I usually assume that, once it's off the front page, nobody is checking back anyway, because my questions just aren't that interesting.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 10:33 AM on May 3, 2008

And then we can read about it in the New York ×.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 7:50 AM on April 22, 2008

My donut pic just got We Demand Donut spam.

I just tagged my one photo of a donut "donut" and "doughnut" - I want We Demand Donut spam, too!
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 8:18 PM on April 15, 2008

pregame? Is something else going on that weekend?
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 6:53 PM on January 21, 2008

I'll be at the Compleat Strategist until 5 or 6 that day. I'll probably decide on the spot whether I'll go down to the meetup or just go home.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 5:43 AM on January 23, 2008

How's parking in the area? Looks like rather than being at the Strategist, I'll be at a baby shower in Brooklyn until 5. At that point, I'm driving, since my Brooklyn friends aren't quite close enough to mass transit for me.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 7:44 AM on February 8, 2008

Sorry I missed you. The baby shower ran long and I like my pregnant friend more than I like you guys.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 8:00 PM on February 9, 2008

There is no Central Jersey, just a demilitarized zone between North and South Jersey.

(actually, Trenton is just a hair further south than I'm willing to venture, but a Central Jersey meetup isn't wholly out of the question.)
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 6:27 PM on February 6, 2008

I have to admit, I only prefer Princeton because it's not so far for me to drive. I live in Central Jersey myself, just the northern edge of it. (I was just teasin' ya there before, bro.)
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 7:50 AM on February 8, 2008

What I got for Christmas. It was a thrill a minute.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 6:19 PM on December 25, 2007

Most importantly, for the first time our three month old slept for more than 6 hours straight, letting my wife sleep in on Christmas morning. The rest was icing on the proverbial cake.The year my neice was about that age at Christmas (well, a couple months older), I tentatively offered my brother and his wife a suplemental present: one night a month off for the next year. I'd thought they might be hesitant (everyone who's had a baby can laugh at that; what did I know?) --... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 8:03 PM on December 25, 2007

Lemme put this another way: I'm a software developer. While there's no official code of conduct for programmers*, there's a fairly ad-hoc — a developer who steals code, for example, will likely find himself blackballed from any serious work. Nobody's ever suggested, however, that I should my friends to pay when I host their email, or help them develop a web site, or whathaveyou.

Here's the thing, though. If your pal decides he doesn't like the website... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 8:00 PM on December 21, 2007

My workplace has Websense too, but doesn't seem to block the tags page, woo hoo.

I work, um, customer relations / tech support / content management. Both our tracking system and the piece of crap software[1] we use for the content management will randomly take for-fsking-ever to either perform basic functions and/or switch between accounts. So I keep metafilter (or whatever) in another window and read a bit when I have cleared the email queue and am waiting for a call... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 11:45 AM on December 14, 2007

Hrm. If I ever need a sock puppet, it's totally going to be grapefruitspoon.

You realize you've just about guaranteed someone else is going to grab it before you, now?
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 1:57 PM on December 7, 2007

How early are you planning to get together? I have a 1pm-6pm thing near Penn station on Saturday.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 10:39 AM on December 6, 2007

But those who spent more time analyzing his sexism than his words would do us all a favour by backing off just a bit.

As opposed to those who spent more time insisting that nobody should have said anything at all, this isn't a conversation worth having, and why can't women just toughen up anyway? They could do us all a favour, too...

Just sayin'
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 8:43 AM on December 6, 2007

How do you know what the motivation of the door-holder is? Are you psychic? Do you ask everyone who holds a door for you, just so you know when to be weirded out?It depends. Sometimes you don't. Sometimes you see someone hanging out by a door ignoring men who come along who jumps to open the door when a woman comes along. Then you can make an educated guess.

Additionally, you sometimes run across men (usually older men) who can't let a women hold... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 10:28 AM on December 6, 2007

Man. Now I wish I'd worked up the nerve to call in. Apparently the bar wasn't set all that high after all... ;)

I'm also amused that Jessamyn was apparently interacting with networking on the Vax when I was hanging out on BBS's and taking online courses via NJIT's EIES system (technically it was "Intro to Sociology" from the now-gone Upsala College, but it was 1985, which rendered the whole thing a bit more cool. Plus I was still in high school.) It... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 6:27 AM on December 4, 2007

Or do we not all have spare accounts?

Golly, I hardly use the one I have. Don't know what I'd do with a spare!
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 7:27 AM on November 28, 2007

Why does everyone say "Please advise." in emails that they send to tech support?

Because they are used to emails to tech support vanishing off into the darkness, perhaps never to be heard from again. "Please advise" is their polite way of asking tech support to keep them in the loop, or at least give them some clue when/if the issue will ever be addressed.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 5:06 PM on November 27, 2007

Actually, I was thinking of Lily Tomlin's wonderfully crass: "We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.", a comment I have seen elicit a laugh from more than one die-hard feminist (as well as a lot of other people).I have to note, though, that the joke still works if you adjust it to "...that humankind first walked upright..."

Or did anyone here think women don't?... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 10:09 AM on November 26, 2007

I remember Miguel, but not why he left. Not sure if I remember Bunnyfire. And there was a big thing about "Free Quonsar", but no matter how many bottlecaps I saved, I never got one.

The best part? None of you has the first clue who I am, or cares. Man, I wish I had the time and energy to be famous enough that anyone would notice if I left, let alone felt victorious and/or disappointed about it.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 9:41 PM on November 24, 2007

tl;dr
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 5:44 AM on November 15, 2007

Fine. My profile photo is actually me. There.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 5:38 PM on November 14, 2007

I can see where "What do I get for my 30-something boyfriend who loves scuba diving, pottery, NASCAR, Iron Chef, dismembered toes, Hitler's petrified dick, and mushrooms? His favourite colour is sage green?" annoys folks.

How about "My boyfriend likes his gadget, and I have determined that he has widgets X, Y, and Z for it. I've found several other widgets for his gadget type that he does not have (yet), but I'm not sure which is most likely likely to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 8:34 AM on November 2, 2007

I find it's a lovely way to vent. I have no idea whether context is clear, but I don't much care. It's just shouting into the ether.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 6:10 PM on October 10, 2007

I've never heard of Jaiku. A web search turns up a lot of articles about Google acquiring Jaiku, but not much about the service itself. I don't really text, so mobile phone apps aren't much use to me. I use IM though...
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 5:58 AM on October 11, 2007

eh. They're short, at least. Makes them easier to skip.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 8:32 AM on October 7, 2007

Well, it's really hard to guess my Twitter name from my MeFi id... it's karmakaze. Wacky, I know.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 5:40 AM on October 5, 2007

Sometimes posts take a moment to show up.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 5:22 PM on September 14, 2007

Heh. I'll be flying out to Indianapolis for GenCon.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 5:09 PM on August 13, 2007

In an odd confluence with the meta post right before this one, I feel too fat to be seen in public lately. Makes it hard to go to meetups.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 7:46 PM on July 1, 2007

what's the line that makes one post acceptable and another one, not?

Not that I speak for the mods or anything, but how about the fact that the post you reference actually explains what the link is and why it might be interesting.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 11:18 AM on June 25, 2007

Am I the only person who expected something like this after posting in the e-mail meta thread? Ok - I didn't specifically expect a mass mailing, but I was pretty sure at least one mefite was going to send at least one email to me because I had posted in a thread about emails in profiles and had an email in my profile. I wouldn't have been disappointed if nothing had resulted, but I would have been surprised. And yeah, this sort of nonsense is why I have more than one email and etc.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 9:38 AM on June 16, 2007

I think, like, once, I got a whiny email from someone who misconstrued something I said as a personal attack. Otherwise, it's been a resounding silence. 'course, I'm not exactly a high volume participant around here.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 11:43 AM on June 15, 2007

Well, there's the upcoming group: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/group/37/

But nobody uses it anymore.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 9:27 AM on June 12, 2007

My god. This reminds me of all the lifejournal friending kerfuffles.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 6:16 PM on June 2, 2007

Not being prominent, I cannot speak...
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 4:08 PM on April 17, 2007

Cyrano, I'm fond of doing it this way.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 7:12 PM on April 12, 2007

Our latest surveillance statistsics show that we're down to only 8% axe-grinding creeps. Our advertisers would like us to do something about this. Any ideas?

More FFPs about whetstones?
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 7:32 AM on April 11, 2007

Oh, for those who do not care for pdfs, the website has the same info: http://lubalincenter.cooper.edu/

On a separate issue. If I were to say, want to invite people to meet me at NYC at a dance performance choreographed by a friend, would that go in projects, even though it is really my friend's thing?
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 3:26 PM on March 27, 2007

I suppose keeping it to yourself isn't an option, is it?

In my case, it's an option. It's not as though I never go places that I think other MeFites might enjoy. I just don't feel popular enough to demand the attention.

It was a theoretical question, mostly. By and large if I arrange an expedition, I post the logistics on my livejournal, on the assumption that's a more targeted audience.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 5:18 PM on March 27, 2007

Furthermore, I basically don't ask questions any more because I'm worried something "important" will come up in the next two weeks.

Didn't there used to be a once a week limit? Did you worry about posting before for fear something more important might come up over the next week?
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 7:44 AM on February 5, 2007

As if the tags on the post don't make it perfectly obvious that the linked site is an artist's portfolio. I really wish Matt or Jess would flush the annoying complaining comments. The tags don't show on the main page. If the point is "I want to know whether to click on this or move on", then making it mandatory to click on the comments to find that out is kind of counterproductive.

Now, me, I glossed right past it because the post had... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 8:36 AM on February 1, 2007

I'm sorry you don't have time to look at links. Why precisely are you wasting that precious time with Metafilter? I'm sorry you don't have the reading comprehension skills to have understood the part where I mention that some days I have more time than others. There's a world of difference between not having the time to read every word of every link and comment posted to the blue, and not having the time to read any of it. As it happens, both my work and personal projects come... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 10:42 AM on February 1, 2007

I know I'm late to the party, but...
If, for example, it were found that removing parts of the vulva would reduce incidence of cancer of the vulva, then we would certainly not begin to think that removal of the vulva may be a healthy option.

In fact, it would be considered absurd to even investigate the possible benefits of such a procedure. Such research would never be funded here.

You have, I take it, never heard... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 11:24 AM on January 9, 2007

Karmakaze, you realize that breasts are considered secondary sexual characteristics, correct, and aren't analogous to primary sexual characteristics, i.e., genatalia?
Astonishingly enough, possessing a pair myself, I am aware of that. I'm also aware that they are a visible sexual characteristic, and are extremely fetishised in our culture. And yet, amazingly enough, some women choose mastectomies rather than risk cancer. Had you bothered to read the quoted text... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 5:01 PM on January 9, 2007

Do you really have many meaningful discussions about how Empire relates to universal mythic archetypes with people who haven't even seen the movie?

No, but I might have a meaningful discussion about how various movies relate to universal mythic archetypes without stopping every five minutes to poll everyone in the room (and anyone who might happen by in the next five minutes) about what movies they have or haven't seen. If someone mentions they don't... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 3:48 PM on January 8, 2007

hm. white, yes. male, no. 24-35, only for another five months.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 12:16 PM on January 4, 2007

I have no room to mock. I live in New Jersey.
posted to MetaTalk by Karmakaze at 11:50 AM on January 3, 2007