This is the perfect thread to mention my new theory about the "feh/meh" ratio. Being able to search within a user's activity now makes it easy to see how often each of uses the dismissive "feh" as well as it's more apathetic cousin "meh".

As you can see from the linked examples, I used (at least before I started writing this thing) "feh" four times and "meh" only once, for a 4/1 feh/meh ratio.

My... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 6:45 PM on July 25, 2008

Damnit, I didn't link to my own "meh" search in the proper link, and used the "feh" one a second time.

Feh.

man, I'm building up an inverse negative ration quick at this rate
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 7:01 PM on July 25, 2008

Okay, fine; I'll do it myself:

jonmc: 9/11 (an aggressive "feh" user, but not completely inversed)
grapefruitmoon: 0/4
fixedgear: 0/6
tkchrist: 0/7
loquacious: 4/1 (ooh, another outlier!)
Brandon Blatcher: 0/8
It's Raining Florence Henderson: 1/5

Do you see what I'm going on about now!!!???!!!
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 7:49 PM on July 25, 2008

fuzzy skinner and Ms. Saint: both 0/0. Get a real vocabulary, kids.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 7:51 PM on July 25, 2008

More!

TheOnlyCoolTim: 0/1
sgt.serenity: 0/0 (well, he's Scottish)
scrump: 0/0 (well, he's scrump)
rmd1023: 0/0 (okay, I'm getting tired of this, now...)
cortex: 6/60 (finally some meaningful statistics!!)
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 7:59 PM on July 25, 2008

Now I have a perverse desire to go to AskMe and ask if Randy Pausch has died yet.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 9:10 AM on July 25, 2008

Obviously, someone needs to make a Project.

In this website, I discuss the intersection of administrative matters with substantive content, with an eye towards the proper classification of obituaries, particularly of recently-deceased computer science professors.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 10:00 AM on July 25, 2008

I'm guessing that when crash originally posted it, the site didn't mention Obama. Now it does, and he wanted to point that out to us.

Am I right? If so, what do I win?
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 7:32 AM on July 24, 2008

Huh, that double-posting thing doesn't happen much any more. Sorry about that.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 7:35 AM on July 24, 2008

Isn't it an FPP?
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 2:03 PM on July 23, 2008

Thread drift: Good? Bad? Opinions differ.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 4:40 AM on July 24, 2008

Speaking of petty and small; I would say something about docpops' comment, but I fear his finely-honed sensibilities and exquisite taste would strike me down like the classless peon that I am were I to dare such an affront.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 10:48 AM on July 23, 2008

THANKY KINDLY GOOD SIR
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 10:57 AM on July 23, 2008

UbuRoivas, I felt the same way about both Dee_extrovert's comment and pjern's, and I didn't favorite either of them for just that reason. As long as they're both here, though, I want to tell each of them that I read their comments, I appreciated their making them, and I was overwhelmed at the thought of how difficult they must have been to make.

Those kinds of complicated emotions deserve a little more than a "favorite" check-off.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 7:22 PM on July 23, 2008

This is why my only contact is "met". No chance of any misunderstanding (except for those of you who I may have met and didn't know about, and those of you who I didn't and thought I did ...)
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 6:39 PM on July 21, 2008

I didn't think this was a good idea either, but Mr. Shetterly and the rest of you witty bastards have redeemed it.

Dangit.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 6:33 PM on July 21, 2008

I have bragged before about how I am the first member of the "14k" crew, because the seven that preceded me were only there for - well, for other reasons. Hey, they never made any comments, right?

Any one of them, however, could suddenly show up and make a comment just to prove me wrong, though, so I've been pretty much on pins and needles for the past seven years.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 8:24 PM on July 19, 2008

Six years. I was so worried about counting off user numbers on my fucking fingers (00, that's one, then zero-one, that's two ...) that I can't count years.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 8:29 PM on July 19, 2008

Words left out. Phrases incomplete.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 12:16 PM on July 17, 2008

You may want to rethink that pla.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 10:54 AM on July 17, 2008

So what did she win?

(youcancallmeal for the millionth favorite, that is, not jessamyn for - well, you know)
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 2:17 PM on July 16, 2008

That's nothing; I can convert beer into urine.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 9:15 AM on July 16, 2008

Me too. But it's just too damn hot in New Orleans this time of the year for me to fire up the Cessna.

Sorry.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 5:59 PM on July 15, 2008

Yeah, great idea! We can all participate in a 10th anniversary meetup together in real time, with near-instant feedback between each one of us without any of us having to actually be in the same location at the same time!

Now if only we could come up with some way to build the architecture necessary to pull something like this off ...
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 7:36 AM on July 14, 2008

Just wanted to be the first to let orange swan know I have a spare room available.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 9:18 AM on July 14, 2008

Live preview is neither.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 11:01 AM on July 11, 2008

quin, please stop typing one word at a time like that. It's apparently annoying some members.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 6:48 PM on July 10, 2008

Having just played it, I disagree. It was actually a pretty hard game, and I was just coming here to say so. So there, nyaaah.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 6:31 PM on July 10, 2008

Okay, I never use either word in MeFi discourse, but I still appreciate this thread for exposing me to the Sickipedia Index of Sick Jokes. Thank you, MetaFilter, you continue to broaden my horizons!
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 8:06 PM on July 9, 2008

Hey, does anyone know of a magic 8-ball cgi tool I could use? TIA
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 9:18 AM on July 9, 2008

Yeah, I suppose you're right, Meatbomb. You should just go ahead and shut this thread down, then.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 8:09 AM on July 7, 2008

It's still awful early out in California, and it's a holiday besides. I don't think eyeballkid is going to make it in time before this gets closed up.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 7:15 AM on July 4, 2008

On the other hand, I actually have drank many cold beers tonight, not to mention that I did eat three fuckin hotdogs (they were excellent), and unlike eyeballkid (who is getting awfully soft in his old age) I HATE ALL OF YOU.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 8:50 PM on July 4, 2008

Yeah, I also thought it was an excellent example of what an FPP should not look like. I don't have - (wait for it) -

all kinds of time.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 4:56 AM on July 3, 2008

And you forgot to small-text the asterixed paragraph.

No coffee FAIL.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 5:31 AM on July 3, 2008

Good point, marxchivist. I sure wasn't going to crap in the post itself, and I don't think anyone did, but this MeTa thread shows that absence of criticism doesn't always equal approval.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 5:45 AM on July 3, 2008

He deleted his account because someone made a MetaTalk thread about how wonderful his post was, and some people didn't agree with that assessment?!?

Christ.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 12:08 PM on July 3, 2008

Gosh, 'hat; good thing I didn't end with my first draft: "I didn't hate his post before, but I sure as hell do now."
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 12:22 PM on July 3, 2008

No. There's too many assholes that still think "we" (the MetafFilter collective) did something wrong.

There were NO "this is a shitty post" comments in the original thread.

When a MeTa thread was posted that proclaimed the original thread as one of the best MeFi threads of all time, several people who didn't think so, said so.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 7:12 PM on July 3, 2008

I'm already pissed; I didn't realize the fireworks were tonight instead of tomorrow. So, we're sitting here in our house listening to explosions. Big Fucking Deal. You have to SEE them to be impressed. Duh!

I'm sorry, what was this about again?
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 7:09 PM on July 3, 2008

Is there such a thing as a squeamish, embarrassed favorite? There should be.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 6:42 AM on July 3, 2008

Where was this posted to MeFi? Neither the URL nor the word "indexhibit" show up in search.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 10:48 AM on July 2, 2008

Ah, I was only looking in MeFi itself; it had previously only been mentioned in Ask (and only in the comments therein).
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 11:32 AM on July 2, 2008

Actually, it looks from the discussion that the real happy ending is the confirmation of the tenet that you shouldn't post your friends' stuff to MetaFilter because you might not be completely objective about whether it's good enough (or ready enough) to post.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 7:57 AM on July 1, 2008

Of course not. Use the letter opener for that.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 8:01 AM on July 1, 2008

Man, after reading that I just went to look for this great subsection I'd never heard of before called "AnnoyMe", because I had a hell of a great question to submit. Imagine my disappointment.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 2:22 PM on July 1, 2008

Yep. This has gone well past MetaFilter-related into a post of its own, and that ain't what MetaTalk is for.

*shoots the thread between the eyes, puts the sumbitch out of its misery*

*remembers he's not a moderator, waits for someone with a real gun to show up*
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 7:25 PM on June 30, 2008

Wasn't there a thread all about making tamales not too long ago? Oh yeah, here it is.

Happy birthday!
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 9:31 AM on July 1, 2008

You folks might have something with this "people like to answer questions" angle.
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 8:22 AM on July 1, 2008

* hums Jeopardy theme *
posted to MetaTalk by yhbc at 6:53 PM on June 30, 2008