This answer would be right at home in this thread.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 3:18 PM on July 17, 2008

After much missing due to headaches and being on aircraft to other continents, I may actually make this one.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 3:28 PM on July 13, 2008

I'm in, but I'll vote against The Ten Bells. How about somewhere a bit bigger?

Cilit Bang, you live near me, it seems. Good ol' Har(r)inga(e)y.

There's got to be something big, warm and tube-acessable...
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 3:14 AM on February 3, 2008

Oooh, I've never really played with the "Users Near Me," think.

oh pollo! appears to live in the park! Neat!
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 3:18 AM on February 3, 2008

I'm happy to go for any of those places. I'll let others wiegh in on can-and-can'ts.

One thing to note about Ginglick at Shepherd's Bush... I think Shepherd's Bush is closed now for it's renovation. Might be difficult to access by tube. (Kensington Olympia is a 10 minute walk, but that station may as well not actually exist.)
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 4:23 AM on February 3, 2008

I'll put my 2p in for the Medicine Bar in Angel, but only because it's close to me. Otherwise, I'm game. I'm still exploring London!
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 9:27 AM on February 3, 2008

You're so cruel to that line.

Well, who the hell thinks "Salmon" is great colour for a tube line? I mean, c'mon.

But yeah. I'd be interested to know the West:East ration of London Mefites. There seem to be more East London folks than West.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 2:37 PM on February 3, 2008

There's a SIGN?
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 1:46 PM on February 4, 2008

I keep meaning to change my location to the middle of some railway tracks.

Do we have a time, in mine? (I realise that the meetup is a month away...)
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 8:32 AM on February 7, 2008

By which I mean, in mind.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 8:34 AM on February 7, 2008

Tennis references are always weird on the internet

No kidding. I'm kind of in the market for a new managed server solution, and I actually Googled "Federer server" to learn about the company.

It kinda ruined the joke.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 7:03 AM on January 30, 2008

I'm a content manager.

I have two monitors.

The monitor on the right, named Wallace, is for working.

The monitor on the left, which I call Ronald, is for nothing but sheer, unadulterated slacking off.

This division of labour has served me very well.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 7:52 AM on December 14, 2007

I totally need to name my monitors.

I highly suggest it. "Ronald is SUCH a slacker."
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 7:59 AM on December 14, 2007

You could run it kind of like an old newspaper serial, with a different author responsible for each episode.

Of course, everybody would have to agree beforehand on character ground rules and basic style, but it could work!
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 1:27 AM on December 13, 2007

Nuts. I will have flown home for the holidays the day before.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 4:58 AM on December 2, 2007

I'd be curious to see how the actual traffic breaks down, assuming it's not a secret or anything.

I'm relatively certain there are a ton of lurkers in the grey who read the flameouts.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 3:33 AM on November 27, 2007

I think Mefi may have just found it's biggest and most profitable business spin-off.

All Matt needs to do is leverage the combined brain and investigatory power of mefites, globally dispersed and expert in a variety of fields, and pitch it to magazines and newspapers.

Mefi could become the first outsourced fact-checking company.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 1:38 AM on November 14, 2007

ITS! Bugger.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 1:38 AM on November 14, 2007

Sweet. A temporary twenty-something in life, and permanent twenty-something on Metafilter.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 5:45 AM on October 22, 2007

Oh! An excuse to go be social in my new home!
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 7:24 AM on October 17, 2007

There are also some non-Lychee martini places not far away.

If you're into pubs, (oddly, pubs with good Mexican food,) the Crown and Sceptre is not far away.*

* note: that spur of the District line to Olympia is about as frequent as a lunar eclipse.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 8:17 AM on October 17, 2007

So... who might be interested in making this official?
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 8:23 AM on October 18, 2007

I play the drums. Blues are irrelevant.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 4:43 PM on March 23, 2007

I was kidding, flapjax. I love the blues.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 5:22 PM on March 23, 2007

Awesome blues all around, then!
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 5:28 PM on March 23, 2007

And some good roots music for good measure.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 5:30 PM on March 23, 2007

That's impressive. I thought I was going nuts and refreshed my browser a bunch of times.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 12:40 PM on February 2, 2007

That's some extremely subtle and good investigating, jellicle.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 6:27 AM on December 22, 2006

I keep meaning to come to these, especially when they're one subway stop away. Once more, foiled by not paying attention.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 1:05 PM on November 10, 2006

Are you looking for Symphony for Dot Matrix printers, by The User.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 9:45 PM on July 15, 2006

Opps, I mean: ?
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 9:45 PM on July 15, 2006

Does this make the 20 thousands Mefi's cynical Generation X?

Dude, whatever.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 5:31 PM on July 13, 2006

Arnold M. Picker, Alexander E. Barkan, Ed Guthman, Charles Dyson, Howard Stein, Allard Lowenstein, Morton Halperin, Leonard Woodcock, S. Sterling Munro, Jr., Bernard T. Feld, Sidney Davidoff, John Conyers, Samuel M. Lambert, Stewart Rawlings Mott, Ronald Dellums, Daniel Schorr, S. Harrison Dogole, Paul Newman, Mary McGrory...
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 6:30 PM on May 11, 2006

Fark.

No, really.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 4:44 PM on April 24, 2006

I picture you sliding across a stage on your knees at the last bit: "METATALK!"
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 9:11 AM on March 29, 2006

He's from Trent University? I feel so dirty inside, now. My poor beautiful little liberal arts university.

For the record, Trent doesn't do "sigma cum laude" distinctions. I smell something fishy.

You give my alma matter a bad name, Dave Ritter.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 5:24 PM on March 8, 2006

Shit! I think I remember him! (Dis)Advantage: Small University.

Weird, I dimly recall him as a nice guy. Although I probably only talked to him when drunk. Or I'm thinking of someone else.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 5:25 PM on March 8, 2006

Would an "open thread" like that find a better home here in MetaTalk?
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 11:40 AM on January 21, 2006

Bull and Firken, 1835 Yonge, just south of Davisville. Time suggestions?

Ooh, easy stumble distance!
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 9:59 AM on December 7, 2005

As long as it's not this weekend, I might be able to swing it.
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 10:10 AM on December 7, 2005

Idle curiosity, what's the etiquette here? Just invite one's self? Wear a name-tag? I'm a fairly new member...
posted to MetaTalk by generichuman at 6:01 PM on December 7, 2005