Activity from Gorgik

Oh, I loved this. I love trees, although I don't know much about them. There was a (pine?) tree on the campus of Seattle University where the huge branches sagged down to the pavement and then turned back up, and you could walk underneath it and it… [more]
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MeFi comment - 2 months ago

What I love about the show is that I never feel jerked around by plot twists. I felt that was about this show until this episode. Like, ok, she's not dead after being hit, that's great. But we see him stick a knife in her chest… [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

From the second link: "So despite the promises of only carrying Hajj pilgrims, and despite landing in a raging storm that still didn’t drown out the sound of nearby gunfire, they loaded 800 passengers onto the 400 seat jumbo and took off… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I learned this weekend that in the standard 7-Eleven logo, all the letters are capitalized except the final "n". [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

I swim the seas between paranoia and disbelief - your weekly free thread
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MeFi post - 3 months ago

For Excel, I've always liked Chandoo, and he has a course for ~$150 https://chandoo.org/wp/excel-school-program/ Whatever course they choose, please implore them to make part of their learning Power Query. It's a force multiplier for using Excel,… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 3 months ago

wurl1tzer_c0 I’m angry with the guy responsible, I’m angry with my teammates, I’m angry at myself. I'm intimately familiar with blaming myself for things and my responses to things, but I'd compassionately push back and suggest that only… [more]
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MeFi comment - 3 months ago

[Favorite part - spoiler]The wig! Especially that two white scientist dudes wouldn't consider it. [more]
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FanFare comment - 3 months ago

Tricky skaters win gold and silver
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MeFi post - 3 months ago

We took my mother and stepfather to a restaurant in Portland like, 10-12 years ago. I ordered a cocktail, and while she didn't really drink, she looked at the menu and got *very* excited because they had a drink with Fernet Branca. I kind of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Yoyoka covers Tool, Forty Six & 2 (SLYT)
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MeFi post - 4 months ago

I had a great volunteer shift yesterday where my partner and I got to hold space for someone who hadn't felt seen or heard for a long time. Two recent favorite jokes REM for birds Bugs and Oates [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Unfortunately I inherited the Early Male Pattern Baldness gene rather than the Full Head of Silver-White Hair one. I was volunteering once, and my partner and I were working with a very amusing "older" woman. We needed info,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

Movie: The Holdovers
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FanFare post - 4 months ago

When I was in college I was part of a D&D campaign that was about a year long. Over one particular summer we'd get together 3-4 times a week, for like 8-10 hours each session. Out DM was amazing. He had a campaign he'd written, but he was… [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

perfectly coordinated aerial turns (SLYT)
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MeFi post - 4 months ago

I didn't have time last night to flesh the post out, but there are some other great performances from the competition, including the LSU Tiger Girls and Ohio State University. [more]
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MeFi comment - 4 months ago

But your body is too hard, and ours, too soft. That's also how I felt about Casino Royale era Daniel Craig. [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

That picture of the wreckage of the Airbus, from the "column of fire" link, is stunning. That no one on the plane died (immediately) is mind-boggling. I mean, I get that it didn't collapse right away, but wow. [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

There's a story on one of the first-season Simpsons DVDs that Matt Groening tells. Hank Azaria joined the cast...5-10 episodes in? He wasn't part of the very first episodes. Anyway, Groening says, during the DVD commentary, that, 15 years in he… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

I'd like 2024 to be like 12/31/23 and 1/1/24 -spending time eating good food and watching great movies with Ms. Gorgik -taking care of my physical health -spending time with friends -doing advocacy work with other highly motivated… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Almost 800,000 Maryland licence plates include a URL that now points to an online casino in the Philippines because someone let the domain registration lapse. :-O I was talking with someone who had a domestic violence pamphlet from my… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

My favorite thing was [Click for spoiler]After Duke "threatens" Miles, Miles makes a drink and go over to Duke. I noticed that he handed Duke the glass, and I thought "Well that's odd". Then everything unfolds, and as Miles… [more]
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FanFare comment - 5 months ago

Does anyone have any advice or techniques to deal with a dynamic, constantly moving role with daily deadlines? I'm not sure what tools you have access to, but a spreadsheet of tasks is not a bad start. Some kind of calendaring system… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 5 months ago

you wouldn’t go The Financial Times looking for an oral history of NSync. Financial Times: 'Pop fans of a certain vintage may remember Lance Bass, MetaFilter: Hold my endless well of knowledge [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

"...the kids were finally old enough to do the stunt work required..."
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MeFi post - 5 months ago

reading some magazine giving the then-new Tesla its highest rating ever for a car, and specifically praising the quality of the build. But I couldn't remember if it was CR, Car & Driver, Popular Mechanics etc. It was Consumer… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

I liked this a great deal. The two monster setpieces, chasing the small boat and the attack on Ginza, were legit terrifying. And the scene in Ginza when Godzilla first (well, second) unleashes the heatray was heartstopping. Both for the… [more]
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FanFare comment - 5 months ago

Who do I need? Hornets behind vinyl siding filter.
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Ask MeFi post - 5 months ago

the financial stuff bored the shit out of me, and then periodically there's robots EVE Online! Also, while I'm not a fan of short-selling in general, I kind of want to see Capybara Research win. [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

Flying home from a work/leisure trip to Chicago. The highlight of which was s'mores patbangsu at Parachute, a hopped-up Korean shaved ice dessert. Chocolate shaved ice, candied red beans, mochi, puffed barley, toasted Swiss meringue, cinnamon-honey… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

alt.fan.warlord 4 lyfe [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

The section leading up to his saying he was going to donate the proceeds, about coopting other queer peoples work and rrasing their contributions, was very affecting. His other work is great. His analysis of BBC's Sherlock is very entertaining,… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

I volunteered this weekend, and my partner and I had to do a child transport for two young siblings. The transport was in-city, but partway through it turned out we might have to leave Seattle and go to the Eastside. We had to get permission from… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

AB 1136: Sets up a retirement fund for mixed-martial arts fighters in California. Any MMA fighters who have fought in at least 39 rounds in the state will be eligible for retirement benefits starting at the age of 50. That seemed kind of… [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

It's our 101st free thread!
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MeFi post - 5 months ago

I now feel like maybe it would be nice to have a disclaimer or something attached to this post about a video by Somerton that I made nearly a year ago. I wonder if we can get that done somehow. Looks like Somerton's channel is now gone… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

only people who’ve taken LSD can receive the messages.
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MeFi post - 6 months ago

There is *no way* this person's small heart is going to grow three sizes (or whatever the idea is) over the course of approximately 80 hours of being forced, under penalty of jail time, to work in the fast food restaurant where she assaulted… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I'd guess that the goal is to give her a taste of what it's like on the other side of the counter. I wonder if there's a different way to expand her horizons or give her the opportunity to develop empathy other than put her to work in fast-food. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Bang bang bang on the door, baby (SLYT)
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MeFi post - 6 months ago

"It's like our version of Taylor Swift coming to town." A few months ago I was walking home, and I had to cross the freeway at the light rail stop. As I got closer, I was like why is it so crowded? Closer still, and I'm like wait, why… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

You won't enjoy it on as many levels as I do [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Woohoo!!!!! [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 6 months ago

Well anyway, Why does Attack of the Clones look like a video game was really informative about the politics, technology and why CGI cloth drapes like a melted cheese slice. "Few people are better at not looking like they are acting… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Here's another great ranking (just focused on 1989) Ranking “1989 (Taylor’s Version)” tracks based solely on their connection to sewer infrastructure, by the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

We just saw it, so great. At first I thought my favorite part was the "spa women change into henchmen", but in retrospect I really really liked the scene of Ria and Lena dancing while there mother talks about them with the group of women,… [more]
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FanFare comment - 6 months ago

I'm only going to speak to this "embarrassed at how people will react" part of your question, and going to assume that your partner is masculine presenting based on your word choices. 1) I have (had?) a male friend who did this. His… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I've been playing Baldur's Gate 3. Last week my party defeated Gortash, one of the big bads in the game. I had Karlach in my party, and after the victory, this scene played. It crushed me, crying. I watched it a few times after, and at first I… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I've got a gut f(r)eeling
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MeFi post - 7 months ago

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