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Post number 7268

silusGROK — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:20:22 -0800

Woohoo! The First Annual Nothings Award... I've never heard of Lileks before, but the snazzy site [almost] makes me forget how frustrating contentless splash screens are.

By: bradlands

bradlands — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:30:14 -0800

Lileks' splash screens are hardly contentless! They change monthly and are almost always some delightful bit of rescued pop culture art that is somehow funny/ironic/odd. Much like Lileks himself. ;-)

By: briank

briank — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:33:28 -0800

He's also one of us

By: silusGROK

silusGROK — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:40:14 -0800

Brad... you're right: images are hardly non-content, I guess I just find image-only splash pages frustrating. I want words and navigation.

*throws himself on the floor, screaming*

By: tiaka

tiaka — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:40:21 -0800

First time I've seen this lileks site, but the name's familiar, is there a poster by the same name here? Anyway, it's great, especially the food comments.

By: jessie

jessie — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:44:06 -0800

And, he's my father.

By: DiplomaticImmunity

DiplomaticImmunity — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 13:51:18 -0800

James Lileks Rocks. Online and in print. He's great on radio too when you can find him...

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:00:16 -0800

I envy anyone who hasn't heard of Lileks yet, because they still have the pleasure of getting to going through his huge and amazing site for the first time. Every few months it seems, there's a little love-in for James on here, and it's truly deserving, every time. And I'd say all of that even if he wasn't in here somewheres. (He said, suddenly self-conscious about fawning so.)

By: bradlands

bradlands — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:30:21 -0800

Little known fact: Lileks is also DoublePostGuy. (Think about it. Ever seen 'em together?)

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 14:41:08 -0800

Brad, I never seen anybody together. Maybe we're all Lileks. Although for James (Me? Us? My/our father? Hm, pronoun trouble) to assume 7000-odd identities just to carry on a conversation with himself seems like a lot of work. Still, I daren't question his genius. [Sorry. Punchy. Carry on.]

By: bradlands

bradlands — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 15:23:42 -0800

7000 odd identities is, so far, the best description of MetaFilter I've seen in print. ;-)

By: bjgeiger

bjgeiger — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:13:39 -0800

You missed this post?

By: john

john — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:18:17 -0800

The post/member race is so thrilling. The most fun you could have with your refresh button!

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:21:44 -0800

Jeez, whattaya think we are, philistines? Of course we've all heard of The Lilex.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:00:13 -0800

James Lileks Rocks. Online and in print. He's great on radio too when you can find him... Like, here on dack.com?

By: Neale

Neale — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:01:30 -0800

If you don't know about the Lileks try reading this. Of course, I'm not so much worried about The Lileks as The Darleks. Ahhh! Ahhhh! Run!!!!!

By: kindall

kindall — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:12:53 -0800

Grr. There is no "r" in "Dalek."

By: Neale

Neale — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 18:34:22 -0800

*hangs head* -2 Geek Wisdom.

By: holloway

holloway — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:06:57 -0800

> James Lileks Rocks Well, I guess that's his choice in our modern society.

By: kindall

kindall — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:13:23 -0800

It's okay, Neale, there are a surprising number of sites that misspell it. I never would have imagined that until I checked with a search of my own. Google helpfully asked, "Do you mean 'dalek'?" That means someone has entered Dr. Who terms into Google's dictionary. +2 Geek Wisdom for Google.

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:26:35 -0800

Neale, how's this for Geek Wisdom: when I first saw your post I swear I read it as "The Tarleks". Ahhh! Ahhhh! Run!!!!!, would, of course, still apply.

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:31:38 -0800

Neale, how's this for Geek Wisdom: when I first saw your post I swear I read it as "The Tarleks". Ahhh! Ahhhh! Run!!!!!, would, of course, still apply.

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Thu, 26 Apr 2001 23:55:27 -0800

Geez. Now who's Doublepostguy? Hah?

By: kchristidis

kchristidis — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 02:52:17 -0800

Neale, I love the title tag in your post :-)

By: rodii

rodii — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 06:04:26 -0800

Aaaah, that was great, Chico. Except it diverted me into spending a half hour on a Jan Smithers fan site. Bailey rules!

By: chicobangs

chicobangs — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 06:34:35 -0800

Funny, I found that same Jan Smithers site last night. Mmmmmm. Baileyyyy... (For some reason I laughed out loud at the story about her being at her kid's hockey game and getting up to get a Tim Horton's coffee and how "everyone noticed she had a great tush.") ... um, I'm sorry, what was the topic?

By: Neale

Neale — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:57:16 -0800

Thanks kchristidis. What is a Tarlek? Why do all the threads I post to go so off-topic so quickly?

By: rodii

rodii — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 17:31:28 -0800

It's called The Neale Effect. No one really understands it.