*throws Scalzi confetti* That's fifteen kinds of awesome, John. Congrats!
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 6:18 AM on August 12, 2008

Reassuring news about you, piratebowling. Let's hope the situation returns to some sense of normal very soon.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 6:10 AM on August 12, 2008

Awesome. Big round of applause.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 4:01 AM on March 21, 2008

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posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 6:36 AM on December 11, 2007

Born to Hum
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 8:06 PM on August 28, 2007

Perhaps we just need a list of subjects that konolia is allowed to post about freely without anybody getting themselves all riled up about her being either a.) a horrible anti-gay bigot who should go die in a fire or b.) a stupid believer in magical invisible sky pixies. Puppies, rainbows, the price of tea in western Albuquerque grocery stores, maybe?

If we're not going to limit her that way and yet want to say that she's fair game for any opinion she posts that can be... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 10:29 AM on June 14, 2007

But we are limiting her, through the moderators. They've said as much.

And she's living up to those limits and it's still not enough for her detractors, so something has to give, doesn't it?
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 5:06 PM on June 14, 2007

I think I make it on the 11th, with a little flim-flammery. Where is Church Brew Works?
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 10:32 PM on April 27, 2007

Oh, that place! Awesome. I shall endeavor to appear.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 11:52 AM on April 28, 2007

Whether or not plaidrabbit was going to use bullets is irrelevant. Unless you have some evidence that he is a psychopath or criminal, then his ability to carry a gun, concealed or otherwise, is not in any way the danger that you're making it out to be, certainly not to the "public health." To have jumped in with your arm-waving, hand-wringing anti-gun spiel in a place where it was specifically requested that such digressions not occur was out of place, and Jessamyn was right to pull... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 3:45 PM on April 24, 2007

shelleycat, I have in my archives an e-mail reply sent to you within 5 hours with regard to the about the security issue, caused by a problematic robots.txt which coincided with a spidering, and I worked quite diligently to remove the index and passworded the surveys. But you know, let's don't let the chance to be sensationalist get in the way of the facts.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 11:22 PM on February 4, 2007

After the robots.txt incident, the native passwording of WordPress was put into play, and will be used from here on out with everything on that side of the site. (It was actually the post-swap surveys that weren't adequately protected, not the original information that included names, e-mail addresses and mailing addresses.) The extra layer of hassle involved* is worth it to protect everyone's privacy. No one was as mortified by what occurred than I.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 1:57 PM on February 5, 2007

Nice work!
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 8:58 AM on September 27, 2006

Everything's all bloggified now, folks, so if you want to discuss what's been sent and received... comments!

The follow-up surveys will be posted sometime this week.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 2:23 PM on September 4, 2006

Also, my e-mail is borked. Every time I try to send something, GMail falls over and dies, so if you're waiting to hear from me about something, please, please try to hit me up via IM, "mefiswaphelp" on both Yahoo IM and GTalk.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 2:30 PM on September 4, 2006

Also, one more time, I haven't reinstalled a forum because the forums were an iffy extension to things in the past and represented another parcel of work, so when my phpBB install got hacked to hell, I ditched it. Forums aren't coming back for this swap session but I'll add a question about a forum in the survey and if there's a majority interest, I'll create something.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 2:34 PM on September 4, 2006

The Location: Penn Avenue at Graham St. in the Garfield/Bloomfield/Friendship/East Liberty neighborhood.

The Fare: Coffees, teas, milkshakes that will rock your socks and yummy vegetarian/vegan food.

The Day: The first anniversary of Katrina's landfall in New Orleans.

The Associated Good Deed: 50% of the restaurant's dinner proceeds will be donated to Share Our Strength in order to help aid Gulf Coast rebuilding efforts.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 2:05 PM on August 28, 2006

As it turns out, I'm probably not going to be able to make it either. (I was supposed to be there ten minutes ago.) Cranky, allergy-suffering children are taking precendence tonight. Sorry folks.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 3:41 PM on August 29, 2006

/me sends Matt a batch of Quadruple Chocolate Makes Mouths Happy Brownies for his prompt response.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 11:21 AM on August 8, 2006

Is it just me or are more people not coming than coming? (I'm coming.)
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 1:08 PM on August 4, 2006

You missed a fun evening, ludwig_van. Low key, but still quite a nice time.

Now that we've finally been able to make a meetup happen (after what, a half dozen prior, fizzled attempts?) perhaps we can start making this a periodic kind of thing.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 12:56 AM on August 5, 2006

Also, it's worth noting, to avoid the MeTa-quick-scrolling-oops-off-the-page issue and the ugh-shes-posting-again issue, without missing out on future swaps, add the feed to your reader of choice (or pick it up on LJ), add key dates from the calendar to your Google calendar or heck, just remember to check in once a quarter for swapping goodness.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 12:56 AM on July 21, 2006

It's actually happening.

And thanks, rollbiz, the fried equipment is home and in fine functioning order now, which is why I was able to post the reminder with confidence.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 10:11 AM on July 13, 2006

inigo2 - thanks for the heads up, it was a bad anchor. Bah. Fixed now -- and the registrations keep rolling in.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 4:03 PM on July 13, 2006

Davehat, you can have your CDs sent to anywhere or anyone. The swap is international, so your mixes could ostensibly go to a Kenyan PO box, but anything that you arrange that you feel is reliable is fine fine, be that a third person relay or an APO address or whatever.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 8:41 AM on July 14, 2006

The mefiswap site is kinda borked in firefox. I think you need to increase the width of your main container.

Hmm, I'm looking at it in Firefox with no such borkening. Can you screenshot what you're seeing?
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 9:43 PM on June 20, 2006

Oh crud, it should be public. Let me fix that. Thanks for that heads up, team lowkey.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 5:07 PM on April 11, 2006

Best wishes, dobbs. You're a peach. Hope to see you around while you're in between projects.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 12:44 PM on January 3, 2006

I sound like this. (Or like this.) All of you sound like frat boys. Except the women, who sound like Ann Curry from the Today Show. But mainly, MeFite=Mental Frat Boy.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 1:46 AM on December 18, 2005

Are you in one of those bands, ludwig_van? Should we meet up then and cheer for the MeFite on stage?
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 8:38 PM on December 4, 2005

Four year winner, going for number five. As if I'm not busy enough as it is.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 6:40 AM on October 31, 2005

Some goodies to download, my annual contribution to helping others' NaNo efforts.

Oh, and 5,259 words as of half an hour ago. I'm kicking NaNo butt.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 7:57 AM on November 2, 2005

Dreama wholeheartedly thanks you for your support and for organizing a swap off her shoulders. Have fun with this go 'round and I'll be ready to go with the regular swap after 01/01/06.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 8:07 AM on October 20, 2005

Following last year's amazing outpouring of generosity to my friend Karen and her family, who lost their home and all of their belongings in a fire, Karen and her family have undertaken some kindness of their own.

With Karen coordinating and her three kids doing a lot of legwork (especially for the little ones) they went around their community and in concert with a community group, the local library and several churches, they have collected clothing, linens and household... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 5:02 AM on October 1, 2005

Bah, I'm out of the city and too hugely pregnant (and concerned about gasoline) to come down, but I'll pass this on to friends and family. Many wishes for huge success, Alison!
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 4:46 AM on September 3, 2005

1. Per the news item posted on Monday night, every registered user should have received e-mail on Monday night, either confirming the activation of their account or with questions regarding their account which need to be answered before activation can take place. If you didn't get an e-mail, you aren't registered. If you tried to register but didn't get an e-mail and cannot login, there's some kind of problem, so please let me know. (Salmacis, I just saw your registration... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 1:12 AM on July 20, 2005

Everybody is off reading Harry #&!)* Potter.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 2:49 AM on July 18, 2005

Okay here's the deal --

I thought that the system informed users when their accounts have been activated, but it doesn't. So when I activate accounts I'm posting a new news item on the front page.

Once you're activated, login and if you intend to be in this swap session, add your mailing address to the address book. It'll automatically assign you to group AC/DC but that will change in the future. Those addresses also need to be okayed by me,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 8:01 AM on June 30, 2005

spicynuts -- the nixer's list still resides in my pointy little head, I'll be publicizing it before the swap sign-up period ends but you have no reason to fear being stuck in a group with any of those people again because once someone is verified as a nixer, they are forevermore banned from the swap unless they can prove that they neglected to send their mixes because their house burned down or some other similarly intense tragedy prevented it.

salmacis -- let me check... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 7:39 PM on July 1, 2005

Oh wait, salmacis, I just re-read your comment more closely. NO ONE is already registered due to past participation. There's a whole new system in place, everyone who wishes to be a part has to register themselves now.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 7:40 PM on July 1, 2005

I wanted to be at NAVS but this weekend was already overscheduled for me, but I can be in Johnstown fairly easily, and a meetup would be spiffy if I schlep on down there. And hey, you can see me in all my pregnant vegetarian-but-not-at-the-summerfest glory!
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 7:35 PM on July 1, 2005

Wow, I feel like a(n extraordinarily) minor celebrity. Thank you all for watching, and thank you riffola for the reminder thread.

Boomchicka, I've e-mailed you, a digital file would be super splendiferous. I've got friends in the UK and Australia who want to see my tragedy firsthand. *snort*

I'm hoping to be able to wrap my brain around writing an essay about the Jeopardy experience in the not so distant future. I'll publish it publicly on my... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 6:45 PM on June 21, 2005

Well, actually I ended up with a Jeopardy tote bag (that I now use when I go to the library) a photo of Alex with a spiffy Jeopardy branded frame to display it and $930. The 3rd place finisher gets $1,000 but California has a 7% tax that they apply to all game show winnings of out of state contestants. (Sucks to be KenJen on that score.)

Two funny things: Donna Brutkoski got $2,000 for coming in second, and Mike Bober, who won, got $1,201 for the victory. Oops!... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 7:21 AM on June 22, 2005

m3dia, Final Jeopardy was: This 2-word city is named for the founders' wives (they had the same name) & the natural groves found there.

Question: What is Ann Arbor?

Alternate Answer: This 2-word city stumped all three Jeopardy players and Dreama will never visit there again, dammit.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 5:53 PM on June 22, 2005

How old do you think I am, wendell?!?!
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 3:58 PM on June 23, 2005

This thread has been great. Thanks for the link to the group, mathowie, and kudos on the snarkback. *applause*

I've added a bunch of new contacts. I'm here in case anyone wants to see... very little at the moment, which should change if I can find the cable for my camera or my card reader, both of which are currently in hiding.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 1:49 PM on June 19, 2005

naxosaxur and Eldeteker - it's an audio CD swap. You send five, you get five if everyone's trustworthy. (They are more than not.) Once you've done it once, you can send ten and get ten.

matildaben - It is working okay, all new users have to be activated by yours truly -- that's how I'm keeping non-member interlopers out. :D (Yes, every single swap we have a good handful of non-MeFites who try to horn in on our action.)

I'm about to go and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 3:43 PM on June 9, 2005

Regular CDs, caddis. It's about, um, sharing our picks of favorite tunes on a quadrennial basis, not piracy.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 7:25 PM on June 9, 2005

The red is that shocking?
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 10:49 PM on June 9, 2005

This rocks. I'm so in.
posted to MetaTalk by Dreama at 5:13 AM on June 5, 2005