No doubt, I'd be pol pot.
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 11:16 AM on November 9, 2006

Jack Albertson as Shelley Winters husband in The Poseidon Adventure.
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 6:15 AM on November 24, 2004

Vampire, no doubt in my mind. Imagine the potential for manupilating markets with immortality? I'd make Gates look like a trailer park mogul.
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 10:21 AM on October 31, 2003

I'm going out on a limb here, I try not to do that too much. But... What about membership nominations? Each member gets to nominate another, make a case and present it here.

New membership is important to keep a community alive and thriving. It's already generally regarded and established that mefi is an pack of elitists so, why break with tradition?

Finally, it's probably time to recognize that we are a discussion group... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 9:56 AM on July 31, 2003

There are still people here who post to this weblog in artful and traditional ways. There's been several recently (no examples) that really are like "the good old days" of creative weblog postings. Which, I argue, isn't understood by many people anymore. Nor, is it applicable 100% of the time, either... particularly for news related/current events types of posts.

But, then there's that link at the bottom of each post that changes the construct of not just... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 10:57 AM on July 31, 2003

The more things change, the more they stay the same. In retrospect, I'm sorry I said anything at all.
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 4:23 PM on August 1, 2003

I came here because of Glen Davis' most original and sorely missed Cool Site of the Day at Project Cool. Many of us, in those early days did. Then, the place was far more web-centric. After watching the place for a few months, I signed up. Some great conversations were had in those days. Then, this place really was far more focused upon the weblog as conversation. We used to shout at each other "this is not a bulliten board!" I think that... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 7:53 PM on April 18, 2003

I've sometimes posted as myself but, I don't think anyone is catching on.
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 9:06 PM on July 22, 2002

Well, this has been covered so many times before, how is it different now?

I'll tell ya... people don't care to make it better anymore.

If some of the best posters and best commenters were to get to work and quit complaining about the loss of "The Old Metafilter Quality" this place would improve dramatically.

Perhaps it's not possible to recapture the glorious days again but, it is possible to maintiain a... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 11:06 PM on June 11, 2002

Did anyone see Bubba in southern Michigan in the spring of 1971?

Funny you should mention that, he was here in Flint organizing the last sit down strike.

posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 2:22 PM on June 5, 2002

Of all of the desktop apps, I like feedreader best. The current (beta) version is 2.0 and seems to be quite stable and easy to use.

I wonder if there is a desktop aggregator that has the Blogger API built in?
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 10:48 PM on May 23, 2002

Oh, and here is the link to RSS Monkey
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 11:24 PM on May 23, 2002

I'm sorry I didn't make it to the gathering. Family business took priority, as ever.

How did things go?
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 9:46 PM on April 21, 2002

Why? What happened?
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 10:51 PM on May 5, 2002

Sign me up for the future clavdivs blog.

Please, please clavdivs, make a blog! I beg you...

It is in the works... I can assure you. Keep your eyes on Jerry's MeFi Projects list for the announcement.
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 10:59 PM on April 21, 2002

It may have something to do with safe search... They just added a new system or, updated it somehow.

Try turning it off. When I turned on "moderate filtering" it sent me to the corrected results... when I turned safe search completely off, it asked me if I wanted to go the the corrected results. Go to the google search preferences page and change it.
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 10:01 PM on April 14, 2002

(scratching head)

Well, when I went through the same exercise using mozilla (changing settings, re-doing the search, etc) it did the same thing to me as it is to you. But with I.E., it prompts me to click on the corrected results.
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 10:48 PM on April 14, 2002

Wait... how come this isn't happening in Flint again?
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 10:15 AM on April 10, 2002

> If it fosters an actually good discussion here, I say let it be. We need more of those.

I agree.

Personally, I enjoy the products links and such. Many times, I find people will post links to other things they like or, that they've used in the past. Because of that, I've discovered many new and cool things. Such as Trillian, Abiword, 602 Pro PC Suite 2001. All of this stuff I learned about here and because of discussions like the above.... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 9:13 PM on April 8, 2002

Redrick deLeon is one of my favorites. You have to dig a bit but, there is super cool stuff in there.
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 11:05 PM on March 4, 2002

(on dooce.com) Not having read posts in question and assuming that no names were mentioned, I would think that libel would be difficult to prove against Heather on the companys part. How could they assume she was talking about them?

Right or wrong, I'd take the posts and the letter from the company dismissing her to a lawyer and at least ask for professional advice. By dismissing her, it would seem that they have validated whatever she said on her site as true and... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 7:05 AM on February 27, 2002

Even after I read the posts, I still think it boils down to non-disclosure and libel.

No matter what she said about her company, she didn't name names. No disclosure, no libel. That speaks strongly in her favor. If her employer cited her personal website and assumed that comments she made were about them, then that is a clear assumption. Acting upon assumptions has proven fatal at the water cooler and on the internet too.

Like it or not,... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 9:56 AM on February 27, 2002

Not overkill at all. This is simply poetry. The gauntlet has been tossed down.
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 8:22 AM on December 15, 2001

Dan Chan, runs we::blog, a simple way to have a weblog for free.

I can't speak objectively as to it's ease of use but, it seems well documented, fast, and full of features you'd expect a weblogging service to offer. Comments, syndication, templating, ease of archiving, etc...

It was not a suitable solution for me but, some might find it just peachy. Worth a look, at any rate.
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 1:53 AM on December 3, 2001

Wow, this comment toolbar is the stuff. I need this badly.
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 1:36 AM on December 1, 2001

I have a 15, a 13, and a 9 year old that read MeFi at times. Sometimes on their own, others over my shoulder. However, it is my job to protect them, that goes without saying.

I don't mind the expletives too much myself in the body of the resulting discussion however, on the main page... nah. Doesn't fit a profile of quality. Pure and simple.

Emotion lends to demonstration within posts at times. That I can understand... if the person who... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 10:01 PM on November 27, 2001

Roscoe Arbuckle
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 11:17 PM on October 31, 2001

Counterfeit and forgery have always piqued my interest.
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 10:35 AM on October 31, 2001

licentious, I'll be forming a sort of moist-works as we speak.... hey, a fellow has to earn a living?
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 9:17 PM on October 31, 2001

I had a well account, I got it in 1986. I quit when they started sending me bills. Back in those days (1995?), we thought it was sacrilegious and evil to charge for anything in the net, we thought people that profited from the internet were equally as sacrilegious and evil. In fact, there were hackers groups that gave amazon.com a very difficult time for a week or so, as well as a dozen other early merchants (where did all of this come from? sorry!)

Metafilter has... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 3:37 PM on September 2, 2001

I hope they have a version for something besides I.E. soon.
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 10:47 AM on October 1, 2000

What I sent in, (condensed version): "I'm a consultant I work 60-70 hours a week, I drive 15-20 hours a week. I almost never watch T.V. during prime time. When I do, it's usually so bad, that I give up and switch it off. I never tape anything with my VCR, mostly because I wouldn't know what or when to tape. With TiVo, I could record large, general areas of movies, shows, documentaries, etc... when I finally do find something I like, I could search and record..." Bla, bla I won't bore you... [more]
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 12:37 PM on September 26, 2000

What about related/similar lookups... perhaps adding the function to be able to do a related lookup with one click. Perhaps based on the event, the location, or even the person? Or more?
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 10:02 PM on June 15, 2000

Considering that you will receive scans in all manner of dissarray, such as huge bitmaps, .tiffs, scans of the entire scanner bed, and god knows what. You'll need to scan for quality anyway. There probably isn't an automated procedure that you could create, with the exception of some sort of OCR thing that could scan for text, a barcode, a serial number, or even a range of colors. That could work, but would be tricky.
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 9:57 PM on June 15, 2000

> So maybe it's working fine, in reality...

I agree, for now... one moderator is probably okay.

However, moderators are a proven way to make sure that the groups acceptable standards are being upheld. It's worked on usenet and fido since about 1906 (heh).
posted to MetaTalk by Dean_Paxton at 8:00 PM on May 3, 2000