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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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Projects post - Last year

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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(also irritating me: I am 99% sure the Watergate Gang did not dive into the water, swim down 40 or so feet, and burst through into another dimension with oars. I just rewatched the end of E6 and they did definitely not dive into the… [more]
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My wife (Kitteh) and I just watched it tonight -- we tried watching MAD GOD on Shudder, got about 30 minutes in and just couldn't handle its relentlessness, and on a dimly remembered recommendation decided to watch this (also on Shudder) instead. It… [more]
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audrey or GTFO [more]
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25% of the top 12 are Grant Morrison (if you count 52, which I do; they were all over the place with their weirdzo philosophizing, and I even poked gentle fun at one point) which is interesting... move down two slots, and 5/14 are Grant… [more]
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Juuust caught up with my wife, and we're both loving the season in general but our consolidated take: Hopper shoulda died at the end of Season 3. I like David Harbour just fine, but having Joyce being exasperated and conscripted into driving… [more]
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Despite being too busy and trying to curb my tendency toward micro-obsession projects, I feel compelled to try to start some sort of visual blog of the bathroom signs in cottages / homes of people with septic tanks. A quick trip out to visit my folks… [more]
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Worth it for the first few minutes alone. He has a light now! More amps! An obtained but (SPOILER) quickly forgotten about external microphone! [more]
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It depends on the final quality of the videos needed, but I've been having success at work making videos using BIGVU, which turns the phone/tablet itself into a teleprompter, so you look directly at the phone / tablet screen and read, and the camera… [more]
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Thank you for all the answers! I have had surprisingly positive responses from at least one party (so far) on the above list, and if it works out I'll update! [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

I love deckbuilding games and spend more time than I should on MTG Arena; in the world of solo deckbuilding games, I had a solid amount of time with Slay the Spire but my go-to for a long time has been Griftlands, which I find much more interesting… [more]
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Did Batman ever live in a condo?
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I can't believe I was coming up snake-eyes on dozens of varyingly phrased searches for "apartment" and "condominium" but if I'd just tried penthouse... thank you! [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

I'm sympathetic to the people that feel like the show is breaking a bit too far in the surreal direction, but I'm not at the point where it feels like it's broken my faith with it. The AV Club recap has an interesting point to make about how bonkers… [more]
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Owney is a tramp, as you can plainly see. Only treat him kindly, and take him along with ye.
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MeFi post - Two years ago

MetaCat owners: do your cats have a litterbox plan?
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I will answer my own question: yes! Yes, I can learn to love Stellaris! 4thnumber generously hopped online with me for about 90 minutes last night on a shared game and walked me through a lot of early game stuff that I'd been not quite able to wrap… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

Who is well known, based in Ontario, and not wild expensive?
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I am in this thread to say that I just created a Wizards account to download the DnD Next playtest materials. Apparently I can't do that any more, or I can't figure out how to do that. But my username is "Drowton Abbey", so I have… [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

Do you have recommendations or ideas for Nextcloud?
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Ask MeFi post - Two years ago

Just remembered Lou Reed, "Walk on the Wild Side", where the original leads into the chorus with "and the colored girls go doot de doot..."; per Wikipedia, there was a censored release for US radio that changed it to… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

Came here to mention "Fountains of Wayne Hotline" ("oh, that Gerald") and was not disappointed -- thanks, DirtyOldTown! In a similar vein, "The Grunge Song" by comedy band The Vestibules; and to an extent… [more]
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What are the most spectacular business failures of the past 25 years?
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Ask MeFi post - Two years ago

Other than John Byrne and possibly Carmine Infantino, it's hard to think of two other artists that defined the post-Golden-Age comics world like Adams and Perez, as Ipsifendus says above. Perez and Byrne (Crisis on Infinite Earths, Alpha Flight)… [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

My wife, who is both a vegan and a cannabis coach, has been distraught to see how many people she follows and admires for various things go down the anti-vax rabbit hole in the last few weeks; Liddon is just the latest. My take largely mirrors… [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

Oh, and I originally came in to post this and forgot: Alison Pill is amazing. Just killin' it in a role that's demanding a ton of pivots from the script from naive to goofy to brainy to traumatized to terrified. [more]
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FanFare comment - Two years ago

Back in my university days, I was the co-entertainment-editor of my student newspaper at a Toronto university. There were a lot of good gets from that -- I got to interview Paul Heaton of the Beautiful South (mostly about having a sinus infection),… [more]
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I am very, very late to this party but recognized Fletcher's voice and looked it up -- it's worth mentioning that Fletcher is voiced by Tim Robinson, whose I Think You Should Leave is (IMO) one of the funniest things of the past few years… [more]
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I don't know why this movie hits so perfectly but every minute of it hits so perfectly with me. I honestly think it's one of the best comedies ever made. "Cool beans" gets a lot of play but I don't think it's even in my top 20… [more]
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This is great. I did not read "beefart" as "beef art". [more]
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Projects comment - Two years ago

Aw, schulze. . [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

On top of all the other Darnielle greatness, he's a huge Magic: the Gathering nerd! I sometimes wonder what his user name is on MTG:Arena and whether I've ever played him. He occasionally indulges in mill, I think, which is the only thing that has… [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

I mean, technically I guess humans are in the mix, but you can't go wrong with Mammal by They Might Be Giants. The whole TMBG canon is heavy with songs about stuff that are often not-human-related, including most of their kids' music. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - Two years ago

I hate autoplay videos. What extensions are best?
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Ask MeFi post - Two years ago

I used to be friends with somebody who crewed on the Robocop TV show shot in Toronto and wound up with so much neat crap from that show; all sorts of goofy '90s "cyberpunk" stuff; leather jackets with chrome doodads sewed to them,… [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

If I was hurting for cash I'd just rotate through the services. I do this. There's no grandfathering loyalty pricing, so why not? I'm currently using Crave (a Canadian HBO / Hulu / other-service amalgamator) and a friend got me a Shudder… [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

I was an Industrial / Extreme Music Dingus in high school / early university, a special breed of dork who listened to a lot of Skinny Puppy and Ministry and Throbbing Gristle and thought that anything that sounded like music was, like,… [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

Thanks everyone for the suggestions -- they were all great, and I've given all these options a lot of thought. Ultimately I spent a while online with my GM last night, and we've settled on a path: he's allowed me to juggle ability scores and… [more]
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Hey, puffery! I got into my LLM (Master's in Law) program wanting to use puffery as my general topic for exploration, but my thesis supervisor felt it was "settled" law in the sense that it just kind of... works, generally,… [more]
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MeFi comment - Two years ago

I really liked this -- more than Hill House, which kind of fell apart in the final act for me, and much more than Bly Manor, which I didn't even finish. A few kind of random things that Kitteh and I were talking about as we worked… [more]
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