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I know what I'm doing when I finish building my time machine. [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 weeks ago

I was thinking Handcarts. [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Utah Hockey Club
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MeFi post - Last month

I started reading the article and the second "expert" said it can't be poetry because it rhymes and I stopped there because poetry can certainly rhyme, even though it's not the dominant mode right now. [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

As the publisher of a small press that is getting to the point where we might have worked with SPD, this sucks. There are some other companies doing similar things, like Asterism, but not at nearly the same scale. [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Throwing some anecdata in. I had the worst taste in music when I was a teenager, and I haven't listened to that music since high school. And I don't listen to the music I listened to in my twenties, or my thirties. I am not great at finding new music,… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last month

Where did the "evening wear" bit come from -- was there an invitation that specified it, or was it something you assumed? If the former, yeah, you kind of need a tux. If the latter, I'd follow the advice to look at photos of previous… [more]
favorited 6 times, recently by mskyle, latkes, Blue Jello Elf, cooker girl, HurdyBirdy, muddgirl
Ask MeFi comment - Last month

Mandated water / shade breaks for people who work outside during the summer. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Checked back in to see the nonsense from defenders of fighting and goonery in hockey, was not disappointed. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

> I bet there's another timeline where strict rules against fighting lead to some sort of ridiculous proxy behavior which everyone earnestly interprets as "a fight has just broken out" even though it's like two guys having a staring… [more]
favorited 4 times, recently by wenestvedt, PlusDistance, Reverend John, RonButNotStupid
MeFi comment - 2 months ago

It's so great to see overgrown men punching each other in the helmet and visor with their bare fists. I hope that an actually valuable player "answers the bell" and breaks his hand, which will lead to the quick death of fighting not make… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

E.C. Bentley's Trent's Last Case, which is great and also important to the genre, in that it features a detective who makes a terrible mistake in deducting whodunit, in the wake of Sherlock Holmes and his imitators, who are always right. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 2 months ago

I have some invites left if anyone needs one. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Help with 1099-K
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Ask MeFi post - 2 months ago

Is this the proper forum to point out that the X in Generation X wasn't an ordinal, and so subsequent generations being called Y, Z, and Alpha is colossally stupid? No? Carry on. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

This is so much more adventurous than that stodgy "100 Best Novels of the 20th Century" list Modern Library put out around the turn of the millennium. [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

Lepas Don't Lie
favorited 11 times, recently by Green-eyed grenade, boffin police, cendawanita, lukemeister, blue shadows, LobsterMitten, chimpsonfilm, ockmockbock, BlahLaLa, mpark, Artw
MeFi post - 2 months ago

All of the books mentioned in this listicle and this comment thread are available to read for free through Interlibrary Loan! [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Nancy_LockIsLit_Palmer, wenestvedt, GenjiandProust
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I realize that it's beloved by many but I read Nine Princes in Amber for the first time earlier this year, and I kinda hated it. There's not a single solid detail to grab onto in the whole book. There's a war in which millions die, and each… [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by the_dreamwriter, GenjiandProust, mark k
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

It's clear from this article that the leg is actually a plate of beans. [more]
favorited 3 times, recently by Devils Rancher, yumpsuit, chavenet
MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I was typing a comment to the effect that it's ridiculous to say that this is the first official release of sound recordings into the public domain, but then I googled it and wow, yeah, it's US copyright law that's ridiculous. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Yep, I just watched the opening credits and what mbrubeck said is correct. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 4 months ago

There is nothing good about the plant.
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MeFi post - 4 months ago

I love these. I used to show them on 16mm at the Hyde Park Jazz Festival in Chicago. Fats Waller did two of my favorites, and one thing I love is that it's clear that they shot them back to back: same outfit, same backdrop, same dancers. [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Use it as a glaze for baked tofu. Yummy. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Until the companies make it so you can't ride the bikes and scooters on sidewalks, and make it so riders can't abandon them at the bottom of accessibility ramps or blocking crosswalks, they are the enemy. [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Board games teach, always, with intimacy the depth, width, and height of every shelf in your home. Also their load-bearing capabilities. [more]
favorited 8 times, recently by Cremcraw, MonsieurPEB, drezdn, Proofs and Refutations, potrzebie, cupcakeninja, doctornemo, Faint of Butt
MeFi comment - 5 months ago

When I worked at Radio Shack in college, we would hook the battery terminals of leftover toys up to the speaker outputs of our big stereos, then slowly turn up the volume. Sometimes you'd get a satisfying squawk out of the toy before it started to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

I looked for that Wham! song but didn't see it except as a cover. Maybe a browser issue because that's definitely the worst Christmas song ever. [more]
favorited 5 times, recently by AsYouKnow Bob, Orkney Vole, mmoncur, Melismata, fiercekitten
MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Why the hell would you not keep the name Jughead after an ordeal like that? JUGHEAD FOREVER! [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I don't use Spotify a ton unless I learn about an album and want to give it a listen. But I recently discovered something I find super helpful to learn about new-to-me music: you listen to an album you like, and when it's finished, Spotify spins up… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I bought one for my nephew one Christmas when I was annoyed at my sister. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Man, I loved it when that one cat did the cat thing. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

There was a comment on here, I think, that had a really wonderful analysis of "How You Remind Me" and why it's so freaking catchy. I think the commenter called it a brilliant song presented in the most troglodyte-esque manner. I've tried… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I guess I always thought that the UK had given up on apostrophes. I remember visiting and seeing dozens of streets and businesses where they had obviously just stopped using an apostrophe. Franklins = a bar owned by Franklin. Etc. I'm shocked to see… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

No gods, no masters, no birds named after racists. [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I'd caution against Skechers. I have chronic heel pain from heel spurs, and the Skechers I've tried make it much worse. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Concussions, CTE, and the NHL
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MeFi post - 7 months ago

NHL Fuckers
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MeFi post - 7 months ago

This reminds me a little of the academic-speak phrase "the ways in which," as in "I will look at the ways in which X happens." In 90% of the uses, it could easily be replaced by "how." Drives me nuts. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

In case you're annoyed by the structure of the article, the answers to the questions you're looking for--what causes myopia and how do we prevent it--come at about 48% in the ungated version. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Samuel R. Delany's "The Orchid"
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MeFi post - 11 months ago

How do I unspam myself?
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Ask MeFi post - 11 months ago

Two player NBA 2K23?
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Ask MeFi post - 11 months ago

Nnedi Okorafor's YA books might be good fits. Akata Witch is excellent. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

It went away for me after about 5 days. (Five very difficult, very crabby days.) Definitely worth the adjustment period! I am not taking anything else, so it's possible there's some interaction between it and the venlafaxine for you. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

There are pizza places nearby that serve "happy pizza," which has marijuana in the sauce. No matter how much you smoke over here, if you order the happy pizza and eat more than a couple of slices, you will suffer from cannabis poisoning… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

I had twitchiness and irritability on venlafaxine. It was so bad that my doc switched me to something else. I would definitely discuss this with your doctor. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Last year

Seems like a good opportunity to recommend 'Way Out, a cheapo Twilight Zone clone hosted by Roald Dahl in 1961. Fourteen episodes were produced, and maybe nine of them can be found on Youtube. A couple of them are scarier than anything TZ… [more]
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MeFi comment - Last year

Yeah, we bought a small (4 feet) trampoline for our active kid during the pandemic, and he really used it. It allowed us to sleep a little longer in the morning. [more]
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