hrm I'll try to make it- I fly back from Detroit that morning- depends on how much of a vacation I need from my vacation.
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 2:10 PM on December 18, 2007

I ain't going down... That ain't MY Monkey! I have no DNA.
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 9:18 AM on December 29, 2006

princeples? I heard about them once, what are they like?
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 11:36 AM on December 29, 2006

principles even
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 11:37 AM on December 29, 2006

post noting in fear that the last time we did this, I was fired from my job shortly thereafter
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 12:12 PM on June 8, 2005

and that I still miss that hamper
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 12:12 PM on June 8, 2005

Link to try to explain the hamper bit
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 12:37 PM on June 8, 2005

post expressing very late apologies for explaining the hamper bit.
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 8:19 AM on June 9, 2005

*pokes head in, looks around*

Wow, um, yeah... good work or someting.

just um, remember to clean up the joint afterwards, I suggest using LOTS of bleach. cause ya know, the smell...

I mean hell, we had to start a whole new site
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 6:03 PM on June 21, 2005

My only problem with using 9622 is it's rather ugly to look at compared to Metafilter

Please tell me you don't have a problem with Bingo the Bad Habits monkey!
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 8:02 AM on January 14, 2005

Apparently, we can't have nice things here.
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 9:11 AM on March 4, 2003

my date, who dressed as a garden gnome, was a hit but not quite the papa to my smurf . . .

why does that sound terribly dirty?
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 2:25 PM on October 31, 2002

Hey, tj, I didn't know you hung out here too! Wow, just like Old Home Week.

what the?
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 7:37 AM on October 25, 2002

Miguel, even I think you're stretching it a bit now. Calm down and ease off the post button there, cowboy.
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 5:21 AM on October 11, 2002

whoa, I had forgotten about "MetaTalk - now with full frontal Miguel."
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 9:20 AM on October 5, 2002

"___ was allowed to go on for days"

is that like: "Do not invoke the name, lest ye invoke the presence?"
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 11:50 AM on September 27, 2002

hmm. the PageUp key seems to work fine for me.
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 9:58 AM on September 17, 2002

shut up kafka, you fuckwit.


no harm meant of course
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 11:32 AM on September 6, 2002

well played kaf, well played indeed
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 12:16 PM on September 6, 2002

i have a good understanding of metafilter and the whole mefi way of thinking.

I've been here for a couple years now and I'm not sure I have a handle on it.
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 6:30 AM on August 30, 2002

so can I change my id to tjtheadequateduck?

seriously though, I have say that I've noticed the entitlement thing lately as well, but I can't say if it's from people who paid or not, but that is why I would suggest against it.
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 7:16 AM on August 30, 2002

ok that made no sense.

try 2: because people feel entitled to a certain level of service when they pay for something, my opinion is that it may not worth it for the hassle it generates to Matt and the community to charge for accees to MetaFilter.
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 7:18 AM on August 30, 2002

I love that these threads, rather than being ignored by those who disapprove, become wanking about whether or not they should exist. Espescially people posting "I'll visibly pass on this"
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 6:01 AM on July 31, 2002

ashbury, I just don't see any behavior changing for good or ill for as long as these threads have popped up there's been people saying that they don't beloing here. It was the "I'm not going to play your reindeer games" attitude that kinda cracked me up.

Oh, stav and insomnyuk... thanks, I needed to get off that high horse.
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 6:57 AM on July 31, 2002

whoa!
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 8:11 AM on July 25, 2002

However, keep it off the site. I'm doing my best to curb my arrogance; I suggest you try the same.

I call bullshit on that. I don't even read MeFi that much anymore, but anytime I do, you seem to be chiming in on what's proper. Apologizing once when you're called on being a jackass doesn't mean anything.
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 6:42 PM on July 23, 2002

when people don't stop to smell the stavroses
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 2:06 PM on July 9, 2002

Marquis,
are you using Win98 or ME by any chance? I'm noticing some disparities on Mozilla 1.0 between different versions of Windows. (mainly NT/2000/XP and 98/ME)
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 3:05 PM on June 28, 2002

there is no 9622.net
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 9:38 PM on June 24, 2002

I don't mean to get off on a rant here, but... Look, I'll be honest, the only reason us (we? whatever, I'm not a grammatician) monkeys at 9622 took to other pastures is because we finally realized that our hijinx was detrimental to other mefi users.

unfortunately, I don't think that the "cult" thread phenom will ever die out completely. there will be a new group thread that certain people latch onto and continue shennanigans in. It may be an existing thread or... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 10:43 PM on May 7, 2002

metrocake: this is not my beautiful house!

honestly, I think the A-listers (whoever, whatever) should feel kinda good that some (many?) current/new bloggers don't know who the hell they are. Something that they were on the ground floor of, and helped nuture has now grown to a size where they are not automatically associated with it. Let's face it, that accomplishment should feel better than any ass-kising would.

(my opnion, could be total crap)
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 2:47 PM on May 2, 2002

hell, I organized it.. so of course
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 3:03 PM on April 18, 2002

I'd rather not talk about it. ask insomnyuk
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 7:34 PM on April 29, 2002

I poke my head in abou once or twice a week, usually around 10pm EST
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 12:45 PM on April 18, 2002

okey dokey, A2 it is. I haven't lived in A2 since 99 so, any suggestions where exactly?
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 7:43 AM on April 6, 2002

I'm down with Grizzly Peak... I'm thinking the 20th.
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 12:40 PM on April 8, 2002

ok, how 7PM on the 20th at Grizzly Peak (although later or earlier may be better to avoid the dinner rush at that place if I remeber correctly)
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 9:28 AM on April 10, 2002

here's the evite
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 4:44 PM on April 10, 2002

I'm a dork.. here it is again:
evite
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 2:53 PM on April 15, 2002

Well, I was not born so mush as bred in a FBI/NSA/Secret Service black-op project on banality gone horribly awry... it happens
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 1:49 AM on February 20, 2002

oh, and to answer the question posed at the start of this thread... no
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 1:51 AM on February 20, 2002

*peep*
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 9:55 PM on March 7, 2002

hi, and now a theory:

ya see, the real secret is to keep your *hero* identity secret. that way your secret identity isn't secret at all, and much easier to keep people from finding out about it.

ow... I think I just blew a synapse there
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 11:50 AM on March 8, 2002

you're asking *me*? has something I've written on this site made you think that I'm good at this whole insight thing?? I'm a freelance movie reviewer/tech support monkey/web designer for chrissakes. I don't have the attention span for that sort of thing.

or this some sort of "help tee-jay-three kinobi" thing? If so I'm gonna have to find some kid wearing a white belted gi and ace bandages on his legs to help me out.

(I believe my... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 12:40 AM on March 9, 2002

No wait! I remember: if no one know about the whole superhero thing, then the secret identity isn't neccessary?

so I guess I meant that if you have superpowers, only use them for apathy.

that doesn't sound right...
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 12:46 AM on March 9, 2002

heh sorry, I was TUI (typing under the influence)
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 10:00 AM on March 11, 2002

wow, never thought I'd say this, but they have made a Gloria Gaynor song *worse*
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 10:14 PM on March 7, 2002

wow, I thought the original thread had devolved into wanking, I stand corrected... keep it to the cult threads people... that's why they're there.
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 1:46 AM on February 20, 2002

umm have we degenerated into grammatival wanking here?... just checking
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 1:42 AM on February 20, 2002

hrm lightweights....

one thing that y'all are forgetting is the people that read MeTa, but don't post (also prolly a large percentage of MeFi)
posted to MetaTalk by tj at 1:36 AM on February 20, 2002