old skool

Someone on MetaFilter is all agog over this camera-pointing-at-interactive-LED-sign page, apparently unaware that you could do such "amazing" things on Netscape's site in 1995 or thereabouts.

learned fact for the day

Thanks to zadcat, I now know the medical term for "lazy eye".

more intruigingly...

...it appears that my amblyopia could have been caused due to late correction of constant unilateral strabismus in the left eye (the lazy one), although the amblyopia page suggests that the critical period is up to six years of age, and I underwent surgery for the strabismus when I was 2 and a half. You can still see the scars on my left eyeball, too!

abuse of the language, continued

That's "motherlode", punk. And from context, it appears the poster took it to mean something like "the mother of all loads". Double strike.

words of wisdom, or something

"When you take a father in front of his family and put a bag over his head and put him on the ground, you have had a significant adverse effect on his dignity and respect in the eyes of his family," he said.

I'll say.