I'm a solid maybe. Most of Saturday I think I'm at an extended not-quite-in-law BBQ (my girlfriend's brother's fiancée's sister and nephew are visiting from Quebec), but that evening may be free, and I think Friday's wide open. So, I'll be watching this space for updates and will show if I'm able. One doesn't want to miss the opportunity to meet the amazing jessamyn, and potentially The Founder, along with any Stumptown MeFites who didn't make the last meetup. And yeah, introversion thy name is... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 2:00 PM on July 15, 2008

I'll be there if I can. BBQ thingy begins at 4, so, you know, it's just a question of how soon one can light out with propriety.

I dare say this is a weak showing for Portland. Summer wreaks havoc on availability, I guess.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 8:26 AM on July 18, 2008

Aye, sorry not to have managed to party-hop. Come back soon!
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 8:42 AM on July 21, 2008

I like the idea, and agree that off-site stuff seems to die on the vine, but I don't make music so shut my mouth.

I don't see why music-related questions couldn't exist in both subdomains, if what you're talking about is strictly AskMeMusic, and not a broader music-centric discussion space. Podcasts do that weird cross-subsite tango between podcast.metafilter.com and metatalk posts. And what's the plan for AskMe's travel and transportation category of questions once... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 8:14 AM on June 26, 2008

Now we know, and the other credit-card-ignorant will know too when they search!

I suggest that you take this opportunity to add some credit-card, AMEX, extended warranty, etc.-related tags to the question, to help the credit-card-ignorant find it, in case their issue isn't a logic board but something else, or if they're coming at it from the opposite direction. Ensure that your most-helpful answer of the year has the potential to help the most other... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 6:07 AM on June 26, 2008

I'm really curious about the size of MeFi's... well, audience, for lack of a better word.

On a randomly sampled Tuesday this March, mathowie said that daily unique visitors was just shy of a quarter million. There are only something like 10K active accounts, if I recall, and certainly nowhere near all of us are hitting the site daily, so figure that every day maybe 248,000 non-members read something on the site? I'm just guessing, but I assume that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 5:44 PM on June 19, 2008

A. It's less space-saving, true, but so much easier to parse. And prettier. And a relatively uncommon approach.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 5:39 PM on June 17, 2008

I've been meaning to ask for this as well. Of course, if I understand how relatedness is arrived at, it would require that you write your question first and then find out that it has already been asked and answered. That doesn't mean that showing related on-preview shouldn't happen, but by the time someone's invested their time in a well-composed question they may be inclined to go full-speed ahead regardless.

Also, having just posed a question earlier, I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 2:11 PM on June 16, 2008

Don't sweat it, sgt. If you allow yourself to care about what happens on IRC, then they've already won.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 5:42 AM on June 7, 2008

Standardized containerization has pretty much made that position redundant, Eideteker.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 8:15 PM on June 5, 2008

I'm in. In my world, the Horse Brass fills the hole left by the closure of the R&R, but the Brass really is a stanky smoke pit, ill-suited to general purpose gatherings. Howzabout the Green Dragon at 9th and Belmont? They rotate through an excellent selection of taps there. I've never sat on the bar side, but it looks like it'd accommodate a decent sized crowd of Mefites, should they come out.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 10:57 AM on April 26, 2008

I hope you had some of the Dragon's particularly delicious fries, team lowkey. It has those to recommend it as well.

This thread is going to scroll off into oblivion tomorrow, so we should at least pick a tentative date for the meetup. That'll secure some of that all-important sidebar real estate to give the event visibility. May 24 maybe? It's a Saturday, is far enough out to maximize awareness, and is post-primary, so maybe we can have the audacity to hope for a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 11:50 AM on April 27, 2008

What dersins said.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 10:48 AM on May 21, 2008

Meetup Bootstrap Protocol should definitely involve informing the bar staff. I've read too many failed meetup threads where folks passed in the night because no one told the house what was going on and everybody played it as cool as lesbian sheep. Not that there's much risk of us being covert... at 4 in the afternoon, I reckon the Green Dragon will be fairly sparsely occupied. If it would help, though, I could probably scrounge up some "Hello, My Name Is ________" name tags to amp the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 10:56 PM on May 21, 2008

So great, in fact, that I'm coming back for more. With live music this time.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 9:10 PM on May 24, 2008

msalt: the band is The Harvey Girls, and after the PA got sorted out it was a great show. Actually, it was pretty fine beforehand, but in a less intelligible kind of way. It looks like MySpace is your better bet for an updated gig list. I forget who was where, when, but your time at the meetup may not have overlapped with that of melissa may and sleepy pete, the band's founding members.

A great pleasure meeting everyone. What with comings and goings we must have had... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 9:44 AM on May 25, 2008

That's Nicholas' Restaurant that mrzarquon's talking about, bhance. Yum.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 10:23 AM on May 25, 2008

Nicholas' is actually just half a mile from the Green Dragon, and I will defend the deliciousness of their za'atar and shatta pizzas against all-comers. However, Aladdin's Café?! Good god man, I had no idea that there was a Syrian place tucked into that rundown Foodvilla. WTF? Thanks for the tip, I'm so there.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 2:24 PM on May 25, 2008

You are not wrong about Aladdin's, msalt. For the Yum.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 9:37 PM on May 30, 2008

Has the popout player swf always targeted _self for the links to individual song posts, or is that a new bugture?
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 10:44 AM on May 28, 2008

I was gonna ask where the Projects-specific discussion note was, but then I realized that it's hidden when Live Preview is turned off (as I had done). Is there a reason that the hug/etc. notes are tied to the live preview? I suspect that it'll be particularly useful to be able to point to that note in the near future, as a Projects-specific comment culture evolves. Stop the asshattery before it starts.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 11:02 AM on May 27, 2008

I note that the [more inside] links are broken on the Unanswered tab.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 8:59 PM on May 22, 2008

Ah, I see now that he revealed his relocation plans in a series of AskMes, which I completely overlooked at the time. Well, congrats on the transatlantic move, vacapinta, and on your elevation to the innermost ring of the cabal. I look forward to your deletions.

sic transit gloria mundi!
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 11:23 AM on May 18, 2008

What need is the "show new" parenthetical link at the top of Contacts and Contacted By tabs supposed to serve? I know that jessamyn has crazyloads of contacts, but is it common to have so many that you need to filter it down to the ones added in the last month?

Regardless of the audience, being the low-contact fellow that I am, when I click said show new link, Contacts says "mumkin doesn't link to any other MetaFilter members," which is untrue. Since... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 10:01 AM on May 15, 2008

I don't mind doubles years apart, and there are enough SLYTs that a single-link obit with back-link to your previous meatier thread wouldn't have bothered me. For all that I'm an arbiter of what belongs where, of course. But wherever you should have posted it, thanks for posting, because I, too, missed her story the first time around.

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posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 12:52 PM on May 12, 2008

For all that Portland, Ore. is supposed to be a Mefite-heavy techie town, we sure don't see many Jobs listings. (Props to Skwirl for posting his annual AmeriCorps volunteer opportunities.) Of course, we had openings for people where I was last employed and I didn't post them, so mea culpa as well... mathowie, have you ever run internal promotions for the Jobs subsite? Because really, I tend to forget that is Jobs there, assume that others do also, and agree that it would be awesome if there were... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 12:29 PM on May 12, 2008

Are you hearkening back to this thread? Sorry, not tracking you, boo_radley.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 2:36 PM on May 5, 2008

I'm going with not-coincidence, since there appears to be no coinciding. Nor do I know whom to blame.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 2:41 PM on May 5, 2008

That's your greasy monkey. "Contract contribution display preferences" is from the Metafilter mark contact contributions script. Not sure what the other one's from, but I suggest a nice Zinfandel.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 11:25 PM on May 4, 2008

Yeah, it was updated on Friday, too, so it's extra fresh. Not clear to me what's different, but it apparently utilizes secret sauce, which might be a welcome condiment given that bucket you've got.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 11:36 PM on May 4, 2008

Curious that there's just the one non-Wired comment there, too. Metafilter's own L. Fitzgerald Sjöberg / lore is a Wired person, right? What do you know about the Rants desk, lore?
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 12:38 PM on May 4, 2008

Bah. AskMe isn't just a resource for the asker, it's an archive of answers to problems that we all may face at some time. It's like one of those big data sets that people pull together for creating expert systems or teaching AIs (please, expert system/artificial intelligence researchers, don't get all technical on my ass here), and without the identification of the answer that proved the solution, it's less helpful to everyone. Like using helpful meta tags, it's just the Right Thing To Do.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 2:28 PM on May 3, 2008

You mean this meetup from January? Looks like it had an attendance of four, so not so big.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 8:54 PM on April 25, 2008

Wow. I read through that thread first and then watched the video... it's really not worth getting all het-up over. I don't speak Dutch, so I have no clue what the skit's about. I do know, however, that the singing is atrocious, and the kid looks completely comfortable with the shtick. And it is, obviously, some kind of schtick. Yes, taken out of context it can be misconstrued, like many things, but chill out. This is a shitty post, but it's neither NSFW or some kind of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 10:02 PM on April 23, 2008

Holy crap, how long has that been there?

LarryC: Three months.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 3:32 PM on April 22, 2008

My parents gave me a last name for a first name. Not just any last name, mind, but a fairly uncommon one, so there's only one of me or earth, as far as I know. If I was a dick to you in fifth grade, you can find me in Google and call me out, sure in the knowledge that I'm the guy you're looking for. As if that weren't proof-enough against anonymity, then I had to go and pick a username no one else seems to want, too, because damned-near all of the mumkins on the internet are... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 6:29 PM on April 21, 2008

...and presto, while Metafilter is off getting a well-deserved massage, memepool proves that it yet lives, with links to a b3ta interview of the guy who coded MS Solitaire and his favorite boobie-evaluating game.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 1:55 PM on April 18, 2008

Riding your pony. As far as icons go, I'd like for there to be one for FAILED MEETUP, red circle with cross through it style. Presumably there would be no conflict with the pictures icon unless one solitary mefite showed up, took pictures, and Flickred snaps of empty chairs and her own shoutouts.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 11:39 AM on April 16, 2008

Damn. Now the Jessamyn voice in my head can't sound like GladOs anymore.

What, SlyBevel, you don't listen to the MeFi Podcast?

Speaking of which, weren't we supposed to have a new episode today?
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 9:40 PM on April 14, 2008

I don't use last.fm at all or go to the site, but it's sort of nifty (for me) to have the last few songs I've listened to show up here on my profile page

I feel similarly, and wonder if the definition of this feature might be slightly too narrow. Currently the wiki says that "the service must have a profile page that shows a user's activity there," but I'd kinda like to see recent Netflix movies alongside the Last.fm/Twitter/Flickr stuff,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 12:25 PM on April 14, 2008

Yes, thanks for sharing. You ate the sandwich, and you're a brave man for doing it. I'm sorry that it didn't turn out better, but it sounds like it could have been much, much worse, and time... well, sometimes time helps. Most importantly, though, congratulations!
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 10:28 PM on April 13, 2008

Sometimes when we get big press, a ton of people sign up but only 1-5% pay for the account

Huh. I just logged out to check the sign-up process, since that seemed like a crazy abandonment rate. I hadn't realized that the $5 isn't actually mentioned on the registration page itself. No wonder so many folks don't make it all the way through the funnel. Not saying it's a bad thing, but what's the thinking about surprising them at the end?
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 4:22 PM on April 13, 2008

it would be interesting to see what the breakdown is between ad revenue and sign-up fees

I doubt that's necessary, caddis. Assuming that the rate of completed registration (paid) is a constant 50 users/week, that's $13,000/year. Mathowie is making a full-time job of Metafilter (and PVRBlog, etc.), and a part-time job of it for the rest of the team. I'd say that ad revenue has to be the overwhelming portion of the income. That or he's relying on his... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 6:02 PM on April 13, 2008

The signup page mentions the $5 in the last two paragraghs

Sorry if I'm misrepresented things, Matt, but what signup page is that? When I click the New User link in the header when not logged in, the page I get, a form asking for all of my account and contact details. It's only after I click the Register button that I'm told about the $5 account activation business. There aren't really any paragraphs of copy.

Am I somehow... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 6:49 PM on April 13, 2008

Ugh, what happened to the grammar in that comment? S'what I get for logging in and out several times in the middle of composing it. Sheesh.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 6:52 PM on April 13, 2008

And is there another meta on this? I wasn't able to find it.

This MeTa thread was about mutual-contact tag editing.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 9:56 AM on April 9, 2008

"Displaying 1 through 0."

All tags with no results do that. An unsafely-assumed "Displaying 1 through" string on someone's part, I'm guessing.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 12:07 PM on April 9, 2008

Hopefully the asker will find his way here, which is where I'll express my interest in knowing what school of meditation he's pursuing, if any. I was under the impression that much of the virtue in meditation is the self-mastery required to achieve your target-state. Having your brain re-wired to make meditation easier seems to defeat the purpose, no? Are short cuts allowed? And even if they are, it strikes me that this is like prescribing beheading as a cure for a headache.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 9:29 PM on April 8, 2008

So you think the lobotomy was a metaphor, zengargoyle? I wish I shared your optimism, but sorry, I'm in the literal elective brain damage camp on this one.
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 12:44 AM on April 9, 2008

Yeah... I see nothing from a year ago on metafilter that looks like it's the anodyne for lifehacker pwning the blue in a popularity contest. Are you talking about this post from last May? Or is it a completely bolloxed reference to this Lifehacker thread's screenshot featuring AskMe? Or did you just experience a prolapse?

BAM!... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by mumkin at 11:26 AM on April 8, 2008