mathowie, I've always respected you and the mod's and your discretion in running this site. I think you guys do a better job than anyone else could and thanks to that this site has changed my life for the better.

But life isn't always rainbows and teddy bears. Speaking as someone who had a comment on a darker subject sidebarred (for which I remain quite thankful / humbled), I think sometimes its important for the community at large to stop and put a little perspective... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 12:00 PM on July 23, 2008

I have to hope that with a lot of these "me too's" - as I certainly do with this one on blurting - that there's a large, silent sector of the hive that doesn't associate with the behavior and thus just choose not to respond.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 2:30 AM on July 23, 2008

Xelf, I just realized I've asked a question before on chronic repetitive misspelling that could probably make your list.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 9:21 AM on July 23, 2008

This is rad.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 2:58 AM on July 23, 2008

I find it pleasantly ironic that we can provide so much categorization to a group of people we've for the most part not met IRL, but are still limited to our drop-down defaults for our real-life partner relationships.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 7:42 AM on July 22, 2008

no fake morality though optional white-boy poverty

I'm sorry. Maybe I'm missing something...but WTF is that supposed to mean, and who(TF) in particular is it directed at?

Optional white-boy poverty? Seriously?

Because I perhaps engender this statement as much as many around here, perhaps more. Fist off, I was born a white male. I didn't have any say in this particular arrangement, I didn't get to vote... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 2:12 AM on July 12, 2008

Oh and Navelgazer, to your OP - I too think we've done this before. I took a cue from my MeTa post and some of the respondents there, and listed some of my stuff that I like and that others have liked in my profile.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 2:22 AM on July 12, 2008

bah. meetup on my 30th birthday and i can't make it. bah.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 11:44 PM on July 8, 2008

IANAPE (professional editor) but everyone tells me I missed my calling. If you start scraping the bottom of the barrel for prof eds, hit me up, I'd love to help out in any way I can.

I am:

A) Officially pissed I missed the original collaboration project and the chance to write for it.

and

B) Excited to get this puppy off the ground in any way that I can be a part of it.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 11:33 AM on July 7, 2008

but I have a feeling half of the comments would be goofy things that said "favorite this comment or I'll X" and were posted to game the list.

Thanks, hermitosis. You are why we don't get nice toys. May you RIP.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 11:28 AM on July 7, 2008

I love you guys too.

But not today. You guys ruined my holiday. Try me again tomorrow.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 9:21 AM on July 4, 2008

God damn it.

You guys and your fucking narcissitic, bombastic, self-important loathing of everyone that doesn't have a user number as low as yours. I try to point out a particularly unique contribution, maybe screw up my call out a little bit, and you guys summarily eviscerate a contributing member of the site. I wish I had never posted this, and I wonder what kind of other thoughtful posts forrest could have given us had he not left.

And yes,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 7:55 AM on July 4, 2008

Mitch Winehouse was only speaking "out of his concern for her" when he told the press that his little girl was suffering through the early stages of the chronic respiratory disease.

Speaking as the one who got summarily eviscerated in the following comments of said crap thread after pointing out the father's implicit admission of failure, I'd like to take this opportunity to elaborate.

As more than a couple of the... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 4:02 AM on June 24, 2008

This is awesome and as such I approve of it.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 1:28 PM on June 17, 2008

I should be in town, and capable of much frolicking. Are we like...coordinating who's bringing what, or is this a to-each-his-own thing?
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 8:13 AM on May 28, 2008

I took a cue from a few others around here and started listing them in my profile.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 5:24 AM on May 23, 2008

Yes, and your own brain. If your brain cannot index the number of favorites you have, you have too many.

*ahem*

Bullshit.

You do realize (well, actually, you probably don't) that we're rapidly approaching the day that a desktop machine will exceed the computational capacity of the human brain, do you not? While we are still able to (thanks to computers) track the rate at which information is added to... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 6:13 AM on May 22, 2008

so is it...matexapintamyn now? cause at some point this is going to get out of hand. also that sounds like a nice name for some sort of medication.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 3:16 PM on May 18, 2008

Uh...

FWIW, I posted to jobs yesterday after seeing this post, and I've since received no less than 3 responses. Thanks Miko.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 6:42 AM on May 15, 2008

Aw man, wish I hadn't missed the original questions so that I could have thrown my recently experienced hat in the ring for Africa - I'm so bummed that didn't work out for you.

But Eastern Europe will be great. Kudos on you for doing this - look forward to touching base back here at a meetup when you return and seeing how it went.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 11:24 AM on May 9, 2008

I'd just like to point out that I like the hugs.

No, really. I don't get them very often. The other day I was walking through the city, however, and those crazy kids who give out the free hugs were standing there, amongst the flotsam of humanity that is a late Tuesday morning in a sunny Union Square. They were holding small signs above their heads and shouting for all the world to hear that they had plenty of free hugs to give away.

It was one... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 7:24 AM on May 9, 2008

Beware of bears with gifts, monkey.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 4:05 PM on May 1, 2008

Hey pb -

I think its fine to leave the comments as is, I'm with robocop is bleeding on this one.

I think you made one small mistake though whilst you were making your updates - the relationship status box is still a drop-down, not free-form. Would you mind fixing that?

Thanks, and as always, go nuts.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 4:48 PM on April 30, 2008

commentscommas
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 4:48 PM on April 30, 2008

I'm back in town so I will try to join at HiFi if I can, but we're moving into our new apt this weekend so who knows.

Also, I'm soft-planning a sort of urban-adventure meetup (i.e. not primarily based in one bar so much as learning about a few interesting nooks and crannies of a given nabe), dates TBD once I hear back from special-k on when he's coming out to visit next month. Stay tuned...
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 6:47 AM on April 28, 2008

I just wanted to say that I really appreciate the fact that the gender box is indeed free-form. Wish more online services were so progressive.

And yet relationship status remains drop-down. Doh.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 8:26 AM on April 26, 2008

It took a few minutes for everyone to notice that the native Californians were ashen-faced and crying.

As a born and raised native of NorCal, I find this one a little out there. I've lived through plenty of quakes and never saw anyone ashen-faced and crying about speculated dead somewhere else.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 9:01 AM on April 18, 2008

Hi. Welcome to earth. We have the potential for love.

Sadly, we have the same thing for hate.

Its your choice.

Sadly, its everyone's choice, too.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 1:12 PM on April 17, 2008

I vote awesome.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 11:47 PM on April 14, 2008

I want to go nuts in the status field. Boiling down an issue like relationship status to 3 options is, especially for a community as brilliantly diverse as this one, a bit simplistic, if I might say so.

Also...I'm not much into older women. But suddenly...browsing these profiles..a lower user number seems so...hot...
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 9:01 PM on April 10, 2008

Miko: Allkindsoftime, what do you think is missing or not covered by the taken/open/single/no-content set?

I'm genuinely interested, as the terms aren't entirely congruent. I guess the goal here is not to brag, but to be clear about availability and indicate whether one is open to overtures...no?

Lots of things could be missing. I'm single, but it doesn't mean I'm available. I might not be looking. And that's just me. There's... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 10:27 PM on April 10, 2008

Easy for you to say when "open" genuinely impressed you so much.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 10:59 PM on April 10, 2008

I'd like to reiterate the last part: I realize they're optional and appreciate having them in any form, at least. So yeah, thanks.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 2:18 AM on April 11, 2008

I'll just go ahead and answer for Jessamyn before she emphatically points out the following:

Bears vs. Monkeys (follow up Meta)
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 5:56 AM on April 10, 2008

But seriously, nobody's mentioned the madness regarding the airplane taking off on treadmill?
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 5:57 AM on April 10, 2008

(see here)
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 6:00 AM on April 10, 2008

You know, there's kind of a cosmic irony about Matt being at the zoo when we get the question re-raised on MeTa about whether bears or monkeys would win in a fight for global domination. Which is really what this question about HypotheticalFilter is all about.

Its what any question about HypotheticalFilter is all about.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 11:17 PM on April 3, 2008

I won't say it changed my world-view completely but it did soften my view on abortion - Baby_Balrog's quotation of Spurgeon on the topic.

I don't think its any one post in particular so much as years worth of being battered and beaten in my views here - in good and bad ways I suppose, like an iron in the fire.

I think Metafilter has helped make me a better person than I was before I found it.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 11:16 AM on March 23, 2008

whoa, how's that for timing?
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 11:17 AM on March 23, 2008

Oh give me a break. It was a joke on the blue. If it was on the green, you might have something to bitch about. But this is just idiotic. I could make about 2000 MeTa posts about stuff I've seen on the blue that offended me in the last year alone. Grow up.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 10:29 PM on March 18, 2008

Well, that's mature.

Guilty as charged. Not sure that most people will read this, but, for what its worth...

I'd like to rescind my rather scathing first comment in this thread. I by no means ask your collective forgiveness for my original joke that spawned this (I still think it was all in good fun), but implying that the OP of this call-out was idiotic or needed to grow up was rather crass on my part, and I can hold myself... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 6:17 PM on March 19, 2008

OK so about 15 minutes ago I had the first free time I've had in...I dunno, probably about a week. So, naturally, I come here for my fix.

It was a little before 3 in the afternoon, on today, March 18th. I'm sitting in Los Angeles at the moment.

But the front page of the blue was showing me (and still is) the first two posts from the early AM hours of March 19th. I shit you not.

HOLY HELL I AM READING METAFILTER... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 4:23 PM on March 18, 2008

I want a pony that allows me to super-favorite comments like Ian A.T.'s.

I'm not sure what super-favorites are, but I'm sure I want them.

Please.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 3:10 PM on March 17, 2008

I know people disagree with my assessment of these sorts of things, but I really don't think anyone "deserves" this sort of "fuck you churchy" and related pile-on behavior on this site or anywhere.

Thanks Jessamyn. I for one appreciate your impartial position. I hope my answer didn't come across as snarky, even though it wasn't answering his question directly. I still think, on re-reading the thread, it's the only serious answer... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 6:53 AM on March 4, 2008

Oh, and Armen - Unlike cortex, I hope you are still reading this. I hope you read my comment in your little troll thread. I hope you understand that I really do believe what I wrote there.

But that doesn't change the fact that you're a prick for starting hate shit like this.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 6:58 AM on March 4, 2008

Wow. I'm rather humbled. I'm glad my little story got people thinking about this.

I actually wrote that comment maybe 2 or 3 times before, in the last month, and I deleted it each time because it sounded selfish. It sounded like I did a good thing. It still sounds that way, and I hate it for that reason. But I kept finding places that I had to type it out, and I finally said "Screw it" and posted the damn thing.

I'm just one dumb... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 6:08 AM on March 1, 2008

It's because almost all our wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few hundred people who don't share.

Sorry, but I gotta call bullshit on that one. That's the excuse that the majority of upper-middle and even middle class America uses to never pony up and give themselves (and let me tell you, middle class America alone has enough wealth to make a significant impact on the 3rd world). Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are both right at the top of that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 9:08 PM on March 2, 2008

stavrosthewonderchicken: It is not required or necessary to respect the belief, it is required and necessary to respect the person who holds the belief.

That's what *you* believe.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 2:17 AM on February 29, 2008

ardgedee: Great utility, and thanks a great deal for writing it.

Ditto. This is tres awesome, as the French say.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 5:09 AM on February 28, 2008

Hermitosis' message is harmless.

I know. I was joking.
posted to MetaTalk by allkindsoftime at 3:03 AM on February 15, 2008