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The synergy between Zimmer's orchestra and Lebo M's soaring chorals was incredible and probably the single biggest factor in TLK being such a great film, IMHO.

There's a fantastic YouTube channel that tracks whole sequences from the movie to the original score, with no dialogue or sound effects. It's striking to see how closely the music underscores the action. Some favorites: Brave Like You - The Stampede - Kings of the Past - Simba and Rafiki - and of course, that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Rhaomi at 5:46 AM on May 23, 2021

you can also soak your strawberries in moonshine for two to four weeks

We use Chartreuse, then we throw away the strawberries [1] and make Last Straws[2].

[1] Are you kidding me? This is a bald-faced lie. We put them on ice cream.

[2] equal parts, ~3/4 oz/20 mL, Dry Gin, lime juice, Maraschino Liqueur and the strawberry-infused Chartreuse. Garnish with a cherry or a candied strawberry. It's a Last... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by bonehead at 10:42 AM on May 21, 2020

Back in the day both the SW & ESB adaptaions were broadcast in Australia on ABC-FM (just before noon on Sundays, IIRC) and, as a teen SW fan, I recorded them all. An episode of the latter was directly responsible for my eventual career.

One episode of ESB - from memory, the second or third one; the one that starts off with Luke landing on Dagobah - suffered from a playout error that made the first 5 minutes or so unintelligible. Being a perfectionist completionist, I... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Pinback at 6:05 PM on May 16, 2020

I know they explain the timing, but surely it's not coincidental that the timing gives the NYT the chance to have the maximum impact it could on the election, now that the primaries are all over?

Seven months before the election while everyone is worried about a pandemic is not really what I’d pick for “maximum impact”.
posted to MetaFilter by Etrigan at 5:50 AM on April 14, 2020

> I don't know, an electromagnet grid with individually addressed inductors each with analogue control seems quite expensive too!

A $7 Arduino i2c has 111 free addresses (out of 128; the remainder are reserved). A 16 x 16 grid mentioned above would use 32. Double the resolution (for even finer control) and you would still only need 64 addresses.

I'm not sure how you could make this work with any kind of smooth movement... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ardgedee at 3:56 AM on February 25, 2020

Learn to listen. It's not an innate skill, especially for academic white men who just...aren't expected to do it. Not just active listening, which everyone has heard of, but listening with empathy and - this is the one weird trick - a communal spirit of goodwill as if you and the speaker are on the same team. Imagine that your job is NOT to challenge, but to raise up (non-condescendingly). Not to be the most right, but to learn more about things from other people who... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Lyn Never at 7:41 PM on January 10, 2020

Brains are weird.

A few years ago I was on a streetcar in Toronto when I started seeing everything through a red-tinted filter and things would flash like a tv was changing channels. I lost my ability to talk and couldn't move half of my body. A few minutes later, I ended up in an emergency room where they told me I was having a Transient Ischemic Attack -- basically a small stroke. I was warned that if they didn't get to the bottom of it, I could have a full-blown... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by dobbs at 9:44 AM on November 14, 2019

I found this excellent post about Chirin's Bell on a Japanese blog called "Pedadogical Analyses of Picture Books". What struck me about it was how seriously it sought to examine what the book leaves unsaid: why does Chirin feel unsatisfied at the culmination of his vengeance, and how should he live his life afterward? I translated the post in full below.

How should we confront the absurdities of life?

This is a... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by J.K. Seazer at 1:12 AM on October 26, 2019

This is not what I had in mind.
posted to MetaFilter by allkindsoftime at 1:17 PM on October 7, 2019

The youtube user with the Letterman clips is a man named Don Giller (aka the Donz or Donz5 from the old alt.fan.letterman).

He's made it his mission to catalogue and record (or acquire the recordings) of every single letterman late night since the beginning and then some (I used to be his neighbor, the spare room with walls covered with doubled up bookcases of vhs tapes were impressive if not a little worrisome in the event of a fire.)... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by NormieP at 8:29 PM on April 22, 2019

Good stuff... Hrm, hrm, hrm... The self harm... lost me. The emotion regulation. Well, gosh, ok, that's fun, let's lump everything in the zeitgeist, good. But there's some science! Yes! A tidbit! People who forgave themselves for the mistakes, did better next time.

This really may seem like the most obvious answer but I think it is reasonable to be vocal, ask for help, and if need be outsource. And apologize for mistakes.

To me procrastination... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by karmachameleon at 2:32 AM on March 27, 2019

Peterson's schtick is just largely boring and self serving. I've heard a bunch of his interviews, many from sympathetic hosts who will sign off on any claim he makes. There's almost always a part of the interview when Peterson will say something like...

"Based on my deep reading of Pinocchio we can see that he needs to enter the belly of the whale in order to confront his own id and overcome the oedopian shackles of his quasi-father figure, Gepetto. After... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Telf at 12:07 PM on April 7, 2019

Yeah, it sounds markedly less Marioesque if you manage to play it at the right speed.

RIP John Peel; you will only truly have left the airwaves when there are none here who can't check the speed on a record before dropping the needle.
posted to MetaFilter by howfar at 7:22 AM on April 6, 2019

As I get older, I find that a dumb idea lovingly executed is a thousand times more appealing than a good idea executed with compromise.

Applies pretty much just to like art and stuff, though. Not politics.

Anyway, this looks a lot like a dumb idea lovingly executed. I'm down.
posted to MetaFilter by Navelgazer at 4:52 PM on November 12, 2018

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So, anyone catch the cameo by Fry, Bender, and Farnsworth in the last episode? Do you think the big reveal is that it's all in the Futurama universe?
posted to FanFare by FJT at 3:59 PM on August 24, 2018

"A little trivia; Warfarin gets the first part of its name from the group that funded research into it at the school where it was discovered; the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation."

There's a really touching story about this -- and an antidote to Scott Walker's Wisconsin. UW is a land grant university, which means that it has extension offices serving every county, and one of its main purposes is to research and disseminate the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Eyebrows McGee at 6:58 PM on August 26, 2018

Small talk makes me want to scream with boredom, and not only I don't think biographical fragments or bits of emotional disclosure are interesting, I don't even think they are revealing. They are marks of what people would like to think about themselves, like clothes or accessories.

What I want to hear are your thoughts about things that interest you. I understand if you don't think very much or if nothing but yourself interests you very much, but maybe then I could just... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by ckridge at 7:05 AM on August 19, 2018

Alright. I've been a high end cook/chef and I've also worked for as 'Big Mayo' a company as you can in the world. I know mayo inside and out - from making it in small batches, to mass production and sourcing, to which demographics and some indication as to 'why' those demographics buy it.

So first I'll talk about what mayo has in it and why mayo is what it is. It is the quintessential definition of mise en place. There is not a single unnecessary... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Nanukthedog at 10:59 AM on August 13, 2018

According to three people familiar with events, Pruitt would not take out the trash during his time staying at the townhouse believing that a cleaning service would do it for him. There was no cleaning service that came with the apartment, however. And the garbage bags piled up to the point that Vicki Hart was forced to tell him to put them in the canister and to bring that canister out to the street the next time he left the building.

Let me get this straight. Scott... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by biogeo at 11:19 PM on April 12, 2018

Otherwise, it's just slacktivism

the opposite of not showing up to establishment party gatherings is not slacktivism, it's actual activism that sits down and protests at city council meetings and submits written policies that decriminalize drug offenses and remove Confederate monuments that are adopted wholesale by lazy municipal leaders who couldn't care less if they were actually dead

source: having actually done this for... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by runt at 7:04 AM on January 25, 2018

sammyo: Need a similar map for Supernatural, then an overlay to see if there's overlap. Ooh ooh, and X Files too.

Ask me about the months I spent back in 1998 going through both of these shows' timelines in order to write an epic crossover with Mulder and Scully investigating the (now adult) people who actually saw Al because they were kids under the age of five when Sam leaped into their lives, whose friends or relations are being murdered right in... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by tzikeh at 10:55 AM on January 18, 2018

I worked at a chippy for a year and here's my expert opinion on burgers with egg and beetroot:

Okay, so down here we have fish and chip shops that sell, besides fried fish and chips, things like potato scallops, fried saveloy sausages on a stick (battered sav), Chiko rolls (a type of large cabbage roll) calamari rings, seafood sticks, and the like. They're basically a staple, with most suburbs having at least one chippy and people get very possessive about their chippies.... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by Jilder at 8:19 AM on October 30, 2017 marked best answer

This Twitter thread pulls the 2015 Joint Fundraising Agreement:
Nowhere in the 2015 JDA is there reference to where "Hillary would control the party's finances, strategy, and all the money raised"

Nor did the 2015 JFA give Hillary the right of first refusal over party communications director or other staff. NONE OF👇IS TRUE

I think Donna is confusing the 2016 JFA, between DNC & Hillary as nominee, with this 2015 JFA.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by palindromic at 7:30 PM on November 2, 2017

Well, chinese_fashion, thanks to the misdirected link to the Paris Review I could read this gem:

About a month ago, at the Museum of Modern Art, I attended a performance of John Cage’s 4’33”. I’d read about its famous silence, but because I’d never sat in a theater and experienced that silence, all I had were expectations. I expected the pianist to be a man, which is what expectations do, they give you a picture of what will happen before it happens, and it... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Laotic at 11:28 PM on September 20, 2017

"I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this:

1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;

2) anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by entropicamericana at 5:01 AM on September 20, 2017

Anything can be sentient if you're willing to stretch the definition of "sentient" enough.

What if we stretch it infinitely? Many thinkers have held that thought is a universal property that inheres in all physical entities. In this view, the forms that thought takes are as varied as all the physical forms. As one thinker puts it:

For if we were cattle, we should love the carnal and sensual life, and this would be... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by No Robots at 5:40 PM on August 19, 2017

Ready Player One is the story of a white boy and a black girl competing for the same executive-level tech job, where literally the sole hiring criterion is "culture fit"
posted to MetaFilter by aubilenon at 8:47 PM on August 8, 2017

Also, I don't think anyone disputes that low fat diets can cause weight loss in the short term. The issue is that it's unsustainable over the long term. That's why you never see The Biggest Loser do reunion shows.
posted to MetaFilter by leotrotsky at 7:43 AM on August 4, 2017

I've read the whole series, I've been a lifelong King fan, and I've never thought that the books were very good. They rely on coincidence and unmotivated character action to a maddening degree.

That said, one thing the books had going for them was how unabashedly weird they were: [mild spoilers] a giant robot bear with a satellite dish growing out of his head, a sentient monorail who likes riddles, Stephen King showing up as a character in his own... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Laura Palmer's Cold Dead Kiss at 7:39 AM on May 3, 2017

I don't know why this piece was delivered with a scientific veneer. This piece strikes me as overwhelmingly unscientific, maybe the opposite of scientific.

I mean that a scientist would be doing her damnedest to state ideas clearly, in terms and concepts that would mean roughly the same thing to everyone who read them. McCarthy seems to be hinting at Deep Thoughts whose meaning may not be entirely clear even to him, but which will evoke Deep Thoughts in the reader that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by gurple at 3:33 PM on April 20, 2017

Here's a version that's just the core content.
posted to MetaFilter by jacquilynne at 11:08 PM on March 5, 2017

To Trump, this kind of compromise and deal making where you need to reach mutually acceptable arrangements instead of winner take all ones must be totally baffling. He can't even fire federal employees unless theres a damn good reason! Sad, right? The President really is super powerful. But it requires subtle, persuasive, institutional, manipulative power that Trump has absolutely zero understanding of.

A couple of months ago my husband and I were... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Tarumba at 10:51 AM on February 15, 2017

Is anyone else suffering from an incessant anxiety that feels like an illness? Because I am.
posted to MetaFilter by grumpybear69 at 9:27 AM on January 26, 2017

Anyone here ever eat scrambled eggs with a cheap silver plated utensil? UGH! Egg and silverware react so that the silver has a most unpleasant taste, or it did when I was a child. This may of course have been because our silverware was so cheap and purchased with box tops from the soap flakes. I had to learn the technique of eating without ever touching the utensil with my tongue. Unfortunately a little bit of the flavour would transfer over to the eggs as well.

People... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Jane the Brown at 3:55 AM on January 14, 2017

It's like BRAAAM is the new Dies Irae!
posted to MetaFilter by demonic winged headgear at 1:05 PM on December 8, 2016

I guess we'll find out if he was lying to American voters then or he's lying to President Park now.

What makes him so scary is that I don't think he's ever lying. Or at least he doesn't believe he is. He says whatever comes into his head at the time without even thinking about it. He can't lie, because he doesn't really believe anything. He just says stuff, and keeps saying stuff and more stuff and more stuff, without considering content or... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by something something at 10:53 AM on November 10, 2016

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
– Charles Bukowski
posted to MetaFilter by robbyrobs at 10:55 AM on November 6, 2016

I think it finally hit me today, why this election is so disorienting. It's the pervasive, so ever-present you can hardly detect it abnormalization of Clinton and normalization of Trump. When it is discovered that emails she did not send or receive are being examined by the FBI, this is somehow evidence of her acts of criminal conspiracy. Meanwhile, nearly every day brings new allegations of sexual assault against Trump; these are essentially dismissed out of hand. His abuse of power and acts of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by (Arsenio) Hall and (Warren) Oates at 5:35 AM on October 31, 2016

Like Bondcliff above, this is one of my missed callings. And, just like Jetsetsc, my partner and I recently binged our way through The Americans, and when one character was quite brutally dispatched (a used tire stuffed over their shoulders and set alight), I may have undercut the tension slightly:

Me: "Oh, that's such an anachronism! Far too modern a tread pattern and low of a profile for the early 80s. That's a Continental ContiProContact! Got to be at least 225... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by MarchHare at 4:25 PM on October 4, 2016

she has no idea what kind of forces she is playing with
posted to MetaFilter by Foci for Analysis at 12:31 PM on October 12, 2016

Listening to him is like trying to type a 120 character formula in an Excel cell. No fucking way can I figure out how to match the parens.
posted to MetaFilter by klarck at 7:09 PM on October 9, 2016

I am glad my parents had no kids.

I am confused.
posted to MetaFilter by TrialByMedia at 9:39 AM on October 7, 2016

Surely a house full of genius nuclear physicists, as paranoid and uncertain they must be, would know they're bugged and everything they're saying is scrutinized

The British did this a lot. They still do. If you want to get people to talk, put them together in a pleasant, safe environment. Isolate them from outside contact. Make the comfortable, treat them well and give them absolutely nothing to do but talk to each other.

You can tell them that... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Combat Wombat at 1:41 AM on September 25, 2016

Clockzero put it best in one of my favorite comments of all time


"My GP said I have throat cancer, but my astrologer said it's just Mercury's ascendance. The truth is somewhere in the middle. One mechanic said my transmission is blown, another said I need new brakes. The truth must be somewhere in the middle. I can't remember if the capital of Nebraska is Lincoln or Omaha, but the truth is, as always, somewhere in the middle.

It... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by lalochezia at 6:57 PM on September 15, 2016

So, I work at the Levi's HQ in a non-product capacity. (This is all gleaned from plenty of corporate communication that I'm hopefully not butchering, so please don't fire me HR person who found this through google)

This is not a cotton vs cotton blend quality issue, which most people try to boil it down to. And when people talk about this, they usually are conflating 100% cotton with very dense/rigid fabric. But cotton blends can just as dense and rigid. Especially when... [more]
posted to Ask MetaFilter by politikitty at 5:13 PM on August 8, 2016 marked best answer

Trump: "I'm going to build a Dyson sphere, and I'm going to make the aliens pay for it!"
posted to MetaFilter by Foosnark at 5:44 AM on August 30, 2016

Also – the below article is now four years old, and I've shared it here before, but I'm going to keep sharing it, because I think it's a good elucidation of the choice we have to make if we really want to fix this problem:

RAISE THE CRIME RATE.
posted to MetaFilter by koeselitz at 11:20 AM on August 18, 2016

Also, "Who's to blame" is a terrible question to be asking.

Aviation has an excellent track record, largely because the issue of blame/liability takes a back-seat to identifying root-causes, and determining remediations to prevent similar accidents from recurring.

Simply put, "Human error" isn't an acceptable finding in an accident report. No pilot wants to die, and no airline wants its planes to crash. Figure out... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by schmod at 1:24 PM on July 1, 2016

I will never understand the common American dislike of 4-6 story apartments buildings when those same people will spend thousands of dollars to go to Paris, and wish they could live like that.

I mean, yeah, institutional racism, but still.

It's not even a common dislike. It's outright illegal to build that kind of housing in most places in the US.

Street-facing 4-6 story apartment... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by schmod at 6:18 AM on May 18, 2016

On the opposite end, a 1-sided dice. Every roll is 1.
posted to MetaFilter by T.D. Strange at 9:44 PM on May 11, 2016