The complete synchronization between live Dooce and blog Dooce was awesome.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 8:17 AM on April 21, 2008

"It's a sticky question: where does the line of propriety fall..."

What is this "line of propriety" that you speak of, and when did Matthowie add this feature?
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 9:29 PM on February 5, 2008

I, for one, agree that the level of nastiness in an obituary thread for a Mormon church leader was well above and beyond. But then, why did we even have an obit thread about a Mormon church leader? --Wendell

There are over eleven million mormons worldwide.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 8:34 PM on January 29, 2008

I would guestimate that 40 percent of the US LDS population is actively engaged in the church, so the number drops way down to 2.25 million in the US, which undercuts my earlier argument. But that is neither here nor there, as the Westboro Baptist Church plans to express their legitimate feelings at the funeral. So now you don't have to!
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 12:16 PM on January 30, 2008

Mormons do define themselves as Christians
That's a relatively recent change.

Look, here is Joseph Smith claiming to have seen Christ and God in 1830: First Vision.

And yes, I know there are at least nine different versions of his account, and that this is the homogenized one.

If by "Christian" you mean, "hangs out with the baptists and protestants and has the same conception... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 1:47 PM on January 30, 2008

Hey, I learned something about how members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints get defined as Christian or not in this thread. That was instructive. Seriously.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 2:11 PM on January 31, 2008

I got to see an estranged terminal family member before she lost her cognition, and snow boots.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 9:09 AM on December 27, 2007

Modding seems to be more focused and aggressive as of late.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 7:30 AM on December 19, 2007

From her husband: "There is a memorial post on my weblog. Please go there to leave comments and memories about Anita. Spammers will be hunted down and their entrails fed to crows."
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 10:56 PM on December 10, 2007

Didn't see the earlier twittage. Feel free to delete thread, although mathowie's twitterings are pretty funny.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 8:55 AM on October 11, 2007

This was cool. Just a reminder that there is a "metafilteruser" tag at flickr:

http://flickr.com/photos/tags/metafilteruser/
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 8:00 PM on September 30, 2007

I was the guy who told Kevin Kelly about ask.mefi on 8/6/04. I can think of nobody in my meatspace life who I could even explain this to, hence this sad little post.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 9:16 PM on September 6, 2007

Armitage, Give it To Me.

Is that a Neuromancer reference?
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 6:13 PM on August 27, 2007

I don't think MetaTalk was intended to be used as a half-assed front page to try out your dodgy political post.
posted by majick at 7:59 PM on August 13 [+] [!

Ok, the front page it is.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 7:07 PM on August 13, 2007

I think it would be perfectly appropriate, as long as it was accompanied by interviews with Al Gore and other Democrat leaders from about 1998 where he said we needed to invade Iraq. ("Regime change" in Iraq was formal policy of the Clinton administration at the time.)

Good point.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 7:15 PM on August 13, 2007

I'd like to see the Gore video too. Anyway, the link is in the Bushco thread about three times, so never mind.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 7:40 PM on August 13, 2007

What's this "I'm too newbie" business? do we have some sort of waiting period, or do these people actually scare you?

They scare me, and I've been a member for four homes, three cities and two kids now.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 5:36 PM on August 13, 2007

That travel thing is a cool idea! When I suggested it two years ago the response was mixed:

http://metatalk.metafilter.com/9922/

/smugness :)
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 10:51 AM on August 6, 2007

You can fake [more inside] by immediately posting the rest as the first response.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 10:04 AM on December 12, 2006

People I saw at powell's, circa 1993-1996:

-Bruce Sterling
-Natalie Goldberg
-Douglas Coupland
-Stewart Brand

Now I go to the local Borders, for lack of a real bookstore within 45 miles.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 8:12 PM on October 11, 2006

Maybe there could be a sort of nuclear option for moderation, so if a fpp gets, say, 500 no votes it disappears.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 8:06 PM on October 11, 2006

What if the following text was put in the posting tips:

"Please don't create posts that link to sites without any explanation of what those links mean. It is not clever or interesting, and just creates more work for everyone."
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 2:16 PM on August 8, 2006

idiots are the new mefi revenue stream. of course the admins will pander to them.

Maybe that $5 could be a sliding scale, based on one's idiot factor.




[reaches for wallet]
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 9:40 AM on January 27, 2006

Yeah, don't pollute the "metafilter_user hot/not" shots of individuals with meetup pictures of pumpkins and people holding cryptic messages proclaiming their fealty for mathowie.

Unless you want to.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 1:54 PM on November 1, 2005

I'm surprised to learn that not all metafilterians are latte-sipping neo-slackers with goatees and cool t-shirts.

As far as popularity goes, I was the least interesting for a while there. I'm changing my photo to something "sexier."
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 2:07 PM on November 1, 2005

Clearly, these pictures constitute "the best of the web" and should be linked with a front page post.

/trying to get someone else to do the dirty work...
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 8:27 AM on November 2, 2005

It's not librarything, but librarything has the same functionality and more users, so Yea! Thanks!

I love the fact that you can import text files.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 12:06 PM on October 13, 2005

Apparently, the import only works if you've keyed in the isbn :(
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 12:21 PM on October 13, 2005

I think the app I was playing with had a name like book^2 or something similar. But librarything looks like a superset of the original application. Thanks again!
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 12:26 PM on October 13, 2005

Awesome. Any of these like to import comma-delimited text files? I will check them out, and as penance create a comparison chart.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 7:12 AM on October 14, 2005

Anyone want to tweak this script to highlight comments by members I happen to like?

That's kind of interesting. How about an rss feed of comments from people you find interesting, sort of a distilled mefi blog of an individual?
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 6:10 PM on September 3, 2005

What would del.icio.us do?
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 9:13 PM on August 3, 2005

What many people don't realize is that the "JRUN" errors are actually keyed to the specific IP addresses of the more annoying members. So if you're seeing them a lot..

I think you mean distinct, not discrete.

discrete: constituting a separate entity : individually distinct

Thank you. I just got my Ph.D. in English last Friday after NINE HELLISH YEARS and now it's starting... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 9:11 PM on August 3, 2005

Thanks. I sent congratulatory new baby vibes your way when in Portland last week. My other plan was to drop some trinket in your snailbox, or festoon the city with "Haughey has a posse" stickers, but Powell's was calling, and it was raining a lot...
/thanks
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 2:48 PM on May 27, 2005

Probably true, but how would you game that? Click on your buddy's answers and run up the score?
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 9:35 PM on May 27, 2005

Maybe MeFi needs a small, trusted group of folks with access to the remote reboot shiny candylike button thingy.

Anyone see that twilight zone episode where a mysterious stranger hands a couple this box with a button on top, and says, "the moment you push this button, a complete stranger dies, and you receive one million dollars."

I think of that whenever I shop at Walmart.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 7:51 AM on May 7, 2005

Open minded people can be so self-righteous. The original poster is at work with kids, and it's not just a question of his/her prudery, but of getting backlash from The Man. So, in my opinion, what they are really saying is, "I share the same Mefi addiction that you all have, but I get freaked out by the occasional racy image."

I teach in a computer classroom, and I can't send my students to BoingBoing, a great source of good stuff, because it has become... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 7:40 AM on May 7, 2005

Hey, I'm in Portland on vacation right now. I may be able to get out, not that I know anyone. I think we should all go somewhere and make cryptic moss graffiti with Mefi catchphrases.

Monsieur Twinkie: I am a Utahn. What part did you visit?
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 7:27 AM on May 7, 2005

You need a diaper genie

Ha! The first time my wife and I saw one of these at a friend's house, we snickered and thought it was the lamest thing ever. Four kids later, and a bazillion diapers later, and I'm like, "screw the environment, gimme the genie." For those who don't know, it's a little baggie dispenser that seals off each fetid diaper so it doesn't stink up the whole house.

I feel that somehow, the term... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 7:23 AM on May 7, 2005

The problem with getting a new account is that, if you are essentially pathetic and want to brag about how long you have been on metafilter, you have to start over with the new name. Also, it's hard to keep track of two accounts and then people mock you for double-dipping. Most of these problems could be solved, at least in my case, by actually getting a life.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 3:22 PM on April 28, 2005

Well, if you want to weed out the pansies, let's code our posts in 6502 machine code.



I just thought that autolinks made it a tad easier to quickly answer questions in ask.mefi
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 8:47 PM on April 19, 2005

What if linky-linky were configurable in the user profile? Then those that wanted to post in 6502 assembly language could, and the rest of us who all have AOL accounts and japanese robot-bidets could have auto-generation?
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 12:12 PM on April 21, 2005

I can't send my students to boing any more and now I can't send them here. It's your site, however.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 10:13 AM on February 2, 2005

I find myself going to Boing a lot less, mostly due to its pornification. Basically, it's embarassing to have a coworker or family member walk by and see weird fetish crap all over the screen. The hide option is nice, but I often work in a lab setting with frozen machines that don't retain settings.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 10:18 AM on February 2, 2005

I'd like to see a meta-ask.metafilter that links to "frequently asked questions". Essentially they are:

1. How do I steal stuff?
2. Does this look infected to you?
3. Is there a good CMS system out there?
4. How do I score with the babes?

And let me pre-emptively apologize for having posted questions in the above categories.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 2:51 PM on November 29, 2004

Actually, I could have sworn that someone within a mefi thread linked to their own spreadsheet analysis of this. Maybe it was somewhere else, thanks.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 4:07 PM on November 8, 2004

Thanks to all for helping me relocate this link.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 12:48 PM on November 10, 2004

I think that Apple is only minutes away from releasing a (big) tablet mac.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 8:21 AM on September 1, 2004

I thought Theodore Sturgeon wrote Microcosmic God.

By the way, Matt's already doing this, just that "metafilter" is the playpen. There's a much cooler, more exclusive site called....oh wait, I can't tell you.
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 3:40 PM on August 6, 2004

Plus on his "sites" page he spells ticketstubs "tickestubs"
posted to MetaTalk by mecran01 at 11:20 AM on June 30, 2004