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I absolutely loved Ren & Stimpy as a teenager looking for ways to rebel against my staid suburban town, but its transgressiveness became less amusing as I grew older. I held onto my favorite catch-phrases, but distanced myself from from John… [more]
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Moving to freelance from a large organization: what do I need to know?
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Psycho Goreman is not really horror but throwback Troma-style grossout horror-comedy, but it hit me like a freight train and my wife and I still yell lines at each other daily. Mileage may vary dramatically; it has the most obnoxious tween… [more]
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Yes, I was too intimidated to volunteer things this time around, but I feel a little more comfortable now that I'm seeing what's on offer. I think I can contribute some services. [more]
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Syracuse or Rochester? Weekend suggestions at the end of November
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Are career coaches really helpful? Have you been helped by one?
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The Sick Systems link is a stone cold classic. Thanks for (re)sharing it. [more]
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Tough room! I enjoyed it pretty much entirely; I totally get the "there was a lot going on, and much of it shallow" take, but it felt like a movie happening in a complete world that we were just dipping into aspects of. I didn't really mind… [more]
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Breaking out of the Metroidvania genre and looking at the "explore and mythos" elements... Terraria side-scrolls; it's like a 2D Minecraft, so it is a crafting-and-building game, but really scratches my "explore weird new… [more]
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ride a zombie train / salads and cucumber
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Thanks, everyone. Kind of arbitrary Best Answers that orient around directions to look or potentially valuable clues. - old stale cigarette smell - we don't always smell it at the same time - we're on a corner lot with no littoral, literally… [more]
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I have the vast bulk of the trades and love them. In an odd wild spotting, my wife and I double-featured House and House 2: The Second Story the other night, and there's one scene in House 2 where the goofy frivolous comic… [more]
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Within the last while I have received a scan of a passport, a full mortgage application including months of bank and credit card statements, two other sets of house purchase negotiations (in the UK and in California) an email from a child at a… [more]
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I was super excited about this, then I, too, read the reviews on Amazon and GoodReads. I'd dabbled in other EMR Buckaroo stuff in the past (Return of the Screw) and... look, Buckaroo is super formative for me, I have the movie poster facing… [more]
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Well, one scientist used a "measuring instrument" and ascertained that in some cases, the body loses a few grams worth of weight at the moment of death. Granted, he said that this was far too small a sample to draw any real conclusion… [more]
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My wife (Kitteh, above) and I watched it tonight; she stoned, me straight, and I think we enjoyed it in equal measure. I jammed this up on Twitter: Studio heads: well I guess that’s a wrap for today Roland Emmerich (emerging from a mountain of… [more]
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I liked it more than most here, I think, but maybe my expectations were tempered by really not getting much out of the recent film that Grady Hendrix wrote (but wasn't based on one of his novels), which was kind of in the "solid C"… [more]
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Tough room! Watched it with Kitteh just above I'd say it was my favourite Hellraiser movie, yes, even including the first ones, which I thought were muddily shot, sloggily plotted, and super try-hard with the fetish stuff. I've forgotten… [more]
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Recommend a large format (24"+) printer
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Movie: The Bad Seed
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I am not good at any of this and generally just rely on uBlock Origin to... block all the things? Do these cookie-blocking extensions do something that the broader ad-blockers do not? [more]
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I went to the movies with friends outside Montreal once at a Cineplex kind of place, and they all went to see a Nixon comedy, and I was the only person in the theatre playing The Iron Giant and cried so hard the projectionist came down to… [more]
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I can't quite get it together to put a Fanfare post up, and I think Fanfare posts ideally start kind of value-neutral to give commenters space to discuss without jumping in with a value judgment off the bat, but we watched the 1958 Dracula… [more]
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"We have such synth to show you" [more]
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is that a weaker album? good, average? "Thieves" and "So What" are just so good My completely subjective and probably empirically wrong Ministry album rankings: Psalm 69 The Land of Rape and Honey In Case You… [more]
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After a slight bit of poking around I may be about to fall down a Norman Pain rabbit hole. [more]
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I think about and discuss the Man-Thing a lot more than is required, and I have a lot of fundamental issues with the entire Man-Thing premise. I mean -- I love the Man-Thing. It's an inversion of the whole idea of a western superhero --… [more]
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These things just baffle me, as a non-programmer and somebody who dimly remembers Raid on Bungeling Bay, Wasteland and Legacy of the Ancients as the great gaming experiences of my young life. I can't even imagine… [more]
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I'm the other half of "we" in the above comment and yes -- mad respect for making the (not, but it seemed like it for quite a while) protagonist such an unlikeable edgelord turd. Now that I've slept on it, it's actually interesting that for… [more]
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Having David Boreanaz doing "Angelus" as their voice coach was in retrospect possibly ill-considered. [more]
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Thanks for the tip on grass whips, SaltySalticid! I've always prioritized having homes with yards so small I can use a trimmer to cut them, but the cordless trimmer I bought ~6 years ago is starting to fade in terms of battery life, and a scythe is… [more]
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'Cause t'es gone nulle part avec ta 9 piece luggage set (chuis jet set)
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I watched this a few weeks ago and really appreciated that it was striving for something, much more than 90% of horror movies in this budget zone, but I don't think it ever got there; it veered into what felt like grim-for-grim's-sake territory a few… [more]
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I thought it was really interesting that in Netflix Sandman the superhero stuff is out, so Lyta Hall is not "The Fury," and her mother is not Wonder Woman, but they cast the closest approximation of Gal Godot I have ever seen, right down to… [more]
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I can watch horror movies all ding-dong day, but this really got to me for some reason and I had to stop -- oddly enough, the only book that ever actually scared me was House of Leaves, and now I'm wondering if I've got some hang-up… [more]
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The new Lisa Leblanc album, Chiac Disco, is an Acadian disco-funk-throwback franglais lump of pure joy and I can't stop listening to it. Everything LeBlanc does is great, this is just the latest great thing. Drop everything and listen to… [more]
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Why are obvious fake emails signing up for our institutional newsletter?
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Hm... Book - Don Quixote Book series - the Rabbi mysteries by Harry Kemelman? That's kind of a dart throw, but I find them comforting. Film - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension!, which is kind of 12 movies in… [more]
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My dream of a prestige TV series where Bill Nye and Bill Nighy get together and solve mysteries through a combination of science and acting edges ever closer. [more]
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I can't rewatch it at the moment, but as I recall there was a boat with oars right where they popped into the other world. I am probably spending far too much time caring about multidimensional oars but they just kind of appear with oars… [more]
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This may be dumb, but why not just build one big plywood box with an internal divider and two slots on top, and paint or put a sign on it that has arrows for "MMIDDLE'S MAIL" and "HOUSEMATE MAIL" pointing to the two slots? It's… [more]
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Late to this party, but saw it last night and really enjoyed it. Halfway through, we'd heard two or three songs that we were familiar with from '80s / '90s covers by more recent artists -- which got me wondering if the bulk of the songs on the… [more]
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In Which Dr. Strange Swears Like A Normal Person
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What resources help explain types of time / mental effort?
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I enjoyed that the secret exit to the secret base was about six feet from the actual entrance. [more]
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Procmail: filter only first character of subject line
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Not really, alas -- I reached out to a number of people here, and had a surprisingly positive response from one organization that manages one, but nothing since even though that contact was quite promising. Sorry to be coy, but I don't really want to… [more]
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On the entirely other end of the spectrum, at the Kingston ag fair in 2019, I saw the category for Peanut Butter Cookies, in which there was only one entry and it was awarded second prize. This seems like a contender for the most savage takedown in… [more]
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Building a screening room in a larger space as part of an office reno
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All of the above -- I was vaguely stoked about this, the idea of Rob Zombie smushing some giallo-influenced goofy/extreme horror sensibilities into a hoary old second-tier (the Addams Family ruled, come on) TV property seemed like an idea with legs… [more]
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