And I no longer even have BIG TWAT as my phone number to console me.

*sobs gently in corner*
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 6:37 PM on June 28, 2008

never used baby shoes: a tender moment from a drunken writer.

Thanks guys, an interesting listen as always.

Geez, I woulda called in if I'd have known they were passing out free personal taglines.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 7:28 PM on June 14, 2008

I think this thread will be more interesting if we assume that all the people with doubled flickr accounts are actually sockpuppets for each other.

Call me old-fashioned if you will, sir, but marrying one's own sockpuppet is nothing short of perverse.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 10:35 AM on June 10, 2008

Waitasec... who's the walrus again?
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 6:38 PM on May 21, 2008

ten seconds of poking says you're firewalled.

That's what she said!
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 2:29 PM on April 20, 2008

This probably means the video chipset on your computer is succumbing to heat overload, which could mean complete motherboard failure as soon as this evening.

However, if you forward this complaint to ten other community weblogs before sundown, you will find true love!
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 10:57 AM on April 1, 2008

Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what's the harm?
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 11:57 AM on March 19, 2008

Same as in town.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 8:26 PM on March 7, 2008

What, only to the second? We demand precision, dammit!

Count me in.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 9:04 PM on February 6, 2008

It's pretty easy to find. Take the C-Train to Centre St. or 1st St SW, head south down 1st st SW 'till you hit 12th Avenue. Hang a right and look out for the place that looks like an old house next to Soda. Kinda like this.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 11:54 PM on February 26, 2008

Yeah, I had a fantastic time. (And I'm paying for it now... ow, my head!)

I really enjoyed meeting all of you. What a smart, witty bunch we are! *pats self on back*
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 3:37 PM on March 2, 2008

If all the Metafilter members in the south boarded a train for Chicago at 7:30, except for Konolia who starts digging a hole towards China at 6:45, what is the square root of orange?
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 8:47 PM on December 16, 2007

That's OK klangklangston. I'm used to being SILENCED ALL MY LIFE.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 6:55 PM on November 15, 2007

Would it help if everybody posted something about elephants tomorrow?
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 9:24 PM on November 2, 2007

They have a strict minimum of seven fresh fish and/or twenty-three stale ones.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 8:15 PM on September 19, 2007

apparently he's a lisp hacker

Explains the beard.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 7:45 PM on September 13, 2007

Ain't no party like a J. West party 'cause a J. West party don't stop.

Happy Birthday!
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 12:30 PM on September 5, 2007

For another, Journey never wrote anything as awesome as "Workin' for the Weekend."
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 7:56 PM on September 1, 2007

THIS IS A GOOD SITE BUT METATALK DOESNT ALLOW HARDCORE VIDS TRY GHEYLINKSLUTZ.COM

Seriously, though, I can't see too many people paying five bucks just to drop dopey one-word YouTube-style lame comments. Jessamyn makes a good point, though, pointing out why something is the suckiest suck that ever did suck makes for better actual conversation.

Oh, and on a few occasions I myself have dropped the odd "Good post, usernameguy!" in a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 7:52 PM on September 1, 2007

What about the scarlet "A"? We still have to wear that, right?
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 12:37 PM on August 29, 2007

I tell people it stands for "arto". Chicks dig it.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 12:38 PM on August 29, 2007

So which one of you same-state-as-Phish-dwellin' New England hippies got "MEFI" before she could, huh? Huh? *glares threateningly*
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 9:22 PM on August 22, 2007

So how good's yer Ronnie James Dio impression, Cortex?

We are the Knight Lords, protecting all the rubes
Posting to the blue that which we filter from the tubes
But heed the warnings! What the overlords dislike
Will be the foiled invaders stuck upon the fortress spikes

OH YEAH!
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 8:42 PM on August 17, 2007

Bah! You kids have it easy! Why in my day, we had to walk eighteen miles in the snow to get the Best of the Web, battling JRun errors the whole time, uphill both ways. And there weren't no AJAX, neither, if'n ya wanted a web app you had to refresh the page for each little tiny bit of data. By hand. With a cast iron sledgehammer and a wooden bucket to hold the bits in. And we liked it, by gum! Built character, it did.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 11:37 AM on August 15, 2007

Yours truly. Hot rods, rock n' roll, science fiction, guitars and amusing nerditry.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 1:58 PM on August 1, 2007

Hay guise, someone need to make a Single-Link-Posters Pride Club, like a pledge where we go, "we, the undersigned, hereby swear to never put more than one link in our post just to make it seem yummier despite a lame topic, for we have faith in our lame single links, forever and ever Amen."

I prefer to think that if you don't have one link that can stand on its own, you don't have a post. It ain't adding fractions, people, three... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 6:05 PM on July 26, 2007

Dogs? It's zombies vs. robots vs. Batman, try to keep up. Sheesh!

Seriously, though, going all "hippie treehugger hurf-durf libtard get a job" in the midst of an otherwise on-topic comment seems to be just asking for a derail. At the very least, it could have been phrased better.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 12:47 PM on June 7, 2007

I have broke the surly bonds of Earth and touched the face of Godlooked at a screenshot of the MeFI admin interface.

and it seems slightly confusing that nothing happens if you click the [!] on one comment while the dropdown on another one is open, but such mortal concerns seem... insignificant.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 12:46 PM on May 31, 2007

But how is a bug report supposed to devolve into a 300-comment flameout with GIFs of elephants shitting?

Or since there's no IMG tag anymore, ASCII graphics of elephants shitting?
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 10:13 AM on April 19, 2007

Okay, eh, me and my brother Doug are gonna talk about... hey, what're we gonna talk about today, Doug? Like, what's today's topic, eh?

Okay, like, if you buy regular bacon, it's like a big long strip, eh? But if you buy back bacon, it's all round, eh? But like Americans call back bacon "Canadian bacon" even though we don't really eat it all that much, eh? What a buncha hosers!
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 10:22 PM on March 24, 2007

Would it be possible to move the FM Publishing code to the footer and use CSS or something to position the ad itself? It always massively slows down loading for me.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 11:38 PM on March 22, 2007

So this is like the "merge bug" feature in a bug tracking system?

That totally melts my mind. MetaFilter is like a bug tracking system for the web. A few more fields, a reporting tool and we're there.

I can see it now:

Bug #212414
Symptoms: Current hit movie in 30 seconds, with bunnies.
Repeatability: 100%

Status: CLOSED
Comments: It's not a bug, it's a misfeature.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 11:49 AM on March 6, 2007

While we're (sort of) on the subject, would it be possible to make the fmpub adds the last thing to load, rather than loading before the page content, and then position them into place with CSS or something? It kinda sucks having the page stop loading for half a minute when fmpub's servers are swamped or what-not, and encouraging people to use AdBlock or the like to deal with this seems like the Wrong Thing.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 12:32 PM on March 1, 2007

Also, I could really go for a BLT right now. I hope you're all happy.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 12:33 PM on March 1, 2007

The members that I would like to draw and quarter are the ones who make Infinite Jest and Gravity's Rainbow recommendations, no matter what the book-related question is.


Damn straight. Fuckers straight up ruined my "What was this book I read once about the guy in WWII who controls important people's fantasy lives?" question.

Ruined it, I say.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 5:56 PM on February 27, 2007

You know, I'd be tempted to agree, but a video that was made in '79, won an Academy Award for technical achievement and still hasn't been commercially released due to legal shenanigans is more than your standard bar-lowering YouTube post.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 10:18 PM on February 15, 2007

AppleFilterTimes.

Naw, seriously, that's actually pretty cool. Next step: World domination.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 11:27 PM on February 14, 2007

"Married" is a gender now?
posted by davy at 1:56 PM MST on January 25 [+]
[!]

Turns out they've got waaay too good of a lobbyist firm to be considered a sexual perversion anymore.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 1:34 PM on January 25, 2007

Why not limit the amount of community tags you could hand out to X amount per day or week, and allow community untagging--i.e., the ability to vote against a certain tag--with the same restrictions?
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 3:23 PM on January 23, 2007

It is possible to create a Google account and grant it view-only access to certain domains in your Google Analytics account. I don't know what the rules and technical restrictions are on sharing a Google account around like that, though.

I'd be surprised if they have a security policy designed around this kind of workaround. It wouldn't look too good when "mefistats" starts a blog consisting of Goatse images, or starts using gmail to send spam or something...
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 2:15 PM on December 24, 2006

i.e. you shouldn't be posting about Topic X because Topic X is interesting and cool, you should be posting about Topic X because you have found one or more interesting and cool websites about Topic X. If you want to post about Topic X and can only find average or crappy websites, then you need to either keep looking or choose another topic.

I think there's a distinction between average-to-crappy content (which is kinda useless to link to regardless of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 12:48 AM on December 15, 2006

He's a regular Aldo Kelrast, donchaknow.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 12:29 PM on December 13, 2006

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posted to MetaTalk by arto at 11:10 PM on December 11, 2006

Sirs, I can but beg of you that whilst a news-posting of the forthcoming coronation of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria might seem to the uncouth mind to be within the spirit of the age, it must inevitably lead to a discussion most Boorish and Unwelcome in these genteel pages of the Royal Society of Meta-Filterers, and hence will not end well.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 11:10 AM on November 21, 2006

That's purely an optical illusion caused by the medical poster behind him, of a sufferer in the advanced stages of George Seurat's Disease.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 8:01 PM on October 11, 2006

Okay, then, if you could have any ONE of these three technologies from "Clan of the Cave Bear", would it be the "ROCK", the "BIG STICK" or "FIRE?"
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 8:30 PM on September 21, 2006

I thought they called it puppy love?
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 10:59 PM on September 7, 2006

Well, I intend to call it "A virtual place, upon which are posted digitized excerpts of the divers musical talents proffered by denizens of Mr. Matthew Haughey's muchly-celebrated 'community web-log', the Meta-Filter."

The scurrilous rapscallions among you who would cut down the many syllables of His Majesty's English toungue like so many rabid dogs ought perhaps to do the same.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 3:14 PM on July 6, 2006

Better, maybe. But is he more numerous? I think not, sir, I think not.
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 8:55 PM on June 25, 2006

Terrify you she will, sir, with her very, very squeaky voice.

Then, she will amuse you--to DEATH!
posted to MetaTalk by arto at 10:22 PM on May 22, 2006