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MeTa post:
Let's sing!
Woohoo!
Okay, okay, I won't be moving to the Bay area until September-ish (or, if not September, December), but I'm a confirmed soprano and would -love- to come and join once I'm in the area! I would totally take a roadtrip out that way until then, but alas, I don't think my work/travel schedule will allow it.
I'm so jealous!
This brings back all my warm-fuzzy choir-singing memories from ye olde days of being in choirs since I was 8 or 9 years old... awwww.
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 2:42 PM on March 12, 2008
MeTa post:
Say! How about a Los Angeles meetup?
Oooh. I'm down south-way until the 17th... admittedly, I'm in the Inland Empire, but had planned to make a trek to L.A. at some point this week anyway. Perhaps I'll get up the courage to come join y'all (if I figure out how to get there, where to park safely, et cetera...).
Fun!
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 1:53 PM on March 10, 2008
MeTa post:
60, 000!
when I joined, people still knew where my handle came from.
I'm sad now.
Also, 14k'ers, suck it. 10k is the new 1k.
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 10:47 PM on October 21, 2007
MeTa post:
Meetup in Sydney
Dang you all. I won't be in Sydney 'till November 17th. *sulks*
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 7:21 AM on October 9, 2007
MeTa post:
SF MeFi/MoFi Meetup?
Woo! Finally, a meetup on a weekend when I'm not working! *dances*
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 12:23 AM on October 8, 2007
MeTa post:
Welcome. How'd you find us?
caddis, not me. It's something I ponder occasionally, wondering exactly how I got here sometime in late 1999 or early 2000, lurking and lurking until I decided in August 2001 to join (before I knew that having a lower usernumber would confer such uber status, alas!). I wish I knew. But that, along with how I discovered MUDs and the ancient (and now defunct) holonet.org and its IRC channel 11+ years ago all elude me. Ah well.
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 6:08 PM on October 5, 2007
MeTa post:
Another ask site
Dude... I had no idea who Clinton Kelly was, other than knowing that I had a high school classmate of the same name. Being nearly 24, I freaked out a little, thinking that all of my former classmates are going on to do fabulous things while I sit here, poor and degree-less. It was a relief to find out that the Clinton Kelly referenced is, in fact, 38, and not 24.
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 5:35 PM on July 10, 2007
MeTa post:
Ladies! Gentlemen! Children of all ages!
Is the 26th still on? 'cause I'm not -entirely- sure I could make it, but would definitely want to. Should I bring chips? Cookies? Tasers to keep the ninja-children off of me? (Kidding. I think.) Do we have a list of folk planning on coming?
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 9:17 PM on May 19, 2007
MeTa post:
Welcome to Asheville, Hun.
No! None of you can have a piece of loquacious! He's MINE to stalk, ALL MINE!
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 5:51 PM on May 2, 2007
loquacious, you bastard. You know how much I wanted to be a good stalker for you, how hard I tried, my sleepless nights tracing in vain your whereabouts. And I'm not. I'm a -terrible- stalker, and we both knew it, but now you've gone and let all of Mefi know, and they're going to laugh at me forever and ever. I hope you're happy!
*runs off sobbing*
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 7:18 AM on May 3, 2007
MeTa post:
What exactly are the standards for scammy crap on askme?
If someone is on foodstamps, yes, $28 is a big deal... but apparently not a big enough deal to prevent the poster paying it anyway.
When I was denied foodstamps (because of being in school. I was told I needed to have a job at least 20 hours a week to be eligible. I said, wtf? If I was working 20 hours a week, I wouldn't ephing well need foodstamps, would I?), there would've been no way in hell I would've even considered buying something as... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 2:32 AM on April 24, 2007
po, at some point I really want to hear your life story, somehow. 100+ hour workweeks? Food stamps? Living in a barn? Your life sounds quite interesting.
posted by Deathalicious
I'm going to take this as a sign that I've been too self-aggrandizing (and unsolicitedly forthcoming) in my postings. ;)
Perhaps some day I'll wake up and answer somebody's AskMe with my entire history, and then post a MeTa railing against... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 5:07 PM on April 24, 2007
MeTa post:
Too much hate, too much judgment
Jealousy breeds judgment. There are many of us who wish we could have been hospitalized for exhaustion. We are jealous of those of you who have slightly less strong constitutions and actually show physical signs of exhaustion, i.e. passing out, etc. sufficient to merit hospitalization.
In our eyes, being hospitalized for exhaustion is akin to a free (you obviously have insurance - anyone who was uninsured and asking to be... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 2:12 AM on April 23, 2007
(okay, so a note after going back to the question - I hadn't read Orb's post before... I don't really classify "exhaustion" in with "being sick as a dog." If you're sick and the run-down state of your body makes it worse, that's not exhaustion. That's a virus with a very very easy host. Different. Also, admittable-to-hospital-without-insurance.
Also, I want to say that I don't harbor any hate toward anyone this is directed at, and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 2:36 AM on April 23, 2007
Oh my, I've pissed reklaw off.
Perhaps I was supposed to spell it hospitalised...?
*flees*
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 5:31 AM on April 23, 2007
po: why would you want to be jealous of someone who spends all their time drugged up on IV, in pain, having constant nausea, and feeling like they've been run over a truck a million times?
posted by divabat
I'd prefer that, sometimes.
Spending all of your time drugged up on caffeine to stay awake, in pain, having constant nausea, and feeling like you've been run over by a truck a million times and having to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 6:48 AM on April 23, 2007
Actually, after thinking it over in the shower, I realize that perhaps part of our ingrained loathing toward the idea of treating exhaustion in a hospital is the idea itself.
To say that exhaustion can be "cured" is kind of a slap in the face to those who endure it day-in, day-out for years on end with little or no relief.
And I realize I've posted -far- too many times in this thread.
I'm going to pull out now,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 7:55 AM on April 23, 2007
MeTa post:
Giving too much credit to overthinking beans and plates thereof.
It isn't possible to overthink a plate of beas
posted by found missing at 9:29 AM on April 9 [+]
[!]
Wrong. It's totally possible to overthink a plate of beans.
Now out-thinking that plate of beans, that's a whole 'nother plate of beans . . .
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 10:52 PM on April 9, 2007
MeTa post:
So many posts to
video content makes...
Okay, so this isn't really anything of huge importance. Just a lament that so much of our FPP content lately seems to be made up of video. The links above are simply those from today. I realize it's a valid media, just as any other internet content. It simply makes me wonder - am I the only MeFite left without broadband, and thus left in the dark on (seemingly) half the MetaFilter FPPs unless I want to spend 6+ hours downloading?
Perhaps we've... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 8:30 PM on May 21, 2006
(Actually, aberrant, I'm in Lincoln. I say Sacramento because it's more easily recognizable to most folk, but I'm about 35 minutes' drive away from the freeway, and 45 from the city. Broadband of any sort is unavailable to me, sadly, as I live in... a barn.
No, really.)
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 8:41 PM on May 21, 2006
MeTa post:
OK, there were 40 front-page posts yesterday. Just...
I have to go with eilatan on this . . . I'd been hanging around here, reading and enjoying MeFi, for at least a year, before finally realizing that . . . whoa! Once in a while *I* might have something to say! And I'd have to . . . what? Register? To post comments? Oh my.
And while I do agree that far too many of the newer users are mistreating the privileges of MeFi usership, I can't support a system that would exclude only newer people. Now, if we could somehow... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by po
at 1:39 PM on October 4, 2001
