I only popped by because I thought this was the thread where we complained about drum circles. Damn drum circles!
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 5:16 AM on July 10, 2008

Congrats people. Not sure why Plutor seems to have a hate on. This is truly impressive.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 12:37 PM on March 21, 2008

Cool at blogging events? Isn't that a bit of an oxymoron?
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 5:08 AM on March 20, 2008

Koko: WANT BIG SWEATPANTS WITH MEFI ON BUM THX

I prefer the words "COTTAGE CHEESE". Not as any kind of allusion to the contents therein but, come on, the stuff is awesome. Shirts are SO last year.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 10:08 PM on March 20, 2008

Doesn't sound all that interesting but maybe I'm not seeing the sensational part of all this. The pictures sound a little invasive.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 7:33 PM on March 17, 2008

Not sure why pb (or someone else) couldn't add an additional link on the comment you want to quote that drops the contents of the comment into the text box with a pre-formatted URL to the specific quote.

Throw a div around each comment with a unique id:
<div id="comment_519155">comment stuff here</div>

Add an id to the anchor link in the "posted by" line:
<a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 9:17 PM on March 7, 2008

The "text box" I'm referring too in my first sentence is the comment textarea.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 9:18 PM on March 7, 2008

You assume. The user still has to add their own comments and contextualize the quote. Some people might do it, but I doubt it would be the majority. I don't see how it would be any different then any number of the other poor formatting possibilities.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 10:02 PM on March 7, 2008

Nothing stops them from doing it now.

loiseau: People would also top-reply.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 9:19 AM on March 8, 2008

Nothing like frog rain and cake to round out a family day long weekend.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 5:46 PM on January 11, 2008

A small persian rug would really tie the room together.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 8:06 AM on February 13, 2008

That was so fucking cool. I love this planet, just wish we could do something about all the people on it.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 5:50 PM on January 30, 2008

Doohickie, the internet called and it wanted me to pass along a message.

It thinks you're an idiot.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 5:24 PM on January 26, 2008

Wow. Henry C. Mabuse is certainly full of himself. Maybe he should get his own blog? Write a few short stories, post a few recipes. You know, fun stuff. I'd definitely check it out.

That is, if I can ever break myself away from the cabal.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 6:16 PM on January 26, 2008

Seems a little young to be sent off to the store on her own, but cute nonetheless.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 7:20 AM on December 7, 2007

GET OFF MY LAWN!
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 10:37 AM on November 28, 2007

chillmost, Here's an older description. Not sure if it's the one still in use, but very helpful nonetheless.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 5:11 AM on November 21, 2007

I might stop by. In town for a conference all week. The big shin-dig is on Thursday night but if it sucks I'll bail (which is a very good possibility).
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 6:15 PM on October 21, 2007

Very bad call. Everyone knows that you should always wait until SP1 before moving to a new Microsoft OS.

Besides, it's not like anyone else is running the OS right now anyway (I'm referring to businesses, not home users).
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 6:10 PM on August 20, 2007

I remember when Toronto was the shit. Now it's just shit.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 8:47 PM on August 17, 2007

DaShiv, that was phenomenal.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 5:34 AM on July 20, 2007

Oh come on. I hard time believing this question was even legitimate. How could anyone possibly identify with the the OP in any way that helped justify the affair?

"Yeah, I was in a loving, mature and long-term relationship and ditched it all for this fling I had in the past. Yeah, the guy was a jerk then but his emails certainly gave me the impression that he was over that period of his life.

"Oh, how did it turn... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 6:57 AM on July 17, 2007

I know of at least three others sites on the web besides this one. I'm not joking, they exist.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 3:14 PM on July 7, 2007

nola, you've got it all wrong. The equation is:

Post + Pile on = Flame-out

Adding supporting comments could potentially change the result and then the next logical outcome is the complete destruction of the known universe.

Now, do you want that on your conscience?
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 3:44 PM on July 7, 2007

That thread is nothing without pictures.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 7:24 AM on July 6, 2007

I never thought I'd say this but, someone has been reading a little too much Dawkins.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 8:16 PM on June 13, 2007

You've got to be kidding. Pictures and video, sure. A word on a webpage? Stay away from the web where you work. Everything is NSFW. Life is apparently NSFW.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 12:53 PM on June 12, 2007

There was this time... when I was younger. I'm not proud of it -- not proud of it at all. I felt like the world was ready to be cracked open by my wit and enthusiasm.

Unfortunately, I posted a question to AskMe and the lack of immediate visceral reaction left me jaded and I turned to the more unaccepted vices.

Now I spend most nights waist-high in a ditch. I wash myself in the dirty city effluent and dream that the web and database server could... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 10:31 PM on June 2, 2007

Can we get the img tag back now?

Oh wait, this isn't funny any more.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 7:10 PM on May 17, 2007

This is good. Not just good like chocolate cake or cranberry juice, but good like choccrancakejuice.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 8:46 PM on May 16, 2007

It would be interesting for those who are seeing some bugs to try out FF and see if any errors are generated in the Error Console for the browser. I've solved many a JS a problem that way. You could try the script debugger in IE, but I've found that much more unreliable.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 8:52 PM on April 13, 2007

Wow. Nice thread. Good show. I'd get you a cookie, but I just finished blowing my fucking brains out.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 8:41 PM on April 13, 2007

Oh Jesus Christ. The man was a war veteran and a well-known author. His politics may have been different then yours but have some goddamn respect. It's no reason to troll.

Is it just me or is this place a hell of a lot whinier lately? I thought seasonal affective disorder ended in spring... ?
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 6:06 PM on April 12, 2007

Not a bad idea. But, unless the entire page is blinking with large block letters indicating the resulting discussion then I doubt most people will either notice, or care even if they do.

You'd have to make it inconvient in some way.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 11:23 AM on March 28, 2007

You know who else mentioned Metafilter? Hitler. Apparently, Mein Kampf was supposed to be printed in blue but the original publisher felt that it would detract from the otherwise light-hearted nature of manuscript.

True story.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 12:09 PM on March 22, 2007

The horse is not just tired and worn-out, it's back has been broken in at least three places and it's thrown three shoes. If we flog this motherfucker any more I'm calling the humane society. This is just getting cruel.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 8:47 AM on February 14, 2007

My birthday falls on the exact same day that I was born. It has haunted me throughout my entire life.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 1:44 PM on January 27, 2007

If there was ever some sort of competition that involved both of the participants to wear some kind of funny pant-like suit that represented darkness. The sense that those yuppy-like suspender wearing existentialists would hold forth on the nature of life, love and the suspense of not knowing where/who/what your god-fearing parents believed and/or espoused when it came down to the ultimate questions.

Questions like, where is the next jar of peanut butter coming from? Not... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 10:58 PM on December 31, 2006

Man, I just fucking like cake. Cake fucking kicks some serious motherfuckin' ass. I would marry me some fucking cake if there was ever some cake that would ever fucking marry my fucking cake-loving ass.

You motherfuckers and your anti-cake loving asses. Cake is the shit. Cake.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 10:47 PM on December 31, 2006

If anyone is still paying attention to this thread:

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posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 5:12 PM on December 2, 2006

IE7 on Vista was unaffected. FireFox 2.0 went batshitinsane.

Interesting.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 2:58 PM on November 12, 2006

bob sarabia said:
I guess I should have shortened that to "why would anyone be using Vista?"

And then I would have separately asked "why would anyone be using IE7?"

Given that my job requires me to run it, I would say that that would be a particularly good reason. As for IE7, I do prefer Firefox and Opera but IE7 cannot be ignored (as it's the default browser on Vista) and if I'm not familiar... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 5:27 PM on November 12, 2006

The right alignment is much better. I might poke through some of the javascript this weekend to see if I can fix the downgrading issues that some people have mentioned.

Looks great in Firefox and IE7 on Windows. Excellent work. The unanswered questions tab is a pony long in coming, but well worth the wait.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 4:16 PM on October 20, 2006

mathowie said: I just bought a blackberry pearl, which should show up next week. I suspect I'll finally have a testbed to create a mobile-friendly version then.

Enjoy the pearl. So far I haven't heard anything but glowing reviews from existing owners. I'd love to get one myself but the lock on CDMA that my business has means I'll have to wait at least another year to revel in it's sexiness.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 9:17 AM on October 18, 2006

One person's opinion. I think it looks awesome.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 6:12 PM on September 28, 2006

eriko, RC1 of Firefox 2.0 is incredibly stable (at least for me). I had a few issues with some of the earlier betas, but RC1 has been rock-solid.

Colour me impressed.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 7:33 AM on September 29, 2006

Oh, and everyone should definately download it.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 7:34 AM on September 29, 2006

The post that set you off was deleted because it was a double, not because of content.

Your soapbox is a tad bit on the wobbly side. You should get it checked-out.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 5:43 PM on September 17, 2006

I would've gone with Jesus. It has to be Jesus.
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 5:39 PM on September 1, 2006

A poor play on words regarding the tea pot calling the kettle black. Your criticism of Hat Maui could easily be applied to you (and probably more appropriately).
posted to MetaTalk by purephase at 12:38 PM on August 19, 2006