Hey, I reminded you to set it up too! Earlier, even. *stamps foot petulantly, blows raspberry*
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 10:26 PM on August 29, 2005

I am all about the celebrating the birth of our jessamyn! Let's party, New York City!
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 12:41 AM on August 16, 2005

no cats, but i have the best dog ever!
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 2:37 PM on June 20, 2005

Cabs are cheap in Austin

it cost me 9 bucks just to get out of the damn airport last year! cabs in austin are more expensive than cabs in nyc.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 4:10 PM on March 5, 2005

best dorkiest metatalk thread ever?

(thirteen is, as always, my hero.)
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 9:26 AM on February 26, 2005

I'm amazed you don't want it scoured, Ryvar. I'll forever remember you now as the person who stepped up to say [this is good] in that ludicrous rape haiku thread, and then protested its deletion as if it were the most important issue your generation ever faced.

[this is good]
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 10:23 PM on November 6, 2004

it had the potential to offer varied perspectives

Like what, Ryvar? Seriously, as Matt has said, please give us a sampling of the "varied perspectives" you think would come out of a discussion of the site.

You don't see anything that even remotely resembles inconsistency in your decisions regarding post deletion?

You don't see anything that even remotely resembles ignorance... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 11:47 AM on November 5, 2004

Fuck people who can't deal with the word fuck!
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 11:45 AM on November 4, 2004

I agree in principle, but wouldn't mind if op/eds were posted under certain conditions, like if the writer of the piece is knee-deep in the issue and there were additional links.

To use a previous example, Kissinger writing about Indonesia or U.S. military strategy would be okay with me, if the front page post included links to Kissinger's history with Indonesia. Not all MeFis know that many people consider Kissinger and the U.S. at least partly responsible for... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 1:55 AM on August 27, 2002

Three days late, but: I wuv rodii.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 4:48 AM on May 26, 2002

I'm somewhere in the middle, I guess. Esther Dyson points out the good, Anil points out the bad -- when it gets in the way of real-life communication, it's probably time to stop.

Those of you who live where people sit beside each other and send text messages over their cellphones instead of just opening their mouths (i.e. outside the U.S.), are you nodding your heads yes yet?
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 12:34 AM on April 7, 2002

Do you not take the tube, walrus?
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 8:15 AM on April 7, 2002

Durians are deadly weapons, my silly chicken friend.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 12:27 AM on April 7, 2002

KottkeFilter!

kidding, kidding
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 10:13 AM on February 1, 2002

J.R. baby, get on that flight! Lunches in Manila have been known to last till sundown, or even dinner -- or at least the ones that I go to do. :)
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 8:13 AM on February 1, 2002

Naw, he's shy.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 9:58 AM on February 1, 2002

I would miss Anil if I did not see him in my dreams at night.

He's visiting you too? Damn that sexy cheating Dash!
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 3:02 AM on January 31, 2002

Hey, Mister Troll - go away!

That wasn't a troll, Marquis, just an opinion you don't agree with. They're not the same thing, sorry.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 11:32 PM on November 6, 2001

Tout a fait. Which represents 0.1% of the words I have submitted to Mefi.

But you did say it, nonetheless (as rodii pointed out), and you've also managed to be quite uncivil and vapid many times on MeFi without using any of the seven dirty words, as have many of us. As dave said, the lack of profanity (or presence of it) doesn't necessarily change the tone of the conversation.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 12:23 AM on November 2, 2001

As I said, it's not easy in the Third World.

YMMV.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 6:51 AM on November 1, 2001

MeFiManila? Surely there are more MetaFilistines here than just brownpau and myself.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 6:43 AM on November 1, 2001

I love rodii like a brother, and I do agree with his points and feel that what hincandenza said was quite vile. That said, much as I'm not down with "me too" posts, I have to say that I'm with Rebecca and precocious here.

Not to say that aaron deserved to be called a "fat fuck" -- ad hominem attacks have no place here. Loathsome, yes, but hardly (as rcade put it) one of the top ten most loathsome things ever posted here; we've had many posts seriously wishing millions of... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 1:29 AM on October 24, 2001

hypocritical, dammit.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 1:33 AM on October 24, 2001

The most hate-filled comment in that thread was this, by a landslide.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 4:52 AM on October 6, 2001

Second that.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 7:42 AM on September 25, 2001

In a previous thread(can't find right now), Matt mentioned he'd consider making the main page live again when he saw fewer than 40 new posts a day.

Playing devil's advocate for a moment, are we sure this is ever going to happen? At least half of the current posts are by newbies from last week, many of whom only know MetaFilter as a place for breaking news (*sob*) with a bad signal to noise ratio (*sob*).
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 10:10 AM on September 19, 2001

What rogers said (and cCranium in another thread); also:

You have no idea how long those people may have been reading, and several of them have admitted to just having lurked for a long time now.

I'm wondering why many people who say they've been lurking for a long time don't know basic things about MeFi, like the location (or existence, even!) of MetaTalk, the purpose of the search button, that name-calling is simply not done, that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 7:38 AM on September 20, 2001

I urge my fellow Mefites to use the damn search box before posting a link to see if the topic's been talked about before, or on the same day even.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 11:18 AM on September 19, 2001

And to make sure they've closed their tags. Whoops. Pancakes for everybody!
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 11:21 AM on September 19, 2001

Tricky, lia, while the search box is somewhat fux0red.

Ah, but Google's still up.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 7:24 AM on September 20, 2001

Hey! If we aren't elitist then I can't be one of the elite. OH NOOOO!!!

Well, maybe if you make mathowie some pancakes...
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 10:55 AM on September 19, 2001

Yes, in theory, but the fact that I only discovered MetaTalk yesterday despite having been joined to MetaFilter for a month suggests that this part of the site is a little more secretive than we're all letting on.

A month? Have you not seen the links to MetaTalk at the top and bottom of every single MeFi page? Have you not seen people get called out to MetaTalk in threads that ugly? Hello?

If people don't care enough about... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 10:33 AM on September 19, 2001

I've had an email address up from the beginning and like holgate, I've never gotten nasty emails. Thank yous, questions, clarifications -- all of that, but never anything rude or stupid.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 3:52 AM on September 5, 2001

You guys act like I said everyone that uses Blogger is clueless or something.

Actually, you did: "Blogger is great if you never want to learn about how the web really works. Obviously this accounts for a lot of people otherwise we'd be talking about Greymatter."

Have you seen a doctor yet for your short term memory loss, john?
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 3:48 AM on September 5, 2001

You're one to speak! You can't even post to the f***ing front page yet!

bytecode: Here's a quick tip -- usernumber pissing matches are not where anyone wants to go. You should know that by now since you've apparently been here quite a while.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 12:21 AM on September 2, 2001

he's running a serious risk of becoming this community's Natalie Portman

What, we'll all suddenly want to see him naked?
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 8:37 AM on August 30, 2001

if someone posts something really cool but that doesn't make you want to post, send him/her an email.

Ah, but not all users have their email addresses posted.

Although in my experience, the people that tend to post cool things always have their emails up. There may be some sort of correlation there. I'm just saying.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 10:51 PM on July 31, 2001

Make that three links in 15 minutes, the first one to Yahoo.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 10:27 AM on July 19, 2001

MetaTalkTalk?
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 9:42 AM on July 9, 2001

Damn, what do I have to do to get someone to write a rhyme for me?
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 10:20 PM on June 26, 2001

Date sent: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 00:06:34 -0700
To: lia at cheesedip.com
Subject: pinhead
From: perogi@perogi.com
comments: >>>Here's a bright idea, perogi: don't visit for MetaFilter for a day, and pretend that everyone else is following your lead. Okay? Okay.
posted by lia at 11:47 PM PST on June <<<<<

Nice try idiot. You just proved what I was trying to say. Thank you for
you stupidity. You pinhead,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 12:21 AM on June 2, 2001

calling him J Ko kind of requires he starts singing and wearing skimpy clothing...

Man, I'm going to have to start watching the webcam now.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 11:16 PM on June 1, 2001

A status update would've been the, um, polite thing to do. Some of the bitching in the forums is quite out of line, but I really do wish there was a "sorry, we're experiencing technical difficulty at the moment" notice, or something of the sort on the front page.

(I keep telling myself to install Greymatter when I have more time, but I keep putting it off. And there you go. No published posts for three days.)
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 10:59 AM on May 13, 2001

lol, dan, only on MeFi would usernumber 654 be considered high. (beat your ass by 447! hah)
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 6:09 AM on May 12, 2001

anapestic: Thanks for pointing that out, it's just been done. I'm not all that worried either -- I just want to know what a "snilveling ka-nit" is.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 9:41 AM on May 9, 2001

certainly not snilveling. and what's a cleaver thing then?
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 8:55 AM on May 10, 2001

I know what a "cleaver" is, anapestic (hel-lo), what I wanted to know is what sort of conversation you can make with one of clavdivs' "cleaver things." Cutting edge humor, perhaps? Or not.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 11:57 PM on May 10, 2001

timbooker, I'm pretty sure the way you expressed your opinion wasn't the problem, harsh or otherwise, it was the fact that despite being asked repeatedly to back it up, you never did and instead repeated that you were entitled to your own opinion.

Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, yes, but if you're prepared to say it in public, you should also be prepared to defend it.

(especially on a forum for discussion! holloway)... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 3:43 AM on May 10, 2001

Ah, but have you shipped them to another continent, the webmistress? :)

I love MetaFocus as a potential name almost as much as I love the potential of Matt's idea. Like holgate said earlier, I've gotten so much out of MeFi that any extension of it is a welcome thing.
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 1:37 PM on May 5, 2001

Nope, I was just busy scrolling down 1142, which gets even more impossibly long every time I visit. I'll try and find a suitable recipe for, um, p2p cake and try it out this week, the webmistress. Hey mathowie, do you or Kay have any food allergies?
posted to MetaTalk by lia at 10:46 AM on May 8, 2001