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Hey! Dr. Gunter is now taking on the frankly nightmarish-sounding JIFTIP, with predictable results. As always, don't read the comments!

https://drjengunter.wordpress.com/2017/08/02/guys-dont-tape-your-penis-shut-instead-of-using-condom/
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 3:40 PM on August 5, 2017

Maybe it's just that the jokes are terrible

"The jokes were pretty good."

*Ron Howard's voice again*
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 12:17 PM on July 27, 2017

I like it! Nothing beats the original, but that's to be expected; it's a good take and I like the grit of the production. I'm not familiar with Bad Rabbits, but will have to chase them down now...
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 7:40 AM on July 26, 2017

This post has inspired me to seek out the first CBB episode I ever listened to, which turns out to be #104, Shut Up Dracula! I was probably tipped to it by online fuss about the name change.

And, not knowing nothin' about nothin', I legitimately did think Owen Wilson had dropped by the podcast, because, well, this was apparently a comedy podcast and Owen Wilson does comedies.

So chalk me up as one of the dummies that could get easily confused by impressions.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 9:56 AM on July 25, 2017

My Horror Tortoro
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 1:20 PM on July 19, 2017

If any of y'all are women involved in brewing (or just love beer,) my wife (and MeFite) Kitteh does a podcast on women in beer called Harpy Hour, now with a toll-free line to call in and share your women-in-beer stories (1-833-85-HARPY).
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 12:15 PM on July 19, 2017

I'm currently in a "figure out productivity" phase in my ongoing sobriety/exercise/diet thing, so this is a well-timed thread for me, and I'm really into the Top Ten Aggravations List above. I actually was halfway through the below when I took a break and found this thread...

At work, I use Sublime Text and a package called PlainTasks to create todo lists. There’s a bunch of things I like about this combination of… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 4:14 AM on July 19, 2017

I was born in Wawa!

That is all. Just an interesting fact about me. Americans frequently think I was born in a Wawa, which leads to a very different conversation.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 11:11 AM on July 18, 2017

Whooray!
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 9:29 AM on July 16, 2017

Or it's all part of some long game viral ad campaign for Coke and we'll hate ourselves for falling for it.

I don't know any of the players involved personally, but B. Rich is a bit of a musical institution in Kingston, and it seems vanishingly unlikely that he's in the pocket of Big Cola. The lawyer in the video is also actually a practicing trademark lawyer, so double unlikely that he'd put his name out there as part of this if it's a marketing stunt.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 1:41 PM on July 12, 2017

Thanks for the post! I'm interviewing Stemage tonight for my radio show/podcast on video game music; it should be live on July 25, if all goes well.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 1:35 PM on July 11, 2017

In this vein, I've been having a ton of fun with Gigantic, which is free in open beta on Win10/Xbox, has a good roster of heroes, and is quite forgiving for crap gamers like me. Not a huge player base -- nobody on MeFightClub (yet...?) but I don't seem to have much trouble finding games.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 6:11 PM on July 8, 2017

Do people really prefer sour candy over delicious, time-honored chocolate?

Lumping all these things into the same category because they have a lot of sugar in them has always struck me as weird. It's like asking "Do people really prefer pizza over hearty lasagna?" because they both usually have tomato sauce.

They're totally different things. My Nerds (I love Nerds) craving is completely different from my Mars Bar craving.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 9:51 AM on July 4, 2017

You have all failed Artw's Do You Actually Know The Ministry Back Catalogue test.

I saw what you did there, Artw. I saw.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 8:44 AM on July 1, 2017

Clicked for the Progressive Liberal, stayed for the intro production values that belied my expectations from "Appalachian Mountain Wrestling," carried on with curiosity to see what "Stan Lee" meant in the video description, was not surprised but nevertheless a touch disappointed at who Stan Lee turned out to be, and then noped out.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 12:58 PM on June 26, 2017

Interviewed on the CBC here in Canadiania tonight.

- Claims to be a genuine left-winger, who plays it up for laughs/wrestling fun but genuinely wants to get some of these points into the audience's head (if not winning them over right away)
- Has had guns pointed at him by audience members
- Seemed like a genuinely nice fella with a solid sense of humour
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 5:58 PM on June 28, 2017

My wife and I have done this at airports -- Toronto's international terminal has a large bar/lounge area with embedded tablets where you can browse and order and somebody brings your food over to you. It didn't seem too Jetsons this is the FUTURE or particularly sterile and inhuman at the time; I kind of appreciated the ability to just sit down, decompress, and not feel like we had to make immediate drink/food choices because somebody kept coming over to ask if we were ready… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 8:16 AM on June 28, 2017

I am too afraid of heights to watch this, but I have to know: in what way is the abyss sentient?

I did watch it, and I'm also unclear on how the abyss is sentient. Unless the director expects that one has watched Solaris and paid a lot of attention and this is... the sequel?
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 1:20 PM on June 20, 2017

Props for the video description:

The prosecution's steady
Defense looks kind of sweaty
There's a caterer here for lunch, and it's ready
Mum's spaghetti
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 8:37 AM on May 3, 2017

It surprises me to see it suggested here that analyzing and retelling the Batman myth is a waste of time, when it's one of the most enduring popular fantasies of wealth and revenge in the last half-century.

As the Batman story is cyclical, so is this particular critique of that story -- it's not that this was not well-done, but there's going to be a natural gap between people who have seen a dozen Batman "reboots"* throughout their lives,… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 10:22 AM on May 2, 2017

When you're the only thing standing between humanity and a tide of demons / aliens / mutants / zombies that are going to eradicate every last trace of the human race, why are people still making you pay for stuff?
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 5:08 PM on April 24, 2017

Is there something particularly punk about a kind of typographical style that puts emphasis in places where maybe the writing should just drive it naturally?
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 7:27 AM on April 21, 2017

About a decade ago, Cannelle vanished. She was gone for two weeks, and I'd called her original owner to relay the sad news that Cannelle had probably passed away. Then, one day I'm getting ready for work, I go out onto my concrete-slab "front porch" and Cannelle drags herself out of a groundhog hole that went under the slab. I don't know if she'd been away, came back and ducked inside for shelter the night before, had gotten stuck in there and for some reason had… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 11:06 AM on April 13, 2017

It's worth mentioning that J. Geils and the J. Geils Band also form an interesting footnote in the history of intellectual property and trademark conflicts, as the J. Geils Band continued to tour and record as the J. Geils Band after J. Geils quit the band (mentioned briefly in the last link), with J. Geils legally unable to record as "J. Geils". I wish I had more familiarity with the details.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 5:39 AM on April 12, 2017

Our chubbycat would be hitting that bell so hard it would tear a hole in the space-time continuum and then we'd have dinosaur problems or something
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 9:09 AM on March 31, 2017

This is the first time I've ever seen a site (the tvline page with the opening titles) crest 80+ trackers and ad sources in Ghostery/uBlock on Chrome. Needless to say, I clicked nothing and noped out of there as fast as possible...

...then got curious and opened the page in an incognito window with neither blocker running...

...then closed the first popup autoplaying video...

...then closed the second popup autoplaying… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 1:52 PM on March 30, 2017

Serious question: what's the best show to ever air on Starz?

If I may answer your question with a question...

Are we having fun yet?
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 4:34 PM on March 30, 2017

There's a new Spookey Ruben album? How did I not -- LAST OCTOBER? Gaaah!

This is very exciting.

I kinda wish there was some sort of connective "why?" tissue behind the multiple language versions of this... just Spookey being Spookey? Some sort of grander artistic vision?
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 5:25 PM on March 12, 2017

the place where I work has a sparkling water tap in the cafeteria and my wife was swinging by and used it, but said it wasn't bubbly enough, and I asked if she was fizzapointed, and she has not spoken to me in ten days please help
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 12:02 PM on March 7, 2017

My worst landlord was a perfectly nice older French guy in Quebec, who I thought was pretty chill until I discovered he'd been seeding the back yard with small apples to attract deer from a forested area a few streets away, and bear traps.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 12:53 PM on March 6, 2017

Cloudflare posted an incident report with full technical details this morning.

It turned out that the underlying bug that caused the memory leak had been present in our Ragel-based parser for many years but no memory was leaked because of the way the internal NGINX buffers were used. Introducing cf-html subtly changed the buffering which enabled the leakage even though there were no problems in cf-html itself.

Once we knew… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 8:45 AM on February 24, 2017

She is too polite to mention it, but the OP actually does a podcast on women in beer (and spirits).
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 10:08 AM on February 23, 2017

I continue to be irked by the irresponsible drinking and unprofessionalism of the crew in these films. Call me old fashioned, but is it too much to expect the crew of a multi-billion quatloo starship to fly sober?

I will immodestly refer you to my "B-Ark" theory of Prometheus, with the now-prescient identification of Donald Trump as one of the people that richly deserves to be hurled at a distant and lethal planet.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 8:05 AM on February 23, 2017

I love President Supervillain SO MUCH you guys
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 4:56 PM on February 17, 2017

It's funny how "entrepreneur" has slowly become a warning word for me; a self-identifier that, like "fiscal conservative" or "free thinker," has transformed from a pretty neutral term to a cue to begin to backing away at great rates of speed.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 9:05 AM on February 16, 2017

I had a nodding acquaintance with him when I was the editor of Ryerson's independent newspaper, The Eyeopener, and he was kind enough to stop me in the hall once and tell me he thought I was wrong in an editorial I wrote. But he was a journalism prof and I was Radio and Television Arts, so our paths never crossed substantially. A huge chunk of my friends wound up at or around the CBC, so there's never been more than a single degree of separation for the last quarter-century.… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 4:03 AM on February 16, 2017

(McLean, if a mod would care to correct that)
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 2:28 PM on February 15, 2017

I played Stardew for a while, and really enjoyed it until I got the creeping feeling that the secret engine of the game is this gifting-people system, which is a resource/time intensive application of effort to give people what amounts to random shit and keeping a spreadsheet of what people do and don't like; I have enough spreadsheets in my life so I went back to FTL and Sunless Sea, which also have a certain amount of this-does-that material in it, but not, like, a multi-tabbed Excel… [more]
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 8:27 AM on February 15, 2017

I have neither the appetite or talent to do this, but some sort of website that racks up lies per day and compares Spicer to Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf with some sort of real-time counter would be awesome; start it at Inauguration Day vs. al-Sahhaf's first press briefing and let the counter go up from there.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 11:42 AM on February 9, 2017

Death in the Forest
What are rare mushroom hunters really searching for?

FRIENDSHIP.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 7:49 AM on February 9, 2017

Okay, I've now read the article and I don't think it's friendship.

I feel like there's a great piece of longform journalism here that there just wasn't a budget (money or time) for... some of these stories seem fascinating, and I'd love to learn more, but we don't really dig in to any of these places and times.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 7:58 AM on February 9, 2017

On another note, the article mentions that a big chunk of the Rs will be at a policy retreat in Palm Beach Friday and Saturday.

It would be... interesting... to see what one could do with a small budget and a well-thought-out set of keywords and some geofencing on Google AdWords and Facebook over that weekend.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 11:58 AM on February 2, 2017

I just started listening to HH, based on the recommendation of a colleague; I'm slogging my way through an episode a bit at a time.

About 1.5 hours in, this thought popped unbidden into my head:

"If Curtis Armstrong were auditioning to replace Kevin Conroy as the voice of Batman, it would sound just like this."

Now I can't shake it.

It's not ruining the podcast, but I am engaging with it quite a bit differently now.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 10:00 AM on January 30, 2017

This is horrible.

I am glad the Prime Minister and other officials are calling this terrorism, immediately and unequivocally.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 3:56 AM on January 30, 2017

Oh no! I was just getting into his stuff last year thanks to eMusic really pushing compilations of his music into their spotlight repeatedly -- somebody there was clearly a big fan, and I'm glad they were.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 12:09 PM on January 19, 2017

Yes to both, JDHarper.
(on post: see above!)
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 1:04 PM on January 11, 2017

I'm probably overstepping a little, but I'd like to point out that my wife does a podcast about women in brewing, who face many of the same "bro-culture" issues as it looks like women in cycling do. Lots of the stories in this article map 1:1 into a lot of what I've heard, through her, on the podcast.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 1:25 PM on January 6, 2017

An Oregon-Trail-inspired poet
Whose limericks didn't quite float
Saw the mesentery get fame,
Rekindling his flame,
And now he's got something to show for it.
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 9:29 AM on January 4, 2017

Yeah, that midwifery droid is clearly covering for its incompetence.

I would love to see a short series of The Adventures of Incompetent Medical Droid, in which it invents increasingly implausible explanations for patient deaths.

[Small child run through with lightsaber] "Thinking too much about difficult math problems."
[Mon Calimari with head cut off] "Bad calimari."
[Screaming stormtrooper being stomped to death by a bantha] "Ennui."
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 8:32 AM on January 4, 2017

THIS FACILITY
HAS OPERATED FOR
_19_
DAYS WITHOUT
A POO PAW INCIDENT
Proper litterbox protocol
benefits us all!
posted to MetaFilter by Shepherd at 5:38 AM on December 22, 2016