Isn't this the time on MetaTalk when we do our rude and crude search engine optimization?
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 4:51 AM on January 11, 2008

*sniff*

I'll be at the Megadeth concert.

Waaaa!
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 6:28 PM on September 23, 2007

I ain't never heard, seen nor smelled an issue that was so dangerous it couldn't be talked about.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 4:36 PM on May 13, 2007

The funny thing is, these two comments right in a row? I agree with both of them!

This fucking thing again?

Taking three sentences out of the Mishne Torah and asking Jews to defend them, as though they have some obligation to do so is one of my all time favorite exercises.

There are tens of thousands of pages of Jewish law and there's a lot of fascinating and beautiful as well as anachronistic, cruel and mean... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 5:12 AM on May 14, 2007

I think 3.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 7:41 AM on February 8, 2007

I think he's getting grief on a level of 3.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 7:51 AM on February 1, 2007

This is a dumb callout and jessamyn should ignore it and delete Hat Maui's grouchy response instead.

Fuck. I'm always late on this shit.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 8:40 AM on January 30, 2007

I hate editors and writers (and thus myself). I love the product of their work.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 2:41 PM on January 30, 2007

I am, like, totally okay with that being, like, deleted.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 8:34 AM on January 30, 2007

3
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 8:59 AM on January 30, 2007

I also was going to buy a gift account earlier this week, but balked at PayPal. It took me a month just to get them to close the account I created to get my own MetaFilter account. It's mostly having the account with them that bothers me. They also do straight out credit card processing now, which is more trustworthy to me.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 11:41 AM on December 20, 2006

delmoi: No. I set up the credit card processing with PayPal at my last job. It works just like it does at other sites with no indication it's PayPal and no signup with PayPal process.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 6:35 PM on December 20, 2006

When I first got to MetaFilter, I thought that there was some script running on the site which caught the taglines people made up and displayed them randomly as the taglines below the logo. Boy was that a stupid idea.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 8:17 AM on December 2, 2006

I almost never mean what you think I mean, even though I'm saying exactly what I mean.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 4:55 AM on October 23, 2006

Now if only someone would post a music industry related job there.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 2:48 PM on October 14, 2006

You could just drop by for goulash, TPS. NO housework needed.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 5:18 PM on October 9, 2006

Nevermind Kate, all the goulash is gone.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 6:22 PM on October 9, 2006

Aww man, I missed the comment. What was it?
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 9:08 AM on October 6, 2006

Hey I'm still confused by the atheists who go on about karma when some dude finds a $20 on the floor.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 4:31 AM on October 6, 2006

I notice there's not a section of the site named for Steve Wozniak, but you do have one named for Steve Jobs.

WHAT'S THE DEAL MATT?
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 2:09 PM on October 4, 2006

Of course if another student's parents (whose own parents were Nazis made rich from stolen Jewish gold during the war), paid for them to have an expensive tutor in mathematics each week (perhaps a member of the Columbia Mathematics Faculty), then that would be completely fair.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 3:08 PM on September 25, 2006

Damn, and I made a funny in that topic, too.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 10:06 AM on September 25, 2006

My invisible sky wizard told me to eat apples covered in honey tonight after a nice dinner of braised lamb, then say some prayers and do some thinking over the next ten days, at the end of which I'll do some more organized thinking and prepare for the next year. He also told me to apologize to a bunch of people.

One of the most important things my invisible sky wizard told me was not to use him to stick my nose in other people's fucking business, and to give other... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 3:23 PM on September 22, 2006

It's not a bad idea at all, but does this happen often enough to warrant it? Even if it's preventative, though, still worth considering.

Over at the Ambrosia Software boards and irc channel we have some moderators/ops from Europe and Australia to spread out the coverage and it catches this kind of stuff in no time.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 4:38 AM on September 22, 2006

ThePinkSuperhero: can I put the exact coordinates in for everyone else to see? Pretty please? I won't tell everyone you live near the TJ Maxx by the mall. Oops.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 1:29 PM on September 15, 2006

I've got Opps!
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 3:04 PM on September 15, 2006

All of my discs went out way before the deadline. So far I received only 1 disc from scodger, but the fact that's it's full of New Zealand stuff I have never heard of makes up for the fact that no more music has arrived yet. Good on you scodger.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 1:27 PM on September 15, 2006

As scodger notes, I sent mine out last week and dropped an email to everyone in my swapset to let 'em know. Have not received any, as of yet, but no worries.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 7:48 PM on September 3, 2006

Vote no on the self-link.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 10:10 AM on August 19, 2006

As long as no one was familiar with his YouTube account name, bob sarabia.

The situation described is not self-linking. Eideteker did not have any involvement in making the video nor knows anyone connected to it, gains no monetary, traffic or other tangible reward from it, and was conscientious enough to ask.

Of course had Eideteker simply created a throw-away YouTube account, posted it and then linked to it, no one would be the wiser.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 1:23 PM on August 19, 2006

I always take its posts to be opportunities to use the derail and noise flags. I read every once in a while hoping there will be a real contribution somewhere, but there isn't. Just the same tired crutch over and over again.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 12:46 PM on August 17, 2006

I got PayPal a long time ago to buy a bunch of rare music on eBay on a whim. I hated it. Whether it was so or not, I always felt my information was insecure, and that all the phishing attempts were a total bother. It was also a bother cancelling the account.

Knowing all of that, I registered again just so I could get a MetaFilter account. It was also a pain in the ass to get rid of. I've been wanting to buy an account for my girlfriend for some time as she reads the site... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 2:35 PM on July 31, 2006

eustace, the easiest way out of this is to go back to the source. Write your own melody over the chord changes.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 10:20 AM on July 14, 2006

It's more importantly in the spirit of jazz.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 11:04 AM on July 14, 2006

cortex, last time I checked this wasn't Ask MetaFilter. I don't have to "answer the question." The question of covers has been pretty well covered. Someone gotta be paid. I'm not going to go into offering advice on this because even though I'm heavily involved in digital distribution, all the necessary information has been offered.

Playing over the changes with a new melody was how many jazz greats got around this issue of somebody gotta get paid back in the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 11:40 AM on July 14, 2006

No. My office is pretty easy on the pornography.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 8:01 AM on July 10, 2006

No.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 1:29 PM on June 21, 2006

Can we rename this place Meta Whatabuncha Crybabies?
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 2:28 PM on June 21, 2006

Get ready for some Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, Backstreet Boys and N'sync!
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 2:06 PM on June 20, 2006

I don't mind the editorializing. I also don't mind the caret. I don't mind the post at all, really.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 8:04 AM on June 20, 2006

Pet peeve: People who have lost so much human interactivity capacity that they can't answer a simple question.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 8:41 AM on June 20, 2006

You lose, General Sonofsamiam!

sonofsamiam: Begun this snark war has.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 8:55 AM on June 20, 2006

Hey jessamyn? Count me as "don't give a shit" either way.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 7:36 PM on June 18, 2006

Obviously the best system to control this is a personal honour system of demerits. Open a spreadsheet and start yours today. Every time you pee in the MetaFilter pool, give yourself a demerit. Every time you do something truly wonderful, take away a demerit. Oh, I think I've found a flaw.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 4:09 PM on June 18, 2006

Do you require drop down menus of awesome?

Alvy Ampersand: Ooo, ooo, Captaintripps, I need a new spreadsheet, mine's already full of awesome.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 7:23 PM on June 18, 2006

What if every MetaFilter user got a nice sheet of card-stock paper, a number 3H pencil and a white mars plastic eraser and copied down the information on their user page?

Then, every time they changed something, they could add those changes to the piece of paper or erase them as the case may be. The paper, pencil and eraser are easily transported. In fact, the paper itself can be folded and placed in a pocket, hand bag or bicycle messenger bag.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 10:58 PM on June 17, 2006

I prefer a good, old-fashioned dorking...WITH A BONER.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 6:22 AM on June 17, 2006

Was there drama? I read the whole thing and didn't see any drama.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 5:36 PM on June 17, 2006

On the gripping hand, we might want to get rid of abbreviations like STFU.
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 3:04 PM on June 17, 2006

hanee made her picture by hand! She did not copy and paste some owl/writing travesty! I renew my call for something!
posted to MetaTalk by Captaintripps at 8:40 AM on June 16, 2006