For a lip smackingly good punfest, see the coverage from El Reg.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 1:17 PM on July 23, 2008

Yes, sidebar that comment.

I had to spend 10 min. explaining my reaction to that comment to my girlfriend last night. That it took me from, "Yeah! Lock that asshole away forever! Nyah, nyah! Hah!" to a much colder, less exuberant, probably longer lasting and definitely more personal and rational anger.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 11:43 AM on July 23, 2008

Yeah, I only suggested Artscape because it was during the day, which is a good time for this transit-riding woman to get out.

Advil, I'm calling this one because the last one was right before I moved to Baltimore, and no one has tried since. So, when you get here, call one .

Sat. or Sun. evenings are fine with me. Or a Sunday afternoon at High Grounds, in Highlandtown? They have awesome coffee, right on the 10 bus.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 5:30 AM on July 7, 2008

Three...is a restaurant/bar at Linwood and E. Baltimore.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 7:03 AM on July 7, 2008

I can't get to Silver Spring without renting a car or getting a ride, myself.

The other hard thing about googling Three... is that they only have a crappy MySpace page.

Food is meh, but the desserts are great.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 9:07 AM on July 7, 2008

How about the 19th? It is a Sat.

Airhen suggested Dougherty's, by the Meyerhoff. I've never been there, but it is a lot more central than Three... On the other hand, I'll have to leave early. Buses back home from downtown on a Sat. night are rare.

If we do Three..., I can stay later. Like past 7:30.

I can commit to either.

What do you guys think?
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 6:42 PM on July 7, 2008

I'm hearing a distinct antipathy towards E. Baltimore.

The weekend after Artscape sucks for me. I should have remembered when it is, sorry. After all, I'm volunteering down there.

Never been to the Midtown Yacht Club. 15 E. Center St. City Paper seems to like it. How about there on the 19th, starting at 6 or 7?
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 6:24 PM on July 8, 2008

Airight. Posted. I'll be there starting at 6. I'll be the old, uncool person with the stuffed crab.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 3:42 AM on July 10, 2008

My red stuffed crab, with baby crabs in the zipper innards.

I'm too embarassed to wear the crab hat.

I figure even in Baltimore, no one sits in a bar with a plushie crab.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 6:27 PM on July 10, 2008

Thanks, guys. That was fun. I'm sorry I missed your weirdest friend, Airhen, but karaoke scares me.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 2:23 PM on July 20, 2008

Images broke up the page for me, and helped me to find where on the page I'd left off reading if I wandered off to check something else or took a smoke break or something.

So, yeah, really huge comment threads can be a pain.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 7:49 PM on July 1, 2008

Shot them in the back. For a property crime. An attempted property crime.

Even by Texas standards, that was a damned sissy thing to do. Immoral and unethical, too, but I'm not sure those words aren't too long.

Yeah, I know I'm stereotyping horribly, bite me.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 4:06 PM on June 30, 2008

Darn...a few more weeks, and I'd have already moved to Baltimore. Do it again in a couple months?
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 3:00 PM on March 20, 2007

Hampshire? I used to work there. I really hope Jessamyn wasn't one of the students I confiscated glass bottles from in Saga. Or worse.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 7:48 PM on February 6, 2007

Nope. Don't know that person. I was an officer for Jim, then for Derek in, oh, 1989-90, around then. Then I worked switchboard midnights on the weekends, when I went back to MHC.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 8:52 PM on February 6, 2007

Derek was a good guy. Never complained when I had to roust him out of bed at dark o'clock in the morning. The administration didn't treat him right, but, I suppose one would expect that.

I missed the bathtub. Must have been before or after my time. I probably would have helped. There are reasons Karen never trusted me...
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 9:24 PM on February 6, 2007

It doesn't surprise me they don't have the information. A lot of us library geeks spend a lot of time making sure we can't be asked for the kinds of information we don't want to give to law enforcement. Got to be some business folks nearly as smart as us.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 8:28 PM on December 12, 2006

F@H is really stable under Linux and Windows - just set it up, and forget about it.

Sorry, knave, I'm on another team
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 11:18 AM on December 11, 2006

It was poorly framed, but I am confused by the deletion. The comments weren't even that negative.

It may have been better to have other links about how this affected her career in the US, did she go on to make navel-gazing, one issue albums that deserved to be ignored, and, if so, was it in knee-jerk reaction to the reactions to her, but we never had the chance to get there.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 4:48 PM on November 28, 2006

The Omaha Steaks bit had me on the floor.

Any chance of being able to buy a DVD of this? I'm afraid that Nebraska is out of my daytrip range.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 11:04 AM on November 19, 2006

I would expect LJ to be more interested in librarians' party lines than pantyliners.

So, Jessamyn, when are you taking over from Will Manley?
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 2:03 PM on October 25, 2006

IndigoRain, try here for Jessamyn pics. She's also got a bunch of stuff up on Flickr.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 11:38 PM on October 10, 2006

I think it is stupid, but I'm not overly fond of elephants. So, I'll just do what I do with other FPPs that don't interest me - ignore them.

Now, if it were bat day, I'd feel totally differently. Unless some idiot posted an FPP on Bay Boy. That shit's just wrong...
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 1:39 PM on October 8, 2006

It drives me crazy, yes.

However, having worked reference in a library, I know that both asking and answering questions are far more difficult than they seem. Also, asking the right questions to refine the original question is difficult.

I still shudder at how long it took me to figure out that the man who asked me for the pros and cons of DNA wanted the Time magazine article on DNA testing in the OJ Simpson trial...
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 10:53 PM on October 5, 2006

I used to read PC Magazine in around 1996 to laugh at the clueless idiots.

Glad to see they've bought a clue. Unfortunately, it is past its sale date by a few years...

Next month, I hear they are going to review MCA, the hot new bit of hardware.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 10:56 AM on October 1, 2006

Cool bumper sticker, but I'll wait for the Canadian-designed version.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 7:41 AM on September 29, 2006

I think this is hysterical. Even if this doesn't look anything like me irl (I'm an old female with long hair, and I only wear regular ties, since bow ties are for Republican wanker wonks.).

I like them all, actually. But, I would cheerfully pay interrobang for a paper copy of his cartoon of my comment.

Please do more.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 6:20 PM on September 27, 2006

That's really classy of you, interrobang. My thanks. Currently manipulating electricity heading your way.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 6:47 PM on September 27, 2006

This is why I only post from a public library.

Never mind that it is the one I work in...
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 4:52 PM on September 26, 2006

What I've been wondering is if people are not reading as carefully as they used to. I see a lot of comments that make no sense at all if you read the entire question at slower than warp speed.

For what it is worth, I see the same thing on the blue.

And, yeah, there are more shit questions.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 4:22 PM on September 21, 2006

I learned C using ed and a 2400 baud modem. Ugg. Only an idiot would use either if anything else were available.

There is no call to be using Notepad when VIM is available for Windows.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 10:00 PM on September 14, 2006

Nice, dabitch. I bet you know all about Vigor, too.

I shudder to think of what kind of "help" MS would provide for regexes.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 9:11 AM on September 15, 2006

There are times when I wish for a "did you even read the entire question?" or "that isn't the question I asked" flag.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 7:33 AM on September 10, 2006

I don't like banning questions (I've actually enjoyed many "name my foo" threads). Not receiving any answers should clue folks in. Why wait for Matt and Jessamyn to do everything? They aren't my mother.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 8:27 PM on September 10, 2006

Chairman Kaga only gets oral sex if it involves an ice cream machine and sexless trout.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 5:37 PM on September 6, 2006

cortex, that is an actual panel from an actual web comic. One that is sadly, but necessarily, ended.

The one with the blue hair is male.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 11:02 PM on September 2, 2006

I don't much care for the caret. A bigger issue than what I do or don't like, however, is that a single character link is difficult for folks with mobility issues to click on.

You guys may all be young, with perfect bodies, but not everyone on the net is.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 11:54 AM on July 13, 2006

Nope. Gotta work. Besides, that is so far west, I'm afraid of running into those Amway weirdos...perhaps even Republicans!
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 2:18 PM on July 12, 2006

Gah. It is the wrong symbol. For this, one should use a redirect or a pipe; >matthowie or |matthowie.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 9:54 AM on June 10, 2006

Can I be my own nemesis?
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 10:48 AM on May 13, 2006

I agree that green posts should count. Why add to the assholery so common on the blue, when folks don't really have anything to say by encouraging any old kind of post just to be able to share something?

If someone has been reading the blue, and trying to provide answers in ask.metafilter, that shows they know how to make a useful contribution. And, what is a FPP but an attempt to make a useful contribution to the site?
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 1:58 PM on April 17, 2006

Like many people who lived on the local boards, I did set up a BBS briefly. But, I was having too much fun helping my sysop friends and learning how to build computers, wire networks, write batch files and hack (in the good sense) to pay attention to developing content.

Because I was a BBSer, I got tapped to become the techie at the library where I worked. That led to getting a CNE and becoming a computer pro.

Blogs? I haven't met many people IRL... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 7:23 AM on March 30, 2006

I'm embarassed to say I've found this confusing, too. Makes me feel like Merlin in _The Once and Future King_.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 8:44 AM on March 29, 2006

ask.metafilter is metafilter: The Next Generation?
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 11:34 AM on March 29, 2006

Ask MeFi excells when there is one person, or a small group of people, who specialize in an area (ikkyu2 on medical stuff [although this is a horrible place to ask those questions], the Library Mafia on books I read 20 years ago, jeanmari on house repair, languagehat on linguistics, etc. You can use those people to reality check the other answers (and, often folks also give good info in those areas).

My favourite thing about Ask MeFi is when someone asks a question I... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 3:30 PM on December 21, 2005

Nope. I'll be at Access 2005, though.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 9:14 AM on September 15, 2005

The religion derail was really annoying. As someone in the thread said, this is an engineering problem, not a theological issue.

There are a lot of people who won't use alcohol based extracts for all kinds of reasons (including me). Parma didn't need to tell us it was for religious reasons, but, once they did, it should have been treated like other extraneous information, and ignored.

Then again, as someone who used to live in Warrendale and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 10:37 AM on August 6, 2005

Cool pics.

Sorry I couldn't stay longer, but I couldn't hear, and the layout made mingling nearly impossible.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 4:42 PM on July 14, 2005

I'm going to SF tomorrow for my first time, and might actually be able to make this. How bizarre. Will take the directions with me, anyhow, and ask the SO how she feels about being dumped for a few hours.
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 2:51 PM on July 5, 2005

Maybe, caitlinb. She's less fond of bars than I am, and I'm not so fond of them.

So, how will I spot this fiendish crew? I'm just an innocent middle-aged female from the fly-over zone, after all...
posted to MetaTalk by QIbHom at 4:32 PM on July 5, 2005