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metafilter Ask MeFi: These peanut butter T-rexes are underwhelming.

Posted March 10, 2013 • Comments Off
I like cookie cutters way more than I like sugar cookies. Do you have recipe for delicious cookies that are cut out?

metafilter Ask MeFi: Songs that climax

Posted February 8, 2013 • Comments Off
I'm looking for songs that build to a climax or erupt into loudness and are also purely spectacular. These songs are epic. My best example is Dance Yrself Clean by LCD Soundsystem.

metafilter MeFi: Select pictures to color and candy to eat

Posted January 23, 2013 • Comments Off
This year, cartoonist Lynda Barry is Artist in Residence at the Arts Institute of the University of Wisconsin, and her class "The Unthinkable Mind" starts today. This is the poster. This is the introduction to the class. This is the first handout.

metafilter Ask MeFi: What do you LOVE about being a parent?

Posted January 15, 2013 • Comments Off
I have a very easy time picturing the ways in which having children would negatively impact my life and career -- I can imagine the exhaustion and the chaos and the drudgery with crystal clarity -- but the good parts are much more hazy. What great stuff does your kids bring into your life? What do you love about having had a family? What makes all the difficulties and sacrifices worthwhile for you?

metafilter MeFi: Perfect timing

Posted December 31, 2012 • Comments Off
People taking photos :

9:03AM 9/11.

The 2004 Tsunami.

This was taken a second before a lightning strike the hikers. The kid on the left died.

6 bolts hitting the water at the same time.

Diet Coke & Mentos (click on pix to see the second candy).

Bored.

Gray squirrel leaping between two trees. 8 lives left.

Throw ups: A baby, a seaman, a group photo.

Fencing.

…I took a picture w/ no flash at the same time someone took a picture w/ flash…

metafilter MeFi: Shit. What? Rollers. No. Yeah. Shit.

Posted December 27, 2012 • Comments Off
The pitch was simple: “John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Blues Brothers, how about it?” But the film became a nightmare for Universal Pictures, wildly off schedule and over budget, its fate hanging on the amount of cocaine Belushi consumed. Soul Men: The Making of The Blues Brothers.

metafilter Ask MeFi: Museums on the edge of insanity and brilliance.

Posted December 26, 2012 • Comments Off
Some of my favorite places on Earth are the House on the Rock, the Museum of Jurassic Technology and the Mütter Museum. Not only do these places have a massive bevy of bewildering curiosities, they are also rich in depth and full of small, standalone stories. Each require many, many hours to appreciate fully. What other unconventional places in the world feature an equivalent mix of amazement, craziness and depth?

metafilter MeFi: Body, ten, face……… ten………

Posted December 17, 2012 • Comments Off
From the comedic duo Key & Peele, mentioned twice before on MetaFilter, comes Pizza Order, the funniest sketch I've seen in years. Their new season has had some terrific moments – Dubstep, I said "Bitch", Slow Brotion, and School Bully, amongst others – but Pizza Order is something special.

metafilter Ask MeFi: Dishes similar to sautéd chanterelles?

Posted December 2, 2012 • Comments Off
I really enjoy eating sautéd chanterelles. Can you recommend similar dishes that are quick to make (~10 min), have very few, fresh ingredients and have an elegant and mild flavor?

metafilter MeFi: All day I hear the noise of waters

Posted November 19, 2012 • Comments Off
Some random, wet images:
A seahorse on a diver’s watch.

A diver hitting an Olympic pool

Mass stingray migration off Baja

Two streams of water colliding

A photographer in the rain

Waiting for the bubble to burst

Close up of a wave

Bathtime at a refugee camp Kutupalong, Bangladesh

Water being released from a dam to prevent flooding in Jiyuan, China

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