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Post number 7989

delfuego — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:12:44 -0800

After an eventless trip across the United States, MetaFilter is now happily living again. I was trying to come up with a name for my apartment, now that MetaFilter lives here -- Pyra East? MetaBroadway? I'm not creative right now.

By: anildash

anildash — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:15:32 -0800

Thanks for the great job, Jason. Everyone go read the wonderful Queso as a slight thank you for all of his hard work.

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:17:18 -0800

Woohoo! First post! No, second. Damn you Dash! What about Matthattan?

By: Avogadro

Avogadro — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:17:34 -0800

*heaping praise upon Jason* Perhaps "The Server-Site that Never Sleeps"...

By: bradlands

bradlands — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:18:16 -0800

Metahattan? New Metadam?

By: norm

norm — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:19:31 -0800

I read Queso. It was fantastic. I think I'm going to go steal all his links for my blog now. In a way, it might not be such a great thing that we're up so quickly, what with that New York Times Kaycee article and all.

By: frenetic

frenetic — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:20:32 -0800

Metapartment or for brevity: Metapad.

By: hijinx

hijinx — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:21:07 -0800

"Shouldn't this be in MetaTalk?", he said with a sly grin. He then raised a beer in honor of both Jason and Matt.

By: Wizzle

Wizzle — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:22:57 -0800

Whew. I was beginning to get the shakes. Thanks, Jason.

By: Skot

Skot — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:23:34 -0800

WOOOOO! Thanks, Jason and Matt! I really like Matthattan.

By: delfuego

delfuego — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:24:27 -0800

Hijinx -- the metatalk.metafilter.com DNS changes haven't propagated yet, at least not to this end of the world.

By: hijinx

hijinx — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:28:43 -0800

Back in the early days of the internet, we used to have to propagate using nothing but shovels and hoes! (my comment was stated with a sly grin)

By: tomorama

tomorama — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:30:02 -0800

Wow. A speedy new MetaFilter indeed. Looking good, guys.

By: dong_resin

dong_resin — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:53:47 -0800

(Sighs contentedly)

By: mmm

mmm — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:55:11 -0800

Thanks guys... some how everything feels closer now.

By: pnevares

pnevares — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:58:04 -0800

for the record, i can access metatalk already. but that's just me. and thanks a heap, jason. you da man.

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:58:12 -0800

...the warm feeling of 10,000 people flittering in a box...like the only car dealer circa 1902...Earl"the madman" Muntz on a sunday evening with Madge and her Burroughs...tick-tack-ta.chacnkkkkk."108 million unnatural dollars Earl". 'I wanna buyz RCA...'(Schee) A filterouttage should be tolerated and met with patient, posts else where WILL not be construed as a loyalty breach..let us consult Mathers..."Tomorrow never comes...today is the day for a fresh start"(Robert Beebe-artist) well that's better then J.paul Getty..."When I'm thinking about oil I'm not thinking about girls". Good thing. I like my oil drilled right. Metabunker,Filtercom,MeFi dome, MeFico-conratalis,MeFiopolis(Already old?) MeFi manor,Filter hovering fortress, MeFi FLIT Platform(inconjunction with JVIM ministries)...a name so inspiring that atomic testing will be accepted....get YOUR bikini....

By: dhartung

dhartung — Thu, 31 May 2001 10:59:07 -0800

Just so nobody thinks I was using a ping tool to see when Metafilter was back up. I really, really wasn't -- I just got back from lunch, logged on, and checked for the hell of it, and there it was. Anil was definitely using a ping tool, the tool. Here's what I posted earlier on the Kaycee forum in reference to the news that MeFi was heading east: "Now, Metafilter is having the time of its life, drinking tiny little bottles of scotch, goosing stews, and probably screwing a cute little iBook in the bathroom, as it takes a cross-country plane trip to Noo Yawk and the beneficent arms of Doctor Jason Levine¹, webmeister-legal-eagle-medico-extraordinaire, a/k/a http://q.queso.com, who has bandwidth to spare. All hail Q!" Q is, of course, for those not of keen eye, our own delfuego. Metafuego? Gotta get you in there somewhere. This is particularly sweet and fitting, since BlogYou reviewed Queso by saying "Most links appear to be pulled directly from Metafilter"! Honestly, I've been reading Jason for a while now, and that only happens when he's on a heavy rotation in his residency. ¹ Said with a skeptical swagger, like Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive.

By: riffola

riffola — Thu, 31 May 2001 11:04:23 -0800

This just plain and simply rocks! :) Thanks Jason!

By: delfuego

delfuego — Thu, 31 May 2001 11:09:14 -0800

Dan, I hurt with laughter. You da man. And, in all fairness, Anil had fair warning -- he and I were actively instant-messaging the whole time the server was being reanimated. Don't feel badly... :)

By: hijinx

hijinx — Thu, 31 May 2001 11:09:53 -0800

On MetaFilter, no one knows you're the bandwidth provider.

By: howa2396

howa2396 — Thu, 31 May 2001 12:27:40 -0800

WooHoO!!! Its back up! Anybody else really like the MetaFilter text logo on the white background? ;)

By: netbros

netbros — Thu, 31 May 2001 12:35:10 -0800

A day at the Met. Youse filta.

By: Sapphireblue

Sapphireblue — Thu, 31 May 2001 12:45:51 -0800

I love you Jason. But I still love Matt more :)

By: UncleFes

UncleFes — Thu, 31 May 2001 12:53:25 -0800

There ain't no better place to grump than at the filter. Thanks guys, good work.

By: darukaru

darukaru — Thu, 31 May 2001 13:16:01 -0800

Tangent on clavdivs's post: Stately MeFi Manor. Now all mathowie needs is a young ward, and a MetaCave.

By: bradlands

bradlands — Thu, 31 May 2001 13:19:22 -0800

I'd just like to announce that I'm throwing my support to "Matthattan."

By: trox

trox — Thu, 31 May 2001 13:20:12 -0800

Thank God. I really was starting to go into withdrawal!

By: norm

norm — Thu, 31 May 2001 13:39:18 -0800

Is a Matthattan made with gin or vodka?

By: bradlands

bradlands — Thu, 31 May 2001 13:42:12 -0800

Beefeater, I'm guessing.

By: Skot

Skot — Thu, 31 May 2001 13:45:37 -0800

A MetaFilter Matthattan is a tonic with a dash of bile, garnish with equal parts light and heat.

By: aaron

aaron — Thu, 31 May 2001 14:03:55 -0800

So if MeFi is in the right part of the world now, why are the posts still stamped with that icky Pacific Time?

By: Avogadro

Avogadro — Thu, 31 May 2001 14:11:05 -0800

Tradition, man! Traditiooooooooooon, Tradition!

By: likorish

likorish — Thu, 31 May 2001 14:13:53 -0800

Since MT doesn't seem to be working for me, I'd like to report a strange glitch. When I try to log in with Opera 5 for the Mac, I'm repeatedly thrown back to the login page. This doesn't seem to happen with any other browser. Maybe it's just Opera, but dangit, it's the fastest browser for the Mac available and I'm hooked!

By: kindall

kindall — Thu, 31 May 2001 14:15:59 -0800

Login on MeFi is accomplished using cookies. Check your cookie management settings in Opera. If they seem to be oll korrect, report it as a bug to Opera Software -- after all, the browser is a beta release and probably contains bugs.

By: aaron

aaron — Thu, 31 May 2001 14:33:52 -0800

The Mac Opera alphas have almost no cookie support. But they just released the first beta yesterday, so you might want to d/l that and see if it works.

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Thu, 31 May 2001 14:34:08 -0800

MUST ALL the media be concentrated in New York? Why not Paramus, NJ : ( Wow. This is a way faster connection than before.

By: holgate

holgate — Thu, 31 May 2001 15:06:06 -0800

Faster than a speeding pullet. Jason: what was the manner of the MeFi box's transfer from coast to coast? FedEx overnight air? smuggled aboard in carry-on? Pony Express?

By: lotsofno

lotsofno — Thu, 31 May 2001 15:08:03 -0800

"woohoo!" said the man.

By: bison

bison — Thu, 31 May 2001 15:12:43 -0800

Oh thanks goodness this is back. Google's last cache was from May 1, and I got really tired of reading that.

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Thu, 31 May 2001 15:41:16 -0800

aaaarrgh! I have a dissertation prospectus to write, and now my productivity is going down the tubes. The next time you increase the bandwidth, let's just stop and think about how it might affect someone besides yourselves, ok? Geesh.

By: strikter

strikter — Thu, 31 May 2001 16:14:08 -0800

yeah! now I can have sex without condom!, why?? because metafilter is back!! bye bye condom!

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Thu, 31 May 2001 16:38:54 -0800

Holgate: Knowing the dedication & spirit of Jason & the rest of the MeFi community, I'd wager it was some sort of a "Hands Across America" gig, with a nationwide bucket-brigade handing the server from one person to the next, all the way to NYC.

By: mecran01

mecran01 — Thu, 31 May 2001 16:39:18 -0800

???

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Thu, 31 May 2001 16:41:55 -0800

IT WAS IN A RYDER TRUCK ROUTED VIA FLORIDA.

By: bjgeiger

bjgeiger — Thu, 31 May 2001 16:43:26 -0800

They're back!! Maybe my shakes will go away now.

By: Mo Nickels

Mo Nickels — Thu, 31 May 2001 16:48:25 -0800

So Jason is the Metafacilitator of the Metaddiction. And of the Metametaphors.

By: Mo Nickels

Mo Nickels — Thu, 31 May 2001 16:49:16 -0800

Or maybe the Mattametaphors. Metamattaphors.

By: bradlands

bradlands — Thu, 31 May 2001 17:17:11 -0800

MattaMetaphines?

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Thu, 31 May 2001 17:23:26 -0800

By the way, on the level of text, is there really any connection between speed and distance to a server over the Internet? If so, could you please tell me what part of Manhattan, so I can move even closer?

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Thu, 31 May 2001 17:25:27 -0800

Or would that be a breach of security?

By: modofo

modofo — Thu, 31 May 2001 17:47:09 -0800

metamphetamines...

By: Mick

Mick — Thu, 31 May 2001 18:07:08 -0800

thank god! I almost accomplished something at work this week. Can't go raising expectations now can we?

By: metrocake

metrocake — Thu, 31 May 2001 19:01:22 -0800

Oh, *hurrah!!!* You're back! Kudos to Jason and Matt! I've been at home sick this week...coincidence? Yeah, yeah, that's it... So Jason, does that mean you're the MTA -- Metafilter Transit Authority?! :)

By: vanderwal

vanderwal — Thu, 31 May 2001 20:27:32 -0800

MeFi I missed you. Welcome back... East.

By: ParisParamus

ParisParamus — Thu, 31 May 2001 20:49:05 -0800

Where's Matt? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH HIM, delfuego!?

By: rebeccablood

rebeccablood — Thu, 31 May 2001 20:54:44 -0800

whee!

By: owillis

owillis — Thu, 31 May 2001 21:18:37 -0800

Oh god. It's back. It's finally back. Sweet jesus.

By: aaron

aaron — Thu, 31 May 2001 21:35:20 -0800

I'd wager it was some sort of a "Hands Across America" gig...

HAA never actually worked, y'know. They had a lot of dead spots. I think they used rope or something to make up for it.

By: sudama

sudama — Thu, 31 May 2001 23:07:27 -0800

Hands Across America may not have "worked", but I did my part. That's all that matters to me. Anyone else participate? When was that anyway? Sometimes I think that we are all very sick; this thread is a cry for help. Who will hear our call?

By: sugarfish

sugarfish — Fri, 01 Jun 2001 22:12:16 -0800

dude. all you people, you fine. i can stop crying now. on the inside and the outside. and now, a joke for all involved: what does snoop dogg wash his clothes with? blee-ach. hehee.