2009-01-26 06:12:29: Hey Josh: is this thing necessarily the result of someone deliberately targeting MF? Or could it have been some sort of automated robot / crawler, out looking for any / all databases to infect?
2008-12-11 08:08:09: Is there an underlying karmic infrastructure to the internet?
OK, I know I am just a volunteer mod, and now you are a fancy full-time paid one, but jeez sir could you at least pretend to read my memos?
2008-11-14 15:11:09: Why are the colors of the leaves in New England considered more beautiful than the ones elsewhere?
You are mistaken, they do not. The leaves in Quebec re similar but better.
2008-10-31 07:55:39: Whether to post an answer to this question... yeah, why the fuck not? It might help trigger a new one by creating a ripple in the astral plane... And even if it doen't go away faster, participating makes the time seem shorter.
Everybody does coin flipping every day. Buy ...
2008-10-14 09:57:19: I would like to meet Diogenes of Sinope. And yes, there would be plenty of drugs and alcohol involved. I am not sure I would want to actually show him around and explain stuff - I'd rather just act like everything was absolutely normal, to fuck with him.
2008-09-12 09:11:00: I'm 40. Fuck, yeah, make me young again. Make me young again! Take me back to seven or eight - even if it all goes more or less the same, who says no thanks to "MORE LIFE"?
Sorry to be crass, but I feel like that grandfather in "Little Miss Sunshine"... ...
2008-08-15 09:49:53: Gastown was quite hippy-dippy in the 70s, lots of incense and rattan and Buddha statues.
In my dream I would be on Water Street, and it would actually have water on it, an inch or two. There would be a deep winding stone staircase, leading underground.
"Uncle Hairy" lived down there, ...
2008-08-12 12:10:38: I was 7 years old when the helicopters were taking the Americans out of Vietnam, and that aircraft carrier was dumping all those excess ones into the sea.
These events have been on TV repeatedly since then, but I choose to believe that I remember them from that time.
2008-08-05 10:26:47: "How Soon is Now" played on continuous loop on the Betamax, alone with a bottle of Southern Comfort. Maybe I was 15 or 16. My first and only drunken blackout, I awoke in the morning puzzled by the puke all over the floor. That pretty much sums up my ...
2008-07-31 08:36:00: OK, I am going to admit this...
When I first got online it was in Poland, maybe 1996 or 97. I had very little contact with English leading up to that time, and the sudden access to "the whole world" got my head a little funny. There was a ...
2008-07-22 07:41:55: I would instead travel back in time, to when Kickstart was formulating this question, to help him come up with one a little more engaging.
2008-07-13 01:11:38: I Wish I Was In Amsterdam (In The Nieuwmarkt)
I wish I was in Amsterdam, being there is who I am
Liberal Democracy, a doobie, the canals, and me
Hoist up a few tall cool ones, read the news and listen
To those holy fungi calling me home
And I can hear the band begin ...
2008-07-09 08:41:41: My internal dialogue is rich and varied. But here's the rub: if I have a question, chances are I don't have an immediate answer to it.
2008-07-05 14:06:47: Mother Night - changed my understanding of good and evil
Dhalgren - made my brain explode, made me want to be a writer (yeah, sure, maybe someday)
Holidays in Hell - helped ignite my wanderlust
Stranger in a Strange Land - taught me how to grok
2008-06-24 22:43:38: A colleague advised me to do exactly this when I asked for tips on promoting my new biz online. She isn't a "spammer", just a naive business owner who thinks this is an OK thing to do. Ick, made me cringe.
2008-06-16 23:39:00: I read the obits when I have a print version of The Economist. Because they are really well written little life histories - sometimes about oimportant people I really cared about, sometimes about people I had never heard of but turn out to be incredibily interesting or important.
2008-05-30 12:13:31: If we encounter a race as intelligent as cats, well then we haven't really found "intelligent life" as far as I understand the traditional concept. Even dolphins, as intelligent as they are, do not have any level of technological civilization.
The interesting aliens to talk to are those building spaceships, ...
2008-06-01 05:31:41: Quite appropriate that it's just the two of us wanting to communicate with aliens, pass the bong BOP.
2008-05-28 09:11:39: I don't pay for services I don't want. Those giving to panhandlers are not helping the poor, they are supporting their local panhandling industry. There are plenty of ways homeless / poor folk can make money - scavenging, bottle collecting, etc. Standing on the street waiting for ...
2008-05-27 09:13:21: When I was three, I snuck into my great grandma's bedroom, and ate a tonne of tasty Children's Aspirin. I don't remember that part, but remember throwing up on the rug as I played with my toy truck, and then being at the hospital getting my stomache pumped.
2008-05-04 02:01:33: BitterOldPunk, glad you are meeting my expectations.
I like the, ahem, freedom.
If you like freedom, Mr. Harris, why the fuck are you wearing underpants? I bet you are happy to hear the chocolate ration has increased to 15g too, eh? Underpants are a tool of The Man, rise up ...
2008-04-09 07:01:47: This is remarkably similar to an idea that's been bouncing around in my head for the last while - why is it that, when I meet guys like me, we first get along so smashingly well, but then end up at each others' throats?
Guys that are big, dominant, ...
2008-04-04 04:41:04: economics, hindi
I have a bunch of books on the subjects, but the Internet has robbed me of the ability to focus for extended periods. Or maybe I am just getting old.
2008-02-21 07:03:20: This isn't really a hypothetical. I've not been there myself but in many parts of Polynesia and Africa they wear very little clothing.
2008-02-12 05:46:06: I would LOL all over the silly Americans from my base in whatever tiny godforsaken scrap of land inhabited by right thinkers still existed on the planet.
2008-02-09 05:11:59: Is this one of the new "all weekend" questions? If so, I would like to complain. Is there some kind of manager above you that I can speak to, Josh?
2008-02-06 20:51:49: The fall of the Berlin Wall. I was just on the cusp of adulthood, and was planning a trip to Europe, my first, that coming summer. Sitting in my Dad';s kitchen, with CNN and coffee and cigarettes, for probably 20 hours on end. "Wow. This really ...
2008-01-26 05:56:29: TBH, money is only insubstantial to those who already have oodles of it.
I'm not original in arguing it is not a question of the amount you have, but the amount you have compared to the amount you need. I have a very modest income by western standards, but have ...
2008-01-19 10:10:39: See if they will provide me http access? Nothing like surfing the web when computers are around. Or maybe ask them if they have any decent games installed.
2008-01-18 10:48:18: I had an air pistol once, and shot a water snake with it. the poor fucker didn't die, just got paralyzed about halfway down its body.
Please do not use slingshots to fire at living things.
2008-01-10 07:49:15: I would give up my sense of taste. So what if I dress in mismatched colors, and start enjoying Celine Dion? pretty obvious choice, really.
2008-01-08 14:01:56: I think Canada already does it pretty well. I would just increase the quotas already in place for accepting UN classified / approved refugees, and basically defer to them. If the UN says they are refugees, they're welcome.
2007-12-20 09:15:29: For me this isn't a conditional.
I do it because I enjoy seeing other parts of the world, learning new languages and cultures, and meeting new women. Teaching people how to teach is satisfying work, and the pay is acceptable if not excellent. Being away from Canadian friends and family ...
2007-12-16 10:39:45: I immediately assume that any man I meet is a sexist unless he makes a point of using gender neutral language early in our first meeting, or, failing that, explicitly disavows sexism. Similar for racism, homophobia, etc. Almost everyone I meet is a sexist racist homophobe.
2007-12-12 05:55:45: Almost everything on this planet is weird!
1. If you don't have money you won't be able to buy food, and if you don't find good people who will help you then you won't have anything to eat or a place to live, and you will die. So ...
2007-12-08 05:17:22: ______'s body is gone, but his spirit lives on within each and every one of us.
______is still watching you, taking detailed notes.
My name is ___________,king of kings. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.
2007-12-10 07:18:08: I WOULD LIKE TO COMPLAIN
My so-called "shiny low" user number is 132, but I see maybe 20 people regularly posting here thus far.
What's up with that? I signed up promptly, on the first day it was announced at MF. Did we start at 100? Is there a reserved block ...
2007-12-06 21:20:52: I would like it if the questions were not specifically USian, the mix of posters already gives things a strong USian flavour and no need to make it more so by filtering out the potential contributions of our international folks. How bout them Mets?
2007-12-04 06:47:30: I think that if you are happy, and help make those around you happy, that is at least a part of living a good life. Playing with children and animals, being silly, joking, loving.
2007-12-02 11:15:41: I think it would be cool if, for every answer I post that Josh likes, he comes to wherever I am and gives me a light (non sexual!) neck rub and shoulder massage.
Maybe distance / travel time would make this idea difficult to implement? If so, perhaps I could accumulate ...
2007-12-03 05:03:17: just type and click, baby, type and click
That's how we roll here, dg.
2007-12-05 09:35:33: So, Josh, can we cash these votes in for anything? Hmm?
2007-12-02 04:46:18: Given infinite universes, with all possible outcomes, the question becomes moot.
I am always dying of the vast frigidity and emptiness of space, and at the same time enjoying my coffee while surfing the Internet. There are an infinite number of different ways that I am rescued at the last moment. ...
2008-01-03 05:29:23: Judging by the traffic in here, it’s already happened.
The BBQ needs to be such that any random moron can BS about it. This particular moron looked at today's offering and realized it was impossible to pretend he had anything valuable to say.
2007-12-15 09:38:33: The People's Republic of Utopia was established in Montreal, Canada, on January 28th, 1968. Its territory is comprised of the volume contained within my body and the earth upon which I stand.
I maintain dual Canadian citizenship in order to avoid hassles at international borders, airports, etc.
2007-12-22 11:53:10: What happens to the debris? In the short run and in the long run?
Sucked into a local black hole, spit out elsewhere.
What happens to the moon?
See above.
And how does the planet get blown up in the first place?
A Lazy Gun.