category: metafilter


metafilter Music: Birdhouse in Your Soul

Posted January 12, 2015 • Comments Off on Music: Birdhouse in Your Soul
Even -- or especially -- in the darkest hours of the night or the wee hours of the morning, there is still a Birdhouse in Your Soul. For the Flood project, here is a cover by chara and me.

metafilter Ask MeFi: Something funnier than “Hang in there, baby!”

Posted January 9, 2015 • Comments Off on Ask MeFi: Something funnier than “Hang in there, baby!”
My guy sent me this cute photo of a cactus when I was nervous about a big presentation. He has a big interview coming up. Do you know of a similarly adorable, quirky, inspirational-ish meme photo that I can send him?

metafilter MeFi: Cat elevators

Posted December 5, 2014 • Comments Off on MeFi: Cat elevators
The most common form of cat elevator is a bucket or basket. A compilation of YT videos, with a twist.

metafilter MetaTalk: Secret Quonsar Thank You Thread!

Posted November 14, 2014 • Comments Off on MetaTalk: Secret Quonsar Thank You Thread!
My dog just started barking at the UPS man, but I wasn't expecting anything. Or was I? Thank you, Matt Haughey, for the t-shirt (and baby gift to come, squee!!)! I spent several work hours contemplating my own quonsar's gift so I was totally thrilled to be quonsed while in the spirit of things!Secret Quonsar Thank You Thread 2014!

metafilter Ask MeFi: These are a few of your favorite things…

Posted November 10, 2014 • Comments Off on Ask MeFi: These are a few of your favorite things…
I want to simplify my gift giving/selection process, try to make it a little more routine and so easier for me to cope with each year, without being boring for the recipients. I'm thinking of having a list of categories for gifts (food consumable, household/personal consumable, sentimental, kitchen gadget, interactive) like I've heard some people do with kids gifts (something to read, something to wear and something fun)...

metafilter Ask MeFi: How do they do it?

Posted October 2, 2014 • Comments Off on Ask MeFi: How do they do it?
What are some best practices that hotels use (housekeeping/food service etc) that I can use for my apartment living?

metafilter Ask MeFi: Can you suggest a flavor profile?

Posted October 1, 2014 • Comments Off on Ask MeFi: Can you suggest a flavor profile?
I like to keep cooked or par-cooked food in the fridge, then throw together dinner. For example, I heat up some browned ground beef, cooked spinach, whatever other veggies, with taco seasoning and serve with guacamole, and I have "Mexican." I swap out the taco seasoning and guac for Worcestershire sauce and Parmesan cheese, and I have "English." Swap it out again for Italian seasoning and I have.., um... Italian. But that's my entire repertoire for this kind of meal. Can you suggest other flavor profiles?

metafilter Ask MeFi: Reconcile me to singledom

Posted September 14, 2014 • Comments Off on Ask MeFi: Reconcile me to singledom
Tell me, how does one give up on a desire that's been there since childhood - to be in a long-term healthy loving domestic relationship? How do you work out how to plan the rest of your life when the only person you're working for is you?

metafilter MeFi: “That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”

Posted August 19, 2014 • Comments Off on MeFi: “That wasn’t any act of God. That was an act of pure human fuckery.”
Things That Don't Suck, Some Notes on The Stand

I recently reread The Stand for no particular reason other than I felt like it. I'm honestly not sure how many time[s] I've read it at this point, more than three, less than a half dozen (though I can clearly remember my first visit to that horrifyingly stripped bare world as I can remember the first reading of all the truly great King stories). It's not my favorite of King's work, but it is arguably his most richly and completely imagined. It truly is the American Lord of The Rings, with the concerns of England (Pastorialism vs. Industrialism, Germany's tendency to try and blow it up every thirty years or so) replaced by those of America (Religion, the omnipresent struggle between our liberal and libertarian ideals, our fear of and dependence on the military, racial and gender tension) and given harrowing size.



I'm happy to say that The Stand holds up well past the bounds of nostalgia and revisiting the world and these characters was as pleasurable as ever. But you can't step in the same river twice, even when you're revisiting a favorite book. Even if the river hasn't changed you have. This isn't meant as any kind of comprehensive essay on The Stand. Just a couple of things I noticed upon dipping my toes in the river this time.



[Spoiler alert: assume everything, from the link above to those below, contains SPOILERS.]

metafilter MeFi: Apartment Houses of the Metropolis

Posted August 18, 2014 • Comments Off on MeFi: Apartment Houses of the Metropolis
10 Elaborate Floor Plans from Pre-World War I New York City Apartments

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