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Post number 9520

waxpancake — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:07:31 -0800

Matt's back, and so is Metafilter! Just in time too, because I was about to get a big promotion for all the work I've finished in the last two weeks. What did you do on your MeFi vacation?

By: Oriole Adams

Oriole Adams — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:10:24 -0800

Mainly, I looked wistfully at the screen telling me MeFi was on vacation.... Welcome back!!

By: fooljay

fooljay — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:11:11 -0800

I got laid off. Ironic, ain't it?

By: kaefer

kaefer — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:11:31 -0800

I starred as a groomsman in my brother's wedding... Fun times.

Welcome back Matt...

By: Mars Saxman

Mars Saxman — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:14:33 -0800

Is it over already? Wow. I've missed Metafilter. Will it be the same after we've all learned to live without it...? I sure haven't minded the fact that traffic on my website has tripled in the interim, though - thanks for the front page link, Matt! -Mars

By: spunkster

spunkster — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:19:03 -0800

actually got work done. welcome back.

By: dincognito

dincognito — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:20:12 -0800

Mostly I masturbated a lot and played Dreamcast. TMI? Perhaps... Fulfilling? You betcha. What made the Internet famous made a loser out of me...

By: kindall

kindall — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:27:34 -0800

I got laid off a couple of days before MeFi went away, then started a new job a couple of days before it came back. Obviously, my employment depends on MeFi in some weird cosmic way.

By: hotdoughnutsnow

hotdoughnutsnow — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:33:22 -0800

I spent too much time on FilePile, and finished up Rune... plus checked back here daily, just in case it magically appeared.

By: fooljay

fooljay — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:33:46 -0800

As the moon pulleth the tides, so doth Metafilter pulleth the rug from 'neath a hard days work...

By: sugarfish

sugarfish — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:35:36 -0800

ooh, i'm so excited. mostly, i read celebrity gossip. for like, hours a day. see what happens when i don't have MeFi! wb, matt :)

By: vanderwal

vanderwal — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:37:52 -0800

I finally had time to read Cryptnomicon and go on vacation.

By: cell divide

cell divide — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:40:01 -0800

I hung out over at edgecase. For what I'm interested in, I found it to be the most interesting place to get news and sometimes even comment.

By: inviolable

inviolable — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:41:45 -0800

In honor of Mefi's break, I continued to do no work. I did however get outside twice and scare up some wood for a bonfire. Wow, it feels like the first day of school and everyone is hanging out, talking about what they did over the summer. Good times.

By: NortonDC

NortonDC — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:45:29 -0800

sulked

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:48:43 -0800

I'd like to add that I never, ever, ever want to see this page again.

By: Mo Nickels

Mo Nickels — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:49:03 -0800

If there were 22 links and 191 comments since my last visit, where are they? I spent the week watching my web site logs. Discovering that people are interested in Laetitia Casta's pregnancy, Jennifer Stahl the murdered drug dealer, New York Times reporter Charlie LeDuff, housing in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, Boca Chica and sex (and I *still* can't figure out what in the hell they're all really looking for), "chuck knoblauch girlfriend," the French Carte Bleu, the Fulton Fish Market, pictures of Judith Light, etc., etc. Metafilter, incidentally, jumped up to third place in my referrers, after Google and Yahoo. Thanks, Matt, for the link.

By: Mo Nickels

Mo Nickels — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:52:03 -0800

Oh yeah, for everyone who missed it: Guerrilla Metafilter.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:00:59 -0800

First: Welcome home, Matt! My thrice-daily dose of MeFi was sorely missed during your absence. Second: During the down-time, I actually ventured beyond the reach of my keyboard...long enough to research many options and finally decide to purchase a new toy. Yay! No wireless-access for me, though...but it will be sorta nice to download the longer threads to peruse during the endless staff meetings that I have to sit through. Three: Did I already say "Welcome home, Matt!"?? Worth repeating. Four: Fellow MeFi-ers - I look forward to resuming our ongoing intellectual, mature, civilized dialogues. Um...well, you know...and the other stuff, too.

By: hotdoughnutsnow

hotdoughnutsnow — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:05:47 -0800

Wow, it feels like the first day of school and everyone is hanging out, talking about what they did over the summer. Good times. inviolable - Did you see my new Levis, and Hankins' Vans? Plus these nifty Heelys

By: jeffbarr

jeffbarr — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:16:56 -0800

I went to Peru for my vacation (no pictures yet).

By: owillis

owillis — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:19:49 -0800

Cranked up the bluster on my blog. Saw the 'Skins get creamed in two pre-season games. Rejoiced in the fact that fooball is back. Continued to look for a job in the DC/MD/VA area as every tech company seems to be laying off people. Football is back! But so is Dennis Miller.

By: darukaru

darukaru — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:46:34 -0800

I got on with my life.

By: Shadowkeeper

Shadowkeeper — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 17:59:11 -0800

I posted photos of my cat to my website, in the hopes that another MeFi Kittie Pix day will roll around soon. And I had my own personal ice cream day.

By: daver

daver — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:01:34 -0800

I'm with fooljay -- laid off. In the mean time, built a computer, installed linux, apache, IPMasquerade, php, mysql, etc etc. Went hiking (Dromery Ridge, Lena Lake with the pregnant lady), toured the Olympic peninsula with the pregnant lady (hey, what can I say, she's my gal), biked vashon island, cooked a lot. All in all, way too much housework. Blundering my way through the linux stuff was enough to keep me fairly busy... Oh yeah, applied for 3 jobs a week...

By: GirlFriday

GirlFriday — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:13:39 -0800

I ate a bit of icing from the carton, took some photos from a cheap camera, designed a local band's website, worked quite a bit, stayed up late, kicked the cat (accidentally, I swear!), changed my underwear and socks numerous times, cleaned my room, watched people play Othello, made a dog bark at me, jaywalked, showered, talked, and started my junior year of high school.

By: Optamystic

Optamystic — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:19:29 -0800

I read the entire internet. Twice.

By: youhas

youhas — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:20:59 -0800

I completely redid my website (first new layout in over a year - woooo for procrastination!) and created a faux porn site (on a total whim - woooo for Brunching Shuttlecocks!) So it's probably for the best that MeFi is back up and running, putting my reign of terror at least temporarily at bay.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:44:19 -0800

Optamystic: I read the entire internet. Twice. Groovy - but please don't ruin the ending for the rest of us!

By: BurnedEve

BurnedEve — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:59:27 -0800

Watched the Red Sox go on their annual August losing streak (damn the bambino!) and kept hitting "refresh"..."refresh..."refresh"...hoping the vacation sign would disappear and I could go back to avoiding mindless monkey work.

By: dagnyscott

dagnyscott — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 18:59:53 -0800

Mm hmm. Let's see, I... 1.) lost my job 2.) applied for more jobs 3.) found a few new weblogs that may be worth reading 4.) redesigned the front page of my site 5.) redesigned AJ's site 6.) read one thread on kuro5hin that was really lame and everyone there thought the "lost generation" was from the 1950's. 7.) packed to move back to school. 8.) drove around randomly. 9.) critiqued the web design of major religious denominations. I have not yet found one to be standards-compliant. If I do, I'll convert. 10.) Talked to people on AIM. Specifically, one of my friends who's back at school already. He's been online a lot.

By: amyscoop

amyscoop — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 19:25:19 -0800

Lots of impulsive, frivilous online spending. Dude, I'm broke!

By: TheChump

TheChump — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 19:30:38 -0800

I finally got my weblog up. Don't worry, I'm not plugging - just making a desperate attempt to get Google to re-crawl my site.

By: Ptrin

Ptrin — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 19:50:27 -0800

I started reading (and got quoted on! I'm the Beatles whore!) dooce.com, the fray, and The Cluetrain Manifesto. All in all, a pretty awesome two weeks.

By: UncleFes

UncleFes — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:11:32 -0800

I built a GIANT TOWER OF CHEESE! And ATE IT! Bwahahahahahahahahahahah! Thank Mitra Matt's back.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:11:59 -0800

Created a clone of Matt so Matt can go on vacation without terrorizing his constituants..much

By: bjgeiger

bjgeiger — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:42:02 -0800

Wheee! Welcome back, Matt. My big event of the the last few weeks was that my sixteen year old son went off to school. Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. TALH is the program he is in. I guess I must have done something right, because he is a good kid and smart, too!

By: joemaller

joemaller — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 20:48:56 -0800

I published my first shareware product. Sold a few too. Glad to have MetaFilter back, it seemed like half the sites I'm reading regularly all went on vacation at the same time.

By: moz

moz — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:29:27 -0800

i lost access to my website, got my own domain, waited over half a week before the company could get the darn thing to resolve. went on interviews. was hypotized by k10k theme music. began reading high fidelity. productive?

By: Brilliantcrank

Brilliantcrank — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:30:34 -0800

I put some Tomatoe plants in the soil.

By: gleemax

gleemax — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:34:13 -0800

I remember going to sleep. After that, everything is fuzzy.

By: spilon

spilon — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:35:33 -0800

I went to a Madonna concert.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:37:20 -0800

I went to the Warped Tour.

By: riffola

riffola — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:38:57 -0800

Wasted 1/2 a day on Max Payne, another hour was spent toying with Windows XP, the rest was spent watching paint peel off the wall.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:41:36 -0800

MetaFilter: more fun than watching paint peel off the wall

By: evixir

evixir — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 21:47:15 -0800

I'm embarrassed to admit that I checked the main page three times even though I knew it'd be down til the 20th. Filepile can only go so far. I guess I actually got some work done before I leave for good; bout time, I s'pose.

By: D

Mon, 20 Aug 2001 22:03:29 -0800

I took to the High Seas. August is pirate season!

By: kokogiak

kokogiak — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 22:40:16 -0800

I got a new job - a webdev for amazon.com no less. Nice not to be laid off anymore. Now I get to see the beast that is Amazon from the inside. I have to say though, that the first few unproductive days at a new job really scream for quality content to read, and with Suck, Feed, k10k, etc all offline, Salon on some limping vacation, Plastic still sucking as usual and MeFi offline, I spent waaay too much time at the obscurestore and movie websites. Hurrah for the return of metafilter. Hurrah I say.

By: bshort

bshort — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:12:50 -0800

sat in the corner silently sobbing....

By: RakDaddy

RakDaddy — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:14:57 -0800

I catalogued and renamed my mp3s. Learned how to do Hollywood Lindy. Started going to the gym again. Fell in love with the wonderful thing that is a spirulina smoothie. Helped two friends move in two different weekends. Learned more about how the NHL does its business than I ever wanted to know.

By: PWA_BadBoy

PWA_BadBoy — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:49:19 -0800

Curled up into the fetal position and sucked my thumb....

By: davehat

davehat — Mon, 20 Aug 2001 23:55:56 -0800

Oh joy, its back! I went travelling to get over a serious lack of stimulating web content and a sudden eligability for unemployment benefits. The one thing I discovered in MeFi's absence was that I could send something called "email" on this internet thingee. Its sort of like a letter, but its eclect-ri-tronic or something! I think its made by Microsoft or some-such, you guys might want to find out about it. I'm off deeper into the Australian Outback (I sheared a sheep yesterday, I'm going gold panning tomorrow) for a few months. All I'll need on my return is a job to fuel my MeFi habit. [signs off and resumes chat in bar with Steve Irwin look-a-likes]

By: aflakete

aflakete — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:00:13 -0800

Missed MeFi more than I thought I would. And I thought I would.
Started a diet. Read The Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel Woodrell (Oedipus in the Ozarks in the 60s--rich and scary, and a very fast read). Watched a movie from '96 called Kissed on video--a very unsettling but well-done story about a woman (Molly Parker) who worships through necrophilia. Canadian of course.
Kind of lost some interest in the Net.

By: girlhacker

girlhacker — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:02:41 -0800

I got married.

By: skallas

skallas — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:15:46 -0800

I got laid off. Ironic, ain't it? Me too. Mainly been photoshoping photos on fark.com and even got 2 of my personal projects/sites posted.

By: keli

keli — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:18:58 -0800

I went to DC and Chicago. I also took pictures of cats for Mefi Kitty Pic Day.

By: arrowhead

arrowhead — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:21:33 -0800

tried looking for porn on filepile.

By: gleemax

gleemax — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:27:22 -0800

I know my mommy taught me what to say when someone gets married, but I can't remember. Congratulations! (That wasn't too bad, was it?)

By: dhartung

dhartung — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 04:08:50 -0800

I stayed laid off. Laid off, with no metafilter? Bo. Ring. What did people do in the ~~20th~~ 19th century? < whine > Can anyone get me a freaking job? NT/Exchange adminning would be nice but I'm more flexible than I realized at first. McDonald's hamburger grill adminning is looking distinctly possible. < /whine >

By: jennak

jennak — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 05:04:04 -0800

I went on a 2 week vacation. Oh, wait....that was the 2 weeks prior to Matt's vacation. (What, we couldn't sync vacation time, Matt?) So I've been 4 whole weeks without Metafilter. But the doctor says I'm doing much better, thank you.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 05:31:25 -0800

huh? metafilter was gone?

By: tamim

tamim — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 05:38:56 -0800

Saw The Seagull performed at Shakespeare in the Park, and two short movies: The Dutch Master and The Cloud Door, part of Regina Ziegler's Erotic Tales series, at MoMA. Also, while strolling through the Mies van der Rohe exhibit at MoMA, I found out that there are times when I just freeze in front of some female species, when I really want to smile and say, 'hi'. The embarrassment of the sudden system loss is multiplied when the said strange female stands in front of the "frozen" person, and says staring at him, "I have no idea why you just froze. I am still a human." I need to work on my social skills.

By: arco

arco — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 06:17:09 -0800

Went here and saw them. Waited for Matt to fix the New User signup page so I could (finally) post. Read a book or two. Now that all my attention will be focused to MeFi, I will cherish these memories of productive activity....

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 06:27:48 -0800

Welcome Back! I am ashamed to say that I checked the site about three or four times a day. You never know, right? Right? Plus, I slummed around fark.com. Man, those people are "boobie" obsessed. It's good to have Mefi back. Now, never go away again, dammit.

By: nprigoda

nprigoda — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 06:53:31 -0800

I had to get a kitten to occupy my time. What do I do with the darn thing now?

By: lotsofno

lotsofno — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:16:34 -0800

I got married. congrats lilly! tried looking for porn on filepile funny, how i wouldn't be joking if I had said that... i did get involved with the filepile scene though... wonderful place and i can't see how i wasn't absorbed by it before. i blogged, and in turn became regulars at Zannah's, Succa's, Jish's, Jerry's, LGF's, and the 3bruces' sites. in the midst of all that, summer classes have been kicking my ass, and every girl i know has been trying to kill me.

By: joeclark

joeclark — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:23:25 -0800

I vowed to break with obsequious bloggeur tradition and refrain from sucking up to some guy named Matt, who isn't any more important than the rest of us.

By: Optamystic

Optamystic — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:29:50 -0800

I resolved to mock killjoy wankers. Mission accomplised.

By: norm

norm — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:41:47 -0800

I vowed to break with obsequious bloggeur tradition and refrain from sucking up to some guy named Matt, who isn't any more important than the rest of us. My dog! You're far cooler than any of us! Thanks for letting me know.

By: Skot

Skot — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:44:20 -0800

I got married. Oh, well, lah-di-dah. Sounds like somebody is too good for regular old online pornography. Look, if you can't support the "new new economy," who will? (Congratulations!)

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:45:43 -0800

spent lots of time at the the gun range.

By: andrewraff

andrewraff — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 07:52:14 -0800

I went to conc erts and took photos. lots of photos. Plus, I actually got some work done, for a change...

By: marq

marq — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:01:29 -0800

i painted a total of three rooms, now i'm just about to varnish some baseboards ... bet you anything that i won't finish now that metafilter's back online ...

By: mcsweetie

mcsweetie — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:05:05 -0800

all my friends left me cause I wasn't interesting any more.

By: briank

briank — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:05:08 -0800

Went to my 20th high school reunion (sort of), played with the baby, didn't get laid off (in fact, got a promotion and a raise), and sucked up my share of bandwith hitting filepile all day long.

By: Sapphireblue

Sapphireblue — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:12:08 -0800

I hid under my desk, curled up in the fetal position and gibbered hysterically. After that, I actually read some of the news stories the company I work for puts out on a daily basis. Novel, that! But I kept looking for the post-a-comment box and being disappointed when it wasn't there.

By: trox

trox — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:19:22 -0800

I stared at the walls of my cube a lot while waiting to get laid off. The other shoe drops this afternoon.

By: iceberg273

iceberg273 — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:43:20 -0800

I cleaned all of the spiders out of my basement. They came back.

By: internal

internal — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:49:29 -0800

I was laid-off too. What does that make, about 5 or 6 of us in a 2 week period? BTW, anyone need a NT or Exch sysadmin with an MCSE and the experience to know what-the-hell I am doing?

By: Skot

Skot — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:50:31 -0800

I cleaned all of the spiders out of my basement. They came back. Matt tried the same thing, yet here we are again.

By: iceberg273

iceberg273 — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 08:52:07 -0800

Matt tried the same thing, yet here we are again. *scrabbles around, then begins to build a web in the corner*

By: sonofsamiam

sonofsamiam — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:01:28 -0800

My skin all fell off. Just kidding! Ha ha ha ha ha ha! No, seriously, it did.

By: wackybrit

wackybrit — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:28:12 -0800

Ouch, lots of self links here! Naughty naughty! I did quite a lot actually. Wrote my own version of Blogdex, and wrote an authentic version of Pong. The past two weeks have been my most productive in months.. I'm sure there's no connection to MetaFilter being down though.. or not? Hmm..

By: tj

tj — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:10:04 -0800

hmm thought about how nice it would be to get laid off, bought a GameBoy... now I'm freaking addicted to Pokemon AND Metafilter.. I'm checking in to rehab later today

By: brittney

brittney — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:12:00 -0800

I somehow managed not to lose my job. Apparently, that is an exceptional thing. Otherwise, I supplied my newly heart-broken sister with her first joint in three years. That was about as fantastic as it got around here.

By: Dreama

Dreama — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:17:54 -0800

My latest book was officially released. I found out that it won't be made available on Amazon. I cried. I went on vacation. I went into a swimming pool for the first time in years. I found out (the hard way) that I still can't swim. I got a new digital camera to replace one of the ones that I lost when I was mugged/robbed last month. The camera sucked, literally -- 2 sets of AA alkaline batteries to capture all of 20 images on the lowest resolution and quality setting. Ouch. So then I got a different one and it rocks my world. I took many, many pictures, including many horribly saccarine shots of my new dog. I contemplated PHP. I contemplated (and continue to contemplate) a dogblog. I visited and linked to Hi Monkey a lot. I got three e-mails from Monkey himself, thanking me for linking to his site everywhere. Monkey is still cooler than words. I missed MeFi. I'm so glad it's back that my hands are shaking.

By: fooljay

fooljay — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:27:23 -0800

Seems like we should start an Out-of-work blog. We could talk about what we're doing everyday and keep a running tally on a sidebar for how many times we write the words "coffee", "slept in", "watched Jerry Springer" and "masturbated". Oh, I also started Tae Kwon Do, have been preparing for Burning Man, wrote my first song in a while, watched my godson be born. That birth thing....yeah, that was the kicker...

By: fooljay

fooljay — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 11:40:04 -0800

Oh, and for those who are out of work, make sure that you see this thread...

By: bryanboyer

bryanboyer — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:14:54 -0800

<AIM>nayrbreyob: he is my hero. that joe, always going for the gold.</AIM>

By: feelinglistless

feelinglistless — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 15:43:11 -0800

Began to blog and realised it's not as easy at it looked.

By: stoneegg21

stoneegg21 — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 16:28:19 -0800

I used up all my work-study money, and read half the books in the library. Yay for James White!

By: NortonDC

NortonDC — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 18:13:12 -0800

I didn't get laid off this time. However, my blog was originally called Entertainment From The Unemployed (F2 for short). However, I did play a lot of this. Yes, I have beaten the computer.

By: lotsofno

lotsofno — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 19:06:37 -0800

is that the 3d pong game? the link was trying to make me d/l it, but, if it is that damn pong game, i hate it with all my heart. i spent half an hour trying to beat the computer when i should've been writing a paper... oh, how the computer cheats

By: semmi

semmi — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 20:18:42 -0800

washed the dishes, mowed the lawn, had dinner with the kids, layed the wife. now back.

By: scottandrew

scottandrew — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 20:31:46 -0800

Bryan (if that's your real name), I'm so sorry to hear your cat died.

By: fooljay

fooljay — Tue, 21 Aug 2001 23:04:11 -0800

Ack!

By: williamtry

williamtry — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 02:38:30 -0800

I got myself a webdev job, bucking the main trend of this thread. However, I am in the UK.

By: crasspastor

crasspastor — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 04:38:42 -0800

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