It's actually my son from several years ago; it's a still from this music video I made.
posted to MetaTalk by chococat at 9:39 PM on July 10, 2018

A few months ago I ordered a bunch of shirts to screen and sell at a show I was playing. Unhelpfully, the shirts arrived several days after the show was over, despite several emails to the company (Wordans; don’t ever use them, they suck. Google and see.)
So I finally got around to screening them and they turned out lovely. Hand-screened bgm Sad Executive Boy logo, on a heathered blue ringspun shirt.
posted to MetaTalk by chococat at 8:14 PM on July 8, 2018

Anyway, I'm threadshitting

More as a public service announcement than an actual response to your comment, but n.b. you are if anything (and I think you're probably fine in this case) threadsitting, no h, which while it has issues isn't quite so bad. It's one of the weird little quirks of MeFi history that we ended up with two common terms for problematic but basically totally orthogonal behaviors that are so tremendously orthographically similar.
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 1:15 PM on July 6, 2018

I think there's definitely a tendency to associate masculinity with some of the performative aspects of stereotypical masculinity, for sure; it's often a metonymy for things like strong/square physique, for emotional stoicism, for valuing action over feelings, for treating thoughtfulness or reservation as weakness/cowardliness, for hewing to heteronormative expectations, etc.

Much of that lines up pretty directly with the things often described as toxic masculinity:... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by cortex at 3:41 PM on July 4, 2018

A few days ago while descending from the top of Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid we noticed a group of people who, instead of admiring the insane view, were instead raptly studying the trees below the edge of the road. On inquiring, we learned that these were birders from Ontario who’d come down for the sole purpose of spotting a rare migratory Bicknell’s Thrush during its brief, high-altitude nesting season. After a day’s hunting they’d heard calls, and individuals had been spotted, but not by... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by kinnakeet at 3:07 PM on June 23, 2018

I recently finished my year at a woodwork, blacksmithing, and handcraft school in northern Sweden. For my final project I decided to make an automaton, and it has honestly been one of the hardest challenges I've ever had - lots of problems to solve, lots of new thing to learn, lots of new tools and tequniques, lots of things going wrong. But I got there! I took it to a market recently and it was so wonderful to see children playing with it, being amazed and fascinated by it, and reflecting... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by twirlypen at 5:06 AM on June 23, 2018

...came up and shyly gave me a hug and said, "I love you like a friend."

Hey...






Hey....






I love all of you like friends. Thank you for this thread.
posted to MetaTalk by mudpuppie at 6:54 PM on June 22, 2018

yesterday my baby
looked me in the eye
& said "i love you papa."
she smiled & jumped
up & down a few times:
"i love jumping" she said
"& i love blue!"
posted to MetaTalk by 20 year lurk at 3:03 PM on June 22, 2018

I recorded a harpsichord solo CD two years ago on initiative of a harpsichord owner who wanted his instrument documented. So: a vanity project, the engineer a friend who now is 91 years old, me sitting two days in a church, playing. Trying to make the product professional, I helped with the editing and had another friend smooth over some rough patches in the silent tracks that came from the old equipment used. Afterwards we scraped together some funding for having it published, I got a label... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Namlit at 3:01 PM on June 22, 2018

I've been trying to break into Canada's writing scene for years. I sold one story on my second attempt in 2004 and won a few small, local awards for it, and then everything stalled, with nothing but rejection after rejection. I got a lot of stuff like "we really like it, but it's not for us" comments, but no sales. I managed to find work as a book critic and as an editor, which keeps me involved, but getting my own work out there just never seemed to happen.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Fish Sauce at 10:33 AM on June 22, 2018

My son, who has never really had the best time in school, earned the Outstanding
Student Award from the STEM curriculum, presented as an award at his middle school (8th grade) graduation. He was caught completely by surprise, and it was a great feather in his cap to end a tumultuous middle school career. I'm a proud dad.
posted to MetaTalk by OHenryPacey at 10:31 AM on June 22, 2018

Seals are the most official aquatic mammal.

I approve of this message.
posted to MetaTalk by arcticseal at 5:46 AM on June 22, 2018

I will tell you about a nice email exchange that made me feel really good. Apologies in advance for the length.

The college I work for had its graduation last week. I organize roughly half of it, which is a shit-ton of work, and I direct the ceremony from backstage. One of the things I am not involved in is coordinating the people who speak during the ceremony.

During the rehearsal, I chatted a little bit with our student... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mudpuppie at 4:46 PM on June 20, 2018

I'm bike commuting again.

Never should have stopped!

Also, Race Invaders is back!
posted to MetaTalk by the man of twists and turns at 2:24 PM on June 20, 2018

Yes, completely agree, that is definitely on our list! Thank you for the nudge about it.
posted to MetaTalk by LobsterMitten at 9:05 PM on June 18, 2018

I carry a very standard pack every day that I have overloaded with bicycle stuff I almost never use. Bicycle pump, wrench, extra light, inner tube, tire wedges, a poetry anthology, multi-tool thing with all the hex keys and stuff, and a super-overkill chain and padlock that must weigh half as much as the bike itself. It would be easier to snip through the bicycle than to snip through that thing. I clank around town like Jacob Marley feeling awful about all the lights he ran when he commuted by... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by pracowity at 12:45 AM on June 18, 2018

I still haven‘t bought any of the bags I was contemplating in the last thread.
But bag-related news: I now carry a sharp Laguiole Pocket knife for fruit in my bag and it‘s amazing. I can get peaches, peel and slice them and look elegant doing so. Looking at the company’s page, these knives seem to be crazy expensive, but since it was a gift from my dad, I wouldn‘t be too upset about losing it. Happy Dysfunctional Father Relationship day, everyone...... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by The Toad at 9:42 PM on June 17, 2018

I likely wouldn't have the job or be half the person I am today without you guys.
posted by loquacious

But indeed, mefi would not be half what it is without your "hobo ass" and others like you. Which is why I appreciate cortex' commitment to not locking out people who just can't afford it and the no-shame, pay-what-you-can ethic.

I can and do, but I don't think that's going to save us. I like a lot of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by ctmf at 12:56 PM on June 17, 2018

As promised, here is a photo of one of the paintings I made this weekend.
posted to MetaTalk by janepanic at 2:03 PM on June 17, 2018

I'm going to start with my update: Our local pride fest yesterday was AMAZING, and the highlight for me was running into my doctor and hugging the stuffing right out of her and being able to say thank you in that kind of context.

I've been to a bunch of pride fests before, but this one was the first one that was openly for me and a celebration of myself. If someone got more out of it than me, I want to me them because they probably had an amazing time.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by loquacious at 10:02 AM on June 17, 2018

I'll tell you about a bag I used to have. It was made of a material so soft that if it weren't a backpack, it would be a perfect blanket to go to sleep under. That's about ... all I remember, sadly. As anticlimactic as it is, I know the bag played a huge part in my childhood but I'll be darned if I could remember specific instances of what I used it for.

Now I'll tell you about a bag I actually remember. I bought it from a dollar store-- a Daiso, if you must know--: a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by redrawturtle at 8:00 PM on June 16, 2018

This is my day hiking/trail running bag and its everyday contents. Going clockwise, starting at the backpack:
- Osprey Daylight, the new ones are a lot fancier
- random collection of plastic bags, ziplock bags, paper napkins and towels
- Water filter, I top off my water from creeks and springs where I hike/run and don't want giardiasis
- Silnylon dry bag, keeps phone and stuff safe in case of heavy rain
- Sharpie
- Tick... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by peeedro at 7:57 PM on June 16, 2018

But saying fanny is the best part!
posted to MetaTalk by ghost phoneme at 5:51 PM on June 16, 2018