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MeTa post:
We'll build our house and chop our wood
I am in favor of this. I wonder, however, if it's something that should be taken off site in the manner of sportsfilter, metachat, and travelfilter.
Did I do that? Ooohhhh, snap! Seriously though, what does it cost to host either of these sites?
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 2:13 PM on July 3, 2008
MeTa post:
Thread pagination +500 comments
Ajax thread viewer. Whip up a simple paginated view that takes an offset and a number and returns the posts in HTML or even JSON. Writing javascript to smooth-scroll and load on demand given that would take a competent javascript programmer a day
Please don't do this. It breaks things like scroll wheels and space bar paging. Besides, you know who else did that?
Actually, they've since fixed it a bit, but when Live... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 12:39 PM on July 2, 2008
MeTa post:
Happy Mefi-day to me!
Marxchivist, I removed you as a contact to take you back to thirteen, but that left you with fourteen contacts. I am sad on account of I wanted to involve you and jonmc in some sort of gift of the magi like contact adding and removing scheme but, as so often happens, my romantic notions ran afoul of cruel reality.
Stupid reality.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 12:25 PM on June 20, 2008
MeTa post:
One is feets, the other is boots?
The London Mayor Thread is one of my favorite threads. It was great because I learned a shitload ablout local London politics by eavesdropping on a conversation that I never would have heard otherwise. Local posts can be great if they're, you know, great posts.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 9:48 AM on June 19, 2008
MeTa post:
The Little House in Ballard is now empty.
Fuck. Good luck Ms. Macefield, whereever you are. Seattle is better for the likes of you.
And if someone wants to put their money where my mouth is, I'm happy to donate if I don't get laid off on thursday. Tearing the house down and erecting either an enormous middle finger or a community garden would suit.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 7:00 PM on June 17, 2008
MeTa post:
Oh shit, it's a walk-off!
A is prettier and seems easier to read but there'll be scaling issues if certain letters get gobs more tags. B makes it faster to page down to the letter I'm looking for and scan to find a tag. I will not, however, be satisfied until it's standards compliant.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 4:18 PM on June 17, 2008
I fail at the internets. I was going to link to the ISO standard for controlled vocabularies and imply that the tags should be replaced by trained indexers but I didn't preview and I'm very sorry and I'll never to it again.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 4:20 PM on June 17, 2008
MeTa post:
Asked for X, got Y (where X equals help and Y equals grief)
When I was a child, I asked for blocks. Instead, my mother provided me with a reciprocating saw and some hardwood scraps. The gift of creativity and self-reliance was something she couldn't have purchased in any store. Sometimes, the greatest gift you can give a child is the chance to make something with their own hand and the strength to stand on their own foot.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 5:18 PM on June 3, 2008
davejay: Clearly a reciprocating saw is inappropriate for a two-year-old. They lack the strength and motor skills to use a handheld reciprocating saw. Two-year-olds should be limited to table saws, TIG welders, and portable sawmills. What kind of parent would let a toddler loose with a SawZall? That's absurd.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 8:16 PM on June 3, 2008
A jigsaw does not reciprocate. It is a selfish lover.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 9:50 PM on June 3, 2008
MeTa post:
Fightin' Obama and the howlin' wingnuts
Who quits smoking in the middle of a presidential campaign? Seriously, if Obama can do that without snapping he should have this whole Iraq/Peak Oil/Recession thing wrapped up before breakfast.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 12:57 PM on May 29, 2008
MeTa post:
Clinton Obama Filter redux
Oh shit, do you know what this means? It means that, in 2008, the part of Ralph Nader will be played by Hillary Clinton. I. Fucking. Love. It.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 4:17 PM on May 26, 2008
MeTa post:
Ministry of Mis-Information
In the spirit of this thread, I'm donating $200 to Planned Parenthood. Also buying a glock, but that's a separate issue.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 2:56 AM on May 17, 2008
MeTa post:
iPoutine and iTakeout
Bastards! Y'all done called a meetup when I'm in Reno-fucking-Nevada! And on my birthday!
Worst birthday since the one where my friends presented me with a formatted list of every grammatical error and bad joke I'd made in public for the last six years.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 8:01 PM on April 14, 2008
MeTa post:
The Sun Is Here Seattle, Let's Have A Meetup!
Hey fuzzbean, shoot me a MeFail if you'd like some graduates' perspectives on the iSchool. I've got friends, co-workers, and spouses that attended, are attending, or are teaching at the iSchool and, being a librarian, I have a deep-seated need to connect people with information.
I'd like to make the meetup, but schedules are complicated.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 8:01 PM on March 17, 2008
Oh yeah, when I was there, there was a strong undercurrent of poutine at the iSchool. iPoutine they called it.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 8:06 PM on March 17, 2008
MeTa post:
Sans quoi?
Where I said "stet," it should read "stat." Thanks to a helpful MeFite for pointing out my error. I meant to emphasize: right away.
I am greatly relieved to here that.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 1:14 PM on March 10, 2008
MeTa post:
Boooooooooobs.
I realize that nobody gives a shit about a low-volume poster like myself, but I spent a good long time staring at the close account page last night and ended up not closing my account so I could read without the ads and using the plain theme. Also so I could post this apparently. Wonder how many people have fucked off without anyone noticing.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 4:08 PM on January 24, 2008
MeTa post:
Is this something I'd have to have a Metafilter account to know about?
For the individual level, my preferred taxonomy is "showing some goddamned restraint, for christ's sake"...
Goddamnit cortex! Do NOT misuse that word. If you do it again I'm going to drag a half-dozen cranky metafiltroons with taxonomist on their business cards down to portland and force you to sit through a live reading of Svenonious.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 8:41 PM on January 23, 2008
MeTa post:
No Pepsi blue?
Hey, there's a reason why I also implemented the checkbox that turns off the animations.
*You* implemented that checkbox? Let me tell you all the things wrong with that checkbox...
No, not really. If I did that, I'd have to think about all the time I've seen checkboxes implemented badly
Also, I like the Mac keynote MeFi threads. they save me having to sort through... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 9:22 PM on January 15, 2008
MeTa post:
Make the Pledge
Mister_A: Chickens love tomatoes and other fresh vegetables. There is absolutely nothing in your plan that could go wrong.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 8:10 AM on November 27, 2007
MeTa post:
and then she....
There are no roommate questions. They're all just me using sockpuppets and anonymous questions to complain about my mefite wife in the most passive-aggressive way imaginable.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 9:46 PM on November 1, 2007
MeTa post:
Write your congressperson?
I got an email from the original poster. Turns out, he wanted to go to Cuba, Ontario, which is why he was so confused in the first place.
Also, can we have killfiles now?
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 3:13 PM on October 21, 2007
MeTa post:
Favoriting users
I'm trying to link to all the Mefibrarians. It's not up to date and I'm afraid I may have accidently linked to some untouchables paraprofessionals by mistake. I find that creepy.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 11:02 AM on October 12, 2007
MeTa post:
I can has NO Gnostic Novelist plz?
The guy pissed me off the first time I became aware of him. Since then, I watched him drop turd after turd after turd in threads. He's a fucking troll and not a good one. He makes me long for Paris Paramus and fucking 111/witty.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 4:37 PM on August 26, 2007
MeTa post:
You're ignorant
If there's interest in library science/classification theory I'd be happy to share some of the teaching load. I don't have the knowledge/motivation to shoulder the entire load but I know there's enough knowlegable people on metafilter (hildago, I'm looking at you!) to make it work.
Plus, library science tends to have enough relevance to the Web that the web-ish metafiltroons could get a lot of value from it.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 3:23 PM on August 25, 2007
Also, DO WANT!
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 3:23 PM on August 25, 2007
MeTa post:
Feature Request: MetaSnark
There were hardly any geologists on wagon trains.
That's not true. Following the precedent set by Lewis and Clark each official wagon train (as certified by the Bureau of Western Expansion) was require to have a geologist, a buffalo hunter, and a chaplain before being allowed to proceed west of St. Louis. The role of scientific staff on wagon trains is greatly underappreciated outside of certain historical circles focused on the American frontier. The... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 2:36 PM on July 28, 2007
MeTa post:
Dude, nobody is moderating?!!!??
Dude, you're overthinking it. Take a picture of a plate of beans with your camera while enjoying a refreshing bucket of cocks and everything will be fine.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 11:03 PM on July 14, 2007
That's what makes us different.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 11:05 PM on July 14, 2007
The best part was finally meeting the cabal and learning which posters the moderators had personal problems with and whose posts would be deleted more often. That and the random wheel of bannination.
Thanks again, Matt!
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 10:12 AM on July 15, 2007
MeTa post:
WCityMike's Kumquat Rant
I just realized it's "matthew r", and not "matt hewr", like he is a matt who hews things.
Hews things 2.0!
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 12:40 PM on July 5, 2007
MeTa post:
Party RSVP for Portland
We could just ask if people have cameras? Or if they know what a single period all by itself in a comment means? Or present a plate of beans?
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 9:10 AM on July 4, 2007
MeTa post:
new ajaxy flagging in metatalk
While I'd rather post jokes, I should mention that when I flagged the post, my cursor got trapped in the new div. This is frustrating because I page down using the space bar and, not having my cursor in the main page, I was unable to do so.
The workaround is to hit 'tab' once, which shifts focus to the main page.
This is not a big deal, but I thought I'd mention it.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 3:08 PM on May 31, 2007
[NOT TESTERIST]
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 3:08 PM on May 31, 2007
stet, you should be able to flag and continue paging down with the spacebar now.
Flagged as fantastic!
the ocd me who's been forced into testing software lately will try and repro on my work machine tomorrow
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 5:40 PM on May 31, 2007
MeTa post:
Tell me jokes!
only one person flagged it before this thread popped up.
That was me. Do I win a prize?
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 6:47 PM on May 23, 2007
MeTa post:
Nyeah Nyeah
Don't you people have greasemonkey?
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 3:37 PM on March 27, 2007
MeTa post:
Are you kidding?
fourcheesemac is Jean M. Auel in real life. The mind boggles, really.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 4:35 PM on March 16, 2007
MeTa post:
This is why we can't have nice things.
I'd always assumed she did a bit of mild pruning of an afternoon, but now imagine she must be going days without sleep, popping uppers with one hand and feverishly clicking the delete button with the other, muttering arcane Librarian curses under her breath.
"Sweet Haven of Ranganathan!"
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 2:35 PM on February 28, 2007
MeTa post:
Where do Metafilter people meet their mates online?...
Ha ha, The Deej caught teh gay!
I met my wife in library school. I had a metafilter account and she did not. Then matt opened signups and the doors to passion were opened! Open signups saved my marriage.
The awkward part was when I suggested we bring in Monkeyfilter. Boy, some women do *not* freak that way.
posted to MetaTalk by stet
at 2:43 PM on January 20, 2007
