What is your life was a movie?

Condour75 has made a neat little app called Memento Movi! Here’s how they describe it: “The user enters date of birth and life expectancy, and chooses from a list of movies. The site then shows a frame from that movie that represents your place in your lifespan. So, for instance, a twenty-year-old who selects Star Wars will likely get a frame from Tattooine, but a sixty-year-old who selects Jaws will be on the boat.”

I’m 71.02% of the way through Howl's Moving Castle, how about you?

Love to love ya, baby

photo of a blue butterfly on white background: Dorsal view of male butterfly which was captured in Peru and is stored in Muséum de Toulouseimage from Muséum de Toulouse, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Who are MetaFilter's BlueSky favorites?

11/19/24
by taz

"the artwork was so cool"

depiction of an ancient stepped pyramid resembling Mayan architecture, set against a vibrant natural backdrop. The structure, surrounded by lush green jungle, is illuminated by soft lights along its steps. A calm, vivid blue ocean lies in the foreground, with the scene set against a warm and colorful sunset sky, blending orange, pink, and blue hues. The image evokes a tranquil yet majestic atmosphere.image via pixabay.com (not the book cover art!)

I remember this old paperback in my old used bookstore where Greek or Roman voyagers end up in America and meet the Mayans ... suburbanbeatnik is looking for a particular hard-to-find DAW paperback from the 1970s

11/19/24
by taz

The Beep Boop is coming from inside the house!

in shades of blue and glowing white a close-up of a circular image with electronic circuits that looks like the pupil of an eye

"With a decent local GPU and some free open source software like ollama and open-webui you can try 'open source' LLM models like Meta's llama, Mistral AI's mistral, or Alibaba's qwen entirely offline." Lenie Clarke has a big ol' post on Homebrew LLMs and Open Source Models

11/18/24
by taz

A couple of holiday notes in Metatalk: 2024 MetaFilter Gift Swap - Arrival - thank you and MeFites for the Holidays!

11/17/24
taz

A-Mazing

This image features a geometric pattern made of interlocking via theparisreview.org, Wacław Szpakowski, A1, 1930, ink on tracing paper, 9 5/8″ x 14 3/4″

These works did not reach an audience until 1978, five years after Szpakowki’s death; today they’re still obscure and easily misunderstood ... dhruva posted the Paris Review's Rhythmical Lines about Polish artist Wacław Szpakowski's "series of labyrinthine geometrical abstractions, each one produced from a single continuous line." Such interesting work and life!

11/17/24
by taz

"quite the journey"

Photo of an antique black steam locomotive, Florida East Coast Railway No. 153 at the Gold Coast Railroad Museumphoto by Smart Destinations - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gocardusa/3856316180/, CC BY-SA 2.0

jontyjago has a great comment about how finding a chance article by late member pjern on Metafilter eventually led to a career change as a UK railway signaller. Very interesting!! 🚂

11/16/24
by taz

Unbearable antics

The newest edition of “Why did you think that was a good idea” is live in ShooBoo’s post about a bear attack that actually wasn’t. Folks, this is not what you should use a bear costume for!

The Internet Is For Them!

Photo by William Yeung, courtesy of Flickr You want scenes of cats? ‘Cause this is how you get scenes of cats, courtesy of Pink Fuzzy Bunny’s Ask MetaFilter question!

Cute and cuddly card game fun

Here is dng's explanation of their quirky project: Quest Heroes is a sort of cute and cuddly (and hand drawn and fairly rough) card game version of 80s role playing board game classic Hero Quest which I made for my niece and nephew the other week (who both love Hero Quest a lot for some reason).

goin' where the water tastes like wine

photo of a large orange-red ball with a happy face floating on sparkling water

What's inside the box? Pain. What's inside this week's Free Thread? Your happy place. Come tell us about it, if you feel so inclined.

11/12/24
by taz

Refugia

photo of vibrant yellow flowers and lush new greenery growing up alongside old blasted dead grey tree trunks

Not from the edges ... rather from small pockets of good work: duien posted an excellent and quite useful quote from Kathleen Dean Moore in the Signs of Hope Ask Metafilter post. In fact saving and sharing this quote is probably one small significant affirmative act of refugia in itself.

11/11/24
by taz

Flagged as Fantastic

against a black background a photo image of a small bright green seedling growing up out of a small organic shell-like container with dark brown rich soil

Brook Horse on successful compassionate communication with (literally) delusional people, and lessons about how the approach can work with people swamped with dis- and mis-information.

11/10/24
by taz

Cracking jokes
Gorgik had a question about a joke Tina Fey made and peppercorn slid into Ask MetaFilter to give a fuller context to the answer, thank you!

MeFiCoFo

As of November 1, 2024 ... the Metafilter Community Foundation exists as an officially registered Delaware nonprofit non-stock corporation.. Yay! In Metatalk, 1adam12 has a Quick Nonprofit Update from the Interim Board. (Also of site interest, some thoughts from warriorqueen on Seeking community in the face of the US election.)

11/09/24
by taz

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