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I'm terminally online and have been since sometime in the mid 80's with BBSes, but this whole thread definitely shows that I'm not that online because I a Twitter sized hole in my knowledge of online humor.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 10:34 AM on June 10, 2024

Yeah, I missed a "have" in there... I do have a Twitter sized hole in my proofreading caused by my need to type quickly.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 8:56 PM on June 10, 2024

Pat Sajak's deplorable politics aside - he was a great game show host, but man it's gotta be a hell of a drug being that loved for hosting that it can lead you to those sorts of views.

One memory I have of my audition for Jeopardy is that they held the WoF auditions at the same time. Jeopardy tryouts were in a pair of small conference rooms like you would be in to do some weird corporate training or time share promotion. WoF, in the meanwhile, was over in a giant hotel… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 9:38 PM on June 9, 2024

I came in to point out memories of seeing "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche" being promoted as a kid on like the Today show. Took me until my adulthood to learn that it was satirizing that dumb idea.

But what do I know - I usually make tortas and frittatas because I don't usually have the patience to futz around with a crust.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 12:08 PM on June 7, 2024

as much about the fear of appearing gay as appearing weak

they're the same picture

I've thought before that part of the reason why people seem to freak out more about gay men and transfem folks is that whole toxic soup of "abandoning traditional masculinity is being weak, becoming weak, etc"

This is not to imply that transmasc and lesbians and others don't catch a raft of crap, because of course they do, it… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 12:38 PM on June 7, 2024

As the beer guy all I can say is I had a long run of too much during COVID and then quit for 3 months before slowly easing back in and now a days I'll drink at functions and otherwise have a couple of beers on a Friday. I'm not perfect, but who is?

Its definitely forced me to explore more fermentation spaces because fermentation is my jame (er... pickle?)

Athletic is definitely the best of the bunch of the "craft" NA beer breweries. It… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 9:37 AM on June 7, 2024

I'm a recovered hot sauce guy - back in my 20's I absolutely would have been after the 10 fold concentrate stuff. These days when I ferment hot sauces, I really do focus on making something that's spicy, but not blow off your nose. Like 2-3x the heat of a tabasco but with flavor that's more than just vinegar.

But what these guys are doing - that's my jam. Science for fun. And yeah, better sound would be nice. I don't suffer from misophonia but the chewing was a bit too much for my taste.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 5:03 PM on June 6, 2024

Aha - thought I was getting Taco Tico vibes! There was one in my childhood town of Pine Hills, FL. We also did the Subway thing when I was growing up because poor. We all ate Veggie subs until we got that magical 10th stamp and then it was what you wanted - usually a Subway Club for me, a BMT for my sister.

Thanks for the story!
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 12:01 PM on June 6, 2024

I mean it is messy and confusing and constantly shifting. We're in a period of transition, exploration and greater understanding and therefore symbology will keep shifting. I figure my job as a cishet white straight dude is look around, go "ok" and keep on being as kind to people as I can be.

To see the completely shifting and overwhelming panoply of flags, markers, identifiers is as fascinating to me as cracking open an atlas as kid and learning about… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 10:54 AM on June 6, 2024

count me in the big screen club. I don't like doing anything much more than ordering food or a book on the phone (in terms of expenditures). If it's something "real" you bet your sweet bippy I'm on the laptop looking through all the finer details.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 2:56 PM on June 5, 2024

I'm not usually the sort to have opinions about football kit, but I love this.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 1:17 PM on June 5, 2024

It is sports today at Metafilter - is this where we can talk about how great the Tin Tin kit is?
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 1:16 PM on June 5, 2024

This is part of a chain of events that include Disco Demolition Night that designated for assignment all the fun and wacky promotions to the minors.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 11:30 AM on June 5, 2024

I'm very much of the generation of "boys don't cry". I got relentlessly bullied in school for being the different, sick, smart and ungodfully poor kid with a dead dad in a small private Catholic school. My mom and I both got told by my teachers that "you're a good kid, but you're too sensitive - that's why they pick on you". I went through a couple of years where my default reaction to any provocation after my dad died was to throw hands, quickly, repeatedly and without… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 10:52 AM on June 5, 2024

So rare to see a dude just flat out say they share what is basically exactly my entire lifelong experience being a woman, and thank you for this! I am sorry the women in your immediate life are not ready to hear that and see the parallels.

Thanks for seeing that. I know the mines are different and except for those in the dominant class position, completely non-optional. The nonchalantly unconcerned manly man types don't see them and don't feel them except in rare cases.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 11:26 AM on June 5, 2024

I just remember like a decade ago I had a book go through an emergency print run because of a shortfall in copies. They went and printed those in the US to beat the delay in Chinese printed copies. In order to keep the pricing the same, they reduced the quality and man was it noticeable. The US copies are fainter and less rich appearing. The blacks are grays and the paper isn't as crisp/sturdy. The Chinese copies had rich blacks and a sheen to them, but were still cheaper.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 10:02 AM on June 5, 2024

Ok, re-rail - you can tell these two are really good friends and having fun while being absolutely unfairly charming.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 11:06 PM on June 4, 2024

The secret is - as always - practice.

Like my wife likes eggs OE on buttered toast. I know, in my heart that I melt the butter, crack the eggs, put the back burner on medium. lid the pan, put on back burner. start toast. wait for toast jiggle the pan. butter the toast. de lid the pan and swiftly and assuredly, flip the eggs with a quick back and forth jerk. slide eggs out onto toast, add salt and serve. (The lid has the bonus effect of cooking the egg white on top so… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 3:01 PM on June 3, 2024

dry white toast you say?

and clavdivs - that's why I use the timing of the toast. I know that the time to toast the bed, pop, juggle the pan, butter the bread is just the right amount of time to perfectly cook the whites of two fresh from the firdge Grade A large eggs.

But that's practice is a specific application. probably made her a couple hundred eggs that way.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 3:21 PM on June 3, 2024

I have many books, but I have far fewer than I did. Being the son of an English teacher, husband to another English teacher and grandson of a professor and of a librarian, this is hardly shocking. I have gobs of Kindle books shared with my mom, tons of reference material and yet it was still hard as hell to get rid of things when I needed more space.

But things I still have because of memories:

My bible from summer camp the one year I went and… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 11:42 AM on June 3, 2024

They've been trying for years to get a train service running from the Port of LA out to the distribution warehouses in San Berdoo. It would be so much more efficient than what they do know of either offloading from the near port train yards or one the east LA (or south of DTLA) piggyback yards.

But it gets fought and fought and fought over and nothing ever happens with it.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 9:38 AM on June 3, 2024

So I've glancingly mentioned this before, but back when Napster and Kazaa and it's ilk first appeared I was a young punk of 25 working in the R&D division of a major entertainment company. I was, for a period of time, that company's "official pirate" - as in I was the only person authorized to have a machine running all this software to better understand it. What it was enabling, how it worked, what was available, what risk factors it created, etc.

I… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 9:30 AM on June 3, 2024

It's been funny watching the many many reactions amongst my friends - unsurprisingly almost everyone younger or of color has been copacetic with the new stats. Shocking to discover who hasn't been receiving the changes with as much universal chill.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 2:14 PM on June 1, 2024

For whatever reason, even as much as I hate sappiness, I'm ok with the Dodo being sappy.

Also, don't give Mr. Wickham a cannon on his little cart
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 12:15 PM on May 31, 2024

I wonder how much of the growth in cricket here in the US can be attributed to the large influx of South Asian tech workers? The folks I managed are absolutely obsessed with cricket and can rattle off stats and facts of all sorts of matches like I can with Red Sox games of my youth.

I'm all for more varied experiences, but even as a die hard baseball fan and with the help of my colleagues, I still find cricket to be near impenetrable. Guess I just need to get watching!
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 9:31 AM on May 31, 2024

I'm trying to think how obsessively spread sheety and overly analytical I would have been if these tools had been available to me when I was young and overwrought. (Not passing judgement on her - just on younger me)
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 3:41 PM on May 29, 2024

just even reading the blurb here made me experience a whole symphony of involuntary retractions. No thank you, no sir.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 11:14 AM on May 29, 2024

I'm disappointed in the reaction here which feels a lot like "ew, gross gay guys" homophobia

I'd like to be very clear - my reaction had zero to do with homophobia and everything to do with hatred of needles coupled with the thought of them in close proximity to my penis.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 3:29 PM on May 29, 2024

Sounds good to me! They do a great job at writing propulsive fiction and I have no clue how they make that partnership work.

And then Polygon got me to seriously consider spending $150 on a new version of one of the best graphic novels ever - Batman: Year One Artist's Edition
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 10:23 PM on May 28, 2024

I have a couple of conspiracy minded people in my friend circle and they're all like "they won't let you drink raw milk, but they'll let you eat twinkies" and I always shout at them "because raw milk can actually immediately kill you, you ding dongs. Milk is hysterically dangerous when not treated properly and transported all over the place.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 9:50 PM on May 25, 2024

King has always been a better short form writer than overlong novelist (particularly as he's gotten more senior and beyond an editors control)

And yes, it was always a thing amongst my friends to see who was or wasn't scared by his latest writings.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 8:38 PM on May 24, 2024

I used to be a daily reader of Sinfest and was increasingly baffled at the hard right turn that it took. For a while I kept thinking, this is him just goofing on the extreme attitudes these people have, right? right? Only to find that no - this is what he actually was thinking.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 1:46 PM on May 23, 2024

Ok, I love Carson and want to snorgle his poor dead self. We routinely have a family of possums that invade our backyard and the kids have scared me so many times with the playing dead routine. I leave them some food and they enjoy my waterfall.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 10:36 AM on May 23, 2024

I do admire that they avoided the easy trap of "god like character from your dreams/alternate reality/etc explains it all and delivers the moral"

It's a nice little slice of dreaminess mixed with the utter despair of feeling like you're floundering.

Also, another good avoidance in that Andrew (good name, I like it.:) ) has a supportive community of friends around him and he's not "sad lonely LGBTQ person in a tragedy of solitude"
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 10:14 AM on May 23, 2024

My mom is at the stage where she's started winnowing down and explaining things to me. It will fall to me to handle her estate since my sister cut her off. I don't want to deal but I will and my mom knows there are lot of family antiques that we have that neither of us will take. I live in a tiny house that's already jam packed with stuff.

My worry when I die isn't even material. It's my animals. Send my brewing stuff off to the Falcons. Send the books to a second hand… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 10:06 AM on May 23, 2024

I think she catches it from both sides - from the right for being an outspoken black woman and from the left for espousing some disagreeable things like her support for Polanski, defending Cosby, comments about the Holocaust, etc.

I still like to think of her a Guinan and leave it at that.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 4:47 PM on May 22, 2024

Went and listened to the demo examples and the Sky voice doesn't directly hit my ScarJo bell until you get to the way words and phrases get ended and then it's dead on. Very weird.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 9:17 PM on May 21, 2024

Forget the tag - where are the underpants gnomes!
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 11:01 AM on May 21, 2024

This morning (early morning) was a very lively time in my house.

I was preparing to fall asleep finally - 2ish or so when suddenly a heard a piece of glass *clink*. Now earlier I had heard some scrabbling and I had seen a dropping in another room so I knew what this meant. I live in a century house and this is a war that's long ongoing.

The glass clinking though told me I had a visitor in my room and that just wouldn't do. I… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 2:26 PM on May 20, 2024

luckynerd - you didn't happen to go on Grand Ave through Diamond Bar and up over the hill? That's a fun drive.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 7:29 PM on May 20, 2024

@luckynerd - funny that runs right into Grand and I have never once in 28 years of living in LA been on it!

Death really is the kicker that makes life seem cruel. Cancer took our Betty girl a while back and we still feel it.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 9:40 AM on May 21, 2024

I've expressed my lack of love for conforming competitions, but I would definitely pet all the dogs. And in other Westminster news - Nimble, an "All American Dog" (aka mixed breed and in this case a purposeful mix of Pap and Border Collie), blew the doors off the field in the Agility competition and became the first mixed breed dog to win the whole shebang. (And I love how Nimble was moving so fast that the announcers had to say "this isn't sped up")
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 10:16 AM on May 20, 2024

Sorry, you're right - I was looking at my Chi/Pom mix and crossed the streams. She is BC/Pap and apparently that jump is how she always ends her runs.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 1:10 PM on May 20, 2024

We watched this the other night when it was on Investigation Discovery and boy... yeah, I knew that Spacey was a very questionable dude and I was barely in the entertainment industry. My wife, on the other hand knew vey little and it was interesting watching her growing horror as more and more stories came out.

I do wonder - will he get the old fashioned eventual "mea culpa and I've change" reformation pattern or will he continue to be persona non grata? How… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 8:48 PM on May 19, 2024

Fine, I guess I'll make some more pizza. :)
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 1:11 PM on May 16, 2024

Off the topic of the chicago deep dish pizza. My wife has a long standing nostalgia for old school Pizza Hut pan pizza like it used to be. (It's gone from being meh back in the day to "wth is this crap" today). This recipe is really damn fool proof and gets the idea right with it almost being an olive oil fried focaccia on the edges. (Fool Proof Pan Pizza - Serious Eats / J. Kenji Lopez-Alt)
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 1:21 PM on May 16, 2024

Good on her for speaking up after having bought in to the noise.

Also, there's a whole slew of people who just want to be angry about something - doesn't matter if it makes sense.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 3:00 PM on May 15, 2024

That's a lot of work to be very very petty and I'm absolutely here for it.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 1:02 PM on May 15, 2024

Oh and while my treatment suggestions - if you have an older arthritic dog, look into Librela. It's a monthly shot of a monoclonal antibody treatment and it's given my ancient grumple butt a bit of his pep back in his step. Was just approved last year for this purpose and it's helping. He doesn't move like a puppy, but he moves more like he did when he was 14 instead of 19.
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 3:48 PM on May 13, 2024

I would say that mediocre pie is far better than even good cake, but great cake? When it's tender and moist and full of flavor (or maybe perfectly dense like a good torte) Well, there's no reason to choose. Cut me a slice of both!

But all this talk of pie and me feeling sentimental has me thinking back - does anyone remember Hostess Pudding Pies in Chocolate and Vanilla? (Not their current Chocolate Cream pie) When I was a kid, we'd get bread sometimes from the Hostess… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by drewbage1847 at 9:07 AM on May 14, 2024